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Chapter 69: A Warning from Thousands of Miles Away
"Couldn't they have raised literally anything else? Had to be a hundred dogs, and now my van's got a chunk missing.""Count yourself lucky. Saw a guy back there with a chunk missing out of his skull."...Jake studied the claw marks scarring his vehicle. The deepest gouges, courtesy of the buffalo-sized one, cut a good tenth of an inch into the panel enough to genuinely bother him.Easier to wreck something than build it, as always.All that grinding, all that time pouring into upgrades, and a handful of strays nearly undid it in minutes. Where was the fairness in that?Still, he had it better than most. Plenty of vehicles across the Caravan were far less reinforced than his and had taken much worse holes of every size scattered across their bodies.Word was two vehicles had their windows smashed clean through, everyone inside killed on the spot, left behind in that village for good.Jake grabbed some water and gave his vehicle a quick rinse, washing off the filth of dog blood smeared
Chapter 68: Zombie Dog
"Huh, looks like something ate this guy's leg.""Yeah, seriously. Bone's bitten clean through that's a serious bite force.""You two are bored or something? Why does that matter right now?"Some lingered over the severed leg, curious. Others couldn't care less, more focused on actually collecting supplies than staring at a corpse.Jake noticed it too. He stepped closer, crouched down to inspect the bite marks on the exposed bone, curious what could've done that kind of damage.Right as he leaned in, his line of sight passed straight through the gap where the legs used to be, out through the shattered window and landed on a pair of glowing green eyes staring back from the room next door."...A zombie dog?"Jake wasn't entirely sure that's what it actually was. Once the virus got involved, anything could end up twisted into something else.The second it registered living people, the thing in the next room went feral, lunging with startling speed.The two buildings sat close together, te
Chapter 67: Setting Off Again
The radiation crisis had cost the Caravan over a dozen lives outright, with another dozen still fighting off lingering sickness, futures uncertain.Total headcount had dropped from over eighty down to under seventy.During the rest days, people had died in camp almost daily, mostly those without a healing card, or without enough to trade for one. Small mercy for the survivors, at least skipping the grueling travel gave their bodies real time to recover, and the improvement showed clearly after a few days.The crisis had driven healing card prices to absurd heights. Jake took the opportunity to sell off two, trading them for a serious haul of supplies.His doomsday chariot kept getting more powerful, sure, but the energy demand scaled right alongside it. Fuel consumption per hundred miles had climbed to genuinely alarming levels, even with the efficiency boost from his entry card factored in.He still held three healing cards, but had no plans to trade any more away, better to keep the
Chapter 66: The Death of Grant
The Caravan kept up pressure on Blake, but with the regular members fractured and unwilling to fall in line behind anyone, they never coalesced into anything with real teeth.The whole thing dragged into the evening with Grant's punishment still unannounced.As the hour got later, dissatisfaction lingered, but nobody actually wanted to stand watch all night. The crowd slowly thinned out.Jake watched it happen and shook his head."Bunch of stragglers. Couldn't even manage to actually kill the guy. No wonder people push them around."What Jake didn't know Blake wasn't protecting Grant purely out of image management. The fusion card factored in heavily too.For men like them, landing a fusion card wasn't easy to come by. Once Blake accepted it, executing Grant afterward became basically impossible.How would that look to his own men going forward? No better to grit his teeth and hold the line.Jake headed back to his van. He'd been living out of it the past several days, and after every
Chapter 65: Taking Everyone Down
The moment Rachel handed over the video, the whole situation flipped.The Caravan had figured this was already wrapped up, finding out there was still a show left to watch had everyone perking up, practically ready to cheer.Watching that crowd of eager onlookers, Lenny's face drained of all color, humiliation crushing down on him.Instinctively, he shot a pleading look toward Grant.Grant wasn't even looking his way, though too busy running the math on how to cut him loose cleanly.Once Blake finished reviewing Rachel's footage, he turned to Lenny. "Anything else to say for yourself?""Captain, I" Lenny's instinct was to argue his way out.But the footage laid it all out, evidence solid as bedrock. No amount of talking his way around it was going to work."Take him." Blake gave the order the second Lenny ran out of anything to say.Lenny's composure shattered completely. He'd been counting on Grant to bail him out and Grant was standing there, silent, offering nothing.Clear enough t
Chapter 64: Turning the Tables
Lenny was seconds from losing it entirely. What good was this woman if all she did was cry?He genuinely wanted to storm over and slap some sense into her, but held back.No noise. Wake Vance up now, and the whole plan died on the spot.Time kept ticking. No matter how he threatened her or tried coaxing in a hushed voice, Rachel just stared back with tear-filled eyes and shook her head, not even willing to pick up the dagger. Lenny was practically vibrating with rage.Useless. Absolutely useless partner.With every passing second raising the odds of Vance waking up, and the plan this close to done, Lenny's patience snapped. He grabbed the dagger himself and crept toward Vance, still deep asleep.Vance's enhancement was mediocre at best, Perception nothing special either, and two straight days of exhaustion had knocked him out cold. Not a flicker of awareness.Not until Lenny drove the blade straight into his chest did Vance's eyes snap open in agony far too late by then.A blade throu
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