So I have warned you that zombies do
not possess super strength and they seem to hunt with pretty much the same
techniques that we do as far as sight and hearing. However, new evidence seems
to suggest that their sense of smell does seem to be somewhat elevated… at
least when it comes to one certain smell.
If you are out in the field, I am
telling you now, check your cuts. We had an incident where one of our sortie
team members suffered an injury from a jagged piece of corrugated steel when
they were searching a barn for supplies. It was not a bad deal. We got him
patched up and pumped him full of antibiotics. I could not imagine getting a
bad case of tetanus in this situation.
Still, they said that there was a zom
that came out of the farmhouse. Our crew has quickly developed a spreading out
technique when they encounter a single zom so one person can make the clean
kill without expending ammo. Well, Hunter was the one that experienced the cut.
Zom could have easily gone to any member of the sortie team but this thing made
a bee line for Hunter. It was a T-800 style of determination. The situation
worked out well for the crew because Luke put the thing down quickly and
quietly from behind. No gunshot was necessary that would draw in others. No
fuss. No muss. But it had to be the blood dripping off Hunter’s hand. So,
please, check your cuts.
Even now, as I am writing this, I
cannot help but think back to those opening days, when everything was being
FedExed to Hell on a handcart. I remember the thing that is so damn unnerving
about these things is the abject lifelessness in their eyes. I mean, if you
have ever had to deal with dead animals, you can look at their eyes and see
that there is no light in them. Taxidermy animals never look right. Or, oh, (to
make a second Terminator reference)
remember when they would cut to that animatronic Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 when he was taking down the
SWAT team? There was something about that that just never looked quite right.
And I think it was because of the eyes. There was just no life in them. Zoms
are the exact same way. They don’t blink. They are just glassy eyed monsters.
But there is a time when they get
really savage and animalistic. It is when they bring down a kill. Man, during
Zero Hour, this one woman was just running for her life. (This was before we
could fight back.) I watched a pack of four of them drag her down. The savage
destruction of the feeding frenzy was pretty intense. And now that we are 81
days into this walking nightmare, the food source is starting to dry up.
I cannot imagine the savagery if a
pack of these zoms could grab you and tear into you. I know this is going to be
hard to swallow but you all need to get comfortable with this scenario. If you
are part of a group and one of your members finds themselves compromised, if
they are grabbed… You should seriously consider marking a special bullet for
them because, honestly, being torn to pieces by a pack of these ghouls is one
of the most horrible ways I can imagine to go out…
