Chapter 180 - What could be inside it? (1/2)

Just them not minding us one bit gave me both relief and worry. Relief since they don't seem to care about anything that's happening outside the People's Park and worry since I'm not sure what they would be like given a few more days. I was having a debate with myself inside my head but then I just lifted the Tavor up as we're about to drive away. It's a few hundred meters before we leave that area and I decided to point my gun at them.

”Bro? I thought we-” Jared said but I started to fire a single shot.

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I pulled the trigger and one almost outside the edge dropped on the floor as part of its head has a hole in it. A spray of blood from the back of his head erupted as the bullet exited towards that direction. My aim is slowly getting higher and higher since I needed to be quick to gather information in the short time this moment passes. I'm shooting in almost a zigzag line, slowly creeping into the stadium while watching out if they would react to it or not. I wouldn't be able to identify the sprinters apart from the normal ones since we'll only know if it's them if they reached incredible speeds. The sentry on the other hand is more distinct than the ones we have here.

*psshew*

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A few more bullets flew out and I even asked the others with me to do the same. Kaley was quick on the uptake and she started to shoot towards the mass of zombies first. I opened a zipper from one of my pouches just to be ready and we all four finally started to take shots on the mass of zombies near the stadium. Several bodies started to drop from each shot we took and the bullet would sometimes kill a few more since almost all of them are very close to each other. Even if the bullets we are using are not armor penetration rounds, it still goes through them since only their rotting flesh is against a supersonic bullet that could go several thousand feet per second.

When I counted my 30th trigger pull, I changed magazines and started on shooting again. The spent casings are still falling inside the truck since we're all facing sideways and it is clanging as it hits the truck's flooring.

I'm waiting for them to react but they seem to be doing nothing. It was only a few seconds but it almost felt like several tens of minutes have already passed from it. Kaley and I were the only ones to shoot several rounds in that few seconds since Lois was slow to react and start shooting while Jared has a bolt action rifle.

”I think I'll give one of the AR-10s to Jared and make him stop using the M70.” I thought to myself.

We stopped shooting for a moment when we finally saw them move. I felt a sense of dread remembering what happened to the others who came to their territory but my gut feeling is telling me it's nothing to worry about, yet.

I thought they were about to charge towards us but they did something that is not what I was expecting. My hand is already on my pouch and my finger is on a metal ring but I never got to use it.

What happened was that a decent number of them started going inside the stadium while the other started to disperse away towards us from their original position. There's still a bit of noise coming from our guns even if they're suppressed, so some of the normal ones started to approach us even if they're a fair distance away. Lois made sure that none got close to our vehicles while Kaley kept on shooting towards them. Jared on the other hand is watching out for a sprinter pretending to be a normal one since he hasn't shot that much and he's scanning with his rifle around them.

The vehicles started to slow down when the people driving them heard us shooting but I radioed them to continue on and drive a bit faster. The People's Park and the City hall are now quite far from view and I changed the magazine to my last one.

”Add 90... no 102 from the total. Some of the bullets went through. It's 624 now.” I thought to myself.

”Bro, I thought we won't pick off a few from them?” Jared asked.

”Did you just wanted to get the jump on us?” Lois said.

”Hmm, no. I just don't want to leave here without learning a bit more from that. How far have you guys reached on that part of the stadium?” I said.

”Not so much. I just hovered them a fair distance in case a few tried to reach the drone. The windows are tinted and it is covered by the vinyl-like curtains so we can't see anything from the outside.” Lois replied.

”What could be inside it?” I thought to myself.