Chapter 527 The Hidden Passage
Chapter 527 The Hidden Passage
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Lara’s group of four didn’t have the same nerves <b>of </b>steel. When a recking, half–rotted zombie suddenly appeared behind one of them, he froze in terror. Forgetting all about what was <b>real </b>and what was illusion, he bolted forward in a blind sprint.
Directly ahead was a razor–sharp strand of wire. Behind him came the guttural roars of the zombie.
“Stooop!”
“Nooooo!”
The others screamed, but nothing could halt his charge. The wire sliced clean through his neck. Even as his head tumbled free, his body kept running on muscle memory alone. It carried him all the way to the next stairwell before copsing in a heap, his severed head rolling seven or eight yards away.
In Lara’s mind, all she could see was herpanion’s body being torn apart by zombies. The three remaining survivors cracked under the pressure, shrieking in panic. Their screams carried outside, and the horde surrounding the castle suddenly grew frenzied.
<i>Thud</i><i>! </i>
A crash echoed as a cab splintered. To the east, a window shattered. After a night of relentless battering, the zombies finally broke through.
The first to crawl in was a female corpse with half her face mangled. Her temple was nothing but gore and bone, her gray eyes vacant yet locked on the sound of the shrieks above. With limbs twisted out of joint, she scrambled upright and began wing her way upstairs.
One after another, more zombies poured in, shattering ss and forcing their way through windows. Unstoppable, they surged deeper into the castle.
On the fifth floor, Theresa heard the shrieks and felt her patience snap. She wanted nothing more than to storm back down, p the screaming idiots, and toss them straight into the horde.
Beneath her feet, the vibrations <i>of </i>countless zombies reverberated through the floors–yet her focus stayed fixed on the elusive Level 6 mental maniption zombie.
Mental–types were always cunning. The Level 4 she’d fought back at the zombie–filled high school had known how to hide. This one, a Level 6, was even more of a coward.
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She had tracked itsst appearance to a fifth–floor room, only to find it empty. It seemed to realize it wasn’t her match and slinked away.
By then, Quentin, Sage, and Vinny had reached her.
“Beautiful.”
Theresa shot a nce over her shoulder. Her eyesnded on Vinny, panting at the rear. “Who told you toe?”
“I only follow you,” Vinny said.
Theresa had no idea what to say to that. Quentin and Sage were one thing–they could fend for themselves–but Vinny? That girl had no business here.
“Theresa, there.” Vinny lifted a finger, pointing at the wardrobe inside the room.
The moment Vinny spoke, Theresa’s mind clicked. <i>This </i><i>girl </i><i>really </i><i>might </i><i>have </i>a <i>knack </i>for finding <i>people</i>!
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Back on the fourth floor, Lara’s group had finally calmed down under Tyger’s re. They understood now–the horrors they’d seen were illusions. Still, with one of their own dead, they could hardly process it.
“Let’s just tear this thing down,” L muttered.
“No, we wait for our boss to return.”
“It’s all illusions! Keeping this here just hurts us!” Lara’s voice cracked with tears.
“Exactly–we were supposed to retreat anyway! No zombies areing up. This wire is nothing but dead weight!” one of them snapped and moved to rip away a strand.
At that instant, a zombie staggered into view from the eastern stairwell. Its face was shredded raw by some unknown de, flesh hanging loose and bone exposed. The man stared at it as it advanced step by step, its presence chillingly real.
“Another illusion,” he told himself, trying to muster courage. Standing beside the wire, he red at the creature rushing closer. “I’m not afraid of you!”
Theresa yanked open the wardrobe. Instantly, an Aeroshield red before her. But inside,
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there was no zombie–only the stench of decay and a narrow passage no wider than a man.
“It’s inside,” Vinny whispered from behind.
Theresa stretched her mind power into the passage, but the tunnel below was empty.
“You guys stay here. If you get bitten, there’s nothing I can do for you.”
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