The Endgame Chronicles (by Hugh White) novel Chapter 441

The moment that voice rang out, the zombies surrounding Hayley and the others froze.

Inside one of the ground-floor apartments of the old residential building, an elderly woman in a knitted cardigan pushe the balcony door and stood there, leaning on her cane.

The surrounding zombies immediately reacted as if drawn to something far more tempting. One by one, they abandone Hayley’s group and sprinted toward her.

Hayley knew exactly what was happening.

Back then, Liam had used a self-sacrificial blast at the pharmaceutical research facility to buy everyone else time to escap

Griffin, standing beside Hayley, suddenly stopped moving.

He stared toward the small garden on the first floor. Through layers of writhing zombies, the old wornan looked straight her resolve absolute.

“Samson, I won’t stop you anymore. And I won’t let anyone else stop you, either. Walk forward. Go wherever you want. Ar don’t look back.”

Mental energy poured endlessly from her body. To the zombies, it was like the most irresistible feast imaginable.

“Raarh!”

“Raarh!”

“Raarh!”

In the blink of an eye, the old woman was swallowed by the surging tide of zombies.

“We have to move now. The zombies in the pit are getting drawn over, too!” Raymond shouted.

He could already see it.

From the deep pit they had dug earlier, zombies were climbing out one after another.

They couldn’t reach the surface before, but now, they were clawing their way up to where the group was standing

Black masses of zombies crawled out like the dead rising from a grave, sntling as they surged toward the old won a persist

The moment Raymond finished shouting, Matt pushed himself past his limits With the zombie numbers thecaned, he grilled! teeth and charged forward.

Everyone started running

Everyone except Griffin

He stood there, staring toward the garden on the first floor, where counless zombies were wearing and swacung

A cane flew out of the sea of corpses. It landed nearby, bloodstamed and butiile

“Do you want to go lank?” Hayley asked quietly

“No”

Griffin turned away and grabbed Hayley’s hand without looking back he can forward

She told him not to look back

One zombie after another was smashed aside, heads bursting as they tell

Bang!

The underground shelter door slammed shut.

Raymond led everyone back inside after a narrow escape. On the way back, many of the zombies had been drawn away! woman, making their return far less dangerous.

After clearing out the few remaining zombies near the entrance, everyone filed inside one by one.

“Why did you take so long?” Aileen frowned.

“How’s my wife?” Matt asked.

“Vanessa is stable, but the baby isn’t doing well!”

Aileen, who had been anxiously waiting underground, grabbed the supplies and rushed straight to Vanessa without wast second.

Everyone gathered there, waiting for the child to be born.

After Hayley’s group arrived, Nash walked over with Sharon. It was clear that after spending a few hours together, the two grown noticeably closer.

“Boss, Sharon told me a lot,” Nash said. “Turns out they’re all mine workers. Sharon’s father used to be in charge of this n “Their iron ore was mainly for export. Right before the apocalypse, a huge batch had just been mined and was stored at We Harbor, waiting to be shipped overseas.

“Her dad personally went to the harbor to supervise the transport. Then the apocalypse broke out, and they completely lost contact with him.”

Hayley nodded, acknowledging Nash’s werk.

Not bad. He had pulled out quite a bit of useful information in a short time.

“Oh, and Sharon also told me about Matt and Vanessa,” Nash continued, encouraged by the approval. “Those two really have had it easy.

“Matt was the second son in his family. He worked the land with his older brother tor years and didn’t marry he was 30. Vanessa was divorced when he married her.

“Her ex-husband was abusive. He beat her constantly, caused her to unscarry twice, and he nearly killed her besore she ally Bot away

“After she married Matt, his brother kicked him out, gave him no land, and cut him off completely

“Luckily, the mine was hiring Vanessa came with Mall to work here They worked overtite saved every da and travel frugally slowly, things improved

“They bought a secondhand apartisent from the mine and were just planning to have as fuld when the ups algae hit

“At first, Mall didn’t want her to keep the baby, but once it happened, there was no turning bak Maymond talkes it over with everyone, and they of decided to help Everyone was looking forward to that baby being born

After hearing these ordinary, fragmented life stortes. Hayley and the others looked toward the middle agedian ang outside the curtain, rubbing his hands and pas ng attously

He was nervous and terrified

The others surrounded him, constantly trying to reassure hum

This middle aged man was about to web one his first fuld in the unit of this terribile ajun alypse Anyone would’ve been

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scared.

At that moment, someone walked up to Hayley

“Thank you,” Raymond said.

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