Chapter 50 The Oil Silos

Authors notes: getting a good way through the campaign now and we've already introduced two of the three new specials let's see if the spitter will make an appearance here or later on.

Zoey awoke some time later to see the men all chatting quietly and eating from some opened beef jerked, she yawned stretching and standing up, "how you feeling Zoey?" Louis asked noticing she was awake. "Well I don't hurt soo much anymore, so yeah guess I'm better" she said happily before scowling as Bill came into view, "so this is it huh, we just gonna run away to some island, 'so long world good luck with all the zombies'?" She asked as Bill scowled. "Damnit Zoey we trusted CEDA we trusted the military, and they left us to die, you think they will ever let us back in? We are on our own kid and it's high time you started acting like it" Bill said having had enough of people moaning about the plan. Zoey said nothing but reality was beginning to sink in, in all likeliness Bill was right, they would never be let back in by the military after what had happened, but she refused to give up on the human race not just yet. "Anyone know what this means?" Francis said looking at Japanese writing on the wall of the safe room, "ugh let's see here, 'Taki I love you goodbye'" Louis said surprising everyone that he knew that. "Damn, how do you say Bills an idiot in Japanese?" Francis asked, "Bill son backadus" Louis said, "nice" Francis said very much impressed by Louis for the first time in ages. "Shut your traps it's time to move out and remember we are looking for a sailboat" Bill finally said as he opened the safe room door and stepped outside.

Bill lead the way back outside where thankfully they had now past the truck that had previously blocked their way, "this way past the oil silos" he said blasting away the commons littering around the around. He turned the corner facing the oil silos he had mentioned when he recoiled in shock visibly disturbed by what he had just laid eyes on. "Holy shit..." he managed as the rest of the group laid eyes on what he had spotted, Zoey recoiled in utter horror being forced to turn away, before them was a sight unlike anything they had seen before. A corpse was on the ground in front of them, it's blood long since drained from its body in a large pool on the ground, but what was most horrifying was the amount of skeleton showing. It was as if something had melted the flesh and skin of the body and had left nothing but the bone, "what the hell could've done this?" Louis asked visibly shocked. "Something we are gonna have to kill" Bill said quietly as he walked past mutilated corpse and began to walk past the silos and through the oil storage area. The others were still for a moment before they knew the had to move on, "at least he's in a better place now" Louis said putting an arm around Zoey as he ushered her to keep going and not give up.

The group moved past the silos entering a small shack to the right, they were now unnerved, whatever had done that to that poor bastard was not known to them and it freaked them out just who or what could've done such a horrid thing to an innocent human being just trying to survive? Needless to say they were spoked checking all around them for any signs of anything dangerous. It in the wide open area there didn't appear to be any infected at all, they quickly came to a garage which they entered checking all around them carefully for anything that shot high molecular acid at them. Then a horrid noise found its way into their ears, it was like a hacking screech of some kind from somewhere nearby, "what the hell is that?" Zoey asked deeply concerned at the unnerving noise. Then the perpetrator revealed itself, a tall thin infected woman wearing little clothing emerged from round the corner of a abandoned truck in the garage, she had an extremely long thing neck and green liquid dropped form her horridly wide mouth. "What is that?!" Louis yelled as it shrieked at them before it made a horrid hacking sound, firing green liquid from its mouth in their direction, the fluid landing at Zoey's feet in a large puddle.

She yelled as the fluid burned away at her shoe, causing her to jump back in shock as the infected woman approached them hacking as she did so, "shoot it!" She screamed as Francis took his que and blasted a large hole through the infected stomach dropping it dead. The green fluid flowed from the woman's body and burnt away at her, "Jesus..." Louis said in shock as they huddled over the woman being sure not to touch the green acidic substance emanating form her. "So that's what killed that poor son of a bitch back there, an acid spitting infected" Bill remarked shocked, "is there anything that isn't totally unnerving out here, chargers, jockeys and now spitters" Louis said as Zoey was completely horrorstruck. "We have to keep moving the quicker we find the sailboat the sooner we can forget about all this horse hit" Bill said leading the way up a a flight of stairs beyond the garage that lead out the back to a storage area. "Come on people we have to go there's nothing we can do now" Bill shouted from upstairs as the group slowly followed him, the jumped from the building down into the storage area navigating past several left behind lorries.

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Further ahead along the road they came across another building, "this is where the road ends, to get past we have to go across the river, hopefully the water won't be too deep right now due to the tide being out" Bill said as he lead the way through the house. As Bill had said there was a river just beyond and in the river which was mostly dried up was a left behind boat, "hey bill here's a boat" Francis said as the man scowled, "no Francis it has to be a sail boat, besides this ones stuck where it is" bill replied as they began to navigate the river. "Over that ship" Louis said as he climbed up onto the boat, he looked down inside the boat, going to front cabin door, "wait here a sec I just wanna check if there's anything useful inside" Louis said opening the door although he soon wished that he hadn't done so. He screamed in pain as along claw slashed through his leg immediately drawing blood and causing him to jump back in shock, "holy shit, when I'm done set this god dean boat on fire!" He yelled slamming the cabin door shut and jumping off as Bill tossed a Molotov at the boat engulfing it in flames.

Louis cried as he crumpled to the floor in intense pain, holding his bleeding leg as he stared at the large open wound on it, the others looked in shock as they could screaming inside the boat the attacker burning to a crisp as the boat slowly sunk to the ground turning to ash. "What the hell was that up there?" Francis asked as Zoey tended to Louis's injury, "there was a god dan witch inside that boat" he yelled as they slowly backed away from the boat in terror thankfully it appeared she was stuck inside the burning boat. It was then that Bill frowned as he recognised the shape and outline of the boat going to the front he went wide eyed as he recognised the name on it, the Saint Lidia 2, the very same boat owned by the Slaters who had left them for dead back in Riverside. "Everything ok old man" Francis asked, "yeah, it's fine, let's go find our boat" he said, thankful they bastards got their just desserts from their actions...

End chapter

Authors notes: so I decided to include the fact that Louis got injured prior to the events of the passing in this story and this is how I chose to do it, with that said thanks for reading and I will see you all in the next one.

Goodbye