Chapter 18

-Before we Begin this chapter:I have been busy and by upload times have been delayed quite a bit, I am trying my best to do everything all together and make this novel decent. I know it isnt the best due to lack of the characters talking. I am just trying to make it slightly more suspenseful and maybe I might start another novel where characters talk more. This will be a Double Chapter. Lets get to the chapter------------

_______________________________________________ I wake up as i hear a knocking on my front door. I get up and get dressed as I rush to the door and notice its Hank. "Good Morning, We are Going to Scout the Areas Get some Supplies to last a few days but not too much" Hank says as he Smiles brightly. I look at him and nod as I invite him in gesturing him to sit down. He politely Enters and Starts making coffee with some of the coffee grounds that was left over and wasn't tainted from the survivors before this community. I go and back my Bag with ammunition, food, water, and 2 knives as well as a hand gun and a Suppressed LMG. I walk towards Hank. "I'm Ready" I say as I go and grab Oatmeal Packets from the Kitchen. Hank Turns around finishing his coffee already and says, "We will probably encounter a horde or something. We are bringing explosives in case of that. You should wear some sort of armor." I look at him and nod knowing that explosives if had to be set off around me that id need protection. I go through the house and realize that there's a special office room with a knight armor suit and a police raid gear next to it. there was also 3 special forces suits with bullet proof vests. I put the knight helmet on my head while putting on the raid suit and the special forces boots. I walk out ready to go and Hank looks at me and just starts breaking up laughing. "why the knights helmet... hahaha" I take the knights helmet off for a minute and just walk out with it in my hand Hank following. We reach the gate and set out with about 10 to 20 people 5 being leaders including me and the other 15 trusted obedient workers striving to rebuild the world. We set out in 4 separate trucks. The first 3 had 6 each while the 4th only had 2 so that there was a truck with an empty back. The fourth was for the main loading of supplies we found. The first 3 were as big as those half semi trucks. the fourth was a semi. Each had welded spikes on the front all to cut down zombies in the way. Each also had blades on the side to cut down at least a foot and a half to the side. "These were made for hordes weren't they?" I ask one of the workers. "Yeah, but I think also for intimidation of other survivors." said the Worker. We had the trucks with one Leader each except the fourth where the 2 passengers were leaders. We went into a trail formation like a snake and no weakness unless if some super horde of 5 hordes came at us but even then it would be hard for that. We drive for an hour not finding a town as we run into a small group of survivors only 3 people but we still didnt want to take risks. I look as I see one is injured a Scratch wound They are also pale. I then say "They have one with a Scratch wound, the pale one. The one in the middle. Lets see if they need help. Hank nods as he looks at them keeping an eye on them. I hop out of the Truck and walk towards the 3 men, "You okay?" I say getting closer, "No we arent" says the one on the left, "We ran into a horde that is headed straight this way on the road. They'll be here in about 15 minutes, We barely escaped but we have our friend that was scratched and injured" I look at them with a saddened expression, "I'm sorry for your friend, he is going to one of them soon if we don't kill him while he is still human" They look at me in an understanding way as the put him down lift his head and stab him in the back of the head and put him down gently as they pull him to the side of the road into the grass. "You have any weapons?" I ask the 2 men, "If you do hand them over and we will take you with us." They throw down knives and 2 pistols and a revolver as well as some ammo. "You will get the knives back in case of emergency. You will get the guns back when the group leader decides he trusts you." I take all the weapons as I put them in a gun bag and help the 2 guys into the back of the 4th truck, the semi. I go over to the truck I came in as I get in and buckle up, "Lets go then" Hank says smiling, "Good job on your first set of survivors, anyone else would've screwed up on something or not have been merciful." I look at him and nod knowing this is the sad truth. "I Didn't want to let them see a horrific turning of family or friends again they've probably seen it enough already. I wanted them to have a chance to live and they took it." I say as we keep driving on the highway towards unmarked territory for them. Take few breaks for the bathroom. It gets to about 5 pm (17:00) as we get out deploying traps and spikes around a camp we set up we make a small fire and cook the minimal on it as we get in the trucks setting up sleeping bags and covers to sleep on. I help the others as I also set up mine. Mine was in an unsafer spot than theirs. They had The backs of the cargo trucks while I slept in the cab of the one i came in. I handed Hank the keys and locked both doors. I may have been behind locked doors and elevated but thay wouldn't stop a living person willing to break glass. The others were safer despite being slightly lower to the ground since they were in groups. we had the first 3 trucks with 18 people while the semi was occupied by the 2 new survivors and a leader. This leader didn't need much sleep and he rid in the passenger and slept during the day. He was highly trained and could take on a group of 5 trained men standing at 6 foot and weighing 200-300 pounds each. He was like one of those buff martial artists that you always hear about. 2 untrained men wouldn't be a problem for him even if they were armed. I slowly dose off in the cab at around 11:30 pm (23:30). We took about 3 hours(5-8 or 17:00 to 20:00) with pitfall traps and spike traps. I wake up the next morning when I hear the sound of groaning and hear the group walking around yelling at each other because this horde was big. Hank unlocks the door and gets in starting the vehicle and starts to lead the group through the horde. We begin mowing over the hordes cutting their head off on the sides and stabbing and running them over on the front. We make it through the horde in about 5 minutes and end up killing a large amount of them only leaving maybe 5 alive if any. I then look at Hank and ask, "How long do we have now?" Hank looks at me and says, "We have around 35 minutes and we should be there." I nod as we keep driving not encountering anything. We reach the scouting location as we split in teams of 5 and have 2 groups take one of the new people then having 6. We entering each building and pull out foods that havent been damged, seeds, pots, tools, books, furniture, weapons, armors and other artifacts of the past. We take about 8 hours and load the trucks to the max Without filling the little space where the people sat. We hooked extra trailers to the ends of the 3 half semi trucks and filled them. now all trucks look like semis. We weld blades on the sides of these trailers and start making our way back taking turns of who is driving since we don't want to risk getting robbed or running into another horde in the night. We make it back to the Community and separate the trailers and put the Items in storage places and the other stuff assorted into the places they needed to go. The welding and blacksmithing stuff to blacksmith and welding shop, The furniture to the storage houses, the weapons to the armory, and the food to the food warehouse or as others called it food storage. "This was an amazing haul even though we only spent a few hours collecting unlike what we usually do like sitting out there for days and collecting. We hauled to the max and then some." Hank said as he pats me on the back, "Looks like you've brought us luck Yuki." I nod and start helping divide the things to go where they need to. It takes a few hours to put the stuff up and we even brought back some Sabers and Swords from a museum. "Next raid or scavenge we go on we need to go back to that museum and grab everything. Those things will help us out in the future if we want to rebuild." I say to Hank. "Good eye." says Hank "We definitely will, we couldn't get anymore so we will go back in about a week or so and empty that museum with 6 or 7 Semi Trucks and 4 Box Trucks and more workers around 90 people then we will be able to pack faster and pack more. we will clear the museum and then get whatever else from surrounding buildings" I look at him and nod as I grab a saber and katana and the sheath and take it with me back to my house. I eat and head back out and start helping with the small gardens we have around. It gets dark and I go back to my house and go to bed slowly dosing off.