32 Armored Truck (2/2)
”Seems like it's empty again. Do we go in?”, Jun asked.
This is the third house on their itinerary. The first two houses they first went into were also empty. On the way here, they never met any infected which made their search unexpectedly quick and safe.
”Let's move into the next house. This place should be empty too.”
”This place seems strange. I don't wanna stay here any longer.”
”Okay, then. Let's go.”
As they walked, they finally noticed what was strange in this place.
It was empty!
There's no infected inside the house or outside roaming the streets. There were no bodies to be seen!
The area shows that the place once belong to the living but something tragic happened. There were bloodstains everywhere and cracks filled the road.
After searching the last two houses on their list, they unfortunately hax to return empty handed.
They chatted as they traveled back from where they came from, when suddenly, the ground trembled followed by a loud noise, as if something was being repeatedly pounded.
A weak vibration came from the western side of the subdivision. Jun and the two fellows beside him looked at each other.
Adrian chose to speak first.
”Its either an infected or someone armed with something ”good”. We can check it out and leave if we can't handle it. At least, we got to see what they look like. You must know your enemy to win the war, right?”
”This lord isn't a coward. I just hope the energy in this mortal body is enough to negate the strikes from whatever that is.”, Edward said.
Edward was a college freshman, a young man barely in his twenty's. He lived a normal life and was content with it. His exposure to violence is lacking compared to Jun and Adrian, who both had dark pasts, but to be able to adapt in a violent environment and to become someone capable of fighting face to face with infecteds, he had no choice but to force himself to change.
Jun finally made a decision after balancing the pros and cons. He brought the two and followed the pounding sounds coming from the west.
When they got closer, they finally saw what was causing the loud noise.
They watched a two meter tall, muscular infected continously struck the back door of an armored truck.
The infecteds hands were starting to turn into jelly as the flesh swelled and become covered with blood.
Although it couldn't do damage on the thick door, the infected still continued hammering on the door.
Edward curiously said, ”Is it knocking?”
His comment garnered a ridiculing frown from Adrian, then Adrian explained the possible cause for the infecteds action.
”Based from our experiences, just like any other infected, there should be something that it wants from inside that truck.”
Edward said, ”Something that devil's minion want? You mean... someone's trapped there?”, he then muttered. ”Poor guy... or girl.”
As the two finished talking, they noticed that Jun was being unusually quiet. When they turned their heads, they saw him extremely anxious while staring at the infected's direction.
Jun's expression worsened which surprised both of them. Adrian and Edward couldn't help but think that Jun was scared of this unique infected.
As if to prove the two of them wrong, Jun stood up and openly walked towards the infected.
They came from the back and should have been able to sneak towards its back, if they chose to do so. but all that was now gone. The chance to escape would be slim if they get noticed by that muscle infected.
A black vortex appeared and followed beside Jun as he walked. Then he shoved his right arm in and pulled something out.
A shotgun was now on his hand.