The Common Cold (Book 2): A Zombie Chronicle-Cabin Fever by David K. Roberts

Author:David K. Roberts [Roberts, David K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2013-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

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Mike switched off the radio and made his way back into the cabin.

“They’re on their way back and they’ve been successful,” he announced.

This announcement was met by cheers and the mood in the room lifted. The attack on the cabin and the fact that it looked orchestrated by at least one thinking mind among the Infected had weighed them all down. Intelligence in the walking dead, in whatever form it took, would mean that they would be harder to defend against. The fact that they still seemed to be at least partially functional when semi-frozen made them a worse enemy than any of them could ever have imagined. By retreating into the mountains the survivors had hoped that the weather and their remoteness would see them through the winter in relative safety. By springtime they would be more organised and able to cope; right now they were living hand to mouth in many ways, two steps forward and one step back, and of course that made them vulnerable to any new threats. It had been a miracle that none of the group had been lost so far.

“How did he sound? Did he say if he had any problems?” Tom asked; his friend and protégé was important to him and so he was clucking around like a worried father.

“He sounded positively normal; couldn’t detect anything in his voice but he used all the right words.”

“That’s something I guess,” Tom agreed.

“About eight hours he said. It’s getting lighter outside indicating the cloud is thinning some, so perhaps the front is moving away. By the time he’s refuelled it should have gone past so perhaps he can get straight in here. Of course it’s heading towards him so he’ll have to fly through it.”

“He is a good IFR pilot so that should be doable for him.”

IFR, or Instrument Flight Rules, was a complex business of flying using only cockpit instrumentation without reference to the world outside. In a plane with which the pilot was fully familiar it required concentration and was tiring, especially if there was no autopilot function; this was why it was flown mostly with two pilots, at least commercially or in the military; but in an aircraft in which he’d only had a few hours total time it was a serious gamble and so Tom hoped BB would put down rather than try and soldier on into the oncoming blizzard. If he crashed there would be no hope of rescue and all of them would certainly perish.

Looking out of the window Tom watched as the snow kept on coming down. He was always amazed at how big and perfect the flakes were up here. He enjoyed watching the snow settle, especially as now it had the added benefit of hiding the bodies of the infected. In another twenty four hours the corpses they had spent time piling off to one side would become like granite in their frozen hardness and would remain an immovable mass until the spring; right now

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