Zombie Survival: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller by King James

Author:King, James [King, James]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2017-03-04T07:00:00+00:00

NINE

Ted looked at Dave and Dave looked at Ted. Shaun and Jenny were also silent, their faces intent and peering, heads cocked, listening. Silence reigned in the bedroom, save for the sound of moaning issuing from below, and the sound of Ted’s blood, crashing in his own ears.

And that other sound.

Distant but approaching.

Far off, but none the less there.

The low, buzzing, thrumming sound of an engine...

“No...” said Dave quietly, a slow smile spreading over his face.

“Man, is that...” Shaun began, before trailing off, as though he was unwilling to finish the sentence that he’d started, as though the hope that it would entail would be almost too much to bear.

“It’s far away,” said Jenny, almost as though she were speaking to herself, trying to rationalise what she was hearing, to vocalise the sheer impossibility of it, “...but I think it’s approaching. Oh God, Ted, it is a...”

But again she tailed off as though, like Shaun, she didn’t want to speak of a hope that would almost certainly prove to be illusory.

“Oh God...” Dave suddenly chortled, “...oh God – you only put that sign out less than five minutes ago, Ted, and already... oh God it must have magic powers. Nice going, Ted, nice going!” and Dave balled his right hand into a fist and punched it into the cup of his left hand, the sound sharp and violent in the confines of the bedroom.

“Calm down Dave...” said Jenny, her voice strained, hope tearing at the edges of it, “we don’t know...”

“Yeah, just calm down Dave man,” Shaun chimed in, “I mean, we don’t know do we... we don’t know...”

Ted sensed the hysteria mounting between the three young people, but he ignored it. There was nothing that he could do about it now – or at least, there was nothing that he felt inclined to do about it now. Instead he turned from them, and turned back to the open window, where the sign still fluttered like some forlorn banner of surrender. He stepped up to the window and, doing as best he could to ignore the stench of death, and to ignore the macabre crowds that still surged against the walls, he stuck his head through the window, and listened.

Yes – there it was. The unmistakable sound of an engine. It sounded high, light, buzzing – and he was almost certain that it was coming from the sky. A plane then – or a helicopter. What could it be – police, military, some kind of emergency service aircraft? No – surely that would be hoping for too much. Surely things weren’t going to be resolved so easily. But even if it wasn’t a services aircraft, it was some kind of aircraft, there was somebody out there in the world other than these dead creatures, and just maybe they would see their sign, and just maybe they would act upon it. It was the slenderest of hopes – but that was better than no hope at all.

The sound of the engine became louder yet.

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