The Wall: Book ten of Beyond These Walls: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Michael Robertson

Author:Michael Robertson [Robertson, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Apocalyptic
Published: 2021-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“You sure we can trust him with a gun?” Olga pointed at the skinny translator with her own.

“Yeah,” Artan said. “He worked for them, but he isn’t one of them. He had no choice.”

The translator stared at the ground while they spoke. A naughty child awaiting the punishment of their parents.

Nick filled the doorway in the steel wall between the two rooms. He leaned against the frame for support. How the hell were they supposed to get out with him in tow? But they had to try. Max had died because Olga had failed him. She couldn’t let the same happen to Nick. Whatever it took, they’d walk away from this. Even if she had to sacrifice herself to make it happen.

Green-uniformed soldiers swarmed the stairs leading up all four sides of the pyramid. They only had one door leading in and out of the room. Olga passed Nick and ran to it, the bulletproof glass her shield. She leaned against it, close to the door. Hawk joined her.

There were about fifteen to twenty soldiers on each side of the pyramid. Several of them fired warning shots against the glass. The vibrations of the impact shook through Olga, and the bullets left black scuff-marks against the transparent barrier.

An almost full magazine, Olga continued to use the glass wall as a shield, opened the door, and poked her gun out. She held the heavy weapon with one hand and pulled the trigger. The recoil gave it a life of its own. She shot the sky and the ground twice as many times as she shot in the soldiers’ direction, but she finally caught one. A young teenager dressed in a uniform that didn’t fit, his left arm snapped away from his body, he dropped his gun, and he fell sideways down the steel pyramid’s steps.

Olga pulled back into the safety of the room. “They’re just kids.”

“Kids who are trying to kill us,” Hawk said. “We have to fight back. We’ve got to take down another sixty to eighty of the bastards.”

Olga nodded. Hawk had a point. She ripped the empty magazine free and discarded it on the concrete floor. Hawk passed her a new one, which she slotted in, slapping the bottom so it connected with a crack! She pointed the gun outside the room and shot again.

“I think I know why they’ve sent kids,” Artan said. He stood close to Nick and the translator, his gun raised, his eyes wild. “We saw a whole load of soldiers on their way to Dout. We think they were going there to take control of it tonight. They must have left the reserves behind to defend the place.”

“Shit!” Olga pointed her gun from the door.

“That isn’t a good thing?” Artan shared a glance with Nick. “I assumed that would make our lives easier.”

Matilda stood on the other side of the room, tracking the soldiers approaching them. She shouted across, “That’s where William and Gracie have gone.”

“They’re not at the cottage?” Artan said.

The clatter of Olga’s firing gun made her ears ring.

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