39 Getting Ready for a Roadtrip (1/2)

- Sunset Island #3, Miami South Beach -

Jay immediately picked up his phone and dialed their mom.

”The customer you are trying to reach is unavailable at this moment, please try again lat-”

”F*ck! She's not picking up!”

Upon seeing how terrifying those mutant zombies were and how badly their coastal guard military base had fallen, they immediately began to be concerned about their mom.

”Mom said earlier that she's fortifying in her gunshop with a couple of her veteran friends. They had a lot of guns and ammo in there, we need to go find her!”

The group knew that the difficulty of zombie waves vary depending on the amount of firepower that is detected in the area, and who knows if the gun shop had enough firepower to trigger the mutant zombies to spawn in that area.

After seeing how frightening those things were in combat, they knew that odds won't be on their Mom's side if those things were to attack her gun shop.

The gun shop is just a two-story building on the side of the road with a roof that can be accessed from the second floor. The first- and second-floor windows have metal fences buried inside the glass and the doors are also reinforced. On top of that, there is a large shutter door that covers the entire first-floor storefront.

If Mom and her friends and colleagues hold their ground on the roof and take out zombies with suppressed fire, it may be easier for them to survive by laying low and wait until the zombies wander somewhere else, since it would be difficult for the zombies to break in or climb up.

However, with the introduction of mutants, the risk significantly increased, as A-Class Giant mutants might be able to destroy the blockades or even the entire building, A-Class Hunter mutants may jump onto the roof, and the A-Class Strangler mutants could pull people off the roof with its tongue.

Now, their Mom wasn't even picking up the phone, and that got the group incredibly worried.

”It's an hour drive from here, should we go?” Alex asked.

”When's Wave #4 coming?” Jay asked.

The app's home page updated and showed that the next wave is coming at 9 AM on the next day.

”It's almost 4 o'clock right now, we have more than enough time. I think we should at least go and check, what about you guys?” Jay proposed.

”Yeah, dead or alive, I want to know.”

”Alright, let's start packing!” Alex and Christian immediately agreed.

”I'm in. We can also get a lot of supplies from there and bring Mom back to our place. Her gunshop is on one of the main streets in Homestead so it's a lot harder to defend, especially with a giant military base not far east from her,” Elon was on board as well.

Looking at the map, the group began devising a travel plan.

Jay: ”Okay, so normally, the drive is about 1 hour south, but that's on a normal day without congestion.”