Rise (Book 3): Dead Inside by Wood Gareth

Author:Wood, Gareth [Wood, Gareth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: apocalyptic, long term survival, salvage teams, survival, postapocalyptic, serial killer, zombies, salvage, safe zone
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2014-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Mission Safe Zone, September 10, 2013

Deputy Hothi arrived at the ES warehouse forty minutes before the night shift ended. He parked his bicycle three blocks away, out of sight in an alleyway, and walked the empty roads to the building in the humid darkness. The sky was overcast, looking like rain tonight or tomorrow, and the temperature was cooler than it had been for the last two weeks.

He stood in the bushes at the far end of the loading area on a raised planter and watched the night guard make his rounds, checking outside locks and shining flashlights into dark corners of the building. The night shift ended at two o'clock, leaving a four hour window until the day shift started. Plenty of time to have a look around inside with no one from Essential Supplies the wiser. And since he was here investigating a hunch, it was probably best to keep this off the official record.

Hothi stepped down off the planter after the guard turned a far corner and vanished from sight. He walked to the nearest open loading door and looked inside. No one was in sight at the moment, so he climbed up and pulled himself inside, standing up into shadows to look around. Far to his right the night crew were preparing to leave, plugging in the forklifts to charge, and double checking all the tags on the pallets of supplies ready for distribution in the morning. When everyone was looking elsewhere Hothi simply walked across the open space between the doors and the shelving aisles, stepping into the shadows there. The trick was to move calmly and make no sudden or jerky movements. Those drew the eye, while a slow and calm motion wouldn't.

He made his way to the back of the building, past pallets of food and clothing, tools and other supplies. It was easy to conceal himself there to wait until the warehouse was locked up and everyone had left. Looking around in the dimness he realised that there was a layer of fine dust over everything. The pallet of BBQ parts he was crouched behind apparently wasn't high in demand. The shipping tag from the manufacturer was dated from March of 2004. No wonder there was so much dust. Many of the goods in the racks nearby were equally dusty. They were the possibly-useful-someday items, things ES had elected to keep instead of throw away: office chairs and printers; a pallet of iron elevator counter-weights; a stack of twenty-five Ford mufflers.

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