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Chapter 96 - Fallen
Charlie's breathing immediately changed.Ray heard it before he noticed it. The ragged pulls that had been the best sound he'd heard all day turned wet, then shallow, then half dead."Charlie."No answer and charlie's eyes were still open but they weren't tracking anymore, fixed on a point past Ray's shoulder that wasn't there."Charlie, look at me." Ray's hands went to Charlie's chest. Something was not right under the ribs, and not right in a way that hadn't been visible until the adrenaline stopped holding it together. "Hey. Hey, stay with me."Silence."Priya!"She was already moving, already dropping beside him, her hands finding the same spot Ray's had.Her face had changed the way a professional's face changed when the diagnosis arrived faster than the hope did."He's not breathing," she said. "Compressions, now."Ray started them. His own ribs screamed with every push and he didn't stop, didn't slow.He counted under his breath the way he had been taught a lifetime ago in
Chapter 95 - The Command
Ray talked and for twenty minutes.Jane didn't interrupt once.She sat on the bench across from him with a small recorder on the seat beside her and listened the way people listened when they already knew some of what they were hearing and were filling gaps rather than starting from scratch. Her eyes moved occasionally, tracking a specific detail, and once she held up one finger and Ray stopped and she wrote something in a small notebook and nodded for him to continue.Ray told her about Wolfe from the beginning.Project X. The consent form. Anna Parker as a test subject. The outbreak in the hospital and the chip and the power transfer and dying in Wolfe's compound with Dani. And waking up in his apartment a week before it all started with a head full of memories and no time.He told her about the Kansas facility. The serum stock, the Zed replicas and the Thunder Land chamber. The device and the new breed and the ventilation system.He told her about the twenty cities.Jane's e
Chapter 94 - Red List
Ray got to the bridge approach in eighteen minutes.He ran most of it, weaving through streets that were getting worse by the block, the conversion spread visible in real time.The sound of New York changing from the normal morning chaos of a functioning city into something Ray recognised from Kansas and had hoped never to hear again.The military staging area was exactly where Mara said it would be. Trucks and armoured vehicles spread across the approach road to the bridge, soldiers were in full gear moving between them with the arranged urgency of people deploying into something they didn't fully understand yet.Ray walked toward the nearest checkpoint.The soldier at the barrier put his hand up before Ray reached there."Sir, this is a restricted…..""I need General Clarke," Ray said. "Right now and I have intelligence on what is happening in this city that your units need before they go in."The soldier looked at Ray.At the blood on his jacket and the split across his chin. The
Chapter 93 - New York Falls
Ray saw the first one go down three blocks from the facility.A man in a business suit, briefcase still in his hand, walking the early morning pavement the way he had probably walked it every working day for years. One of the Zed replicas stepped out of a doorway behind him and the syringe was in his neck before he finished his next step.The man dropped the briefcase.He stood still for four seconds.Then he turned and looked at the nearest person with the flat empty focus Ray had seen on infected faces since the hospital in Kansas and launched himself at them without any of the hesitation that human beings carried into every physical confrontation.The nearest person was a woman walking a dog.Ray was already running.He wasn't fast enough.By the time he reached the block the woman was down and the man was moving toward the next person and two more replicas had come out of the same doorway with syringes in their hands and the pavement that had been empty morning street thirty seco
Chapter 92 - Hologram
Ray moved fast out of anger before he finished the thought.Three steps across the sublevel corridor, his hand reaching for Wolfe's collar, the anger in him converted directly into motion the way it always did when there was no more room for patience.His hand went through the image.He stumbled forward into empty air and turned and Wolfe was still standing at the end of the corridor, still composed, still watching with the slow smile on his face now carrying an additional quality.Amusement.Ray looked at his own hand. Then at the image.The edges of it were were not right. The way the light hit the suit jacket didn't match the lighting in the corridor. The shadow beneath the shoes was slightly off angle. Details his brain had filed and not surfaced because he had been looking at the face and the face was convincing enough to make everything else secondary.It was holographic.A projection so clean and detailed that it had shown as a person in a room until Ray's hand passed throu
Chapter 91 - The Revelation
Ray didn't wait for the replicas to come closer.He ran toward them.Straight at the nearest formation, because the containment pattern only worked if the thing being contained moved predictably, and moving predictably was the one thing Ray had learned to stop doing since the first night in Kansas."With me," he said.The group came.Zoe hit the first formation before Ray reached it, both hands forward, the blue force punching through the front row of replicas and knocking them into the row behind.It has a chain reaction that opened a gap three bodies wide and bought six seconds before the rows reorganised.Ray went through the gap.The replicas on both sides reached for him as he passed and he hit the closest one hard.BOOMA right hand across the jaw that snapped the replica's head sideways, and kept moving without waiting to see it fall because there was always another one and stopping for any individual fight was how you lost the overall one.Charlie came through behind Ray and c
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