The Complete Impact Series: Books 1-6: (A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller Series) by E.E. Isherwood & Mike Kraus

Author:E.E. Isherwood & Mike Kraus [Isherwood, E.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2020-11-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Loveland, CO

The change took place so gradually, she barely noticed. Somewhere in the fifty miles between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Loveland, Colorado, passenger cars exited the highway while work trucks came on. What started out as a bunch of cars that might have been heading out for summer vacation now looked entirely different.

“Do you get the feeling we’re in a construction zone?” Asher remarked, voicing what she’d already been thinking.

“You see it, too?” she replied, dropping their speed down to fifty.

“Uh, yeah. How can you miss it? There’re flatbeds of tractors and digging equipment from here to the horizon.” He pointed south. The land now wasn’t as flat or as boring as Wyoming, but they were able to see long stretches of highway ahead of them as they’d done back in the Cowboy State. It looked as though everyone was heading south. The northbound lanes were tantalizingly empty.

“Where do you think they’re all going?” Logan asked from the backseat, suddenly interested in what was happening.

“I don’t know. We haven’t been able to follow the news for a while. At this point, I’d say they’re going to Denver, like us.” The military had been tightlipped about events taking place beyond the Cheyenne checkpoint, and the radio stations in the area didn’t play anything other than the emergency broadcast tone or dead air. Having a newscaster tell her what to expect ahead could have made all the difference.

“The highway to the airport should be coming up soon. It goes around the city, not through it.” Shawn Runs Hard spoke calmly, like it was all going to work out.

Minutes later, her speed dropped to about forty. The traffic became molasses thick, as if they were in the stop-and-go traffic of rush hour. She’d gotten enough of that traveling I-24 near Paducah, though back home was toddler-sized compared to what was around her.

“Hang on, I’m asking someone.” She slowed to match the speed of the yellow pickup truck next to her, then waited to catch the attention of the man sitting in the passenger seat. The sign on the door said something about construction, which was what she needed. When she looked up, the man faced her way.

She motioned for him to roll his window down, which he was anxious to do. The middle-aged man wore a black ball cap and smoked a cigarette. He flashed her a little wave and smiled, perhaps thinking she was coming on to him.

“What’s going on up there?” She had to shout over the wind and tire noise.

“We’re heading to Denver. How about you, missy?”

Yep, he was hitting on her.

“I need to know what all these trucks are doing. What’s ahead?”

The man was visibly disappointed. “We’re all going to the same place. Some Indian chief said the meteors that fell to the ground a few days ago are worth billions of dollars! Every truck in this line is heading there to try to get a chunk of it.” He renewed his smile. “Want to go?”

“Thanks, but I already have someone.

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