Stage 3_Bravo by Ken Stark

Author:Ken Stark [Stark, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Zombies
Publisher: Ken Stark
Published: 2018-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XV

It wasn't a horrible plan on the face of it.

After an hour of everyone offering their own input here and there, Hansen fully involved this time, it was actually raised to the level of almost shitty-ass. And an hour after that, after a whole lot of tweaking and massaging, wholesale destruction and rebuilding from the ground up, it attained the lofty heights of barely acceptable. But with no other choice and their backs against the wall, barely acceptable was the best they could hope for.

And yet, there was apparently one last sticking point.

“I am so sick of hearing about that damn book! Can you please tell me what's so important about a goddamn book?”

This was Hansen, back to his normal level of snark and still harping on that one point that'd wedged in his craw since the beginning.

“You have a problem with books?” Addison feigned concern. “If it makes you feel any better, Chief Wiggum, some are bound to have pictures.”

As Hansen boiled, Inez spoke up as the voice of reason. “Books are mankind's way of handing down knowledge, Gary. Everything we've learned in the past five thousand years has been written down, so we don't have to learn it again. Wouldn't it be a good thing to have some of those thousands of years of knowledge to dip into?”

Not surprisingly, Christopher backed his mothers’ play. “We can't be scavengers forever. Stuff'll run out, right? Even canned food goes bad eventually. There'll come a time when we'll have to know a lot just to keep going. I mean, does anyone here know how to farm? How to dig a well? How to refine gasoline? How to weave cloth?”

“How to hot-wire a car?” Richie threw Mason's way, with a little side-grin.

“How to make bullets?” Alejandra added, effectively wiping the grin away.

“They're right, Daddy,” Becks agreed, but her father dismissed it all with a snort.

“That's years away, sweetheart. When that day comes, we won't have to risk our lives trying to grab a few books on the run. When we really need them, we'll be able to waltz into any library in any city and just take what we need.”

“Are you sure of that?” Mason asked him, pointedly.

“Of course! It's just common sense, isn't it? When a pack of wolves kills off all of their prey, they starve. It's as simple as that. Eventually, your so-called 'alphas' will run out of food, and that's it! No more food, no more alphas.”

“Just a whole lot more echoes,” Richie said, grimly.

Again, Hansen snorted the matter away. “They'll die off too. Eventually.”

“Didn't they do that already?” Beverly hushed from the sidelines.

Sarah leaned as far forward as the slumbering Mackenzie in her lap would allow, and looked Hansen square in the eye.

“The fact is, Gary, apart from the obvious, we know nothing about this virus or how it affects the human body. We don't have the slightest idea how it alters the brain chemistry of those in stage 2, and we can't even begin to guess what it does to reanimate a corpse in stage 3.

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