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Hruday was waiting, contemplating Roy, who finally noticed after his mental research to find the origin, joined him to discuss with hruday and give him company, while Michael, who didn't care about those things because he had hruday walking regression, just wanted to support him
The night passed rather quickly as they discussed their nightmares and how to deal with them with the veteran of nightmares. They finally slept at 1:00, watching the unmoving horde
They were all woken up by Mark. They tried to get some more time to sleep by asking, but Mark seemed to be serious, so leaving the supply inside the building they all went suddenly Michael was asking if they were forgetting something multiple times and if they needed to be prepared After reaching the apartment building they were shocked to see zombies romping around
Micheal was first one to reat what should we do hruday
Hruday, who had no idea what to do at this point, said his anger was going off the roof because he couldn't stop his nightmare and couldn't lucid dream He didn't say anything and just ran to the stairs, remembering Mark followed his inurry and saying him to stop
And he stopped checking if his paper armor was still in place he just ran around the apartment kigking and pushing all zombies as he was running around he noticed that these zxombies weren't survivors rather they are from the horde it had come from the south end and northest end of the apartment where there was a underground hole and in north it was the circle moving gate which was blocked so he ran around gathering them in one place then mark and other survivors throw all the moltov they had and came rushing in with their wepon there were only few 20 at most so they were all quickly dealt with then he knocked on all doors finding some survivors turned really made him fell frustrated but thanks to his preqation and then following it by wareing mask and helmate it was safe
After some Morning for the Dead, he moved all the supplies and asked Shophia to make a list Then he went and started exercising, thinking that he wouldn't have done without motivational videos and music He went in extra hard and looked out his kitchen. There were still zombies, but it was relatively less since it seemed most had moved somewhere once again
Then he took his bag and opened the supplies that he kept for himself without anyone knowing because all of them were rare luxuries
He had 10 pack of 10 grams of saffron, totaling 100 grams of saffron, which was enough for him to last a year or two. He didn't know how long exactly it would last.
Then he had 1 kg pack of all kinds of dry fruits except raspberry, 2 packs of gulkand (honey and elaichi mixed with rose petals), and 2 500ml chyawanprash by Dabur. It is an immunity booster jam made from a combination of plant and root with jaggery and honey
So, from now on, was going to eat those daily as breakfast This was an advantage of an apocalypse, and health products are free if you are determined to get them. He didn't get more in order not to raise suspicions as his bag would bulge too much but he was going to distribute it to those who fought
All this time, he didn't have to do it; he didn't have to be fit and healthy but now it wasn't an option, not unless he was trying to survive
He chose this as breakfast because in morning you will absorb more nutrition than at night and he needed that
His former self wouldn't be Able to eat half the contents daily but now he could. He also knew why rich looked younger because they ate good food rather than genetically modified crap made for mass for profit
He sighed as he could just eat these; he had to eat neem and turmeric paste with poh ha tea and some coriander seeds Tulasi and couple other things which he didn't know the name of but were always given whenever he had sore throat or any kind of infection so he brewed the modified poh ha tea at this point; it wasn't a poh ha tea anymore; it didn't taste good at all and he had made too much so he pored all into a 5-liter container, added water to the brim and boiled it, then put it into his flask, as he had 2 flasks, and it fit in perfectly
Then he did some yoga and breathing exercises. After that, he felt very active and relaxed, which wasn't the usual case if he tried to exercise on a normal day. He thought it was good that he didn't start this on day one, as it would have worked opposite
Now that it was 9 am, he went down and find everyone on the queue for breakfast. It seems the aunt had taken in charge of cooking and now was serving everyone He quickly dragged Mark and his friend and made them drink 500 ml of the water that had a subtle taste of everything in it, although it wasn't as bad as they first thought. Getting the peace of leaves while drinking felt bad and it was even worse when hruday insisted on eating it and waited for 20 minutes before eating breakfast
He was eating dry fruits Michael asked for some, which hruday refused and warned not to touch, but still gave them a little 2 pistachios 2 almonds and 6 pieces of black and brown graps, with half a piece of walnut
Michael, dude, did you steal this? He asked hruday and said, I am the one who brought it. We also need to be healthy to survive this apocalypse, not malnourished. He then lectured them on the importance of it, along with the warning not to eat without his permission and not to talk about it
Then he also promised he would give this as a reward for everyone who had fought with him After successfully convincing them how deserved he was, he stopped
Michael regretted trying to make a joke and that it made him waste 10 more minutes before he could go eat and even get little bit of speech from Roy As a bonus, he said Roy I know I just did it as a joke you guys took it seriously.
Look, they are giving less food now that you know tomato lemon rice are my favorites hruday also joined them, as he too liked it and couldn't refuse the kind gesture of Aunty keeping extras hidden just for them
He ate and this one seemed to contain more tomato and masala than the other He felt touched and this made him remember his mom He quickly distracted himself from that thought by thinking about farming
He asked his aunt if she had at least kept seeds of vegetables, which, to his delight, she had. Thanking her, he quickly made an adjustment to make a big hole to fill all biodegradable waste, to make farming bed on the concrete water storage slab and make more space for farmable space They all got to work except children, to whom he gave small work to plant seeds
he really wanted to know the aunt's name but didn't want to ask her, as she had already told him twice
he quickly went towards Sophia and asked about the list of people and resources he had managed to get She silently handed him the key, pointed to the storage house and said in an indifferent tone that it was located under a cardboard box of the 5th rack in the living room
he went towards it while everyone was working took the book and started counting the goods to see if they had misplaced or lied After that, he was impressed how well it was arranged, just like he had requested and that she hadn't lied
but he was really worried about how would he be able to reinforce not stealing Subtly, it could be defended as an error in math rather than stealing and he still worried about it, as if one were intelligent enough, they would be able to steal goods without him noticing, as he wouldn't check it every time and they would be able to recognize a pattern of his visits Nonetheless, it was a problem to solve in the future
he later joined others, knowing that now he had 38 people, with 5 being children and 4 being fat aunties, both of whom he couldn't use to fight. He only had about 19 people, of whom 10 were male and 9 were female, whose ages ranged from 20 to 35, with the males being almost same except Hector
then he checked on Hector, who had a high fever for some reason, and gave him his herbal tea and made ginger syrup while giving generous amounts of dry fruits so that he would stop driving him nuts from his teasing and blabbering like a drunkard and not letting him clean his wounds and apply turmeric and tulsi paste
he didn't know if this would help if Hector was infected with the zombie virus he still did it for both Mark and Tory, not wanting to risk
he then looked the back side of the apartments and water tank room, trying to figure out which pipelines did what with roy father
hruday, he was feeling really lucky to have a two-liter tank, and that too, having both tanks placed on top of another tank situated underground. To top it off, he had an underground water pump and a hand pump how lovely of a coincidence is that?
at first, there was only a hand pump because it existed before this apartment was even built then after the apartment was constructed along with the 2 lakh letter tank high tank that years possessed no need for a hand pump but due to the water crisis the quarters didn't have water to store so the huge 2 water tanks didn't have water to fill so the influential corrupt people in the apartment made it so that within the end of that mouth underground water pump would be ready and for the interval, they fixed the hand pump which had minor issues and used it not that they needed water to drink but it was for to water exotic plants that the manager who lived near the water pump and tank had it was almost as if the whole apartment was his own house rather than govt and the funny thing was he used govt money to paint and maintain well he used more than what budget supposed to be using
There was a small concern not one but two. One was the BIG hole from which the zombies came in, which was now barricaded rather roughly using furniture, and the other was he wanted to check if the tank had any bird fallen inside
as he didn't know if the tank on the upside was opened or closed, he didn't even know if it had a lid in the first place, as he remembered that one-time numerous birds were found dead inside and caused blockage and blood-mixed water
so he really didn't want that to happen now that he didn't know where all the birds had suddenly vanished or he wanted an infected bird to fall on the open tank
but the problem was that the tank was higher than their apartment and had a skinny iron ladder and now that the sun's heat was at its peak, he was always a night owl and disliked the summer heat It made him feel very bad Now he had to climb that huge ladder because everyone else were working and he couldn't ask Roy's father to do it at all as he had just recovered from it and coming for his help was already a favor
but he really hated heights and his possibility of falling off seemed more but not less, He went because he didn't want to procrastinate and he had to be seen working If he did it now, he would be visible to everyone who was working really hard to make farm beds, and he didn't want to give the impression of slaking off, especially at the start because he could slake off later without any problem if he showed his hard work.
he felt cheap for doing this but he really didn't want somebody to take over the leadership and resources with some political ploy that he painstakingly tried to get, risking his life and moving when everybody didn't
he started walking just as he put his hand to grip the side It blasted him so he came back with glows and shoes and kept on climbing It was scalding and he started to feel the annoying micro-electric blasts all over his body Sighing, he continued, as he thought he was being slowly roasted and cooked His glows and rubber actually melted Then he reached the top and thought it really was the hot man I think it is especially hot today. Why is that he ponders as he looks over and finds several mirrors pointed at him from different apartments? It was a call for help but each one of them was far away and had no knowledge of people, only banners and mirrors. But he had to do something about the mirrors, as they could cause a lot of damage. But he wondered why they didn't aim at other buildings What were their intentions? He mentally noted down the location and went back after closing the opened lid