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Chapter 348
CRUNCH!The skull shattered into a hundred pieces. Black blood and gray brains splattered across the dirt. The dog stopped moving entirely.Jonah was breathing heavily. His chest heaved up and down. His right shoulder was bleeding badly. The pain was making him dizzy.He looked around the clearing.Lisa was helping Kevin stand up. Elena was shaking, holding her empty shotgun. Marcus was sitting on the ground, crying, but he was not bitten.The five clear dogs were all dead. Their broken, transparent bodies lay in the dirt.The clearing fell silent again. Only the sound of the humans gasping for breath filled the yellow fog.Jonah dropped to one knee. He held his bleeding shoulder."Dad!" Kevin limped over quickly. "You are hurt again!""I am fine," Jonah grunted. He forced himself to stand back up. He picked up his rifle from the dirt. He tried to look strong for the group, but he was incredibly tired. His body was failing.Lisa walked over to the dead dog Jonah had crushed.She knelt
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"The ecology is broken," Jonah said quietly. "The animals do not know what they are anymore."They walked for another hour through the dark yellow fog. The hunger in Jonah’s stomach was a constant, sharp pain. But the fear kept him moving.They reached a small clearing in the forest. There were no trees here, just a wide open space of dead, gray dirt.In the middle of the clearing, there was a small pond."Water," Marcus said. The old man’s voice was dry and raspy. He started to walk quickly toward the pond."Marcus, wait!" Jonah ordered.But Marcus did not listen. He was too thirsty. He walked to the edge of the pond and dropped to his knees.He looked down at the water.It was not water.The pond was filled with a thick, slow-moving silver liquid. It looked like liquid mercury. It bubbled slowly. Bloop. Bloop.Marcus stared at the silver liquid in horror. He backed away quickly. "We cannot drink that," he cried. "We are going to die out here!"Before Jonah could say a word to calm t
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Jonah looked up. The leaves on the tree were even stranger. Some leaves were dry and brown. But other leaves were made of thin, green glass. They looked like pieces of broken bottles hanging from the branches. Some leaves looked like small squares of plastic."The plants are broken," Jonah said softly.He looked down at the ground. The grass was not normal. Patches of dead, yellow grass grew next to patches of sharp, thin copper wires. The copper wires grew right out of the dirt like weeds."This is not a natural place," Marcus said. The old man was shaking with fear. He backed away from the metal tree. "God has cursed this land. We are in hell.""God did not do this," Jonah said. His deep voice was very serious. His dark eyes scanned the terrifying, broken forest.Jonah finally understood what was happening."When we entered the Dead Zone, my System turned off," Jonah explained to the group. "I thought the fog blocked the computer signal. But I was wrong.""What do you mean?" Lisa as
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The dark yellow fog pressed against the broken glass windows of the old grocery store. It did not move. It just hung in the air like dirty, thick soup.Inside the store, the small fire in the metal trash can was completely dead. Only a few gray ashes remained.Jonah opened his eyes.He sat up slowly from the cold, dirty floor. His massive body felt incredibly heavy. His bones ached. His muscles felt tight and sore. His left arm, where the pale monster had cut him, burned with a hot, sharp pain.Jonah looked at his arm. Lisa’s white cloth bandage was stained with dark red blood, but the bleeding had stopped.Jonah closed his eyes for a second. He tried to open the Tactical Grid in his mind. He waited for the familiar blue light. He waited for the words that would tell him his health was recovering.Nothing happened.His mind was completely dark. The System was still gone. He was still just a normal, hurting, hungry man.He opened his eyes and let out a long, heavy breath."You are awak
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Jonah stared at her."But I did not forget," Lisa said. "I am a mechanic. I am a survivor. I never had a System. I lived in the dirt. I fixed broken machines with my bare hands. I know how to live when everything is broken."Lisa let go of his hand. She stood up and turned to the group. She was the stabilizing force. She was the anchor holding them all together."We are not going to die today," Lisa announced to the dark grocery store. Her voice was confident and organized.She opened her small gray backpack."Before we entered the Dead Zone, while you were resting at the campfire, I gathered supplies," Lisa said.She pulled out a small, heavy iron pot. She pulled out three dirty plastic bottles filled with brown river water."Elena," Lisa commanded. "Find some dry paper or old cardboard in the back office. We are going to build a small fire inside this empty metal trash can."Elena wiped her tears. She nodded quickly. She was happy to have a job to do. She ran to the back room."Marc
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Jonah dropped the bloody metal pipe. It hit the floor with a loud CLANG.He fell to his knees. He was completely exhausted. His vision spun in circles. His heart was beating so fast it hurt his chest. He stared at the broken monster on the floor. He waited. He waited for the reward. He waited for the magical energy to rush back into his veins. He waited for the invisible System to say, [COMBAT COMPLETE. STAMINA RESTORED. +1000 XP.]He stared and waited.But the air remained perfectly quiet. The dark store remained dark. The pain in his arms did not go away. His stomach cramped with terrible, agonizing hunger."Nothing," Jonah whispered. His voice broke.He had pushed his body to the absolute limit. He had fought a terrible nightmare. And he gained nothing. Hunger without gain. Pain without reward. This was the true horror of the Dead Zone. It was a place that only took, and never gave anything back.Lisa, Kevin, Marcus, and Elena ran into the aisle. They had heard the fighting."Dad!
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