Night Zero by Rob Horner

Author:Rob Horner [Horner, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Infected
Published: 2019-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The second trip to the morgue went much smoother, as far as Cliff was concerned. He wasn’t even sure why he went, since the patient’s death wasn’t a police matter. He was just some schmuck who got sick and didn’t get better. But he’d have to escort the third body, once the photographer was done. Might as well keep the team together.

The halls were just as empty, the wheels just as clicky, and the morgue just as creepy. But no ghostly hand reached out for a feel, and the transfer from stretcher to drawer went smoothly. Marcus was right about one thing though: the dude was heavier than the nurse, and he’d been on a diarrhea diet all day. How much worse was the old guy gonna be?

“What’s behind that door?” Cliff asked as they left the morgue, pointing to the only other door on the short corridor.

“That’s the power room,” Marcus answered.

“Like a server farm?”

“No, like a crapload of circuit breakers, sensors, that sort of thing. The back of the hospital is right on the other side of these walls, you know? Allows funeral homes to pull up to unload from the morgue, and it’s also where the MRI truck parks. They have a couple of two-twenty-volt lines right into the power room.”

“Huh,” Cliff grunted. “So, there’s no basement?”

“You don’t live in Gaffney, do you?” Marcus replied. “Very few homes or buildings are on high enough ground for a basement, including the hospital.”

For some reason, that made Cliff feel better. Not having a basement meant no chance of being stuck in one near a bunch of dead bodies. It also meant that he’d probably spent too much of his youth watching horror movies, but what could you do?

“So,” Cliff said, trying to make small talk as they walked back to the ED, “what do you do when you’re not…you know…nursing?”

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