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Chapter 17 - Grex

Mattias didn't say anything and jumped down from the wall. Tsuyoshi followed him and asked but even though he asked every second, Mattias just told him that he would see soon.

He walked to one of the streets not too close but not too far and looked around. There were some zombies around but not too much to create any sort of trouble for the two of them. Mattias told Tsuyoshi to help him clean the street and he walked to the front with his kodachis drawn. Without much effort and wasting much time, they killed most of the zombies that were near the exit of the street.

Mattias then walked towards a car and made sure that no zombies were near before breaking the glass with a rock. The glass shattered with a loud noise but the remaining zombies in the street were on the other side from where they were.

"What you are doing is practically theft bro!"

"It is all part of the plan Tsuyoshi, trust me."

"Then will you at least tell me what the hell is this plan?!"

"Okay. Here's a question. Why did I break this car's window?"

"I don't know you saw something useful in it maybe?"

"Hmm. You're half wrong."

"Huh?"

"I am going to use this car as a ram. It is that easy."

"How are you going to do that?"

"Well I know there are cables in the panel underneath the driving wheel. I once saw a video about hotwiring a car so I'll try that. I still remember the contents quite clearly."

"Don't you think using the car keys would be faster?"

"Yes but a parked car like this could have it's key in any of the houses around us. I am not trying that."

Mattias then looked around the driving wheel, finding the screw that hold the panel. But because he didn't have a screw driver with him, he got out of the car and asked Tsuyoshi. As he expected, he shook his head. So he opened the trunk of the car, hoping to see a tool box or something like that. He would see that almost all of his friends that had a car carried one in their car in case of emergencies so he hoped the owner of that car was also similar.

And to his luck, there was a tool box indeed. Although it didn't have much in it, there was still several screwdrivers with varying sizes. Mattias took them and went under the wheel again to unscrew the panel. Once he took the panel out, sure enough, there were a lot of wires around the shaft of the driving wheel. He looked at them one by one, trying to remember which one was used to start the car.

"I think it was these three. Red, white and blue. Yeap, these are the right ones."

"You found it?"

"Yeah. In the meantime, can you find me a long plank, a rock and something to tie this wheel?"

"Sure."

Tsuyoshi walked with his katana drawn and started looking around. He was grumbling all the time while he searched.

"How the hell am I supposed to find a long plank in this urban place? It's not like there is bound to be a workshop of some kind around."

Thus was his thinking. But he still looked around. Rock was easy enough to find as it was practically everywhere and rope would be relatively easy as well. He could just walk inside a house or something and find a long enough one quite easily. In the case he couldn't find one he could just make something similar.

As he looked around he went about two block away. He was rather lucky as there weren't much zombies around that area and his luck truly blossomed when he found a construction site. Well, not really a construction site but one of the houses was undergoing some kind of repairs as there were some tools and other things laying around its garden.

"Lucky!"

He immediately approached and looked inside the garden. After determining it was safe enough, he entered and sure enough there were planks of various sizes laying around.

"Hmm. This is too big, too short. I hope this one is enough. And if there are these on the ground, there is bound to be a rope around here as well."

He looked around and found everything Mattias asked for. After taking everything needed with him, he started returning. Mattias was at the same place he left him at, still working on the car.

"How's it going bro?"

"Hmm? Oh you got everything? Splendid. Now we can finish it."

Mattias sat at the driver's seat and started the car. After that he pulled the hand break and drove the car a bit to get it in position. The main entrance for the vicinity of the warehouse was directly in front of them. He then pulled the hand break again and fixed the position of the car.

"Give me those."

He first took the ropes and fixed the wheel in position and then looked at Tsuyoshi.

"We have to be quick in making that pedal stuck or else it'll draw too much attention. So press with that plank and fix it here, against the seat and the ceiling. Understand?"

"Okay. But are we far enough for them to not notice?"

"They are just a bunch of lackeys. When I was scouting before they were just talking and smoking; having turned their backs towards us. It is nigh impossible for them to notice this before it is too late."

"If you say so bro."

"Okay, I'll press the pedal and use the rock to fix it in place. Get ready to fix the plank against the pedal."

"Okay!"

Mattias stepped on the pedal and put the rock on it. The car roared. It wanted to take off and it was practically screaming to be let go.

"Now!"

Tsuyoshi put the plank on the rock and tried to fix it against the ceiling but it was a tad bit short.

"Shit!"

He took out his katana and pulled Mattias out of the car before cutting the plank. It took a couple of tries but he was successful in cutting it enough so it could push against the seat. He fixed it so and got out. Mattias then rushed in and pulled the hand brake, freeing the car out of its misery. But with the car's jump into motion, Mattias lost his balance and lost his footing, falling on the seat and moving with the car.

"Shit."

"Bro!"

Tsuyoshi tried to catch him and thankfully the car was not a new model and it started out pretty slow. That's why Tsuyoshi was able to reach out in time and pull Mattias out. The car sped and approached the gate. With the wheel fixed with a rope it went straight and the road was also clear so there was nothing between it and the gate.

The guards, sure enough, heard the engine sounds soon enough and they got in their car in haste. Mattias and Tsuyoshi ran around and entered one of the streets, thus hiding from their sights.

From the distance they could hear the car crashing into the gate and then into the other cars and screams. There were a lot of yelling and screaming. Tsuyoshi looked at Mattias and asked.

"What now bro? I mean that helped a bit but their attention is focused on the front side now."

"Yes. That is what we want."

"So what's the plan? Weren't we supposed to enter?"

"We don't need to now. And believe me, if we entered, we wouldn't be able to get out again. This way we can gather information about those guys and any potential zombies in there and around."

After that, Mattias led Tsuyoshi to their previous location. He perched up on the wall again and hidden behind the tree branches. Tsuyoshi also joined him on the wall and they started watching the scene.

If a person had to describe the scene Mattias and Tsuyoshi were looking at with only one word, that word would be chaos. The car the duo sent had hit the two cars that was near the gate and flung them aside. After that it apparently ran over some people as there were dead bodies around with blood smears all over the ground. It found itself inside the wall of the warehouse itself to stop.

The people were running around, yelling at each other about someone attacking them and stuff. The guards at the door seemed to be unconscious, as stated by the person that checked on them. The cars were damaged but it was not heavy and they could still be used.

With all their yelling, zombies were sure to be attracted to their position. And it happened not long after. There was a group of zombies walking slowly towards the warehouse while a bigger oner was approaching from the other side. From what Mattias could see, it was about to become a horde.

"I didn't plan for this but, oh well. Better than nothing I guess."

"That thing will surely get bigger and bigger."

"As long as there are no evolved, it won't be much of a problem."

They continued watching. The group of people realized that a big group was approaching and asked each other what should they do. While contemplating it, a group of people appeared from within with tattered clothes and frightened expressions.

"It's bad! We have to go!" (Lackey 1)

"What happened? Why are you guys this quick?" (Lackey 2)

"There's a… There's a…"

"There's a what?"

At that point in time there was an explosion at the entrance of the warehouse and some pieces of human flesh flew out. There were no human survivors left within and there was a lot of zombies inside that were rushing out of the building.

"That…" (Mattias)

"What the hell?" (Tsuyoshi)

"There's a fucking horde of zombies inside!" (Lackey)