Buried for Now (The Infected Dead Book 6) by Bob Howard

Author:Bob Howard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sunrise Books, LLC
Published: 2019-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Hopkins on the Lake

Year Six of the Decline

The smell almost arrived before the sound of the horde as it pressed itself into the small gaps between trees. It came on the breeze almost a full day before the first group of them appeared. The dry underbrush was trampled flat with a great cracking and crunching, and trees that had weak spots or damage from lightning and wind were pushed over like they were nothing more than tall pretzels.

The children were too young to remember movies, but their parents remembered the silver screens and what it was like to see herds of elephants crashing through jungles. Some of them had forgotten about the dinosaur movies that had become so popular before the infected dead had arrived, but now they were being reminded of the scenes when the trees shook just before the monsters charged at their prey.

Even though the sun had only just begun to rise above the horizon, they could see the tops of the trees part and then come back together again. At any moment they expected to see the meat eating dinosaurs charging from the trees, not the slow moving, shifting shapes still too immersed in darkness to see. In a way, the people of the new town of Hopkins on The Lake would have preferred the monsters from thousands of years in the past because a horde large enough to move the big trees of the forest had to be beyond imagination.

From the time they had finished construction of the wooden town until now, they had been under siege. During the day they had seen the infected dead coming toward the dock and had to back away from the land defenses that were supposed to keep the infected from even reaching the lake. They doubled the guard and had every able bodied adult protecting their home. They worked frantically to build up the barricade at the single entrance that led out to their new town, and the guards fought off the infected that made it past the other obstacles. Sharpened trees were driven into the ground at random, and a crew worked full time to remove the bodies that had become impaled. It wasn’t long before they were forced backward onto the dock to help the guards who were continually pushing the infected into the lake.

Pits between the rows of spikes were so full that the infected fell in and were only unable to get out because their legs were so entangled with the other infected. Some sank to the bottoms of the pits, disappearing among the squirming bodies, but eventually the new arrivals simply walked around them, and were joined by others that broke free of the melee in the manmade traps. They continued forward until they were pushed from behind onto the sharpened spikes. It was clear even before today that there was an increase in the number of infected, but scouts that had gone out to see what was happening didn’t return to give their reports.

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