Chapter 29At least ten seconds of silence followed this statement. Cal broke it himself. “Zombies ignore me. I’ve seen it over and over again. You saw it back at the jetty. They ignore me because they think I’m already infected.”
“Bullshit,” Bren said.
“I’ve seen them go right past me to go after the next person. Mitch, you saw that at the hospital and at the naval base. Think back.”
Mitch shook his head, refusing to even contemplate this madness for a second.
“I don’t know how they know,” Cal said. “Maybe it’s my scent, or maybe it’s the antibodies. I don’t know. But I can walk through a crowd of zombies, and they’ll think I’m one of their own.”
“Prove it,” Bren said. “Go up to the wire right now and see how they react.”
“Bren!” Mitch protested. “He’ll be seen from that tower.”
“I’
