Apocalypse Land Rebirth

Chapter 24: fleas, mosquitoes, cockroaches and rats

 

Know what they have awakened they will be able to develop towards that skill tree.

 

Not only plants, human and beasts but also the metals and gemstones mutate.

 

Even though the chance of mutation is very low the final results are valuable metals and materials.

 

But the problem here is most of the materials are scattered and they will be collected soon.

 

When they are collected Vicky would snatch them silently and leave this place.

 

By that time Roy would already die.

 

Right now Vicky is in contact with the local tyrant and the mafia boss instead of Roy.

 

Even though Vicky did not have any strong background there is still boss Oba that is alive and kicking.

 

He would be enough to deal with many things.

 

The people moved around during this time in groups and they salvaged some more rubber boats form other buildings through various means.

 

After the previous incident Vicky was not disturbed and Vicky did not go out either for a few days.

 

Even if Vicky went out it would not bring in any benefits.

 

The things that he wanted to steal are currently underwater and Vicky doesn’t want to risk it.

 

Around the end of the month the water level would be below 10^th floor.

 

At that time the people would come to gather people.

 

The reason why they are looking for people is because the place they want to salvage is still in half submerged state and there are some dangerous.

 

If they were scratched by a metallic thing or infected by the water mixed with all kinds of sewage, it would be nothing more than a death sentence.

 

There is no medicine right now and most of the medical stores are already under water.

 

Other than that the medicine for infections and tetanus required to be maintained at specific low temperature.

 

After a month of waiting all the medicine should already be damaged.

 

So those people want free labor to do the world for small amounts of food.

 

Vicky would not take Roy and Nisha for this thing at that time.

 

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Time passed by and the struggles below increased day by day.

 

There are people that have the fear of death and became bold instead.

 

They started to touch the wives of other people causing conflicts.

 

Also there are times when those people silently steal the food from others and eat it.

 

There are problems with hygiene as everyone needs to go for nature calls.

 

The stench of the water mixed with human waste and drainage water is already unbearable.

 

But now there people that do the thing and did not clean their asses causing more problems.

 

Along with this the bad hygiene attracted the mosquitoes and fleas that are bigger in size.

 

They have adapted to the current weather and evolved.

 

The food and water that was left out was contaminated by the fleas.

 

Well it can still be saved but the mosquitoes are unbearable.

 

Whenever they stung would cause red rashes, pain and strong itch.

 

This is not all it might even cause sudden illness.

 

Falling ill at the current situation is nothing more than signing a death warrant.

 

So even with the high temperature and unbearable stench people are wearing thick clothes that cover their entire body.

 

On the contrary Vicky was inside his house covered with meshed doors that would not allow mosquitoes or other insects.

 

The stench was also very less as Vicky specifically used some air filters and room fresheners.

 

Most of the time the room was closed and the ventilators have air filters arranged during the renovation.

 

So Vicky was the happiest of all the people present here.

 

Vicky is doing his daily routine exercising and eating every day.

 

On January 15^th the water level dropped further down below 10^th floor.

 

But the place is like a steamer.

 

At the same time the water became more concentrated with the dirty water and human waste that is continuously increasing.

 

This is not all but the number of people that became ill also increased.

 

Every now and then, in the evening after the sunset the people of the community would take the people that are ill to the hospital.

 

Unfortunately they all know that the hospitals no longer had medicine and they did not even have doctors or staff.

 

They are saving their own lives and the lives of their family members.

 

So the trips of the people are wasted.

 

Most of these doctors are also divided between the political groups.

 

The people in power here are very adaptable and found what they should get first.

 

Among them along with food, water, medicine there is also doctors.

 

Time passed by more and the water levels decrease also very slow.

 

The previously submerged rooms are not out but they cannot live in there as the rooms are filled with all kinds of sewage.

 

At that time another problem started.

 

It is the problem with cockroaches and rats.

 

The number is so high that they are literally everywhere.

 

Vicky has sealed all the piping connections with cement and there is no entry to his room.

 

He can see through the mesh that there are cockroaches that are flying around and rats that are trying to bite the iron mesh.

 

Well they would not come out at the day time but comes out during the night.

 

Vicky dropped some rat poison in the corridor to kill them but the toxicity in them is not strong enough to kill these cockroaches or rats.

 

Well they will not be able to enter inside so Vicky was doing his things peacefully.

 

At the end of January the food reserves and water reserves of most of the people were completely gone.

 

There are people that went out to salvage food and water from the submerged stores.

 

It was very hard as most of the food was spoiled after a month of soaking under the heavy pressure of water.

 

If they found something intact then……….