Shadows of JiangXi

[mtjsmith]

Chun charged over another crest, kicking up sand and dirt that had strewn over the tarmac. He landed the quad perfectly and kicked the shift down a gear to get the revs up for the next small hill. Up he went and he enjoyed the air-time. He looked along the road, it was straight and narrow. Checking his new radiation meter, it was bleeping very low. At these levels - he could lose the gas mask for the moment. He decided against it, he had probably had far too much over the last few days as it is.

"Never been to this county before, How dull."

He wasn't joking. The plains were the least nuked part of the planet for good reason. There was nothing here. The flats were pop-marked with rocky outcrops, straw like grass and the odd tree here and there. Ling kicked up a gear and accelerated, the road was much less broken here. Now he could really get the speed up. Luckily he did, because an explosion went off where he would have been if he didn't speed up.

"...the hell?"

Ling looked behind him and swore. He was being chased by three vehicles. They were three man jeeps. A driver, a gunner and a man at the back with a big grenade launcher. The vehicles looked old and shoddy. Nothing like the next generation armour the marines were using back at Checkpoint Alpha.

"Bandits. Must be."

Another explosion went off to the left of Ling. He was gonna be dead if he stayed on this long straight road.

"ARGH! I am tired of being chased by beasts, monsters, zombies and birds! TO HELL WITH YOU ALL!"

He screamed to the heavens and took his quad bike off the road. His quad was more maneuverable than the jeeps chasing him. He would use this to his advantage. Reaching over his shoulder and into his backpack, he grabbed one of the SMGs. Arcing to the left, he forced the jeeps off road. He then made a snap right turn, outfoxing his attackers. Swinging his SMG around to the side of him, he started firing.

"Take it you dirty dirty..."

He kept swearing as he fired his third burst. There were screams and the distinct sound of the bullets ripping into a few human-ish bodies. Two more explosions went off near Ling, and there was smaller arms fire kicking up dirt and sand along his path. Ling kicked the quad down another gear and went back onto the road. Two jeeps followed.

"Well I got one."

An explosion went off in front of him, tearing shards out of the road which pelted Ling and his quad. He was indeed wise to keep his mask on. Tugging at his belt, he pulled the pin on a grenade. Waiting two seconds, he threw it to the right hand side of him. The grenade hit the side of the road and the subsequent explosion caught one of the attacking jeeps, flipping it to left and taking it out of the action.

"Haha! C'mon! I've met BIRDS more scary than you lot!"

He laughed too soon. To his left two very different styled jeeps were closing on his position. The remaining jeep veered off to the left off of Ling's tail.

"Crap, more. Fine, bring it... wait.. what?"

Explosions and gunfire erupted between the jeeps. The two bandit tribes forgot about little Ling and were much more concerned with blasting each other.

"Get some."

Ling gunned the accelerator again to escape, he was entering a warzone.

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