Rewrite the Apocalypse dream (by Dee Cari) novel Chapter 339

Chapter 339 Jolie Goes Missing

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Joanna opened the door, and Levi stood there, face pale, breath still ragged like he’d run the whole way.

“Boss.” His voice cracked slightly. “One of the men saw suspicious activity on the ridge again. Jolie told him to stay put, said she’d go check it out herself.” He swallowed hard. “That was an hour ago. She hasn’t come back. I sent a scout after her – he can’t find her anywhere. Her footprints just… stop. Like she fell, but there’s no drag marks, no sign of a struggle. She’s just gone.”

Joanna’s stomach dropped. She reached out through the mind link immediately, focus sharpening. Jolie! Come in. Jolie, where are you?

Silence answered her. Not static, not distance – just nothing, like reaching into an empty

room.

Her jaw tightened. “Show me.”

Bubbles was already on his feet, fur bristling slightly as he sensed the shift in her mood, following without a word as she strode out the door after Levi. They moved quickly through the base, down into the tunnels, all the way to the back exit where the grated window looked out over the ridge.

A handful of men stood clustered there, voices low and tense. One of them – younger, a rifle slung loosely over his shoulder – straightened the moment he spotted Joanna, swallowing visibly.

Levi nodded at him. “Tell her what you told me.”

The young soldier’s hands tightened around his rifle strap. “Boss, I saw a few bushes moving on the ridge. No figures, nothing like before. But it didn’t look right – like it was from the wind.” He pointed through the bars toward a distant cluster of scraggly brush clinging to the rocky slope, dark shapes barely visible against the snow. “Jolie came over from checking the food reserves, asked me what I saw. I told her – the bushes, moving weird. She looked for herself, and then she saw it too.”

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Joanna kept her eyes fixed on the ridge, expression unreadable. “Why did you assume it wasn’t wind? Those bushes are half a mile out.”

“That’s exactly what she asked me,” the soldier said, voice tightening further. “But then she saw it. They didn’t move all at once, like a gust would do. They shook one at a time – down the line, one after another, violent, like something big was moving through them fast. Sprinting, almost. And then Jolie went quiet, grabbed her jacket, and told me to stay put while she went to take a closer look.”

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Chapter 339 Jolie Goes Missing

Joanna’s gaze didn’t leave the ridge, jaw set hard. “And that’s the last anyone saw of her?”

The soldier nodded, miserable. “Yes, Boss.”

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Joanna reached out again through the mind link, pouring everything she had into it. Jolie! Answer me!

Nothing. Not even the faint static-like resistance of range – just silence, hollow and absolute.

Cold dread coiled tight in her stomach. Two hours now. Two hours since anyone had heard from her.

She turned sharply, voice cutting through the tense quiet of the tunnel. “Levi. Get word to Raven – I want Dante and his crew in the air now. They can see the ridge better than anyone on the ground.” Levi nodded, already moving. “Put more men on the wall. If this is an ambush, I am not getting caught flat-footed.” She turned to the nearest soldier. “Get Uncle Nate and Ryan down here. Now.”

Men scattered to their tasks, and Joanna didn’t wait to watch them go. “Bubbles, with me.”

With a wave of her hand, she pulled Bubbles into her space and vanished, reappearing instantly in the quiet dim of her underground storage room. She didn’t waste a second, sprinting down the narrow stairs to the lower basement level, yanking open the crate where she’d stored the mind link watches – and, tucked beneath them, the original manual that had come with the batch, still mostly unread, pages stiff and barely creased.

Her main fighting force was still in Dillon. Whatever this was, she’d be handling it with only what she had here.

She flipped through the manual quickly, scanning past setup instructions and pairing diagrams she’d already memorized, until she found it on the second page – a section on the device’s tracking function, something she vaguely remembered Allen mentioning once in passing, back when he’d first set up the security room. A little watch icon, tucked into the corner of the monitoring screen.

Joanna bolted for the security room, Bubbles trailing at her heels, and dropped into the chair in front of the monitor bank. Her eyes scanned the interface until she found it – a tiny watch- shaped icon blinking quietly in the corner of the screen. She clicked it.

The interface shifted, and a map bloomed to life, dotted with small blinking lights – every member of her team wearing a mind link watch, marked and tracked. In Dillon, her main team’s lights blinked steadily, heart rates even, all accounted for.

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