Summoned

Electrifying

"This is as far as we can take you. The engine will attract the ones wandering around here, so you might want to go to a safer location before you radio in with miss Takagi." The driver closes the car's door as he finishes speaking. I nod and turn around.

The sound of the jeep's engine echoes behind me as the car drives off, heading back towards its usual patrol route probably. I take a deep breath and look around me, at the corpses that were now walking towards me, attracted to the sound of the engine that was here a couple of seconds ago.

(Yeah, better move out.)

I jerk my shoulders and do a couple of jumps in place to limber up. Cramps kill after all... quite literally in this case.

(First, get away from here. Second, radio in with Yuriko. Third, don't get bit. Alright me, let's do this.)

I narrow my eyes and focus ahead of me.

(While there are a couple of corpses that are heading towards my direction, the road ahead only has a small group of three 'blocking' my way, and the road along the pavement is wide enough for me to just walk around them. And now that I'm alone again, I can actually be stealthy. A 'Must be' too, as fighting is not a good idea right now, because the only close-range weapon I got is a combat knife. And the gun, but it's better to hold on to it in case things get bad.)

With that, I silently move down the street, strafing around the corpses that were shambling towards the opposite direction.

(Still, it's weird how there are no crashed or abandoned cars around here. Did Souichiro's men clear them out? Hmm, seems unlikely, they would have needed some heavy machinery to do that. And that stuff is usually too slow to move around. So, back at the task at hand, what can I use as a vantage point? This place has no cars for me to climb, and I'm not going to use a house fence as higher ground...)

I glance around me as I keep walking

(Actually, speaking about that. I expected the location to look more industrial as the power plant is supposed to be near, yet I still see houses around. Maybe I'm not that close? I expected the location around the powerplant to be quite empty.)

I then checked the clothes the corpses wore as I walked past them.

(None of these guys are dressed like industrial workers either.)

After walking past the initial group of corpses, I looked down the street ahead of me.

(And if the facility was overrun by a horde, then why are there corpses shambling about. No that's, a stupid question. Maybe these ones arrived later, or they got stuck to a wall or something. Maybe the horde didn't come from this way to begin with.)

Looking ahead I could also see an intersection in the distance.

(Ok let's head there first, then figure out what to do. The road is relatively clear so I should reach it without meeting much of a resistance.)

With that, I stay in the middle of the road and start walking towards the intersection.

(This is the first time since my romp in the school that I'm actually alone again huh. I just had to pull the short end of the stick. Damn it Shido, I could have used the free time in the estate to get closer to the group, like asking Saeko to train with me. But noooo, motherfucking Shido must pop up out of nowhere and fuck shit up. I should have tossed his stupid ass to a group of corpses and let him get chewed up back at the bus, damn the consequence. Now I'm stuck here because of him while Takashi is doing God knows what...)

I shake my head and look around me.

(Uhh, I will worry about Takashi and the girls later. Got to keep focused on my surroundings before I end up bumping into something.)