The Z Directive (Book 2): Mutation by Thompson Chris

Author:Thompson, Chris [Thompson, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Chris Thompson
Published: 2020-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

BACK DOWN ON THE PURPLE floor, Tyrone and Jack worked quickly in tandem to sweep through the laboratories and ensure that there were no more infected. Tyrone was confident they’d killed most of them during the initial encounter - as was Jack - but as they went through they also ensured all the infected they had put down were really dead. There were four labs, as previously discovered, as well as some supply closets between labs one and three and two and four, with the quarantine section off to the side. Other than that, there wasn’t much else there. With the labs cleared, Jack and Tyrone started towards the vault.

“What do you think of those two?” Tyrone asked as he and Jack moved cautiously towards the mostly still intact door.

“Shitbergs that’ll get their due,” Jack responded simply. “You?”

“The same.”

They approached the vault door and listened carefully. There wasn’t a sound coming through the ripped openings, nor was there any indication that the creature they had trapped inside had managed to escape. Tyrone stood in front of the door with his weapon readied while Jack went to the keycard reader and swiped the access card through it. The vault door unlocked and began to swing open, allowing Jack the few seconds he needed to move beside his comrade, weapon also held ready incase the nigh-unstoppable monster was waiting for them. Instead of a live monster, however, they saw it was seemingly defeated. Whether it was actually dead, Jack really couldn’t tell.

The compound that Tyrone and Smith had made, with Emma’s assistance, had dissolved a large amount of the muscle mass and flesh from the creature, which had turned into a brown, sludgy material pooled where the boney had fallen. There was still some flesh and muscle on the bones, though given the subdued state of the creature, Jack suspected enough had been destroyed to prevent it from attacking them - at least, he hoped that was the case.

“Didn’t think it’d work that fast or that well,” Tyrone announced as they looked down at the remains.

“Maybe it’s some kind of reaction to it being undead or the alien bacteria... That never gets any less strange to say,” he added.

“And zombie, undead and infected does?” Tyrone quipped.

“Touché,” Jack returned, approaching the remains carefully.

The right arm was extended outward, as though the fiend was reaching towards the door when it collapsed, while the left arm was being dragged behind. The clothes had also disintegrated somewhat, but there were a few strips that remained clinging to the bones as well as in strips on the floor away from the sludge. With the flesh mostly removed, Jack could see that the skeletal structure of the aptly named boney was different to that of humans: the bone was visibly thicker and more pronounced, and when Jack attempted to use his boot to turn it over, it was incredibly heavy and he was unable to do so.

“Think it’s done for?” Jack asked.

“Well, it ain’t moving.” Tyrone responded.

A low, muttering growl issued from the creature, as though attempting to speak for itself.

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