All Chapters of The Endgame Chronicles: Chapter 571 - Chapter 580

After spraying that wave of black water, the high-level zombie didn't press the attack.It ran.The whole thing took maybe two seconds. One blink, and it was gone."Damn it!" Hayley hissed, feeling her saber cut through empty air. She stepped back, eyes sweeping both ends of the hallway.But the zombie was gone. Only streaks of black liquid were left on the floor.She exhaled slowly.High-level zombies were different.They could think and sense danger. They ran when they had to. And when they ran, they disappeared.From the stairwell came a scraping sound."Raarh! Raarh!"The twisted girl zombie was dragging itself back up the steps, limbs bending the wrong way.Hayley barely glanced at it. Her focus was still on the vice principal.Where would it go?Behind her, Marvin checked the two students he had shielded.They were fine.He let out a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding."We need to get inside!" he ordered when he saw the girl zombie heading toward them.

Right as the room fell into awkward silence, a clear voice cut through it."I'll go with you."Hayley stepped forward.Marvin looked at her.She was already walking toward the door, smiling faintly. "Well? Let's move."Trina's pretty face tightened immediately when she saw who had volunteered."I don't wanna go with you," she said sharply."Then we all go," Marvin decided.He had thought it through fast. If they were going to follow Hayley and leave this place, they couldn't hide in classrooms forever. And if Hayley was willing to walk point, that was as safe as it was going to get.The restroom was right next door, anyway.Marvin gave her a small nod.Everyone stood up and braced themselves.Hayley opened the door. The hinges gave a soft creak. The hallway was still, not a zombie in sight.Hayley stepped into the center, scanned both ends, then gave a subtle nod back. The group shuffled out behind her, shoulders hunched, sticking close together.The moment they stepp

Trina stared in disbelief as the mass of black liquid froze in midair, suspended like it had slammed into glass.What was that?"Why are you still standing there?" Hayley snapped, one hand extended as she held the barrier in place. "Find cover!"Marvin snapped out of it first. He looked at Hayley like he was seeing a legend in real time.She was holding down a Zombie King with one hand.One freaking hand!Hayley was unbelievable."Move!" he barked, herding the students like frightened birds toward the innermost bathroom stalls.They split up and crammed inside. The second they were clear, the trapped black water detonated outward inside the invisible wall.At the exact same moment, Hayley's blade cut through the center."Raarh!"Another arm hit the tile.This time, instead of more liquid, black flames burst from the vice principal zombie's body.Marvin's heart jumped into his throat. His eyes locked tensely onto the mass of black flames that seemed capable of burning every

Marvin waited until the last student rushed past him before he finally turned and ran.The second he burst out into the hallway, his heart dropped.It was a sea of corpses.Zombies flooded in from the skybridge behind them, pouring forward in wave after wave.Under the golden wash of sunset, countless twisted faces glowed in the light. Every one of them was grotesque, and every one of them was sprinting straight at them.The students raised their baseball bats and fought as they ran, trying to keep up with Hayley at the front.Hayley carved a path along the thinner side of the swarm, twin blades flashing, blood spraying as she forced an opening.Even with a path cleared, the students looked fragile in the middle of that tide, like driftwood in a hurricane.Ryker, Andrew, and the other boys hugged the outer wall, swinging hard at the first zombies that broke through. They smashed skulls again and again just to keep breathing space.Sydney and Trina stayed closer to the inside.

Smack!Hayley's hand cracked across Trina's face and sent her sideways."Nobody wants to protect you, you little brat!"Trina's cheek swelled instantly. Tears flooded her eyes; she glared at Hayley as if Hayley had just been betrayed by the universe."How dare you hit me! No one's ever hit me! Who do you think you are!"Smack!Another slap.This one wasn't Hayley.Sydney pushed herself off the floor, legs still shaking from the run, and slapped Trina hard."That was me! Remember that I did that!"Smack!She hit Trina again.Trina had shoved her toward a zombie twice today. She had almost died twice.Yeah. She earned that one."You all hit me! You're all hitting me!" Trina burst into tears, looking around for backup.Her eyes found Ryker.He was on his feet, walking toward her.For a split second, hope flickered in her face."Ryker…"Smack!He hit her, too. Trina froze. She stared at him, stunned.The look in his eyes was ice cold. That was when it hit her: He was