Thea, tomorrow we go hunting, she nodded. Miss Anitta, I need you to calculate the number of people living here, you can get others to help you.
Also, try to move people into less dilapidated buildings. What should we do? Asked Lucas. I guess you can also help Anitta, I can't think of anything you can do yet, wait can you do construction.
I have theoretical knowledge on it, I think I might be able to do it with proper material. I think there are a few books on how to make cement, said Anitta.
Books? Where'd you get those by the way? Sorry but I can't tell you that. Why not? I made an oath so please don't make things difficult for me.
Okay I won't, he said even though he still gave her a skeptical look, do you have any other books. Yes, well no, I did, I almost had an entire library but Tiger took most of them, I think they are here somewhere, maybe in the basement.
No, I checked the basement there were no books there. Actually you didn't, they turned and looked Lucas, there's another basement below the one we were locked up on.
Why didn't you tell me? You never asked. Oh, yeah, right. Lucas led them downstairs to the basement, the first basement. Okay, where's the basement.
Below us. He nodded and stretched his fingers, he was about to punch the floor when they stopped him. What? I'm certain there's a way down there that doesn't involve punching the floor like a gorrila, said Anitta.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense, why didn't I think of that?do gorrilas punch floors though? Everybody gave him a strange look.They looked around the room and didn't see anything besides an old table. Mark moved the table and the carpet below it.
I think I found it, they turned towards him and there was a hole with spiralling stairs that led down. They went down the stairs into a dark room but ofcourse him and Thea could still see even in the darkness, the falcon eyes were incredible.
Fortunately they found torches and lit the room up and there they were. Not just books, there were guns as well, lot of guns and they even found missiles.
Were all these your books? You had a lot of them. No, I only had about 20 books, these probably belonged to Tiger, though I doubt that men read anything.
Here, shouted Thea. Look, this book details how to make...she couldn't finish her sentence, she obviously didn't know what she was looking at.An engine, an esper engine, my god, do you know what this means, asked Anitta with excitement? I don't even know what an esper engine is.
Engines are what powers vehicles, flying ships and the likes, only the noble families have the knowledge of how to create them. How could the blue prints for one be here?
She checked the book cover and sighed. What, he asked. This..is one of my books that Tiger took. Then why did you act all surprised?
Because I didn't know the contents of the book, I didn't get a chance to read all of them. Okay, Lucas, get a few people down here, we need to move these books out of here.
Lucas nodded and left, in less than an hour he came back with a group of capable people to move the books out of the basement.
They were put into an empty room on the top floor. The four of them except Mark and a few others who can read to an extent were going through the books trying to organise them.
Anitta had ordered them to seperate the books into different categories. The excitement in her voice ever present. Here I found it, Lucas said.
It was a book on construction, had detailed instructions on how to make cement, roof tiles, windows etc, even had the proper measurement ratios for all the materials necessary for building, a house and even sky scrapers.
Although the book wouldn't make one an expert, it had enough information to atleast give them the necessary skills to fix their crumbling buildings.
Then came another issue, how were they going to procure the material? He couldn't expect normal people to venture out into the wild.
And they didn't have enough people to protect them yet. The guns would mostly be useless as well, they might hurt or wound a beast if you use enough bullets but that was not sustainable at all, they would run out bullets before long.
He decided to focus on something else for now, if he couldn't fix the buildings he can atleast try to fix the malnourishment people have.
By the end of the day, the books were already organised, there were probably over a hundred of them, history books, basic chemistry books, physics and a lot more.
There was even a book titled all you need to know about bloodlines he wasn't sure it really had all you need to know but considering how large it was, it probably had a lot.
Anitta decided she was going to sleep in that room filled with books, humming a small tune the entire time. However before they went to sleep they boiled the boar meat from before to feed the people.
Infact he still had two full boars worth of meat. One and half boar was able to fill the stomach of the entire town, although he didn't know exactly how many people there were since they were yet to count them, he could tell at first glance there were thousands.
The people looked happy, some were even crying, this was the first meal they had in days, for some it was probably the first time they had a full stomach, they usually just survive on grass and they had to eat that in moderation since most plants were poisonous.
He even noticed some trying to hide and save the meat for later, some giving their shares to their children choosing not to eat themselves but with Anittas reassurance that they would no longer starve they ate eventually.
He could still see the skeptism in their eyes, all these people had ever known is hunger, being told they can finally have their fill sounded like a fairy tale to them.
Not that he blames them though, had he not been the one to personally hunt those beasts he would react exactly like them, he was not much different after all, he too had know hunger every single day since he was a child.
Barely having just enough food to survive but not truly be full, he too had watched his peers, kids no older than 10 die of starvation, even adult were not spared from that fate so being suddenly told those days were over sounded surreal. Even he sometimes had a hard time believing how his life had changed.