The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 170

Chapter 170

Liam’s words made everyone turn to stare at Hayley.

He was giving her 200 tons for free.

The looks around her grew even more contemptuous.

Everyone’s expression said the same thing. There was no need to explain.

In their minds, the so-called captain of Haylight Base had to be Liam’s secret lover.

He had protected her all the way here; she never lifted a finger. And now, he was handing her 200 tons of grain

That woman was something else.

“Sigh… Scarlett, did you see that?”

At the back of the group, a tall, skinny guy was speaking in an annoyingly smug tone.

“Pretty girls always get special treatment. You’re a woman too, but look at the difference. Nobody gives you anything.”

“Watch your mouth!” Scarlett snapped at Paul Windrow, her face instantly darkening.

She wasn’t angry because he insulted her. She was angry because he insulted Hayley.

Scarlett was absolutely certain Hayley wasn’t that kind of person.

“Captain Carline, you should teach your sister something,” Paul went on. “Tell her to dress up a little. Maybe if she looked decent, she could cling to some big shot, and Ember Base could live the easy life.”

“Shut up! Don’t you dare talk about Scarlett like that!” Malcolm barked.

“I’m just saying. End of the world or not, it still pays to be a woman.”

“You’re asking for it!”

Scarlett lifted her hand, a fire orb forming in her palm.

The moment the flame lit up the dim granary, she caught a glimpse of something above.

Eight or nine figures were hanging upside down from the top of the silo like giant bats.

Whoosh!

A burst of fire shot past Paul’s head.

Paul jumped and ducked. “What the hell are you…’

He didn’t finish the sentence. In the next instant, his entire body lurched forward.

A skinny, dried-out zombie wearing a staff uniform dropped ont from above, grabbed him, and yanked him

headfirst into the grain pile.

“Aaaah!”

In one second, he vanished.

The grain inside the silo shifted like quicksand. Once you fell in, it was almost impossible to get out. The more

they struggled, the deeper they sank.

Paul disappeared instantly beneath the shifting sea of rice.

Alex and the others up ahead stopped cold. They whipped around and

Their flashlights toward the back.

“What happened?”

“Zombies!” Scarlett shouted. “Up there!”

Whish! Whish! Whish!

The moment everyone looked up, the human-sized creatures scrambled across the ceiling like giant cockroaches, then dropped onto the mountain of rice,

Their limbs bent at impossible angles, moving like a nightmarish mix of centipede and roach. But of course, they were much larger.

They crawled across the grain at terrifying speed, clicking and hissing. Every one of them was grotesque, jaws opening with a shrill rasp.

The moment they landed, they burrowed into the rice like insects returning to a nest, diving toward the spot where Paul had disappeared.

A heartbeat later, a blood-curdling scream erupted from deep within the grain.

“Aaaah!”

“Attack!”

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