Gas! Gas! Gas! (Royal Zombie Corps Book 3) by Harald C. M

Author:Harald, C. M. [Harald, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

The most interesting event during the next fortnight was the opportunity to discover the range over which the Tigers could be controlled. A couple of experiments were undertaken, one where Marsh had a line-of-sight to the Tigers and another where buildings, ground and trees were in the way. The Tigers were left with Wells while Marsh walked off to issue his commands. Every hundred yards, Marsh would stop and mentally instruct his Tigers to change their behaviour. The time of the command was logged, knowing that Wells was at the other end logging the times different behaviours were observed. To there great surprise, Marsh was able to mentally control the Tigers at a mile range, with obstructions not having any effect. In a follow-up experiment it was shown that the zombies always stayed in range of the handler, if they had freedom of movement, with other handlers showing a far shorter range. It was also discovered that a confined Tiger would be removed from the handler's control should the handler move out of range.

The same experiment was repeated by Mullen, who discovered he had a range of three-quarters of a mile. Furthermore, Mullen rapidly progressed in his mental handling of the Tigers, becoming increasingly able to match Marsh on the sophistication of instructions. Between them, they experimented on the different types of commands they could issue and found that the Tigers could follow almost any instruction that did not require sophisticated comprehension or dexterity skills. This led to a great deal of thinking on the use of the Tigers for specific battlefield tasks, such as the bomb delivery that Mullen had improvised.

Another area that Marsh and Mullen experimented on was the emotional element of the mental orders. During the attack on the blockhouse, Marsh had noticed a particular speed and savagery in the behaviour of his Tigers. This had emerged during the closely fought German counterattack. The more he thought about it, the more Marsh was convinced that his own fears had driven the zombies to their aggressive behaviour. This was a complex area to experiment with as the Tigers did not seem to respond to faked emotions. It was in this respect that Lieutenant Simpson proved to be particularly useful.

Simpson had continued his campaign of bullying Marsh at every opportunity. The Lieutenant would regularly pick up on any minor fault in Marsh's uniform. This was often as Colonel Hudson had authorised Marsh to continue combat experiments which meant that Marsh would frequently get dirty in the field. Simpson also regularly complained about the unsporting use of zombies in combat and regularly placed obstacles in the way of the experiments that were undertaken. Mullen was not particularly bothered by Simpson's behaviour, happy to unleash any tension with a stream of insults and curses, frequently within earshot of the officer. Marsh, however, was cut more deeply by the behaviour, the weight of his own drive to be an effective soldier, borne from his brother's death, undermined his confidence alongside Simpson's criticisms. Marsh still knew he could not be the effective soldier that Simpson, and the army, required.

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