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THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 69 - Zombie Dog
Adam was too late.Layla was pulling up front when he got to the bus.He almost got knocked out by the front door as Ryan jumped out with the gun at the ready.“The dog. It is tearing at her. It... Fuck! I can't shoot her!"Adam pulled the side door open.Those who seemed to have been frozen in place by shock quickly tried to rush out of the door, blocking Adam’s path.“Stay put!” Adam shouted as he nudged someone aside.“The dog is biting everybody, mommy!” A kid screamed.Adam’s eyes were on his sister.She was pinned down by Bo.The dog was biting her over and over again, while Lisa was hitting it with everything she could get her hands on.Neck pillow she grabbed from someone.A kid’s game toyAnything at all!“He won’t let go!” She was screaming over and over again, tears streaming down her face as she grabbed random things to hit Bo with.The dog stayed glued to Nina, tearing at her throat!“Bo!” Adam shouted as he nudged Lisa aside.The dog turned his bloody face toward Adam.S
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 70 - Ongoing Feud
The man rose in the same distorted way that Adam had seen too many times already.“Oh fuck!” Adam muttered as he raised his sword.Before he could slice the man, though, the latter slumped to the floor and lay still.“What the…” A thud and another scream from Lisa made Adam turn towards the back.Nina was on the floor as well.She lay as still as the man on the floor.“What is going on?” he asked no one in particular.“I don’t know!” Lisa shouted with her eyes still fixed on Nina.Her bloodied hands were shaking as she continued, “One moment, she was... she was... changing into one of those things! And now... now she is like that!” She said hysterically.Adam looked toward Sophia.Wide-eyed and blood-stained as well, she merely nodded.“I don’t understand it,” she muttered almost to herself. “The dog bit her. The dog is…”“I need you two to go outside. Go outside now and get Mom here.”“But…”“Just go, Lisa,” Adam said hastily.She nodded without hesitation and went outside with Sop
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 71 - Not Enough Time.
“What are you going to do?"Lisa whispered to Adam.She had asked the same question multiple times already.And Adam still had only one answer: “I will think of something.”“But…”“Lisa, you will wake her up,” Caleb said from behind.Adam had no idea how he could remain so calm.He supposes a man of his dad's age and experience has had enough time to master the art of patience.Adam couldn’t relate.At the moment, he felt like railing at the world.He felt like getting out of the car and slashing every single zombie he could see into ribbons.He felt like he should check on Nina and ask her if the rope was too tight.He would have loved to ask her how she was feeling.What did the sickness feel like?He would have liked to ask the universe why Nina couldn’t have the same luck that he had.Instead, he drove.He drove as thoughts ran through his mind.He drove as his mother remained unconscious in the back while Jeremy held the vial and his father administered what was needed.He drove
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 72 - Better Than The Alternative
The girl was not on the bus! When the road was wide enough for Adam to overtake the bus without using the horn, He signaled to Carlisle to stop the bus. The search was quick and the result was disheartening. The kid was not on the bus! A wild guess made them check the van as well but she was not there. Instead, something more shocking was discovered. The skin tone of Nina and the man was changing. It is more grayish than fair at the moment. They were both snapping and snarling as the van door was opened. There was no longer any doubt about their fates. “Tough luck,” Layla said as she stared at Nina. “Mind your fucking business!” Adam snapped at her. He shut the van door tightly and turned away from her. “I was not being a bitch, you know. She was nice to me,” she said as she followed Adam to where the others were. They had seen a drive-in rest area right after Carlisle confirmed that the girl was not in the bus. The rest area was deserted yet it looked intact. At least
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 73 - Parents' Worst Nightmare
Adam could have broken down the door.But then he thought of the fact that they would need the door locked that night if they were staying there.So he ran to the back.There was a key left in the lock, so he hurriedly opened it and rushed towards the van.Layla was talking to his parents.Adam changed directions and rushed to where they were.“What is it? Are they here again?” Marriane asked anxiously.“What? Who? No!” Adam answered as he looked from his parent's expressionless face to Layla's.“What was she telling you?” he asked.“That you wanted us to stay here for the night?” Lisa answered while looking from Layla to Adam. "Was she lying? Is something wrong?""No, nothing. Oh, yes. We can stay here for now. We will leave as early as possible tomorrow morning. There are things to eat inside too,” Adam answered.“Good, let me help your mother inside,” Caleb said as he urged his wife up from where she was perched.“What the hell do you think you are doing?” Adam muttered heatedly to
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 74 - Not A Dream
Ryan and Carlisle did the honours.Adam couldn’t bring himself to shoot Nina, even though he knew there was nothing of her left in the snarling beast eager to claw his brains out.Ryan did the shooting.Together with Carlisle, he organized men to dig graves on the patch of land behind the rest areas.The two bodies were buried there.It was long past midnight before they finished.The rest area was as quiet as a graveyard when they came in.Though a few people, mostly kids, were asleep, nobody could muster enough energy and enthusiasm to say anything.Lisa and Layla were sitting away from the others. Layla’s arms were wrapped around Lisa’s as she shuddered lightly from time to time.Caleb had a faraway look on his face as he held his unconscious wife.Marriane was out for most of the night.Just as dawn was approaching, she woke up groggily.The first thing she said was, “It wasn’t a dream, was it?”Caleb shook his head dejectedly.Marriane looked over at Lisa, who was staring listle
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 75 - A Father's Duty
Marriane wouldn’t stop apologising to Yoshi.She was the one who grabbed Yoshi and stopped him from leaping to his death.The boy’s whitened face had stared mutedly at her as she apologised over and over again.Tears ran down her face until mucus from her nose joined it yet she seemed not to be able to stop herself from apologising.No amount of pacification from Caleb could stop her.She was alternatively apologising to Yoshi and to Nina.“My baby, I am sorry,” she would say suddenly, then clutch Yoshi to her side to apologise again.At long last, she fell asleep.Right next to Yoshi, who had slept beside her.She refused to eat anything all day, despite Adam and Caleb’s persuasion.“This would affect her health more,” Caleb said after staring out into the night for minutes after his wife fell asleep.Adam had nothing to say.He had no consolation to give because he was dealing with his own grief as well.Still, he said, “She is a strong woman. She…”“She is a woman who just lost her
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 76 - Circle Of Light
A scream pierced through the night. “Everybody, get the hell out!" Adam heard a commanding voice yell from the front. The van had stopped. “Get down now or I swear I would shoot your fucking head off!" “What?! What is going on? Are they here? Oh my God, Nina,” Marriane cried in a disoriented state as the noise woke her up. That pissed Adam off more than the uncertainty of what was happening. “Calm down, mom. They are not here.” “Well, someone certainly is!” Marriane snapped. She looked from side to side in wide-eyed terror as a high beam of torches pierced through the surroundings, illuminating the three vehicles. Another gunshot rang out before Adam could react. Marriane screamed. “They are coming for us! They took my daughter and now they are coming for us!” “Dad, please calm her down. Just stay here. Let me check this out," Adam said as he wondered who the bastards outside are. “No! No! No!” Marriane clung to his arm just as he was about to get out of the car. “No, s
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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
