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"We rest," Jonah whispered. "We wait for our strength to return. And then, we climb down.""Climb down?!" Marcus yelled. He almost dropped the lighter. "Are you insane?! The machine down there is dead! You saw the light turn off!""It is not dead," Kevin argued. He held his broken shoulder. "I can still feel the vibration in the stone. It is very faint. But it is still beating.""It is a trap!" Marcus cried. "The virus is just waiting for us down there!"Jonah turned his head slowly to look at the old man."There is nowhere else to go, Marcus," Jonah said. His voice was tired, but it held the heavy truth. "If we climb back up, we will die in the yellow fog. If we stay on this ledge, we will starve. Our only hope is to reach the bottom. We have to find the Echo Seed. We have to see if we can turn it back on. If the Seed wakes up, maybe it can clear this fog. Maybe it can heal Lisa."Elena looked down at Lisa’s pale face. She gently stroked Lisa’s dirty hair. "I don't know how much time
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Elena placed the flat heel of her right hand in the exact center of Lisa’s bruised chest. She placed her left hand over her right hand. She locked her elbows."I have to pump her heart and force the lungs to move," Elena explained. "Jonah, keep her head tilted back!"Elena pushed down hard on Lisa’s chest.Crack.They all heard the sickening sound of Lisa’s broken ribs shifting under Elena’s hands.Jonah winced. He wanted to stop Elena. He wanted to protect Lisa from the pain. But he knew Elena was trying to save her life.Elena pushed again. And again. She pumped Lisa’s chest in a fast, steady rhythm.One. Two. Three. Four."Breathe, damn it," Elena whispered. Tears streamed down the burned side of her face. "Breathe for us."One. Two. Three. Four.The small orange flame from the lighter flickered in the cold wind. Time seemed to slow down. The silence in the dark chasm was deafening. There was only the sound of Elena pushing on Lisa’s chest.Push. Push. Push."It's not working," Kev
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The darkness was absolute. It was not just the dark of a room with the lights turned off. It was a heavy, suffocating blackness. It felt like a thick blanket wrapped tightly around their heads.Jonah sat on the cold stone ledge. He held Lisa’s small, broken body against his massive chest. He could not see her face. He could not see his own hands. But he could feel her.He felt the wet, sticky blood soaking through her green mechanic’s suit. He felt the terrible cold creeping into her skin."System," Jonah whispered in the dark. His deep voice trembled. "System. Please."He closed his eyes, even though it made no difference. He pushed his mind deep inside his own brain. He looked for the bright blue light of the Tactical Grid. He looked for the magic menu that had saved his life a hundred times before.Wake up, Jonah screamed inside his head. Turn on! Give me the healing menu! Give me the red potions! Auto-heal! Do it now!He waited. He held his breath.His mind remained completely, to
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Lisa lay on her back. Her eyes were half-open, staring blankly up at the dark sky.There was no visible blood on her body. Her green mechanic’s suit was not torn. Her face was not cut. She looked like she was just sleeping."Lisa, get up," Kevin begged. He grabbed her shoulder and shook her gently. "Come on. The earthquake is over. Get up."Lisa did not move.Suddenly, her chest hitched. She took a tiny, shallow breath.Then, she coughed.A thick, horrible spray of bright red and pitch-black blood erupted from her mouth. It splattered across her chin and neck.The damage was not on the outside. The shockwave had hit her with impossible, glitching force. The damage was deep inside. Her ribs were shattered. Her lungs were crushed. Her internal organs were bleeding out.Jonah froze.The great giant, the leader, the man who always knew what to do, completely and totally froze.He stared at his dying friend.In the past, this was the easiest problem in the world to fix. Jonah would just op
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Jonah watched this from the floor. He tried to crawl toward them. He dragged his bloody body across the stone, leaving a thick, wet trail behind him. But he was moving too slowly.Lisa was sliding closer to the edge. The rock was scraping her stomach.She needed leverage. She needed a tool.Lisa used her free left hand. She reached into her belt. She pulled out her heavy iron wrench.Right next to her head, there was a deep crack in the stone floor.Lisa slammed the thick iron wrench directly into the crack. She wedged it tight. She grabbed the handle of the wrench with her left hand, locking her arm in place.Now, she was anchored. The iron wrench held her to the mountain."Pull!" Lisa screamed.The muscles in her arms bulged. The veins in her neck popped out. Her face turned bright red from the incredible, impossible effort. She was just a normal human, but the human will to protect a friend is stronger than any machine.She pulled Kevin upward.Kevin used his legs to kick against t
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"AGH!" Jonah yelled. His back arched off the stone floor. The pain of her hands pressing on the raw meat was unbearable."I am sorry! I know it hurts!" Lisa cried out. "But I have to keep the pressure on it! If I let go, you will bleed to death in three minutes!"Jonah grabbed Lisa’s wrist. His giant hand was surprisingly weak. "Do it," Jonah gasped. "Push harder."Lisa pushed harder. The white cloth instantly turned dark red.They were all so focused on Jonah’s terrible wound that they did not notice what the dead monster had done.When the giant Goliath monster fell, its heavy bone scythes had smashed into the dirt wall of the chasm. The Dead Zone was already a broken, glitching environment. The earth here was not stable. It was corrupted.RUMBLE.A deep, low vibration shook the stone ledge."What is that?" Elena asked from higher up the climbing path. She held tightly to a rusted pipe.RUUUUMMMMBBBLLLLLE.The earthquake started again. But it was not the slow, rhythmic heartbeat of
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