Chapter 8: Launch Base
Riding a motorcycle through the city’s lesser-used roads and highways, Rick quickly moved away from the city center, avoiding most of the traffic caused by the many vehicles stopped on the streets. And when he arrived at the launch base, the sight he saw was of a complete disaster. Thousands of zombies surrounded the place from all sides, part of the huge metal fence had already fallen, and all that remained intact were a few buildings in the surroundings and the aircraft launch site itself.
On top of this, military personnel continued to fire their firearms at the top of some watchtowers and other high places, while a flock of at least 200 mutant birds that looked like crows attacked the military and broke glass windows in suicide attacks, trying to enter the buildings.
If there was any doubt before, now Rick was certain. Something had changed, and the apocalypse was very different from before. The number of dead people that came from the Satellite Cities to the base, the flock of crows that shouldn’t even exist in this region, and the several zombies with red eyes in the middle of the horde. All of this caused the base that would last a few weeks to be destroyed on the first day.
His thoughts turned to his house, which was in a more isolated village and far from the satellite cities. Before, his family had been fine for the first week, but what now?
Forget spending the night in this place, he had to go in, fulfill his mission, and get out even faster. The military’s shots would continue to attract the dead from all of the more than 18 nearby Satellite Cities, turning this base into a dead zone...
Parking his motorcycle far from the base, Rick put it in his inventory, gripped his axe tightly, and started to make his way through the dead that were invading the base around the broken fence.
With precise and powerful blows, zombies were cut in half from the waist, others lost their heads or limbs, and powerful kicks knocked the dead out of their way. Survival points rose constantly through the notifications in Rick’s vision, increasing their numbers generously:
[Obtained survival points x1]
[Obtained survival points x3]