28. A Sacrifice

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

-James Oppenheim

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As Ivan drives in the other direction, the mindless zombies run after it. We take that as the green light to move. We quickly make our way through the streets toward the supermarket from before. We hide behind walls and sneak around the supermarket. As we come across the parking lot, we can see many zombies lurking among the vehicles.

"Damn it," Eric mutters.

"Let's wait for Ivan and proceed. We are almost there." Henry says, looking at the green meadow ahead of us, which is across the parking lot.

So we hide and wait for Ivan behind the supermarket. It takes almost half an hour for Ivan to appear. He almost runs past us but stops when he sees us.

He joins us and hides behind the supermarket as well.

"We'll have to make it through the parking lot," he says.

"Yeah. And there's a field afterwards. So surely, once we are out of the parking lot, the zombies will spot us. We only get a