Novel Full Chapter 1194: Work Hard, Play Hard
After that exchange, we drove back to the Freeport Zone instead of the airport to have lunch with Captain Mitch Davis. And with his current promotion, instead of enjoying his time in the villa where everyone else proposed their family live, he was cooped up in the same spot where they dropped the bomb of sending nukes to every corner of the world, buried in paperwork with Janice and Maine.
Busy wasn’t even the right word to describe the three, and they didn’t even notice me come in with their share of the food.
If I let my intrusive thoughts win, I would’ve opened them up with a flashbang, but it didn’t take long before their nose did the work for them.
“Wha— When did you get here?!”
“Five minutes ago,” I said as I cleared them a table, “Enough of that shit, for now. Eat.”
Janice cut in, “But we still gotta—”
“I can beat you three in a pulp and send you to a hospital so you could eat three squared meals— I mean, we can feed you three in a tube? Do you want that?”
“…”
“…”
“A-Ah— You heard the man, l-let’s eat!” Maine set the rest of her work aside to walk over to me, “What are we having for lunch?”
“Salmon and veggies with some soup. I already ate though, thanks.”
“What?! You should’ve waited!”
I showed her my watch, “It’s already past 2, I can’t believe you fucks didn’t notice.”
Captain Davis dryly chuckled, “Well once we get going, we get going. It may seem boring from the outside perspective, but once you get a rhythm going, stopping’s harder.”
Maine nodded a few times, “So true… And we haven’t even caught up to the day since you got here. I’d hate to say it but we kinda need more people doing boring jobs like these…”
Janice nodded, “And with the ton of things Bartow’s group keeps bringing back, it’s hard to keep up.”
“What happened with Clay and Marge? Can’t they help?”
Captain Davis answered, “Oh, Clay’s been doing it alone in the Marine Base while Marge was one of the people we sent over to help with the Deweys. Remember Mrs. Adams?”
“Ah, right, right~”
“But you shouldn’t worry about this, we did ask for help from their side and they’d be sending some bookies to help temporarily. It’s just a lot of work now but if we caught up, it’d be easier and we’d be more familiar with this system of yours.”
Maine added, “It’s a mess right now but as soon as we’re done here and Clay’s done over there, we’ll get started on the airport as well. A little at a time, right?”
I nodded pensively, “Well, I can see you’re keeping your records close but you can have our civilians do inventory of the simpler things like our food storage and whatnot and check them later just to be safe. But yeah, I’d keep a tight lid onto our firearms and ammunitions, medicine, and fuel—there’s a lot more to consider but delegating less important stuff’s the way to go.”
Captain Davis let out a smile, “Yeah, I’m already letting my wife take care of that and they’re already thinking of ways to food prep for at least a week and have a separate thing for long-term storage. After that, they’ll focus more on food production and whatnot.”
“About that…”
With that said, I shared with him the things I talked about the people from the Idress Maritime Academy and he was more than excited to implement those changes even if they were still knee-deep in work. However, I did mention that the GDMWC was preserving the forested area around their territory and they’d appreciate it if they don’t cut trees from that side.
“Oh, really? It’s booby-trapped?”
I nodded, “Yeah. Don’t want a repeat of Vietnam, right?”
Maine choked on her food, “Oof, bro! Even I got it! Don’t cut so deep, alright?!”
Captain Davis shook his head after composing himself, “Jesus Christ… That’s… Alright, I’ll tell the troops to do just that, what else do you need from me?”
“Right… I haven’t talked to Iskoh yet about their supplementation of troops but since we’d be setting off early morning and Jessica’s HQ is our first stop, do you have a list of people willing to go already? I’m assuming most of them are here.”
“About that…”
“Is there a problem?”
“We do trust you greatly but this Jessica person is someone we haven’t met. We’re totally fine sending our people while they send over theirs but can we agree on sending a portion of it now before completely shipping them off?”
“How many people are we talking?”
Captain Davis turned to Janice, “How many volunteered again?”
Janice leaned back to fish out a list, “Twelve? Five soldiers and the rest are civilians.”
Captain Davis added, “In addition, we haven’t actually settled in with new management and all these people so—”
“Could we at least get it to fifty? Or at least double that amount? We’re not in a hurry per se but it’s harder to send people elsewhere once they completely settled in. Besides, that place is only a few-hour drive and we’d rotate them in a month. The people you can send over to my side can wait, the same as with the Mayor of Manila.”
“Hmm… That’s… You got a point there… Alright, I’ll see what I can do but I’ll use my authority if no one else volunteers by sundown.”
Maine cut in, “I can go to his place if he’d take me—”
Janice exclaimed, “MAINE!”
“What?! I’m just volunteering…”
I chuckled, “Avoiding work, I see…”
“Ah— I-It’s not that, I just— Man~ I thought it wouldn’t be hard to seduce ya— I’m in a bit of a dry spell, you see?”
“MAINE!”
“Stop shouting my name! I can hear you just fine— I just wanted to shoot my shot, alright?”
I chuckled, “I’m flattered, I really am but—”
Maine cut me off, “There we go~ Fine, let me down nicely… You’re probably drowning in pussy so you can’t facilitate someone like me—”
“It’s not that, alright? I’d be more convinced if you finish your work in—”
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“I was actually fucking around for an hour now, I’m done with my share.”
“WHAT?!” Janice and Captain Davis exclaimed.
“Again, I can hear you two just fine! Jesus…”
“Are you really done though?”
“Yes, you can check my work. It’s over there.”
Captain Davis couldn’t believe what Maine said so he checked her work and found out that she was already done and was actually fucking around by doing their share they haven’t touched yet.
Even I was surprised at the rate she completed her tasks and at the same time, the accuracy she completed them with footnotes regarding special cases like certain bullets that came from a box or loose ammo collected elsewhere.
So yeah, I gave credit where credit was due, so let’s just say Maine couldn’t stop giggling to herself as she went back to work all disheveled and shit, after we excused ourselves for 30 minutes in the bathroom.
Then Janice had to say it, “I-I’m done too… C-Can I have some of that—”
“JANICE!”