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THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 58 - Pretty-Faced Lunatic
The house was shrouded in grief. Even the kids seemed remorseful about the death of a baby they never got to know. “Poor baby,” Nina said as she sniffled into her bundled lab coat. “Poor baby survived that long only to die in the hands of a ninny,” Lisa said. Anger was evident in her tone. Anger at the wasteful death that could have been prevented if the situation had turned out differently. “I always knew that girl had a few wires crossed differently in her. Still, even I wouldn’t have believed her capable of this,” Marriane said in a forlorn voice, with her eyes on the direction of the back door. The back door opened and closed. Nina stood immediately from where she sat. She went straight to Adam, who was still in his soiled clothes. “Is it done? Did you at least give her the name?” she asked as more tears flooded down her face. “I did. I did,” Adam said quietly as he held her shoulder and led her back to the others. Adam was suddenly tired. It was not just physical tire
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 59 - A Good Fuck
Adam couldn’t bring himself to stay around the others as he entered.His thoughts were tumbling over each other as he nodded slightly at his mother when she said,“It is not your fault, son.”He looked at his dirt-streaked clothes, hands, and feet as if he had no idea who they belonged to.Then he turned towards the staircase.He entered the room where he had found Jasmine and just stared at the blood stain on the white chrome, like it had a life of its own.“Want me to clean that up for you?” He heard a voice behind him.“I told you to be gone,” he snapped as he turned back to face Layla, who was leaning against the door jamb.She raised her brows nonchalantly as she said, “Technically, you said by the time you came out of the bath. From the look of things, you have not started yet.”“And you want to help me?” Adam said automatically.He just wanted her to go away.He wanted everyone to leave him alone for one damn minute!Jasmine had opened his eyes to the fact that everything he wa
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 60 - Dead By Tomorrow
“Are you seriously going to consider letting her stay with us after what she did? I say we kick her ass out.” Lisa said immediately Adam came out of the room. Adam had heard noises in the house while he was in the bathroom. From the look on Lisa’s face, he could tell what the noise had been about. “Not now, Lisa,” he said slowly as he stood there on the landing. He still didn’t feel like joining the rest yet. The smell of eggs got to him, but instead of feeling hungry, he only felt nauseous. He knew he was supposed to talk to them. To boost morale, or whatever the hell was expected of him. Even if none of them had officially stated it, he was seen as a kind of leader now. Adam had no idea how he had gone from being a lowly messenger to being a man responsible for about fifty people. All he knew was that he just wanted some time to himself. Maybe Layla was right after all. It had been so damn long since he had been with a woman. Ana had made it clear long ago that she wou
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 61 - H.I.V Or Pregnancy?
Adam felt reborn anew!“Pfft, that is an exaggeration,” he muttered to the silent ceiling as he stretched languorously on the bed.With a smile on his face, he looked around at the rumpled sheets at the edge of the bed.“Sorry, buddy. Three bouts of sex would do that to you,” he muttered with a silly grin on his face.As the morning light seeped into the room, Adam felt like singing.He felt lightweight, as if most of the burdens that had been holding him down had rolled away.“A good fuck would do that to you,” his subconsciousness muttered cheekily.Adam couldn’t deny the fact, though.That was a good fuck indeed.The girl had been fucking good with her mouth, her waist, and her strength.The first time had been like heaven.Adam had no idea that his body was so starved of intimacy until she touched him.Right then and there, he almost embarrassed himself by pouring right into her hands.She sent him a knowing smirk and made him lie down before she started her slow, torturous minist
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 62 - The Jackpot
Adam was feeling damn hungry by the time he came out of the bathroom.Reminded of the need to get more food before they run out of the ones they have, Adam got dressed to join the others.Plans needed to be made.He pulled open the door, and just as he was about to close it, his eyes caught on something towards the other end of the room.It was a radio.Adam turned back as a thought came to him.“So, that was what that was about?”“Huh?” Adam asked incomprehensibly as he turned to face Lisa’s furious face.“What was…”“So you wanted her to stay because you two were fucking? After all she did?” his sister tossed at him.She couldn't mean what he thought she meant, could she?“What are you talking about?”“Oh, don’t bother to deny it, brother, dear brother. Everyone fucking heard you last night. Mum too”“Oh sh*t," Adam muttered.“Oh sh*t indeed. Why would you want to do the nasty with such a piece of sh*t, Adam? You don’t even know the whore!”“Okay, Lisa. that was uncalled for. Don’t
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 63 - Courting Death
“I guess the genius didn’t think of that.”Lisa muttered under her breath.Adam ignored her and focused his attention on the man who just spoke.“You are right. Otis, is it?”“Yes, my name is Otis,” the man said self-importantly.Adam nodded slightly as he thought fast.They were all gathered in the living room, and Adam just informed them about what he had learned.The recorded announcement was about the fact that the government had three secured facilities open to the public for protection.One was in Ohio.Another was in Sudan.And the last was in Nasca.People just needed to get themselves to those facilities.Or at least to the evacuation centers, and the authorities would make sure that they got to the closest safe facility.The closest evacuation center was in Supon.It was about 200 miles to the east of Maradoit.While Nasca was the closest facility to Maradoit.It was about 500 miles to the west.As Adam explained, they can decide to go towards Supon with the hope that they w
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 64 - Less Of A Man
The preparation took two days.The Trents had a Mercedes Benz Sprinter and a 20-seater Toyota Bus in their warehouse.Both were so new that Adam wondered if they had used them for more than just decorations in their gigantic warehouse.The warehouse reeked of paint.Buckets after buckets of paint were stacked high in the warehouse.“Too fancy for the likes of us,” Carlisle muttered as he kicked one of the paint buckets.Adam could understand his hatred for the Troys after what happened to his brother.Still, he chided the man to keep it down.They had not had to face a lot of zombies on their way to the warehouse but Adam still wanted to be as careful as possible.He went to the warehouse with Ryan and Carlisle.He didn’t intend to make the one-eyed man feel like less of a man because of his condition.Marriane had told him that the eye was healing nicely.They had been able to treat it on time and there was no infection.Though the eye was still bandaged, Carlisle seemed to be fine.
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 65 - Semblance of Familiarity
“They are treating this like they were going on a goddamn trip!”Adam told Marriane when she called him aside to talk to him.Adam was about to lose his temper with the people before she called him aside, saying that she would like to have a talk with him.“You can’t really blame them,son,” Marriane said as she gestured to the kitchen stool for him to sit on.“I am fine,” Adam stated instead and he stood looking out of the window.His eyes went straight in the direction of the place where they buried the baby but he kept his mind away from the disturbing thoughts of her.“Do they not understand how serious this is? After all those deaths, they still do not understand how serious this is." Adam asked no one in particular, still looking out through the window.“Of course they know. They do know. They are scared, too. That is why they are clinging to things that bring them comfort. A semblance of familiarity,” she explained gently.“But they must know that they can’t just expect to bring
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Epilogue - The Art Of Survival
Adam left the house after Theo was buried.Even though Lisa was not happy with the idea, she respected his decision after warning him to stay away from danger and call her from time to time.Layla paid him no attention as he left and in a way, he knew she might never really forgive him.Reminding himself of how much more important the art of survival was to them at the moment than the matters of the heart, Adam became a scavenging nomad.Layla was right in a way after all, if Theo had not been with him, he wouldn’t have died.So he thought of the best plan.To travel alone from place to place, helping those he could and educating people more on how they can beat this thing.He gathered men from place to place, and trained them in ways they could get food, avoid attacks and how they can survive.Soon enough, Lisa and the others made out the first batch of the new vaccine they were working on.It was a vaccine that could mask people’s scent when they are near zombies.They had been able
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Chp 227 - Good News
“Please tell me you were not out here all night.”Adam threw the soil off the shovel and swiped at his sweaty brows before looking back at Lisa.She stifled a yawn as she peered at him through bleary eyes. “You really have been here all night?”Adam smiled as he said, “Pot. Kettle.”“Well, excuse me. I have been trying to think of ways to save lives. What is your excuse?”Adam’s smile was gone as he said, “I have been trying to do what I can to preserve the body of the life that was taken because of me.”“Oh, Adam,” Lisa said in a heartfelt tone as she came closer to him. “She blamed you, didn’t she?”“She was right,” Adam said automatically. “I couldn’t even get the tools yet a man died because of my decision. That is not on anybody, Lisa. It is on me.”He turned away and continued digging again.He ignored Lisa’s approach and continued to dig in a frenzy.His back glistened with sweat in the cold air and the increasing light of dawn brushing the sky.“Adam!” Lisa called sharply when
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Chp 226 - The Unwanted One
“So it was your fault!” Layla said immediately Adam finished his narration.She had been holding herself so rigidly as Adam told them everything without sparing any detail.Even as others gasped and muttered with sympathy and shock as Adam explained exactly how Theo had died, she had only stood their with soot and sweat drying on her body.With her arms tightly around herself, she stood still, like she might crumble if she moved.Tears falling from her eyes had increased, but she didn’t say anything.Then, immediately after Adam completed his narration, she blurted that out.“Layla, I don’t think Adam...”“No, it was his fault.” Layla cut Maddy off. “If he had not told him to stop, if he was not so concerned about getting some goddamned farming tools, Theo would still be here with us!”Each of her words dug a dart into Adam’s heart.He had not expected that from her.From anyone else, he could have expected the hateful words coming out of her mouth.But not from Layla. She was...Layla
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Chp 225 - Layla's betrayal
It didn’t take Adam long to realise that his guess was right.The fiery halo was nothing but a blazing fire.“Who the fuck was making a fire out there?” he wondered as he ran with all his might.He started hearing the sounds of rushing feet ahead of him as well.Soon enough, he caught up with Maddy and some other men also running in the direction of the fire.“What is going on?” Adam asked instantly.Maddy’s eyes widened in surprise as she saw him. Without stopping, she said, “You are back! Good, we are about to find out who the fuck wants to die so badly.”They burst out into the opening to see Jared struggling with Molly!What the… “Hey!” Adam called out in fury.The two struggling figures turned to look at Adam.At least Jared turned.Molly used that opportunity to send her elbow into Jared’s guts.Though her hit didn’t do much to hurt him, he grunted and staggered back a bit.That gave Molly the chance to turn around as well.Her face fell when she saw Adam.Then she looked guilt
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Chp 224 - I Knocked Her Out
Adam recognised the car even before he saw the cutout van behind it. His heart leaped for joy when he saw Layla at the wheel of the car. But then his happiness was tainted by what Lisa just told him. He looked back at his sister just as the car parked. “You are sure?” he asked urgently. With tears in her eyes, Lisa nodded. Adam stepped out of the car. “Adam!” Layla called excitedly as she rushed forward to hug him. The men in the van came down just as Layla realised that Adam was not as excited as she was. She moved back from his embrace and asked, “What is wrong? Were you able to get…” Layla saw Lisa at the back of the car just then. She smiled in greeting and said, “Glad to see you are okay, Lisa.” “Hi, Layla,” Lisa responded in a gloomy tone. That made Lisa’s brow rise in confusion as she looked back at Adam and asked, “What is the problem?” Adam didn’t bother to mince words. “It is Theo,” he answered. Layla automatically looked towards the airplane, where Jeremy w
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Chp 223 - Divine View
Hoping that he wouldn’t cause their crash, Adam quickly turned his phone on and searched for how to land an airplane while it was on autopilot.He could see the anxiety on Lisa’s face as she removed her jacket and placed it on him to keep him warm.Silent and morose, Jeremy stared intently at the unconscious body.Lisa looked up at Adam and he could feel the hope dying in her as she asked, “How far to go?”“Not too far,” Adam stated.Not that he was so certain of all the digits and radars on the system.He just hoped they would soon be in Sydney.He was glad for the fact that Theo had already inputted their destination into the control system before the unfortunate incident happened.Adam looked over at the body on the floor.The blood had finally stopped.Lisa had made sure of that.Still, Thomas remained very unconscious.When Adam had checked his pulse earlier, it had been threadbare.Things were not looking good at all.Adam took his mind off the morbid thoughts and focused on sea
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Chp 222 - More Than A First Aid
Adam ran as fast as his pain-wracked body would allow. The angry shrieks and snarls behind him were thrumming in his head. Even though the sword kept slashing zombies down behind him while following him, the zombies were relentless in their pursuit. At that moment, Adam thought fondly of the chemical the Emir’s men had used on the zombies. He would make it his life mission to ensure they had something like that too. That was if he survived. Which was not looking so likely at the moment. The bites on his body hurt like hell as he ran without pause. The overgrown weeds slowed him down, while the mindless zombies plowed on without stopping. He had to turn to shoot at the closest two zombies that escaped the sword’s reach, even while backing away. The zombies were gaining on him as the airplane came into view. He could see the anxious faces of Lisa and Jeremy by the window as they were yelling something he couldn’t hear. The sword gained him some ground as he quickly climbed th
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Chp 221 - Hornet's Nest
They started coming from everywhere. The more the zombies that were with them snarled and growled, the more other zombies started coming to join the feast. Adam regretted his urge to stop at that place. As he swung, slashed, and cut, he wished he had never thought of stopping at all. He took no notice of the crazily increasing storehouse.Cores dropped in succession and the storehouse increased in tune with it.Adam was too busy fighting for survival to marvel at the size of the storehouse.One couldn't stand at one side and see the other side of the storehouse again at this point.Adam was sweating profusely as black blood flew yet more zombies poured out of what had once seemed like a ghost town.It was like entering a hornet’s nest. The more he killed, the more they started coming. Theo was holding his own, and Adam was helping him out whenever he could. But when Adam was able to pull out a gun and toss it to Theo, the gun fell to the ground uselessly as Theo shouted, “I don
