The List (Zombie Ocean Book 5) by Michael John Grist

Author:Michael John Grist [Grist, Michael John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-09-12T05:00:00+00:00

13. HYDROGEN LINE

Anna stood with Feargal, Wanda and Ollie atop the concrete block, looking up at the blackened pole of the gun turret. The hooded 'leaves' had fallen away now and lay on the rich brown loam below, leaving the warped barrels of the autocannons exposed to the sky, like stunted branches.

Julio had seen this same sight, she wondered. He'd taken out the Maine gun turret and the drones alone. Now she was here, facing the same decision. She wanted to talk to Ravi about it, not because he'd understand but because he'd listen. But Ravi wasn't here.

She looked out.

Jake was out there now with Lucas, surveying the vineyard. They didn't know where the bunker access points were, not with any more precision than the general radar sweep had given them from above, so they were mapping it now with the hydrogen line scanner.

Feargal held his rifle across his chest, alert and on watch. Wanda and Ollie too. Peters and Macy were taking care of logistics; bringing the Humvees up into a protective circle round the block, getting out the cook fires and heating up some rations.

They had less than a day now before the demon from this bunker came back, along with any friends it had managed to convert. In addition, at any minute the manhole to the bunker could pop open and people could emerge in shielded suits, shooting first and asking questions later.

"I'm going up," she said.

Feargal frowned. "Up where?"

Anna pointed, then laid her hands on the gun turret. It was much wider around than the mast of her catamaran, but irregular joints in the pole provided handholds enough for her to climb.

"Are you sure-?" Ollie began, always cautious, but by that point Anna was already climbing. She dug her fingertips in, balanced on her toes, and ascended. Soon she was above head height, and already the metal was growing warmer to the touch as she closed on where the rocket had blasted it.

At the top sixty-odd feet high, she hooked an elbow around one of the thick, twisted autocannon barrels and rested her feet in an alcove dug into the metal.

Apparently these turrets were designed to go up and down. It was how they got the demon out; she'd learned that from diagrams in the Maine Command. She tried to imagine the people in their bunker somewhere nearby, underground. They wouldn't know what she was doing now, with all their cameras and drones knocked out. Probably they were desperate. They wouldn't know the ocean were coming. They only knew their demon was coming to save them.

Anna sighed. They had to be scared, deep down in their nest. They would have seen her plane above, and they'd just experienced their two main lines of defense destroyed in less than a minute. If that didn't put them in the mood to talk, she didn't know what would. She hadn't wanted to talk, hadn't wanted to give them that much chance, but Amo's orders had been clear, and Lucas' logic was undeniable.

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