"Are you sure to do this?"

My wife looked at me with a worried face. Without turning my head to look at her, I know it from her trembling voice. What I am to do now is for us. It's lucky for my wife to still be back in shape after getting outside here. For now, Those guns and bullets are important. This is a harsh world for my daughter but that's not an excuse to not use that.

I wave at my wife while looking in front. With this Thompson, I am ready to face another challenge.

While walking to the police station, I am thinking about the whole thing. What was with those dogs? Are those mutants? Or maybe they are aliens? But, they woof like dogs.

Crack*

Quickly, I hid behind the ruined building. What was that sound? Where did it come from? Hmm...

After looking around, I continued to go to the ruined police station because there was no one except me there.

This suit... It's hot! Why doesn't someone invest some fan inside this suit?! Is no one thinking about it except me? Or... Yeah... Inside the isolation room, there is an air conditioner after all...

This is the place where the dog mutants attack me. It's about four days. Surprisingly, the fever took more than I expected. My daughter once got a fever but she healed in one day. What an energetic kid.

Bullet... Check! Gun... Check! Grenade... Check! Wait, why are there some of them? It's it important for police to have grenades? Yeah, whatever, I am not an expert in defense force.

After carrying all of the boxes containing bullets, my next destination is inside the... The hospital was already ruined. I got a bite back then and my wife covered it with unused fabric. I hope this will prevent my skin from having contact with radiation. Let's bring this one by one...

Pant* pant* pant*

I can't... I can't!! This thing is too heavy for me! This is a bad idea after all! What was I thinking to bring it all together? Oh yeah, I worried that someone might steal it but someone...? I hope there is still someone alive in this world though.

Sigh* Let's do this again.

The hard thing to do is, carry these things while climbing the mountain. It's dangerous and hard. I am proud of my strength but not my grip.

Sigh*...

As a result, my wife looks at me with a plain face while crouching.

"Darling, You know that we didn't need this amount?" Asked her wondering why I got all these bullets.

"Don't... pant* worry... pant* it's... pant* Necessary!" Said me while putting down the box.

This is the third. There are still two below.

"Sigh* Rest, or my plane will get inside your mouth again." Said her with a serious face.

That's... I don't want that. We eat the food and I tell the story around the city.

"It's really no one alive?" Asked her.

"Rather than that, you sure to listen carefully to the radio on the phone right?" Asked me while eating the food.

She looks away from me... Wait...

"Y-You didn't ask me to do!" Said her pouting.

"Huh? Oh..."

Thinking it back, we already get busy with ourselves.

"T-then, let's do it from now."

She nods at me and continues eating.

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"Are you fighting?" Asked my daughter while munching the food.

She stroked Lily's face and said. "Not that honey~ We just think that we are busy with ourselves." Said her trying to accept the reality.

I am not the type to get angry when there is an unexpected action. Challengers should know what to do if their plan doesn't work. Surprisingly, that's always happened to me so I used to make the second until the fifth plan to cover it.

"Then, the chores are set. You protect Lily here while I explore this area for some stuff." Said me after clearing the food can.

"Okay." Said her.

I relax my body, it should be fine because I always do exercise before... My body will not hurt from these boxes...

The next day.

This is unbelievable. I am hurting my muscles.

"Sigh* this is why I told you to rest well." Said her complaining to me.

"D-Don't worry Stephanie, this is necessary." Said me trying to get done my chores.

She looks at me trying to stand up but my body is trembling because of muscle hurt.

"Just rest today and think about it tomorrow." Said her.

"But!" Said me forcing my wife to agree with me.

At that moment, my daughter jumped at me in my stomach.

Uh...!

"What an excellent kick honey~" Said my wife with a wholesome face.

"Hihihi~"

Lily gave her mom a thumbs up. And me? I am dying...

"But, let's discuss something else." Said me getting serious.

She notices it and asks Lily to move from my stomach.

"I need your input. What will you do in this situation? Gather colony and make a city or search for shelter?"

Judging from our condition right now. I didn't think that we could cultivate some veggies and fruits. How about meat? With this radiation contamination? That's a no-no for me. I am scared that my body will glow up after eating that.

The second is shelter, it will be cramped but we still have such protection from soldiers on there. It's important because of those mutants still lingering around in this world. There is still a high chance that there are some mutants out there.

That's why, I am confused. Whether to stay here or go adventure to search for shelter. But at the same time, we need electricity if we want to search for shelter. And I don't have solar recharge. We must find it on our journey.

"That's hard..." Said her with a sad-looking face.

"Or maybe I should simply do it. What you will choose? Dying here or dying outside?" Said me with a serious face.

She looked at me with a worried and scared face. I know what she would imagine. She looks at Lily and Lily smiles at her. She is still innocent of knowing the meaning of these words.

You should know it Stephanie, there is no option we will stay alive in this post-apocalyptic world. We, humans eventually will die as time goes on. Of course, there is an exception.

Whether humans will go to space or make an underground city to keep alive and grow some plants. The second plan is busted. The first plan is too risky because we didn't have concrete history about the space but the second is the worst. Radiation it's not easy to go. The worst, we will face human birth regulation.

And yeah, if the second plan is set... Welcome to dystopia.

She looked at me with a serious face. Her hands trembling to say but still said the word to me.

"L-Let's go adventuring. If we will die at least we have something to do before." Said her with a sad smile face.

"Then let's do it." Said me smiling at her too.

The next day...

I continue to explore the area. We still have food for the time being so we take it easy.

Thomp*!

While exploring, I see... Giant flamingo. It has four food and four wings. And her colour... Still pink. But not like the flamingo that I used to know, that flamingo does not have a long neck but a short one.

Thomp*!

It flies away from the ruined building. Flying away to the horizon. Just what was that? The mutation I know from a movie will make their size larger and make their teeth become sharper than normal.

Wherever I am going, there are nothing but ruined buildings. I mean there is no single plant.

From west, east, north, and south... There is no single plant on there.

"Hm... I think this is the second hospital."

Hopefully, there are still some hazmat suits inside. This building is far away from our house. It's over four kilos.

Going inside, the pill, medicine, and all of the tools for medical purposes are destroyed. I mean yeah, the building is already ruined though. Fortunately, there are still some hazmat suits. After wearing it one and picking it up, I carried it to the basement. There is still nothing to worry about.

That's...!

Supermarket... Owh...! Look at this snack. It is still edible. I bring some snacks for them, I hope they will be happy to look at this...

When I went back, my wife was crying while hugging my daughter who crying too.

"H-hey, what's happened?"

They release their hug. My wife gently wipes Lily's tears and herself. After she calms she said to me. "There are still shelters out there!"

With a happy feeling, I said. "Where!?"

"Asia continent." Said her looking down.

"A-asia?"

I can't believe it. That's impossible!!! Why...?

"W-what happened?" Asked her with a worried face.

Huh?

"This is good news right?" Asked her again confused as to why I was getting sad and shocked.

Good? Is this good news for you?

"That's impossible for us!!"

Oh, shoot... I yelled at her.

"S-sorry."

She still looked well and not trembling but, my daughter started to cry after hearing that.

With a sigh* she calmed down Lily who cried.

I need to calm down myself.

"H-hey Lily, look at you daddy brought..." Said me with a child tone.

She stopped crying and looked at my hand.

"Snack!"

And she cheered up.

"So, you found the supermarket?" Said her surprised.

"Yeah... We will discuss it later. For now, let's calm down ourselves." Said me with a sigh.