110 Travels (1/2)

On the main east road that leads to Black Haven, a group of eleven people, made of one woman, three children, one young adult and six middle-aged men, were huddled together as they traveled.

Each men held one short sword as they warily advanced forward. It was already well-known by the survivors that the surrounding area has already been cleared of carriers, but it wasn't general knowledge for Gilbert and his friends.

They were fighting for the marina since the start and have never ventured out. Knowing nothing about the current news or events, they walked cautiously along the way.

A group of three teenagers were walking towards them and Gilbert could heard them speaking to each other while chuckling.

”Must be newcomers.”

”Yeah. Let's greet them.”

The two men in front raised their hands as they greeted him while the lady at the back followed after them.

The lady behind the two stepped forward and greeted first.

”Hello there! My name is Priscilla, these two are my friends Sam and Kevin. Are you guys recently rescued? I knew how hard it was to survive and I'm really glad that many of you survived. We too were rescued by Black Haven, so we knew how you feel. But don't worry, your safe now. The surrounding area has already been cleared of dangers, so the streets are a bit safe. You can go to the City Hall and request some basic assistance package, then towards the Black Haven Advertisement Bus for things like news and jobs. There's also a hand-drawn map of the cleared area on the statue at the city hall plaza. There's also a mercenary band hanging out at Veronica's PUB if you want something done when you don't have the power to do so. And—”

”Priscilla, I don't think they're interested or in actual need of your blabber. Can we just move on? What if other scavengers get all the valuable loots” said the man with a pair of glasses.

Priscilla rolled her eyes and turned around. ”This is the exact reason why you can't get a girlfriend even though there's a lot of available at night.”

Priscilla bade goodbye and the three of them moved on.

After the three teenagers left, the feeling of cautiousness vanished from everyone and they traveled more freely. Some even started chatting while the kids started to fawn about and pointed at every broken car they passed by.

Helena spoke to Gilbert. ”Do we go to the City Hall? Maybe the mayor can help us.”

Gilbert shook his head. ”No, we're told to look for Bernard, so that's what we're going to do.”

”We could atleast look around first, then go after, right?” suggested Helena.

”I already caused enough trouble for everyone. I'm sure that the man would allow us some free time to go about.” replied Gilbert.

”If you say so. Let's hope that they're not hiding something.”

Gilbert led his group onwards and he didn't even have to ask for directions since everything was pretty obvious. According to the young lady earlier, there's a place called Black Haven Advertisement Bus where you could find jobs and read news.

”It should be that, right?” Gilbert muttered to himself as he watched the crowd of people in front of a bus parked parallel on the street. He never really went into the said place and was only accommodated on one of the abandoned houses a few blocks away.

He noticed that people come and go to different directions after reading some leaflets pasted on the bus. Curious, he went and read some for himself. The topics he read where news event that happened for the past few days and some job hiring and scavenging groups recruitment. After reading only a small part of the pasted leaflets, he instinctively knew that this should be the said Black Haven Advertisement Bus.

Gilbert felt sure that this was Black Haven, so he walked forward. He then noticed people coming and going into the mall, so he followed them.