Chapter 11

Day five. Dead silence.No one had spoken on the channel for a long time.After Liam’s threat, a desperate silence had fallen over everyone.Only five survivors remained.I watched the estate through my monitors.Linda and Tom were still hiding in the wine cellar, but their food was almost gone.Liam was pacing back and forth in the second-floor study like a caged animal.As for Chloe, she had been missing for a full day.Just when I thought she might be dead, a faint voice came through the channel.“Help me…”It was Chloe.But she sounded nothing like the arrogant influencer she had been.Her voice was trembling, terrified, full of desperate sobs.“Please… I was wrong… I was so wrong…”The channel went quiet.“Chloe?” Linda’s voice was surprised. “You’re still alive?”“I… I’m not going to make it…” Chloe sobbed. “I’m trapped in the generator room… There are monsters everywhere…”“The generator room?” Tom asked, confused. “What are you doing there?”“I was trying to find a safe place…

Chapter 12

Day six. The blizzard had lightened, but the killing continued.[System Alert: Phase 2 is nearing its end.][Current Survivors: 3][Ava, Liam, Chloe]I looked at the notification, a little surprised.Liam was still alive?I checked the monitors and saw the carnage in the generator room. Tom and Linda’s bodies were mangled on the floor, but Liam was gone.His teleport ability had saved his life at the last second.The noise had messed with his accuracy, but he had managed to escape.The price was that he was now in a half-turned state.I found him on the monitors. He was staggering around outside the main house, his movements stiff, but he still had his basic intelligence.The virus was active in his body, but it hadn’t completely taken over his mind.That made him even more dangerous.He had the strength of the dead, but the mind of a predator. Vengeful. Cunning.My communication system pinged.Not a channel message, but a direct impact.Someone was banging on the door to the recording

Chapter 13

“Finally!”Liam’s face twisted into a grotesque grin as he saw the door open. His half-turned face looked monstrous in the dim light.“I knew you’d see reason!” He stumbled forward, trying to rush into the studio. “We can…”I sidestepped him without a word.“What?” Liam froze, his outstretched hand grabbing at empty air. “Ava?”Just then, a figure stepped out from the shadows of the studio.Chloe.She was holding an iron pipe from the generator room, and she swung it without hesitation at the back of Liam’s head.WHACK!Liam, caught completely off guard, crumpled to the floor. His half-turned body kept him from being knocked out completely, but he couldn’t move.“What… what’s going on…” he mumbled from the floor, blood pouring from his head, his eyes filled with confusion. “Chloe? Why are you…”“Why am I here?” Chloe kicked him hard in the ribs. She looked down at him, her smile pure, frozen venom. “Because we're teammates, darling.”“Teammates?” Liam looked at me in disbelief. “Ava? W

Chapter 14

Day seven.[System Alert: Final Phase has begun.][Silent Survival][Countdown: 24 Hours][Victory Condition: Keep your team intact until time runs out.]There were only two of us left in the recording studio.Chloe kicked off her heels and curled up on the sofa.I added a few logs to the fireplace, the warm glow dancing in the sealed room.No more cameras. No more audience. No more enemies to deceive.For the first time, we could let go of all our masks.I watched the fire and remembered the morning I was reborn.I woke up screaming the day after Grandpa’s funeral. Drenched in cold sweat.Everything in the dream had been so real—the zombies’ roars, my family’s betrayal, the final, desperate pain as Liam pushed me into the horde to save himself.But when I looked at the calendar, I realized something.I had been reborn.I was back before the game even started.The first person to confirm my suspicions was Chloe.She sent me a text that morning: “Our dear Liam is going to have an intere

All Chapters of The Inheritance Game- Only Silence Survives: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14