something worthwhile at her destination.
When she first reached the outskirts of the city she found lots of unoccupied military vehicles as well as numerous high-intensity weapons just lying vacant on the floor. But once again she saw no evidence of skeletons or anything of the like. Most likely these had been deployed during the bombardment as a precaution only to succumb to the same fate as everyone else on the planet. Still she took the opportunity to pick up some more heavy-duty weapons just in case she needed them. Why let them go to waste?
As she started exploring she saw familiar sights such as evidence of an airplane crash and many buildings that looked like they had been completely burned down. This was true of every city that she had come across so far and it was most likely the result of the sudden death of everyone rather than intentionally set. With everyone just dropping dead fires would naturally break out and there would be no fire department there to put them out. So that didn't necessarily get her too concerned right away.
She paused and began to laugh when she saw something she never expected. She found herself in front of the movie theater advertising an all-night George Romero movie marathon for the night of the bombardment." How's that for irony," she said as she got out and looked around. But that was when she noticed something different about the movie theater. She went up to the wall and felt some holes. "These are bullet holes."
She drew her gun and went very slowly into the movie theater expecting to find large numbers of cocoons. But she didn't find what she expected. When she got into the first theater she saw the inside appeared to be burned but someone had put the fire out before it consumed the entire movie theater.
"Somebody burned this place down and put the fire out before it burned down completely. That must have happened after the bombardment."
Looking around the rest of the theater she found it to be in a similar state. It appears the inside of the theater rooms had been set on fire but then the fire had been put out. Whoever burned this place up did so in a very systematic way as though they were burning it room by room and then putting the fires out right afterwards. Whoever did this had a specific plan in mind. It was not a random fire because the lobby and other areas did not show similar signs of burning.
"There might be survivors here after all," she said as she slowly exited the theater. She went next door to a pizza place to find that it also had evidence of gunshots, as though some type of firefight had taken place.
Wanting to see if it was a fluke or not, she went to most of the remaining areas and found that many of the places had a similar pattern. Large open places had evidence that someone had been burning them and putting the fires out immediately afterwards before the fires burned out of control and burned down the entire city.
When she suddenly had a revelation. "The cocoons!" Why hadn't she thought of it before? The burning patterns indicate that they were burning something in the room and melting it down. Whoever had survived might have found cocoons and used some type of guns or flamethrowers to burn away the cocoons where the creatures lived so that they wouldn't have any place to hide. And if they had done this to several buildings in the area then it meant that somebody out there must have survived to do it.
But as she looked around she saw no indications that anyone was trying to communicate. There were no signs that said survivors or where survivors could meet up or any evidence of a large number of people being in the area. If she had to guess it seemed like the work of one solitary
When she first reached the outskirts of the city she found lots of unoccupied military vehicles as well as numerous high-intensity weapons just lying vacant on the floor. But once again she saw no evidence of skeletons or anything of the like. Most likely these had been deployed during the bombardment as a precaution only to succumb to the same fate as everyone else on the planet. Still she took the opportunity to pick up some more heavy-duty weapons just in case she needed them. Why let them go to waste?
As she started exploring she saw familiar sights such as evidence of an airplane crash and many buildings that looked like they had been completely burned down. This was true of every city that she had come across so far and it was most likely the result of the sudden death of everyone rather than intentionally set. With everyone just dropping dead fires would naturally break out and there would be no fire department there to put them out. So that didn't necessarily get her too concerned right away.
She paused and began to laugh when she saw something she never expected. She found herself in front of the movie theater advertising an all-night George Romero movie marathon for the night of the bombardment." How's that for irony," she said as she got out and looked around. But that was when she noticed something different about the movie theater. She went up to the wall and felt some holes. "These are bullet holes."
She drew her gun and went very slowly into the movie theater expecting to find large numbers of cocoons. But she didn't find what she expected. When she got into the first theater she saw the inside appeared to be burned but someone had put the fire out before it consumed the entire movie theater.
"Somebody burned this place down and put the fire out before it burned down completely. That must have happened after the bombardment."
Looking around the rest of the theater she found it to be in a similar state. It appears the inside of the theater rooms had been set on fire but then the fire had been put out. Whoever burned this place up did so in a very systematic way as though they were burning it room by room and then putting the fires out right afterwards. Whoever did this had a specific plan in mind. It was not a random fire because the lobby and other areas did not show similar signs of burning.
"There might be survivors here after all," she said as she slowly exited the theater. She went next door to a pizza place to find that it also had evidence of gunshots, as though some type of firefight had taken place.
Wanting to see if it was a fluke or not, she went to most of the remaining areas and found that many of the places had a similar pattern. Large open places had evidence that someone had been burning them and putting the fires out immediately afterwards before the fires burned out of control and burned down the entire city.
When she suddenly had a revelation. "The cocoons!" Why hadn't she thought of it before? The burning patterns indicate that they were burning something in the room and melting it down. Whoever had survived might have found cocoons and used some type of guns or flamethrowers to burn away the cocoons where the creatures lived so that they wouldn't have any place to hide. And if they had done this to several buildings in the area then it meant that somebody out there must have survived to do it.
But as she looked around she saw no indications that anyone was trying to communicate. There were no signs that said survivors or where survivors could meet up or any evidence of a large number of people being in the area. If she had to guess it seemed like the work of one solitary
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