Tribulation: Carnival Series Book Two by C.J. Milnes

Author:C.J. Milnes [Milnes, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Road
Published: 2024-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30 - That’s a lot of meat sacks

“There are 437 people inside me at the moment,” came the voice of Kingsley the building from all around them. Bob chose not to snicker on this occasion. He was maturing.

“Fucks sake!” said Luke at the same time that James said “Dammit Kingsley!”

“What? They clearly don’t have any agenda beyond helping as much as they think they can. I listened to them while they talked outside!” replied Kingsley. “I wouldn’t have let them in if I’d thought they were bad people!”

“They’re killing off the Terrors and when those're gone we won’t have the barrier! How the hell is that helping?” exclaimed Luke, throwing his hands in the air and turning away.

“That’s a lot of meat sacks,” muttered a Bob-bot. “A hell of a lot of food… Look, if they double every night then you’re fucked eventually, sans lube. No offence. Sooner or later everything within your barrier will just be an Escher painting of Night Terrors stretching into orbit and you’ll be stuck inside Kingsley until you die. When the last of you dies the barrier will fall and god knows how many BILLIONS of the things will be unleashed on the rest of us when that happens.” Luke flinched at the rebuke and scowled at the B-800 that had spoken.

“Who the hell do you-” Luke began harshly.

“Luke, he’s not wrong. I’ve been saying it from the start of this wave mate. We have to kill them. Strangers, what’s it like outside the barrier?” James was fishing for more ammo to use against his political rival. Bob’s not wrong though, their third wave monsters are weak but give them enough time and they’d wipe out everyone on the planet if they got loose, thought John.

“There are a lot of dead towns and villages that didn’t make it through the waves. We know there are some higher level monsters out there. In the 10-15 range but we haven’t found any since we’ve been back. Some of our first wave were about that level and got away to go feral so they must be somewhere. We’re trying to secure the area around Normanby but we haven’t found much of anything above level five so far. They aren’t a threat and we don’t even get Essence from them anymore,” said John as he removed his mask.

“Hey there handsome spaceman, how’d you get the scars?” asked Kingsley.

John was taken aback. He supposed with the silvered visor and the weird robes that didn’t do much to hide the armour of the skinsuit he wore underneath he must have looked a bit sci-fi but he’d stopped worrying about his appearance around the time he nearly pooped himself to death on Hell World. If you asked his mum she’d say he stopped caring years before that but whatever. He probably did need a haircut and a beard trim though…

“When he got killed a friend rewound time and he lost an arm instead of dying. His daughter had to electrocute the wound to cauterise it and the arcs of her lightning scarred his face and chest.

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