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that's a good idea,' Janet said.
    'But we can't use them because of being tracked,' Alex
said.
    'My mum and dad will be, like, so worried.'
    'We could each send one text, couldn't we?'
    'Ten phones all zinging off a text at once is going to attract
some attention. They'll have our numbers and phone IDs on an alert
list.'
    'Nine, mine's still in Kilkorne, probably under a pile of
rubble,' Fred said.
    'What if we use one single phone to send one text, giving the
phone numbers and a list of names for everyone else, so they can
relay the fact that we're all OK? Then switch the phone off
immediately.'
    'They'd still be able to locate us. The computers will pick
out the numbers from the thousands of other calls, then work out
whereabouts we are.'
    'What about the internet?'
    'Brilliant, Alex! Much harder to trace.'
    'But where are we going to be able to do that? This is a
clothes shop.'
    'There might be an internet café near the centre of
town.'
    'Hmm, I bet that would be well zombied up.'
    'You're probably right.'
    'Computer shop?'
    'Haven't seen one yet.'
    'The office in this shop might have had access to the
internet.'
    'Being part of chain they'd definitely have had a network
linking all the stores. Only trouble is, it would all be passworded
and may not have had external access.'
    'Let's take a look, see if there's a laptop or
something.'
    Within ten minutes they had a laptop up and running on the
office wifi. It took rather longer to decide what to say and to
send all the messages to their families.
    'You know, now we've got internet access, we can try and get
in touch with the Ministry about getting the army off our
backs.'
    'Or go direct to Breathdeep.'
    Rachel was horrified. 'Go there?'
    'Contact them direct, through the internet.'
    'I wonder if they've got a website?'
    'You must be joking. A secret bio-research centre?'
    'Well, OK, what about the government website?'
     

Chapter 22: Photographic Evidence
    'Is that Mason?'
    'This is Professor Albert Mason, head of the Breathdeep
Biological Research Facility. What, Minister, can I do for you this
time? Mason was not in his office, he was supervising the
collection of inoculation data from the inmates of the holding
facility. It was a tricky job, requiring full protective gear and
restraint equipment for holding down individual zombies, whose sole
mission was to tear open the scientists' protective suits and
infect them.
    ' This is indeed a quite remarkable
weapon, ' he thought to himself,
' as long as you don't mind there being no
survivors at all, on either side. '
    'You can tell me why it is,' the Minister for Home Affairs
said in a cutting voice, 'that my own department informs me of a
method for detecting early exposure to the zombie virus, rather
than your facility.'
    'First I've heard of it, Minister,'
    'My point precisely.'
    'Well right now, we're examining and recording the results for
all the inmates we have here. So far, the new vaccine appears to be
working, albeit rather slowly in the most chronic
cases.'
    'That, at least is some good news.'
    'Alright, what's this early detection system you've heard
of?'
    'The fugitives that neither you nor the army seem to have been
able to track down…'
    Mason sighed. 'Kilkorne residents, got past the roadblock
yesterday?'
    'They've managed to use the internet to contact the government
website.'
    'Resourceful.'
    'I believe we've mentioned that before. Anyway, apparently one
of the kids heard your broadcast about UV showing up zombie blood,
so he went in the school DT room and converted a torch.'
    'The school was totally cleared out and hit with an RPG later,
how'd they manage that?'
    'We keep coming back to resourcefulness again, don't
we?'
    'So, they made a torch. We've done that. So what?'
    'Apart from showing up zombie blood, it makes the eyes of
anyone infected fluor… fluor-something. Whatever, they glow. The
kid says it works after only a few hours.'
    'Fluoresce is the word that's escaped you. We've got some hand
held