All Chapters of Zombie Slaying System: Chapter 371
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Jonah hung in the dark air. His right hand gripped the thick, cold, rusted metal pipe. His entire, massive body dangled over the deep, endless chasm.The pain in his stomach was not just bad. It was absolute agony. It was a bright, burning, blinding fire. The giant bone scythe of the Goliath monster had cut deep into his side. Hot, wet blood poured out of the wound. It ran down his thick leg. It soaked his boot. The blood dripped off the bottom of his shoe and fell into the dark, empty space below. Drip. Drip. Drip.Jonah closed his eyes tightly. He ground his teeth together so hard his jaw made a cracking sound.He waited for the bright blue light in his mind. He waited for the System to save him.Please, Jonah thought. Please, turn on. Give me the pain blockers. Give me the auto-heal.But the inside of his head was completely black. The Dead Zone had killed the machine. There was no magic left. He was just a man. And a man with a hole in his stomach will die.Above him, the Golia
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"AGH!" Jonah yelled. His back arched off the stone floor. The pain of her hands pressing on the raw meat was unbearable."I am sorry! I know it hurts!" Lisa cried out. "But I have to keep the pressure on it! If I let go, you will bleed to death in three minutes!"Jonah grabbed Lisa’s wrist. His giant hand was surprisingly weak. "Do it," Jonah gasped. "Push harder."Lisa pushed harder. The white cloth instantly turned dark red.They were all so focused on Jonah’s terrible wound that they did not notice what the dead monster had done.When the giant Goliath monster fell, its heavy bone scythes had smashed into the dirt wall of the chasm. The Dead Zone was already a broken, glitching environment. The earth here was not stable. It was corrupted.RUMBLE.A deep, low vibration shook the stone ledge."What is that?" Elena asked from higher up the climbing path. She held tightly to a rusted pipe.RUUUUMMMMBBBLLLLLE.The earthquake started again. But it was not the slow, rhythmic heartbeat of
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Jonah watched this from the floor. He tried to crawl toward them. He dragged his bloody body across the stone, leaving a thick, wet trail behind him. But he was moving too slowly.Lisa was sliding closer to the edge. The rock was scraping her stomach.She needed leverage. She needed a tool.Lisa used her free left hand. She reached into her belt. She pulled out her heavy iron wrench.Right next to her head, there was a deep crack in the stone floor.Lisa slammed the thick iron wrench directly into the crack. She wedged it tight. She grabbed the handle of the wrench with her left hand, locking her arm in place.Now, she was anchored. The iron wrench held her to the mountain."Pull!" Lisa screamed.The muscles in her arms bulged. The veins in her neck popped out. Her face turned bright red from the incredible, impossible effort. She was just a normal human, but the human will to protect a friend is stronger than any machine.She pulled Kevin upward.Kevin used his legs to kick against t
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Lisa lay on her back. Her eyes were half-open, staring blankly up at the dark sky.There was no visible blood on her body. Her green mechanic’s suit was not torn. Her face was not cut. She looked like she was just sleeping."Lisa, get up," Kevin begged. He grabbed her shoulder and shook her gently. "Come on. The earthquake is over. Get up."Lisa did not move.Suddenly, her chest hitched. She took a tiny, shallow breath.Then, she coughed.A thick, horrible spray of bright red and pitch-black blood erupted from her mouth. It splattered across her chin and neck.The damage was not on the outside. The shockwave had hit her with impossible, glitching force. The damage was deep inside. Her ribs were shattered. Her lungs were crushed. Her internal organs were bleeding out.Jonah froze.The great giant, the leader, the man who always knew what to do, completely and totally froze.He stared at his dying friend.In the past, this was the easiest problem in the world to fix. Jonah would just op
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The darkness was absolute. It was not just the dark of a room with the lights turned off. It was a heavy, suffocating blackness. It felt like a thick blanket wrapped tightly around their heads.Jonah sat on the cold stone ledge. He held Lisa’s small, broken body against his massive chest. He could not see her face. He could not see his own hands. But he could feel her.He felt the wet, sticky blood soaking through her green mechanic’s suit. He felt the terrible cold creeping into her skin."System," Jonah whispered in the dark. His deep voice trembled. "System. Please."He closed his eyes, even though it made no difference. He pushed his mind deep inside his own brain. He looked for the bright blue light of the Tactical Grid. He looked for the magic menu that had saved his life a hundred times before.Wake up, Jonah screamed inside his head. Turn on! Give me the healing menu! Give me the red potions! Auto-heal! Do it now!He waited. He held his breath.His mind remained completely, to
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Elena placed the flat heel of her right hand in the exact center of Lisa’s bruised chest. She placed her left hand over her right hand. She locked her elbows."I have to pump her heart and force the lungs to move," Elena explained. "Jonah, keep her head tilted back!"Elena pushed down hard on Lisa’s chest.Crack.They all heard the sickening sound of Lisa’s broken ribs shifting under Elena’s hands.Jonah winced. He wanted to stop Elena. He wanted to protect Lisa from the pain. But he knew Elena was trying to save her life.Elena pushed again. And again. She pumped Lisa’s chest in a fast, steady rhythm.One. Two. Three. Four."Breathe, damn it," Elena whispered. Tears streamed down the burned side of her face. "Breathe for us."One. Two. Three. Four.The small orange flame from the lighter flickered in the cold wind. Time seemed to slow down. The silence in the dark chasm was deafening. There was only the sound of Elena pushing on Lisa’s chest.Push. Push. Push."It's not working," Kev
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"We rest," Jonah whispered. "We wait for our strength to return. And then, we climb down.""Climb down?!" Marcus yelled. He almost dropped the lighter. "Are you insane?! The machine down there is dead! You saw the light turn off!""It is not dead," Kevin argued. He held his broken shoulder. "I can still feel the vibration in the stone. It is very faint. But it is still beating.""It is a trap!" Marcus cried. "The virus is just waiting for us down there!"Jonah turned his head slowly to look at the old man."There is nowhere else to go, Marcus," Jonah said. His voice was tired, but it held the heavy truth. "If we climb back up, we will die in the yellow fog. If we stay on this ledge, we will starve. Our only hope is to reach the bottom. We have to find the Echo Seed. We have to see if we can turn it back on. If the Seed wakes up, maybe it can clear this fog. Maybe it can heal Lisa."Elena looked down at Lisa’s pale face. She gently stroked Lisa’s dirty hair. "I don't know how much time
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The red light pulsed. Lisa pulled a small, ragged breath into her crushed lungs. The deep chasm went completely dark.She breathed out. The dirt walls of the massive hole glowed with a sick, corrupted red light.Jonah stared at her pale face. He did not have time to cry anymore. He did not have time to feel sorry for himself. He had a job to do."I will carry her," Jonah said. His deep voice sounded like grinding stones.Kevin stepped forward. He held his broken shoulder with his good hand. "Dad, no," Kevin said. "You have a massive hole in your stomach. You are bleeding. If you carry her, you will rip the wound open again. Let me do it.""You have broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder," Jonah replied. He did not look at his son. He kept his dark eyes on Lisa. "If you drop her, she dies. I will not drop her.""But Dad—""I said, I will do it," Jonah commanded. There was no room for argument. He was the leader. He was the father. He would carry the heaviest weight.Jonah pushed himself
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"The space is shifting," Kevin whispered from behind Jonah. "The environment is misaligned. The Dead Zone is breaking reality.""It is reacting to her," Jonah said. He looked down at Lisa in his arms.The corrupted energy from the shockwave was inside her. Her dying body was connected to the broken computer code of the Dead Zone. As she got weaker, the world around them got crazier.Hssssss...The red light pulsed.Suddenly, the ceiling of dirt above them dropped. It moved ten feet down in an instant, almost crushing their heads.Elena screamed and ducked. Marcus dropped to his knees, covering his head with his hands.Haaaaa...The red light faded. The ceiling snapped back up to its normal height."The walls are closing in on us!" Marcus panicked. He grabbed his heavy rifle. He aimed it wildly into the dark. "We are trapped! The cave is breathing! It is trying to crush us!""Put the gun down, Marcus!" Jonah commanded. "Shooting the walls will not save us!""We have to go back up!" Mar
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They ran. They rushed down the steep dirt path. The rocks broke under their boots. They moved faster than before. Jonah’s sheer force of will pushed them forward.The red light flashed."Stop!" Elena screamed.The ceiling directly above them dropped like a massive stone hammer.Elena, Marcus, and Kevin threw themselves flat on the ground. The ceiling stopped only three feet above the floor. They were safe on their stomachs.But Jonah was carrying Lisa. He could not throw himself flat without crushing her broken ribs.Jonah stood in the middle of the path. The massive dirt ceiling came crashing down toward his head."Dad! Duck!" Kevin screamed in terror.Jonah did not duck. He could not. Jonah spread his thick legs wide. He held Lisa tightly against his chest with his left arm. He raised his massive right arm above his head. He locked his elbow.BAM!The dropping ceiling hit Jonah’s right hand.The weight of the earth was impossible. It was thousands and thousands of pounds of solid ro