Deadly Ghosts by J.N. Chaney & Matthew A. Goodwin

Author:J.N. Chaney & Matthew A. Goodwin [Chaney, J.N. & Goodwin, Matthew A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2024-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

17

“Follow me,” Vince said, standing so quickly that the chair bounced back into a fancy hutch full of decorative plates.

Immediately, I pulled out my stomper and followed him, with Imogen close behind. The three of us moved through the house until another series of gunshots crackled from somewhere else and a shriek went up.

Through a labyrinthine series of corridors, we followed Vince until we reached a study. All four walls were lined with bookcases, and a large comfortable chair at the center of the room still had a price tag peeking out from underneath it. It looked as though it had never been sat in once.

Vince clicked a button in his pocket, his keys jangling before one of the bookcases shifted a little bit away from the wall.

“I don’t care what anybody says,” Ned began. “Secret passageways behind hidden doors are always neat.”

Reaching around the side, Vince found the release inside a shallow divot, then slid the bookcase away, revealing a large security office on the other side. A bank of monitors sat facing a chair in front of a weapons locker.

The room was plated in thick metal, and as soon as we stepped in, he pulled the door closed behind us, securing us within. he fumbled with the keys when he took them out of his pocket, then slid one into the weapon cabinet, unlocking it, and pulled an antique shotgun off the wall.

Quickly, he slid in a few rounds and pumped it once theatrically, acting more like something he had seen in an action movie then a man whose life was on the line.

“Grab whatever you want, Gin-Gin,” he said, gesturing toward the cabinet.

She turned and pulled down an energy rifle, then plucked the battery off the charger just inside the lip of the cabinet and moved to slide it in.

It clicked awkwardly and didn’t engage.

“You have to flip it around,” I told her, and she pulled it back out, then rotated it in her hands and reinserted it until it locked into place, making the satisfying sound indicating that the weapon was ready to fire.

“I half expected her to chamber it upside down,” Ned joked, but his voice came through as crackled static. The metal walls were dampening his ability to send a signal between his cube and my earpiece.

Our attention was drawn back to the screen as we watched in black-and-white as one of the guards standing on the walls of the compound heard something and turned. She fired two shots, the flash filling the screen until the vague outline of a humanoid body appeared beside her, crashing a foot down on the guard’s ankle, instantly dropping her to a knee.

The shape took the woman’s combat knife from her belt before she even had a time to react and brought it down into her neck. Gray blood squirted into the air and the Ghost turned into a plume of vapor once again.

Next, the two men standing beside the door were ambushed, the Ghost becoming corporeal and grabbing the front of their rifle, twisting and pointing it in the direction of the other guard.

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