Mad Max 2] Mad Max 2 [The Road Warrior] by Carl Ruhen

Author:Carl Ruhen [Ruhen, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0725511834
Publisher: QB Books
Published: 1982-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The night is heavy, very black, as Max moves silently out of the camp, squeezing out through a hole in the wall, then taking the pole with the four jerrycans of gasolene secured to it. He hoists it up over his shoulders. His boots have been wrapped in rags. Soundlessly, with the dog at his heels, he moves off across the bridge of wrecks that had been put there by the Mohawk bikers the previous day. From the camp, he is watched until he is swallowed by the darkness.

The heavy load on his shoulders is weighing him down as he steps up out of the ditch. He is well out of range now of the searchlights that rake the wilderness from the compound. Ahead of him, some distance away, the marauders’ campfires flicker against the night sky. Cautiously, Max moves close to them over the uneven ground. Laughter and shouting drift across the dark treacherous space that separates Max from the nearest of the fires.

It seems to take an age, creeping across the rough ground, with the weight of the cans pressing him down, before he reaches the first of the fires, which he then begins to skirt, keeping well into the shadows. In the red dancing gleam of the firelight, he can see one of the victims strung up to a beam by his wrists which have been tied behind his back. So he is suspended there, in great pain, moaning incomprehensibly, while the drunken marauders taunt him, prod him. Close by to him, a Mohawk biker has his arms around two camp followers, fondling them. A Gayboy Berserker hones his knife on a whetstone, spitting on it, and rubbing the knife back and forth on the stone.

Suddenly, as Max inches forward, his foot comes down, and there is nothing beneath it. He trips and stumbles, and as he pitches forward into an erosion ditch, the jerrycans clang together. Hearing the sound, the Gayboy Berserker stops honing, and listens attentively, the knife held at the ready. Standing beside Max, the dog’s upper lip draws back over its teeth in a silent snarl as the Gayboy Berserker lifts himself from his haunches and moves out to the edge of the camp, his eyes searching the darkness. He moves closer to where Max is lying in the ditch.

Then, abruptly, from close behind Max, there is a loud and sharp barking sound. Max looks up and sees the feral kid squatting on a rabbit warren, his head back, barking then howling like a wild dog. On the other side of the ditch, with the light of the campfire behind him, the Gayboy Berserker mutters a curse, then picking up a stone, throws it in the direction from where the barking had come. With another curse, he turns and stomps back into the circle of firelight. The feral kid beckons Max to follow him.

The kid is moving in and out of the darkness in front of him, Max and the dog make

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