World War Z Introduction Chapter 5 Around the World and Above Part 34

World War Z Introduction Chapter 5 Around the World and Above Part 34

TOMONAGA: I landed between his shoulder blades, not hard enough to do any permanent damage, but enough to knock the wind out of his slight, malnourished frame. KONDO: He had me on my stomach, my face in the dirt, the blade of his shovel-thing pressed tightly against the back of my neck. TOMONAGA: I told him to lie still, that I would kill him if he moved. KONDO: I tried to speak, gasping between coughs that I was friendly, that I didn’t even know he was there, that all I wanted to do was pass along and be on my way. TOMONAGA: I asked him where he was going. KONDO: I told him Nemuro, the main Hokkaido port of evacuation, where there might still be one last transport, or fishing boat, or…something that might still be left to get me to Kamchatka. TOMONAGA: I did not understand. I ordered him to explain. KONDO: I described everything, about the plague, the evacuation. I cried when I told him that Japan had been completely abandoned, that Japan was nai. TOMONAGA: And suddenly I knew. I knew why the god…