Chapter 351 - Well kill them all. (1/2)

After a few hours, all of us were gathered in the pool area for our meeting. We now have representatives from Woodlands and the DDR Camp in our place. They always come in groups of five and they share their own reports from running their own place. On our outpost outside which is my old high school, they would just tell their report in a call instead of coming here every night. It was the same case for Iskoh and Rod. Oscar was in charge of communicating with them after each meeting to relay what happened on our parts and for them to relay what happened on theirs. We started on this arrangement after we came back here from the City of Manila. Communication with each other was one of the keys to survive this thing.

I discovered that most of the soldiers from the Meycauayan DDR camps have moved on to my old high school. Only a few dozen would remain just to watch the road and clear a few deadheads while in the hospital. Their group planned on hitting SM Marilao for everything that the place could offer because it was still full of supplies and the people on the rooftops were found dead and just roaming aimlessly on the roof. Oscar gave them the go and they would be executing it tomorrow.

On our side, the clearing groups were starting to encroach Coloong, another barangay next to ours. That place was as big as ours and the difference between that place and ours was that Malanday, our barangay, had one-third of its whole territory on the other side of the highway while Coloong was whole. That barangay owns more fishing areas compared to our place but they don't have land to plant their crops.

”Are there people living over there?” I asked.

”Well, from the looks of it when we came there last time, seems to be none. We reached those huge fish ponds at the end that were also connected to the canal system. Everything else was neglected but there's a lot of zombies still inside the houses.” Mark replied.

”How about the other barangays next to them? Have you taken a look yet?” I asked.

”Well, my group went for a quick look there but it seemed the same until Pulo.” Jay replied.

”Okay, here's what you'll do to be a little efficient. There are four entrances in total including the bridge which connects us to Pulo that I want you to look at. There are many entrances that connect us to the other barangays via the road. There are small ones and big ones but if you'd look at our map here, these four entrances is the key. If we block them all for the moment, unless those deadheads managed to learn to jump over houses, we're good.” I started.

”But those areas are twice as big as this barangay.” Dong chimed.

”Well, I'm not telling you to clear everything in one go. After you're done with Coloong, block the road leading to that place as well then continue to Bisig, Tagalag, Mabolo, Isla, and so on… Just start with Coloong first because it's the biggest one before reaching the bridge to Pulo. We'll just start with that side of the road first because we need to make sure the canal system is clear from those other points before we even try going out with our boats.” I explained.

We continued the meeting and what followed was Rin's reports on the whole upkeep of our whole place. Supplies were still holding up and the places I've pointed to that might contain valuable equipment and lots of food were spot on. Sweeping each and every house would almost always give supplies but surgically scavenging high-value and low-profile places would give the best yields because high-value and high-profile places were either looted already or crawling with biters.

The places I'm talking about were houses being made into storage areas, houses of people with carry permits or involved with law enforcement, apartments with people with doctoral or engineering degrees, etc., or even houses whose people used to live in were paying high amounts of tax. Those were bound to contain valuables. I made use of the files from the City Hall we hit before and they were f.u.c.k.i.n.g accurate. However, I would still make them sweep each house because we would never know what we may find randomly.

We ended that part of the meeting and I formally introduced Cynthia to everyone present. We left it to Cynthia if she would tell them of her brother's real identity but we already made an agreement beforehand that I would tell Oscar everything. I showed the group the pictures I took from the place we stayed for a few days and boy oh boy we got a f.u.c.k.i.n.g situation on our hands.

Oscar was stunned when he saw Irene. He was like me every time Kaley would smile brightly.

”Kid, who was that? The one on the plaid shirt? Kid!” Oscar called out to me.

”Uh, that's Irene. She's the leader of that place Ilya was staying at.” I replied.

”Ah, wait. Who's that f.u.c.k.i.n.g grumpy looking asshole with a cigar?! That's not her lover isn't he?!” Oscar exclaimed.

”Oh, that's Irene's brother Arturo. He's their resident doctor.” I replied with a hidden smirk.

”Ah, I must've been seeing things. They both look good especially her and that must be coming from good genes eh? That's right, that's right. He's a doctor too eh? I need to learn more of him too.” Oscar nodded though everyone already knew what's about to happen in the future.

”Right, any more questions before Darelle presents his report? That would be the last, right?” I looked at everyone.

”Yeah! I got a question kid!” Oscar raised his hand with a jolly look on his face.

”I'll introduce you later, don't worry.” I was shaking my head the same with everyone.