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You’re getting distracted, chided George She sounded anxious I couldn’t blame her Focus, assle This would be a stupid way to die
"I know, I know" I shoved the last of the drives into
The sound of ue "What do we do?" she asked, in a low, tightly controlled voice Her gaze darted around the aparth the walls She’d probably never been in an actual outbreak before Talk about your trial by fire: fro to survive your personal slice of the zoh to adht have enjoyed watching the biological error es flash across Kelly’s face Maybe it’s cruel, but I don’t care There’s nothing funnier than seeing somebody who thinks of the infected as somebody else’s problem realize that they, too, could join the mindless zoory; by the time they have hard proof that they’re not somehow above all harm, they’re usually either dead or infected Either way, they’re not exactlyreports after that
There’s a ti of others This wasn’t either "We get the hell out of here," I said, striding toward Dave "What’s the situation at the parking garage? Do we have vehicle access, or are we just fked?"
"They ed to take out the hu inside," Dave reported, his eyes never leaving the screen His fingers flew across his keyboard and the ones to either side of it like a concert pianist in thea beat The screens connected to the secondary keyboards flickered s and blocks of code so fast that they were al None of it seemed to bother Dave This was his element, and he was damn well in control of it "The tunnel’s clear--for the ’s automated defense systeed to suppress the acid I can’t stop the bleach"
"That’s what gasin the parking garage?"
"It should be clear all the way to the van" His hands didn’t slon once "Outer periive it fifteenon the doors the way they are Ten ets bitten, panics, and drives their car into one of the fuse boxes on the street"
"How likely is that?"
"Move fast"
"Got it" I turned "Alaric, Becks, status?"
"Alrenade I clipped it to , but…"
"But we need to assume the entire population of Oakland noants to eat us I know the drill Alaric, how are we for gas masks?"