Chapter 8: CHAPTER 7

Ray

The car revved up as it gathered speed. Contrary to what he had heard about the ancient gas-guzzling vehicles, electric vehicles were mostly silent. Innovations in the last fifty years had led them from being a mildly inconveniencing and expensive mode of travel to the absolute norm. And the power they had available mirrored those developments.

The little car rocketed forward, hitting sixty miles an hour in less than six seconds. Two seconds after that Ray entered the overpass tunnel and plowed into his first zombie.

All hell broke loose.

“Ah shit!” he screamed, struggling to hold the vehicle straight as numerous undead bounced off the hood of the car. He blinked as one particular zombie somehow become attached to the windshield wiper. Even as the car slowed due to the dense pressing of bodies, he had the foresight to turn the windshield wipers on.

As the plastic pieces scraped back and forth, they hit the slavering undead’s face repeatedly. It silently clacked its teeth at him from the other side of the glass shield, as if asking him if that was really necessary. Deciding it was Ray jammed on the accelerator, pushing it all the way to the floor and cranking the wipers up to full speed. The fleshy slapping noise increased in tempo as the wipers couldn’t quite get to the other side of the windshield.

After almost forty full seconds inside the tunnel, and feeling like it was forty hours, Ray and his car burst out the other side and into the daylight. Trailing bodies, parts, and various bits of viscera, he was most surprised by the fact that the zombie still attached to his windshield ignited into a flaming creature out of hell itself.

The screeching that it made as it slowly burned to ash would haunt his darkest nightmares. These things may be undead or some approximation thereof, but they most assuredly still felt pain. The thing eventually stopped moving and crumbled completely into dust and bone fragments, sliding off the car. The entire escapade and crossing had taken less than two full minutes, yet would stay with Ray for life. Experiences were often like that. Over in moments, yet the consequences of choices being made were eternal.

Breathing hard, he stopped the car. Putting his forehead on the steering wheel he began to chuckle. That chuckle rapidly devolved into maniacal laughter as he struggled to control himself. The last hour and a half had just been fucking insane.

“Just fucking insane,” he repeated aloud. “Like some character in a novel being written by an asshole who has nothing better to do than make every character he comes across suffer. Fuck you. You’re a bitch,” he grumbled.

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Collecting himself, he saw the access road leading to the bridge. Driving along it, he noticed that there were more abandoned vehicles that he had to avoid here than he had encountered on the side streets so far in other places. Perhaps others had had the same idea as him. Perhaps some of them were even still alive? Who knew at this point? He could very well be the last person alive on Earth.

At long last, he came to the bridge on the other side of the industrial complex. However, it wasn’t what he was expecting.

Blocking the front of the bridge were fortified emplacements made of exocrete, a very strong concrete-like substance that was used by the military. The doors on the front of the structure had been knocked aside as if a large truck had struck it head-on. However, there was no sign of such a vehicle. Ray suddenly had a thought about those large, hulking shapes that he had seen during the parade of undead the previous night. Shuddering, he edged the car through the busted gates and onto the bridge. Then he encountered his second surprise.

It wasn’t a walking bridge or even a driving bridge. No, it was an old historical rail bridge. When trains were still widespread and used to transport goods across the nation, these bridges were built in thousands of locations across the nation. However with the advent of sub-orbital cargo ships trains had rapidly dwindled in use, eventually being relegated to the history books altogether.

Ray parked the car just on the other side of the gates, as the bridge itself was obstructed with large, concrete blocks that prevented vehicles from accessing the bridge itself.

“Stupidest design ever,” he grumbled, “Hey people! Here’s an escape route, but you have to fucking walk. Good luck!”

Getting out of the car he crossed through the barriers and began his trek across the bridge. The sun was directly above him at this point, signifying he had, at best, five to seven hours of daylight left. If he didn’t find a safe place before then he was fucked. Well … with this so call Nemesis Skinwalker after his hide he may be fucked anyway.

Just thinking about that disgusting creature made him grind his teeth. He would get vengeance for Josephine. He had made an oath, an oath that this System wouldn’t let him forget apparently. He just wondered if there were any penalties for failing. Like any of the old RPG games, he used to play.

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