"Your sister? Yeah why not it's not like I don't have room while we on this topic but every medical equipment you could find and medicine, fuel etc everything useful" said Alex as he knew John probably already knew this but was just reminding him and bringing his sister here can help his morale and make him more determined as he was thinking this was he got an idea "John there are 337 homeless veterans in Wisconsin it would be a shame if something happened to them after all they are valuable people for our future don't you think?" Said Alex while John nodded and said "you are right those people are valuable how about we buy a few villas around your mansion in this community and make them into homeless shelters and spend 2 million on advertisements we could get all the veterans in about a month if we advertise right we could even offer free transportation to the shelters" said John as veterans were very valuable "you do that John while I get in contact with a few of my army friends I met in deployment also I know that you probably have thought about it but stock up on fuel" said Alex as he reached into his waist and took out the Glock giving John a fright "here for protection if you ever meet those violent people don't hesitate and hit the head" said Alex as he left the Glock with a few magazines on the table as he made his way to his room where his laptop is at to communicate with his army buddies although being in the army is a lie he made up to have more authority he did have army buddies he recently joined a group chat full of military guys from different countries he joined quite a lot of these groups he was scouting for the right people to join his squad he already had spoken to a few people but he hasn't made a decision yet
A week later in Alex's room you could see two men one dresses in extreme all black tactical gear with padding everywhere his vest filled with mags and grenades on his vest was the words umbrella in red he had a pistol on his hip and a machete on his back you could see a radio on his chest his face covered with a gas mask and his black helmet had a mounted night vision with an umbrella logo in the front all in all it was extremely tactical with the most protection possible to get the man beside him said "the defense company that took up the custom order has just completed this one with this prototype completed they have the need schematics to mass produce the uniform and gear they are very enthusiastic even saying that they could make 10,000 with 15 more days because the amount of money given is 60% higher than the value of everything made and bought" said John to Alex who was fully decked out in the gear "good get the 5,000 and whatever more they can make before shit goes bad by the way how's the bullet assembly presses we bought are they up and running" said Alex as bullet presses would be hard to scavenge outside once everything went to shit it was not something to be found in the average house hold after all "yes everything is ready to start working we have also taken in all the veterans as Wisconsin has a lot of veterans the ones at home we're excited seeing our support for the homeless veterans and hit up their friends soon the word spread and no veteran did not know after all almost all homeless veterans wear their uniforms as it's the only clothing they have left so it's easy finding them, the veterans gladly came after knowing you were a veteran yourself the people of the gated community look at us favorably after all almost all of them are patriots" said John as Alex was in his thoughts there was just to much stuff to do in a short time luckily the hardest things like guns and ammo were mostly done now he had reliable people for the future alex wanted to buy some Great Lake fleets those giant freighters would be an amazing addition but that's just to expensive for him he also wanted to buy a few helicopters but that would take to long to get all those things he has to wait till the military collapses yes Alex knows more of his world the memories he gets depict his world as a novel he has seen the end of humanity he is determined to change everything
Alex's mansion and the surrounding has greatly changed the surrounding houses are now shelters there are military tents with bunk beds in every backyard and lawn of the houses he bought the veterans were not bothered in the slightest to sleep in the tents the houses were converted to canteens weight rooms and etc to make people less suspicious he introduced a program to his community the veterans would go around and do work for the people here or else everything would be too suspicious nobody would waste money on more than 300 people and not help them get back their life together, from his memory alex knew all the best opportunities at the early days of the apocalypse so he needed a lot of skilled people to take them, for the rest of the day alex would help the veterans with anything they need as a result they started calling him 'commander' after all alex radiates an aura of authority and sometimes you can't even refuse his commands at night alex will chat with military men and some doomsday preppers he met online