chapter 27
Chapter 4. Lambert Drive (12)
“You, do you have any frustrations or anything like that?”
Perhaps it was because she was so frightened, even Cassandra withdrew her hand in the end.
“It was just for explanation. Talk about hunger. Are you more hungry than usual? The more you eat, the more you want to eat. No? Have you ever felt uncomfortable?”
Under Cassandra’s large breasts, the “Disease and Crisis Management Agency” Emblem fluttered in a distorted shape.
“Uh uh, right. It was. The more I ate, the more hungry I became. Why are you doing that?”
“First. Get out of the human non-reserve. Symptoms lessen a lot when you leave the area. If you don’t eat, you’ll still feel hungry.”
“Again?”
“Second, you have to distinguish real hunger from fake hunger. Even if your stomach whines about being hungry, it could be a lie. Eat regularly at set times and take in a well-balanced diet. Why are you looking at me like that?”
“… No, it’s surprisingly normal. If you’re hungry, you eat a lot, I thought it would be something like that.”
This is an amazing story. What is real hunger and fake hunger? This was a story I heard from the PT instructor when I was adjusting my diet to build a body, but to hear it again.
“Cassandra never lies. And the last one is the most important. It has something to do with you too.”
Turn the handle. The end of Lambert is in sight. It’s time to get out of this long, winding, bowel-like neighborhood. If you just drill through that corner in a straight line, you can now go out into the wasteland… Still, they say he’s a doctor, but he seems to know a lot, even if it’s true or not.
“Really? What?”
“Third.”
Ugh!
A police car pulled out from the alley ahead and drifted away. I stopped the car in the middle of the road and a fat, bloody man tumbled out. A bottle in one hand and a bottle in the other. 357 Revolver. The revolver muzzle flashes.
“Keep your head down!”
I flipped the seat back. Hard! And the driver’s seat was tilted back. It’s like suddenly lying down. Bang! And punches a hole in the windshield. Cracked in the shape of a butterfly. “Kyaaak!” Cassandra also falls on top of me.
“Hold tight!”
Her left arm was wrapped around her body. Something sticky was a bit ominous, but I couldn’t afford to look. Bang! Bang! More holes in the windshield. I pressed the accelerator pedal hard while lying down. The van charges forward with a whooshing sound.
Boom! I didn’t run into a police car by a narrow margin. Instead, I took the idiot standing with the gun.
* * * * *
The head of Lambert’s police department. Leader of the gang. He is a man who met a tragic ruin for the sin of loving several women. Above all, a man who loved an unfamiliar place as his hometown. That’s what his man thought of himself.
The end will come someday, I thought. I knew deep in my heart. That one day you will pay the penalty. But he never thought it would look like this. It was better than expected.
“This is Lambert, whom I love. I keep my love.”
I saw a black van. In the back, there is a fire truck gushing water mixed with tear gas. Looking at it like this, it looked like a whale.
“Now, the whale that destroys all but does not conquer! Let’s compete, let’s compete!”
A man dreaming of revenge ran forward, shooting a revolver. A black van approaches like fate. It crashes into the man with a thud.
The man wanted to see the face of death. He sees the face of his punisher.
But there is no face. He is the only one who hugs a woman in the driver’s seat and poses strangely. No matter how you look at it, that’s how it is.
“… Oh, sorry. I should try that too… I can’t imagine… Young these days, what are things! Cool.”
With a broken and twisted neck, the man muttered.
“Woe to you.”
The man chuckled.
“Woe to you. Those who live on the earth get angry… “
In my ears, I hear the Valkyries singing that they are taking warriors to the sky. With eyes drenched in blood, I saw twelve angels crossing the sky.
And then, the man died. Although she couldn’t close her eyes, she could smile.
* * * * *
“Ah. Ouch. It hurts. Cassandra hurts.”
Cassandra cries.
She stopped the car once. Lying on her back, she carefully turned Cassandra’s body. “Ah!” Her bullets do miss, but her range is so wide that she bleeds quite a bit. It’s embarrassing. No matter how many names she has, how will she take care of her back?
A gunshot was heard from the fire truck behind. She pierced the fat man’s forehead.
『Cash Transport Vehicle! Cash transport vehicle! Right? Are you seriously hurt? If you can hear me, press and hold the klaxon!』
I tried to put my hand on her steering wheel, but Cassandra grabbed her arm.
“Ah. No. Let’s just go.”
“You have a big wound. I can’t heal.”
“Don’t throw it away. Please please It’s okay, so please don’t throw it away. Hey, this can get better soon. Please listen to Cassandra!”
She is a woman who should not be spoken of.
“Sorry.”
She raised the sheet. She held Cassandra’s chest with her left hand. Because she can’t hold her back. “Ughhh!” Meanwhile, she pressed her horn with her right hand.
An announcement came from the fire truck asking if there was a doctor, they would assist the car in front of her. She looked in the side mirror. People wearing the same jumpers as Cassandra came out.
All of her were handcuffed on one of her wrists. Coincidentally, they were familiar faces. They were acquainted with each other in the apple warehouse… ….
“Cassandra. I cannot take you.”
First of all, those humans are doctors. I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like to be caught by angry doctors. Cassandra closed her eyes. She didn’t stop her tears from flowing.
“… Don’t eat Cybele’s food as much as possible.”
“What?”
“If you must eat it, mix it with something else. Stir-fry, bake or boil. Do not eat raw or reheat a can. Pour some water and boil it.”
The doctors are almost at hand. I grabbed the driver’s door and waited.
“Why?”
“Because at Cybele… “
I opened the door with a jerk.
“Oh my gosh!” One of the doctors hit by the door was knocked over. “What, what is it?” He flipped Cassandra over to the staggering doctors. A pile of humans collapsed.
“Cassandra, be healthy!”
I stepped on the accelerator pedal with the door open. I stepped too hard. The ignition went off.
“Uh.”
It’s as embarrassing as running into a friend at a bus stop, saying hello to your home.
“No, no, please! For a moment!”
Cassandra slashed the doctors with her fists who were trying to capture her. Seeing her beaten and swollen again, she is a vicious woman after all.
But I also see the bleeding on her back getting bigger. Even if it is said that there is no danger to life right now, it cannot be taken away. My fellow doctors will treat me well.
Brrr. Started the car Although she was rattled, she managed to get along.
Turn around the corner. The village exit was visible. I could see the sandstorm blowing towards Lambert from beyond the exit. The gang members who left Lambert are returning.
As expected. It’s such a trick to form an encirclement at the exit and eat it.
Hold the brakes, reload the M4 and rifle bullets. The bulletproof windshield, which was broken and tattered, was pushed away with the butt plate. That, pouring inside makes me more dangerous. It’s better not to have
Mount the gun. Waiting.
“Come.”
Turn the high beams on and off and wait. Even Buddha and Jesus Muhammad would be very angry if they were hit by high beams. So, provocation is not the only thing that has been done.
I heard the sound of music.
It’s a tune I know. Valkyrie’s Journey. But it’s strange. Why can’t I hear the music I checked to see if the radio was turned on just in case, but there was no such thing.
Sound. Sound. Something mixes with the music. It sounds familiar. Helicopter propeller sound.
* * * * *
Fire trucks are taller than cash transport vehicles, and liberation members have binoculars or scopes. Thanks to this, they were able to grasp the situation ahead better than John.
“Sister Camilla. I hope that… ?”
The front bikes and cars were all in poor condition. I wondered if it was because they were the ones who had fought hard in Lambert and withdrew, but there was something more.
Face and attitude.
It wasn’t the guys who died and killed while laughing. I look behind me with a frightened expression. I even saw a rider who fell forward after looking back. An oncoming vehicle stomps on the downed motorcycle and rider and just passes by.
‘There is something behind the gang.’
Camilla trembled. She recalled the wriggling horizon she had seen from the factory chimneys. The height is lower than the dust generated when a car passes by, but the density is higher and it is denser.
Like the dust produced when people drag their feet through a wasteland.
The ominous music sounds louder. In the dust cloud behind the gang, dots like flying flies sprout one by one. The dots soon become elongated rods, which then turn into twisted and twisted lines.
It’s a zombie. No. It was a wave of zombies. Zombies spread out wide enough to fill the horizon, drooling in hunger, running like dogs that have seen their prey.
The identity of the vibration was the footsteps of zombies. Hundreds? Thousands? There is no way to know how much. It is only certain that there are enough to shake the ground.
“Uh, sister. Sister. This….”
“What the hell is this, Zombie Horde?”
“Where are so many zombies… !”
The answer fell from the sky.
The red liquid dripped onto the window with a patter. It was to the point where I couldn’t see very well.
“… Blood?”
I activated the wipers, but they only rattled because they were blocked by bulletproof plates. It was to the point where I wanted to use the tear gas sprayed out.
Through the flowing blood, I could see something floating in the air. A human figure was visible in the rectangular iron net cage. A naked and bleeding person, and a zombie with a broken neck and rotting skin.
A person’s whole body is covered in blood. I had a fit, a fit of fuss, and tried to back off. The zombie seems to be trying to eat the living bleeding person somehow, but she only scratched the window frame as if something was blocking it.
Because of that, the cage swayed and swayed like a pendulum. Every time it was shaken, the leaning got worse. People splattered blood all over the place, and tantalized zombies became even more impatient.
Her man’s face was clearly visible.
“Hut?!”
Camilla was startled and dropped her binoculars. It was. The human who struggled to survive was Huth.
“Hut? What is Hut? … Damn right That Hut… Hut is right.”
A thick wire ran on top of the cage. Camilla glanced up. It was hard to see because it was covered in blood, but it exposed my belly, so it was an irrelevant problem.
Helicopter. It was a helicopter belonging to the Elza Army Air Corps. Armed helicopters, nicknamed ‘Huey’, carrying miniguns and rocket pods on both sides, plus infantry.
Twelve helicopters flew past them. It sounded like an ominous prelude, as the creepy tune blended into the rotors of the helicopter.
The helicopters lined up in a crescent shape. The central part protrudes forward, and both ends are drooped back. The helicopters fired their miniguns in unison.
Like when you slam a fat mosquito, the gang car blows up.
The rider who exploded along with the bike was on the lucky side. Some of the members were thrown out of the vehicle when it overturned. Hungry zombies pounced on them, wielding a pitchfork. I was rather grateful that the sand and dust had covered the horrors.
Unable to go forward or backward, the bike gang tried to scatter to the sides. The try was definitely good. Until the helicopter moves like a glide. The minigun fire stopped, but there were riflemen and men armed with grenade launchers in the helicopters.
The car hit by a grenade turned over. A rider who had been shot in the back fell. The helicopter, which maintained the shape of a crescent moon, stopped for a moment over the heads of the zombies. Zombies were seen jumping as if dripping blood were holy water.
The helicopter reversed its posture. It flew back this way with the formation reversed. Now both ends protrude forward and the center is recessed.
“It’s under siege.”
The zombies ran out as well.
“Those bastards, I plan to surround Lambert with zombies!”
* * * * *
Elza 1st Army Air Corps helicopter.
Information Staff Leticia looked up at her superior with an encouraging look. She takes out all the zombies in the neighborhood and even incinerates the gang with a single maneuver. But Virginia Halford just picks up the walkie-talkie with an apathetic face.
“From Pale Rider to the Hound. Did you retrieve it?”
– From the Hound to the Pale Rider. Notified that it has been recovered. State stable.
In addition, the bag bomb was recovered.
Thanks to the help of the Halford family halo, but thanks to her lugging her surveillance satellite, Leticia’s intelligence department was able to pinpoint the exact location of her satchel bomb.
“That’s it.”
That’s how Virginia felt. She seemed neither very happy nor sad.
“Commander of the Aviation Battalion. Can you do the next maneuver?”
“It’s possible, but I’m running out of fuel. You can’t do too much maneuvering. Even now, it is difficult to balance the helicopter. Um, when are you going to drop that ‘weight’ down there?”
“Now.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s drop it now.”
The battalion commander did not ask twice. Wires snapped on twelve helicopters. Cages containing zombies and humans fell into downtown Lambert. The sound of the zombies going mad could be heard all the way through the music and the sound of the rotors.
But Virginia still listened to the walkie-talkie connected to the loudspeaker without inspiration.
“Shut up the music?”
“No. Sound is also a weapon. Instead, make my voice louder. Ah. Ah. On test. On test. Are you okay?”
The gendarmerie members who had covered their ears hurriedly nodded.
“Notify ground personnel. Fist. Notify ground personnel. The main officer is Virginia Halford, the head of the special task force of the Elsa 8th National Military Police. From now on, we will conduct inspections in accordance with the Special Management Guidelines for Non-Human Protection Areas.”
Virginia looked down at the ground. Leticia thought that she had the kind of contempt she looked down on at the insect she had just stepped on.
“Everyone get off unarmed. Repeat Get off everyone unarmed. After identification, all of them will be transported to Hampton. In case of non-compliance with the order, immediate punishment will be imposed. There are no warnings. Emphasize. There are no warnings.”
Virginia glanced at her watch and added.
“You have 30 seconds left.”