All Chapters of Mutated System : Rise Of The Alpha: Chapter 71
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The White Ghost
The blue light from Arman’s power core slowly faded on the frozen floor, giving off one last bit of thinning warmth. Nathan tightly held Alice, who was still shivering and stiff. The Bio-Zero professor’s lips were turning blue, her breaths sounding incredibly fragile under the heavy, ice-crusted jacket."Liana, his core is going completely cold," Nathan whispered, his voice raspy as he tried to stop shaking. "Professor Alice needs a temperature stabilizer right now, or her lungs are gonna freeze over."Liana didn't answer. Her eyes were glued to the ice crack separating them from the outside world. Out there, the silhouettes of dozens of zombies were still crowding around the snowdrift where Arman’s armor was buried. The constant sound of claws scratching against metal was pure torture, hitting Liana with a massive wave of guilt.THUD! THUD! THUD!A series of muffled gunshots suddenly broke through the roaring storm. It wasn't the sharp hiss of a military plasma rifle, but the hea
The Black Market Treaty
This was "The Iron Cave," the ultimate black market hub for the snow scavengers.Vance led them through a crowded market smelling of roasted meat and engine oil. "Eyes front, no questions," he barked. He shoved Nathan and Giselle into a temporary holding barrack, while Professor Alice was rushed off to an emergency medical ward by two guys in white coats."Hold up! I gotta stay with Alice!" Nathan yelled, but a hunter’s beefy hand pinned him back."The professor is an asset, kid. We’ll keep her alive," Vance said coldly. He grabbed Liana’s arm, hauling her away from the group and toward a cargo lift that dropped even deeper into the heart of the mine.The lift stopped at a spacious room covered in thick carpets—a crazy luxury in a wrecked world. Sitting behind an old mahogany desk was a woman wrapped in a white wolf-fur cloak. That was Rania, the big boss of The Snow Scavengers. Behind her, Arman’s trashed armor was displayed on a metal table like some ancient artifact they’d jus
Tech-Heist
"Liana’s terminal is live," Giselle whispered, her eyes reflecting the dim blue glow of the device. "She’s buying time with a dummy encryption. I can slip into her feed through a main console backdoor." Nathan stopped pacing, giving Giselle a serious look. "What about Professor Alice?" Giselle typed fast with her thumbs. "Her medical data just updated on the local net. Alice is awake. Heart rate's stable. She's ready to move, but the medical ward door is locked with a rolling code from Rania's control center." In the tech room three floors above them, Liana was still playing along, pretending to type furiously in front of a massive terminal screen. Vance stood right behind her, eyes narrowed, watching her every hand movement. BZZT. Suddenly, a line of code flashed in the bottom corner of Liana’s monitor, camouflaged perfectly within the running encryption algorithms of Arman’s armor. [G-SYS]: ALICE AWAKE. READY TO MOVE. PORTAL LOCK ON RANIA-SEC. NEED OVERRIDE. Liana he
The Hidden Wound's
Nathan knelt beside her, trying to fix the thick jacket she was wearing. "Professor, hang in there. We're out of the main Iron Cave area. Just a little further and we hit the surface exit."As Nathan pulled Alice’s sleeve up to make sure her circulation wasn't cut off, what he saw made him freeze. The pale skin on the professor’s wrist wasn't clean. There was a deep gash there, with blackened edges and dark blue veins creeping up toward her elbow.Anna, who had been guarding the steel door, turned around. The second her eyes caught that wound, her instincts overrode her logic. In a flash, her assault rifle was pointed straight at Alice’s temple."Nathan, back away," Anna ordered quietly, her tone ice-cold.Nathan jumped, instinctively shielding Alice with his own body. "What the hell are you doing? Drop the gun, Anna!""That’s an undead bite or scratch," Anna said flatly. "The wound is already turning black. She's infected."Giselle stepped closer with a small flashlight, shini
Silent Fever
"The subject... the subject didn't fail," Alice muttered. Her voice was raspy, echoing softly through the metal pipe like a natural loudspeaker. "The North Sector... they don't want a cure. They want... total control.""Professor, please, shut up," Nathan whispered in a panic. He crawled backward while supporting Alice’s waist, keeping the old woman from collapsing on the downward slope."Nathan, make her shut up!" Anna hissed from the very back of the line. Her hand was already gripping her tactical knife, ready to thrust forward if things went south. "Her voice is traveling straight down the hall. The rest of the undead down here can hear us!"CRACK.The sound of claws scratching the outside wall of the vent pipe made them all freeze instantly. Behind the sheet metal they were crawling on, they could hear faint, guttural groans. The zombies wandering the side tunnels of the mine were starting to pick up on the vibrations of Alice's voice."Don't stop, Liana! Keep moving!" Gise
The Frozen Current
The night wind cut straight to the bone the second they stepped out of the mine tunnel. Below the steep ice cliff, a pitch-black river flowed, its surface mostly frozen into a thick sheet of crystal. At the end of a sketchy, snow-covered wooden pier, an old motorboat rocked gently against the current."A boat! Over there!" Giselle pointed down, her breath coming out in thick puffs of vapor.But the path down wasn't clear. Along the slippery, icy riverbank, dozens of shadows started moving, rising from beneath the snowdrifts. Frozen zombies with peeling gray skin and dim red eyes began sniffing the air. They let out raspy hisses the moment they caught the scent of fresh meat."Nathan, piggyback the Professor now!" Liana ordered, pulling her tactical dagger and checking the remaining rounds in her rifle mag. "Focus on your path. Don't let go of her!"Nathan didn't waste a second. He crouched down, pulling Alice’s violently shivering body onto his back, then tied a blanket tight arou
The Silent Suburb
The boat engine coughed twice before totally dying. A strange, heavy silence instantly rushed in, replacing the constant rumble that had been their background noise for hours. The blinding white snow was gone, replaced by a dark, moss-covered concrete canal. A thick, gray fog hung low, wrapping around a row of shops with shattered windows. The boat slowly drifted to a stop, bumping into a collapsed overpass pillar that lay right across the canal. "Out of gas," Giselle whispered, dropping the empty jerrycan onto the deck. Liana stood at the bow, scouting the concrete stairs leading up to the streets. "We get off here. Find some cover before this fog gets any thicker." Nathan moved slowly, draping Professor Alice’s arm over his shoulder. The snow was gone, but the air in this dead city felt different—damp, stuffy, and smelling of rusted iron. Alice dragged her feet as she walked, her breaths coming in short gasps behind the cloth gag Nathan had finally loosened. They climbed t
The Forced Alliance
CLANG!An uncontrolled kick from Alice’s seizing leg slammed right into an old metal shelf next to the checkout counter. The shelf collapsed, sending dozens of empty plastic bottles crashing onto the concrete floor with a loud racket that shattered the pharmacy's silence."We got people inside! Weapons up!" a raspy shout barked through the fog outside.Within seconds, three guys in gas masks burst through the torn rolling door. The high-powered hunting lights mounted on their rifle barrels locked instantly onto Nathan, who was cradling Alice on the floor. Anna and Liana checked out from behind the pillars on instinct, their rifle and dagger aimed straight at the three newcomers. The room went totally stiff, packed with deadly Mexican standoffs."Hold! Don't shoot!" ordered the gas-masked guy in the middle, his voice deep and distorted by his mask's filter. He raised one hand, signaling his men to keep their fingers off the triggers.The leader's flashlight beam shifted from Natha
The Quarantine Cell
Dimly flickering neon lights lit up the damp underground station corridor. The smell of cheap disinfectant mixed with a sharp stench of rust that hit their noses hard. To their left and right, the station's waiting areas had been partitioned off with thick iron bars, forming a row of dead-silent quarantine cells.Two of Harris’s men, wearing shabby plastic raincoats and thick cloth masks, immediately took Alice over from Nathan. They laid her down on a metal cot inside one of the cells. A syringe filled with a clear yellowish liquid was jammed into the professor’s arm. The effect was instant; Alice’s violently seizing body slowly started to relax, and her raspy breathing gradually became more steady.Nathan let out a massive sigh of relief, holding onto the iron bars as he watched his research aunt. "The medicine's working. She’s calm now."CLANG.The sound of the cell door locking from the outside made Nathan jump. He spun around and found Harris already standing in the middle of
The Whispering Walls
The quarantine cell corridor went completely dead silent after Harris left. Nathan sat against the iron bars of Alice’s cell, keeping a close eye on his aunt's breathing, which was finally starting to steady. In another corner, Liana and Giselle were busy checking whatever was left of their supplies. But Anna couldn't sit still. The anger and suspicion burning in her chest drove her to walk away, heading down the dim end of the hallway they hadn't checked out yet. Anna’s footsteps made zero sound on the damp concrete. At the very end of the corridor, there was a cell intentionally covered by a thick black tarp, like Harris was trying to hide whatever was inside from the rest of the world. Tap... Tap... Tap... Anna froze. That rhythmic tapping sound came faintly from behind the tarp. Her hand slowly drifted to her waist, gripping the handle of her remaining tactical knife. With a quick movement, she yanked the tarp aside. Inside the stuffy cell, a guy in a torn scavenger unifor