Stronghold In The Apocalypse - Chapter 245

“Oh my god! It’s really a damn Pelican!”

Griff covered his mouth in shock when he had finally realized that his assumption had truly become a fact!

Because an aircraft that’s supposed to be made of human imagination is now standing before his eyes!

“How…is this even possible? Has our technology already come this far?”

Looking at the starstruck person standing before the aircraft, Leo couldn’t help but facepalm inside.

‘Dammit! Just where are these Halo brats coming from!?’

He really wanted to know why his luck towards attracting people who knows about that game is so f*cking over the roof!

Dammit!

What luck! Another troublesome brat!

“Is the food inside?”

Bella and the rest just came in time or Leo wouldn’t have been able to resist the urge to throw Griff inside a box and send him to the other side of the world through Amazon Premium Shipping!

“Go and take out a box for them, Alex”

Leo stared at Bella for a couple of seconds, and just when the person on the receiving end of his stare was starting to feel comfortable, Leo quickly turned his head away from her and turned towards Alex and ordered.

Alex nodded as he stepped inside the aircraft under the watchful eyes of the curious onlookers.

‘He makes it look light’

‘Is there even food inside?’

‘Am I seeing things? How can someone carry such a large cargo box and make it look so easy?’

Bella and the others couldn’t help but doubt what they were seeing as Alex walked down the hatch while carrying a large cargo box with his two hands, but he made it look so easy that the people who were watching him doubted if there’s really something inside.

“Here, the promised food in exchange for what we stated earlier” said Alex as he carefully placed the cargo box down on the ground.

“Is there really something inside that box? You’re not messing with us, right?”

Bella carefully approached the box along with the others, as she looked at Leo with a trace of suspicion.

“You really don’t easily trust others, aren’t you?” said Leo with a laugh as he can’t believe that these people are still suspicious of him when he could have just forced them earlier to listen to his demands.

Bella snorted, “You yourself should know why”

Leo lightly smiled as he knew what she meant by that. It’s because you can’t easily trust people in this world even before the apocalyptic era started, much less now where law and order doesn’t exist anymore.

Mina carefully lifted up the cover of the cargo box, and when she and the others saw the things inside, all of them couldn’t help but exclaim in shock and ecstasy!

“Oh my goodness! It’s filled with canned food! Canned beef! It’s been a while since I’ve eaten one!” Mina picked up one of the things inside and couldn’t help but hugged it to her face and even rubbed it like it was a lover she had never seen in ages!

“Ramen noodles! It’s been so long darling!” Griff, who was so turned on when he saw the Pelican, had now turned his attention to the pack of ramen noodles in his hands and started caressing it like a cute little lover.

Even the couple couldn’t help but get excited looking at the tons of food in front of them, especially when they saw a box of chocolate called Toblerone and quickly snatched it and started digging in.

Even Bella who was all suspicious and serious earlier started acting like they were opening boxes from their relatives from far away who had sent them gifts.

Alex just watched them coldly while also observing their surroundings, while Leo on the other hand, was feeling weird watching them as he would turn his attention to the other sceneries around them but he still couldn’t help but glance at them from time to time while thinking to himself.

‘Just how long have they not eaten that they are even talking to the food in their hands? Even outright ignoring us now!’

“I…uhh..hmm, I think we’ll just make ourselves home”

Leo wanted to interrupt, but his words only fell into deaf ears as they were too engrossed in the food before them. If Leo and Alex hadn’t seen any threats around them, he would have scolded them by now from being careless in such a dangerous place.

And so Leo and Alex made their way inside the building while the hatch of the Pelican slowly closed.

Bella and the others were so engrossed in taking the things out from inside the box that even Mina had opened one of the canned sausages and started digging in with gusto.

“Sir, was it really necessary to give them that much food? It’s not like this is the only hardware store in the city”

The moment that duo entered the building, Alex couldn’t help but raise a question that had been bothering him.

Leo just smiled and while he started putting things like hammers, saws and other necessary building tools inside his [Inventory], as he answered, “If we can help then we should. Besides, aren’t you curious why they have been able to hold out this long against the swarm of zombies that had surrounded them?”

Remembering the few dead mutant zombies he had seen when they arrived and strewn around the parking lot of this establishment, Leo couldn’t help but smile, “Did you see those corpses of mutated zombies strewn around the place before we arrived? I’m pretty sure one or two of them are mutants and they are just acting weak in front of us”

Hearing what Leo said, Alex couldn’t help but scratch his cheek and said, “Uhmm, but those were zombies that was shot down by the Pelican when we were here a couple of days ago, sir”

The hand that was about to pick up a hammer trembled, Leo froze while kneeling on one knee as his head slowly turned around facing Alex with a stiff smile on his face.

“R-really? You’re not mistaken, right? You told me you guys didn’t fly this far”

“Yes, but we flew around the vicinity while picking off the mutated zombies we saw on the ground, and I remember that we flew past this building and it was surrounded by the same number of zombies or maybe more just like before” answered Alex, as he didn’t seem to notice the uncomfortable and embarrassed look on Leo’s face.

“Haha, really? I guess I was mistaken then”

Leo just laughed it off and continued picking up things in silence along with Alex, but deep inside him, he was screaming!

‘Ahh! So embarrassing! Showing off in front of a cyborg is really not the greatest idea! It was so freaking embarrassing!’

Leo really wanted to dig a hole right now and hide there, and just remembering that confidence he had shown earlier just made him wince and embarrassed.

Meanwhile,

“Wait, where did the two of them go?”

Remembering the way they acted, Bella couldn’t help but get embarrassed as her cheeks even flushed red.

‘Dammit Bella! How embarrassing!’

The others were finally brought back to reality with Bella’s shout and they also couldn’t help but feel embarrassed about their actions as they really lost it when they saw the food before their eyes that they had turned into savages!