Land of Dust and Bones: The Secret Apocalypse Book 7 by Harden James

Author:Harden, James [Harden, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

John orders Helen and Nathan into the basement. He tells them not to let anyone in other than himself.

“Can you use that thing?” he says, asking about my rifle.

“I’m OK. Better than some.”

“All right then, let’s go up to the second floor. You might be able to take them out. You’ll have a pretty good vantage point.”

I nod my head, thinking to myself. “I’m not sure I have enough bullets to take them all out.”

“How many do you have?”

“I’ve got one spare magazine for the rifle. One spare magazine for the handgun. So basically, I mean, even if every shot I take is a head shot, and there’s no way I’d be able to do that, it won’t be enough. There’s got to be over a hundred infected people outside.”

“So what the hell do you suggest?” he asks. “If you run out there right now, you’re dead. You won’t make it two steps out the door before they jump all over you.”

He’s right.

“Let’s go upstairs,” I say. “I need to see the layout of this place.”

“Follow me.”

We climb the stairs. When we arrive on the second floor we walk past room after room on our way to the front of the house. Marko was right, Helen was right, this place really was more like a hotel.

Wait. Does this mean Marko and Billy have been inside here before?

“Has anyone else ever been inside here?” I ask John.

John thinks it over. “It’s possible. I mean, we hear a lot of crazy shit going on when we’re hiding down in that basement. We just assumed it was the sick people, the infected, trying to get in. But we hide down in the basement most of the time. Like I said, we only ever come up here on rare occasions. The only reason we came up today was because we heard the gunshots.”

“So if someone snuck in here quietly, you would never know?”

Again, he thinks it over. “I guess it’s possible. But they would need to break in here through the barricades, through the boards. They would need tools to do that.

“Tools? Like, a hammer?”

“Yeah. A hammer would do the trick. But then they would need to replace the boards when they leave. I can’t imagine anyone doing that. I don’t see how that’s even possible.”

“Yeah. I guess you’re right.

“Why do you ask?”

“Two of the guys I’m travelling with, they described this place, this house, like they had been inside it before. They seemed to know a lot about it. Like the fact that it’s more of a hotel than a house. How many bedrooms does this place have?”

“There’s about ten guest rooms in total. I think. Most of them are up here.”

We make our way to one of the bigger rooms at the front of the house. From here, on the second floor, we can see the entire village. It looks like a hastily constructed suburb. Like if someone had built an entire suburb in one day. I peer out through a gap in the boards that have been used to barricade the windows.

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