Apocalypse God Mode: Unlocked (Cecilia) novel Chapter 121

Chapter 121 The Rat Graveyard

Hendrick looked and immediately understood why she’d gone quiet.

The craters were full of mutated rat corpses.

A dozen, maybe twenty of them. All belly–up. All dead.

“The rat swarm is over?”

He looked at Cecelia.

She didn’t answer. She grabbed a long stick from the roadside and jabbed at one of the rat bodies.

The stick went through it like a balloon.

Pop. Straight through. The body collapsed into mush.

She pulled the stick back up.

The tip was coated in thick, black slime.

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Even Hendrick grimaced. “These rats didn’t die normally.”

“No.”

Finished

Cecelia’s expression turned serious. “Not just abnormal. It’s bizarre. They look like they were hit by some kind of biological toxin …”

Animal mutations could sometimes surpass human abilities.

And they were completely unpredictable.

Not to be underestimated. Ever.

Cecelia had a growing suspicion. This rat swarm hadn’t just attracted the mutated cat.

Because cats weren’t the only predators that ate rats.

So, the crystals from these rats…”

Hendrick was already thinking about scavenging.

Cecelia flipped one of the corpses with the stick. A hole in the skull. Empty.

Whatever killed them with poison fast enough to wipe them out also took every crystal.”

Predators claimed their spoils.

That wasn’t surprising.

Hendrick frowned and turned to her. “Keep going toward Merriton?”

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Finished

“Yeah.”

The one thing giving Cecelia a headache: they had to pass through Merriton to continue toward Briar City.

And Merriton was looking worse than she’d expected.

Mutated rats fighting a mutated cat was one thing.

But now something else had entered the picture?

Merriton was turning into a literal death pit.

Cecelia climbed back into the car.

Hendrick drove on.

In the rearview mirror, they could both see Jayson’s car tailing them.

Neither acknowledged it.

Their focus was on what lay ahead.

The closer they got to Merriton, the heavier the silence became.

Rat corpses. Everywhere on the ground.

Without exception, everyone had a hole in its head. Crystals gone.

Splat-

The tires rolled over another body.

The sound came one after another.

Hendrick floored it.

Meanwhile.

Jayson’s car.

Cillian stared at the rat corpses littering the highway. “How are there this many?”

Taylor shook his head. “We didn’t see this many before, did we?”

“Rat swarm. Timothy mentioned it.”

Jayson’s brow was tight. “Stay sharp once we’re inside. Stick close to Hendrick and Cecelia.”

Cillian watched the car ahead pick up speed, crushing rats under its wheels. “We need to step on it. They’re

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pulling away.”

“Yeah.”

Jayson hit the gas, closing the gap.

Half an hour later, both vehicles crossed into Merriton limits.

The rat corpses multiplied.

And now there were zombie bodies, too.

Covered in gnaw marks from mutated rats.

The rats had even gone for the eyeballs. Most of the zombie corpses were missing their eyes.

Cecelia felt her stomach turn.

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She’d read the research files on mutated rats in her previous life. What they actually craved was brain matter. Burrowing through the eye sockets was just the easiest route to their favorite meal.

The eyeballs were a bonus snack.

So, the rat swarm hadn’t spared even the zombies.

Let alone living humans.

Human flesh was just as much of a delicacy to them.

The car didn’t stop.

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