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Chapter 3: Escape.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A long second of silence. Even the Others seemed to have stopped. The grenade never exploded. And then a throaty and inhuman scream broke the silence. It was the severed head on the ground howling. In the past, every time Daryl had heard this scream, someone was dead. Maybe it would be his turn this time, he told himself, when he realized that half of the Others in the clearing were running towards him.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But if he could save the maximum number of people by dying, it was a lesser evil. He then started to run in the opposite direction, towards the tower, and he slaughtered his katana on the foot which he had intended to explode. He had a small lead over the Others, but before breaking the base of the structure, he had to cut off a few heads, the howling of which added to the ambient shambles. Now all the Others were running in his direction. Out of the corner of his eye, behind the tide of rotting corpses that were about to submerge him, he noticed that his companions were running out of the building. While the Others were only 10 meters away, the structure finally collapsed. On them.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Three-quarters of the Others immobilized, Daryl could make his way by decapitating a part of those who remained. The smell would have been difficult to bear for any human being. As soon as he had an opening, he sprinted to his group, situated on the old parking, at the limit of the land, close to the road. Old Goldblum and Benjamin, Sarah’s husband, were waiting for him at the edge of the fence. The old man and the colossus of almost two meters formed an atypical canvas, but Daryl did not focus on this funny picture. They exchanged a heavy look when Daryl came to their level: they had to be careful. It was obvious that something was wrong. The north grid had been repaired recently. This hole made no sense. Neither the Others’ attack. There had been too many, too quickly. The disappearance of the weapons from the west tower was also very strange. Nothing was going well this day.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They set off to join Sarah, and Eva, the wife of old Goldblum, already advanced along the road. By catching up with them, Daryl realized that Christian had stayed close to his father Ben. He did this only in times of great stress, usually preferring the company of his mother. Daryl put his hand on her shoulder. The young boy was already his size and despite his youthful face, the harshness of the last years was reflected in his eyes and the scars that dotted his body. In a glance, Daryl congratulated the young boy for his courage during this chaotic ordeal. In response, he smiled at him with all his teeth. Daryl pretended to know how to react, but as usual, he couldn’t communicate emotionally with another human being.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quickly, Sarah had passed poor Eva who was following the pace with difficulty, particularly because they had started to climb a slope of the road. The rest of the group followed her a few steps. They had to reach the emergency hideout, a few kilometers away, but you had to do it early before the sun fell. At night, the jungle was not viable, even for a wild adventure expert like Daryl. Wild animals escaped from absolutely all the zoos of the United States circulated everywhere, had reproduced, and had adapted to an ecosystem become gigantic, and mortal, for all that did not run the 100 meters in 9 seconds or weigh 200 kilos and had claws. Even the Others seemed to avoid staying in the forest at night, preferring to wander the roads. But for that moment, they had to stay on a clear track, the risk of a surprise attack was too great. They did not mean it so well.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the top of the slope, the silhouette of Sarah disappeared from their field of vision. Half a second later, a muffled cry reasoned, and Ben accelerated like never before, followed by Christian and Daryl. At the top of the ridge, they found Sarah, with a Colt 45 pointed at the temple. Behind her, a tall man dressed in lattice held her firmly, and still behind him, twenty electric vehicles with fifty other soldiers awaited them firmly. A man wearing a mustachioed and insignia and who was to be the high-ranking officer approached the group of 4, petrified with stupor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 3: Escape.\u00a0 A long second of silence. Even the Others seemed to have stopped. The grenade never exploded. And then a throaty and inhuman scream broke the silence. It was the severed head on the ground howling. In the past, every time Daryl had heard this scream, someone was dead. Maybe it would be … Continue reading “The Others (Chapter 3)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[39],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novelettes"],"authors":[{"term_id":39,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhamedtaik","display_name":"M'hamed Taik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28445226b8a1211c44f492f3339658d94c787b21c55d0212cb481c851c7054f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Taik","first_name":"M'hamed","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}