Surviving the Evacuation 15.5 Outback Outbreak by Frank Tayell

Author:Frank Tayell [Tayell, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Butch
Published: 2019-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

With as much dignity as could be mustered, Mr Thurlow was placed in a body bag, then wheeled to the van. With less ceremony and no concern, the same was done with the many-named gangster.

“Will you give me a hand inside, Liu? Pete, can you watch the van?”

“Sure, of course,” he said. He wasn’t sure there was any need. He walked over to the junction and looked the length of Bromide Street, then back along Thomas. There was no one about. A blind moved in the side-window of a two-storey fifty metres down the road, and a few other shadows suggesting other people in other windows. No one came out to inquire about the two bodies they’d just loaded into the van. That worried him almost as much as the thug with the gun.

He rubbed his throat. It was sore, but the pain was fading. His forehead was throbbing again, but that helped him focus. He moved into the van’s shadow. Within twenty-four hours he’d been punched in the head and then nearly strangled to death, and that was aside from the nightmare of the crashed plane. Wishing that he’d never come to Australia was all well and good, but that would have left him stranded in America where surely things were far worse. The only other option to Broken Hill was going with the pilots to Melbourne, but wasn’t that where Inspector Qwong had said the gangster had come from?

Qwong and Liu came outside. “I’ll see you at home later,” Liu said, and headed off down the street while the inspector fetched some police tape from the van.

“Can you give me a hand?” Qwong asked. “Thanks. I’ve sent Liu to get her car and your sister. There’s a ute-load of meat left in the freezer. No point letting it go to waste. You don’t mind helping me with the van?”

“Of course not. To do what?”

“To go to the crematorium,” she said. “Unless you want to go to the hospital?”

“No, I’m fine. Just bruised. This isn’t how my week usually goes.”

“You and me both,” she said. She stepped back from the door. “That tape won’t stop anyone, but what more can I do? The soldiers got an odd message this morning. More a rumour than anything. You know that people who get bitten don’t always turn immediately? Sometimes it can take hours. Because of that, a rumour has started that some people are immune. Over in Perth, they crammed people, visitors and tourists, into hotels overnight. Locked them in and put guards on the door, but the guards were watching the street, not the stairs. In at least one hotel, they ended up with the virus inside. With the doors locked, there was no escape. When the guards finally opened the doors, the zombies spilled out.”

“That was last night?”

“The night before,” Qwong said. “It took a while for the story to reach us. Doctor Dodson called Anna, and she confirmed some of it. Thousands of people are dead, thousands more were infected.

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