A sense of unease

"Open fire!"

Leila twitched a little when Peter gave out the command. His shout was pretty loud and coupled with how close to her ear he uttered it, the effect was all the stronger.

And then, a hailstorm of bullets began.

All three of the machine gun nests opened fire, laying waste to all the zombies currently squeezed within the mouth of the road. The mortar spewed out its first round, adding a crescendo of a wailing cry of the soaring projectile as it climbed up to the skies before rapidly descending down, right into the mass of the zombies nearby.

'Are they for real…?' Leila watched how Peter's men brought hell to the earth. She watched how the series from the machine gun cut zombies into pieces, like an invisible blade the presence of which was marked with the tracer bullets mixed into the ammunition mix.