Chapter 43:Eye to eye
'Um, sure I will ask her in person.'Anik said in his mind and just lay on this bed for a while.
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FIVE DAYS LATER/ROOFTOP
11:23 AM
*Swoosh*swoosh*
Aink was throwing jeeps at very high speed towards the ground aiming at a zombie.
"Yes!! I hit it again." Anik said with a smile.
Anik was training this five days on how to utilize his new ability to the best. He was trying to get the jeep out of the inventory at just a speed and precise aim from a long distance. It was going well with speed but aim just still a problem.
He was able to throw it out of inventory at high speed due to his fast hand movements but the aim was still hard to do.
"If I can constantly able to shoot jeeps at high speed with accuracy at long distances. It will help me. I also wanted to store bigger things but I don't know how big can I store things in inventory. But I don't want to store useless things which only use is big and no other use and waste my slot for it.
Aafia how big can I store things?" Anik asked Aafia.
[You can store things whose whole body or structure you can see.]
"What do you mean?" Anik asked with confusion.
[Let me give you an example. Let's say you want to store a pole or a building and you try to store it in inventory but can't. Because you can't see its structure which is underground and you must see its full volume to store it no matter the size.]
"That means I can store anything that isn't underground or visible to my eyes of their full size," Anik said to Aafia.
[Yes.]
"That means can store any fallen building, or boulder outside the ground fully which is not connected to the underground," Anik said to Aafia.
[Yes.]
"Then I can store the moon too if I can see it on a full moon night?" Anik asked Aafia with excitement.
"No, you have to be closer to things you want to put in the inventory."
*Sigh*"Oh!! yes, I forgot about that." Anik said to Aafia with slight disappointment.
Just like that Anik resumed his training to perfect his aim.
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TOP FLOOR/6:23 PM
"TNX DFTA 73," Anik said on the ham radio and cut the connection. TNX means 'thanks'.
"Still not seeing any signs of it yet. There are still three weeks left." Anik said lying on the eat and eating the canned food.
As the moon shone on the sky Anik went to sleep.
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TWO WEEKS LATER/ON THE RADIO
MORNING 8:26 AM
"DE AC6V QSO. What do you mean all the zombies are moving towards California from your and other regions?" Anik asked the general directly after requesting to talk directly.
"I also don't know why our city zombies and other regions zombies that I know of are going towards California." General Liam said to Anik.
Anik also looks outside the window to see some remaining zombies walking towards the west.
"Is this California towards the west side of the Jacksonville general?" Anik asked to general.
"Yes. Is it the same for you too? Do you know why?" General Liam asked Anik.
"Well, first can you start to prepare a helicopter to pick me up because I want to go towards California," Anik said to the general.
"I will give more essence to you if don't question that. It's for your own good General Liam." Anik offered General Liam for not questioning him.
"Fine. I will send you the chopper." General Liam said to Anik.
After ending the connection, Anik started to feel excited and nervous too.
He then went up the roof to continue his training.
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IN THE MILITARY CAMP OF GENERAL LIAM/HELICOPTER HELIPAD
3:24 PM
"General Liam, can we go to Jacksonville?" Luna asked general in her tactical gear with her team in standby.
"Yes, you can." General Liam said to Luna.
"Hey, Ace how are you feeling today to meet Anik again?" Jonathan said to Ace jokingly.
Ace didn't say anything.
"Jonathan, be quiet!!" Holden told Jonathan to be quiet.
"Team, hop on the helicopter," Luna said to the team. And they follow the captain.
General Liam was just going to step aside but someone came.
"Sophia, what are you doing wearing tactical gear?" General asked Sophie with some anger.
"Father, I want to go too. It is necessary to have a doctor anyway for a long and dangerous mission." Sophia said to Anik.
"You can't go." General Liam said to Sophia.
"Well I am now physically stronger than any soldiers here besides the soldiers inside the helicopter so don't worry about me, Father," Sophia said to the general.
"Um, fine but be careful. Luna protects your doctor to the best of your ability." General Liam said to Sophia and ordered Luna to protect Sophia.
"Sure, sir," Luna said and welcomed Sophia in the helicopter.
Other guys also just said hello to her.
"Why so eager huh!!" Luna said to Sophia teasingly.
"Stup up, Luna," Sophia said in annoyance.
"Haha!!! Don't be so shy now." Luna again teases her.
Just like that, their bickering started for the whole flight.
The other guys just couldn't fathom how these two women talked childishly when they were so serious other times.
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ROOFTOP/4:33 PM
*Bam*bam*bam*clank*clank*clank*
Jeeps were falling from above the building very fast.
Anik was training again. And he suddenly sees a helicopter coming towards him.
After some time he sees the old pilot and waves at him. He saw other soldiers there two but they were visible to him.
Then, when the helicopter hovered above him. He finally saw them.
"Captain!! And the boys"
' why the hell are they doing there? Do they want to go with me towards California?'
'Ah~ Sophia!!' Anik was getting shocked after shock looking at the people inside the helicopter.
Following that the helicopter door opened and the boys waved at him but Ace just nodded.
"Hey!! Anik, how are you doing lately?"
Luna said to Anik very loudly happy to see him.
Anik then looked at Sophia and she looked at him too. Anik just smiled.
"Anik!!! We are staying here or going somewhere?" Luna asked Anik.
"We are going towards California," Anik said to Luna. After hearing that Luna throws a rope and he carries the bag and starts climbing the rope.
While climbing, others were shocked and bewildered to see so many broken-down jeeps and destroyed buildings. There were thousands of jeeps down there all destroyed.
After climbing up, Anik saw all the shocked-looking faces down.
"What were you doing down there?" Ace asked Anik.
"Haha, just some training," Anik said to Ace.
To be continued...