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Chapter 162 - Her Face In the Sky
Ray couldn't move, he stood still for a brief moment.The chopper swept past overhead, close enough that the wind of its rotors flattened the grass around him.Still his eyes stayed locked on the open door, on the woman standing in it like she'd never once been afraid of anything."Ray!" Jane's voice cut through, sharp and urgent. "Ray, get down!"He barely heard the warning until she physically hauled him sideways.The two of them dropped behind cover as gunfire raked across the ground where he had been standing a half-second earlier."That's my mother," Ray screamed with hollow voice in disbelief. "Jane, that's actually her." He added."I saw her too" Jane admitted keeping low, weapon still trained on the sky. "Ray, I need you here, right now. Whatever that is, we can't afford you frozen in the middle of it."Ray forced his focus back to the fight, but something in his chest had cracked open wide and refused to close again.******The battle unfolded fast and brutal, five choppers
Chapter 161 - Regaining Ground
The weeks after the compound blurred together into a rhythm Ray hadn't felt in longer than he could properly measure.He had healed, trained and pushed a little further each day than the day before.Saul ran him through drills every morning, patient but relentless, and Priya checked the wound in his side twice a day until it finally closed clean enough to stop worrying her."You're pushing too hard," she told him more than once."I've got a war to get back to," Ray always replied, and eventually she stopped arguing the point, just kept watching him closely instead.It was his control ability that came back strongest of all. Ray spent hours alone near the trees, reaching for that old, familiar thread, testing it against stray infected the scouts brought in for exactly this purpose. Where it had once felt thin and unreliable, scraping for every ounce of hold, it now came steady and full, a current he could shape instead of simply grab at."You've changed," Jane observed one evening, w
Chapter 160 - Cost of Winning
They reached camp just past midday, and the gate opened before the vehicles had even fully stopped, Ferris already moving toward them with two of her medics close behind."Get him inside," Priya shouted, and hands reached in from every direction, easing Ray's stretcher out of the vehicle with careful, practiced urgency.The camp that had gathered to celebrate the rescued survivors went quiet the moment they saw him, the joy of the returning column curdling fast into fear as word spread through the crowd."What happened," Ferris demanded, falling into step beside the stretcher as they carried him toward the medical tent."Zed," Jane said, voice tight. "He shot him trying to stop the chopper, he had ead trauma from the fall might be worse than the wound itself."********They worked over him for hours, Priya and Nichole trading roles between surgeon and nurse, cleaning the wound.It stopping the worst of the bleeding, checking his pupils every few minutes for any change that might tell
Chapter 159 - Cleanup
Ray came back to himself with blood in his mouth and Zed's boots already retreating through the smoke."Get up," he snarled at himself, forcing his body upright despite the ringing in his skull.The compound around him hadn't stopped burning. More replicas had pushed through from somewhere deeper in the base and at least four of them, and Mattias's flamethrower was running low, its flame sputtering thinner with every pass."Ray!" Jane screamed through the chaos. "We need you, now!"He forced himself forward, blade raised, control ability flaring weak but present.It staggered to the nearest replica just long enough for Mattias to finish it with the last real burst of fuel his tank had left."That's the tank empty," Mattias shouted, discarding the weapon."Then we finish it the old way," Ray shouted back, and threw himself at the next replica with everything exhaustion and fury could still give him.*******It took another brutal ten minutes to bring the last of them down, Ray, Jane,
Chapter 158 - The Sweep
The base came into view just past sunrise, low buildings ringed by fencing, smoke rising faint from somewhere near the center of the compound."Positions," Jane said into the radio, and the convoy split without hesitation, three teams peeling off toward their assigned approach points exactly the way they'd rehearsed.Ray crouched at the tree line with the strike team, RPG braced against his shoulder, watching the nearest patrol move along the fence in slow, mechanical rhythm."That's a replica," Saul murmured beside him, before peeling off toward the rescue team's position. "Same walk as the last one, same everything.""Then let's see how many of him fall to the same trick," Ray said, and gave the signal.*****””The RPG round hit the fence line dead center, blowing a gap wide enough to drive a truck through, and the strike team surged forward the instant the smoke cleared.Fifth stage soldiers converged fast, but this time Ray's team came prepared for exactly that. Mattias shoot th
Chapter 157 - Eyes on the Base
Saul, Jane, and two of Mattias's most trusted fighters left before dawn, moving light and quiet toward the suspected base outside Kansas City.Ray spent the two days they were gone unable to settle into anything properly.They came back on the evening of the second day, dust-covered, exhausted, and carrying the kind of grim expressions that told Ray the news wasn't going to be simple."Talk to me," Ray said, the moment they were through the gate.******Jane laid the map out on the war table, marking positions as she spoke. "It's bigger than we thought, the perimeter's crawling with Zed replicas, not just one or two. We counted at least six, moving in coordinated patrols, same face, same voice, same everything.""Six of him," Mattias exclaimed with disbelief thick in his voice. "That's not a soldier anymore. That's an army wearing one man's skin.""There's more," Saul added. "Fifth stage inside, and they're not just standing guard. We watched a group of them through a gap in the fen
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