Dead Eye Hunt (Book 2): Into The Rad Lands by Meredith Peter

Author:Meredith, Peter [Meredith, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2020-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Cole slammed the drawer shut and tried to yank open the next one, only to have the handle snap off in his hands. “Son of a bitch! Hamilton, give me your knife.”

“No. Why? What’s wrong?”

Furious, Cole ignored him and looked around for something to pry the drawer open with. “Here,” McGuigan said, offering a three-inch jack knife. Like the rest of him, the blade had never been used for a real purpose and was bright and glittering. Cole jabbed it down in the crevice and cranked back.

The drawer rattled open and other than a few pieces of paper, it was empty. Cole’s stomach dropped. He re-opened the first drawer and saw the dried blood. “They took it,” he said, quietly. “They took the head.”

Hamilton pushed Cole aside and looked into the drawer as if the head was simply invisible and that only he could see it. His eyes scanned uselessly back and forth. “What the fuck, Cole!” he raged, yanking his mask back down. “What do you mean someone took it? Who? Someone at Krupp? That doesn’t make any damn sense. There ain’t no cameras down here; how would they know? And it ain’t the fuckin’ zombies. What would a fuckin’ zombie want with a zombie head? Everyone knows they don’t eat their own.”

“I would say that the Dead-eyes did it to hide the evidence,” McGuigan answered. “When they’re on drugs, they can think and they are very clever about hiding themselves. They could be watching us right now.” He looked around, his pathetic Maltese at the ready.

“What about the bodies?” Phillips asked. “They didn’t take them, did they?”

Cole knew in his gut that they had, but still he had to know for sure. He started down the tunnel again, moving faster than was smart, and ended upending part of a desk and crashing down into a pile of blackened air ducts. He had to be lifted out by two of the policemen. The scene of the battle wasn’t far from there.

Only blood and brass remained.

It was obvious where the bodies had been dragged to the edge of the tilted platform and shoved over. Cole slid down to the spot and squinted into the dark. A second later Hamilton slid down next to him and shone the light into the junk. There was a little blood, but no bodies. “Uncuff me and give me a gun,” Cole demanded. “I can get them back. They wouldn’t have dragged them far.”

“Uncuff you and give you a gun?” Hamilton shook his head. “How about, hell no? This is so you. God, you fuck up everything.” He pushed himself up and stood tall over Cole and for a moment Cole thought he was going to throw him into the debris. Hamilton certainly wanted to but then who would Fantucci take out his anger on? He heaved out a long sigh, feeling as though he had matured in some way by not caving in Cole’s skull.

Cole scrambled up. “Let me fix this. I need a gun, a radio and a flashlight.

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