Rules of Conflict by Jack Hunt

Author:Jack Hunt [Hunt, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival | Thriller
Publisher: Direct Response Publishing
Published: 2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

13

Blindfolded and restrained, Tyler strained to see the ground beneath him. He was beginning to regret his decision to seek out Jude. Perhaps his father was right. Although he could be an ass at times, he wasn’t a man given to lies. He felt like he’d been walking for a good thirty minutes before someone held him forcibly and told him to wait.

Around him he could hear the sound of quiet chatter but couldn’t make out what was being said.

“What the hell, Maddox? Cut him loose.”

Tyler was shoved forward so that he bent at the waist, then he felt cold steel slide against his skin before his restraints went slack, and a thick burlap bag was torn from his head. He squinted, and lifted an arm to shield his face as the bright afternoon sun blinded him. Once his eyes adjusted and he lowered the arm, he saw Jude. He was just as intimidating as the first time he laid eyes on him.

“You’ll have to forgive my son Maddox. He tends to be overly protective of the camp.”

“The camp?” he asked looking at the forest before him. He saw nothing but trees.

Jude placed a hand around his shoulders and turned him the other way. That’s when Tyler got his first look at where they were living. Buried deep within dense forest was a landscape of numerous earth-covered domes in rows with concrete exteriors. From above a pilot would have been hard pressed to know anything was there except hills. It reminded him of the Shire from the Hobbit with underground houses surrounded by farmland and bordered by woods. Except it was clear these were no ordinary unprotected abodes, they were reinforced bunkers created to protect an entire community. Outside each of them were firepits where some families were cooking. Smoke rose, and children ran freely. One lady was hanging out clothes on some wire hung between trees. Nearby men were fishing from a stream, and others were gutting a deer, preparing the meat to go into a smokehouse. Many others were tending to crops and livestock. All of them wore similar dark brown leather clothing to Jude. It was as if they had turned their back on the modern-day world and reverted to a simpler way of life, one free of technology, and all the trappings of modern society.

Around the perimeter of the camp itself was camouflaged fencing that was manned by armed guards.

“Welcome to Camp Olney.”

It was hard to tell how many were there but at a rough head count he figured there had to be at least a hundred, maybe more.

“What is this place?”

Jude chuckled. “Guessing your father never told you about here?”

Tyler was mesmerized at how people were adapting to a different way of living. It wasn’t like he was surprised that a community could exist or thrive in the wilderness, as he’d watched documentaries and read magazines on prepper survival communities, but he’d yet to see a fully functioning one. He also didn’t think that so many would be here.

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