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to move. That was going to be a problem.
    Sam opened a door that was marked as belonging to a Doctor David Laurie, looked inside, and waved us over. We entered the office, which was decorated with light blue walls and a darker blue carpet. One wall was lined with a bookshelf. The books were mainly thick hardbacks with titles that looked like they related to chemistry. A light wooden desk with a computer, mouse, and keyboard sat near a window. I looked out at the view of the compound and the rolling hills beyond. The rain had smeared the glass, making the outside world seem unreal.
    “What are we going to do now?” Jax asked.
    Sam shrugged. “I don’t know, man.”
    I leaned against the desk, wondering how we were going to get to the labs. “We need those zombies out of the way,” I said.
    “No shit, Sherlock.” Sam rolled his eyes and started to read the titles of the books on the wall.
    The walkie-talkie crackled. It was Johnny’s voice that came over the airwaves, his smooth tone reminding me of when Lucy and I used to listen to him on Survivor Radio. I wished I was on the deck of The Big Easy now, dancing to some tune Johnny had chosen, instead of here in this facility where the virus that had destroyed the world had been created. “Alex, there’s someone walking along the corridor on your level.”
    “Who is it?” I whispered into the walkie-talkie.
    “It’s that woman we saw earlier, the one with the broken glasses. She’s near the elevators again.”
    Sam went to the door, opening it quietly. “She’s there,” he whispered. “She’s not a zombie or anything.”
    I remembered the way she had been staring vacantly as she walked, her broken glasses hanging from her face. If she wasn’t a nasty, then she had probably lost her mind. Still, she knew this place. She might be able to help us in some way.
    “We could talk to her,” I suggested to Sam.
    He nodded and was about to walk out into the corridor when he suddenly stopped. His eyes widened as he saw something out there. Then he stepped back into the office and closed the door.
    “What’s wrong?” I asked.
    His voice came out as a whisper. “Something took her, man. Something that moved so fast I barely even saw it.”
    Jax took the Desert Eagle from her holster and held it loosely in her right hand. Her hand was trembling, making the gun shake in her grip.
    Sam backed away from the wooden door slowly, keeping the MP5 steady. “If it comes in here, I’m going to blast it,” he whispered.
    We stood in the office silently, waiting. I realized I was holding my breath. I wanted to contact Tanya and Johnny on the walkie-talkie but didn’t dare make a sound. I was thankful that they had the good sense not to talk to us. The crackling from the walkie-talkie would alert anything in the corridor to our presence.
    The rain beat on the window as if it were counting off the passing seconds.
    “Do you think it’s gone?” Jax whispered.
    I shrugged. I could imagine it standing outside the door, waiting patiently for us to step out into the corridor. My fingers brushed lightly over the butt of the Desert Eagle at my hip. If the thing out there moved as fast as Sam said it did, I wouldn’t even have time to use the gun on myself before I was torn apart like those security guards by the elevators.
    I remembered that it moved through the air vents, and frantically looked for the vent in this office, breathing a sigh of relief when I saw that it was barely big enough for a rat to crawl through. The larger vents in the building were probably only in the corridors, labs, and bigger rooms like the meeting room where we had seen the dead hybrids on the monitors.
    I didn’t know how long we had been standing there when the walkie-talkie crackled.
    It was Tanya. “It’s moved away from your location. It’s on level three. We just saw it run past one of the cameras there.”
    I breathed another sigh of relief. “We have to get that chemical and get out of