Jurassic Dead by Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster

Author:Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2014-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

26.

Adranos Facility

Xander watched through the window while Marcus knelt over the soldier with the exposed collarbone. He couldn’t see his face, but he didn’t need to, didn’t want to. Marcus—but he wasn’t Marcus anymore, was he, no way, no how—gorged himself on the flesh of the unconscious soldier. The mercenary was still alive, though. Xander could see his belly beneath his shredded shirt, rising and falling with very shallow, labored breaths.

Marcus Ramirez—the talented paleontologist who had once given Xander pause as to his own job security within DeKirk’s enterprise—was eating a living man’s flesh.

He was, for all intents and purposes, Xander thought, a zombie. He stared into the room at Marcus wolfing down hunks of raw human flesh. That’s what he had turned into, but definitely, this thing shared none of the characteristics of the shambling, lurching, slow-moving creatures in most movies. This was…raw power, mixed with speed and ferocity.

A saurian zombie... He pictured the worker who’d been nicked by the T. rex.

The applications for this discovery were limitless...What would Marcus—it was time to stop calling him that, he told himself. What would the creature—the zombie—do once it exhausted its food supply in the lab? Xander supposed that, like any organism without sustenance, it would eventually die. He wasn’t certain about that, but he didn’t want to risk it. The dinosaurs—a T. rex and two Cryos—were loose on the island. What if he couldn’t create any more zombies? What if DeKirk evacuated his people when he arrived and was overwhelmed by the horrific spectacle of it all? He was used to watching things from afar in the comfort of his remote mansions, after all. In that case, this would remain his only zombie specimen.

Xander had a lot of work to do in the lab before he could be first mover on this new bio-weapon. He needed to concentrate undisturbed. He looked over at the zombie, still feasting on the soldier. Xander’s gaze traveled up the wall to a vent shaft door in the ceiling. He recalled seeing the switch for it in the main lab. It looked large enough for a human—or zombie—to fit through.

He turned and ran back into the main lab. It was time to find out just what kind of mayhem these prehistoric zombies were capable of. Call it an early field test. He walked over to the wall switch for the vent shaft door, flipped it, and jogged back over to the inner door.

Inside, the Marcus-zombie stared up at the open vent shaft, ragged hunks of dripping meat hanging from its open craw. Again, it started with the head movements, detecting the flow of air through the vent. Just as Xander began to wonder if it would try to escape (maybe it had enough food supply in there for now?), it jumped onto the stainless steel table and crouched, looking up at the grate.

Then it sprung—Marcus sprung—disappearing into the overhead space.

Xander peered in at the mangled human bodies on the floor. What a mess. He turned to leave but motion caught his eye.

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