Revealing the past

"It's done," Mathew muttered as he took a step to the back and cast a long glance at the finished barricade.

It was impossible to call the end result of their job anything else but that.

One could tell that the part of the wall they fixed from the rest of the wall with a single glance, even from a super far away. Yet, in terms of a barrier for the horde of zombies, the barricade should do just as well of a job as the rest of the compound's wall.

"This took a lot more time and effort than I thought it would," Daria muttered under her nose, sliding down the barricade and resting her back against it.

From the outside, the difference between the reconstructed part and the normal wall was mostly visual. Yet, once one looked from the inside of the school grounds, the difference became obvious.

Because while the normal part of the wall was roughly a third of a meter wide, the barricade reached even two meters in width!