Surviving the Apocalypse with my Multiplier System - Chapter 110

Chapter 110: Knocked Out
While the young man dressed his wounds, he asked, “So you guys said you were looking for a scientist? Do you know this person’s name or what he looks like?”

Rayne shook her head. “Unfortunately, all we were told was that he was a middle-aged man who was an important scientist. I’m assuming he had some kind of ties to the government if they decided to look for him.”

The man was quiet for a few minutes, bandaging his gash. “Well, if he did have ties to the government, then he most likely worked at the government lab at the edge of town.”

Rayne stood up with Julian, happy to finally have some kind of direction as to where to look. “Thank you so much for this information!” she said.

“Yeah, no problem. So can I go back to the government base with you?” he asked with a hopeful expression.

“I don’t see why not. Although we aren’t the group leaders, there’s plenty of space in the car. I recommend you bring as many things as possible with you. The registration fees are quite steep,” explained Rayne.

“Oh, I have a vehicle here. I just don’t know the way. I’ll just be following you guys, if that’s cool,” he said with a small grin.

“Well, even better then. We will most likely be staying overnight, so prepare to leave sometime tomorrow,” she replied.

The young man nodded. “Oh, by the way, I’m Leonard, but just call me Lenny. If you guys need a place to stay tonight, you’re welcome to stay in my guest room. I’ll lay some clean sheets for you.”

Rayne looked over at Julian, asking for his opinion with her eyes. Julian looked over at Lenny, feeling he was a decent guy. “Sure, thanks Lenny! We’re going to meet up with the group here soon, then come back. I’ll let the leader know you’ll be following us back,” he said.

After sorting out the details, Rayne and Julian left the apartment building to meet up with the rest of the team. Since they had arrived later in the day, they didn’t have much time to explore before it began to get dark.

Now, with the looming danger of dangerous animals around, Rayne didn’t want to spend too much time out on the streets in the dark.

They quickly made their way back to the van, waiting for the rest of the group to come back.

—-

Earlier that day…

“Jackpot!” Reginald muttered as he looked at the neatly arranged medicines that lined the shelves through the glass window. He looked around and found a small pile of bricks from a fallen wall in one of the doctors’ offices he had looked through earlier.

Standing a small distance away, he forcefully threw the brick into the large glass window, shattering it in the process.

He picked up a second brick and walked over to the broken window, breaking more of the glass using the brick. Once all of the glass shards were cleanly broken and removed from the frame, he carefully stepped over to the pharmacy.

Unzipping his duffel bag, he quickly swiped as many medicines as he could, searching for the specific one his daughter took.

While Ella didn’t have any life-threatening diseases, she did suffer from a condition where her body didn’t produce enough stomach acid to properly digest food. This caused her a lot of discomfort whenever she ate if she didn’t have the medicine.

Reginald weaved through the shelves, finally finding the familiar medication and stored it carefully inside his coat pocket. The rest of the medicine he piled into his duffel bag until there was no more space to fit anything else.

He hopped through the broken window and went back to deposit the medicine he found into the designated box, then went back to repeat the process. It took him six trips back and forth to fully empty the pharmacy, filling the van with valuable medicines.

Besides the medicine for his daughter, Reginald also kept a few common antibiotics and painkillers for his family to use in case of emergency.

After emptying the pharmacy, he continued down the corridor, checking out each of the rooms along the way. There were small snacks in many of the drawers of the doctors’ offices, and Reginald happily took them all, placing them in his duffel bag.

He took a few everyday items like pens, pencils, and notebooks for his wife to use, hoping it would cure a little bit of her boredom.

The next room he walked into looked like a nurse’s station. There was a lot of basic equipment like stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors. Reginald thought about it for a minute and decided to bring these items along as well.

He found a box of gauze and bandages and added them to his bag, then walked into the next room. This room was a supply room with all sorts of cleaning products, towels, and fleece hospital blankets.

Reginald felt that these things would come in handy, especially in the colder months ahead. He tightly rolled up the blankets and stuffed as many as he could into his duffel bag.

By the time he was finished, it was already evening, and he decided to head back to the van to wait for the others.

After 20 minutes of waiting, he finally saw Jason approaching from inside the hospital.

“Hey, could you give me a hand with that box? Just put it in the trunk,” said Jason as he walked over. Reginald didn’t think anything of it and went to pick up the box, but the second he turned his back, Jason forcefully struck him on the head, knocking him out.

“Finally, I had to wait long enough to get my hands on these supplies,” muttered Jason as he dragged Reginald back inside the medical center.

He noticed the stuffed duffel bag and unzipped it, only to be greeted by cheap fleece hospital blankets.

“Ugh, what a letdown. This is what you wanted? Some shitty blankets?” Jason said, feeling annoyed. The other guys at least had some decent medical supplies, but this guy looted towels and blankets.

Without waiting much longer, Jason hopped in the van and pulled out a handheld radio, switching the channel.

“Hey, it’s Jason from Team Summit. Please let Leader Mai know I’ve secured the medical supplies and am en route,” he said into the radio.