Coming up with a way of blocking off the street in front of the supermarket could come latter. While there was still time in the day, Dave wanted to do some quick scouting.
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Dave stood on the road intersection defensive wall that was on the east side and looked down at the bike he had left there.
"Bugger," he said to no one in particular.
Dave hopped down from the wall and went to the bike. He then moved the bike from where he had left it to the defensive wall. He lifted the bike above his shoulders and pushed the bike up on top of one of the buses that made up the defence at this point. Dave then clambered up the front of the bus and retrieved the bike.
He lowered the bike into the inside of the defensive position, and clambered down after it. He then moved the bike over the to southern wall and repeated the process of lifting the bike over the wall. Dave opened a door to the supermarket and pushed the bike inside. Then he walked out and closed the door behind him.
Back to exploring.
Dave was curious about the clothing store as he was certain that he also saw what looked like camping goods as a part of the store's stock. Dave climbed up and over the two defensive walls that were between him and the clothing store. He would need to improve the process of getting around the defensive walls. Stairs? or maybe ladders? It had to be simple for him to use but remain an obstacle for the dead.
Dave looked inside the clothing store. This store was a bit more gloomy and consequentially harder to see into. However Dave couldn't see anything to really worry him. The contents in the front of the store was exactly what you would think a clothing store would have. But, in an out of character fashion, there were sleeping bags, fishing rods and other small camping accessories hanging from the walls at the back of the store. Not what one would expect from a fashionable clothing store.
Dave walked in and went to the back of the store where there really was a camping section. It wasn't a particularly large section but it seemed to cover more than the basics. Dave walked about doing a basic stock-take of the goods that were on display. There were tents, sleeping bags and other necessities. Whereas as fancy items like GPS systems were completely missing - not that Dave knew anything about such things. At least not yet.
There wasn't anything here that Dave was in urgent need of, but as he expanded his camp on the roof of the supermarket he'll no doubt loot this particular store extensively. One item that really did catch his attention was a foldable stretcher. This was a simple bed with a collapsable aluminium frame with a canvas cover.
Dave had a padded roll that he could sleep on but this stretcher would lift him a solid thirty or so centimetres above the floor of the roof hut. Sleeping ground level was a bit rough and a bit close to the bug level for Dave's comfort. The stretcher surprised Dave by being very light weight, but Dave would have still somehow lugged it back to his roof base even if it had been much heavier. It was that much of a great find.
A bit more exploration and Dave found a portable barbecue that he tagged for latter retrieval. There was also a small gas burner that Dave picked up, noting to himself that he'll need to get some more gas cylinders at a latter time. Gas cylinders didn't seem like a particularly long term solution but it could make a decent stop gap solution - he just had to be careful to not get addicted to the convenience of using gas.
Dave's arms were reasonably full so he decided to return to the supermarket roof top. He left the clothing store and made his way across the defensive walls to the supermarket doors. With his new equipment, Dave had found it a fiddly process to get over the walls about the intersection which convinced him further that he'd really have to find a better solution to just scrambling over them each time.
He entered the supermarket, being careful to close the door behind him. He walked to the supermarket's storage room and ferried the gas burner and camp bed up the ladder and onto the roof. Dave got out onto the roof and walked over to the hut to inspect its insides. Dave had done a thorough job at cleaning the insides of the hut as it looked very clean but was still moist.
Dave looked up at the clear sky. At least his luck with the weather was holding out as it was looking like he'd be spending another night sleeping outside on a roof. With the idea of sleeping occurring to him, Dave picked up the camp bed and spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to deploy it. He had never used one before so he was a little confused at first.
Once the bed was unfolded he placed it against the hut's wall where the door was positioned. He was still outside but the hut wall should provide a bit of shelter through the night. He then went to his back pack, untied his bed roll and unrolled it onto the camp bed for that extra padding and insulation. The weather was fine now, but if it was chilly then Dave was certain that he'd
