Toy Soldiers (Book 5): Adaptation by Ford Devon C

Author:Ford, Devon C. [Ford, Devon C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies | Survival | Thriller
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2019-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Grewal mulled over the best delivery method for the serum. Chambers had shown him how all of the lab tests had been successful, in that the chunks of infected flesh cut from their subjects had all haemorrhaged their fluids to leave a gelatinous mess in the sealed dishes.

He had opened his mouth to say that the serum might work on necrotic flesh samples, but it couldn’t be certain to work on a live subject, before he shut his mouth, recalling that the subjects weren’t ‘live’ and were essentially also necrotic flesh. A thought hit him and he turned to find the man he needed.

“Sergeant Yates?” Yates looked up and pursed his lips at the annoying interruption to the nothing he was doing before. “Sergeant, what would be the best way to infect people with a virus? Militarily speaking, I mean.” Yates seemed to consider his question for a few beats before deciding to give him the sensible answer.

“I’m not sure I know about that,” he said carefully, “perhaps your CIA man could answer better. The scenario we most suspected the Russians would use against us was a liquid, spread through either a direct attack on our water sources, or an airburst device if the attack was overt.” He stared at Grewal, sighing when the man showed no obvious signs of having understood him. “A bomb,” he explained. “One that scatters the infectious substance in the air over a large area.”

Grewal tapped the tip of the pen he’d been holding against his teeth as he thought, surprising the few people close by when he launched himself from the seat he was occupying to march to the fridge and pull out a vial of clear liquid. Then he shrugged off the coat he was wearing to begin fighting his way into a hazardous material suit.

“Clear the room,” Yates barked, looking up to shoot a few hand signals at his people on duty behind the safe end of the machine gun, before climbing into a suit himself. Grewal said nothing, correctly assuming that the man wanted to keep a close eye on what he was doing.

Suited, he used his ungainly gloved hands to pour the contents of the vial into a contraption that resembled something a person would use to spray water on a plant. He approached the nearest cage, glancing at Yates with a look that seemed to convey a, ‘Here goes nothing’ attitude, and stepped closer to the cage to spray the zombie in the face twice. He sidestepped to the next cage and repeated the process before backing off.

Neither zombie showed any signs of having been affected by the light mist falling on its dead face and both continued to rage at the mesh which denied them the warm, fresh meat that came so tantalisingly close. Grewal stripped off the mask of his suit and turned to Yates with a smile. He saw that the sergeant had the heavy pistol still gripped in his right hand and was keeping one wary eye on the cages.

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