Chapter 32 - Rescue (IV)

Steve went back and slowly brought everyone out into the lobby and the soldiers saluted, noticing him, who responded with a simple nod. Denton stood in between the lobby as he overlooked the people coming one by one into the hallway.

He cleared his throat once everyone entered and said, "Ok! Now here comes the tricky part. We have to go down another staircase and there would probably be zombies above us in this staircase. So I need each and every one of you to stay as quiet as possible and only one at a time." making everyone nod.

Steve went ahead into the hallway before anyone to set up a formation in the staircase so the people can safely go down without the zombies coming for them. Reaching the end, he motioned the guards who were stationed there to open and went inside slowly.

After looking around and not finding a zombie, he came back out and called for some more soldiers and explained to them the plan to guard the stairs till all the people go down. The soldiers, who listened closely, immediately understood the formation, and they went outside.

2 of the soldiers stood near the stairways going up to look out for any zombies from the 2nd floor and 2 went below to stand at the door leading to the parking lot. Steve made his way back to the lobby and went near Denton and Mona.

"I need you both to go into the parking lot to guide small batches of 5 people at a time to the place where the vehicles are one at a time," explaining their roles in the plan.

They just nodded and made their way into the hallway and the parking lot, waiting for people. Steve already informed the people that the situation is under control and now the people can move one by one. He remained in the lobby watching over the people getting taken individually into the hallways and the next taken only after the one before they went through the door leading to the parking lot.

Even if this is a slow process, it was safe, and that was enough for Steve to take it up. People slowly passed through the door and Denton was the first to take the group of 5 who arrived towards the vehicles, leaving Mona standing by the door, waiting for him.

For the next 30 minutes, this continued, until all the people shifted into the lot and it relieved the soldiers of their posts. As all the soldiers got into the parking lot, Steve made the soldiers close up the door and made his way towards the vehicles where they set up a small camp.

He noticed people already eating some stew prepared by the people stationed here to guard the vehicles. Some people were so happy to finally get food that they had tears, which seemed weird for Steve, but shrugged it off.

He also took a bowl and got some stew and sat down near the medic of their team. They had to move out early in the morning to reach in time and could not have any breakfast.

Steve turned towards the medic and asked, "What is Mark's situation?" taking a spoon of stew.

Gulping down his food, the medic answered, "He is stable now, but we should run some tests when we get to the base camp." Steve nodded and continued to eat.

The military was quick to react and sent out soldiers to save the citizens when the virus broke out. They were able to secure a sizable township area within the city, to build their base of operations.

The current city they lived in, was called Stargaze city. It was a medium-size city, far from the capital of the country. Even if it was only a medium-sized city, it had some big townships. It has been a life-death battle the past days trying to save people from the zombies and there were some casualties they faced while doing that.

Steve looked ahead as he continued to eat his stew and smiled. After everyone was done eating, he clapped his hands and said, "Ok! Now that everyone has some food in their stomach, get on the vehicles and we will roll out towards the base camp in the city."

Hearing his orders, the people lined up and were sorted out by the soldiers into the vehicles. After everyone was seated, Steve got into a vehicle and ordered the soldier to open the gate. The soldier in the room opened the gates and got into a vehicle before all of them got on the streets.