Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

Not to shit on the US or anything, but they tend to get surprised when they fly over here and discover how friendly and welcoming we Filipinos are but that's just part of our culture. And yeah, just from my observation, folks from the other side tend to keep to themselves and mind their own business—and even though it's not actually a bad thing, it just seemed kind of cold.

On the other hand, there could be areas in this place where people could be complete assholes or areas in the US where people were just as welcoming and treat everyone like family.

The point I'm trying to make was like Grace, Mrs. Dewey found it hard to believe that we'd just give away stuff for free—well, not technically free—for people she never knew or heard of until recently.

However, I did call her out on this place's business model because they've also been helping people without asking for money first, and I found it contradictory to what she was currently saying about us giving her stuff.

"That's…"

Kaley then cut in, "Mrs. Dewey… Don't take this the wrong way and I might be wrong in assuming this but people who tend to help everyone else like it's second nature find it hard if they're the ones receiving help… or sometimes maybe asking for help, even…"

I added, "Also, it's not like you needed help because look at this place, despite the mishap on the airport, you're all still going strong compared to the other places that already went down, so let's just say we're just trying to give you all a little boost."

"Umm…" Mrs. Dewey looked a little uncomfortable as she forced out a smile, "I… I do understand that point as well and I might be guilty of that—because that's just the way we do things but we should at least do something in exchange… You know, we already joked about healthcare so let's just say I don't wanna incur more debt—"

Oscar cackled so fucking loud he sounded like Chewbacca choked on a whole cabbage:

"HAH! That's brutal, Jesus fucking Christ!"

I waved them off, "It's not like we aren't gonna ask for anything but as the old man said earlier, we're here to form alliances. You see, we also have some troops who needed help because some vets also came with us so… this place and that thing… you know where I'm going with this, right?"

She chuckled, "Of course, dear."

"Other than that, we'd like to take a crack on that telecommunications port you're using as a checkpoint and see if we could hook it up with the ATC room in the airport and the comms center in the Marine Base and the Main Harbor.

I'm guessing you have something similar here too for broadcasting anything on the monitors you have outside so I think it'd be best to have us have an open line of communication to you and this place."

"Huh. That sounds rather complicated… I'm sorry, I'm not that well-versed in— You know…"

Oscar cut in, "Sometimes I just watch his mouth move up and down and just nod. It usually works because he'd just do his own thing but your kids might know whatever the fuck he's talking about."

Mrs. Dewey chuckled, "Hah! I guess I'll ask my youngest, she'd be great in that."

Kaley interjected, "We haven't asked but how many kids do you have Mrs. Dewey?"

"Oh! We have seven beautiful children—"

"Seven?!" Kaley and I exclaimed.

"Is that really surprising? Seven kids— I guess most of them are adults now but since we adopted and all—"

"Ahh~ I see, I see…" Oscar nodded from the side.

"Well, Austin's our eldest, followed by Eden, then Jeremy and Cindy—the two we adopted—then~ Oh! They're followed by Maddison, Chris, and June. I guess you'll need to look for June later, she's usually in the computer room but if she's not there, you'd find her feeding the chicks at the back or hanging out with Mrs. Rose on the third floor."

"I guess we'll do that, thank you."

"No problem at all. She'll need a friend or two ever since the internet went down. It's just weird though, she's still down on her nose playing her games."

"Well~ You don't need the internet for some games but I guess she'd appreciate my collection."

"Oh? That's good to hear then, thank you so much! But anyway, what we could offer right now really is just what our hospital and rehab center could offer ever since time immemorial. Still, I doubt you'd need food since you're giving a lot of it away but we do grow some medicinal herbs and whatnot in our greenhouse."

"That's… That's way~ more helpful than what we're offering you, Mrs. Dewey."

"Oh, shut it, haha… It's a different case if no one gets hurt, no? At the end of the day, everyone still needs food. It's a weird thing to say but it's like our maintenance meds. You'd need to take enough of it every single day or our bodies just get weaker and weaker."

"That is true…"

With that said, we continued with our pleasant conversation paired with a respectful discussion about our budding alliance.

Additionally, it also involved sending some training instructors from our side to have an additional class for the ones who wanted a more active role against the undead, and in turn, we'd also have some people from this side sent over to the areas around Subic Bay for their expertise.

It was a simple give-and-take relationship without a care as to which force was bigger and had to be in a significant advantage—and even if we could actually force it like that, there was no merit in doing so and all the talk we had with this person would've been just for naught.

Granted some other people would have it like that, but realistically speaking, in the long term, everyone simply needs to work together despite their differences and it'll be totally different to the "bad ending" I had in my head earlier. Discover exclusive tales on m,v l'e-NovelBin.net