Z-Minus (Book 4) by Briar Perrin

Author:Briar, Perrin [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2016-03-16T04:00:00+00:00

Z-MINUS: 5 hours 51 minutes

The forest was at peace, living out its days as if there was nothing outside its tiny sphere. For the present moment, Mark supposed there was nothing wrong with this supposition, though he doubted it was going to last long that way.

Deafening silence.

Mark crouched. His team listened, turning their heads side to side. It was the third time they’d stopped to listen, and each time, the birds had begun to sing again, and the world returned to its regular course. Something felt off, or perhaps it was just the mysterious events of earlier that put them on edge.

Mark sighed. Another false alarm. He shouldn’t be so jumpy. It was what his father wanted. He shifted his body weight to stand. A hand pressed him on the back, keeping him down. John had a finger to his lips. Then he pointed with it.

Crunch.

Close by.

And then another crunch, this time from the right.

Mark froze, not moving a muscle. He watched, open eyed as pairs of ragged shoes and scuffed boots shuffled past. The figures had scorch marks over their fingers and arms. He couldn’t make out their faces without turning his head, but he could smell singed hair, and a listlessness that came from hours of boredom. Whoever these actors were, they were good.

Some wore the same costumes as the guy who captured Jacob. Others wore uniforms. There had to be hundreds of them. They ambled past, slow and fumbling. Mark realized then why they hadn’t run into more patrols. When the opposition had these roaming eyes and ears combing the area, why waste valuable resources?

One of the figures tripped on a protruding tree root and fell over. His head hit the ground. He hissed, like a coiled snake having missed its target.

The figure’s face was haggard and torn, a whole new level of detail to the one Alfred had worn. It was like comparing the design and quality of a low-budget TV drama versus a high-budget Hollywood blockbuster. There was no comparison. The guy’s cheeks were hollow and torn, his flesh hanging from his features like it couldn’t wait to fall off. And his eyes…

His eyes…

The figure grumbled to himself, got to his feet unsteadily, and then continued on his way. Another figure bumped into a tree, and kept walking into it until she managed to work her way around.

These guys really stay in character.

Finally, the last few stragglers of the group passed. Mark and his team didn’t breathe or move again until they had all gone, fading into the foliage behind them like they’d never existed.

Mark, John and Daoud got to their feet.

“They aren’t messing around, are they?” John said. “They got the crème de la crème for this training exercise.”

“If you’re going to do something right, you might as well do it properly,” Mark said, though he was distracted.

“Why, during a post-apocalyptic event, would the enemy try to stop us from helping them?” Daoud said.

“Maybe they won’t know we’re there to help, numb nuts,” John said.

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