The Food of the Gods Page #3

back to the farmhouse.

Oh, God, forgive me

for doing bad things.

I swear, I won't sin again if you

just return my husband to me.

A doctor ought to be taking

care of this, Mrs. Skinner.

The Lord healeth the sick,

Lorna.

That's from the Bible.

Yeah, well, I think maybe you

should drive back with us tonight

Oh, no, I can't do that.

When Mr. Skinner returns,

he'll want me to be here.

He will.

Mr. Morgan.

Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan.

They got Lorna

God have mercy

on the poor girl.

Well, what happened?

I'll show you.

I'll get my gun.

Yeah.

That slope in back of the house.

That's where we saw them.

Then, all at once,

they came at us!

And Lorna ran up on the slope,

but the earth gave way.

She fell in there.

That's where the big rats went.

But Lorna's down in there.

Lorna!

Lorna, can you hear me?

Morgan!

Morgan, get me out of here!

Okay, I'm coming down.

You're sure they were rats?

- I know a rat when I see one, mister.

- Give me a hand.

They're nearly

as big as horses.

Is there anything you didn't

feed the food to, Mrs. Skinner?

Brian, get the rope and

flashlight from the jeep, okay?

Right.

Oh, Lord.

It's happened, just as

Mr. Skinner said it would.

Being punished 'cause

we sinned against nature.

The only sin, Mrs. Skinner,

is your goddamn stupidity.

You're not a good man,

Mr. Bensington.

The things you say and do.

You okay?

Yeah.

Hand me the shotgun.

Coming in.

Got it?

Yeah.

Take her up.

Morgan! Morgan!

Are you okay?

Yes.

Morgan!

Morgan!

Morgan!

Careful there.

Where are those ratholes?

There.

There.

Bensington,

will you go in with me?

Don't be a fool.

Thanks, Brian.

You okay?

Here.

Thanks to you, kid,

we missed the last ferry.

You bastard.

Thomas.

Honey.

Yes?

Please, could you just

lift me up, please.

Yeah, sure.

You all right?

Oh, yeah.

It stopped. It stopped

What the hell was that?

Thomas.

Rita. Rita,

come to the door.

Come on out.

Tom, what is it?

Oh, my God!

Tom!

Oh, Tom!

Look at them.

Tom.

Come on, let's get out of here.

Come on. Come on.

Oh, Tom, I can't..

They're out there,

all over the place.

- They're everywhere. They're everywhere.

- Big rats.

Where? Out there on the road

where your camper was?

By the camper, yeah.

Wait, how many were there?

I don't know.

They're all over the road.

Come on, Lorna, we'll drive right

through them.

Hold it right there.

What the hell

do you think you're doing?

This car might be the only way

out of here for all of us.

That's why I'm taking it.

If anybody wants to come along,

they can come.

Now give me the keys.

Not until I know it's safe.

Safe, hell!

It's my car, god damn it!

Give me the keys.

Okay, Bensington,

I'll give you your keys back,

but if you try and

take any of these people

out of here before

I tell you it's okay,

you're gonna have more than

rats to fight. You got that?

Hold it a second, Morgan.

How could they get

at us inside the car?

Well, after they force us off the

road, they'll give us a choice,

of either dying inside the car

or coming outside

and being eaten.

Well, I don't hear you coming up

with a better suggestion.

Well, how about this one?

You and I go

for a ride in my jeep

and take a little look

for ourselves, huh?

What the hell for?

I don't know. Maybe those kids

exaggerated a little.

- I'm not interested.

- Maybe they exaggerated a lot.

I'm still not interested.

Well, just you and me,

Brian, let's go.

Maybe he's right, Morgan.

His car is closed.

We could plow right

through the bastards.

Okay, Brian, you go out there

and plow right through

the rats with the man.

If you don't make it,

no one can say you didn't try.

All right, just tell me

one thing, okay?

What the hell are we

going out there for?

In this open jeep,

we don't stand a chance.

Dumb bastards.

They're even worse

than I thought.

Jack?

Jack, the girl is sick.

I don't know what to do.

It's stopped.

She could be

having a miscarriage.

Help me! This is

the end of it. I want it all!

Didn't you hear what I said?

I said the girl is sick.

She could be dying.

Find every container you can.

Pails, bottles, jugs,

anything that'll hold it.

We'll load the car

and then get out of here.

You don't give a damn

about the girl, do you?

You don't give a damn about anybody,

but yourself and money.

Do you know what

this food is worth?

Enough millions, you can use

$100 bills for toilet paper.

You can flush it down the toilet

without even counting it.

Well, I didn't know that's what

you wanted money for, Jack.

I'll give you one thing,

though, you're creative.

You're a no good son of a b*tch,

but you're creative.

What are you stopping for?

What are you doing?

You don't think that's going

to keep them out, do you?

I'm going to follow that road,

right down there.

That road?

That's the way the rats are coming.

The rats are coming...

Oh, relax, will you, Brian

? Relax.

Well, we're in luck.

The fence runs right into the water.

Oh, Jesus Christ, Morgan!

You saw how big they are.

This goddamn fence isn't going to stop

them, nothing's going to stop them.

Well, maybe not.

Even if it did, they can swim.

You know that? Rats can swim.

They'll swim right

around the end of it.

No, I don't think so.

I think if they go in the water,

they'll sink

straight to the bottom.

Come on, are you kidding me?

You ever seen movies of

a hippopotamus in the water?

I should swim so well.

Yeah, well, they've been doing it

for a hell of a long time.

So have rats.

Yeah, at a weight

of about 10 ounces.

So?

At 150 pounds,

the gravity pull is gonna make it

a whole new thing.

I think they're gonna have to learn

how to swim all over again.

You could be wrong.

.And the fence goes to

the water on this end, too

If they attack us out here

in the open, we're dead.

We've got an unbroken

wire fence running across

the north side of the island, with

water on both sides.

It won't even slow them down.

Charged with electricity,

it will.

You should see how

funny you look, Jack.

You're scared shitless

the rats will come,

but you want money

badly enough to chance it.

Well, fill this, god damn it!

The stuff is drying up.

I'm beginning to think maybe that

stuff should stay right where it is.

What the hell

are you talking about?

Well, it doesn't look so good,

as a super-contribution

to the world, I mean.

Starving people?

And you're going to feed them

all with big chickens, right?

Yeah, and giant cows and sheep,

and ducks and fish,

and you name it!

Yeah, well, it sounds good,

but wouldn't bigger creatures

have larger appetites?

I'm way ahead of you, kid.

I'm going to take this stuff and

have it converted to plant food.

Oh, and you're gonna feed all

the big animals with big plants.

Right on.

And within five years,

hunger will be

a thing of the past.

And that's what you're

doing it for, is it, Jack?

For the benefit of all the hungry

people throughout the world.

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