The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 205

Chapter 205

“I know a five-star hotel nearby. The beds are amazing. We can go there and have a nice, long talk about loyalty.”

Hayley was speechless.

If she had even one more free hand right now, she would pin the man tied to her back onto the ground and punch him so hard that he ended up in the core of the earth.

She blamed herself. Why had she answered him earlier? Why did she ever talk to him?

Just then, the zipline behind her suddenly lurched downward.

Still climbing with Griffin tied to her back, Hayley glanced over her shoulder and froze.

A zombie bridge had formed on the zipline.

Endless zombies poured out of the broken window. Most slipped and fell straight from the sixth floor, but a few managed to grab onto the cable.

One thin female zombie clung to another corpse like a spider, scrambling toward Hayley with terrifying speed. In the blink of an eye, it reached the front.

When the body in front of it was gone, it lunged forward. Its lanky body hung from the steel cable as it tried to keep crawling, but another zombie came right up behind it, stomping down on its back and using it as a step to climb ahead.

The unlucky zombie had its neck stomped at an angle and was forced straight into the thin steel cable. The tightly stretched wire sliced through flesh and muscle like a blade, grinding loudly against its spine with a harsh creaking sound.

More zombies followed, stepping on their companions and piling up into a makeshift, wobbling zombie bridge, all screeching as they clawed closer.

They looked like ants crawling along a sugared stick, every one of them drawn to her.

Hayley saw the horde coming and immediately stopped wasting breath on Griffin. She used both hands and both feet to climb

faster.

While she climbed desperately, Griffin’s calm voice floated in her ear. “Captain Gorgeous, your rope looks pretty sturdy.”

“Of course! If it wasn’t sturdy, you’d better start praying!”

“But… Is the anchor sturdy?”

The moment he finished speaking, the zipline shuddered violently. Then, Hayley felt the strength in her hands vanish

The world dropped out from under her.

She and Griffin fell from six stories up like a pair of uprooted weeds.

On the opposite building, the mass of zombies pressing the line had ripped the anchor right out of the drywall.

The line itself hadn’t snapped; the wall had.

Hayley plummeted with Griffin on her back and a rainstorm of zombies talling with her

She really wanted to curse out loud.

Was Griffin some kind of disaster magnet?

The fall lasted barely over two seconds, and the speed only increased.

Hayley reacted in less than a blink. She looped the line around her hands again and again

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The Lable whipped downward.

Szzzt!

Friction sparked across her palms, burning even through the protective gloves. The heat stabbed deep into her skin with a drilling pain.

But she didn’t let go. She couldn’t.

She dropped past the fifth floor.

Then the fourth.

Then the third.

Then the second.

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