56 A place I never thought I would go 4 (1/2)

Lazar stopped running when he found himself near a baseball field from which he was separated by a barrier reaching the same height as the base of his neck.

He pulled the file he had taken from Buren out of his inventory and went through several pages before stopping at the one he was interested in; the page representing a map of the MIT campus.

'It's a little fuzzy, but I have no choice, I have to deal with it.' His night vision wasn't very handy for seeing all the details on the map, but he didn't want to attract attention by using the flashlight he had borrowed from the woman who had tried to kill Amandla earlier.

This baseball field in front of him was part of the campus and although it was one of the places farthest away from where he thought he would find people, Lazar had choose it as a starting point for 2 reasons.

First, to the left of this baseball field was a football field surrounded by an athletic track and to the right was a soccer field. Lazar thus had a clear view of what was around him, if monsters tried to encircle him, he would see it coming.

Apparently there were no survivors of the first attempt to exfiltrate, so it was normal for Lazar to be apprehensive, 'There are so many possible scenarios jostling in my head right now. If I had to choose the most plausible, it would be that the soldiers who came here all fell into a trap simultaneously and that retreat was no longer an option at that time but...'

Lazar didn't like hypotheses but certainties and what he knew for sure was that it was the fucking Apocalypse. Everything was possible, little could be predicted and there was no point in racking his brains to come up with an explanation that would surely turn out to be false.

The second and final reason why Lazar decided to go through this place first and that he was also going to avoid areas of the campus where people might hide was simply that he didn't want to run into anyone.

On the one hand, finding people might help him understand what was going on here, but on the other hand he couldn't predict all the trouble it would bring him.

Let's imagine that he comes across people who have hidden in a place where there is no access to food. It was now more than 3 days since the Apocalypse began, so potentially 3 days that they are hiding; it's enough time to go crazy for weak-minded people who are deprived of food.

'I would rather worry about that when I will come back with Amandla.' Lazar thought coldly as he stored the file in his inventory.

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The closest place Lazar intended to avoid was a gymnasium just to the left of the football field since it wasn't the worst place to hide...

And Indeed, he would do well by avoiding this place.

About 50 students were barricaded there and since yesterday they had run out of the food they had taken by breaking the vending machines around them.

This was exactly the kind of thing Lazar wanted to avoid and yet sooner or later he would have to deal with this tricky situation because in that gymnasium there were two of his targets.

One of the 20 targets that were indicated in the file as well as his 21st target whose photo and informations weren't in the file.