Free Web NovelChapter 140: Time For Expedition?
After a lengthy discussion, the three of them agreed to only hand over household appliances, some iron bars, as well as cement and building materials that Theodore had prepared. To avoid suspicion, Theodore also put some food supplies in the trunk of their car.
So after the soldiers came to their car, Theodore immediately showed their loot to the soldiers who came to collect their 20% tax.
"Is this all you got?" The soldier frowned as he looked at their not-so-much loot.
"Yeah, you can see our car is quite small, so it can’t carry much." Without feeling nervous or anxious, Theodore explained his reasoning to the soldier.
The soldier who inspected their car looked at each other and finally chose to take all the items in the car but not too many because they could only take 20% of the items.
"Didn’t you go with Cassian and his group?" The soldier spoke while checking the notes in his hand.
"That’s right. We split up halfway because they still had to go somewhere else, and we were too tired to continue travelling with them, so we went home first," Theodore explained what happened to them.
"That’s what happened. All right, you can go back," said the soldier, finally allowing Theodore and the others to leave.
"Wait a moment, I intend to see Captain Victor. Do you know where I can find him?" Theodore quickly stopped the soldiers from asking where he could find Victor.
"You’d better see him tomorrow. There’s quite a big problem today, so the captains are busy and can’t be disturbed," replied one of the soldiers, telling Theodore not to bother Victor for today.
"If I may know, what’s going on at the base?" Since it was like this, Theodore decided to find out what the problem was at the base.
At first, the soldiers seemed hesitant to answer Theodore’s question. "You will find out later. Actually,. Actually, you are lucky to be able to enter the base today because starting tomorrow, it will be difficult to return to the base," the soldier finally explained.
"You better go back to where you are now," continued one of the soldiers, not wanting to tell Theodore and the others anything more.
Theodore had intended to obtain more information, but seeing the soldiers’ reaction, he decided against it and immediately invited Roxanne and Geoffrey to get into the car.
While in the car, they immediately discussed what the soldiers meant; from the sound of it, it seemed like the problem this time was quite big.
While discussing this, Theodore continued to drive the car towards the apartment building they lived in.
"Those soldiers are so strange; how come they won’t tell us what’s going on," Geoffrey said, feeling quite annoyed at not being able to find out what happened inside the base while they were gone.
"It seems like they were also forced to keep their mouths shut. I’m sure their superiors don’t allow them to leak any information to outsiders," Roxanne said while thinking of a plausible reason.
"For the past few days, it looks like we’ll just have to see what really happens. It would be best not to travel too far, fearing that there is indeed a serious problem within the base," reinforced Theodore, who felt that there was indeed something wrong at the moment.
"Then, what about our work? Although the walls have been built, I heard earlier that they intend to raise the walls and make new walls," Roxanne explained, quite worried about their survival.
They also couldn’t depend on the food provided by the base because there were more and more people in the base every day. Not only that, but their supplies would run out sooner or later. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
Not only that, but the resources outside the base would soon run out, and they would need more food to survive. Their current problem was to find a way to produce their own food after the world was destroyed like this.
But in the short term, they still needed the help of the base for their daily meals, and if they wanted to get that, they had to work.
Theodore understood Roxanne’s concern, but as long as they needed to learn about the situation inside the base, it was risky for them to wander around at this time.
They should at least know what was really going on inside the base so that they could prepare themselves for what would happen later.
"Then shouldn’t we seek information from the people who were in the base all this time? I know some people in our apartment building. I can get information from them," said Geoffrey, offering to get information.
"What Geoffrey said is true. I’ll visit my team leader at the north gate to gather more information," Roxanne said, joining in the search for information.
Thinking that he could not stop these two social creatures from leaving, Theodore had no choice but to let them go.
Even though Theodore had said that it was not safe to wander around outside, he was sure that the two of them would not listen to him. Finally, Theodore let them do what they wanted.
"Well, do what you like. Don’t forget to share the information with me," Theodore finally said.
"Take it easy. There’s no way we won’t tell you. Do you intend to stay at home?" Roxanne asked if Theodore would only be at home.
"I still have to see Captain Victor tomorrow," Theodore said; if he could see Victor today, then he could relax at home.
"That’s right. You can ask the captain directly about the condition of the base," Geoffrey said excitedly, remembering that Theodore would be meeting with Victor.
"Even if he wants to tell me," Theodore replied with a shrug of his shoulders.
"You have to tell him important information so that he’ll tell you other important information in return," Roxanne said with a brilliant idea running through her head.
"Oh my! You can’t think of such a great idea." Geoffrey clapped his hands when he saw that his sister could come up with such a good idea.
Roxanne looked back and moved to hit Geoffrey, but Geoffrey quickly dodged his sister’s punch while sticking out his tongue mockingly at Roxanne.
"Good idea. It just so happens that I have a lot of important information," Theodore replied with a grin. Why didn’t he think of this before?
"We’ll wait for your information then." Roxanne patted Theodore’s shoulder lightly.
Finally, they arrived at the parking lot in the basement of this apartment building. Theodore went to the back to open the trunk. He had to put the items there into his sacred dimension again.
"With you, the moving process has become efficient. Thank you for your help," Roxanne said as she watched the items in their trunk slowly disappear into Theodore’s palm.
"Let’s go upstairs. I’ve finished moving the luggage." Theodore closed the trunk door and invited the two people to the floor of the apartment they were in.
The apartment was still as prosperous as ever. A few people passed by on the stairs. Some of them even greeted Geoffrey, who had just returned from outside the base.
