Anno Zombus Year 1 (Book 2): February Read Online Free PDF Page B

Anything he could do to help around here, he told us, he was happy to oblige.
     

February 7th Year 1 A.Z.
     
    morning
     
    The kids from the new group had trouble staying asleep, now that they were in a place of safety they seemed to need to wake up screaming the entire facility down every half-hour or so.  Auntie managed to soothe them back into the land of slumber each time, however.  Tired and overwrought from their ordeal, perhaps, and in time they would settle down somewhat.
     
     
     
    At breakfast, Redbeard asked Smart Guy where they got all the food from.  The Smart Couple looked at one another, Smart Girl shyly pointing out that if we're all going to live together we all needed to know everything.  Smart Guy nodded, then suggested that after breakfast we all gather in the main computer lab so he could explain some things.  Junior and Pilot stocked up on supplies for their journey, food and water, taking a bare minute to say goodbye to everyone.  The Twin, hugging Junior, told him to make sure not to crash the chopper, then they left.
     
     
     
    We all followed Smart Guy into the lab, where he brought up the schematics for the entire facility on the main screen, which encompassed an entire wall.  Apocalypse Girl let out a low whistle seeing the sheer magnitude of this place, as clearly we only occupied the upper three levels.  The first floor was basically no more than the main building of the compound above us, the second containing the computer labs and one of the primary dining halls.  The third floor down, where we made our homes, was massive, clearly we had barely scratched the surface of it.  Everything under the third floor had been greyed out on the screen, which meant only that it was currently unused.  He went on to explain that neither he, Smart Girl nor Pilot actually had clearance to access anything lower than the third floor initially, but that after the rest of their team had died he had hacked his way into the system and unlocked everything.
     
     
     
    The Twin asked him exactly how far down this place went, and he simply shrugged.  The Colonel wanted to know what the purpose of this facility had originally been, and he shrugged once more.  Redbeard asked again about the food, and Smart Guy zoomed in on a massive section of the third floor we hadn't yet investigated.  He explained that this area had enough preserved food in long term storage to feed several thousand people for a very long time.  The Colonel asked exactly what he meant by long term storage.  He smiled and shrugged once more.  Then he told us that each of the twelve habitation floors contained their own food storage area, all of which had been fully stocked long before they had arrived here.  Smart Girl told us that the government had actually taken the potential threat of nuclear annihilation seriously enough to build several of these facilities around the country, but that nobody had thought to do more than prepare them for use when the Dead rose.  As far as they knew this was the only facility of its kind actually being used.  They had remote computer access to the other four, but there was no activity from any of them.
     
     
     
    I asked how the hell they managed to power this place, and Smart Guy panned the image on the screen all the way to the bottom of the facility, showing geothermal generators leeching heat from the core of the planet itself, transferring the heat energy gathered into usable electricity.  We could easily survive in this place, practically forever.  The doors were designed to be sealed from the inside with ease, and unsealed almost as easily.  We had food, water, shelter...impenetrable fucking shelter!  We had access to satellite surveillance systems that could break through the heaviest cloud cover with ease, as well as military grade weaponry.  We had to keep this place, above all, secure.  Looking over at The Colonel, I could tell she was thinking the same