Finding Home by Rick Wood

Author:Rick Wood [Wood, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Rick Wood Publishing
Published: 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

As soon as Eugene received the call, he was out of his office and down the corridor with a haste his legs could barely keep up with.

He felt giddy.

Like a child.

Shaking with glee.

By the time he’d reached the laboratory he was practically bouncing. He paused, willed himself to calm down, told himself that he still had an image to portray and he would not command respect if he acted like an excitable schoolboy.

Not that he commanded respect, anyway.

But that was about to change.

He smoothed down his collar, straightened his tie, and entered, slowly and particularly, looking around and enjoying the hush that descended over the room upon his appearance.

Doctor Charles Moore saw Eugene and sighed, keeping his hesitation inside.

Eugene ignored the subordination. This was too good a day.

“Well?” Eugene prompted. “I’m here. Where is it?”

“This way,” Charles reluctantly answered.

He led Eugene across the laboratory and to a microscope.

“What the bloody hell is this? Where is it?”

“Please, look.”

Eugene looked through the microscope.

He saw something that even his unscientific yet twisted, ambitious mind understood. Splodges of red blood cells swam around until they were helplessly engulfed by larger splodges, turning a darker red, then throbbing and convulsing. When the petri dish smashed, Eugene jumped back and clapped.

“Marvellous!” he said. “Just marvellous!”

“I’m glad you’re pleased with it,” Charles said insincerely.

“And have you created a synthesis?”

Charles nodded and led Eugene over to his desk. There, on the desk, sat a needle, prominent yet unassuming. Full of a dark greenish red substance, ready and waiting for use.

“Do you have more?”

“No, this is the only one.”

“Good. I don’t want you to produce anymore.”

“What?” Charles’s mouth fell agape. He thought Eugene wanted to enhance his army – why would he not want more?

Was all of this work for nothing?

Eugene grinned at Charles’s confusion.

“I would like you to destroy all notes, all research, all samples, aside from this one here.”

“But – but why?”

“You hated creating this, didn’t you? I could tell. Yet now you are fond of it?”

“It’s just… the work that has gone into it…”

Eugene ignored the pathetic cries of a grown man and lifted the needle, holding it before his eyes, marvelling at it. The liquid inside did not stay still – it thrashed and pushed against its plastic containment. It was practically alive already, without even needing a host.

“Tell me,” Eugene said. “How is this better than the gene we already have?”

“Oh, it’s better all right,” Charles said. “There’s more of the infection in it, but it’s more controlled – we have managed to pull out elements of the gene and neglect some others. The strength, the speed, the hostility – it’s all been enhanced. The mindless wandering is gone, but you will need to bear in mind that may affect the obedience.”

“That’s fine. There doesn’t need to be any obedience.”

Charles frowned. Eugene waited for him to muster up the courage to say what was on his mind, so much so Eugene grew irritable and had to prompt him.

“Say it,” Eugene commanded. “What?”

“It’s just

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