Stop the Sirens: Sirens of the Zombie Apocalypse, Book 3 by Isherwood E.E

Author:Isherwood, E.E. [Isherwood, E.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.E. Isherwood
Published: 2016-02-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10: Green Water

Getting away was easier than Liam had thought possible. They walked out with hundreds of others. On their way they grabbed whatever ammo they could scrounge from the dead, as well as a few tidbits of food and bottled waters. Liam found the orange tent where he'd stashed his backpack so they had something to carry the supplies. Several of the zombies had energy bars in their pockets, like they'd all come from the same place.

“Why is everyone leaving camp? Didn't we win this morning?”

He wondered the same thing. “You and I have been outside this valley several times. We know how much worse it is out there. I bet lots of these people have no idea how far everything has sunk. They won't get far probably. If we ever make it back here with Grandma, I bet most of these people will be back. Unless…”

Liam paused, not really knowing if what he was about to say could possibly be true.

“...there's somewhere safe out there now. Maybe set up by the government? Someone's handing out energy bars. Or was. If there's nowhere around safer than this valley, we're all in for a letdown.”

The Marines still functioned, so the government had to be operating. But even the Marines were chewed up—literally he was sad to admit—so the thought of any government agency being able to save them was remote.

“In the books, the government always tries to shore up humanity, but it always involves setting up camps behind fences of some kind. But the problems, at least in the books, are that the population of the camps always get out of hand, the plague always gets in, and the government is always too rigid and unable to adapt to rapid changes as the disaster unfolds. They can deliver pallets of water and energy bars, but if they run out of ammo the whole thing falls apart. Maybe we just live in a backwater and aren't seeing some serious firepower being applied to the zombies, but it looks to me like this war is lost.”

He looked at Victoria, expecting a reply, but he could see the stooped shoulders and hangdog head.

“Look, I'm sorry. Yeah, things are bad. But we've survived this long. Look at what we just did! We survived those duckers and a whole field full of zombies—at the same time. I'd say we're pretty well able to take care of ourselves, better than most of these—”

He realized he was talking a bit loud around the other people walking out the front gate.

“—most of those people who didn't survive out there.”

He stopped and grabbed her arm, pulling her close.

“We're going to get through this. When I was looking at the map back in the MRAP I saw we aren't far from the Meramec River. If we can find a boat, we can float the river downstream until it hits the Mississippi. From there, we can make our way up that river until we end up downtown. We'll be right next to the hotel where they're keeping Grandma.

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