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In the desolate, dead and diseased shell that the city had becoed from day to day Thousands of corpses continued to shuffle endlessly through the shadows, their bodies gradually decaying but theirto slowly return

Although the survivors reht, the absence of other sounds and distractions throughout the surrounding area continued to draanted crowds of ragged, stuures towards the university Inside their shelter the frightened, desperate people sat and watched and waited for so and drawn out weeks nothing changed

Without any warning the precarious equilibriu so finally happened

Thirty miles west of the city where the survivors sheltered, in a bleak and nondescript field, lay the concealed entrance to a rey building, shielded and protected from the dead world outside by thick, concrete walls and industrial strength air purification systems, were alhtened and disorientated as the bewildered survivors left out in the open above ground, they too had struggled to cope with the uncertainty of each passing hour Inside the bunker no-one knehat had happened From the most senior officer in the base down to the lowest in the ranks, no-one had anything o on

They had been acting on hurriedly given orders when they&039;d been scra There were erion but no concrete facts to substantiate or confirm the hearsay The men and women in the bunker didn&039;t need to know the details of what had happened and neither, for that e of the base

All they knew - all they needed to knoas that sooner or later they would be sent up to the surface to try and take control of whatever was left The orders had finally been given by the base coo up to the surface