Toy Soldiers (Book 6): Annihilation by Ford Devon C

Author:Ford, Devon C. [Ford, Devon C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies | Survival | Thriller
Published: 2020-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Wolff sat in the room sipping coffee and waiting for what the Americans were calling his debrief. The coffee was weak and barely above room temperature but somehow, he felt that asking for a hot cup of adult strength wouldn’t be appreciated. An agent, a man who hadn’t even offered his name when the interrogation masked as a debrief began, sat before him with his collar undone and tie loosened. He looked exhausted and drawn, kept going by cigarettes and weak coffee alone.

“So, tell us once more, Captain, this… development… You think one of the infected subjects was giving orders to other infected?”

“Yes.”

“But,” another man said, bigger and more in control than the other, “the thing we don’t understand is how that’s possible. We’ve seen no indication of any cognitive ability, let alone displaying anything coming even close to communication.”

Wolff, back straight and manners impeccable when compared to the boorish men sitting opposite him, felt a hint of a snap in his temper.

“How many of the infected have you personally encountered, Agent?”

The man’s eyes bulged a little and a vein throbbed on his forehead, but he said nothing. Wolff controlled his own features effortlessly, having woken from a short sleep among the men of the US Navy’s special operations feeling remarkably refreshed, and regarded the walking epitome of stress attempting to bend the conversation to benefit his own agenda.

“As I have said,” Wolff went on, “the new kind of… infected, acts very differently to how the others are doing. It is both faster and stronger than them and appears to make the… how do you say, decisions?”

“So it’s what your guys were calling a Lima, right?”

“Not just this,” Wolff said patiently as though talking to a child. “These types are different again to the Limas. They make sounds like the dogs and the Limas move as if under their orders.”

The less stressed of the agents rubbed his brow with the hand holding the cigarette and not the Styrofoam cup of coffee.

“So it’s like a Lima, only it barks like a dog?”

“And this is telling the others what to be doing, yes.”

The agents looked at one another, something unsaid passing between them, before their attention returned to Wolff.

“Anything else you can tell us about them?”

“I have only closely had encounters with one,” he said carefully, “but it was clear to me that it – he – was only recently infected and I know this from the cleanliness of his uniform.”

“Uniform?”

“Yes. He was an officer of the British army, I believe.”

Both agents said nothing, exchanging another look but this time openly conveying a lack of other questions to ask.

“If there is nothing else,” Wolff asked, standing, “am I permitted to return to my quarters? I have had very little in sleep since…”

“Of course, Captain, of course. We’ll find you if we need to speak with you again.”

Wolff drew himself to attention and lightly clapped his heels together, showing the respect due to a senior officer but without the rigidity he would demonstrate if he knew for certain that man was indeed senior to him.

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