The Siege (Final Dawn) (Volume 4) by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781500159054
Amazon: 1500159050
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

The cameras only took two days to replace. They now had the capability to see anyone approaching, from any direction, day or night, for up to three hundred yards.

“Ain’t no way anyone’s getting in here without getting spotted.” Mark remarked.

John was a bit more skeptical.

“Don’t get too excited, my friend. Knowing they’re coming is a good thing. But we still have to repel them.”

Moving the eighteen wheeler from the highway in front of the truck stop to block the road to the compound was a bit more of an effort. There was so much gunk settled in the bottom of the fuel tanks that it kept clogging the fuel filters.

Brad finally drilled holes in the bottoms of the tanks to drain them. Then he plugged them with chewing gum and added just enough clean fuel to get them the few miles they needed to go.

When he got to the road leading to the compound, he pulled over to the shoulder to block its access. Then he got out of the rig, raised the hood, and put orange warning triangles behind the truck.

“What can we do to make sure nobody does the same thing we did, and just hotwire it to move it out of the way?”

“Trust me,” Brad said. “When I’m done with this, they won’t even be able to drag it out of the way.

Brad crawled underneath the trailer and cut the air lines. Without compressed air the brakes would not release. The trailer was instantly turned into a forty ton paperweight.

But he wasn’t done yet. He cut the lines to the tractor as well. Then he drained the oil from the engine and removed the chewing gun from the fuel tanks to let what was left of the diesel pour onto the ground.

“I doubt the EPA will be coming around to fine us,” he told John. “If they even exist, I imagine they’ve got better things to worry about.”

They were just finishing up and getting ready to walk back to the compound when David’s warning came over the radio.

“Vehicle approaching on Highway 83, westbound. It’ll be at your location in about a minute or so.”

The pair took refuge in heavy shrubs, weapons at the ready, in case it was the attack they’d been waiting for.

But it was just an old man in a pickup truck full of boxes. Apparently food and supplies he’d looted from one of the trailers at the truck stop.

He passed them by without even slowing down, and from what John could see didn’t even give their disabled truck a second glance.

It occurred to John that there were still families out there struggling to find food to survive. Most of the wildlife population was still decimated, so there wasn’t much meat to hunt.

He figured that there was a new type of hunting now. Hunting through abandoned trucks and supermarkets looking for whatever food was still edible after seven long years.

And he wondered how long it would be before the world returned to the way it once was.

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