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Chapter 491
"I just counted the people inside the camp," Lisa explained. Her voice broke. "Jonah... Outpost Three has not returned." Jonah froze. Outpost Three was a small scavenging camp located three miles away, near a frozen river. They were supposed to be looking for clean ice to melt for drinking water. "Who is at Outpost Three today?" Jonah asked. His voice dropped to a dangerously quiet rumble. Lisa looked down at her paper. She already knew the names, but she did not want to say them out loud. "It is a small team," Lisa whispered, crying softly now. "It is Gage, the armorer. Two young men. And..." Lisa looked up into Jonah’s eyes. "And Kevin," she finished. The silence between them was heavier than a mountain. Kevin. Jonah’s son. The young giant with the broken shoulder. He was out there in the blinding whiteout blizzard. He was out there with the desperate men in animal furs. He was out there with the starving cannibals. The cold knot in Jonah’s stomach instantly turned into a
Chapter 490
Jonah placed his massive, warm hand on the side of Leo’s face. He forced the boy to look directly into his dark brown eyes. "Tell me what happened, Leo," Jonah commanded firmly. His calm, heavy presence helped to slow the boy’s panic. "Speak slowly. Where is the rest of your team? Where is Sarah and John?" Leo swallowed hard. He squeezed his eyes shut. The memory was too terrible. "We were at the old gas station," Leo whispered, his voice trembling. "We were draining the underground fuel tanks. The wind was so loud. We could not hear anything." Leo took a ragged breath. Elena kept pressing on his wound to stop the bleeding. "Then, shadows came out of the whiteout," Leo continued. "But they were not the ice zombies. They were men. Huge men. They wore thick, heavy animal furs. Wolf skins. Bear skins. Their faces were painted with black ash." "Marauders," Marcus said. The old man had walked over to listen. He held his rifle tightly. "Desperate men. The extreme winter is freezing ev
Chapter 489
The heavy metal alternator had saved their lives. Deep inside the concrete factory, the massive diesel generator hummed loudly. Chug. Chug. Chug. It was a beautiful, strong sound. The machine pushed electricity into the ancient Echo Seed. In the center of the camp, the giant silver teardrop glowed brightly. The pure, clean blue light pushed outward. It created a massive, invisible dome over the Sanctuary. Inside the blue light, the air was warm. It felt like a perfectly calm spring morning. But outside the blue light, the world was a frozen, screaming hell. The Cryospheric Collapse had buried the earth. The whiteout blizzard never stopped. WHOOOOOOSH! The wind howled against the invisible blue shield. Millions of tons of snow blew through the dark air. If a person stepped one inch outside the blue light, the temperature dropped to eighty degrees below zero. Jonah stood near the edge of the safe zone. He was alive. His heart was beating strongly. His giant body had recovered fro
Chapter 488
Through the blizzard, they saw a thick, heavy black cable. It was an old, heavy-duty power line or elevator cable. It was attached to a large metal box on the hospital roof, and it stretched across the wide street, connecting to the lower roof of a parking garage on the other side.The parking garage was only five stories tall. The cable angled downward."It is a zipline!" Elena yelled happily."But how do we slide down?!" Kevin asked. "We don't have clips! We don't have ropes!"Jonah looked at the heavy steel alternator in his left arm. He looked at his right hand. "Use your belts!" Jonah roared. "Use your weapons!"Elena did not hesitate. She took off her thick leather belt. She looped it over the heavy black cable and gripped the two ends tightly with her freezing hands."Go!" Jonah ordered.Elena jumped off the edge of the hospital roof.Zzzzzzzip!The leather belt slid quickly down the frozen black cable. She screamed as she flew through the empty air over the street. In five sec
Chapter 487
BANG!The doors were torn off their hinges.Dozens of pale blue, glowing Cryo-Ghouls poured out of the stairwells. More monsters climbed up over the edges of the roof from the fire escape.The freeze-flash did not hurt the monsters. The extreme, impossible cold was their natural home. It made them stronger. It made them sharper.The monsters moved with blinding, impossible speed. They did not just twitch; they glided. Their sharp ice blades glowed with a sick, freezing light.They completely surrounded the four humans. There were over fifty monsters on the flat roof. They formed a perfect circle of death."Get behind me!" Jonah roared. His voice sounded muffled and strange in the dense, frozen air.Jonah stepped in front of Kevin, Elena, and the frozen body of Gage.The danger was absolute. The threat to his son was completely lethal.Deep inside Jonah’s soul, the magical machine woke up.[SKILL ACTIVE: UNDYING WILL.][THREAT LEVEL: APOCALYPTIC.][INITIATING KINETIC OVERRIDE.]Jonah’s
Chapter 486
The whiteout blizzard was a screaming wall of ice. WHOOOOOOSH!The wind howled like a million angry ghosts. The snow was incredibly deep. It reached up to Jonah’s waist. It pulled at his heavy boots like wet, freezing concrete.Jonah held the heavy, fifty-pound metal alternator tightly against his chest with his left arm. In his right hand, he held his massive sledgehammer.Behind him, Kevin, Elena, and Gage struggled to move. They pushed through the deep trench Jonah was making in the snow."They are coming!" Elena screamed. Her voice was barely louder than the roaring wind.Jonah looked over his broad shoulder.Through the blinding white storm, he saw the pale, glowing blue eyes. The Cryo-Ghouls were pouring out of the hospital lobby. There were hundreds of them.Because the monsters were made of solid, magical ice, they did not sink into the deep powder. They were light. They ran directly on top of the snow. They moved with that terrifying, jerky, glitching speed.Screeeech-crk-crk
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