Priest of Death - Part 6

After a while, from a distance of three kilometres from Uzice, the team of four people stops in front of a blockage composed by hundreds of cars, trucks, and even a destroyed plane, which from there, they have to abandon their car and go on foot toward Uzice. Dragan is the first person to get out of the car, then comes Milan, Goran and Zoran. All four are looking at the blockage, feeling sick of the events that are happening to them every day since the beginning of this apocalypse.

"Now what?" asks Goran to Milan.

"Guess we have to walk." says Milan to its people, he looks at Dragan. "Can you walk?"

"Yes." says Dragan to Milan. He can feel the wound of the bullet hurting much more. He did manage to find some cloth and use it as a kind of bandage to cover the hurt area of the hand, but this is not enough without any strong painkillers.

"Look." says Zoran pointing at the fallen plane, who is now just like every vehicle from here, damaged and with no use.

The plane in front of them is a Boeing model, only its front half is on the blocked street. The other part must've been somewhere far from here because it is not on this background. The group wonders if any of the people from that plane did survive, or all of them have died, including the pilot. Milan is wondering about another thing.

"How could've the plane have crashed? Zombies cannot fly, right?"

"Don't jinx it, Milan." says Goran to Milan. "Now, let's get away from here. I can already sense some undead nearby."

The people continue to walk on foot toward the Uzice. They leave the car on the street because it will be no use to take it on the street with the wrecked cars and vehicles. They can't turn around because they would be risking of having a contact with that Priest who earlier was trying to murder them in front of people.

The group walks about a hundred meters. They found on a car a small pistol. Goran takes the pistol, he looks at it, and checks its magazine, sees there are only five bullets left.

"Five bullets." says Zoran loading the magazine of the pistol back to its place.

"You can use a gun?" asks Dragan to Zoran.

"Yes. I've used to go on the shooting range as a kid with my father." says Zoran. "Never thought this will be handy on these times."

"You have to be careful." says Dragan to Zoran. "Five bullets are important to us in the worst-case scenario, plus loud sound can attract zombies. So, remember, use it with precaution."

"I know, Dragan." says Zoran feeling a little annoyed by Dragan.

The group continues to walk further.

At the mark of two hundred and half meters, they encounter a zombie who is eating a dead dog. The group decides to kill it. Goran uses his cutting box knife and stabs the head of the creature. After it got stabbed, Goran retrieve its knife, and stabs the creature a second time to be sure he won't move further. He starts breathing heavy from this attack, and feels a little weird because this survivor rarely kills a zombie.

"Are you good?" asks Goran to Zoran.

"Yes." says Zoran, and he looks at the body, he observes something on the street. He takes it from the street, and holds on its hand. It's a card, an identity card. So, Zoran decides to let the identity card on the pocket of the zombies, and backs away from it.

"Let's move." says Milan to the group, taking the lead.

They walk more than eight hundred meters on the street, and they reach the crashing plane. The group observes on the street something, luggage's. The four people are quickly dispatching and are searching in the luggage for something useful. After three minutes of searching the group have found the following: a flashlight, an axe, three handguns, a map and a first aid kit. The group continues to walk on the street toward the city of Uzice.

After five minutes, they see on a small sign a word written in Serbian, which translates the following: "Evacuation Zone! Two kilometres ahead.". The group is feeling hopeful about this, so they continue to walk further.

Ten minutes pass, and they see another sign which states they are approaching the evacuation zone, which is at a kilometre ahead. And they continue to walk, but as they continue to walk further, they see about is zombies who are sitting on their arse and look at the wreckage of cars like a melancholic person. The group is quickly going on action and they kill the zombies using their axe and cutting box knives.

"Why there aren't as many zombies as used to be on the other streets?" asks Milan. "It seems strange to me."

"That must mean the evacuation zone is close." says Dragan. "These must've been loose zombies."

The group continues their walking toward Uzice, they are getting close to the city.

After another ten minutes, the group of four people arrive in front of the gates of Uzice, but as they've arrived there, their hope has been shattered in a million pieces, like a glass who has fallen from a rooftop. In front of this city, there is a wrecked wall, and hundreds of corpses of zombies, military people and civilians. They see the destruction these creatures have unleashed, but they cannot comprehend the way a few messy zombies who can walk or run can do such thing, especially on a place like this who was heavily armed with personnel and tanks.

Zoran is looking at a watch tower nearby them, he sees the structure is on the brink of collapsing on the street, he sees the light of the watch tower being destroyed and a machine gun on there. Dragan sees on the streets military personnel, all wear uniforms, with the name of "Organization", most of them holding high quality guns and melee weapons, yet they've been killed by zombies who weren't a big deal to the group of four people. They wonder, what kind of creature could provoke such damage to this high fortified city.

"God… What happened here?" asks Dragan shocked by all of this.

"I-It was supposed to stand." says Zoran losing all of the hope of being rescued.

"W-hat monster did this?" asks Milan to the group. "This is not any work of an ordinary zombie we've encountered so far."

"Whatever it is." says Dragan. "We have to be careful. They may be here more zombies than outside."

Dragan walks inside of the city.

"We're going in?" asks Milan to Dragan.

"We have to." says Dragan. "We may have the luck to contact any military personnel to come to our rescue."

"You think so?"

"I feel it." says Dragan. "We may be lucky, who knows if any device of this fortified city can still work."

"Hope you are right." says Zoran.

Zoran and Goran walked after Dragan, and Milan remains on its position for a second, then after a quick thinking, he goes after the other three people, searching for any working radio station in these wreckages. The moment they've entered the city, they know there will be no turning back, but they all decided to risk it, hoping they could be able to contact any military personnel.