Chapter 6: Preparations for the end of the world
Tyler Thorpe listened to Airon's words carefully, he had been wandering the net and had heard a lot of things from others.
Some people even went to the extreme and began to prepare in case a serious epidemic breaks out. Even if Tyler wants to buy supplies, he has no money or resources needed to make it happen, now with a stranger with the same thoughts by his side, he wants to join him to at least calm his restless thoughts.
On the other hand, Airon came to the conclusion that Tyler was not normal, an ordinary person would have scoffed at the words he had just said, he did not know if this was because he already knew something about a disease that has recently escaped them or something else.
However, Airon was not too surprised, in fact, he had already had relationships with people who were not normal long before he remembered details about their past lives.
He recalled a vague experience cutting up some kind of giants with swords, although the memories are still vague, he had some awareness about everything incredible that had happened to him. Therefore, he now deeply believes that this was not a dream and was about a real past life.
Every man has fantasized about visiting incredible worlds, worlds full of fiction, but Airon can say that his travels are anything but incredible. Without paying much attention to the past, he concentrated on working for his future.
Now he had learned a lot from Tyler and knew he was speaking the truth, so he decided to confide in someone to make it all go much faster.
Having finished telling him a little information about a kind of virus that could endanger everyday life, Airon began to narrate his plan to be forewarned and informed.
After a long time, Airon together with Tyler brought the backpacks he had in the car, this money will be the key to initially prepare the resources.
"With these funds we can hurry up and start making preparations."
"That's a lot of money..."
Tyler looked at the money and weapons inside the backpacks, he felt a tingle inside his body but he didn't back down, he knew something big was happening in the world.
"I was able to get this money, we can move with it and start buying a lot of things for the future."
"Oh..."
Airon looked at Tyler's expression silently, he wasn't stupid and would trust this person he had just met completely. Now with the money in his room, even if he refused to help him, he would be involved in the trouble he could cause him. Therefore, he was not uneasy about what might happen.
As they put away the weapons and equipment, Airon and Tyler were planning what they should do next.
Not long after, a black van pulled up outside the apartment building.
Airon and Tyler first went to some remote places in the suburbs of Atlanta and quickly rented some houses long enough, then went to all kinds of food markets, supermarkets, pharmacies among other places.
After that he started buying seeds of easy to grow food, drinking water, tobacco and alcohol, rice, oil among other things. Canned foods such as dried meat, instant noodles, vitamins of all kinds and common medicines that can be bought without a prescription.
During the process, Tyler suggested renting warehouses instead of houses. However, this proposal was rejected by Airon.
As to why not to rent warehouses, warehouses and supermarkets are naturally the first places that are raided by the survivors in the last days.
Then, Airon with Tyler's help spent the days placing all kinds of materials in batches inside the basements of various places and hid them very well.
Airon can guarantee that if ordinary people come, even if they turn the house upside down, it would be absolutely impossible to find the supplies he hid in these places.
All these places were marked in detail on a physical map by Tyler, they could not forget where the resources were under any circumstances. Of course, not all the important products are in one house, after all, you can't put gold in one cave.
In the end, with Tyler's help, Airon bought a lot of weapons and ammunition on the black market, and hid them in batches.
So far, the preparation of materials at the initial stage is almost completed.
During all this time, it has been more than half a month since Airon came to this world and joined Airon's body from the past. He didn't know how to explain that feeling, but if he had to relate it to something, it would be like waking up from a very heavy dream.
Now, because he doesn't know the exact time when the chaos of the end of the world will break out, Airon moved on and never wasted time, thinking of new things all the time. Things like resources and supplies were finished first, because there are even more important things to be done.
"The only thing that can't be determined now is the exact time of the virus outbreak. I don't know how much time I have left before the virus outbreak."
"It looks like I'll have to go to the CDC once to find out.
Airon knew exactly what he was going to do next, so far, everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion according to his sudden ideas.
Now, together with Tyler, Airon climbed into a van and headed for the CDC in Atlanta.
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Half a month later.
At the CDC building, a man and a woman were standing by the windows.
"Jenner, to be honest, I don't have much hope for this 'Project Wildfire,' we're running out of time."
"Edwin, you will definitely succeed. You are the most capable pathologist I have ever met. If you give up like the others, there will be no hope for the world."
The man named Edwin Jenner approached the woman and held her hands tightly, hoping to instill courage in his wife in this way.
"You know me, I'm not going to abandon my husband no matter what the results are, right?"
Edwin Janner smiled indulgently and gently hugged his wife, who knowing everything they were going through leaned on his shoulder, and the two of them just stood there in silence, enjoying the tranquility that moment brought to their hearts.
"We'll make it Candace, we'll definitely make it..." Edwin Jenner murmured.
Candace stood up and grabbed Edwin by the shoulders, her tone turning serious.
"Edwin! A lot of people are planning to leave now. Since we plan to continue, the next thing to do is to keep a group of people as much as possible! Let's act separately, you go get Jonathan's group, I'll go convince Tiana's group, we have to try to get them to stay and continue working.
Edwin Jenner was in a trance, but was awakened by Candace's serious tone, looking into his wife's steady eyes, Edwin quickly sorted out his thoughts and nodded without showing any strangeness on his face.
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Just as Edwin and Candace parted, there were two people on the top floor of a building across the street from the CDC watching them with a telescope.
These two people were Airon and Tyler, Dr. Candace Janner's face was clearly visible in the lens tube.
"Looks like the time for action is not far off." Airon thought silently.
"Is this really a good idea to do this?" Tyler asked with a worried expression.
"Well, the risk will be taken if we make it through."
Airon had been watching the CDC for many days. In the first three days, Taylor took it upon himself to thoroughly investigate the interior and exterior of the CDC. He was also able to obtain an access card from a certain employee who left the site, and even managed to research the location of Dr. Edwin Janner's home to learn more about this person.
Over the next ten days, Airon installed monitoring devices in the home and cars of these individuals. This was all made possible by black market profits and Tyler's skills in looking in the right place. As long as you have the money, you can really buy anything.
"I'll start moving, stay close according to plan."
Airon put away the binoculars, quickly ran to the edge of the roof and jumped. The building's height of over five meters seemed insignificant to his eyes.
He reached out his hands and gripped firmly on the handrail of the escape passage on the outside wall of the opposite building.
"Damn, I should learn how to do that..." Tyler muttered as he made his way down the stairs from the building.
Using both arms, he turned around and Airon landed firmly on the stairs to the next floor. He quickly made his way down to the second floor, and in less than 20 seconds he was sitting in the driver's seat of the van, at which point the van was parked in the alley between the two floors, he pulled out a notebook, and wrote down the details he discovered and began to calculate what was next.
"It looks like "Project Wildfire" has reached the last stage, and the CDC people will also start to leave, so the plot will start very soon."
Airon looking at the information on his watch and what had been going on, today June 27, 2010 time 6:50 pm.
"It's been about a month, I don't know if my father noticed I disappeared."
Airon was a little distracted when he thought of his alcoholic father from this world, but it was only for a moment, he knew there were more important things to take into account right now.
He still had to face reality. As for why this seemed to be his third life, there would still be plenty of time to research everything carefully in the information he had gathered so far.
Focusing on what he had to do, Airon waited for the time for the departure of these two scientists from the CDC.
While Tyler was doing other things, it was time for the staff to return home. At this moment, a black car was driving toward the exit down the street where Airon was waiting.
"Buzz!"
When the target appeared, Airon also started his car and followed it. The oncoming car was the Jenners' car, and Airon's van followed closely behind them toward their house.
Regardless of the results, he knew he had to do something today.
Airon thought for a moment, in the end that was all that was left to do. Finally, when the other party was almost home, he began to pick up speed.
"Boom!"
Airon's van slammed into the back of the Jenners' car and then swerved to the right.
Startled by the sudden blow from behind, Edwin Janner turned to his wife and asked, "Candace, are you all right?"
"I'm fine."
Edwin, who confirmed that his wife was fine, sighed with relief. Never having been in a car accident before, he knew these things could happen and was thankful that a bigger problem wasn't coming.
Then, to check the situation, Edwin got out of the car and saw that the front of a black van behind the lane had badly hit his car.
"What happened?"
Although he knows that accidents can happen, he felt that now was not the time to go through so much trouble, wanting to solve this problem as soon as possible, when he approached the driver's seat of the black pickup van, he saw a man lying on the steering wheel, he rushed to check the condition with some concern.
"Are you all right, sir?"
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