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As we made our way through the bush's towards the farm house Captain Oliver explained how they got there. They were on a mission for the Doc as he called him to a refugee camp not far from here. When they got there they didn't even land. It had already been overran with the dead and they decided to try and get back to a safe place. I wondered if that was the same place we ran through.
The helicopter that they were on had mechanical difficulties and the pilot had to ditch it on the far side of the farm house in a muddy field. Both the pilot and co-pilot died in the effort but the Doc, Oliver and seven of his men survived. They were told to sit tight until a rescue group could make it to them, so they set up a camp in the farm house. Whoever owned it left it well stocked but were no where in the area.
They lost contact with head quarters about three weeks ago and haven't been able to contact anyone since then. So they just stayed here. There were no running vehicles on the property they could use to get out of there unless they wanted to ride a tracker. And none of them were hot on the ideal of hoofing it out of there either.
They had plenty of ammo and equipment and with the house being well supplied they figured they could hold out for a while. The Doc was busy with a few experiments he had going in the hopes of finding a cure for the dead but oliver didn't have much hope of that. He figured the only cure would be a bullet to the head.
As we came out of the wooded area I heard Dominic swear and I turned around to see him raising his rifle up to the far side of the field we entered. I looked to where he was going with it and could see two walking dead coming our way about a hundred yards away.
Before he could fire though one of the solders knocked the rifle's barrel down and said "Don't bother!"
Dominic looked at him scathingly "What do you mean? Don't bother?" He pointed in the dead heads direction "You gonna let them just come up and take a bite out of us?"
Captain Oliver came up to him and put his hand on his shoulder. "I don't think you can make a head shot from this distance with that little pee shooter. And if you fired the noise would bring a lot more of them."
"So what are suppose to do let them come up and we fight them hand to hand?" Dominic said with a sneer.
Just them the lead zombies head disappeared in a red haze. It slowly fell to its knees and then tipped over to its side. A few seconds later the same happened to the other one.
Oliver smiled and said "No! Well let Kirby take care of them." He pointed to the farm house's second floor where we could see the barrel of a rifle pointing out from one of the bedrooms.
"I didn't hear anything?" I said allowed.
"And you won't. He's got a silencer on his snipper rifle." Oliver said and then waved to two of his men with us. " Corporeal Docker and privet Lyme go take care of the body's please." They nodded and took off after the two body's laying in the field.
"So......What are you going to do with them?" I asked.
Oliver started toward the farm house again. "Well see if the doc wants anything to do with them and if not well burn them to night."
I started after them a when Dominic came up to his side. "How do we know your military?" he asked.
Oliver stopped and looked at him. "Did you not notice our uniforms?"
"Ya! I noticed them. I also noticed that they didn't salute you either." He said hooking his thumb towards the two solders heading for the dead heads in the field.
The Captain looked a little perplexed and then said in a tone of voice of someone speaking to a person with out a lot of intelligence. "We don't salute outside of base. Its a habit we developed over the years so commanders don't become targets of snipers." He then turned back to the farm house and started to walk again.
Dominic scratched his head and started after him. I came up beside him and smiled "Does forest understand?"
He just hit me in the shoulder and smiled.
