Cadaver 1: A Zombie Apocalypse Thriller by Clausen Nick

Author:Clausen, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Frida follows Olivia back out into the entrance hall.

“Listen,” Olivia says, stopping while already busy with her pager. “I’ll call all the nurses, but I’ll need you to go and see if …”

Olivia’s instructions zone out as Frida stops paying attention. Instead, she looks at Anand striding towards the staff elevator. Next to it is a rack of hazmat suits, and Anand grabs one of them, slings it over his arm, then hits the button and the lights above the door turn green.

Frida feels her phone buzz. She takes it out. Olivia is still talking. Frida sees Aksel’s name on the screen.

“It’s him,” she says, showing the phone briefly to Olivia, then answers. “Axe? You okay?”

“I am,” he says. But he sounds like he’s moving or maybe struggling with something. “For now. But shit really hit the fan down here. Did you get them to lock down the place?”

“No,” Frida says, aware that Olivia is leaning in to listen along. Frida is staring at Anand, who’s waiting for the elevator. He checks his pager, then his phone.

“Why not?” Aksel demands. “Don’t tell me you … Wait, are you still in the building?”

“I am. Anand is coming down there,” Frida says. “He said he has to see for himself what’s going—”

“What?” Aksel cuts her off. “He can’t! Stop him, Frida! If he gets in that elevator …”

At that moment, the elevator pings and the doors open.

Frida hears Olivia gasp sharply. She sees Anand take a step forward, then freeze.

Inside the elevator are two men. Frida recognizes one of them because of the shoes. It’s Mikkel Ranfelt, the orderly. He’s lying on his hands and knees, eating away at the thigh of the other guy, who—judging from the coat—is a doctor. Or was. Because he’s obviously dead.

As Ranfelt hears the doors open, he whips his head around, and that’s when Frida realizes it’s all going to go horribly wrong. That she should have never told Olivia anything. That she should have simply punched in every fire alarm she could find. That she should have never let go of Anand’s arm.

And speaking of Anand, the Indian doctor seems to process the shock of the bloody scene and Ranfelt’s face a lot more readily than Frida. He steps back as Ranfelt gets to his feet, and he hits the button to close the elevator door.

It does close. But too late. Ranfelt just manages to slip through, grabbing for Anand. The doctor jumps aside, his sneakers giving off a screech as he makes a run for safety, his coat flapping.

Ranfelt follows him a few steps, then changes his direction. He staggers through the entrance hall, looking around, apparently trying to decide where to go. Groups of people are standing around. A few noticed the doctor running away and are looking concerned, but most are still unaware of the danger. None of them have yet noticed Ranfelt.

Seeing him there, in the middle of the entrance hall, is so surreal, Frida feels like she’s landed in the middle of a horror movie.

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