Zombie Road II: Bloodbath on the Blacktop by David Simpson

Author:David Simpson [Simpson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

No one said a thing as Gunny came up alone and closed the door behind him.

“Find anything good?” he asked when he saw them gathered around the forced open weapons locker.

“Nothing special.” Griz said. “Some ammo and a few shotguns. Mossberg’s and revolvers. But they’re Smith and Wesson and we’ve got a lot of new people joining us.”

“I think I saw a gun shop down the block, let’s keep clearing. We’ve still got a lot to do.” he said and they went back out to the street where Bastille was videotaping and interviewing the former prisoners.

“Hey!” Griz yelled at him. “Get them some food out of my truck then radio back for the SS sisters to come take a look at them.”

“Eat slow, boys.” Gunny told them as they walked up. “Dutch, you know the drill, right? Keep these guys alive. I’m sure you Leathernecks had some survival training. It wasn’t all coloring books and crayons was it?”

Dutch grinned at him, nodded and gave a mock salute from where he was sitting on the trailer, still weak and shaky.

“Yeah. Don’t want to die now of a busted stomach or biochemical imbalance.” he said, enjoying the sun and being out of his cage. “I paid attention in class when I wasn’t eating the glue.”

“Headshots are the only thing that will put them down,” Lars said as they laid the small cache of guns and ammo on the lowboy. “But the cab of the truck is safe if you happen to see a bunch of them.”

The men were still in awe of the bloody carnage on the steps of the courthouse. A few of them looked like they could have thrown up, that’s if there had been anything in their shrunken bellies to be able to do so.

“We’re going to keep clearing,” Gunny said. “Stay here on the street. Our medics will be here in few minutes. Don’t go in any of the houses, we’ve got teams all over taking out the trash. You might get yourselves shot.”

With that, they headed over to the next building in line, a three-story brick that held law offices.

There were few surprises the rest of the day, mostly just drudge work of going room to room, checking closets and basements. They came across a few zombies and drug them out to the street once they’d been dispatched so the cleanup crew could load them onto Griz’s lowboy in the morning. It was strange going through peoples’ private places, seeing how others lived, and in some cases, how they died. They’d all been to others houses in the past, of course. Friends and family. But other than maybe your closest buddies, whose house did you really know? Whose house had you been in every room, knew what was behind every door? Seen the private areas that weren't necessarily secret but were off limits simply out of respect?

They came across an older couple in the apartment above the café that had killed themselves. They were in bed, holding hands, both with gunshots to the head.

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