Hamsikker 2 by Russ Watts

Author:Russ Watts [Watts, Russ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Pete Hopper was an insignificant man, just one of many young workers who used to toil away on hot days in the fields and tend to the vines. He had been killed close to the vineyard, and his body still wandered around Utica. There was nothing to draw him away. The legs kept working, and the eyes darted around looking for the living, but it had been months since anything had crossed his path. It was Freya’s faint cry that alerted him to the presence of the living. It was so, so quiet that it took a long time before he was even heading in the right direction. He stumbled through Utica, down the main street full of dead bodies, and tried to follow the only sound that night that was audible for miles. Through the diminishing moonlight and the quietness the crying sound carried on the breeze, alerting more zombies to the presence of the group. The dead gathered together slowly and began to walk through Utica. The zombies were unaware of the camp at the top of the hill, but if nothing impeded them, it would not be long before they found it. The sound of their dragging footsteps carried even further, and the dead soon began to converge.

Utica had been declared a safe zone, and the residents of nearby Ottawa, Spring Valley, and Oglesby had all been evacuated there soon after the outbreak. Utica’s natural population of around 1500 people had swollen to nearly 30000, enticed by the promise of safety. Endless rows of tents had been erected to shelter the homeless refugees, and the small town began to resemble a war-torn city. The National Guard had put up a good resistance, but ultimately they were undone from within. There were several infected within the evacuees, and soon the National Guard had turned on their own. Thousands had died that first day, but as more died, more returned, and the whole evacuation center had very quickly become nothing but yet another place for the dead.

Many of Utica’s rapidly expanded population spread out into the surrounding area following the complete collapse of the safety zone, and Illinois was covered in the dead. Like a bad case of chicken pox, its towns and land were covered in festering spots of the dead with pockets of zombies everywhere just waiting for someone living to come along and give them a reason to move. Some wandered the streets, some the fields, and some remained trapped in the buildings where they had died. Eventually, it appeared that the living were wiped out, and after months of inactivity, the zombies in the area fell into a stupor, slumping to the ground or standing inside homes with nothing to draw them out. That was until sunrise, and there was movement at the camp on the top of the hill.

Freya had almost made it through the entire night without crying. She was still plagued by visions and nightmares, but somehow had managed to stay quiet as she slept.

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