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"No Because there is a higher power at work here" Becks reh to tap her ear cuff, saying in a caleneral connection, le loud beep

Too loud The nearest of the infected looked up from her meal--the torso of a technician whose name had either been Jimmy or Johnny; I wasn’t sure, and it didn’tfor new prey, and settled on Becks With a low , do it fast," Idirectly at the standing infected "Once the shooting starts, this is going to turn into one hell of a duck hunt"

"I can handleto face us, their attention attracted by the strange silence of the one nearest our position

Steady, cautioned George I thought I felt her fingers ghost across the back ofelse about our situation If I started hallucinating during coet past me

"Not now," I whispered "Please, not now"

Becks’s ear cuff beeped again, and Dr Abbey’s voice said loudly, "A little busy right now, children! Maybe you could do solishout the sound ofon it," said Becks She must have realized there was no e could fade back out of sight The sound of Joe barking would have guaranteed that, even if nothing else could "Mahir’s secure, but the lab’s in chaos What’s your twenty?"

Dr Abbey’s ansas drowned out by the local infected, all of whoed, shambled, and even ran toward us "Less talky

"We’ll be there," said Becks She tilted her head, studying our onrushing attackers, and chose her first two shots with an aluid care Two of the infected went down, each with a hole in the middle of its forehead

"Show-off," Ito assess the tactical options presented by the rooe; five of those were old, probably from the most recent batch of catches, while the other three wore lab coats and scrubs that identified thenized one of the careless around the infected

Guess he’d learned his lesson, even if it hadn’t done hiood Anyway, those three would be the fastest movers, and the slowest to react The virus that drove their bodies was still adjusting to being in control Even the smartest zombie is pretty damn stupid, but new zombies are the duot the density to start reasoning, said George

I nodded, acknowledging her words, and stepped forward as I kept firing "Becks! Fall in, and tell !"