Trying to Survive (Part 1) by C.J. Crowley

Author:C.J. Crowley [Crowley, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2016-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

As I drove past the fifth gas station on my way to check out I-95, yet another new problem presented itself. I glanced down at the fuel gauge to see that it was nearing a quarter of a tank... Even if we can use the highway, we would still have to fuel up eventually.

Almost every gas station I’ve ever been to had a large roof covering all the pumps so people could get gas during a storm. At first, when I wasn’t seeing the vast numbers of infected people that I’d prepared myself for, I took it as evidence suggesting my calculations were wrong. Then I discovered where most of them were.

There were hundreds of them gathered at each of the gas stations around town, using the large roofs over the pumps to stay out of the boiling sun. The rest were inside the convenience stores, huddled together and just waiting for night to fall so they could hunt.

Getting gas or even a map was going to require the use of our distraction technique. We needed a lot of time because one of us would have to figure out how to access the gas on the spot – if that was even possible.

When I began to approach the main part of town, I found myself having to avoid a lot more abandoned and wrecked cars. Many of the infected were staying off to the sides of the road near the trees, and the others sought out shade anywhere there could. Almost every building I passed show signs of being breached.

As the local hardware store came into sight, it gave me a new and much safer idea. I took my foot off the gas and rolled down the window so I could see if it was safe to go inside. My plan was to get some rubber hosing so we could siphon gas from the cars scattered around the Vet’s office.

The double glass doors were broken out, and the one on the right was hanging wide open. Once I got a little closer and was able to see inside, I was greeted by a pack of the infected standing around the completely trashed store.

I was starting to realize that we wouldn’t be able to get inside any of the stores unless we did it at night. If we tried during the day, I doubt they’d all come out. The ones near the back of the store probably wouldn’t even react until the sun was down.

Fuck… this is looking worse by the minute, and we really need a new car. This one’s old as shit and the other one is about to fall apart from running over so many of those damn things…

As I continued on, I began to notice that almost all of the cars had something in common. Whether they were just sitting there, part of a wreck or crashed against a tree – the doors were just hanging open... And I couldn’t imagine why anyone would just stop in the middle of the road and get out of their car at a time like this.

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