BITE - T.D Jackson (good e books to read .txt) 📗

street" "I'm not a police man" "No I want something different from you we are recruiting normal people for new positions" "Such as?" "We are trying to build up a police force that will enforce law but we need a new department we cant use soldiers people wont talk to them or trust them the same with the police force, we need people who can walk the streets unnoticed to keep an eye on people" "You want me to spy? Wont that invade peoples right to private life? " He reached into a black folder took out a photograph and placed it in front of me "Privacy is at a premium safety is what we need look at the photo" I had it was an unpleasent site bits and pieces of the humanbody were scattered across a living room "Some one brought in their infected family member they got loose killed 9 people infected 3 more one was the poor fellow on the floor net to you " He indicated the corpse at my feet "We need a people who will respond quickly to incursions patrol the safe zone keep a watch for suspicious behavior and the occasional high risk job I am about to ask of you" "I get the feeling this job is gonna suck" "Yes your right, here" Another photo taken from a low flying plane a field  was shown with large walls made out of what looked like stacked up cars "This is Chepstow farm 276 miles away just outside of Manchester, the people here banded together with the army and built a mini fortress but their is a problem they are trapped" All the way round the compound a large moat of the undead "Yeah that is a problem are there many places like this?" "A few scattered around the country but back to the point the people here are dieing they are starving we cant do any more air drops our fuel needs to be rationed carefully" "Send the army then" "And engage them? They would be killed" "Well what lure them away? They will only come back" "Well you need to find a way to remove them permanantly" "Me?" "You are hired as a ghost you have you orders go see Stan he will give you what you need" "I never said I want the job" "Your friend has will you let him go alone?" "You over estimate how much I like him" "People are dying Tom will you leave them to die?" "I have family to worry about" "Yes on the return trip we sent the chopper over your house everything seems secure" He showed me another photo it was the flats "When was this taken?" "Early this morning they are fine for now Tom these people wont last much longer" I glared at the photo "Fine we will do this one thing after though we can walk away" "Fair enough" "And I want you to help me with something we brought a little girl with us her grand parents live here can you look into it" "I will don't worry I will make sure she is safe"  We shook hands and I left. I met Jon in the lobby and we talked about what just happened.

We arrived at a multi storet car park the entrance was guarded by soldiers they scanned our finger prints and we were allowed entry. We met Stan on the lowest floor he greeted us and walked us over to stacks and stacks of wooden crates "Glad to here you guys have joined up" "We didnt have much of a choice" "Yeah the boss always gets his way O.K I read your mission brief and I have loaded up a vehicle for you. We walked over to a jeep the most horrible shade of green you have ever seen in the back was water petrol MRE's Stan warned us they tend to back you up a bit. Sevral bags of supplies flares maps a tool kit maps various things "Whats over their" I wandered off from the jeep to a steel wire cage that had a load of cardboar boxes stacked to the ceiling. Stan came over "Fireworks some idiot went nut and started lighting them up attracted a load of those things so we confiscated them all" "We need to lure them these would help" "I'm not sure I would need to ask the boss" "Ask him then" Stan spoke into a radio and Kane's voice crackled in "Yes" "Sir you'r new recrutis want to take some fireworks to lure the creatures away that O.K with you?" "Give them what they need Stan" "Yes Sir"  We took 3 large boxes of fireworks and place them in the jeep "Oh one more thing here" Stan handed us a wad of bank notes "Their's £300 it's a descretionary fund get your selves some new clothes" "Money is still good here?" "Yep now your mission brief we have scouted a route for you from the plane thats relatively clear and loaded it in to the GPS and we have marked it out for you on the map in case you loose the link you need to lure the horde away from the walls, their are a lot of soldiers in that place we need to get them out so they can get here we need the reinforcements any questions?" "When you say we do you mean your comin to?" "Fraid not boy's" "He threw the keys to Jon "You will need to leave soon but take a couple of hours to yourselves"

We got new clothes with the money we also got Sky £20 worth of sweets she would stay in the church whilst we were away we sat and ate one last time before we headed for the Jeep.

We drove out through the sliding door Jon at the wheel "How do we get ourselves into these thing's Jon?" "Just lucky I guess" I opened up the map and we set off 270 miles away people were dieing and we were their only chance.     

On The Road Again

"And I'm a cowboy on a steel horse I ride I'm wanted..." Silence apart from the engine "Jon you were meant to say wanttteedddd" "Wanted" "Your no fun" We had just left Hastings and were heading North progress has been slow due to the winding route we had to take to get past pile up's of cars. Dead or Alive finished and Everytime by Yashin came on much to Jon's relief he had lost the coin toss to choose the music. We were currently heading through a large field all around us were dead sheep that had been torn apart by the undead blood had soaked and dried into the grass. The ride was bumpy as hell but Stan had assured us that the Jeep would not break down the under carriage had been reinforced they had totally dismantled the engine cleaned checked and repaired it all done by the Royal Engineers so we felt completely safe from breakdown. The original wind screen and window glass had been replaced with thick security glass and the parts that held it in place were reinforced with steel. The tyres had been replaced with runflats and the cars shell had been reinforced not that we had needed it so far we had only run into small groups of the dead that were easily avoided. We contacted Toby and the other's an hour ago they were all fine and excited to here about another group of survivors they suggested moving now but we decided it against it if we were going to move we would do it together just in case.

I looked down at the large brown envolope Stan had given me before we left it contained various bits of information what would be expected of me and Jon if we decided to continue on in this roles as Ghost's as Kane had called it, maps of the country showing overrun areas almost every where there was a major city was now a dead zone. The part that made the most interesting reading was the studies they had been doing on the undead. The 20 or so pages were stamped Sensitive in red ink and me and Jon had been forced to sighn a declaration that we would not reveal these details to anyone or how they had attempted to recruit us. I opened up the file it had been heavily redacted apparatnly we were not trusted that much all that remained in any length was the conclusions.

5th MAR 2013 Subject No: 1 SEX: M Height: 165CM Weight: 15 Stone AGE: Mid to late 30's

I can conclude the following about the undead.

All attempts to anesthetize calm or reason with the undead appear fruitless.

All known toxins and poisons to humans tested so far have no effect on the subject's.

After submerging the subject in a tank of sterile water for 48 hours the subject was removed and was still "alive" the undead appear to not need oxygen.

The spreading of the virus stems from the mouth in it's saliva making a bite a quick way to infect other's.

Immediate amputation of a limb that has been bitten must take place with in 1min of the bite wound even then this is not 100% guaranteed to prevent infection.

During the 3 month's these tests were carried out the subject was starved and does not seem to be suffering any ill effects of it.

Subject 1 status: Terminated

Report filed: Dr (Redacted)

The next section of the report was on another subject this was also heavily redacted apart from the conclusion's.

20th MAR Subject:2 SEX: F HEIGHT: 150cm WEIGHT: 8 Stone AGE: 28

(Redacted) Infected by subject 1 in a handling error volounteered for experimentation concent form attached.

After the initial bite subject's will suffer a high fever confusion swelling and redness of the bite area but bleeding stop's quickly. Numbness in the extremities confusion and agression followed by death no treatment has proved effective so far. From death to reanimation the time varies any where from 10mins  to 4 hours mitigating factors are thought to include location of bite weight height and temprature.

Addition: People are turning with out being bitten it appears we are all infected and when we die either naturally or unnaturaly we all reaniate but with out a bite this process can take any where from 6 to 24 hours Note: Information provided by survivors not yet confirmed further investigation required.

Subject 2 status: Terminated

Report Filed: Dr (Redacted)

13 MAR SUBJECT:3 SEX: M HEIGHT: 170cm WEIGHT: 11 Stone AGE: Late 50's

The undead have proved ver difficult to kill, whilst disabling the limbs will slow them it will not kill them they will not die from blood loss.

Traumatic damage to the torso has minimal effect apart from slwing movement

Choking or manual strangulation of the undead ineffective and not reccomended

Fire has proven effective to a point but they have no fear of it  they will gladly walk through fire to get to a meal

Electricity seems to affect the undead similar to humans causing muscles to spasm uncontrolably but lacks a killing factor.

Severing of the head is effective but the head is still capable of biting and must be dispatched by destorying the brain

After a