26 Survivor Camp and Determination (1/2)

”Good evening Ladies and Gents! I hope you guys are still alive and survived today's chaotic ordeal!”

The others went still when they suddenly heard that voice in between the sound of static.

The voice came from the radio that run in batteries that Josh has been tweaking since the time he got it from the warehouse and he has been trying his luck to connect to available signals since.

”Boss, I did it!” Josh shouted in glee and he turned the volume higher and adjusted the signal so that they will be able to hear it more clearly.

”I'm not a radio host guys and I just made a radio transmitter just for you guys so I can some good news to some of you! I am Dan and tonight I have an important good news for everyone who's able to survive till now! And sadly there's also a bad news for everyone. O~kay... let's start with the good news first…”

Then the radio remained silent but the people can certain hear some shuffling sound from the other side. Henry, Rachel and the others slowly surrounded the radio and some of them even brought their plates with them.

The people stood in anticipation, waiting for what good news it was. Everyone of them are not idiots, they already know how devastating the epidemic was. Even within the Stronghold, they can already see smokes blanketing almost the entire sky, booming sound, burst of gun fires that can still be heard from far awayand there would be even military choppers that would fly just near them earlier today.

A lot of countries was caught off guard by this while some manage to prepare a bit when they discovered some earlier anomalies regarding it.

”Dan is back, Okay~the good news is you survive, right? But that's not the only good news, if you're survivor near St. Asaph, then make sure to head towards here at St. Asaph. The city mayor and some surviving police officers along with some local survivors including me had erected a survivor camp here, there's only over three hundred people left from a population of over three thousand of us. I don't know, there might be still others out there that we haven't rescued yet, hopefully”

”Once here, just head towards the city hall where you would see a makeshift wall of galvanized roof and we will accept you guys and for the bad news? Mankind is practically on the verge of extinction. Our city is only small but the sudden zombie epidemic had already turned over three thousands of residents here into a walking Undead, almost turning this place into a city of dead. Just imagine those bigger cities with at least hundreds of thousands of population. Haist, to the survivors who are lucky to be alive and hearing me tonight on a radio….Good luck and may the god bless us all! This is Dan, I'm out….”

The radio turned into a deafening static and the others had darkened looks on their faces probably with only exemption of Leo, who probably expected that there would still people who are courageous enough to build a survivor camp and try to survive.

Leo shook his head and thought ”Creating a survivor camp is basically reckless for the time being, after all where would they get food and water with how many they are there….” he didn't continue and smiled helplessly and said to the others ”Alright, don't think too much about it, the most important thing is we are still alive and with our love ones too. Finish your meal, we'll conclude the night here”.

The others ate their food in silence probably only the two little girls can't read the atmosphere as both of happily talked to each other.

Everyone immediately finished their meals with the women cleaning up the table. Leo then talked to the rest of the guys and they divided themselves into two groups with the first group being Leo, Josh and Tom and the second group are Henry, Joe, Austin and Michael with the first watch being the first group.

After the women cleaned the dishes, all of them decided to sleep together in one of the houses, after all no one wants to sleep all alone in a room so all of them including the kids planned to sleep in the living room as they prepared their beds with the futon mattresses.

”Alright, you guys don't need to worry and just go to sleep and let us men do the night watch” Leo told them and exited the house with Rachel following behind, in the back the women didn't immediately go to bed and started talking among themselves with the topic mostly about the survivor camp earlier and sometimes Leo with his weird futuristic looking Armor and his already superhuman abilities. Leo smiled and didn't mind as he already had a reasonable excuse prepared, if one day one of them can't hold themselves back and asked him about it.

Outside the house, both mother and son had a small talk for a bit before she went back inside. Leo told Rachel that the rest of the men will split into two groups with the first group taking the first watch and told her to tell the rest inside that they shouldn't worry about them also taking a night watch duty and they should just take care of the house work in the day while the men would do patrols and other dangerous things.

Leo then went towards the gate where the rest of the guys are and there Leo told the second that they should also get some rest at the Guard Quarters just a few meters beside the gate.