The Tide: Salvage (Tide Series Book 3) by Anthony J Melchiorri
Author:Anthony J Melchiorri [Melchiorri, Anthony J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: medical science, genetic engineering fiction, zombies
Publisher: Thunderbird Media
Published: 2016-03-29T18:30:00+00:00
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Kent Island, Maryland
Stars sparkled in the almost cloudless sky. They were brighter than Midshipman Rachel Kaufman had ever seen. The outbreak had ruined civilization as she knew it, taking with it the light pollution that had once prevented such a brilliant view.
But the beauty of the galaxy was hardly at the forefront of her mind.
She climbed over a wall of sandbags and past a line of empty cars. Moonlight streamed over the bridge. The pavement was littered with the bodies of Skulls, broken and surrounded by pools of fresh blood. The corpses were the aftermath of yet another battle she and Kent Island’s Defensive Forces had won. The KIDF had originally been organized by a police sergeant during the early days of the Oni Agent outbreak. Sergeant Joseph Reinhart’s quick thinking had preserved Kent Island’s safety along with thousands of people living on Maryland’s largest island.
Only the US 50 bridge led to the island. With the western side already blown out by an air force strike, the KIDF had set up a defensive wall and rotating watches to patrol the east side. But each battle against the Skulls left piles of bodies. If they allowed them to continue stacking up, then the creatures could more easily climb over the defensive barriers.
Rachel had barely survived the Naval Academy when she had led her fellow midshipmen in the defense of civilians sheltering there. Since then, she’d served multiple shifts at the defensive wall here with other KIDF members. She’d brought down her fair share of Skulls. But her least favorite part of surviving the apocalypse was the cleanup.
“Help me with this one,” she said to Rory Booker, another midshipman from the Academy.
The first-year scuttled over. His boyish face turned a pale shade of green. “They smell awful.”
“Then hold your breath,” Rachel said as she wrapped her gloved fingers around the wrist of a Skull.
Rory lifted its ankles, and they dragged the creature to a pickup and hoisted it into the truck’s bed. Other KIDF members loaded up more corpses until the bed was full. The truck drove its load to the dump point. The process would repeat itself all night until the bodies were all piled together at the far end of the bridge. There, a few KIDF members would set the corpses on fire and let the flames devour the Oni Agent-riddled bodies.
“Why can’t we just toss ‘em over the side?” Rory asked.
“Are you kidding? This close to the island?” Rachel huffed. “That’s the last thing we need. Some little kid on a beach scratches himself on one and turns into a Skull. Yeah, that’d be great.”
Rachel and Rory hefted another body into the idling truck. After they threw the body in, Rory wiped a streak of sweat from his forehead. “I’d rather be shooting them than carrying them.”
“You got that right.” Rachel adjusted the strap on her MP5 and slung it around her back again. She hadn’t let the weapon out of her sight since the Naval Academy. It had served her well, and she was proud to defend the survivors on Kent Island with it.
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