Wanderer (Book 1): Wanderer by Lincoln James

Author:Lincoln, James [Lincoln, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Infected
Published: 2020-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Entry 16

The world isn’t as inviting as it used to be. It takes us hours to move a few miles. Empty cars have littered the roadways, makes you wonder if there are any roads that aren’t littered with cars. The small spaces between these cars have filled with debris and plants. Mandy has no trouble bounding from car to car, but I have trouble making my way through, I’m not as limber as I used to be.

I see the occasional boarded up house which may or may not contain people and possibly help. It also might be a veritable death trap. I like to stick to places with easy exits that I know, like the hardware store.

We pass shops and markets and fast food restaurants. I never knew how bad I would miss a McDonald’s cheeseburger.

We stopped for a break and a small lunch, and I use that term loosely, under a tree across from the solar generating plant. The plant used huge satellite dishes plated with solar energy catching mirrors. The city got funding from the federal government to build the plant and it ended up being a huge money maker for the city as they were able to sell the energy generated to surrounding cities.

We didn’t get the power though because we were in the unincorporated part of town.

We finished our delicious lunch of beans and water. This was getting old, couldn’t the lightning have burnt more of the beans?

As I was packing up I noticed something wrong with the satellite dishes. When we had stopped it was about noon and the sun was over head and so were the satellite dishes. I didn’t think anything of it at first, but now that the sun had slipped further down to the west so did the satellite dishes, almost imperceptible, but they did. They were following the sun! How could they still be working?

I quickly shoved the rest of my gear back into the pack and hurdled over the empty shells of the cars towards the compound, leaving Mandy napping under the tree.

The compound had a huge wrought iron gate covered with a thick mesh blocking the entrance. Surrounding it was an eight foot tall block wall topped with razor wire.

I banged on the front gate shouting for somebody, anybody, giddy with anticipation. Usually in the movies people wander until they are on the brink of starvation before they are rescued, I’ve only been at it for about a day.

I banged again thinking that maybe they couldn’t hear me. I thought that anyone able to maintain these would be smart enough to occupy the underground facility that the engineers used to use. After a few minutes of no answer I decided to scale the wall.

It was hard climbing the wall. I remembered it being so easy as a kid. Looking over the top of the fence I could see the size of the compound. The satellites were arranged twelve long and twelve deep. Each satellite rose about thirty feet

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