A few hours later, close to the nighttime, the military truck, which was driving almost 250 kilometres it has finally come to a stop because a huge airplane has fallen on the highway on a bunch of cars and is blocking the entire highway to the city of Thessaloniki, a city from Greece known for their beach. The team has a plan to go there and take a boat which will help them go faster to Athene, and if they do not find anything there, they are going to search for the help on the waters.
"Looks like this is it." says Alina stopping the military truck. "An airplane is stopping us from advancing... Fucking planes."
"It's alright." says Klaus who is sitting on the front chair and next to him, it is Ana. "Maybe if we take another road."
"Almost every single road is blocked by cars and destruction. Especially zombies." says Alina to Klaus. "Maybe the best idea it is found a way to go to another road."
"What if we ignore Thessaloniki ? And continue to Athena?"suggest Ana.
"We cannot." says Alina. "There might be a chance to find a boat there, and use it to go on the Athena, or better, try our luck to go on the islands."
"If you say so." says Ana to Alina. "But, how we can even pass this gigantic wall?!" she points on the plane which blocks the entire highway.
"We will have to go on foot." says Klaus. "Other cities might be blocked, but I can guarantee that the fastest way to reach Thessaloniki is by foot. Besides, there is about three kilometres to the city." he points to a close indicator in blood which shows the destination and route they have to take to arrive at Thessaloniki.
"Tell the gang we have to get out and continue on foot. And take as much of the supplies as they can." says Alina getting out of the vehicle to check the perimeter.
Ana announced to the people on the back that they have to get off and continue on foot. She showed them the plane is blocking their road, and they cannot pass that big plane or run over it. All the passengers understand, and they do get out of this truck, but for Alin was a problem because of his broken leg, and they were also no worries since Radu is here to got his back.
All the survivors are leaving the military truck, they took all the backpacks and briefcases with supplies and proceed to walk on the left side. There, they leave the highway and proceed to walk forward, dodging a few trees who have fallen due to the plane and car accidents.
Alin is walking in front, together with Claudia. Both of them are equipped with fire weapons, Alina having her trusty revolver, while Claudia is wielding her SMG. Almost all the survivor, except Anakin, are holding weapons such as assault rifles, SMG's and handguns.
When they have passed the plane, these survivors have seen the disaster which the other side didn't show. Thousands of cars being crashed into each other, damaged or in fire. There was even a truck who had his trailer burned, and one zombie locked on the driver seat, but it was killed by Anakin who stabbed the zombie head with a kitchen knife he has taken from that building.
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"Good hit." praise Marcus to Anakin.
"Thanks." whispers Anakin to Marcus. "What do you think? A car might be working here?"
"You mean at driving through this place?"
"Nah."
"You mean at turning on? Maybe..."
Alina and Claudia were walking until they do passed a red car, then, they have stopped and told everyone to hide behind some cars. A few were asking these women why they were doing these, but before they were about to answer it, Cassandra screamed when she saw military people who were trying to kill the infected. The scream got the attention of the people in the uniforms, and one of them shoot Cassandra, hitting her in the chest with a bullet.
This hit made her fall to the concrete and die in a few moments while she was trembling and breathing heavily. Ilie was trying to help Cassandra by applying pressure on the wound, but it was too late to do anything to help this poor girl. That bullet has hit the vital organs of the chest and killed Cassandra.
At that moment, Claudia and Alina were terrified to see this death, right in front of their face, and the fact that military might not be their escape from this Hell, they can also escape people from the life. Alina is telling everyone in whispering that they have to stay hidden and attack if it's necessary, and using their weapons as a defence, not as an attack. All the survivors are hiding below the cars. Marcus and Ho Lee are hiding under a yellow car, Claudia, Alina, Ana and Ilie are hiding under a Volvo truck, and the rest of the survivors, Anakin, Radu, Alin, Laura and Klaus are hiding under the truck. Alin could feel the pain of staying still under a vehicle and in a bad position for his damaged leg, he wanted to scream, but he has to contain the scream in order to escape from this gang of soldiers who just murdered an innocent woman.
These soldiers who just shoot Cassandra are walking slowly to her, and they discuss in Greek after they have seen the woman corpse.
"Looks like a Roma woman." says a soldier in Greek. "Feel bad for killing her."
"Why? She is obviously infected? Cause of her Roma bloodline." says a racist soldier among this small group.
Then, out of nowhere, the Cassandra who was once human, became a zombie and is now raising from the ground, but she was quickly put down by a soldier Greek who sued his assault rifle to kill Cassandra again, by shooting her head.
"Fuck." though Ana. "We are in deep shit."
"This proves that humans can come back as zombies if they are killed." says a soldier in Greek language to his colleagues.
"Sure." responds another Greek soldier. "We should continue investigating because I do not think the woman was able to come here by herself."
"Perhaps she has come by herself." says another Greek soldier who is walking forward, and he sees the military truck. "Guys! Look at this!"
Then, all the Greek soldiers are going to the guy who has come to the military Tuck. He is getting on the military truck, together with his colleagues, and they are leaving this area. When they have left, Radu take courage to leave first, and he goes slowly to the place where they have parked their truck. And he did saw it get it taken, and this made the survivors furious (they thought the soldiers took another truck or another vehicle).
"Damn it!" yells Laura hitting the close car with her leg, and it made the alarm sounds go off. "Fuck..."
"We have to run!" says Alina taking the lead, and the other survivors followed her lead, letting the corpse of Cassandra staying on the cold concrete road surrounded by a thousand of cars.