33 General Miguel Perez (1/2)
1:33 PM – Central Business Park, Pasay City, Roxas Blvd.
BRRRRRR!!!
TATATA!!!
Sounds of heavy machinery and assault rifles being fired echoed across the area.
A large scale construction was ongoing as the government ordered to secure the place. The workers did their tasks with hurried and unnerved expressions but still worked as serious as possible. Several military squads were dispatched to guard the area and the workers.
When the outbreak started, the government already began considering numerous plans as things were going awry. The police, army and marines joined forces in trying to control the situation and it made them loose a lot of equipment and manpower. Still, they severely failed to contain the outbreak. With their failure, the government was forced to forward their plans.
One of those plans was for evacuating survivors and the location of the evacuation area. The government had a number of places suitable for this plan and one of the places they chose was the reclaimed areas in Manila Bay, the Bay City, specifically, the Central Business Park and Marina District.
These places were chosen because of numerous reasons but the main reason was both areas would be easier to secure. The majority of both areas were surrounded by high ditches and moats and the places that were not were surrounded by strong concrete fences. Another important reason was that the area was large enough to accommodate a large number of people.
This moment, the workers were working on building walls on the areas surrounded by fences.
The military heavily barricaded all the roads that were directly connected to the reclaimed areas and prioritized building the walls on those barricaded areas.
The government also issued the order to destroy a segment on all the bridges going over the moats and ditches. Afterwards, they started to build a drawbridge over the destroyed segment. It was a countermeasure for the possibility of zombies congesting outside the entrance and exits rendering the facilities inaccessible.
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A certain building in the Central Business Area was taken over by the military. The building was now used as the command center for the military's operations.
In a room within the command center, several people gathered around a rectangular table. At the far end of the table, a stern looking man with a slightly square face stood. His mustache, beard and hair had an uneven combination of black and white colors due to his age or maybe, due to the stress he received every single day. The man wore military fatigues and on the sleeves of his fatigues, an insignia with four stars lined vertically with the word ”PILIPINAS” under the stars.
The man's name was Gen. Miguel Perez. He was an army general and the person in charge of the Central Business Area.
”What is the status of the walls?”
Gen. Perez asked the man to his right who was assigned to oversee the construction process.
”General! The construction of the walls should be finished in approximately two hours.”
”Is that the limit?”
”Unfortunately, yes. The workers had already been pushing their best in the past four hours. We can only shorten it further if we can increase the manpower.”
The general sighed.
”The higher ups from the government divided the manpower to build other shelters. The people here currently are the only ones we have.”
The people inside the room hung their heads low. That was the biggest issue they are facing right now, other than the zombies.
”Still, try to shorten the time as much as possible. The lesser time spent on building the walls, we can save more of the supplies we have.”
”Yes Sir!”
”Jordan, what is the progress in clearing the area?”
The general asked the middle-aged soldier by his left.
”General, we already cleared all of the infected. My men are now checking the perimeter if there is any remaining infected that we might have missed.”
”Good. Check it properly. We can't have even a single one wandering about without us knowing.”
”Yes Sir!”
”How about the evacuees?”
”Sir! The evacuees and the survivors we found are already brought to the designated areas. Still, the situation is bad.”
It was a woman further in his right side that answered.
”What do you mean?”
”Most of them are mentally disturbed and emotionally unstable. Some are even causing disturbances.”
”That is really bad isn't it? Send specialists to attend them. It is already hell outside so we can't have anything happen inside here.”