British Zombie Breakout (Book 4) by Salisbury Peter

Author:Salisbury, Peter [Salisbury, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: zombie virus, horror, postapocalyptic, zombie, adventure, Zombies, sf, scifi
Publisher: Peter Salisbury
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10: Vantage Point

The teens in the tower, as they later became known in Sarah's book, had to fend for themselves all day. There was nowhere else to go, so they ended up sleeping in their clothes on the sofas, having made do with the coordinator's packed lunch and drinks from the machine. Luckily the vending machine didn't require either coins or tokens because otherwise the pair would have soon run out.

'As we're going to be here for a while, we might as well see what there is,' Steve said.

Together they looked around the desk tops for anything edible or useful for self-defence purposes. In terms of the latter, there was nothing more useful than a plastic ruler. When the desk tops yielded nothing, other than piles of neat folders and paperwork, they started opening all the drawers. It all looked like more boring paper-work, until the last drawer they came to. It contained two chocolate bars.

'Do you think they'll mind?' Alex said, reaching in and taking them out.

Steve grinned. 'It's an emergency.'

They ate one between them immediately and saved the other until later. As the munched, they wandered around the big, circular room. There wasn't much: four sofas spaced around under the windows; a collection of four desks and the communication equipment in the centre; two pairs of binoculars on the window sill, copies of two different newspapers from the day before, and the drinks dispenser.

Steve picked up one of the pairs of binoculars, focussed and swept them over the woodlands.

'I can see them. They're all being called back to the camp.'

Alex looked out and saw several dozen men and women in camo gear stream out of the woods past the base of the tower carrying a range of field operations equipment. Less than an hour later, they heard another zombie scream and two hours after that, the first Breathedeep transport wagon arrived to take away the white-coated woman and three sedated soldiers.

Over thirty more screaming zombie cases erupted before nightfall. Alex again followed the Breathedeep transports arriving at intervals to take away the affected individuals, all of whom were heavily sedated within minutes of being captured. Other than when people were carried about on stretchers, the whole pace of the camp had really hotted up. Instead of people walking around in an orderly manner, everyone was running.

'Doesn't seem terribly latent to me,' Steve said. 'They look like they're heading for being full-blown zombies.'

Alex sighed. 'Give them another couple of days and they will be. I just hope they can find some way to treat them.'

'It's worse than before.' Steve said. 'It doesn't seem to need the conventional means of transmission, it just appears spontaneously out of nowhere.’

'They must already have the virus inside them.'

'Just think if this wasn't happening in an army camp, it would be all over the news by now.'

'How do we know it isn't? How do we even know it's not happening everywhere else?'

They tried to retune the radio equipment to pick up broadcast news or music stations.

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