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Chapter 33: The North Wind Wolf Squad
Life in lockdown blurred into a single monochrome smear of days.Time crept by, quiet and unremarkable.Before anyone quite noticed, a full week had passed.Ryan's balance finally crossed 310 points.The moment the Exchange tier unlocked, he spent 1 point immediately to pull up the full description of Jake's Glutton ability.Glutton: A specialized ability centered on converting consumption into stored energy.Power scales directly with stored reserves the more banked, the stronger the body becomes, like a dormant volcano building toward eruption.However, as reserves deplete, physical capability degrades in tandem.Once reserves are fully overdrawn, the Glutton enters a five-minute frenzy state, unable to distinguish ally from enemy.Failure to refuel during this window results in death.Once he'd absorbed all of that, Ryan gathered everyone together.He looked around the room and cleared his throat."Alright, everyone. I want to have a real conversation.""Ryan, I already know you've
Chapter 32: Survival Points
Jake went quiet the moment he saw Ryan walk back in."Ryan everything went okay out there? No trouble?""Fine..."Ryan's gaze dropped to the sea of empty steak wrappers littering the floor, and a vein visibly pulsed in his temple."You ate through all the beef?""Not just beef. Hit some lamb too.""Ryan, total count fifty steaks, twenty-three lamb chops.""Hunger's mostly gone. Still don't feel full, though."Ryan checked his balance.He'd started at 86. Spent 10 on two combat suits. Another 6 on three sets of night-vision gear. And 20 more on Naomi's new weapon.By his math, that should've left him around 50.Instead, his current balance read 65.Which meant Jake's calorie-fueled binge had quietly generated 15 points on its own."Jake lay off the meat for now. Go heavier on pure calories instead.""From here on, help yourself to anything in the pantry candy, chocolate, whatever. No limits.""Ryan, that's a one-way ticket to diabetes.""You literally Awakened. Why are you still worrie
Chapter 31: The Wendigo Armor
Once the three Lickers were dealt with, the group made their way carefully to the server room.This was Ryan's moment to shine a software engineer finally getting to flex some actual hardware knowledge.Within minutes, the generator kicked back on, and the entire research base flooded with light.Naomi turned her attention to the spear in her hands.The Thunder Tungsten weapon had a deep gray-black finish, faint etched lines running along its surface, giving it an almost mystical presence.She triggered her lightning ability, and arcs of blue-white current began crawling across the metal.By this point, she was thoroughly smitten with the weapon."Ryan. Thank you for this.""You're welcome. Wait hold on, what exactly does that tone mean? You planning on keeping it without paying up?"Naomi said nothing, just stared back at him with wide, innocent eyes.Meanwhile, Mia's hand had quietly slipped into Ryan's jacket pocket."Mia. What are you doing?""Ryan seriously, where do you keep pul
Chapter 30: Licker
Ryan, Naomi, and Mia headed out, leaving the four newcomers behind on cleanup duty.The four of them kept trading nervous, confused glances, none of them brave enough to actually voice anything out loud.They watched Jake demolish plate after plate.Fear, envy, jealousy, and gnawing hunger all tangled together into something none of them could quite name.Bailey finally cracked and crept closer to Jake."Um big brother? Could we get something to eat too?""Get lost. If I give you mine, what am I supposed to eat?"She pressed on, undeterred. "Just a little. Even one bite. Look, we're almost done cleaning up."Jake glanced over and realized the mess they were scrubbing up was, in fact, entirely his own handiwork from earlier.His mood soured instantly."Are you insane? I'm eating fine over here, why would I look at that?"If Jake had just kept eating in silence, none of them would've dared push further.But now that he'd actually engaged, some of the fear started to thin out."Sorry, so
Chapter 29: Jake's Personal Paradise
It took a bit for Jake to fully compose himself.The moment he caught his breath, his first coherent sentence was: "Steak. Now. Feed me."Someone made a small retching sound in the background.Watching Jake eat was, at this point, genuinely harder to stomach than the horror show that had caused all this."Ryan, come on, untie me. I swear I'm done with... whatever that was.""How exactly do you plan on guaranteeing that? I watched you rip a no, watched you rip an infected apart with your bare hands.""Okay, hard to explain, but I think eating actually stores energy for me now.""Like, the more I take in, the stronger I get physically.""Fine. But if you go feral again, don't say I didn't warn you.""Relax, I've got a handle on it. I'm not exactly a regular guy anymore.""Sure, most 'regular guys' don't treat a crime scene like an all-you-can-eat buffet, but okay.""Alright, alright, point taken."Once Ryan untied him, he walked Jake straight over to Naomi.Jake, still working through h
Chapter 28: The Four Freeloaders
The moment the group made it downstairs, the first thing they noticed was Jake, trussed up like a holiday roast.Then the sheer scale of the shelter hit them, and their jaws dropped.All four immediately started wandering around, poking through everything with open excitement.By the time Ryan made it down, he found them roaming the place like they owned it, and his patience evaporated instantly."What exactly do you four think you're doing?""Dude, how'd you even find this place? This is unreal.""Seriously, this beats my old apartment easily.""Check this out there's a whole cold storage room.""Whoa it's stacked.""Hey. Do you actually think this is your house?"Ryan's raised voice finally got their attention. They froze mid-tour.One of the young men stepped forward."Hey, man I'm Derek. That's Marcus. The two women are twins Chloe on the left, Bailey on the right.""What should we call you?""My name's not something you need.""Fair enough, don't care about yours either."Ryan sw
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