A World Reborn: The First Outbreak by Chris Thompson

Author:Chris Thompson [Thompson, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-07T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Melissa had crossed over and taken the south stairs down to the ground floor. She didn’t want to contact Roy yet, to find out if he’d made any headway on her actually getting down to him, as she wanted to get into position first. The biggest obstacle, at least from her perspective, were the thousands of infected in the casino, but she had to get through them; Roy and the hostages were depending on her and she couldn’t afford to fail.

“One problem at a time.” Melissa whispered to herself as she thought this over. She cracked the door to the ground floor open a few inches and peeked out, but it proved useless. All she could see was the other side of the corridor housing the elevators, which was of no more help than looking at a blank wall. So, exercising extreme caution, Melissa opened the door enough for her to peer around the edge of it. She saw that the immediate area was empty, enabling her to quietly proceed. She exited the stairwell and pressed herself up against the wall on her right, before moving past the bank of elevators. When she reached the corner, she could see out along the edge of the huge casino area, the hallway opposite and the cafes, stores and bars to its left. The Reborn had completely sealed off the casino, ransacking the stores for materials to build their barricade around the wide, arched entrances as well as metallic barricades in front of some sections similar to the ones she’d seen up in front of the elevators on the executive suite floor. Some sections however, were barricaded entirely with furniture. There was no sign of the infected outside the casino area, and there were no signs of the Reborn either. Melissa ducked down and peeked around the corner she was pressed up against. She saw the turn of the avenue she knew led to both the theatre and the sports bar, but one of the Grand Staircases was directly in her way, which meant she would have to move around it to check on where the Reborn where in that direction. As there were no Reborn that she could see, she hunkered down and slipped silently out and around the corner. She hugged the wall, only stepping away to get around the staircase blocking her path, then hurrying back to the wall once more. As she moved towards the theatre, she idly glanced across at the confined infected who were baying at her, pressing against the barricade as they caught scent and sight of a new victim. Shuddering, Melissa warily continued onwards, ignoring them as best she could. Eventually, she could see the first edge of the theatre, where she stopped.

Across the way, she could see the ‘Staff Only’ door, with a key card lock beside it. Edging closer to the corner on her side of the avenue, Melissa was able to see the Reborn, about six of them, hard at work

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