28 In The Face Of Great Danger, Lies A Great Reward (1/2)

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”This..! What's happening!?” a group of five people taking shelter inside of the apartments in a five story building exclaimed as they woke up startled from those loud burst of gunfire along with a rumbling sound.

A young man wearing some kind of a school uniform immediately ran outside to the balcony of the apartment with the others immediately following behind him.

”Is the army here!?” a girl wearing the same uniform said excitedly as she looked at the light constantly appearing from the distance even though they really can't see what is happening from where they are. They just thought that maybe the army is here fighting the zombies just from the continuous gunfire that would only stop for a few seconds before continuing, sadly almost all of them didn't notice the flaw from their thoughts.

”No, I don't think so” the young man who came out earlier shook his head.

”Dylan, what are you talking about? Only the army would have that kind of firepower!” another girl suddenly interjected angrily raised her voice at him. After all, all of them just had their hopes up when suddenly someone tells you something like ”Don't get your hopes up”.

Before that young man, Dylan, was about to explain, another young man gestured him to stop and said ”Let me explain for them” Dylan did not object and nodded as he turned to face the direction of where the fight is coming from.

The two girls and a young kid, a boy who was just around 10 years looked at the guy. The young man felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at, cough and said ”As Dylan said, it's probably not the army. Listen carefully” he said as he gestured them to listen to the sound of someone wreaking havoc.

”What are we listening anyway, Mark? Isn't it obviously the sound of gunfire and some kind of cannon?” the young girl who first complained earlier said angrily.

”Oh Shirley, haven't you figured it out yet? Listen! The gunfire would stop for a bit then continuous again! From those, you can at least figure out that it's not the Army! If it was the Army, then it would at least produce different sounds of gunfire but right now I'm guessing it's just a Machine Gun being fired and something like an RPG. It means that it was a group of not less than ten people. One of them is holding a machine gun while the other guy is probably holding some kind of a rocket launcher while the rest are holding cold weapons, did you get enlightened yet?” Mark said with a bit of annoyance from just how dumb this girl is sometimes, even the 10 year old kid already had a look of realization from his face.

When Shirley heard his words, she suddenly burst into tears and said in between her sobs ”Then..d-does that mean..we're doomed to d-die here? We've already almost ran out of food!” the other girl also had bit of tears on her eyes as she hugged Shirley.

”Come on, don't lose hope. We'll look for food at the other apartments first thing in the morning” she tried to comfort her while patting her back and then she noticed that the kid went into one of the rooms dejected and she suddenly released a sighed of helplessness.

”B-but..B-but Ashley” Shirley stuttered.

”There's still hope” Dylan suddenly said as he faced them.

The others looked at him surprised even Shirley who was crying earlier immediately stopped and looked at Dylan with a bit of anticipation.

”As what you'd expect from someone of the Student Council” Mark said with a bit of hope.

”Whoever this group are, I have at least 60-70% sure that they are probably here to rescue a survivor like us just from the ruckus they are causing right now”

”How did you even get into that conclusion?” Ashley questioned.

Dylan looked at her and the rest before he carefully explained ”One, as you might have already guessed that these zombies are very sensitive to sound so with the ruckus they are doing they are practically attracting all zombies nearby towards giving us survivors an ample to chance to escape from here or even out of the city and lastly, if my deduction is right, the world is probably suffering this much like us with these chaos, you can already say that we're in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse, a fiction turned real. We've practically returned to the Dark Ages.”

”Wait! Are you somehow telling us that…” Ashley suddenly exclaimed in realization including Mark and Shirley.

”Mmmmp, No one would waste precious ammunition like them if they aren't here to rescue someone. If I were them I would just create a walled camped and hide there to at least avoid some of the chaos outside in the world” Dylan said and he stopped talking as he already conveyed what he wanted to say.

”You've already said a lot, are you perhaps telling us to take this chance and escape out of the city?” Mark said with arms crossed and without them noticing the kid from earlier already came back and listening intently from side but when he heard Mark saying about escaping, his face immediately turned gloomy.

”No”

”Then..?”

”I want us to escape towards where the gunfire is coming from” Dylan said something that sounded absurd.

””You're crazy!” Mark and the two girls yelled at the same time.

”No!” Dylan yelled back and looked at all of them with a determined face ”What I said might have sounded illogical to all of you”

”Because it is!” Shirley said.

”If we escape from the city, chances are we're gonna die on the road, it might not even from the Zombies but from those monsters instead” as those words just left Dylan's mouth, Shirley along with Ashley and Mark shuddered as they remembered something horrifying.