The Crawford's Multiverse of Madness

Chapter 11 - The Unspoken Agreement

Kaplan was in a daze wondering where all the zombies were coming from. The zombies should have shown up on his sensors a long time ago, but it seemed The Red Queen had the last laugh in the end.

Rain was already too irritated to care about sparing Kaplan's feelings. She approached Kaplan, pinning him against a wall as she looked directly into his eyes.

"This is your fucking fault for shutting the damn computer off," she yelled.

Several zombies patrolled The Hive, Alice and Zeel dodged confrontations using Zeel's superb hearing.

Still, the number of zombies present on each floor was substantially less than the number of employees it would take to maintain The Hive.

"The zombies here are just a fraction of the total amount of employees in The Hive," Zeel said.

"What are the chances of the others not being turned into zombies?" Alice asked.

"Highly unlikely," Zeel replied.

Alice and Zeel continued their walk in silence. The question still hanged in the air - where are the rest of the zombies?

Alice and Zeel walk around The Hive, more like a couple taking a tour than two people running for their lives.

There was not much stress on Zeel due to his superb fighting capabilities, and Alice was infected by Zeel's calm atmosphere.

Coming around the corner, Alice pulled the two guns from her leg brace and aimed at Zeel.

*Pop*

*Pop*

Two shots were fired in Zeel's direction.

Zeel considered killing Alice at the moment she pointed her guns at him but quickly dismissed the idea.

The trajectory of the bullets was not aimed directly at him. Either Alice was an incredibly bad shot or she was aiming at something else entirely.

Plop

Plop

Two zombies behind Zeel fell to the ground, the grey matter from their brain staining the wall at the rear.

"You seem sure I wasn't aiming at you," Alice said.

She expected that Zeel would flinch or jump out of the way, but he seemed calm the entire time.

"What can I say? I have faith in you" Zeel replied.

Though, his tense muscles told Alice a different story.

"Faith huh?" Alice replied with a smirk playing across her face aware of the fact that people like Zeel would never leave survival up to faith.

Alice and Zeel continued to navigate their way through the corridors. They stumbled upon cages that were ripped open but opted to ignore them completely.

Alice and Zeel were equally careful. They were not the types of people to try and investigate what type of beast could rip open a steel cage. It was better to move away from the location of the incident as soon as possible.

Their steps became evermore cautious as they continued. Zeel could feel his intuition blaring up for the first time since entering The Hive.

It was not a severe warning though, so he judged that whatever it was, should not be a major threat to his life.

Suddenly, Zeel smelled the scent of an animal's decaying flesh.

Alice felt the situation worsen and immediately went on alert.