Zombie World by Rick Wood

Author:Rick Wood [Wood, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rick Wood Publishing

Chapter Twenty-Eight

A few heavy steps and the slamming of the basement door preceded Gus’s entry to the kitchen.

“How’s it going?” Desert asked. “You best friends yet?”

At first, Gus ignored the comment. Then he decided he wasn’t prepared to take any grief from her, and he launched a glass that she quickly dodged and watched smash into the wall behind her.

“Jesus!” she said.

“Baby steps,” Gus grunted, taking a few swigs of water.

“Look, Gus, I–”

“If the next words out of your mouth are another taunt or argument or any kind of bullshit then keep them.”

“It wasn’t, I was just going to say–”

“Oh my god,” Whizzo declared, interrupting both of them. He quickly began sifting through the rest of the paper, finding lists of drugs.

“What?” Gus asked.

“This is it. This is what they created. They used the infection, but they are better – this is what it was meant for. Sadie was the beginning, she…”

Whizzo trailed off. Looked through a few more sheets of paper.

“And there’s this countdown I keep coming back to, for a few days’ time. I just don’t get what it means.”

“Let me ask you a question,” Gus said. “Is there anything about his daughter in there? Records of her being lost in London?”

“Yeah, actually, I think there is.”

Whizzo sorted through another few pages and found it.

“Details of a mission statement. Gus Harvey and Donny Jevon going to London to rescue his daughter. Laney.” He looked to Gus. “I thought she wasn’t his daughter?”

“She wasn’t. He just wanted a record of his daughter supposedly being in London when it was bombed.”

“Who bombed it?” Whizzo asked, then realised he’d read something about this, and sifted eagerly through a few more pages.

“Some of his allies.”

“Here it is,” Whizzo said. “China, France, among a few – but it doesn’t say they were allies. It records their bombing of London as an attack.”

“No, no – London was quarantined, and they wanted to get rid of all the infected that were in there. He arranged for the bombs to go off and I had two days to get his daughter before the allies destroyed it. Well, his fake daughter.”

“So why would it say here that they attacked if he asked for them to do it?”

The question hung on the air like potent stench. Gus and Whizzo looked confused, but Desert had a different expression. One of horrified realisation. Like the truth was finally settling.

“What?” Gus asked.

“What is it?” Whizzo said.

“Eugene Squire…” Desert said, trying to find the words. “He wanted the record of his daughter being in London when they bombed it so it could look personal, so there was record of the bombing. But there’s no record of the allegiance, just…”

She trailed off, her face twisting between expressions of confusion and understanding.

“What are you onto?” Whizzo prompted.

“I think I know what the army is for,” Desert announced.

“What? What is it for?”

“Eugene wanted to create an image that London was attacked so that he could have an excuse to retaliate.”

“To retaliate?”

“Yes. He’s going to invade.

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