Underworld by Perry S. D

Author:Perry, S. D. [Perry, S.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781161890
Publisher: Random House Publisher Services
Published: 2012-08-08T21:31:00+00:00

TWELVE

The taller one, John, pointed his automatic rifle at the Avl and let loose a hail of bullets. Like a stream of destruction, they hit the Dac’s aquiline skull and blew out the other side, dark fluids spattering across the freshly painted trees. Both eyes popped like water balloons.

Damn. Low threshold; it’s those hollow bones…

Reston watched as the other gunman pointed his weapon at a second Dac that had landed in the clearing. Even without sound, Reston could see the handgun kick three, four times, hitting the specimen in its narrow chest. The Dac’s slender neck curved wildly back and forth, a squiggling dance of death before it sprawled, bleeding, against the ground.

He didn’t see any more of the animals touch down, but the three men were retreating, stumbling back into the woods. Poor Cole seemed quite undone, his mouth open in a silent howl, his lank brown hair practically plastered to his head with sweat, his limbs quaking.

Serves him right for not getting to the audio. The lack of sound was annoying, although he supposed the footage wouldn’t suffer for it. People knew what bullets and screams sounded like already.

The three were moving out of range, heading west now. Reston switched cameras from the one in the tree to a long shot from the north wall. It was clear that Cole was trying to lead them to the connecting door—although he obviously didn’t remember that a second, larger clearing was now in their path. For the moment, though, the Dacs had also pulled back; they generally gravitated toward open spaces. The gunmen had only killed two, which meant that there would be six healthy specimens to greet them in the “meadow.”

Reston had released all of the creatures into their habitats just after the call had come on the cell line from a Sergeant Steve Hawkinson, the man who was leading the surface effort. He had informed Reston only that two Umbrella teams—nine men, including himself—were starting a sweep of the compound, and that the fugitives’ transport had been spotted; the three were still in the area unless they had a second vehicle, a highly unlikely possibility. Reston told him that the entry’s camera had been covered by one of them and asked for an update as soon as anything turned up, then settled in to watch the show.

He poured himself another brandy as he watched the three weave slowly through the trees, John with his weapon pointed above, the other scanning the shadows around them…

He needs a name, too. We have Henry, John, and— Red? His hair is sort of reddish.

Not really, but it would do, just as “Dac” worked for the Av1s. There was no relation to pterodactyls, of course, and the “Av” was for “Aves,” birds—and in fact, the Dacs were closer to bats than anything. There were just too many in the mammal series already. At the request of Jackson himself, the specimen growers had added some new classifications for clarity’s sake, using some of the secondary contributors to that series’s gene pool.

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