System Of The Undead

Chapter 54: Sam In Danger!?

The night felt like it would last for an eternity, the illuminating moonlight paved the way for the eyes but barely for the clouds that were still present in the skies.

Sam was surrounded but he wasn’t aware of their arrival putting him at a massive disadvantage.

There was only one light switched on and that was the light in the room where John was held.

Alex moved like a man that was experienced in warfare but that mattered little because Sam had a big problem on his hands.

Sam came out at that moment to take some fresh air but Alex had blended into the darkness to escape his sight; now was the perfect time to take Sam out.

Alex got on the ground to better steady himself, he wanted to end it with one shot so the element of surprise would be in his favour because if he missed, things might prove to be tricky because this was a man skilled enough to kill Max and capture John.

Their primary objective remained Bella but something told him that this man was tied to her.

Before Alex could pull the trigger, Sam began to walk away from the room.

Sam knew people were coming and considering the time, it was only logical that people should be sleeping but he couldn’t let his guard down.

Alex knew that this might be his chance to get John because why not?

The coast was clear, luckily he wasn’t the only one with this thought as one of the men that had tagged along saw that the room was empty and an individual with a bag over his head.

This was no doubt John because the clothes matched what he wore before exiting the camp.

The man carefully opened the door because he didn’t know if Sam was alone but they had enough weapons and manpower to eliminate all threats.

He proceeded to walk carefully towards John, calculating every step as he whispered.

"John! Are you good?" But got no response, he saw that parts of his skin were missing and could only imagine the torture that this man had undergone.

But he also hoped that information wasn’t given or he would be considered a traitor regardless of the circumstance. He noticed that the room was stacked with weapons, this would do their camp good.

If they could get these weapons back, they could challenge and eliminate any threats that were directed at them but John was who he came to save.

The man slowly removed the bag from John’s head but what he saw gave him the answer to his earlier question.

John wasn’t good, Sam had slit his throat, and the cut was so deep that his head was barely hanging on his neck.

"Fuck!" The man exclaimed but then a tear gas laced with pepper activated, he had triggered a booby trap that Sam had set when he removed the bag on John’s head.

It pulled a string that caused this to trigger the tear gas on John.

He coughed as he not only struggled to see but struggled to breathe, this made exiting the room a lot more difficult but this did the most important thing and that was alert Sam that he had visitors as he had heard this.

But the others heard it as well and converged at that location except Alex, who maintained his distance.

"I-I can’t fucking see!" The man cussed out as the others came in to help their partner.

They came with their guns ready to fire because they assumed the person responsible was there.

They didn’t enter the building but instead spoke so the man could follow their voice.

"I see, so they’re more than one..." Sam thought to himself as he was well hidden.

He had one thing that these people didn’t and that was an extensive understanding of the environment.

Sam had scouted the area prior and taken notes of these little things that would aid him in such a situation, this included keeping items away from the building because that was the point of the teargas, it was to blind them but it was also part of a much more complex plan.

"J-John is fucking dead!" The man who was just tear-gassed said but the moment he said that, his limp body hit the ground. He was dead as the shot was to the back of the head.

"W-What!" One of the remaining three exclaimed and there was no doubt that the shot came from within the building.

They all pointed their gun there and began to shoot like maniacs, and the firepower ripped anything in their path,

They had the right idea, Sam had regained entry through the toilet window as he had on a mask that could shield him from the tear gas, a well-thought-out plan but the enemies assumed he had been in the building the entire time. Sam returned fire with the pistol he had gotten from Max during their initial scuffle, this pistol was loud and this gave credibility to his position.

With the enemy’s gunfire concentrated in one area, Sam simply exited through the window once again, narrowly escaping death as they wasted their ammunition.

Sam now understood that they were more than two because of the firepower, there was no way one gun could unleash such a rapid volley of bullets. Sam’s military training was proving invaluable in this situation.

He circled the building to hatch his next plan, the threat was a lot bigger than he thought at first but it wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle.

These men were using guns without silencers so he knew that the undead would soon be swarming the area.

Sam made it a habit to equip any gun he used with a silencer, silence was golden. The volley of bullets soon stopped.

"Did we get him?" The men questioned but before any of them could answer, three silent bullets found their heads before they even knew what hit them, Sam had exploited their blindspot and the fact that they had momentarily let their guard down.

Sam had no plans on taking a hostage as he has gotten all that he would need from John already.

Alex was glad he didn’t join them because he would have no doubt been a casualty.

"He is good," Alex muttered to himself.