The Broken and the Dead (Book 1) by Morris Jay

Author:Morris, Jay [Morris, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: zombies
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Day 15

I woke early, just as the sun was coming up, I looked over to the other bed, it had not been slept in. OMT was nowhere to be seen but I couldn’t believe he would just leave me here. I jumped out of bed and grabbed my pack and my rifle. I stepped outside to find that the room next to ours was open; in fact the whole door was missing. I hesitated then peeked around the door jamb into the room. There was OMT, he had put the missing door on one of the beds, on the door was our Z. He was cutting it to pieces; I gagged choked down bile from my empty stomach. The smell was incredible, like raw chicken left marinating in shit for a few months in a Tupperware container in the back of your great aunt’s Volvo.

OMT had a cell phone and was taking pictures of the thing.

“Hey John.” he said quietly. “I’m almost done here.”

I couldn’t stand it but a morbid curiosity was over whelming me so I sidled into the room.

“Oh my God” I gasped.

“Yeah, pretty rank isn’t it?” he said.

He waved me closer and told me to look at what he was pointing at. The creature was on its stomach, he had sliced it open from the top of the head and half way down its back. Some of the skin he had peeled away in other places it looked like he had actually pried the shell like plates off of it.

“You see this?”

He was pointing with his knife to a slimy white thing that was covering the spine.

“Yeah, what is it?” I countered.

“What is it? No idea, but whatever it is, it should not be here.”

He proceeded to point out that it had 4 larger tentacles or branches that extended up into the skull as well dozens more that had worked their way in to any possible aperture in the spinal column itself. He said it looked like the thing had wired itself into the body of the host. The host he had said, he meant the person it had infected.

He turned the head to one side and showed me that the teeth were more numerous than should be possible but I had already seen some early versions of that, he had been unconscious when Blue had shown them to us. He reached into its mouth with the blade of his knife and pressed on something inside, yellowish fluid oozed through the tips of the teeth.

“Venom, I think” he said, “but I have no idea what kind.”

He then pried one of the armor plates away to show me how the skin had become what he called ‘connecting tissue’ and that some of the bones were being absorbed or dissolved he was didn’t know which and that he didn’t know why some were but others were not. Then lifting the things arm by the wrist he said

“Check this out.”

He pressed with his thumb just below the elbow, a seam of skin opened up that went from there almost all the way to the wrist.

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