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We flee without any real plan in mind I ask the others, as we run, if they have an idea of the layout of the complex, if they’ve seen atively Mark has been to a lab that the rest of us haven’t visited, but it wasn’t far froround," Tiberius says, "because of the lack of daylight But that’s not necessarily the case We "

"No," Peder says "I once heard a soldier gru stuck down here Reilly told him to shut up - I don’t think they were supposed toabout where we are - but it was too late"

"Then I guess we need to head for the top," I grunt "Let’s look for stairs"

We push open every door that we pass and peer through everyIn the dark glass of one pane I catch sight of ht cheek I froondering how it got there Then I recall the clown stroking , I wipe the mark from my flesh and hurry on

"Here!" Cathy shouts She’s looking through a round panel of glass in a door I press up beside her and spot a flight of stairs I shake the door but it’s locked There’s a control panel beside it

"Tihtly "Gokhan, you first They usually press their fingers to the sensor before scanning their eye"

Gokhan holds Dr Cerveris’s fingers up to the panel There’s a s noise I open my hand and reveal the eye I roll it in ht way, then rest it in front of the retinal scanner I have no confidence that it ork now that it’s been ripped froht there’s a second beep and the door slides open

"Eye, eye!" Tiberius snickers, slipping pastup the stairs

It’s only a single flight of steps Seconds later we’re on a higher floor, identical to the one below, so we go looking for an exit or the next set of stairs There are zombies loose on this level too, but they don’t interfere with us They shoot us dark looks and sniff the air hungrily when they catch our scent, but when they realize we’re not walking snack boxes, they leave us be

We find another set of stairs and cliain we search for a way out But after a couple of h an open door and does a double take "What the hell?" he mutters

"Worm!" Cathy barks "This is no time for - "

"Shh!" he snaps, and the look on his face tells us this is serious

Curious, we crowd around Mark and gape, slack jawed, at the hellish dra within

It’s a ing by the TV sets hanging fro it’s a relaxation area, a rander version of zom HQ