Necrovoid: The Immersion Seeds - Book one by Ian Woodhead

Author:Ian Woodhead [Woodhead, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 4864 Publishing
Published: 2019-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sixth Insertion

They sat on the wall outside the shopping mall. Jordan took another bite out of an apple he found on the wall beside him, while Jenny carefully wrapped a bandage around his ankle. It had been almost an hour since that plant-pod monster almost killed him and in the intervening time, all he had really cared about was for his ankle to stop feeling like someone had forced it into a wood chipper. The pain had only receded somewhat when Jenny had pushed open the fire-door, a few metres away and led them into the twilight.

“Thank you for saving my life, yet again.”

Jenny finished off tying the bandage, stood up and sat next to him. “If you had listened to me in the first place, this wouldn't have happened.”

“Yeah, thanks for the reminder,” he replied. “You could have just told me, you know.” The pain really had diminished, he might even be up to hobbling to the other shop. The town looked so different now. There wasn't much sunlight left and back before this happened, all the street-lights would have come on by now. If they didn't set off soon, then as weird as it sounded, they might end up getting lost in his own town. The cloudy sky ensured no moon or stars would help them light their way either.

“I think we should make a start, Jenny.” He started to get up, only for her to push him back down.

“Wait,” she said.”Not yet. Look over there.”

He followed her pointed finger and spotted movement close to a bus stop. It was another dead thing. It didn't seem to be moving very fast. “I wonder what it's doing?”

“I would guess that it's waiting for a bus.”

“Don't take the piss, Jenny.”

“I'm not. We've noticed this type of phenomenon a few times. The dead, trying to replicate motions from the time they were alive. I think it's a little sad, you know.”

“Great, so we're stuck here?”

“It won't be long, give it a few minutes and it'll wander off.”

Jordan threw the apple core behind him.”In that case, why don't you tell exactly what that plant thing in the shopping centre was doing.”

Jenny just looked at her feet. She then took a deep breath. “I hadn't realised any of those bastard things were still around. Finding one more, just like that, well. Well, it kinda freaked me out.” She took another jagged breath. “Like that isn't the understatement of the decade.” The woman lifted her gaze and looked straight at him. “They are the cause of all this, Jordan. Those things are responsible for this whole fucking nightmare. Barry called them Seeder pods, and the poor bastards who were caught, like the man in the book shop, Barry called them Seeders. I guess the name speaks for itself, you know? Although I had never heard of a Seeder physically attacking another human like that before. The ones we saw, just staggered into the closest crowd and detonated.”

“They what?”

“Detonated. You know, exploded. It wasn't

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