章節 7: Infected

A few hours later it was nighttime at the cabin with both Damon and Cassie outside in the messed-up truck all geared and ready to go for their nightly supply run into the city as well as to gather information.

Both of them were wearing dark flannel shirts, black pants, black shoes, and blacked-out ballistic helmets with night vision.

Their weapons consisted of blacked-out Heckler & Koch MR223 A3 that were equipped with silencers and holo sights as well as flashlights just in case something went to shit and their night vision stopped working.

Each of them had a side arm, a knife, and extra ammo on their person. They also had black packs with water, food, med kits, binoculars, a map, a compass, extra ammo, and a few frags and flashbangs just in case.

Damon had already activated all of the property's defenses and if anyone tried to get into the cabin while they were gone they would most certainly die or walk away injured.

As of right now this was Damon's main base of operations and he really didnt want anything to happen to it quite yet.

They also decided to take the truck but hoped to come back with a different vehicle that could hold way more supplies and had a working windshield.

They had already busted out all of the lights on the truck so they weren't worried about getting spotted from a distance.

A while later they were a mile outside of the city and decided to park the truck on a tucked-away dirt road and walk the last mile to the city.

About 18 minutes later they were at the edge of the city and saw that it was completely dark with no electricity in most of the buildings unless they appeared to have backup generators.

But once they got closer they could see fire burning all throughout the city along with destroyed vehicles on fire and debris everywhere.

"This way." Damon motioned toward a small grocery building that seemed to appear mostly unscathed from the destruction with only a few busted-out windows.

They both slowly walked close to the walls before getting near the grocery store and going to the back of the building.

"Look," Cassie whispered and pointed to a box truck that was parked a few hundred feet from the store they were at.

"We can use that to put all of the supplies in. Let's clear this building first."

Cassie nodded before both of them went to the broken glass doors and they made a crunching noise as they stepped on the broken glass before making their way into the pitch-black grocery store but luckily, they had night vision.

Damon quickly assessed the dark open area in front of him before looking up and making sure nothing was above him before slowly moving toward the hall and looking down an isle.

Luckily the grocery wasn't super large and only the size of a gas station so they didn't have much area to clear.

Damon and Cassie were looking down an aisle when they heard a shuffling sound behind them making them instantly turn around to see a rotting corpse growling and stumbling toward them at a walking pace.

"An infected," Damon said while looking at the stumbling corpse through his night vision.

Wanting to get a better look he flipped up his night vision and flicked on the flashlight on his gun allowing him to see it better.

It had glazed over blue like eyes and its jaws snapped as if wanting to take a bite out of him.

Damon slung his rifle and took out his K-bar before knocking away the infected's arms and jamming his blade into its skull and yanking it out as the corpse dropped to the floor.

"So they can see us, and this one seemed to smell us or something as we weren't making much noise yet it found us," Damon said while looking at the rotting corpse.

The corpse wasn't that rotted but you could see some of the skin turning a different color and it kind of smelled weird.

"Look at that." Cassie crouched and pointed to a bite mark that could be seen on the back of the corpse's leg.

"It appears the bite mark had started the infection process as I don't see any other injury on the body unless they died by heart attack or something," Damon said while wiping off his blade on the corpse's clothes and re-buckling it.

"Let's test something," Damon said before making a tapping noise sound out through the building and waiting to see if any more infected came.

Lo and behold a minute later two more infected appeared on the isle and slowly shuffled toward them.

"So, they are definitely attracted to noise as well." Damon scratched his chin before pulling out his knife.

"You take the right one I got the left," Damon said before walking over and jamming his knife into the infected's temple with ease and yanking his blade out making a squelch noise.

Damon looked over at Cassie and saw her do the same and the corpse hit the ground with a thud.

"They are wea-"

Bang!

A loud crashing noise sounded out and Damon saw a fast infected run into the shelf at the end of the aisle sending tons of cans rolling onto the ground before growling and running toward him at a sprinting speed.

"What the fuck!" Damon quickly picked up his slung rifle and pointed it at the infected that was almost on him already.

Swi!

Damon shot multiple silenced shots into the sprinting infected before at the last second one bullet pierced his skull and the infected's body went flying into him sending him crashing into the ground.

"Ahh!" Damon heard Cassie scream and looked over to see her looking up at a nasty-looking infected with four spread-out long limbs that looked somewhat like a creepy spider as it clung to the roof before he saw it start falling toward Cassie who quickly raised her gun and sprayed automatic fire into it.

Swi! Swi! Swi!

Silenced bullets made a loud snapping noise that echoed throughout the building.

Damon watched the infected get shot multiple times in the body and head before its body made a loud thump as its dead body dropped to the floor and started leaking blood everywhere.

"Motherfuck." Damon groaned while pushing the dead infected body off of him and looking around for any more infected.

"You okay?" Damon asked Cassie who was also scanning the area.

"Yeah. You?" Cassie looked at Damon who had got practically run over.

"Yeah, just a little winded. That thing was fast." Damon said while taking a deep breath to calm himself.

"So, we got walkers, sprinters, and crawlers." Cassie pointed out the different types of infected they had already learned about.

"At least we know now," Damon said jokingly

"Fantastic." Cassie chuckled before they made sure the rest of the building was clear.

After they were sure the area was clear they went and hot-wired the box truck and pulled it over to the front of the store.

"Lets start loading the bottled water first and then cans and perishable food next." Damon said and they got to work filling the entire box truck full of water, food, and supplies while also keeping an eye out in case anyone or anything appeared.