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    After an hour of finding a small car that can make seven people sit in it, where five people have taken out all the available gas from the gas trailer (which wasn''t a lot, only 25% of it was still in it) and from the gas pumps, the journey to Beira starts. The car they''ve picked is a small one with four seats, a Toyota, but it is a reliable one to carry seven people across the city. Plus, it has enough gas to last until Beira.


    Akinyi and two people from the 1st Army are tying the car by using those hinges and the helicopter hinges it has in it to transport the vehicle with survivors toward their safe zone instead of using the boats.


    "You sure this is safe?" asks Abeni to Charlie the pilot, while the people are making final preparations.


    "Girl," said Charlie to Abeni. "I''ve transported a lot of boats and cars before and after this apocalypse. Trust me. This will be safe. As long as you all don''t move or have a flying fear."


    "But don''t you transport us to Beira if you are so sure?" asked Abeni.


    "It''s too risky due to weather conditions," says Charlie pointing at the gray clouds in the sky. "There''s a risk of rain. And probably strong winds. We don''t want to lose you seven at five thousand feet altitude now do we?"


    Abeni did not respond to this. She went back to the car, where preparations seemed to be finished. She is still, like many others, feeling unsure about Akinyi''s idea, but she has to trust her, like the three people from Harare.


    When the preparations have been completed, the squad of seven survivors enter the car. It is not comfortable for seven people to be in a car with five seats, but this will do. They were thinking of using the military truck, but Charlie advised them it is too heavy to be lifted at a high altitude.


    After all these seven people managed to make room to sit in this car, they all hold onto something and look at the helicopter who is starting to take off. The survivors group see how the people from the 1st Army are getting inside the helicopter before take-off, with a lot of gas cans that were laid in the gas station and with bottles filled with gasoline.


    In a few moments, the helicopter proceeds to gain altitude, and when it gains enough altitude, the car proceeds to be lifted into the air. At the first centimeters, the survivors were feeling scared to see their car start to raise in the air, but as the helicopter gained altitude, and the car started to gain more and more altitude, some survivors felt nervous.


    When the helicopter reached a good altitude, it started to fly toward the other part of the city. While flying, some survivors were looking down at the window, where they saw a lot of zombies walking toward the helicopter, some looking and others chewing on dead human bodies. This flying experience wasn''t that bad as some survivors thought it would be. It was safe and not that scary. This whole trip took about 15 minutes, where the helicopter decided to land the car on an open hill, and detached the hinges from the helicopter.


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    "What a trip!" says Akinyi excitedly after the car lands on the hill.


    "Yeah…" says Chidi and Quanda feeling nervous.


    "It Was crazy!" said Eze.


    "We''re going to Briar, people! All of you should stay comfy and don''t make a commotion until we get there" says Abeni turning on the car, and starts to drive the car to the street who is having a lot of abandoned cars on this vast highway.


    ***


    The road toward Briar has taken a lot of time since they had to do a lot of detours, avoid crowded cities with zombies and drive through a crowded street that is leading to Briar. The squad of seven people have been escorted by the 1st Army helicopter to Briar port.


    Once they arrived in a parking lot, they walk out from there with guns and start firing on the zombies that are roaming the place. While the survivors are killing zombies and walking to the nearest dock to an available motor-boat, the helicopter is providing aerial support to the people on the street.


    "There''s a boat!" says Chidi to the group, pointing at a big motorboat that is near the wooden dock.


    "Look out!" says Abeni seeing a zombie climbing a building like a goat.


    Quanda and Eze are shooting that zombie, who is falling on his back on the hard terrain, on the rooftop of a car.


    The group continues to shoot, walk and kill as many zombies as they can to advance toward the boat Chidi pointed out earlier. The group enters that boat. They check the boat to see if there aren''t any zombies in there. Three minutes later, they found no zombies in there, and Akinyi went over to start the engine of this fishing boat type.


    While the boat was advancing from the dock, Giconi cuts the rope with a knife and helps the other five people, Chidi, Abeni, Samuel, Quanda and Eze, by shoot the zombies that are walking and running toward the boat, but it is kinda pointless since the helicopter of the 1st Army is giving them help to kill these mindless creatures infected with Z virus.


    "We''re safe!" says Giconi smiling and looking at the zombies who are stuck on the dock, screaming and yelling at the boat who is sailing far away from there on a seven miles per hour as the motor of this cuddy cabin boat indicates.


    "We are alive!" says Eze sounding happy.


    "Hallelujah!" says Samuel happy, holding his assault rifle with his hands in the air.


    Most of the people on this sailboat celebrate their victory against these creatures, while others are taking a well-deserved rest. Akinyi continues to make this boat sail further from the docks. She is the only one able to sail because she told his people earlier that her father taught her how to sail on the ocean during a summer vacation.


    Survivors are cheering for their well-earned freedom, looking happy at the sun that is revealed by the gray clouds, and waving at the helicopter who is flying toward Europe''s island. While the survivors were looking at the helicopter flying, some were wondering how their lives would be in there, and how they would live from now on.


    "Akinyi," said Chidi looking at Akinyi.


    "Yes, sir?" asked Akinyi, who focused on sailing.


    "How long will this voyage take us?"


    "A while," said Akinyi.


    "Does this boat have a functioning radio?"


    "I am afraid it doesn''t." says Akinyi showing that the radio here doesn''t work. "Were you trying to call the guys from the helicopter?"


    "Yes. But. We''ll soon be there, and thank them for all the help they''ve done for us."


    Chidi leaves Akinyi''s to continue her sailing, going to the group who has gathered at the back of the boat, safe from the motors, where they lay down and look at the city who is getting further and further with each passing minute. They still cannot believe they''ve managed to escape that chaos without too much trouble. Sure, they''ve lost people, good and bad people on the way to a better place, but their sacrifice will not be forgotten.


    END OF PART 10