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Chapter 135 - Betrayal
They pulled the vehicles into cover behind a stretch of collapsed wall a few hundred yards short of the smoke.What Ray saw through the gap in the ruins made his stomach turn over completely.There were bodies. Piled high, feeding into the black column of fire that had drawn them here, more dead in that single mound than Ray had counted in any single day since this all began. And guarding the perimeter around it stood soldiers, dozens of them, more than Ray had ever seen gathered in one place even during the worst of New York.They weren't ordinary. Ray noticed it in the posture first, they were too rigid, too uniform, every movement adjusted in a way no exhausted, human unit could sustain for hours on end. The same unnatural strength Ray had learned to fear in the underground base radiated off every one of them, held in careful check but unmistakable."Fifth stage," Jane breathed, crouched beside him behind the wall. "They're dressed like soldiers.""Wolfe is not hiding what the
Chapter 134 - The Hangar
Ferris moved fast once she understood what was happening, pulling maps and old survey notes from a locked cabinet in the security chamber while Ray paced.Every second feeling like a second that was too long and too still to be standing in this underground town instead of racing back toward the camp."There's a facility a few miles out," Ferris said, spreading a marked map across the table. "It was an old military installation, mostly forgotten once the outbreak. My people scouted it months ago and found something worth remembering.""What kind of something?" Jane asked."Two fighter jets," Ferris said. "Still under cover, still serviced and one of my old contacts used to work maintenance there before everything fell apart, he kept them running out of habit more than hope, I think they're Military grade and fast enough to close distance, nothing else we've got could manage."Ray's pulse kicked up at the thought of it, some faint, desperate hope flickering to life at the idea of actu
Chapter 133 - Nichole
Ferris brought a man in, the next morning, and something about the way he carried himself set Ray on edge before a single word had passed between them.He was clean and his clothes, though were worn, showed none of the ragged desperation Ray had come to expect from anyone who'd survived this long out in the open. His hands were steady and his eyes moved with a calm, assessing patience that reminded Ray uncomfortably of the way Wolfe himself had studied him across that folding table."This is Nichole," Ferris said. "He came through our east checkpoint two days before you arrived and said he was looking for you specifically.""Me," Ray said flatly."You," Nichole confirmed, unbothered by the suspicion clearly written across Ray's face. "I've been tracking your movements for a while now, Ray Parker. It wasn't easy because you don't exactly stay in one place long."Ray didn't relax an inch. "Why?""Because I used to work for Wolfe," Nichole said, simply, like the words cost him nothing
Chapter 132 - The Underground Town
Ray stepped back from the monitor and the image of Zed's face still burned into his mind, and turned to Ferris with a warning already forming in his throat."We might not be safe here," Ray said. "Not anymore because If he saw that camera, if he even suspects we're close, he'll come looking. He doesn't miss things like this."Ferris didn't flinch at the warning the way Ray half expected. Instead, she gave a short, grim nod, like she'd already been carrying that possibility for longer than Ray had known her."We've prepared for worse," she said. "Come with me, there's more to this place than the cellar you walked into."******She led him and Jane through a reinforced passage Ray hadn't noticed on the way in.It was past a checkpoint manned by two armed survivors who nodded Ferris through without question, and into a wider corridor lined with makeshift lighting strung from salvaged wiring.Three people were waiting near a table covered in maps and supply logs, and Ferris introduced t
Chapter 130 - Eyes in the Sky
The rotor sound faded out over the radio a moment later, and Ferris was already moving before Ray had fully understand what he'd heard."That's the same chopper," she said, moving to a bank of small monitors set up against the far wall of the shelter.The screens were fed by cameras she had rigged around the perimeter over however many weeks she'd been holding this place together. "We picked it up on our own feed a few minutes before you heard it over the radio. Come look."Ray pushed up from the radio and crossed to the monitors, Jane right behind him. The grainy black-and-white footage showed a wide stretch of open ground east of the shelter, and there, hovering low, was the same unmarked aircraft Priya had described, nets already deployed beneath it, swinging heavy with weight."They've been doing runs like this for two days straight," Ferris said. "It's the same pattern each time, they drop the nets, haul up whatever they catch, fly off east. We've counted six trips so far.""S
Chapter 129 - Contact
The hardware store cellar turned out to hold more than Ray expected.A door at the back, that was hidden behind a stack of collapsed shelving, opened into a wider space beyond it, and the moment Jane pushed through.A woman's voice rang out sharp with alarm before recognition softened it into something else entirely."Jane? Jane, is that actually you?"Jane froze mid-step, squinting into the dim light of the space beyond, and whatever exhaustion had been sitting on her face broke apart into something Ray hadn't seen from her before."Ferris," Jane breathed. "I thought you were dead."The woman came toward them, weapon lowering slowly as she confirmed who she was looking at.She had the same hard, capable bearing Jane carried, the look of someone who had served alongside her once in a life that felt impossibly far away now."I thought the same about you," Ferris said, pulling Jane into a quick, fierce hug before stepping back to look at the rest of the group crowding in behind her. "Y
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