Z-Day (Book 4): Places Beyond The Wild [Anthology] by Humphreys Daniel

Author:Humphreys, Daniel [Humphreys, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Silver Empire
Published: 2019-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

The maddening part of the hunt for supplies was how close everything was. They were maybe two miles from downtown. Detours and the need to hide from intermittent biters doubled the length and reduced his pace to a crawl. Strangely enough, once he neared the Smart & Final where he used to do most of his shopping, none of the biters seemed to be anywhere in sight. Where did they all go?

The streets were eerily empty, devoid of life or unlife, and someone out there had picked these stores pretty clean of anything edible. It was no wonder. Ventura had a pretty sizable population, and the greater Los Angeles area had how many million people?

Not very many now. He walked down the streets in the open, more relaxed after his first night sleeping out away from the pier. He should have brought someone with him as a backup, but it wasn’t like the pier could afford to send anyone else. Louie may have been right. He’d gone out in haste.

Damn his hunger for a burrito.

Nick turned a corner and spotted a trio of staggering figures at the end of the street. Had they been the ones who had gotten to the stores first?

He raised his binoculars.

The people had the gray streaks on their skin—the identifying marker that meant they weren’t human at all, but biters.

In the middle of the street, without cover, Nick froze.

Stupid. How could he have let his guard slip like this? Not a mistake he’d make again.

He tried to back around the corner, but the creatures spotted him and headed his way.

He was just far enough out where he couldn’t run back to the pier—not to mention the fact that it wouldn’t be a good idea to lead a bunch of these things there anyway. Louie’s crew had already gotten rid of most of their problems and bringing more wouldn’t be looked upon kindly by Louie and the others.

He had to solve his own problems.

Nick steadied the 9mm Beretta he’d ‘borrowed’ when Louie wasn’t looking. No one back at the pier had extra rifles save for the old Marine, and he wasn’t sharing. Damn California and its gun laws.

It didn’t matter. He had what he had.

The biters moved toward him in a methodical fashion. Slow and steady won the race. Three of them, one of him. He had a couple of pockets full of ammunition, ten in his magazine and one in the chamber. Breathe easy, hold arms out straight, and get headshots. How hard could it be?

Nick took refuge behind a car, hoping it would put enough of a barrier between him and the biters to slow them down. Pistols didn’t have the best range. He’d have to wait until they came close, a fact which unsettled his stomach.

Unlike the movies, these creatures didn’t look like the rotted-flesh zombies Nick might have expected. They could have been regular people save for the gray marks and their eyes. Their clothes were a little more tattered, but they could have passed for hobos before the outbreak.

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