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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
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 92 - The Barnhouse
"I promise to tell you later. Let's just leave here first. You said it yourself; we need to get to your family as soon as possible." Layla said in a beseeching tone. Adam didn’t believe her but he didn’t want to waste time arguing as well. He was tempted to just leave her right there to see if she would find her way or not. Still, he bent down for her to climb on his back again. “You…” His growl of anger shut her up immediately and she got on his back. Adrenaline pumped through his body as sweat mixed with the water from Layla’s pajamas. “I think you..." “Shut up!” Adam snapped as he fixed his gaze on the lone light they had been tracking for almost an hour now. Soon enough, Adam could see a slope go down from where they were. The sky was lightening up as well. Adam stopped suddenly, though he was still far from the light. He had thought they were going up a path because of the height of the light. He soon realised that the light was not coming from home. It was from a li
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 93 - Mind-link And Hot Irons
“Come with me!"Adam muttered as he got to her.He pulled her arm as he turned to run towards the side of the tin and brick home.He had already sported an opened window at the side of the barn-like house.He swore out loud when he saw her; it was one of those townhouse windows with burglary iron.“Shit!” he sneered as he saw more zombies lumbering towards them.He turned to face them but quickly remembered something.Hoping he was right, he turned the sword swiftly in his hands and turned it against the edges of the iron bars.The sword instantly heated.Then it started melting off the edges of the irons.“Well, glad that works. Now hurry up!” Layla said anxiously as she turned to shoot the approaching zombies.“Goddamn it! Look!” she swore with fright in her tone.Adam turned to look and he almost dropped the sword in panic.The barnhouse was on a slope close to the mountainous side that led to the lighthouse.From there, one could look down on the rest of the village.What Adam saw
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 94 - A Little Accident
“Mum! Mum? It’s Adam!”Lisa rushed to her parents’ tent with excitement dogging her footsteps.“Adam? Oh Lord! Thank you!” Marriane practically snatched the ringing phone from Lisa in happiness.She picked up the call and put it in her ears.“Hello? Adam? Hello?” Nothing.She removed the phone and disappointment filled her face that was so alive a second ago.“What happened?”Caleb asked behind her.“It is dead. Why did you not pick it? You should have just picked it up. What if we can’t call him again as we have been unable to?” Marriane bombarded Lisa with questions.With tears in her eyes, she stared at the phone like it had stolen something important from her.“Come now. Calm down. Just call him back,” Caleb said.He waved at the two men standing away from the group.“It’s fine. We would join you soon.”“Dial it. Dial it then,” Marriane said in agitation.“How can you all just tell me to leave when he is not back?” she muttered as the phone rang.And ranged.But it was not answer
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 95 - Pulp Of Black Matters
Adam’s legs were cramping.The rotten smell of the zombie on him had penetrated his brain so much that he couldn’t recall what clean air smelled like.He wanted to distance himself as far as possible from everything that smelled of the dead.Still, the zombies move around the rooms.The early morning light cut through the windows and the broken door.Illuminating the four zombies who refused to get out of the house.While Adam and Layla lay underneath the zombies, the zombies came and went.They had all gone towards the dead figure sitting up in bed when they first entered.Then, with sounds of disappointment, they all moved away from the blown-up figure.That was when the frantic search around the room began.When they saw no living being, their agitation calmed down.Most of them looked around in confusion as they snarled, growled, and sniffed the air in turn like hounds.Adam was certain he would never get those sounds out of his head, no matter how long he lived.He wondered how L
THE APOCALYPTIC RISE OF ADAM Chp 96 - Robbing A Graveyard
With reeking, discoloured purple pajamas and a limping gait, Layla immediately rushed towards the figure on the bed.Adam could see the blown-out jaw of the man on the bed.There was not enough left of his face for Adam to guess his age.But he had a slight paunch made visible by his stained singlet that must have been white once.“See?” Layla said in a trembling tone as she suddenly stopped in the doorway, as if she were afraid to enter the room.“I killed him in his bed. The noise of our crash must have woken him up. I killed him before he could check it out. We broke into his home and I thanked him by killing him!” Her voice rose an octave on the last statement.Adam laid his hand on her shoulder and felt a tremor go through her.“I am a killer,” she whispered more to herself than to him.Her broken voice stopped what he was about to say.He looked over at the room over her shoulder again.Apart from the dead smell rising off him and her, there was another distinct smell too.Adam
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