Extinction Event : A Survival Thriller by Jonathan Yanez

Author:Jonathan Yanez [Yanez, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archimedes Books
Published: 2021-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two

More gunfire. Like their exit from the Jenkins’ house, the air was scattered with shots from automatic rifles. To most, the noise would sound like any selection of guns being fired. Taylor, however, could distinguish the difference. Some automatic assault rifles lit the air with their anger, yet now more sidearms were being used. The soldiers were running out of ammunition.

Another look behind her and Taylor stopped. The horde would be on them in seconds. The mass of sprinting bodies was so close now, Taylor could make out uniforms and faces. A waitress with her left eye falling from its socket, a man in a police uniform with his lower jaw missing; thousands of lost souls all aiming to consume—nothing but madness in their eyes and hearts.

They all knew it was over. Frank, Captain Martin, Dr. Jenkins, Cidney, Taylor. The girl was looking at Taylor with trust and hope in her eyes. Taylor saw her own reflection in the little girl’s stare. And in that moment, Taylor knew she would find a way to survive. If not for herself, then for this little girl who looked at Taylor like her own personal hero.

Something changed in Taylor. For so many years she did her job for money. She saved and ended lives for a paycheck. This was different. As she raised her 1911 and searched for an answer, Taylor knew that she actually cared for this little girl. Through some unexplained force moving inside her, Taylor knew she would never let anything happen to Cidney.

Then as if the answer to her unspoken prayer was being manifested, she saw the tanker. A huge silver cylinder pulled behind a massive truck. It was to her left, to the right of the approaching wave of teeth and nails. No one was inside, a sign that the driver had fled with the mob of terrified civilians.

It was close, too close for Taylor to know they would survive but what option did they have? The captain’s men were pumping round after round into the frontlines of the human mass, and where one fell two seemed to take its place.

With a prayer that the tanker still held gas, Taylor fired her pistol at the steel exterior. Time hesitated as the bullet made contact with the material. In the place of the desired explosion, a small hole appeared with fluid draining out onto the gray freeway pavement.

“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me!” Widening her stance, she locked both elbows and opened fire on the tanker in quick succession. The air was cooling from the sun’s descent and the cold was settling in. Somewhere between the fourth and fifth bullet, with the infected bearing down on them no more than fifteen yards away, the tanker exploded.

In the fraction of a second it took for the bullet to ignite the gas, the shockwave hit. She knew they were too close. The blast that radiated from her target rocked her off her feet. The heat soaring from the tanker warmed her entire body and even singed her hair.

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