Derby City Dead by D. A. Madigan

Author:D. A. Madigan [Madigan, D. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

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They could not come up with any feasible way to test it.

There were many suggestions. One was to lure a single zombie into the store's back room and then blast it with oxygen from one of the tanks. Franklin very nearly had an aneurysm at the thought, and for once Sheila found herself actually agreeing with the man. First, how could you guarantee luring in only one? Second, these things were strong and all but indestructible, and frighteningly fast. If the oxygen did nothing to it, then the only effective weapon against it was fire -- and using fire inside a building was always extremely hazardous. Fire inside the building that was the only thing keeping them alive... no, no, no. Not an option. Not a sane or reasonable one, anyway.

Beyond that, how could you do it without revealing to the other zombies outside that there were living people inside this building?

That last one also ruled out the other suggestions, namely, lasso a zombie from the roof, drag it up the side of the building, and dose it with oxygen, or, take an oxygen tank to the roof, attach a long hose to it, lower the other end of the hose down, and blow oxygen at a zombie that way. Nobody could come up with anything that eliminated, or even minimized, the chance that the hordes outside might discover the presence of living people inside the Walgreen's.

And if the horde outside discovered that, then the concrete walls of the Walgreen's... or, more likely, the segmented metal security shutters pulled down over the glass doors in the front... would not hold them out. They would come in pounding screaming waves until they battered their way inside.

So finally it came down to, whoever went out to scout the situation at Kroger's would carry an oxygen tank and a short length of tubing with them. If they got an opportunity, they could try to test the usefulness of oxygen as a weapon against the undead.

Of course, 'an opportunity' would probably add up to grisly death, as it was wildly unlikely that a chance to interact with a single zombie would present itself. The dead traveled in throngs. Ravenous throngs.

So the next argument was, who was going to go out and scout? Skip seemed to assume it would be him, since he was the one who had the most need for medical supplies from Kroger's. But Vivian surprised everyone by insisting on doing it herself.

She was so insistent, in fact, that Sheila eventually realized exactly why she was trying so hard to get the job -- she felt guilty about abandoning her grandmother -- her 'nana' -- to the zombies.

Vivian was no dummy and she'd come up with a pretty strong argument for why, at the very least, it shouldn't be Skip who went -- the helicopter might one day be a lifesaving resource for some or all of them, and he was the only one who could fly it.

Of course, that didn't mean it had to be Vivian who went.

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