Zombie Eyes by Robert W. Walker

Author:Robert W. Walker [Walker, Robert W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Fantasy, Lang:en, Blood Scream
Publisher: RobertWalkerbooks.com
Published: 2012-04-25T15:20:18+00:00

But it was gone. Nathan shouted for Stroud to come in. Suddenly Stroud's voice came over, saying, "We've had some difficulty down here."

"Anyone hurt?"

"All are fine, and we're pushing on."

"Where are you? Have you penetrated the ship?"

"Not yet."

"What? You've been in there an hour."

"We've met with several obstacles thrown up in our way."

"Are you near your target?"

"Why, is there a problem up there?"

"Army is here, and chomping at the bit, ready to open fire, and I can't blame them."

Stroud hesitated at his end. "You've got to give us time, Commissioner. We're closing in, but--"

"You've got till dawn, Stroud."

"Dawn?"

"Three hours. And then we unleash the heavy artillery."

"I can't promise we'll be out by then."

"And I can't promise you that it will make a damned difference, Stroud. Too many people up here have lost too many friends and relatives to this thing. They want action, not a ghost hunt on a ship buried below the city."

"We're wasting time, then. Stroud out."

Nathan frowned. He'd hoped that he could convince the fool that he must get his people out of there now. But Stroud was a stubborn son of a bitch. And either brave or stupid. Either way, James Nathan had come to admire the man.

Abe Stroud clicked off the communicator, their only link with the outside, informing the others that they had less than three hours before the Army meant to flatten the place. "Can't stop ignorance," he told the others. "Everyone thinks the disease can be ended if they just bomb the site. We know better."

All of them felt it now as Stroud had felt it right along; they were not alone. They could not see it so much as they could feel it: the definite presence of Ubbrroxx. It was like the fire of a furnace. You didn't have to stand at the furnace to feel the heat.

And the temperature was rising in the pit, rising by leaps and bounds. Inside their protective wear the temperature was rising to ninety, ninety-five and a hundred. Kendra was the first to notice her temperature gauge and ask the others if they were also experiencing difficulties.

They were. All of them. And the tunnel they had chosen to step into was now a river of superheated air. Stroud shouted for them to form a circle, to huddle together and hold on.

The others, not knowing what else to do, did as Stroud instructed. Holding firmly to one another, Stroud shouted, "No one must break the circle. Hold on! Hold on!"

The heat flew over and around them, swirling in a torrent of electrified hatred from the thing in the ship.

Inside the circle of their bodies, Stroud held the skull at the very center of them, which had suddenly become a freezing orb, an icy vapor rising from it. It was a silent conversation to them all, not just Stroud, a visual dialogue among them all as the others saw what Stroud saw: the skull was fighting the fire wind of the damnable tunnel with a preternatural wind of its own.

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