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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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The dark yellow fog felt heavy. It did not feel like normal air. It felt like breathing dirty water.Jonah walked slowly through the ruined street. His large boots crunched on the broken gray asphalt. With every step, a sharp, burning pain shot up his left arm. The monster with the needle-teeth had cut him deeply.In the past, Jonah would not worry about a cut. The Tactical Grid in his brain would flash a blue message: [MINOR DAMAGE. AUTO-HEALING INITIATED. STAMINA -5%.] The bleeding would stop in one minute. The pain would turn into a dull, easy ache.But there was no blue message now. There was no auto-healing. The Dead Zone had completely killed the System.Jonah’s arm kept bleeding. The red blood soaked through the white bandage Lisa had tied around it. It dripped down his thick fingers. Drip. Drip. The blood hit the dirty ground."Keep moving," Jonah whispered to himself. He tried to stand up straight. He tried to look like the strong, giant leader. But his body felt incredibly
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Jonah nodded slowly. "You are right. We cannot win a war of attrition in this place. The monsters will just wear us down until we have nothing left.""Let's get away from this gas station," Kevin said, looking into the thick yellow fog. "The noise from the gunshot might bring more of them."Jonah picked his heavy rifle off the ground. He wiped the monster's black blood off his shoulder. "Okay. Let's move."They turned their backs on the dead, eyeless monster. They started to walk down the broken road, heading deeper into the ruined town.They took five steps.Then, they heard a sound behind them.CRUNCH. SNAP.Jonah froze. It was the sound of wet bones breaking and moving.He turned around slowly.He looked at the dead monster lying next to the rusted car.The monster was not dead anymore.Jonah’s blood turned to freezing ice in his veins."Lisa," Jonah whispered. "You shot it in the head.""I did!" Lisa said, panic rising in her voice. "I blew half its brain out! You saw it!"But the
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