The Living Dead Girl by R. J. Spears

Author:R. J. Spears [Spears, R. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Hopeless

The only light in the room filtered in through the opaque glass blocks at the tops of the walls. It was dim and diffuse which suited Kara just fine. She didn’t care about the dark. In fact, in her current mood, it suited her well.

The events of the past day swirled in her head, and she couldn’t shut the images off. They played over and over again like some endless horror movie.

The final scene of the movie had her back on the third floor of the hospital, battling for her life.

She saw the swarm coming after her as she and Richard ran from the door in the research building. A dark figure had opened the stairwell door, and for a few moments, that figure was all that mattered. But any concern about the identity of this dark figure was erased as the zombies that had been stacking up in the stairwell poured through the doorway.

Panic drove her to separate from Richard as they split up. As it turned out, Richard had picked the right way where she had blundered into a dead end. Backed into a corner, she was forced her to fight her way out.

At first, she used her rifle to whittle down the herd as it came for her, but it seemed as if for everyone she shot, two took its place. She burned through her first magazine quickly. She tried to space out the shots with her second and last one, but a surge of them, drawn in by her shooting, forced her to let loose.

That took down several zombies, but there were still a dozen or more after her as she stumbled over the bodies of their undead companions. It was like navigating over a slick mountainside only this mountain bled reddish-black blood and stank to the high heavens.

She ended up in a maze of offices, wandering around in the dark, fearing to use her flashlight because that would give away her position. After tripping three times, she finally flicked it on. When she did, she discovered a small group of zombies clumped together in a corner. At first, they didn’t react to her, but once the light fell on them, it was as if someone had turned on their power switch.

That’s when she knew she had stumbled upon a nest. She hadn’t seen one of these in quite a while. There were these occasions that the zombies shut down and drifted into a lower state of consciousness. (That is if they ever were truly conscious.) Whether this state was to conserve energy or for some other purpose, no one really knew.

All she knew was that she was trapped in a closed-in space with about fifteen zombies, and she was the sole source of their attention.

Between her hand-to-hand weapon, a length of metal pipe, and her pistol, she was able to fight her way through the first wave of them. Barely staving off panic, she took out four with headshots. When she tried a different direction to run, she found it blocked.

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