Under Sue Lawrence's expert guidance, the hunting squads from Silas Hawthorne's base stuck to the safest routes, deftly avoiding the massive zombie hordes lurking around street corners and in abandoned buildings. They focused only on picking off lone, wandering zombies or those in small, scattered groups of two or three.
There were no intense brawls, no unnecessary losses. Every strike was clean and decisive. The team members worked in perfect concert; the kill and the core extraction were performed in one smooth motion. What seemed like a slow and steady clearing pace was, in fact, astonishingly efficient.
