Chapter 176: 176
I halted what everyone was doing while we let the drones hover for a moment. Tatiana immediately radioed below to stop what they’re doing and get inside the supermarket for safety reasons. I made everyone crouch down from where we’re at and I peeked my head for the number of engine noises that is quickly approaching us.
It was five big bikes mounted by two people each and what followed them seems to be a huge truck that would travel long distances to deliver goods in a certain location. Looking at them, it seems to be some sort of convoy and judging from their getup, they don’t seem to be military.
I could barely see their faces clearly because of the distance but what surprised me is that they stopped in front of the People’s Park and a few more people started on coming out of the huge truck. I retrieved a scope from my bag to see better since my Tavor only has a red dot attached.
I looked into the lenses and they seem to be wearing excited faces. There’s a total of 23 people from their group and all of them are carrying melee weapons though I could see a few with hunting rifles of different kinds and shotguns of different kinds as well. I can’t seem to spot if they are also carrying handguns since they are wearing padded clothing and any semblance of a holster is nonexistent.
They approached the place without any sort of formation and then they started on clearing them in a rough manner. I felt a tap on my back and it was Jared who actually came up from below.
“The f.u.c.k are they doing?! Are they clearing them for us?” he whispered.
“Maybe. That place has a f.u.c.kton of supplies and if we ourselves manage to get our hands on it. It would be several times from what we could get from cleaning out this supermarket.” I replied.
“How about our mission then?” he asked again.
“As long as they don’t start on torching the place to the ground, it’s fine. There’s more places to look through and our main goal is to get the records from the servers. Who would think of that right now? They’re at least helping us a bit if they killed a small chunk of them.” I replied.
“You think that they could clear everything there by just them?” Lois chimed.
“Well yes, but actually, no. We never know but they seem confident. I hate their way in approaching it though. They don’t seem like a group when they move and it’s all a mess though it is getting the job done.” I said.
“How about our vehicles below? It’s half-full and no there’s still a lot to take here. What if they come here after?” Jared mentioned.
“Then we’ll see if they’re the good guys or not.” I replied.
We just kept on watching them while Lois piloted the drone to move away and to start heading to the City Hall which is next to the People’s Park. The group below is slowly clearing the few at the road first and slowly making their way to the fountain area. The bodies piled on the floor in different conditions and nothing serious happened yet.
Then something serious happened.
They’re making their way towards the two-story building and then in the corner of my eye, I saw something that made my skin crawl. It wasn’t just me but the others who saw the scene slowly unfold. The clump of rotting bodies trying to get into the stadium suddenly moved differently. Almost half of them slowly turned around in the direction of the people heading to the other building.
Through my eyes, it was almost in slow motion when I saw each one who turned around made a running stance as they first crouched for a short moment and they started on spilling out from the available passage just to reach that small group.
“Kid?! What the f.u.c.k?! We’re actually pl-” Matthew was about to say more but the shock overwhelmed him.
The wave of that mass of sprinters overwhelmed the group and the couple of shots that they fired wasn’t even enough to end their own lives just to make it quicker. They were now unrecognizable since I don’t know if they got trampled or was first gorged into pieces.
The people in my group wanted to fire a shot as well but they too understand the consequences if we attracted that to this place.
One of the people who remained to stand guard at their vehicle managed to pick up one of the bikes up and started to turn it around. He can’t seem to find his keys properly from the shock so he just jumped inside the truck that they brought to try it instead.
Suddenly, the mass of sprinters turned around once more but instead of going at full speed, they slowly walked towards that huge truck and all that happened after is a gunshot firing from the inside of that truck.
“F.u.c.k. He just offed himself.” Jared muttered.
You could see the blood spatter from the windshield and we all thought it was over.
The mass of zombies that are slowly approaching the truck stopped at the edge of the People’s Park just before leaving it and then it all slowly turned around and walked back towards the small stadium like nothing happened.
“What?” I thought to myself.
The only good thing that happened from that is I’ve managed to record the whole thing from my drone that is hovering above the huge building where the group was headed before they got decimated.
“The plan will change a whole lot if there’s hundreds of those things acting like that. I first thought they were all just normal ones. What I hate about it is they seemed to be more in control of their bodies. However, I think we just had an advantage if what we’ve witnessed earlier is real.” I thought to myself as I scratched my head.
“What are we gonna do now?” Kaley asked with a worried look.
“Just continue on. They seem to not mind the drones and we need to complete on mapping the whole place out. Jared, go down and tell the guys to continue on filling the truck up.” I said as Lois and I started to drive the drones again.
“Hey kid, I think you don’t understand that we’re basically trapped here!” Matthew bellowed.
“Not exactly, why do you think we have been to this place several times and those things on the other side of the road never attacked us?” I replied.
“Is the People’s Park… some sort of their territory then?” Kaley muttered.
“You saw that too then?” I asked her.
She nodded and then I showed the moment the zombies stopped at the edge of the People’s Park. They slowly approached it but none of them took the last step to leave the place.
“But how could we be sure?” Tatiana chimed.
“The only proof we got is this video and us still being alive on the few times we came here. It could be a different thing altogether but a lot of the plan is going to be changed. We need to prepare a lot more countermeasures against that if it ever happened to swarm towards us when we took everything from those places.” I replied.
“You still wanted to raid that place after that?!” Matthew exclaimed.
“If no one does, who will? If my theory is correct, I think that it’s only a matter of time before they increase their territory. If I’m wrong, we still need to rid the whole city of them one way or another. That horde is very different from what we faced before and managed to clear just by a few people. If we face this thing unprepared, we would be like those people there who breathed their last from going to a place that they’re unfamiliar with. That’s why we do this runs to ensure our survival from all of the information we would be gathering.” I explained to him calmly.
“Hah~ for starters we need to avoid facing them on equal ground. We need to be in higher ground like this building or in a fast-moving vehicle or an armored one that could take damage.” Matthew said a few ideas of his.
“Yeah, something like that. A few places to funnel them in and to divide a and conquer if they could actually step outside the place. The way their starting to show some semblance of intelligence worries me the most. It would get really hard but not impossible to complete our goals.” I replied while I hovered the drone around on the horde once more. They seem to be acting like the same earlier and they are now joined by the people that they killed earlier. The figures that are flattened out started to either stand up or crawl around the place randomly as they now became part of the dead.
I just had a solemn expression as I said to myself, “Thanks for giving us this information.”