Edward assigned Eric to speak with his brother and the Blythes about the arrangement they agreed with Duke.
It appears that aside from their family, only the Blythes were able to follow them. Although the Blythes were in a sorry state, they are still alive. They did not even notice when they lost the Mercedez-Benz that was following from the back.
Ethan and his two brothers did not have any opinion with the agreement either, as long as they can follow Kisha, everything is fine. As for the Blythes, after hearing about the agreement, they did not kick a fuss and agreed right away. Or should I say Grayson, agreed without so much thought. He did not care if his wife was kicking a fuss, he just followed his gut feeling.
Hearing that her husband would discipline her if she as much caused trouble, Anna felt scared and quieted down. Gretha was meek, to begin with, so she did not say anything and just silently sat at the back.
Once everything was settled. Hawk led the convoy to the Valley that was prearranged as their settlement. It only took them 3 whole hours to travel without any difficulties on the road, and within these three hours, Kisha was able to have a shut eye on the passenger seat while Duke drove steadily.
"Host, we're almost at the destination." 008 reminded her.
She slowly opened her eyes and looked out at the window. What greeted her was a tall mountain, surrounded by a vast forest. She wound down the car window and savored the clean air. The place was the typical place good for mountain climbing and excursions
Kisha was satisfied with the location and she smiled as she let her hair flow with the wind. This is indeed a luxury for her. In her previous lives, there was no clean air, the smell of decay was so strong that it could be smelled everywhere. The trees and plants that did not mutate were slowly dying, the soil turned so rusty that no plant or vegetable could grow and the water was something that could not be easily consumed, and everyone thought it was better to have food poisoning than to accidentally drink the water. That memory was truly gloomy.
The lush trees and clean air soothe her worries about the future and decides to cross the bridge when they get there. For now, she wanted to enjoy the scenery as if she were going on a picnic, she felt her mood improve drastically.
Soon, they exited the lush forest and were met by a cave-like valley, it was so huge that it was almost one-third of the humungous mountain, although it was a cave-like formation, but it was more like a cliff that was leaning out and covering some part of the valley that creates a shade.
It has a wall that was made out of naturally formed limestone, the location faces east so it has enough sunlight and there was a modern building attached to the cliff that was almost blending with the wall, if not for her good eyesight, she would not notice it.
"It was indeed a good hiding place."
Duke only smiled when he heard her compliment.
As far as Kisha could remember, this was not where Duke set up his base. She was wondering if something happened in this place or if it was attacked by mutant plants that he had no choice but to transfer his base to City B?
Aside from mutant plants, this place is easy to defend against zombie hordes and attacks from humans. But this is none of the concern now, she bought the territory pack for this reason. She wouldn't have to worry about the overall defense of the place within her territory, and now that she thought about it. She hasn't fully dived into the use of the territory pack aside from knowing about the subspace-type farm, orchard, and other facilities.
She decided to do some experiments once they settled down. She nodded in agreement with her decision.
Duke parked the car under a huge tree with wide branches providing shade for them. In front was a large open space and a little further ahead was the building. The building was ten stories high and its expanse was almost half of the place, which was tens of thousands of square meters.
He did a quick scan around the surroundings before looking at Kisha, seeing that she was in a good mood, Duke's eyes turned gentle. "We have arrived. You can ask Hawk to lead you directly where the warehouse and check if your request has been fulfilled. After all, you'll be responsible for the Defense and Supply Management."
Astounded, her head whipped almost instantly to look at Duke. "Since when?"
"Just now." Duke gave her a challenging smile. "You up or afraid?"
Her eyebrows twitch in irritation as she looks at Duke's sarcastic smile. "Bring it on!"
Duke chuckles. "Don't worry, you can do whatever you please and order anyone you like."
"You said it, no takebacks." Kisha smirked, there was an evilly playful glint in her eyes.
"Hmm." He nodded.
When she stepped out of the vehicle, Hawk and Vulture were already waiting by the door. Hawk stood straight, puffed out his chest, and said while wearing a salesman's smile. "Let's go Ms. Aldens, I'll lead you to the warehouse."
She nodded and instructed Vulture to bring her family to their room to rest. She scanned the place and noticed Duke with a grave expression on his face, rushing to the building.
She silently followed Hawk to the right outermost corner where a bunker-like building was standing tall. It was located in a secluded place surrounded by a cliff. "008, scan the surroundings for people where we'll pass later. Let me know if you pick up signatures different from the people with us"
During her brief exchange with 008, Hawk did a retina and fingerprint scan before putting in the code, after a careful process, he pushed open the twenty to thirty-foot-tall automatic iron door. A loud mix of noises from different animals was heard the moment the door was opened.
Kisha placed her attention on the stimulated animals, they were all so noisy that it gave her a headache. She took a closer look and noticed that there was no food or water placed for them, she looked around and found no one taking care of the livestock. She waved her hand and placed all the livestock in her territory subspace.
"Where are the supplies?" She asked in a hurry.
Hawk led her to the innermost part of the room and there was another big iron door separating a different room from where the livestock were located. He performed the same security check before they were able to enter the room.
The second room was two times bigger than the last and was brimming with boxes of supplies of different categories. Kisha's eyes lit up after seeing the amount of supplies they had and started planning its uses and management.
But before she let herself be consumed with excitement, she stored all the supplies in her inventory, straightened her posture, and strode back to the building. There was something she needed to confirm.