Infection: Alaskan Undead Apocalypse by Schubert Sean

Author:Schubert, Sean [Schubert, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: end of the world, night of the living dead, world war z, max brooks, Zombies, living dead, 28 days later, armageddon, apocalypse
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2012-01-28T05:00:00+00:00

Part Three

Chapter 27

Settled and comfortable enough to talk for a moment, the survivors in the boarded up house sat together in the living room. At first, the only sound was a collective sigh of relief. The room was filled with questions, though no one spoke. They looked at one another, not knowing where or how to begin.

Meghan broke the stalemate. She asked quite simply, “What is going on out there?”

Everyone’s eyes looked from one to the other until all eyes were looking at Jerry. He didn’t like this one bit. He wasn’t accustomed to being the guy with the answers. Besides, he wasn’t entirely sure that his answer was the right one. What happened if what he thought he knew was actually wrong? And even if he wasn’t wrong, could he believe it either? He was thinking those exact thoughts when he began to speak.

“You all’ve got to understand that I’m no authority on...well, on anything really. I’m a high school drop out who went back to school to get my GED and some training so that I could get a job. That’s all. I don’t have a degree in nothin’. I’m just a Nurse’s Aide.

“I don’t know a lot, but what I do know is movies, video games, books, and music.” Neil thought to himself that he could tell already that he liked this kid. That list of interests just secured the deal. Neil was also fairly certain that the “kid” wasn’t the dullard that he was painting himself to be though. Jerry may have lacked confidence, but he wasn’t intellectually impaired.

Jerry continued, “I think what we may be dealing with out there are zombies.”

Kim, leaning against the wall, stood upright and asked, “You mean, those monsters that gotta eat brains and walk around like this?” and she did an imitation that more resembled Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s Monster as she moaned “Brains.”

“No, not like that at all. If it’s easier to believe, just think of them as people that are infected with a deadly and very infectious disease. Only, the infection in these people kills their sense of restraint, of morality, of family, of right and wrong. These people are completely and utterly incurable.

“Oh yeah, and the disease, it makes them impervious to pain. You can shoot ‘em. You can stab ‘em. You can burn ‘em. You can cut ‘em in half. You can run ‘em down with your car. You can do just about anything you can think of and it won’t stop them. They might get knocked down or slowed somewhat, but don’t be fooled, there’s only one way to bring them down.”

Tony asked, “Is this where you tell us that the only way to kill them is to put a bullet in their heads and then burn their bodies under a full moon?”

“The first part of that is right anyway. The only way to put them down permanently is destroy the brain. Severe blunt trauma, like a hammer to the head, would work, but it may take more than one whack and you may not have that kind of time.

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