Of Sudden Origin (Of Sudden Origin Saga Book 1) by C. Chase Harwood

Author:C. Chase Harwood [Harwood, C. Chase]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Amazing and unique zombie series.
Publisher: Fate & Fortune Press
Published: 2014-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Bug Out

At 2am Susan, carrying a laptop under her arm, walked into the upstairs office that Tran was crashed in and shook him awake.

Tran grunted, “Ten more minutes.”

“We’ve got bad news.”

Tran sat up, suddenly wide awake, then blinking as Susan turned on a bedside lamp. She opened the laptop and brought up an area map of Ottawa. “There’s been an outbreak in Chelsea. It’s an Ottawa suburb.”

“Oh no.”

“They fire bombed it.”

“What?”

“Incendiaries. And the town next door, Old Chelsea. The two towns shared the same water system. Zero tolerance. We’re finally at Zero tolerance. Estimates are fifteen thousand dead.”

“This come over the satlink?”

“Ten minutes ago, from the director herself. We were told that the second we get a match, we haul ass back north. CDC’s moving to Quebec City. They can’t risk that Ottawa has been compromised. They’re setting us up with a temp-lab in Martha’s Vineyard of all places until the move to Quebec is complete. Looks like your migration theory is the only plausible one. Anyone caught not boiling water gets quarantined.”

Tran sighed and got off the bed. “I don’t even know what to say. You going to lay down?”

“Can’t. We need all hands.”

Tran nodded, tucking in his shirt.

She looked at the bed, “Well maybe ten minutes. I’m not much use exhausted, right?”

Tran closed her laptop, set it on a chair, and gently pushed Susan toward the bed. “I’ll wake you in twenty.”

She nodded and yawned. “FYI, this computer’s pretty much full. Aaron’s using the other one to keep uploading data. Happyland Farms was into some serious science.”

“More than messing with feedstocks?”

“There’s notes down there about bioengineering the birds to be staff resistant, stuff like that, but they also had forced evolution experiments going on - rapid maturation, muscle enhancement – all sorts of things - I’m pretty sure that the lead scientist was Mitchell.”

“Mitchell? As in Oscar mix-human-DNA-with-name-a-plant-or-animal Mitchell?”

“The same. This was no ordinary chicken farm. It was a research facility for one of the big national outfits up in Georgia.”

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