Hope is Dead

Chapter forty

The sun rose as Brock stopped, looking at the sign that was greeting them before entering Ohio, Brian stopped with him as the other's passed ''What if he's right?'' he asked and turned to Brian ''Thought you said you didn't love her anymore?" he asked and Brock fully turned to him ''I don't, but I love my daughter.'' Brian turned to him holding his shoulder's, Brock moved them away from him ''You're not answering because you know that answer.'' Brian sighed and looked down ''Brock, if there's a god, Briana's alive.'' Brock looked at him before sighing followed by a nod. The two joined the others as they entered the city, they were stopped seeing a road block on the road, they pulled their guns out, Evan set Craig down letting him lean on Brian while him, Tyler, and Luke walked towards the road block.

As they got closer they her the shuffling of feet on the other side and split around the big truck blocking the road, Luke peeked around the front of the truck seeing that there was a zombie stuck against the said truck with a pole. They looked around seeing it was alone and walked to it, once it saw them it pushed and reached out for them, gnawing it's teeth together ''What happened here?'' Tyler asked looking back seeing the long rows of cars, some door's open and some with stuff sitting in the middle of the street.

Luke went to the front and waved the other's over while Evan found a knife on the ground and looked at it knowing this would help his fear and disgust of the things, he walked over and took a breath in before stabbing it in the head forcefully. Tyler walked over to him and looked at it giving a grossed off look, Luke looked at the front of the truck seeing it had a military plate, Marcel stopped beside him looking at the plate with him ''What?'' he asked not knowing what he was looking at, Luke put his gun away and walked around back pulling it down, the other's walked over to see what he was doing. 

He hoped into the back of it smiling as he opened the benches and chuckled looking over to them seeing the confusion on their faces, he stood up and looked around ''This is a military truck.'' he said looking around, Evan got on and looked in the bench seeing the ammo and handguns, Luke walked to the back still looking around ''What are you looking for?'' Brock asked still a bit confused. Luke hoped down ''The convoy that was with this truck.'' he explained and looked down the road beside the cars. Brian handed Craig to Brock before hoping up and walking over to Evan who was pulling out the ammo boxes and unused guns.

Luke went to the front of it and got inside seeing it was empty, he sat down and looked around pulling out a map and saw some cities were circled, Tyler soon joined him and looked up at him ''I think they marked all the cities that had outbreaks.'' he said and looked down at him ''Is it a normal map?'' Tyler asked and Luke nodded folding it up again to hand it down to Tyler who had a look at it, he leaned on the side of the truck while Luke looked threw the inside of the truck. Evan walked to the end and hoped down handing out the guns ''I don't know how to use this?'' Lui asked confused ''You will know.'' he said as Brian hoped down behind him.

Luke and Tyler came back, Luke held binoculars and a compass while Tyler had the map they found ''Had goods.'' Luke commented, Brock looked down the road ''Are we heading into the city?'' they looked at him ''Brock I'm sorry but the city could be dangerous, especially since this truck is here.'' Brock looked down the road worried ''I'm not coming all this way just to stop here, we either go in there or I wait here till we do.'' Brock argued crossing his arms over his chest. Brock looked at all of them before walking down the road beside the cars with Craig, the other's had no choice other then to follow him, they got their guns out while they walked being on guard in case they ran into something on the way.