“Arrgh! You promised” Ray screamed helplessly. “You said you would release her!”Dani was on the ground sprawling weakly in front of him.Her clothes were tattered and her face was covered with dirt while her chin was bleeding as she trembled violently.This kind of trembling was not because she was cold but because she had been severely tortured and it was due to fear.Ray had witnessed enough of the apocalypse to understand what the shaking meant and the moment he understood it, his emotions died instantly and permanently, he was about to lose his sister.He has done every single thing he was asked to do.He had commanded zombies on their given orders and had cleared sectors, he had been pushed into the infected zone by Wolfe and his men and had used the ability to separate him from any other living being on earth for their purpose.Why? Because they had his sister and had promised not to hurt her as long as he obeyed all their orders.But it was all a lie.Wolfe bent down beside Da

Ray's phone rang on Thursday at 5:00 am.He was already awake and had been sitting at the kitchen table with a notepad in front trying to build every list of names he knew would be connected to project X.The list had not been bulky, it only had three different names.He quickly grabbed the phone after ringing the second time.“Hello Ray,.” It wasn't Dani's voice, it was her room mate, Sara, her voice was hurried and abnormal.“Something has happened to Dani, she's…. I don't actually know what's wrong with her , she has these whitish substances all over her mouth and she scares me, her face looks…” Sara suddenly stopped. “Ray, her face was not normal.”Ray was already on his feet. “Don't touch her, don't allow anybody to come inside that room, I'm on my way now.”He was out of the room like a flash, he ran for almost five miles.Whatever the future version of himself had carried it had started coming to reality now.He didn't even think, he kept running and kept his phone glued to his

Ray grabbed the shelf and held on stiffly.The white in his vision had begun to disappear slowly. The store sounds came back with sounds of trolley wheels, a checkout beeping, music from the speaker above the third aisle. He was still bent and Zoe still had his arm.“I need to call someone,” she said.“No.” Ray adjusted and pulled himself off the shelf. "Don't. I'm fine.""You are not fine, you almost just hit the floor now.""I'm fine." He looked at her directly. "Please don't call anyone."She stared at him for a second. She had that kind of face that didn't hide what it was thinking. She thought he was being stupid and she was deciding whether to respect it or ignore it.She let go of his arm but didn't walk away.Ray breathed and counted and waited for the next round of spikes. It would surely come. In his previous life the symptoms had hit in three different waves before the final blackout arrived. He was somewhere in between the sequence right now.He had maybe twenty minut

Ray hit the first zombie before it fully made an attempt A single punch punch and ut banged in the shelving unit and brought half a crate of items down with it unable to stand up. Cans flung across the floor in different direction.Zoe recoiled against the office doorframe behind him and kept mute.Three more approached from the checkout lanes. Ray moved toward them instead of waiting for them and that was the difference he made, zombies expected things to run but he didn't run. He closed the distance and hit the first one across the jaw and grabbed the second one by the collar before it could react and drove it headfirst into the corner of the checkout counter.He adjusted himself and looked at his hands.He felt no pain throughout, and his hands were still.Whatever Project X had done to him in the minutes he was unconscious on that floor, it had strengthened him. He could feel it as if it was part of him now.He turned back to Zoe. "Stay directly behind me and move faster,

St Emmanuel looked like as if a group of bodies was used to build itRay halted at the corner of Millbrook Road and just looked at it for five good seconds. The entire block in front of the hospital was filled up. They were not scattered like those in Crescent street. They were packed from shoulder to shoulder with no space. More were coming around both sides of the building from the car park, all of them were moving with a focused aggression that the ones on Crescent Street hadn't had.These were different.Ray could see it all of a sudden all the zombies movement. They were more coordinated and the ones at the edges were actively looking around.Their heads were turning in more controlled position like they were watching perimeters. In his previous life the infected had taken weeks to develop that kind of group behaviour. But now they had it on the first day.Something about St Emmanuel had improved their mutation.“There are so many of them,” Zoe said beside him. Her voice som