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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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Jonah hung in the dark air. His right hand gripped the thick, cold, rusted metal pipe. His entire, massive body dangled over the deep, endless chasm.The pain in his stomach was not just bad. It was absolute agony. It was a bright, burning, blinding fire. The giant bone scythe of the Goliath monster had cut deep into his side. Hot, wet blood poured out of the wound. It ran down his thick leg. It soaked his boot. The blood dripped off the bottom of his shoe and fell into the dark, empty space below. Drip. Drip. Drip.Jonah closed his eyes tightly. He ground his teeth together so hard his jaw made a cracking sound.He waited for the bright blue light in his mind. He waited for the System to save him.Please, Jonah thought. Please, turn on. Give me the pain blockers. Give me the auto-heal.But the inside of his head was completely black. The Dead Zone had killed the machine. There was no magic left. He was just a man. And a man with a hole in his stomach will die.Above him, the Golia
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"Shut your mouth, Marcus," Lisa snapped without even looking at the old man.Lisa knelt down next to Jonah. She opened her small medical kit. She pulled out a clean white bandage.She started to wrap the deep cut on Jonah’s leg. She wrapped it very tight to stop the bleeding."Listen to me, Jonah," Lisa said softly, her voice much kinder now. "You are stripped down to your human limits. But human limits are not a weakness. They are a feature."Jonah looked at her. "What do you mean?""When a machine is broken, it stops working completely," Lisa explained as she tied the bandage tight. "But a human being adapts. You do not need a green bar in your eye to tell you when you are tired. Your body tells you. When you are breathing hard, you are tired. When you are bleeding, you are hurt. You have to listen to your body, not a computer."Lisa finished wrapping the leg. She patted his knee."You are afraid because you lost your absolute certainty," Lisa said, looking directly into his dark br
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Without the System, Jonah had no night vision. He could not see the glowing red dots of enemies. He was completely blind in the dark."Did you hear that?" Lisa whispered. She raised her gun. She clicked a small button on the side of her pistol. A bright white flashlight turned on, cutting a beam of light into the tunnel.The light hit the monsters.There were three of them.They looked like giant, mutated moles. They were the size of large dogs. Their bodies were covered in thick, hard, gray scales. They had no eyes, just smooth skin where their eyes should be. But their mouths were huge, filled with rows of flat, crushing teeth. They had massive front claws built for digging through solid rock.The bright light made them angry. They opened their terrible mouths and let out a loud, hissing roar. SSSHHHH!"Tunnel Crawlers," Marcus yelled in panic. He raised his heavy rifle. "Shoot them!"The three blind monsters charged out of the tunnel. They moved fast, their heavy claws clicking lou
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