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Chapter 1193: The Drug Stash
Chapter 1193: The Drug Stash
The moment we joined Ibarra and Tatiana, it didn't take long before we completely took care of our cluster and branched out to help with the others. Of course, I ordered Jennifer and Ibarra to hold the fort and to double-tap and dismember the fallen bodies with Kaley, Jared, and the Deweys—though we didn't spend that much time in each cluster, especially from Artem's side.
With that said, the cluster where the trainees and the cadets were surprised me instead because they were more organized than expected.
But yeah, their own group split to where they were most comfortable with working side by side, and in a sense, it was much better than forcing them to work together as if they were a single unit.
JP obviously took back his title over his peers while Marvin continued to be their silent leader, but this time, Seb felt a little more attuned to working with the other side while Bryan with the other, making him Lucas' new nemesis for JP's favor.
'I dunno why they suddenly made up but it's a good sign, no? Better than me and Bartow being like oil and water…'
In any case, once we gathered all the dead bodies in clusters and set them alight, we began to make use of the excavators we brought over to dig up the graves and add them in later as kindling. Some people definitely questioned this action but Quinn and Jennifer almost saying goodbye to that particular surprise was enough reason to make sure that those in their coffins were also cleared off.
I dunno, if spirits were real, my karma points would be in the negatives but I'd gladly take them just so the living would be able to breathe freely.
However, it didn't take long before we found more than rotting corpses in the elevated enclosures/tombs on the ground, and whaddayaknow? We actually found one of Robert's hidden cache of cash, firearms, and drug paraphernalia among other things.
Bogdan and Ruben actually came upon it accidentally when they cracked open this tomb which seemed to be refurbished many times, especially at one end, meaning it was covered and patched up many times by cement not because it was such a good spot for dead bodies but a perfect place to store shit without gathering too much attention.
And aside from the $100,00 worth of cash in different currencies and numeration, a crate of handguns, two cases of automatic rifles, five bricks of cocaine, ten pounds of Marijuana, a pound of heroin, four pounds of shady-ass meth, etc., we also found this notebook with handwritten passages of numbers and letters that looked like gibberish, for now.
I would've been excited to take a crack at this black book of sorts when we got home, but with the amount of work laid out for me, I just put it in the back of my head right now while I took everything this tomb has to offer.
Obviously, part of the drugs we uncovered will be shared with the GDMWC, but since Royo would be coming with us back home, I'd decided on the details later if we'd start dealing very small increments later.
If it was the me before, I would've just burned them all with the pile of corpses we just took care of, but my stance on this type of thing had already changed probably due to my involvement with Mr. Cuervo and accepting the world wasn't completely black and white.
There was this gray area of sorts that everyone should be careful of traversing and drugs such as these have their uses like for trading, recreation, or even actual medication.
Then Bartow's voice echoed from our radios:
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*bzzt*
[Hey. It's already done, right?]
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
"Not 100% but we'll see if they come back."
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
[We tied a couple of biters here trying to get past us and they're just standing around just now.]
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
"Just now?"
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
[Yeah. They didn't stop trying to get to that place when your cousin yelled that he killed the one. I'm thinking there are multiples of them present and you just burned the last one.]
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
"Must be the case, yeah."
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
[Alright, now that's done, I'll be leaving two of my groups here to take care of any stragglers and my main group will drive south to clear the streets even more. Nice work.]
*bzzt*
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*bzzt*
"Yeah, yeah. You too."
*bzzt*
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Ever since Bartow's promotion, he had more people to order around and he's making use of all of them to maximize anything that they'd do in a day, so that everyone in our outposts would be safe. In turn, the ones in their protection would maintain the upkeep and greet them with warm meals and a clean place to lay their heads on, forming the most basic relationship since time immemorial.
But yeah, our group was mostly done in this area so while everyone else was cleaning up and putting the excavators back to the trucks we brought in with us, I walked back to check on Paul, who was the leader of sorts in charge in this part of the expressway.
"Yo. Hope we didn't attract much on this side."
He rolled his eyes, laughing, "Attract much on this side, my ass— You even had a group waiting on this end! We just had our drone watching you from above! Your group's insane, I tell you— not as much as you but you're all crazy. Glad we're on the same side."
I chuckled, "Thanks. Oh, hey, I dunno if you're keeping up with the radio chatter but has your group heard anything or anyone about warning everyone here of us?"
"Huh? Warning?"
"Yeah, some folks who followed after the Navy docked somewhere else and started talking shit about them. I assumed you heard—"
He let out an exasperated sigh, "Even here we have those fucks stirring shit?"
"Well, that's America for ya— Depends on where they came from but I was sure they'd die the first day."
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"Jesus… I'm sorry I'm coming up with blanks but I'll ask my group to tell me or give you a report if we ever hear of them on our side, cool?"
"Cool. Right, it'd be our last day here for the moment—"
"Ah, shit. You're leaving then?"
"Not today, no. But we'll spend the night and leave early morning. We'd stop by Jessica's place again to drop off some troops and maybe some of them might get stationed here or in your other outposts."
"Shi— For real?"
"Yeah."
"Alright, I'll be happy to keep my job as is but we gotta make this place a little more comfortable."
"That's true. Since you're close to this residential area once you break off this road, it'd be better to split your group in half to have some sort of semi-permanent residence in one of the houses."
"And just have our shifts in intervals, huh?"
"Yeah."
"That… That'll work, for sure… You gonna tell Jessica for us?"
"Of course, it's still up to her but that's not a bad arrangement."
"Heh. Just being able to shower on a regular basis is good enough. Thanks, man."