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THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 84 - Sybil's End Game
The butt of a gun crashed hard into Adam’s head before he could duck.Not that he could, anyway.Two men were on his opposite sides.Just as he mentioned “Seth?”The gun butt crashed into his head and he blacked out.The sharp cry of Layla followed him into oblivion.When he regained consciousness again, he was being prodded by one of the men with a rude kick.“Get up, bastard!” the man yelled in his face as he kicked him over and over again.Adam wished his sword could be in his hand at that moment so that he could slash off the bastard’s leg.He was roughly pulled to his feet.Adam realised that his hands had been tied together.As soon as he was upright, a blindfold was put over his face.He felt himself being pushed out of the cabin.They were on solid ground.Adam wondered where they were as they pushed him along.He wondered where Layla was.Had she been treated?He doubted that.He was still shocked that Seth had not died at that time.Still, he was relieved that that guilt wou
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 85 - Bullets And Souvenirs
Stripped naked and vulnerable, Layla's eyes still held the defiance that he had come to know her for.She didn’t take her eyes off his as he approached her.It was as if she was daring him to get it over with.“Go ahead, fuckboy. That is what I am talking about,” Sybil said as she settled back in her chair.“Oh, Gwen is going to love this,” she said with glee.As if she were not satisfied with the cameras already trained on Layla, she brought out her phone and started recording.Layla’s eyes fluttered close for a moment but then she opened them again.Adam got close to her.He firmly took his eyes away from her jutting breasts and asked.“Can you hold on for a while longer?”“Fuck you!” she said weakly. “Just do what you have to do.”Adam had no idea why her lack of faith in him pissed him off but he ignored that alien feeling and asked again.“I ask you a question. Can you fucking hold on?” he gritted out.“Enough of your pillow talk already. Get fucking! I am getting bored and you d
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 86 - Innocent Bomb
Layla groaned weakly from the cot.Her eyes rolled back in her head as she tried to catch Adam’s eyes.Was she telling him to do it?Adam was not about to be forced to sleep with a dying person.Not by a little bitch who wouldn’t dare stand up to him if not for her father’s money.Before he could stop himself, he blurted out, "No.”Surprise registered on Sybil’s face for an instance, followed by rage.“You brought this on yourselves!” she said, cocking the gun.“Sybil, you are not really going to shoot her, are you? Uncle…”“Shut up! Just shut the fuck up, you wimp! I am in charge here!”Adam wished he could have his sword with him at that moment.While the silly twit was distracted, he could have fought his way out.“But…”“I say…argh!”“Sybil! What…what did you do to her??Adam was as shocked as Seth was.The sword had worked with Adam's thoughts again.It was a deadly connection this time.The sword pierced through Sybil’s chest, sticking her to the glass as it tried to force its w
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 87 - Keeping Hope Alive
“They would be fine,” Sophia tried to reassure Marriane.Marriane looked at her vaguely and nodded.She muttered her thanks and told Sophia to get some rest too.Sophia could tell that the woman was just humouring her; she had stopped believing her words hours after a whole day had passed and there was no sign of her son.Lisa nodded slightly at her in greeting as they passed each other while Sophia was on her way out of the tent.Sophia continued on her way but then she turned back as Lisa whistled at her.Lisa took her aside and said nothing.The young lady wrung her hands.Turned away.Then turned back to Sophia.“They are going to be fine,” Sophia said automatically.She had a good idea of what Lisa might be agitated about, after all.“How can you even say that? How can you be so... sure? So…calm? After what happened to Nina?”“I am not sure of anything,” Sophia admitted. “I just know that we have to keep hope alive. Have a little faith.”“Yeah?” Lisa said testily, “Nina was all a
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 88 - Not Bitten, Were You?
“I told y’all that this was a mistake, didn’t I?"Dixon snapped at Carlisle.The sting was taken out of his words, though, because all he could do was whisper.“Yes, you said it. A thousand times already and I can assure you that if I hear it one more time, I am going to make you choke on those words.”Dixon shook his head and muttered, "Joker.”Carlisle ignored him.Dixon wanted to talk but he quickly shut his mouth as well.The reason was not far-fetched.Snarls and shuffling feet resounded in the alley where they were.Cramped together in a plastic drum originally used for oilDrenched in black blood and reeking of God knows what, it was a miracle that they were not choking on their bile at the moment.When the snarl moved away, Dexter looked over at Carlisle in the waning light.He looked away, then he asked anyway.“Are you sure you were not bitten?”Carlisle was silent for a while, then he answered.“There is only one way to find out, isn’t it?”“Don’t you mess with..."“Now!”
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 89 - The Temptation
“Scout everywhere! Find that bastard!"Adam dragged the dead weight of Layla’s unconscious body behind him as he tried to swim with one hand.He dove under the water and held his breath as the whirring blade of the helicopter came close to where he was.Praying that he didn’t pass out or kill Layla in the process, he waited patiently until the light passed where they were.“Check there! Check everything well. He shouldn’t have gone far! Master would have our heads if we did not bring the culprit to him!”Adam gasped as he came to the surface.He breathed in deeply as he lifted Layla’s head above the water.He thought he felt her shiver but he couldn’t be sure.Shivering had been the norm for her in the past few days.After a better check, he realized that the water around had not been a river after all.It was a constructed moat.He had heard of rich people building houses with a big body of water surrounding them as protection or decoration.Adam had never really seen one in person.
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 90 - The Girl He Saved
Layla was going in and out of consciousness.Adam hoped she would not die on him before he could finally get those people off his back.Though he had no idea how he would do that, he was hopeful.He couldn’t come all this way to die in a self-constructed body of water!The momentary frustration and anger propelled him and he raised his head out of the water again.He quickly did the same with Layla’s head.“Come on, girl, don’t die on me,” he muttered as he tried to keep her head above water while trying to swim forward.It was a starless night and the pitch-black surroundings had worked favourably for him so far.Still, he hated the fact that the same darkness might swallow him up soon.The men were not relenting!The beam of the flashlights they were using to search for him seemed to have multiplied from the last time he had surfaced."If only I could just get out of the water without them seeing me."The ridiculous thought made him remember what had happened earlier.He had tried o
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 91 - In Full View
It did not take long for Adam to realise the reason why the men probably left!As he helped Layla along the rough path that led away from the moat,Something came to his mind and he froze.His phone!Adam had left his backpack in the car before Sybil’s invasion.But he brought his phone with him to the house.While Layla was still asleep, he had tried to call his family just to reassure them, but Lisa’s number was not going through.He was just about to call his dad when Layla stirred uncomfortably.Adam had dropped the phone on the headboard as he quickly checked on Layla.That was right before she woke up and asked for the water.The phone was right there in full view of whoever entered that room!“What is it?” Layla asked curiously when she saw his sudden pause.“My phone. I left it in that room.”“Oh shit!” Layla said, with her widened eyes on Adam’s.Adam could see that she was also having the same thoughts as him.“Maybe…Maybe it fell off and they wouldn’t see it?” she said hope
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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
