Another coordinated burst of noise from Mihai up on the first floor of the shopping centre allowed the group a sliver of space to escape. Noah led them along cut-throughs and service roads that, without his insider knowledge, would otherwise have remained undiscovered. But the volume of bodies crammed into the mall was such that the undead were everywhere already, even in these remote, dark corners.
There was no doubt that Piotr’s wrecking ball actions had left Lakeside uninhabitable. The population density of this part of Essex had been high, and there’d been a disproportionate concentration of workers and shoppers within a couple of miles of the mall when death had indiscriminately swept across the world. As the group had already discovered, the geographic complexities of such a built-u
