The vehicle sped down the deserted highway before entering a nearby city less than half an hour later.
Even from inside the armored SUV, Sian quietly observed everything through the window.
Abandoned vehicles littered both sides of the streets.
Many of them had their doors hanging wide open, as if their owners had fled in unimaginable panic the moment the apocalypse began. Some cars had crashed into lamp posts, storefronts, or each other, remaining exactly where they had died.
The farther they drove away from the safe base...
The more obvious the destruction became.
Zombies wandered through the empty streets.
Mutated creatures prowled between abandoned buildings.
Most of the monsters were only small, deformed animals that had mutated after the disaster—feral dogs, twisted cats, oversized rats, and grotesque birds whose eyes glowed with hunger.
These creatures had likely emerged from nearby residential neighborhoods after their owners either died or transformed into zombies.
