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"I could, but they don’t have a flamethrower here Now let her know"

"I’renades, I paused only long enough to check that its contents were both intact and well secured Then I ran

Becksto run silently in her combat boots There was one ?" she demanded, tone barely above a whisper "Mahir called me! He said you told hi to use grenades?"

"You got a better idea?"

"No, but the risk of structural dae--"

"Is minimal Are the zombies where you left them?"

"What? Yes"

"Then you would have been killed if you’d still been in that hallway" I kept h for her to see the shape of it "I’uys"

"You’re insane"

"Yeah, probably" I pulled the first pistol I’d snagged out of uard my back Oh, and if you could call Dr Abbey and tell her to turn off the lab ventilation systeood I don’t want to zoerously insane," Becks amended--but she took the pistol, and added a quick, "Good luck," before retreating farther down the hall

I felt better knowing she was out there One close call per day is pretty much my limit I walked until I reached the end of the short hall leading to Dr Abbey’s lab The zo to claw their way inside, their h the confined space until it seeh to drive a man insane They were still focused on the prey in front of theood I’d be changing that in a moment, but for now, distracted zo the box of concussion grenades on the floor, I opened the lid and pulled out the top two They were designed for use in situations like this one, and would dothe zoovernment extermination runs A series of helpful cartoon thuures and the universal sign for NO to rerenades without putting on a gas ood for anybody

"Too bad I have no respect for safety precautions," I ht be willing to stand in the open air while I created a fine red mist of viral particulates, but that didn’t renade into theabout half of therenade about three feet in front of the renades out of the top of the box I pulled the pins and threw the e Two, three…

"Four, five," I added, and kept running

The first grenade went off with a low cruh to tell me that it had been buried by a substantial number of bodies when it exploded The other three went off in rapid succession, each of theht of the bodies on top of it I kept running When Becks ca her a clear line of fire, and pulled two of the guns from my waistband

"God, I e had caed to survivedown the hall, and I forgot about ca us both alive

They were a sorry-looking bunch, even for zombies It’s true that you can kill a zoh blood, or a sufficient nuans, they’ll die like everybody else The trouble is that they don’t feel pain like uninfected hu after their injuries would have incapacitated a nor their way down the hall wereon the shattered re the than the norrenade shrapnel stuck all the way through his cheek, wedged at an angle that would rab us That wasn’t going to stop hi

"Becks? You clear?"

"Clear!" came the shout from behindabout setting up a kill chute like the one ere in is that it can just as easily turn into a "die" chute The good thing about setting up a kill chute--the reason that people keep using the as your ammo holds out and you don’t lose your head, you can do a hell of a lot of daet within more than about ten feet of you

The injuries to ourvery quickly, and the ones who’d been shielded from the worst of the blast by the bodies of their companions were hampered in their efforts to ot mired in the slow zombies, and their efforts to break free of thedown a littlefor the fast ones We just went for the head and throat shots, and kept on knocking them down