As we neared the fencing around Regents Park we saw that the majority of the crowds were on the street side of the park, and that the military were filing people into the park through the gates only after inspection.

We also realised that the shooting taking place was occurring from multiple routes surrounding the park. I was not sure if this was co-incidence that the zombies were coming towards the park by multiple paths at the same time, or similar to when the zombies cooperated together to bring down the scaffolding, there was some base level of intelligence being displayed by these creatures never hinted at in popular culture references.

The crowds were frightened, and we could see many people were crying looking behind us at the hordes of zombies pouring into the area from multiple locations. In addition to the shooting from the rooftops there was also shooting from soldiers down on ground level, and so the zombies ran into a hailstorm of fire.

Myself and Mina had stopped at the periphery of the crowd unwilling to seek safety within after the experience of Mina having been trampled earlier. I could already see people falling within the crowd as weaker individuals succumbed to the surge of the crowd as it shifted with people trying to create space for themselves. Some individuals were now trying to climb over the fencing and I could not see, but only imagine, that others were now being crushed up against these immovable objects.

I quickly scanned the movement of the zombies and saw that only a third of the zombies were being gun downed by the hailstorm of bullets. Once again the issue of headshots on a moving target was proving to be an unassailable problem.

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Mina reached for my hand and we skirted away from the edge of the crowd. Most people were still trying to get into the park but it would be impossible to get through the crowd into the park with so many creatures now just meters away.

One helicopter had now taken a hovering position thirty feet away. It’s 30mm chain gun was laying down a formidable blast of large calibre bullets into an oncoming mass of zombies and I could see the wretched beasts fly apart under the onslaught.

Mina and me hunched down and braced ourselves against the buffeting air shock of the chopper blades and ran to stand beneath the thunderous roar of the chopper twenty feet above us.

Screams and shouts from the crowd barely penetrated through the cacophony of noise above us. But I could see that individual zombies had managed to penetrate the periphery of the crowds. The surge of the crowd intensified as people desperately fought with each other to get away from the threat that they now knew was amongst them.

More helicopters were now airborne but even as the guns above us ceased I could see that the gunners could only shoot into masses of zombies, and not masses of zombies intermingled with people. The chopper above us was beginning to ascend higher, and I saw that other choppers were now doing the same.

Mina and me now ran away from the park back down the street where this group of zombies had emerged before being decimated by the gun barrels from the helicopter.

As we ran I saw that many of these zombies although now limbless and torn to shreds still retained animation, and their jaws opened and closed as they watched us pass.