It was these ‘spot-fires’ that the authorities had been concentrating on in the first days after the initial outbreak. If they could locate the source of a fresh outbreak quickly – and he (or they) wasn’t usually trying to hide – they could stamp out that fresh outbreak completely. Picking off one or two zombies ahead of the ‘tide’ was a much more achievable goal than successfully confronting a vast and uncontrolled army of the things on a wide front. There had been, apparently, hundreds of plague spot fires controlled in this way but many more were still occurring – according to the BBC, at least. I couldn’t argue with this part of the strategy – but, of necessity, it meant that we, in Melbourne, would remain on our own for some time to come. Or did it? The BBC newscast, somewhat cryptically, concluded by saying that overseas forces were on the way to reinforce the Australian troops (we’d guessed that much) and that, in preparation for their arrival, the Port of Melbourne would need to be retaken – and the facilities made ready - in order to receive and process troop and supply ships. (And, incidentally, to stop the infected from exiting overseas.) The Port of Melbourne? That was only a mile or so from the university. Perhaps we’d be seeing action sooner than we thought.
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