Chapter 41: An Encounter

The Reclamation Operation conducted by Blackwatch is progressing smoothly.  Teams divided into squads swept every street, road, alley, house, residential and commercial building. 

Two hours after Phase Three of the operation started, the Blackwatch operatives found no survivors so far. 

Richard was looking concernedly at the television screen mounted on the wall, giving him a first-person view of some operatives who were clearing the area. 

"Don't tell me, everyone inside the square kilometer grid was infected?" Richard murmured and bit his lower lip. "How many percent of the square kilometer grid that we have scanned?"

Sara's fingers danced over the keyboard, swiftly entering commands into the software. Moments later, a display screen appeared, with a green area indicating the sections their operatives had already searched and a red area representing the yet-to-be-explored territory.