Night Terrors (Reality Bleed Book 4) by J.Z. Foster & Justin M. Woodward

Author:J.Z. Foster & Justin M. Woodward [Foster, J.Z.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Winter Gate Publishing
Published: 2020-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

“Rifles up,” Tommy said as they left the med lab. He knew he didn’t have to say it. He didn’t have to tell them to watch their six or to keep their eyes peeled. The whole group was on edge—tired, but alert.

Moller kept close to Alice, the two of them bearing pistols, and Braun was just behind them.

Tommy led them to the airlock, and though they’d all been through this way before, it was different now. The water running down the walls was frosting up, and Tommy imagined it might not be long before even the water at their feet froze.

But it also gave him hope.

We burned out the heating here. Just have to make it to the next quadrant and do the same there with the whole system.

Looking out the window, he could see it was fully dark now. He imagined the terrible things scurrying across the surface of Mars—frigid and blind.

A thought crossed Tommy’s mind.

What would happen if we left the gate on?

Would the cronux adapt to Mars’s atmosphere and live here forever? Or would they somehow find a way to stalk them to Earth?

Tommy shook his head.

He wasn’t going to let that happen.

They used the same tactics Tealson had proven effective.

A long, winding path where they can only come from one direction.

It was slower, but didn’t have the wide corridors or as many intersecting hallways. Instead, it provided a look at the midnight surface of Mars and the water crystallizing on the glass.

“I hear them!” Parker said.

Tommy froze.

More of those damn things. I don’t know how much more I can take.

He could hear them, too. Scratching inside the ventilation shafts and splashing through the water up ahead. They were hungry.

Always hungry.

“Ready positions,” Tommy snapped. “Becks, cover our six.”

He saw them coming and immediately picked his target—a multi-legged thing that crawled along the ceiling like a centipede, only it moved with incredible speed, darting and skittering in and out of darkness. It sent a chill down Tommy’s spine.

“Fire!” He roared as he pulled the trigger, sending bits of the crawling thing flying. It fell to the ground, thrashing in the water as it struggled for life.

“Over there!” Alice shouted, pointing to the ceiling up ahead. “They’re pouring out of the ventilation duct!”

Shit.

He trained his fire on the open duct where the terrible things were coming through. He’d counted three so far—nothing they couldn't handle if things didn’t go south.

“Concentrated bursts!” Tommy barked.

There weren’t any marksmen within the group, but through the sheer volume of fire, they were able to put the creatures down.

A blast caught the long legged creature in the face, opening the flesh on its jaw. It might have been turning to run, or perhaps the force was turning its body, but it went down.

Another came up, legs extensive and bent with jaws as long as Tommy’s entire arm. When it screamed, they fired down into its guts, and it jittered before collapsing.

He could see this wave wasn’t going to cause them too much trouble. He

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