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Chapter Thirty-One: The Building That Stayed Standing
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Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty-One: The Building That Stayed Standing
"Run," Jake said.Nobody asked questions. Kai scooped Ben off his feet with the splinted arm still tucked against his chest. Ethan tightened his hold on Sophie. Walter grabbed Peter's sleeve and Laura's wrist and pulled. Maya was already sprinting, one hand trailing along the wall as if the hum under the street were a rope she could follow."Where?" Ethan shouted."There!" Maya pointed down the block.At the end of the street stood a gray concrete building with no windows. The buildings around it had burned or collapsed or been torn open. This one stood whole, flat-faced and ugly, with a steel door and a wide open plaza in front. A faded sign hung over the entrance. A.R.C. REGIONAL MONITORING, ANNEX 4."Open ground," Jake said, and understood why Maya had chosen it. Pale Stalkers hated open ground. They needed walls and dark. In a wide plaza they were faster than people, but not by as much.The first one dropped off the laundromat roof behind them. Then another. They hit the pavement
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Thirty: The Signal Under the City
Maya set the badge on the workshop bench next to a creased photograph and didn't say anything for a while.Jake stood across from her with his arms crossed. Graham leaned in the doorway. Ethan was eating a heel of bread and trying to look like he wasn't hovering. The badge was ordinary plastic, scratched along one edge, clipped to a frayed strap. A.R.C. in small gray letters. ADRIAN under the photo. Under that, RESEARCH STAFF, LEVEL 3."I found this at the warehouse," Maya said, tapping the photograph. "The same box as the inventory sheet. I thought it was junk. Then the man came back with the badge."The photo showed six people in white coats outside a brick building. Jake knew the tall one on the left immediately. His father had one hand in his pocket and the stiff half-smile of a man who hated being photographed. At the far edge of the frame, mostly turned away, stood a man in a dark coat. A pale line ran from his temple to his jaw."That's him," Ethan said. "That's the guy.""It's
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Twenty-Nine: What Claire Can See
They buried Tomas and Ivan at dawn, side by side, under a gray sky. Kai carried the stones for the cairn without being asked. Graham said four sentences, and none of them were big words. Marcus stood at the edge with his arm in a sling and didn't blink.Jake stayed until the last stone was down. Then he went looking for Claire, because it was the one thing he could still do for someone.He found her in the side room off the medical station, sitting in a folding chair with a notebook open on her knee. Frank lay on the cot in front of her, tied at the wrists and ankles with soft cloth strips, sweating through a clean shirt. Emily sat on the floor by his head with her knees pulled up, refusing to leave."Hi," Claire said, without looking up. "Don't touch anything.""How is he?""Worse than yesterday. Better than he'll be tonight." She tapped the page. "Look."Jake crouched. She'd drawn a rough chart, four boxes across the top and a few lines of her small handwriting under each."Stage on
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Twenty-Eight: The First Real Loss
Nobody said anything for a long moment. The wind pushed grit across the concrete. Marcus's people stood in a ring around the open cover, bleeding and gray-faced, staring at two rifles lying where two men should have been. Ruth had a hand clamped over her mouth. Kai was already scanning the street. "Tomas," Hale whispered. "Ivan. They were right here." Jake picked up the nearest rifle and checked it. Two spent casings sat in the dust beside it. Two shots, and not one shout. Down in the tunnel, with the pipes bursting and the ceiling coming down, nobody could have heard a thing. He had told them to hold the surface and shout if anything came. That was the whole plan. Two men, one order, and no other way to reach them. "Maya," he said. "Can you find them?" She was already kneeling. She touched the ground and her face went tight. "They walked toward the depot. Together, not running." She swallowed. "Someone knocked on the bus. Three times. They went to look." Ethan swore under his
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Twenty-Seven: Ten Minutes Without Jake
Kai got his fingers under the rim and heaved. The cover scraped sideways with a groan Jake felt in his teeth. A square of black opened in the concrete, and cold air rolled out of it, smelling of wet stone and something sour underneath."Ladder," Walter said, aiming his flashlight down. "Twenty feet, maybe. Then water.""I'll go first," Jake said.Nobody argued. Jake didn't say why. If something was waiting at the bottom, he'd rather it found him than any of them.The rungs were slick. At the bottom he dropped into ankle-deep water so cold it burned. A tunnel ran off into the dark with pipes sweating along the ceiling. The others climbed down behind him one at a time, Maya last, crossbow slung, eyes half shut."Six went this way," she said. "Walking. Nobody running.""Is that good?" Ethan asked."It means they knew where they were going. Or something was herding them."They waded down the tunnel with their lights held low. At the far end a steel door stood shut. Three soft taps came fr
Apocalypse My First Skill Was Immortality Chapter Twenty-Six: Tracks Beneath the Concrete
Jake woke before the camp's morning bell. For a few seconds he lay still on the narrow cot, listening to Haven Ridge wake up around him. A cough behind the medical station wall. Boots crossing the gravel outside. Someone arguing quietly over a missing can of food. Then the System's last message came back to him. (FIND THE MISSING) (LAST KNOWN ROUTE IDENTIFIED.) (OBJECTIVE REMAINING: DETERMINE THE MISSING TEAM'S FATE.) Marcus and Ela were still out there. So were the others who'd gone with them. Jake sat up and checked his status. (STATUS) Level: 1 Strength: 6 Speed: 6 Agility: 6 Vitality: 5 Endurance: 5 Perception: 7 Intelligence: 8 Willpower: 7 System Coins: 5 Nothing had changed overnight, and it didn't make him any less tired. He got dressed, checked the knife on his belt, and stepped outside. Graham was already waiting by the main gate. A folded map sat on a crate with a wrench holding it down. Ethan stood next to him with his arms crossed, Maya studied a strip o
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