Survival (World of Anthrax Book 1): A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller Series by Adrienne Lecter

Author:Adrienne Lecter [Lecter, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Not all hope was lost yet, I realized, as a fresh wave of people surged into the open space. One of the last groups was the father, still carrying his smallest child, with the other two children running right ahead of him. Gone was any sense of adventure I’d seen on their faces before besides the fear. Now it was all-out panic, the same as was gripping me.

We were still a good sixty feet away from the last vehicles, but I couldn’t give up now, even though my legs burned and my lungs borderline refused to work.

Kas and Tony needed no encouragement from me. As soon as I pushed myself up and forward, they were moving as well, still cautious but with massively increased urgency. I didn’t hold it against Tony when he quickly pulled ahead. I tried to signal Kas to do the same, but he staunchly refused, instead sticking with me. It vaguely occurred to me that this way, he could both play gallant knight and had a fifty percent chance that anything coming for us would pick me rather than him—but I was well aware of the fact that only I was thinking along those lines.

Somehow, that made me feel a little better about the situation.

The fastest runners were halfway toward the checkpoint when they got taken down, both by yet more zombies coming from the sides but also those that must have still been hidden among the corpses, playing possum.

Great—not only were they savage hunters, but they’d already learned to tweak their strategies and lay traps for us as well.

Things did not look great for humanity.

But none of that mattered to me right now. First, I’d have to get into that kill zone, and we were still only halfway to the barrier.

One runner made it, then a second. The soldiers were shooting and shouting, urging them on.

Ahead and to the side, I saw the father stumble but catch himself. The kids shot ahead but then made as if to stop. He screamed at them to run, which they did, but they kept looking back, decreasing their speed.

At the checkpoint, one soldier turned to the others, then slung her assault rifle onto her back and ran into the kill zone, the two men next to her covering her. Even across the distance, I could make out the look of utter determination on her face, as if by sheer will she’d force the zombies to lie low. On her gore-splattered uniform, I could see the lieutenant bars among the unit patches that made no sense to me. So not a bleeding-heart, silly girl, but likely the commanding officer of the checkpoint making a command decision.

She reached the kids, shouting at them to run, and gave both a push toward the checkpoint. Then she kept going, reaching the father moments later. He barely protested as she pulled the screaming child out of his arms, already turning around to sprint back. Even with him having a head start, she quickly shot past him, hurtling and jumping over the dead with little caution for her own safety.

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