Just as he had said his farewells and goodbyes internally and was somewhat content, if not a little sad to be forced to leave the land of living so prematurely, -after all he still hadn't had the chance to find the girl of his heart-, suddenly a deafening sound echoed in their ears.
*BANG!*
At the same time, the three infected pouncing towards Jake in the air were blown several meters backwards, their bodies riddled with hideous, grotesque blast holes. Two of the infected tried to get up immediately after being blasted away, but the injuries they received from taking in the full frontal blast of the young man's shotgun gave them a lot of difficulties.
Unable to force their bodies to move according to their parasitic viral host's will they began twisting their bodies in a mixture of pain and anger and growled. For the third infected, which was the closest and centered around the blast, it had long since ceased any action and stopped moving, presumed already fully deceased.