SUBURBAN JUNGLE: A Post Apocalyptic Zombie Survival Thriller (Chronicles of the Undead: Book 2) by Jaime Hernandez

Author:Jaime Hernandez [Hernandez, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Distorted Publishing
Published: 2021-06-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Day 4

Max drove to his search grid while hoping desperately that Anna would stick to hers. It was difficult trying to go street by street and impossible to hit every single one. He hoped they would be able to meet up as planned but knew that realistically it was unlikely. Very few things had gone according to plan since the zombies made their first appearance. He liked having Maggie along for the ride. She seemed to know when he was in the mood to talk and when he needed silence. She was very easy to get along with, and he felt he could trust her to be a reliable second set of eyes.

The fires in the distance didn’t seem to have spread any further. With any luck, they would start to burn themselves out. They hadn’t jumped north over the highway or moved further west. Finally, there was one less thing to worry about. That was the first time he’d had that thought since the zombie apocalypse had started.

There were some large shopping centers in their current search area. A huge outdoor mall set up like a little village with countless high-end stores, restaurants, outdoor vendors, salons, a movie theater, and parking garages were mixed in with a few luxury apartment buildings. The area was so large that it had little streets of its own and traffic lights at some of the mini intersections. Max decided to pull in and drive past all of the storefronts on each little street to see if anything was surrounded by zombies. There was no way or reason to search each store, but he figured that if anyone was alive in there, a crowd of zombies would let him know. There were more zombies in the shopping center than he expected. By their manner of dress and the bags still mindlessly held in their hands, he assumed most of them had been shoppers and had been in the area since day one. He slowly cruised down the first street, seeing nothing to indicate that anyone was alive there. He turned left at the first light and immediately wished that he hadn’t. There was a long, wide grassy strip in the middle between the rows of buildings on either side of the street. The grassy area held a playground and splash pads for children to play in the heat. Dozens of young children in summer clothes, swimsuits, and even diapers were now slowly staggering around like zombies. He’d seen plenty since that first day downtown in Public Square, and he’d seen dead children walking but nothing like this. It was a devastating sight that brought tears to his eyes. They bore vicious wounds just as all of the other zombies had. Thinking of the agony all of those innocent children had suffered was almost more than he could take. He wished there was some way he could put all of them out of their misery.

“Just look away, Max,” Maggie said gently, interrupting his thoughts.

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