Doomsday Revenge: Payback Time (Josie) novel Chapter 290

Chapter 290

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have a massive hatement It’s an old falling shelter we reinforced

sealed off all the entrances. The Mudents and the Undead can’t get in

We’re all locals from around here. Every family had a stash of food at home”

“That’s the only reason we’ve managed to hang on this long”

Before the plants and animals turned, all we had to do was hide from the undead. Back then, there were over a thousand of us.

“Then that heavy rain hit. Everything started mutating the plants, the animals-and our numbers started dropping fast.

“We had plenty of food, but no meds. That’s why the body count is so high.”

This town was a major farming hub. We had livestock everywhere, so the amount of mutated animals here is insane.”

“They kept pushing us back, shrinking our world until we had nowhere left to go but that cellar.”

Luckily, most of those mutated plants and animals stay in at night. It’s the only time we can come up to get some fresh air.”

Josie liked how compliant the woman was being. “How many people have you jumped at night?” she asked. “And what do you do with them once you’ve got them?”

The woman went silent, clearly struggling with the question.

Josie used the tip of her blade to tilt the woman’s chin up. “Don’t feel like talking?”

“No.” The woman bit her lip hard, looking like she was making a life-or-death decision. “The people we snatch… we feed them to those high-level

mutants.”

Tell me everything,” Jasie said, her interest piqued.

“It’s a mutant pangolin. It can rip right through our cellar walls,” the woman replied. “It treats us like its own personal farm. It comes for a body every single day.”

“Every day, we pick someone to go out and die just to keep the thing satisfied.”

“But we couldn’t keep that up forever. That’s why we started hunting travelers.”

“We haven’t caught that many. Everyone’s paranoid as hell since the world ended, so they don’t bite easily. But we’ve had our wins.”

“Maybe a few dozen people. Most of them have been fed to the thing by now.”

“If we don’t bring someone in tonight… it’s one of us on the menu.”

Where is it?” Josie asked.

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“In a cave about a mile and a half northwest of town,” the woman answered. “Look, I know you’re a badass, but you might not be a match for this thing.” “Oh?” Josie asked, her tone ice-cold and bored. “Why’s that?”

“It can phase through the earth. Before you even know what’s happening, it vanishes, then it pops up right behind you for the kill.” The woman started shaking uncontrollably just thinking about it.

It sounded like they had tried to fight back more than once, but they’d failed every single time.

A Mutant Pangolin that was good at digging… yeah, that was definitely a nightmare to deal with.

But it wasn’t like they were completely out of options.

Josie glanced back at the Blue Owl Squad. “Want to go check it out?”

“Copy that!” the squad shouted in unison.

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