Stolen World: Singularity - A Post-Apocalyptic AI Thriller (Book 1) by B.J. Farmer

Author:B.J. Farmer [Farmer, B.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Mira took aim at Walter as he stumbled across the hallway on his way to the bedroom. Tears rolled down her cheeks unabated. She wanted to throw the gun down and swat away the tears and their proof of her weakness. Instead, she shrugged the tears away with her shoulder, first her left and then her right, while never taking her eyes off the corridor.

Over the never-ending beeping coming from Freyja trying to break the code to the main entrance, Mira heard the door of the panic room slam shut. Making sure, she made her way slowly down the hallway; her rifle up and ready. At the doorway, she leaned in and scanned the room with the rifle, making sure Walter wasn’t trying to trick her. The substantial trail of blood that snaked across the room and terminated at the entrance to the panic room proved he wasn’t.

Mira breathed a sigh of relief. She lowered the rifle to a low ready and fingered the necklace she’d torn away from Walter’s neck. She didn’t know what to do with it, but she couldn’t see how it’d be better off with him than her. That was especially after what he’d said about the power it held. As crazy as he was, he was the last person in the world that should wield that much power.

Mira backed slowly towards the security room, where she closed and locked the door. She then went about both watching the monitors and loading ammunition into spent magazines. Once they were filled, she fed them into the loops of the mag pouches before strapping one on each leg, for a total of six magazines containing twenty-five rounds each.

She stood and began to adjust the mag pouches when something terrible on the main screen stole her complete attention away from her task. Out of the woods came a large group of the people. There were, she paused, trying to take in the increasing level of madness, hundreds of them. At least hundreds. There could’ve been many more, but she wasn’t going to stand around and wait to see exactly how many. It was way past time for her to leave.

A couple button presses and a turn of the dial later, the camera was pointed towards what was left of the stump and the no-longer secret entrance. There were still several people lingering around it. She wasn’t sure they were still actually people, but she wasn’t ready to call them anything else. She took a deep breath and blew it out. It was then or never.

Mira grabbed her go bag, and she made her way swiftly down the corridor. Before entering the long tube to the exit, she stole a look back at the bedroom. She closed her eyes and fought back the urge to cry again. “No,” she uttered. “No.” With that, she entered the tube and ran towards the ladder. The running reminded her that the ankles she twisted earlier might become a problem after all. There was no time for that, for pain.

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