Summoned

Everything is fine

"This is you in 'no worries' mode?" Rika asks, glancing behind her as we kept going forward, her arm over my shoulder.

"Uhh, yes?" I ask back as I tap her arm, Rika lets go of me and I run forward, grabbing the single corpse that was with its back turned to us, then drag it to the edge of the road, and yeet it into the river below. After that, I draw my blade, and with the hilt, I hit the guard rail. Causing the rest of the corpses to turn towards me.

I then run back to Rika.

"This is the fifth corpse you sent swimming..." She whispers as she passes her arm over my shoulder, and we start moving again.

"It was in the way..." I whisper back.

"You also dropped kicked one of them into the river..." Rika retorts.

"It looked at me weird..." I shrug.

"And here I thought these things were blind..." Rika mumbles as she glanced at me.

It has been some time since we were on the move. And we had made some good distance. Mostly thanks to the handgun. How I knew we covered good distance? Well...

"The barricades ain't too far now, only one intersection left..." Rika then speaks up, pointing ahead with her free hand.

And, she was not wrong. The road further ahead had a tall barricade at the second four-way intersection by the river.

Well, ok, a three-way intersection, since the bridge on that intersection was blown clean off. There was also a military-grade, hut-like structure on the side of the barricade, probably an outpost. And with the outpost being seemingly in the air, I guess the barricade had a catwalk behind it.

"God I hope that is an extension of the actual outpost and not another dud like the last bridge." I whisper.

"Don't jinx it..." Rika responds.

And soon, we were by the last intersection. The 'dead' corpses around here actually exceeding the 'alive' ones. Yet without wasting any time looking around, we entered the final stretch.

We, were about three-quarters past down the road, when...

"You two! Halt!" A voice shouts, and a soldier jumps out of the small outpost, aiming his rifle at us. Before turning to speak towards his shoulder, to what I think was a radio.

(Well, at least it's a soldier and not some fucking inmate with guns...)

Both I and Rika raise our arms.

"Who are you and what are you doing here!" He asks right after.

"Rika, you're the special forces cop here. You do the honors." I whisper. Rika just nods.

"Rika Minami. Stationed at the main airport. Also part of the special assault team sent to clear that airport." Rika answers.

"Airport? Far from home ain't you?" The soldier asks right after.

"We were on a recon mission via heli. Go an urgent request to support a Demo team after a nearby explosion while on our way back " Rika answers again.

The soldier then talks to his radio again. And, after a few more seconds, he finally lowers his gun, slightly.

"Story checks out. Where's the rest of your team? Or was it just the two of you?" He asks.

"K.I.A. Our roof got overrun by sky falling corpses from a taller structure next to us. Only me and he survived." Rika answers again as she points at me, lowering her hands. Me following suits shortly after.

"And him is?" He asks as he turns to me.

"Consc..."

"My boyfriend. Saved his butt when the outbreak started, made him join as a conscript to watch over that butt." Rika casually cuts me off.