Because of the severe injuries and the blood loss, Dr. Kian was very weak. He woke up only for a few minutes around nine in the morning before returning to sleep.
Whenever Rebecca took breaks, there was always someone else to look after him. Both Team Blackwood and Team King was busy taking their turns to look after him.
Grace woke up around noon and spent most of the next few hours inside her space to take care of the daily work. She harvested crops, vegetables, and fruits. Planted more of them before setting up Rice and Wheat mills. She then took care of the livestock and spent some time bonding with the pets.
By the time she returned to the real world, it was already past three in the afternoon. Next hour went in training as usual and once she was done taking shower, she finally headed to see Dr. Kian.
Unfortunately, he was sleeping at that time and she didn’t get to talk to him. When she returned to her apartment half an hour later, Davian was already waiting for her in the hallway.
Just like they planned the previous evening, they spent next two hours cooking various dishes. They packed twelve lunch boxes this time and then had a warm and delicious dinner while Davian continued to sulk over the matter from the previous night.
Grace just stayed silent and ignored him. She was surprised to see him being so persistent about such a matter.
Slowly, everyone fell into a routine. For the first half of each day, everyone had time to themselves while Grace stayed in her apartment. No one disturbed her during these hours of the day and she immersed herself in her space, working on daily tasks.
Afterward, everyone assembled for training sessions. Following the complaint from Unit 1901, they had shifted their training location to Unit 2201. This move allowed them more privacy and fewer distractions.
When the training session ended, the team members were once again free to do as they wished. Grace, however, always took time to shower and prepare herself before visiting Dr. Kian. Though he was still recovering and had spoken to her only once, she made it a point to check on him.
Later in the evening, she and Davian would cook together again, packing up more meals for future use.
Days started passing like that, and while each passing day created more understanding and unity between the two teams, the world outside was delving deeper into chaos.
The rain refused to calm down even for a moment. It had been over ten days and the rain hadn’t slowed down at all, let alone stopping. Instead, it only grew stronger with each passing day. Thunder and storms also started hitting Sunspire City. The previous sinkhole grew to the size of a small house while two more sinkholes appeared around the city.
The water level was rising speedily while more and more casualties were being reported every day. There were several deaths being noted so far, several people were injured or stuck away from their homes. And those who were in their homes, even they weren’t living peacefully anymore.
People were out of food and they couldn’t step out of their houses to buy more food without putting their lives in danger. There were several people who went missing while on their way to buy food. Several got heavily injured, and some got looted by others even if they somehow succeeded in getting the food.
People were coming up with new ideas to find food in the heavy rain. Some used wooden planks to create floating rafts to make their way through the flooded streets to buy food, while some tried to swim through the flood.
But as the rain continued and people were deprived of something as basic and important as food, panic started growing rapidly. The despair brought the evil out of humans and forced them to do the unthinkable like as looting others, attacking, and what not. The authorities were helpless and the people were realizing that no rescue would be coming for them anytime soon.
The situation of Building K12 was no different. People were struggling for food, medicines, and other daily necessities. Some even started bartering with their neighbors for food, offering high prices or other important or luxurious items in exchange of food.
The only people who were living peacefully even among all this chaos were the residents of the top three floors of the building. As days continued to pass, residents of the lower floors finally started noticing how the people from top three floors were so silent and peaceful while everyone else was struggling to get food.
Some residents came together and decided to check on those from the top three floors, only to find out that both the elevator and staircase entrances to the 20th floor were heavily guarded by strong metal doors and bars.
This reveal spread like a wildfire in the entire building, making everyone discuss about exactly what was going on in the upper three floors.
[Unit 1003: I told you all from day one that those people from the top floors seemed weird to me. They looked anything but normal.]
[Unit 1201: I heard the Community Chief once mentioning that the new residents of the top floors are some important and powerful people.]
[Unit 9002: Doesn’t it mean that they have food? They have been too silent all this time. And then there’s those metal doors as well. It’s almost like they are guarding something. Either they are already dead from lack of food, or they have enough food to live peacefully.]
[Unit 3001: Even if they have food, I don’t think they will share with us. Why are we even talking about them then?]
Aleena let out a sigh as she read through the messages in the building’s group chat. No, she wasn’t a member, but had hacked into the group to keep a tab on what was going on in it.
She wasn’t even surprised to see that some people had already started eyeing the top three floors. If they were going to come for them, then she and her friends were more than ready to welcome them.