Free Government Z (Book 1): The Beginning by Bryan D. Reid Page B

days while we were on our journey the community worked hard to complete what they could with what remained at the community.  Let’s focus on the catwalk and have it finished before they get back Mike said.  Day one Mike took Sean and Ben to work on the turnaround out in the field flattening the field making it into a dirt road and then he had everyone complete the walkway on the north wall and a staircase in the northeast corner while Chris finished wiring in the cabins adding a ceiling fan, light switches and a set of plugs to each room.  The projects on day one took a total of fourteen hours.  In that time the north catwalk and northeast staircase were finished, the cabins were all wired, and the new turnabout was flattened an aligned for an easier entrance to the compound. Great job today everyone Mike said.  Let’s get some rest tonight and tomorrow we will finish the east catwalk and stair case, start sanding the drywall mud so we can paint, and finish the garage siding.  As everyone was starting to turn in Mike and Blake grabbed a glock each and went out to the hospital.  They jumped into the ambulance and left the compound around nine p.m.  Bart and Brent secured the door after they drove off.  Chris approached the two brothers and asked Where are they headed and at this hour?  Mike said we needed something that would help complete one of the projects left but that was all he said I guess we will have to wait and see Bart said.  They said they would be back by mid-morning Brent added.
    Once we left the compound we knew we needed to get the food last so it wouldn’t sit in the trucks for three days.  We can do all the talking over the CB’s since each truck has one Rus said.  I say we head for the hardware stores and get more building supplies first, than we can go to the other building and look for other needs for the camp Bruce said.  They just built that super lumber yard and hardware store called “Hardware USA” Samantha said.  I live down that way and saw the signs advertising for it.  It’s about fifty minutes away Samantha added.  Well let’s jump on the expressway and head to that store first I said.  The highways were always clear every time we have taken them.  Shortly around nine in the morning we arrived at Hardware USA.  The store was four times the size of any hardware store we had been in and also had a large warehouse stacked with lumber.  We headed to the back and hooked Jason’s rig up to one of the trailers that were stationed in the docking area.   We parked the rest of the vehicles around the docking station and headed to the front door.  We saw some other people there taking supplies as well.  There were five men and two women carrying supplies out to a trailer.  Are you all ok? Brianna asked.  They ignored us and kept going.  Come on Rus said let’s get to work.  We loaded the truck with more two by fours to help support anything built plus it was the boards we used for making walls.  We filled up what would have been a ten foot section of the truck but we had to manually stack some of it and fit it into six feet.  I think you better get out here guys Samantha said.  We got off the truck and saw that group of people from out front running up and down the aisles looking scared to death trying to climb the shelves in the aisles.  We looked at the aisles ahead of us and left to right but didn’t see anything.  We headed to the aisles where they were running and they now scattered farther down the store.  Right when we got to corner we heard a loud moaning sound and saw fifty zombies that filled the entire aisle.  Unfortunately when we approached the corner it was the same time the zombies were there.  They grabbed Brianna and tore her limb from limb.  The blood had splattered across Abby and Bruce’s face.  We all turned and ran for the lumber yard it may provide the best cover.  We got to the lumber yard and saw the gate was wide open so Bruce and