Lahat ng Kabanata ng Reborn Before The Climate Apocalypse : Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 50

"If another crazy person tries to turn me into a battery, I'm going to set their boots on fire!" I shouted, kicking a rusting oil drum out of our path as we tiptoed through the ruined roadside settlement.CLANG-BANG!"Mia, stealth! Remember stealth?!" Kai hissed from behind a smashed brick wall, holding his rifle close to his chest. "We are investigating a blood-stained slaughter zone, not announcing our arrival at a party!""Stealth is for people without dark fire, Kai!" I retorted, twirling my dark blade so fast it hummed in the damp morning air. "Besides, whoever did this left enough mess to invite the whole county!"The roadside settlement was a complete disaster zone. Overturned supply trucks blocked the main asphalt strip, surrounded by bloodstained leather restraints, shattered glass vials, and empty medical containers stamped with scratched-off hazard symbols."Look at these ties," Leo muttered, kneeling near a bent guardrail and

"If I see one more cage, I am going to melt this entire basement into a flat piece of glass!" I shouted, kicking open a reinforced iron door that slammed against the concrete wall with a loud bang! BANG-CRASH! "Mia, keep your voice down! We are inside their main processing hub!" Kai whispered loudly, peeking around a steel corner with his secondary pistol raised. "Look at this place! It looks like a mad scientist's discount warehouse!" The underground industrial facility was massive, damp, and lit by flickering yellow emergency strips. Dozens of heavy iron cages lined the damp concrete corridors. Inside, terrified civilians and wounded ability users were cowering behind rusted bars, many with glowing diagnostic bands strapped to their wrists. "Keycard override complete!" Nora called out, swiping a stolen security pass across a central terminal. BEEP-CLICK! Every cage door along the lower hallwa

"If another guard looks at my canvas sack like I'm a walking vending machine, I am going to turn their steel helmets into decorative fruit bowls!" I whispered loudly, shifting my grip on the heavy supplies as we walked through the heavily fortified gates of the mountain settlement.CLANK-SCRAPE!"Mia, keep your voice down. We're guests here," Adrian muttered smoothly, walking beside me with his broadsword strapped securely to his back. Blue lightning crackled faintly along his fingertips, warning the nearest watchtower guards not to lean too far over the railing. "Commander Hale agreed to let us use their agricultural compound to repair our secondary transport.""Guests don't usually have twelve guys with assault rifles staring at our fuel tanks like they want to adopt them!" Kai grumbled, stepping up on my left with his secondary rifle held ready.The settlement—known locally as the Ridge-Gate Compound—was built into a massive, terraced agricultu

"If I catch one more person sneaking near the medical crates, I am going to let Nora use them for injection practice!" I shouted, dropping a wooden crate of empty glass bottles onto the worktable with a loud CLATTER! "I wasn't sneaking near the crates, Mia!" a thin man with dirt-smudged cheeks sobbed, cowering near the greenhouse supply corner. "I was looking for extra blankets! My daughter... my daughter Lily is burning up with fever!" "His name is Miller—no, wait, Arthur!" Kai called out from his perch on top of an old tractor frame. "And he definitely had his hands inside the secondary medical bag, Mia! I saw him stuff three vials into his coat!" "I didn't steal them! I borrowed them!" Arthur whimpered, holding his worn canvas jacket tightly against his ribs. "Please! The guards took all our medicine last week! My girl is only seven years old!" "Borrowing implies you plan on returning three opened vials of broad-spectrum antibiotics, Arthur," Nora said, stepping out of the

"If you wrap me in one more layer of medical gauze, Nora, I am going to legally classify myself as a mummy and charge admission!" Maya complained, wincing as Nora pulled a fresh bandage tight across her left shoulder. "Stop moving, Maya, or the stitches are going to rip open again," Nora scolded, snipping the medical tape with a sharp snap of her scissors. "That tiger claw missed your collarbone by less than two centimeters. You're lucky you still have a working arm." "Working arm? Doc, this arm is a masterpiece of modern tactical engineering!" Maya grinned, flexing her bandaged shoulder while wincing slightly. "Look at that brand new battle scar! It stretches all the way from my collarbone down to my upper chest! It looks like I wrestled a laser-beam dinosaur and won!" "It looks like a giant cat tried to open you like a tin of sardines," Kai corrected, leaning against the doorway of the medical tent with his secondary rifle over his shoulder. "And trust me, nobody is impressed