Chapter 23: Winter preparations
Rick returned from the forest at dusk. Two guards opened the new gate to Pineview Base as soon as they saw him, and he greeted them, while they both looked scared at the gray wolf in his arms. Rick then quickly went to his house, leaving Fulmen in the garage. But not without giving his mother and sister a long explanation about the new resident...
Afterward, he met up with Joe and Ethan and went to dinner at Maya’s new clinic. After a simple dinner with few exaggerations, they had a long conversation, and everyone concluded that Maya should be the one to get the first level 3 crystal.
"Are you sure?" The doctor asked, a little worried, looking at the crystal that would allow her to enter a new realm of power... She had barely had time to digest the level 2 crystal that Rick gave her and Ethan after returning.
"We don’t know what power Ethan and Joe will have. Additionally, as a doctor, you can conduct all the necessary tests and gather more detailed information about the Universal Force, which will ultimately benefit everyone. Not to mention that your power was something related to healing, this will be more useful in the early stages of the apocalypse..."
"Ethan and I will follow Rick when he sets up a new base in the city, we will become level 3 when we are there." Joe comforted.
After hesitating, Maya finally swallowed the crystal and remained silent as a wave of new sensations invaded her senses, now several times more acute...
As dinner was already over, Rick and Joe went to the place where Ethan was working to see his progress with the energy that the houses needed...
"I can already turn everything back on by connecting the space power core to the old power source that came from the old hydroelectric plant. But that would turn on all the power, including the houses that we are not using. Although our power source is inexhaustible, the lights in the houses and public lighting would be a problem, just as you warned us before..."
"There is no need to cut off the power to the houses outside the wall... We will soon create a second wall, and the entire Village will be part of the base. Have you thought of a way to create a new, simpler type of heating?" Rick asked.