Mist City_After The Purge AKA John Smith by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath [Sisavath, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Road To Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Smith was chewing on the second stick of jerky when he hurried back to the front of the store and crouched next to Margo. She was still looking over the counter at the parking lot outside. Smith could see muzzle flashes in the darkness, like firecrackers popping inside the thick, swirling mist, but he couldn’t tell what they were shooting at. A few stray rounds pekked against the brick-and-mortar wall outside the store, but it was clear they were accidental and not intended for them.

“What are they shooting at?” Smith asked.

“Ghouls,” Margo said.

Ghouls. Shit.

For some reason, Smith was surprised to hear that nightcrawlers had finally come out to play. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized it was an inevitability. Even if there were just a few of the undead things in Mist City, they would have heard all the gunfire and would be drawn to the hotbed of action like moths to flames.

But he asked anyway, “Are you sure?”

Margo nodded. “Saw a couple of them running across the parking lot.”

“How many?”

“A dozen. Maybe more. But not—”

Margo didn’t finish, because the shooting had stopped. The last shot echoed, then faded…and there was just the sound of the three of them breathing inside the Archers again.

Smith could just barely glimpse a couple of figures moving around in the mist, possibly dragging something on the ground with them. Were they moving bodies? And if so, were those human or ghoul corpses?

“Silver bullets?” Smith asked.

Margo nodded. “What idiot would run around out here without silver weapons?”

Smith grinned and thought, Me, for one, though of course that wasn’t the case before he ran across Allison at the Private Store-It.

But he kept that to himself and focused on the seemingly empty world outside. No, not really empty. There was still a hell of a lot of mist. Too much to see anything besides flashes of movement. Clark, nearby, almost fired a couple of times but always held back when the silhouettes vanished, only to reappear somewhere else.

Smith was thinking about the ghouls that had attacked Freddy’s group—and from the sounds of it, had been dispatched—when he glanced in the direction of the rear door that he had just barricaded.

“What?” Margo said.

“I was just thinking,” Smith said.

“About what?”

“Where you find one ghoul, you usually find more. And they love cities.”

“Yeah, they do.” She seemed to think about something for a moment. Then, “Is there another way into this place? Besides the one you already dealt with?”

“I don’t know. I was still searching the building when you guys showed up. I don’t think there is, but…”

“But what?”

“But I can’t be sure. Like I said—”

“You didn’t get a chance to go over the place before we showed up.”

“Yeah.”

“What’s going on?” Clark asked.

Margo shook her head at him. “Maybe there’s another way in. Smith’s right; if there’s one ghoul nest, there’s usually more. This is a big city. The ones that showed up can’t possibly be all of them.”

“You think more might be on the way?”

“Or already here.

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