Dead Meat: Day 6 by Nick Clausen

Author:Nick Clausen [Clausen, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

The first dead person appears within thirty seconds.

Dan is the one to spot him as he comes stumbling down the hillside.

It’s a heavy, bearded guy wearing a torn Hawaiian shirt. Someone chewed away one of his man boobs, revealing the ribcage underneath. His beard was once grey but now it’s red as the guy has obviously been busy eating other people.

The hill is a little too steep for someone with limited motor skills, and the guy is falling more than he’s walking. It doesn’t seem to bother him, though, as it gives him a very speedy decent.

“There’s one coming!” Dan shouts back at the others, forming a funnel around his mouth with his hands.

Both the truck and the helicopter are still running and he’s not sure either Sebastian or William hears him. Josefine is standing a little farther down road, and Nasira and Ali went in the other direction.

“I see one over here, too!” Josefine calls out. “No, wait—three of them!”

Dan looks in her direction and sees a zombie kid—not much older than ten—and two grown-ups coming down the hillside in the same tumbling fashion as the Hawaiian shirt guy.

Then Ozzy barks, and Dan turns his head to see another two dead people approach the helicopter from above.

There are too many, Dan thinks, and then William shouts something and points up the hill.

Dan looks up, shielding his eyes to see the hilltop. What he sees takes his breath away.

A literal army of zombies is streaming out over the top, like lemmings headed for the abyss, their figures silhouetted against the blue sky. There are men, woman, children, teens and seniors. They pay no attention to the steep drop, but simply roll, stumble or tumble downwards.

“Get back over here!”

William is flailing his arm and waving the rifle back and forth, his words just barely audible over the whooping of the helicopter.

Dan puts two fingers in his mouth and whistles sharply at Josefine. He didn’t need to, though, as she’s already running back this way.

Dan runs to the helicopter and sees Nasira and Ali coming from the other way. Lærke is tiptoeing next to Sebastian, who is operating the thick hose running from the truck to the helicopter’s trunk.

“What do we do?” William shouts, apparently addressing Sebastian while looking up at the dead people approaching.

“I still need three minutes!” Sebastian shouts over his shoulder. “Keep them back!”

“There are too many!” Josefine shouts as she joins them. “We need to get inside the helicopter!”

“We’ll never get off the ground!” Sebastian shouts. “You’ll draw them all right to us!”

“We already are by standing here!” William chimes in, looking close to panic now. “Look, they’re thirty seconds away! We either bolt or I start shooting!”

“Don’t!” Sebastian cries out, rounding on him. “Don’t shoot! You risk blowing us all to hell!”

“What do we do then?” Josefine shouts. “Somebody come up with something fast!”

No one seems to have any ideas. Dan realizes with a sinking feeling in his gut how unprepared they were going into this. They only had a plan for getting the fuel—not defending themselves against hundreds of zombies.

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