Chapter 49 The Brick Factory

Authors notes: chapter 49 let's go

The group had passed through several derailed trains and slide through the gaps and were now standing at what looked like the storage yard of a brick factory. "Past the bricks people" Bill said as there was 3 paths to take, one right, one left and one down the middle on top of the piles of bricks. Bill and Louis went right, Francis went left and Zoey climbed on top of the bricks slowly walking across, the laughter had stopped now but the group was still worried that whatever made it was still in the area. They past by several flaming and explosive barrels being sure to watch their fire as they advanced through, blasting away any commons that happened to be littered about. The group rejoined each other at the far end of the storage area, the path ahead was blocked by an abandoned lorry much to their frustration. "Well have to bypass this truck by going through the brick factory" Bill said looking left to see into a large room inside the factory where the floor was covered in rocks, "let's get moving" Francis said leading the way into the large room which was littered with infected.

He wasted no time gunning down anything stupid enough to charge at him as he lead the way through the dark room, pushing up to the far right where he could see a way ahead across the back of the room up by a track area where bricks were transported. He then paused as the rest of the team past by him, the laughing returned very close to them this time, "what the hell is making that noise?" Louis asked deeply concerned as Francis looked all around the room they were in seeing nothin gout of the ordinary. He then slowly turned to a ventilation shaft right next to him that was pitch black trying desperately to look inside as he sparked to shine his flashlight into it. He screamed in terror as something rather small leapt out of the vent and onto his back laughing maniacally as he began to steer him away from the others back towards the other infected littered about. He yelled out in shock, "get this thing off of me!" He cried out as other infected began to chase towards him attracted by all the noise, the others looked back in shock to see the small infected leading Francis towards the others, Bill fired a small brush nail in the small infected right in its hump shaped back causing it to dislodge from the biker and fall to the ground.

Francis grunted as he shot away the commons that were rushing him before turning around sharply infuriated and kicking the corpse of the small infected that had latched onto to his back. "What the hell is this!?" He said frustrated as the rest of the team came over shocked and hiding their laughter, "had a good ride back there Francis?" Bill said causing laughter from the other two members of the group. Bill was shocked as the man marched right up to him leaning dangerously close, "never speak of this again unless you wanna be picking your teeth up off of the floor" he said his voice low and dangerous as he marched off. The group was shocked at the mans sudden anger and simply left the scene still shocked at what they had just seen, "that thing was riding his like a jockey riding a horse" Louis said surprised at his adapt description of the infected they had just seen attacking Francis. "A jockey huh, we'll needless to say I don't want one of those things on my back anytime soon" Bill said as he followed Francis along the tracks that transported the bricks through the factory. The group coming up to a large open room spotting a familiar symbol spray painted on the wall nearby, "there's a safe room in here somewhere" Francis Sadi quietly as he went up stairs into a small room and across the roof of the buildings around them. Spotting the safe room by a working generator at the far end of the room, "it's over here" he said again shooting away any commons as he pushed ahead Louis joining him. Bill nodded to Zoey who followed him around the back of the buildings helping the old man clear out ya commons that were in the area.

He cried out as something slashed him in the back knocking him down to the floor, Zoey looked back in shock as a hooded figure stood above Bill screaming in fury as he jumped forward and landed on her raising its sharp claws to strike. Before it could however bill and exploded its head violently with a precise shot from his magnum, the barrel of the weapon smoking slightly as he put the weapon back in its holster and helped the young girl:to her feet. "You ok kid?" He asked, "yeah I'm fine" she said quietly still slightly annoyed at the old man for leaving those people back at Millhaven, they both took a minute to look at the hunter which looked much different then the ones they had seen before. "Jesus now these bastards are mutating again" he said concerned, the hunter itself was larger than ones they had seen in the north, it's clothes were ripped from its elbows and knees exposing boiled scaled skin that was deep brown in colour, but the most shocking factor of this hunter was the extra long claws that's ere longer than the ones of other hunters they had seen before. "You guys ok?" Louis said running over worried by all the noises he had heard, "yeah come on let's get in that safe room" he said walking through the middle of the buildings seeing Francis swatting by the safe room door. "Took you old farts long enough get your asses in here" he said walking inside causing a grunt of annoyance from Bill, once they were all in Zoey closed the door slumping down to the floor and grunting in pain as Louis handed her some more pain pills.

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"So out here we have chargers and jockeys as well as mutated smokers and hunters, you still think coming out here was the best plan Bill?" Francis asked, "Francis as soon as we find the boat we can get off the mainland and leave all this shit behind for good" he responded. Zoey had fallen asleep in the corner, Louis sitting with the other 2 men listening to their conversation, "even if everything does go back to normal I don't think we gonna be let back in" Louis said agreeing with Bill after the events of the Millhaven base and the fact they were carriers meant they weren't likely to be accepted back in by the military any time soon. "We're gonna find that sailboat right around the corner you just watch" Louis said happily, "Louis if you don't stop being positive I'm gonna sink the boat just to make you sad" Francis said. "Thinking positive got me where I am Francis" he said again, "about to die in a brick factory, cus I'm about to do that to and I got to complain about shit the whole time" Francis said causing Bill to scowl. "No one else is going to die, you get that, no one... not on my watch" Bill said as the two other men looked at him surprised but chose to say nothing and instead looked away, "we'll rest here for a couple of hours and then move out" he finished as there was then silence from that point onwards...

End chapter

Authors notes: the story will soon be coming to an end however the sacrifice won't be the end of it as there is a few more things I would like to do after the events of the sacrifice so be sure to stick around. Thanks for reading and I will see you all in the next one.

Goodbye