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    Theresa scanned her surroundings, then walked over to the far–left railing and leaned over to look down. What met her eyes was a dense horde of zombies, all wing and snapping as if starving.

    Each one had its mouth stretched as wide as it could go, eyes full of desperate hunger–like they were ming the heavens for not feeding them sooner.

    Hungry…

    So hungry…

    I’ve been istarving /iifor /iiyears/i…

    Her gaze drifted from the sea of zombies to a nearby building shrouded by a thick ring of tall trees. Beneath the cover of those trees stood several long barracks–like structures, with bold letters on the roof reading, ‘Exemry Conduct, Victorious in Battle.‘

    That was the Military Garrison.

    Unlike the streets outside, there were hardly any zombies inside the garrison.

    “There’s no stationed unit in there–maybe a dozen guards at most,” Lucas said.

    Theresa nodded.

    That was their target. But since the garrison had no ce tond a helicopter, they quickly formed a n -touch down on the roof of the nearestmercial building instead.

    From there, they wouldn’t need to hit the ground and fight their way in; they could just set up a zipline from the fifth or sixth floor across the single street separating them from the garrison.

    She took in the terrain in all directions, mentally marking every spot that could serve as cover or an escape route. Once she had a clear map in her head, she turned back to Lucas and nodded. “Let’s move.”

    “Mm.”

    At her word, Graham broke open the rooftop door and headed down.

    The building was a mixed–use tower: the bottom five floors were a shopping mall, and the remaining twenty–two were offices.

    Countlesspanies worked out of here, but since the zombie virus had broken out in the early morning, there had been very few people in the offices.

    Once Graham and the others entered, they began sweeping the building floor by floor.

    “Arrrgh…”

    A sudden ithump /iand muffled growl drew their attention. Behind the ss doors of a locked office, a female zombie in a white blouse and ck skirt mmed against the ss in a frenzy.

    She had no wounds and her clothes were spotless, but her face was gray–white, skin stretched over bone.

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    From the look of it, she had turned in the middle of workingte–alone in the office, without anyone even noticing.

    “Arrrggh…”

    “Hharrrrrgh…”

    Her growls grew more frenzied as she caught their scent. She gaped her mouth wide, revealing teeth shrunken back into the gums. Maggots squirmed in the gaps, boring into the gums and rotting flesh, feasting as they went. Her tongue had been chewed down into something that looked like a tattered mulberry leaf, full of holes and decay.

    “Arrrgh…”

    “Theresa, boss–this is the only one on this floor!” Graham reported after a quick sweep.

    “Just one? Take it out.”

    “Got it.”

    At his signal, the others smashed through the ss door. The stench of rot poured out as the zombie lunged, but a three–edged spike punched into its forehead before it could reach them. ck, pus–like fluid seeped from the wound as it copsed in a heap.

    After three years of fighting, killing a zombie was as routine for them as drinking water.

    With that one down, they continued their descent.

    The lower they went, the darker it became. Even in daylight, a powerlessmercial building was dim and oppressive. The sunlight filtering through the ss curtain wall only lit the outer edges; the central core–where the elevators and stairwells were–remained in shadow.

    The elevators had long since stopped working, so they advanced down the stairwell with shlights, cutting through the dark. Theresa’s team moved steadily, clearing each floor in turn.

    Luck was on their side–after that lone zombie on the top floor, they didn’t run into another all the way down to the tenth.

    Then, they reached the 15th.

    With a loud bang, the emergency door at the stairwell shuddered under a heavy blow. A zombie in a security guard’s uniform and cap smashed into the door, its face mangled beyond recognition.

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