Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 191

Chapter 191: Cleaning the Building
The seventeenth floor of Greenstone Residential Area was in complete chaos. Screams echoed through the narrow halls before mingling with the guttural growls of the newly turned.

The scene was worse than Grace had anticipated when she made her way downstairs. One side of the hallway was destroyed. The walls were scorched and debris was scattered everywhere.

Fortunately, the damage wasn’t strong enough to actually cause any issues with the building’s structure or safety.

The man who created this mess was detained inside his apartment while the rest of the residents of the floors had fled downstairs to stay away from him.

Grace kept her distance from the mess and stood at the stairwell landing. Her face was a mask of cold calculation as Kevin and Aleena updated her on the situation.

It was barely eight in the morning and the world was going crazy. And the only reason she was completely unaware of this craziness was because she was inside her space when all this happened.

“More than just two turned, Boss,” Kevin clarified grimly, and his hand tightened around his rifle. None of her team had taken any action yet, and had only explored the situation. They were waiting for her to give the order.

“How many?” She asked before she asked 2025 to run a scan across the building to find out exactly how many residents had turned into zombies.

“At least five residents have already turned overnight, and from what we have heard, there might be more.” Kevin replied.

The very next moment, 2025 also updated her on the result of system’s scanning. [Master, a total of nine residents have already turned, and eleven more are showing signs of turning. As for the remaining thirty-two residents, fifteen have unlocked some sort of powers, five more will unlock soon, and the rest are just…]

“Great,” Grace muttered in a tone that was devoid of any emotion. Her dark green eyes swept over her team, assessing their readiness. “We clean house. Efficiently. No delays, no mistakes.”

She then turned to Davian, who had joined her moments earlier. His had a calm expression on his face, looking just as emotionless about the entire situation as her. “You are with me. We will top ten floors. Rune will handle the lower ten floors with Kevin. No mercy. Kill anything that’s turned or infected.”

She then quickly divided the team into two groups, a total of nine people in her team and eleven in Rune’s.

“What about the survivors?” Nina asked. There was no sympathy or hesitation in her voice or expression, she just wanted to know incase she had to play a savior.

Grace let out a small sigh before she answered, “They are not our concern. If they get in the way, remind them who’s cleaning up their mess. We don’t have time to babysit.”

Davian’s lips twitched, but he said nothing. He was fully aware of how little patience she had for the residents of their building. After all, these people made sure to be a pain in their lives during the initial few months of the disasters.

“Where’s Doc?” Rune asked when he noticed that Kian hadn’t joined them despite the whole building filled with so much chaos.

“Dr. Kian and the rest of the team are staying on our floors. They will keep the research team in line and away from this mess. The last thing I need is Professor Neil playing the hero while we are neck-deep in this shit.” Grace informed.

Though she didn’t really believe that Professor Neil would try to be so benevolent when he knew exactly how dangerous the situation was, she still didn’t want to take any chances with the research team.

With her orders clear, they all quickly split into two groups and headed to their assigned areas within the building.

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The Top Ten Floors – Grace and Davian’s team

The top three floors of the building were already secured, and no one had turned into a zombie on either nineteenth and the eighteenth floor. The seventeenth floor was already empty, hence the team made their way to the sixteenth floor where system had detected the presence of two zombies.

The hallway was eerily silent except for the occasional distant scream. Since the power had been cut again, it left the hallways dark except for the little natural light that was coming through the tightly shut glass windows.

As usual, the air was heavy with the stench of decay, but it was a smell Grace had long since stopped noticing.

They moved in silence, keeping their steps precise and deliberate. Grace spotted the first zombie crouched over what was remained of a resident. Its grotesque, rotting body was visible to her enchanced eyesight. Without hesitation, she raised her rifle and pulled the trigger.

The zombie collapsed instantly, with its head blown apart by the shot. She stepped over the body without so much as a glance. Her focus was on scanning the rest of the hallway.

They didn’t want to make too much noise, and thus checking on each apartment wasn’t a solution. That’s why 2025 decided to step forward and showed them the exact location of the second zombie that was present of the sixteenth floor.

“It’s also feeding,” Davian murmured, keeping his voice low but steady as he located the second zombie the moment they stepped into the apartment at the very end of the hallway.

Since the door was left wide open, they just stopped inside in silence, avoiding alerting the creature.

Grace nodded and gestured for him to take point. Instead of using the gun, he took out a dagger and moved swiftly toward the zombie that had its back to them. Moments later, his blade gleamed right before as he plunged it into the back of the zombie’s head with deadly precision.

The creature slumped forward, lifeless, and Davian withdrew his blade before wiping it clean on the sleeve of a discarded shirt.

“Two down,” Grace muttered in a tone that was devoid of satisfaction. “Keep moving. We have more to clear.”

They continued down the hallway, systematically clearing each floor. The rooms held either cowering survivors or more of the infected. Grace didn’t waste time comforting the survivors. She ordered them to barricade themselves in their rooms and stay out of her way.