Zombie Road: The Second Omnibus | Books 4-6 | Jessie+Scarlet by Simpson David A

Zombie Road: The Second Omnibus | Books 4-6 | Jessie+Scarlet by Simpson David A

Author:Simpson, David A. [Simpson, David A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Wise Pug Publishing
Published: 2021-04-04T04:00:00+00:00


72

Gunny

They were tired. Running on empty and exhausted from the constant chase. They’d only had a few hours of down time since the bullet hit the glass and they were worn out. They managed to have a big enough head start getting out of the desert to lose them in Quartzsite. There had been some close calls, a running gun battle for miles with a group of the Raiders that intercepted them on the backside of the mountain. There was the cat and mouse hunt among the thousands of shambling undead in the city as more and more raiders arrived to search for them. They slipped out a back road when Scratch yelled into the radio that he’d found them a few miles from where they actually were. The searchers took off in that direction and they ran, hoping no one would spot them and call it in. The trucks were shot up, glass was shattered and dash lights were lit up but they didn’t have time to find anything else.

There was another chase through the desert when a couple of outriders spotted them. A lucky shot blew out a tire and Hollywood nearly rolled near the Fisherman Intaglio. They’d been down to their last few rounds before the final raider took a bullet in the head. There was only one car hadn’t been shot up so bad that it would still run. More Raiders were on the way and the ones they killed had been nearly out of ammo, too. They had been biding their time, trying not to get shot and waiting for backup. All six of them piled into the only car with air in all the tires and nursed the wheezing Ford into Bouse. At a used car lot they took the best trucks they had, half of them battling the withered husks of undead in a hand to hand life and death struggle while the others found keys and cars with stick shifts to push start. Batteries were long dead, tires were low and the gas in the tanks was nearly a year old. If Scratch hadn’t found a can of starting fluid in the garage, they probably wouldn’t have been able to get any of them fired up. Once they had one going, the next one was easier, even if the airbag did go off when Bridget hit the bumper a little too hard when trying to push start it. The two trucks were running on fumes, of course. Gunny ran interference with the crew cab Chevy he was driving while Griz and Scratch sliced off a length of garden hose and started siphoning gas.

By the time they had topped off both tanks, the first of Casey’s scouting parties had arrived in the little town. They were on the radio instantly once they found the shot-up car and the dozens of zombies laying around in the car lot.

Gunny and Griz kept it slow and eased out of town on a blacktop road that wouldn’t kick up too much dust but it was only a few miles before it turned to dirt.



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