Chapter 408 Chaos at the Banquet
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The moment the dorm door mmed shut, Norman and his wife–now fully turned–howled and wed at the wood, hammering at it with inhuman force.
Behind them, the screams didn’t stop.
What had started as a massive outbreak in the women’s quarters was now spilling into the men’s side. Dozens of zombies pushed through the crowd, biting anything that moved.
It didn’t take long for the bitten to turn, staggering back to their feet as new members of the horde. Within minutes, the entire first floor had be a living hell. People surged toward the only escape route–the elevators–desperate for a way out.
Up on the fifth floor, in the fine dining hall, Theresa and her group had been seated for dinner. Their guards were eating in the next room.
Sitting beside Morgan, Theresa looked over the tes of borate dishes Ark Camp Three had prepared. The vegetables weren’t particrly fresh–likely the result of poor hydroponicspared to the vast ins outside–and the meat wasn’t much better.
There were some seafood items and rarer ingredients, clearly stockpiled from before the apocalypse. It was far from the standard of her own camp–she’d have to make do.
Just then, the group of Ark Camp Three managers who had been in the meeting entered. They had just received the devastating news that their camp leader was dead, and a heavy mood hung over them as they took their seats.
Theresa’s gazended on thest person to sit opposite her—a young woman clutching her wrist, looking pale and restless, as if she could barely sit still
Theresa caught the scent immediately–zombie scent.
Extending her mind power, she confirmed it–the woman’s aura was shifting. She was infected… and about
to turn.
At that moment, a guard burst into the room, face pale with panic.
“Sir, there’s trouble outside!”
“What is it?”
“Zombies! There are zombies in the camp!”
“How could there be zombies?!The masked second–inmand shot to his feet.
Before anyone could answer, a scream rang out inside the banquet hall itself.
Emily Winchester, a second–floor manager, suddenly lunged at the third–floor manager beside her,
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Chapter 408 Chaos at the Banquet
sinking her teeth into his jaw.
“Ahhh!”
Blood sprayed in an arc, sttering across the pristine white tablecloth and the expensive food.
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The bitten man shoved her away, a chunk of flesh torn from his face, blood pouring freely. Emily’s head snapped up, and everyone saw the milky, clouded eyes of the infected. The people nearest her recoiled in
terror.
The injured man didn’t hesitate–he hurled a massive fireball straight into Emily, engulfing her in mes. Then, with a chair raised high, he mmed it down with a furious blow, finishing her off.
But as her corpse burned, all eyes shifted to him. His breathing grew ragged. The bleeding from his jaw wouldn’t stop, the thick, dark blood running in heavy streams.
“1… I don’t want to turn! Save me! You have medicine, don’t you? Save me! I want to live!”
He stumbled toward the second–inmand and the other managers, but they backed.away, avoiding him like the gue.
His skin was darkening, blue–ck veins rising beneath the surface. With every step, his eyes clouded further to gray.
“Help me! Please-”
Bang<i>! </i>
The second–inmand put a bullet through his skull.
Everyone was still reeling from the shock when the sound of pounding footsteps and guttural roars came from the hall outside.
“Raaagh!”
“Rrrhhh!”
A hulking, blood–covered zombie burst into the dining room. Its massive frame and unnatural speed marked it as both a strength–type and speed–type mutation–a killing machine in the flesh.
In one bound, it was on the nearest guard, jaws closing with a sickening crunch on his neck. The fangs punched clean through the cartge, locking in for the kill.
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