Nearby road, Military
Six military Humvees drove down a long road with buildings on both sides before they stopped and spread out in front of a pretty large ER building that seemed to still be fairly intact with only a few destroyed cars nearby and busted-out windows.
"Alright we got a team on overwatch, the rest of us will clear this building before we attempt to set up an OP here and fortify the position." Commander Johnson relayed the plans to the dozen men who were all geared up and ready to go with weapons hot.
They also had men on each Humvee manning the M2 browning machine guns on the top of them.
"Remember stay in formation and stay calm." A dozen men got in two lines before they quickly walked through the main doors of the ER and their mounted flashlights quickly scanned the dark lobby as they spread out and checked the entire lobby for infected.
"I think we're clear." One of the soldiers whispered before hitting a can with his foot sending it skidding into a wall and making a loud noise.
"Fuck." The soldier cringed and everyone froze and listened for any noise when they heard some weird snapping noise sound all throughout the building like a hundred crabs clacking their claws.
"Huh?" one of the soldiers looked up and shined his flashlight onto the roof above them and his eyes widened in horror along with the other soldiers who saw the horrifying sight of dozens of spider-shaped infected humans crawling atop the roof and snapping their jaws.
The soldier's flashlight seemed to agitate the crawlers as they snapped their jaws before all of a sudden they all dropped from the roof and onto the soldiers below.
"Ah! Ahhh! AH!" A soldier's scream got louder and louder as one of the crawlers landed on his head and started using its long limbs to tear him apart and its teeth tore into his skin and ripped it apart.
"Fuck!" One soldier panicked and started firing at the crawler on the soldier's head killing both the soldier and the crawler as well as hitting a few other soldiers behind.
"Ah!"
The whole place turned into a complete cluster fuck as flashlights shined in all directions and men could be seen shooting everywhere with pale rotting infected crawling all over the place and tearing apart bodies.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
"Commander watch out!" A soldier screamed and could only watch in shock as a crawler dropped down on the Commander's head and used its long limbs to wrap around his throat and twist his head off before starting to bite the meat from the head with its long limbs simultaneously digging its claw-like hands into the commander's body and tearing it open, ripping out his intestines before bringing it to its mouth.
The soldier was shocked and took two steps back.
"No. No." The soldier mumbled before bringing the pistol to his head and pulling the trigger sending his brains splattering across a nearby soldier who was holding down the trigger and firing into a nearby crawler while screaming.
Outside on top of a nearby building two men were watching in shock as the gunfire in the building drew a horde of hundreds of infected that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and started marching toward their Humvees.
The men manning the m2's started firing into the horde of infected sending limbs and guts flying everywhere and the snipers on the roof started shooting, turning heads into blood mist.
Ding
Ding
Ding
Ding
Shells of M2 ammo dinged off the Humvees as hundreds of shell casings started littering the street and piles of infected started building up.
Despite the amount of infected killed the amount still walking toward them seemed like an ocean as the muzzle flash of bullets and nearby fires dimly lit the streets.
"We need to retreat now!" One of the men on the M2's screamed before abandoning his post and going to the driver's seat and taking off without waiting to see if anyone in the building was even alive.
Seeing one person take off the others had no choice but to follow as the horde of infected engulfed the area.
The two snipers on the roof realized the mission was a failure and they were left behind leaving them no choice but to try and make it back on foot.
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At a nearby grocery store a few blocks away both Damon and Cassie had heard the commotion and were now on top of a roof and watching the entire thing go down through their binoculars.
They couldn't see inside the building except for the muzzle flashes and the loud screams of absolute terror.
"That's a massive horde. It seems the amount of infected in the city is a lot higher then we estimated." Cassie said while watching the soldiers on the M2s send hundreds of bullets into the horde of infected.
Cassie was right. They hadn't estimated the infected numbers to be this high though most infected in the city were probably in this horde that didn't mean there weren't other small groups of infected spread throughout the city.
"Yeah. With sprinters and those crawler things I could see people panicking and getting caught off guard." Damon said
They both watched as one of the Humvees drove before the five others followed and the streets became a lot quieter.
"Let's leave the city before this horde spreads out," Damon said and Cassie nodded as they already had the entire truck loaded to the brim with supplies.
Quickly they climbed down the ladder and hopped into the truck before taking off back outside the city and toward the cabin.
A while later they pulled up to the cabin and backed the box truck into the driveway so it was easier to transport all of the supplies into the underground bunker.
Damon hopped out of the truck and went to open up the back of the truck allowing both of them to see stacks and stacks of food, water, medicine, toothpaste, deodorant, tampons, razors and tons of other stuff like magazines, lighters, cigarettes, liquor, etc.
"Ha ha ha ha!" Damon laughed out loud making Cassie giggle as they both gave each other a pat on the back for the massive load of supplies they had gotten.
This stuff was worth more than gold now and they were only just getting started.