The Infected (Book 6): Last Shot by Justin Gowland Page B

green button to set it. Hit the green button and the countdown starts.”
    “How much do you think I’ll need?”
    “Shouldn’t need more than two blocks per leg.”
    “So eight of them then?”
    “Sounds about right but to be on the safe side I’ll give you extra.”
    “Great!” I said smiling.
    We sat together as he slowly finished setting up the explosives. I would have given him a hand, but I really didn’t want to blow up the Bunker. We talked as he worked and as usual the talking turned to everything that had brought us to this point. It was good to talk like that. The door opened and Tom stepped inside looking at a clipboard.
    “Hey, Tom!” Chris and I said at nearly the same time.
    He looked up from the clipboard and his eyes went wide when he saw what was on the table in front of us.
    “Erm…hi guys?”
    Chris actually laughed “Don’t worry mate these are for the oil rig.” he said waving his good hand over the explosives on the table.
    “Do you know what you’re doing?” Tom asked looking rather nervous.
    Chris just gave Tom a rotten look and carried on with the last two explosives.
    “I don’t,” I said and jerked a thumb toward Chris. “But he does!”
    Chris laughed and I stood up and walked toward the door and turned before stepping out into the hallway “I’ll catch you late Chris and Tom try not to disturb him too much.”
    I stepped into the hallway to the echoes of Chris’ laughter. Next stop for me was to find Mike. I had a rough idea of where in the bunker he would be, but it might mean that I run into either Amy or Tessa and I really didn’t fancy that. The first level hallway outside the lifts was full of the kids from the makeshift school. I walked through them and headed toward the office that Mike and David had been using to plan the works to the outside of the Bunker. I heard a few whispers from the direction of the kids once I had gotten through them and walked away. I couldn’t hear what was said so I just kept on going. I walked through the doors to the Operations Centre and headed for the side the offices were on.
    I heard a door open and the Doc’s voice “You come back for another check up in a month Amy. Hopefully, you will be feeling better by then. Just remember you need to rest and not push yourself too much.”
    I ducked around the side of a column and watched as Amy walked past and out through the door and into the hallway. So that answered why she was being such a twisty bitch lately, she wasn’t well. Now I felt like a huge tit for being such a shite toward her. When I felt it was safe I headed for the office. I knocked on the door and then slowly opened it. David was looking at the door and I walked inside.
    “Marc!”
    “David you haven’t seen Mike by any chance?”
    “Yeah! He and a few of the guards went out scavenging for something he said would help when you both went to the lifeboat.”
    I stood trying to figure out what he was going outside of the fence line for. “Any idea what he was heading out for?”
    “Sorry mate I haven’t got a clue. He did say that you would like it!” he said shrugging his shoulders.
    “Ok! How’s the planning going?”
    “Not bad we have plans down for at least three outside buildings. The planted area is coming on and the people tending it says that the shoots are already showing on some of the vegetables. The guards have only had to put down a few infected since the horde that was let loose against the fence. So all in all I would say things are going ok for us at the minute.”
    This was great news it would mean that if I got killed or couldn’t make it back at least the Bunker would be set.
    “Mate that’s great news. Right, I’m going to head off and have a rest. If anything comes up and you need me I’ll be down in my room.” I said turning and heading for the door.
    “Sure no problem…” There was a pause “erm…Marc could I ask you something.”
    I turned with my hand on the door handle