The End Of Life

After eating a nice filling dinner, Mark looked at the rest as they sat on the couch in the living room and said, "Alright, we will go over our plan of action once again. Tonight David will remain in the soldier's room to look after him while the rest of us will take the other room we covered up." 

"After he gets up, he will take us to their base camp where we will give the letter General Donald gave us and take the communications from them. We will then go back to Evergreen city the way we came. After giving the device to the General there, we need to finish an important work in the city before we do anything else."

The rest simply nodded, hearing him speak. Even though his words became vague by the end, no one asked out loud what the important task was. 

"Alright then, let's talk about night guarding. Kevin will stay awake till midnight to watch out for any abnormal behaviour in the zombies outside. After that I will take over and watch till dawn." once again receiving a nod from the group. 

After getting the brief plan on how things will go the next few days, they all went separately. While Suzie and Mark went into the room they made, David went to the soldier's room and Kevin turned off the extra lights. 

Mark slept on the couch while Suzie took the bed to rest. Mark simply closed his eyes, falling into deep sleep after another hectic day. He hasn't had a pleasant sleep since all this started and was always on alert, only having a mild sleep which he was going to have again. 

Just like that midnight rolled by and he got woken up by Kevin. Waking up, he gave a nod at the sleepy Kevin who immediately fell asleep as his face touched the bed. Closing the door to the room, Mark took out a flashlight and walked towards the soldier's room. 

Opening the room's door, he noticed David sleeping on the couch and the soldier wrapped up while testing. Closing the door, he went near the windows and slowly observed the outside streets filled with zombies. The activity was obviously higher than daytime as they moved around for every small sound. 

The zombies mainly get attracted to sounds and the smell of blood. But this also doesn't mean that they can walk Infront of them and not expect them to jump. This is what he noticed till now. He continued to observe them for the entire night in silence, occasionally changing places. 

Time passed by as he yawned, noticing the slowly rising sun in the distance as the zombies also became lesser on the street. He turned back as Suzie slowly walked out of the room and David walked out of the other room. 

Greeting both of them, they sat on the couch as they focused on David's words, "He is fine. The wounds are healing better than expected. He should wake up in a clue of hours, probably before lunch, but he can't do intense exercise and strain the body."

Mark nodded while relaxing on the couch. He only needed him to show them directions to the military base so they can complete their task as quickly as they can and return home. Suzie stood up and made her way towards the kitchen. Making a quick 3 cups of coffee, she handed both David and Mark a cup before she herself sipped some. 

Mark relaxed as coffee entered his body. Guarding the house exhausted him a bit, even though it was only for half a day. Completing the cup, he denied Suzie's offer for another cup and said, "Alright then, as we wait for the soldier to wake up, we can search the houses in the county, if there are any items we could use. What do you guys say?" 

Suzie and David gave a nod and Mark continued, "Suzie, you stay here with David while he takes care of our patient, while I and Kevin will search the other houses." 

After he decided, he woke up Kevin and both of them had a light breakfast made their way out of the house, with guns in their hands. Mark looked around as they walked out of the porch and went onto the streets. 

There were only a few zombies on the street and they slowly made their way to one house after another. There were only 20 or so houses in the whole county, so it didn't take them long to search. 

Some houses were already emptied out but Mark fussed that it wasn't by a survival group but rather the people who tried to escape the zombies. As in most of those houses the vehicles were absent and if it was a survival group it doesn't make sense of them only cleaning out a few of the houses. 

They found various items but didn't take all of them. They mainly took medicine and food, which didn't have a short expiry date. They were able to stumble upon many similar safes like the house they were in, but only one of them had a gun and it was only Glock 17 with one magazine. 

But he felt it was ok, cause guns were now a rare commodity. With no more supply of guns in the present situation, they won't be able to expect any of them for free and find them often in the future. 

As Mark thought about this, he noticed problems with having a gun, limited ammo. As he continued to think about it, the more he felt they would need a proper and constant supply of them in the future if their survival has to be peaceful. 

He could only rub his forehead in pain as he thought about it and decided to put the matter aside for now and think about it when they finish their work in hand. After successfully searching all the houses, they made their way back to the house by noon and heard the soldier was awake.