NZOMBIE - The Living Dead Page 13

  Nadja Romanov woke deep and disturbing sleep with the sound of his own voice. - Chimera... - He opened his eyes and had the intuition that it could no longer be inert if he wanted to save the man she loved. He sat on a board terminal that had direct process to the NOMAD database and searched Nick Frost's profile. Meanwhile the NOMAD facilities:

  - Oliver... We have an authorized access to Nick Frost data! - Hershel was Stuart who passed the information to the President of the Corporation. Is coming from the transport jet sent to South Africa, the user is Nadja Romanov... - concluded the short report to the president that pharmaceutical complex.

  - We will follow up to see what she looks! - Said in serene and calm tone. Everything else would be pure speculation.

  In the database of the staff and employees of the NOMAD, Nadja scrutinized all relevant information, but could not come up with a plausible conclusion. He decided to risk the word "Chimera", but this could be an irreversible risk.

  - Chimera - "A chimera is a mythical figure very present in the legends of many peoples of the world. They present as hybrid appearance of animals, something like the union of two different species into one. Generally the chimera is considered a beast of chaos creator. Its origin dates back to ancient Greece and the idea is born of marriage between Typhon, a titan of mythology, and Echidna, a mixed picture of woman with snake tail, which in itself would be a chimera, which creates a paradox.

  The chimerism in biology is related to the embryological development. Two zygote cells, which give rise to different individuals each, which in turn end up closer and unite forming a single. The result of this union is to leave only one individual, but that will present cells with different genetic material, as two individuals and that will probably have the body color split right in half in the sagittal plane. "- This was the scientific explanation chimera, which is not explained in any way what was happening with Frost, or explained... thought.

  He left the comfort of the cabin that had him booked and wore a fair clothing and slinky showing all the curves and body sensuality, had chosen this dress, not to be sexy or attractive, even if it were, but the possible mobility might need to the sequence of events that anticipated events.

  He did not fail to be noticed by security guards who were escorting the group inside the plane, but also by Vladimir who essayed a soundless whistle that made her blush.

  The intention was all.

  - How long to Amsterdam? - Asked the pilot of the aircraft in command.

  - About six hours of flight, Dr. Romanov! - The answer was simple and straightforward, bluntly.

  - We're still on the African continent? - I was curious about the route they were doing since they left South Africa.

  - We are crossing the airspace of Sudan right now en route to Egypt and later Amsterdam already on the European continent! - The pilot of the information still being provided without reservation. Nadja thanked her and closed the door of the cockpit, silently walked to Timochenco.

  - I could not find anything conclusive about what Frost said... - I was sitting in the chair that was facing the man who had saved them from death in the icy continent, among them only a table and an automatic coffee maker that was soon put to use. Nadja prepared two espressos, flavored hazelnut. I loved not only the flavor but also the bittersweet taste. - The Chimera is a hybrid be composed of two or more specimens, I do not think Nick is that kind of person ... - remembered as the known and the first vision he had a full Norse god, far from any another type of creature, so defined.

  - There may be something about him that we do not know completely, maybe some kind of anomaly ... - He did not have enough education to discuss scientific aspects with as qualified woman who had served him coffee, but had seen too many strange things to rule any of them.

  - Um... - Biochemical meditated while absorbing the words of Timochenco. - So suspicion that there may be some genetic precedent to explain why he was not completely affected? - Was a great theory, was surprised herself had not reached that conclusion alone, this was part of being rational too and leave no room for the imponderable.

  - It is possible, but do not understand any of this, but I do not think he made such a great effort to convey a message that had no value, or even if it was irrelevant...

  - He put the coffee cup on the table and put his hand over Nadja who disappeared under his. - You are an extraordinary woman, Nadja Romanov... - I hoped that the relationship between them could go beyond what they already knew, even taking into account what they had spent together in recent days.

  - I... I have someone, Vladimir... - murmured softly knowing she closed the door to someone who attracted her sexual and irreverent way, the dispute of both feelings inside still remained, but it was time to end it. - Nick Frost... But I already knew ... - He looked around to see if they were not being listened to, as he pulled a slightly sweaty hand under it.

  - Yes, I thought it was him! - Vladimir was not surprised by the news, much less appeared shaken by having been rejected at the first onslaught, however, it ended a doubt that had for some time on whether it would be possible to have something between them. That answer was definitive, at least for him. - What do we do now, my dear? - It was also no reason not to narrow the relationship. I felt that his mission was not finished.

  - The database of NOMAD does not point to other information that is relevant, perhaps we can only some answers doing an exam or contacting his parents! - Started to get up, but was again prevented by the strong hand of Vladimir on his.

  - Vladimir, no... - She thought she made it clear that at the time there was no room for another man in her life.

  - Do not worry Nadja, got the message, but I think he made a very serious mistake! - Rose along with her and hugged her as if they were old friends. - The corporation may already know that looking for something and that we will have more difficulties to pass unnoticed when we reach our destination! - Left her at the door of the cab she occupied and waited to enter.

  Nadja knew he was right, have accessed the data through the terminal and board was a huge miss, but concluded that it also was necessary, after all no longer could be groping a solution in the dark, the answer was certainly in Drammen, birthplace of Nick Frost and residence of their parents. It was imperative that contact him, think of something in the coming hours and there would be a solution as soon as landed.

  Inside the biological containment chamber, Nick Frost resumed gradually awareness of events, knew exactly where he was and why. There was some numbness on the right side of the body and slowly tried to take control of that unsettling tingle. The brain teemed with disjointed information, on the one hand, were the last memories of all the events of recent days as far as could be aware, realized that Nadja was safe and close to him, but did not specify where he was or what the destination end around sunset, get out of that enclosure which was confined was not an option, could put everyone else at risk. But I had to control the situation as he was concerned.

  Unlike the right, the left seemed to work perfectly even with sharp muscle pain and could not be otherwise, had made superhuman efforts to get out of that roof snow vehicle and even greater to not let that cold steel cable helicopter rescue the cut into two distinct parts. Do not forget to thank his savior when he had the chance.

  Both hands were bandaged with white bandages and a net oozed between them, recognized as the result of wounds caused by burns from the intense cold steel, just a side effect of events, apart from that everything seemed very normal. The space inside that urn was minimal, just enough to accommodate a body with some temporary comfort, he tried to raise his right hand, but seemed to weigh more than a ton, needed the help of the other hand to it. The glass fogged can distinguish a security apparatus of two guards in front, there would probably be two or more in the back, it had to be discreet and give the impression that he was still unconscious.

  With a little more effort could see his right hand, he was unrecognizable, a slightly grayish skin, but bluish color undern
eath, more like a few hours after dead corpse. What most surprised him was the bone aspect, the fingers were more elongated and protruding showing the phalanges joint with absolute certainty hand had changed in size, as well as fingertips. Yes they had longer, strong and sharp nails, almost like claws. It was an anomaly that did not expect, groped his face with his left hand, which apparently had more sensitivity and leveraging that his fingertips were discovered, did not find any kind of deformity, but it could be a matter of time.

  It seemed, her body was going through a transformation process of very rapid pace, probably as a result of the discovery of the depths of Lake Vostok, made a quick retrospective of the events that took place, but an unceasing battle inside his body made him almost exhausted without even having left the place, he closed his eyes and tried to control before she screamed in pain.

  Acute twinges you took all the right and felt the muscles were trying to push the boundaries of clothing he was wearing, it was as if the mutation wanted to vent their full potential in a single instant. Besides painful it was scary, but I had an idea that had not become completely vague in some unknown creature on account of his brother who was not even born. That was a long story, but knowing his real condition was, all in the field of assumptions. Again we had to aware that Nadja was close, but not exactly where it was urgent that both talked to have a strategic plan of escape.

  The coats of the Corporation NOMAD were scattered everywhere where looking and do not leave you doubt what would be your destination. It was a specimen for observation and dissection. Had to get out at any cost there would not be a time when some lab rat.

  Yuri Antonov the latest orders for all Russia's borders were closed, and a significant number of troops and military equipment were displaced throughout the country, were preparing for the worst in a few days, it was inevitable that the toxic cloud passed over the whole territory, but what scared him was a massive invasion of foreigners could disrupt the internal order of the country, although it seemed inevitable.

  The best forecasts warned of a convergence situation in less than twenty-four hours, about five thousand people between military and civilians had been relocated to underground shelters still built in the war times, Cold when the nuclear threat was a very close reality. For decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the facilities were adapted for more similar risk situations with biological warfare, therefore, there was an expectation that they would be quite safe, so that the life within It could be preserved for a few years, perhaps decades, which did not solve the problem if the earth's atmosphere remained toxic over that time.

  Not to mention the example of the recent events, the earth would be populated by more violent creatures than all animals that until then had knowledge. These were the information of the advanced observation groups that remained in the first continent to be reached after the Antarctic region and which now had no more access. Probably dead.

  The data had a sequence that he, Yuri, read carefully when you were delivered; First there was a light in the air that did not prevent the sunlight to change their behavior, were no more golden rays to which they were accustomed, but tenuous, but greenish, looked as if they had been designed from the inside of a priceless emerald. One could even say that they were beautiful.

  Did not have any odor that could be detected as being unpleasant, however, it smelled of freshly cut grass as they did at the weekend in the garden, very nice. Then, after what was described as "Freshness Morning" took about five minutes between the first contact with the air sustenance and sudden death, it did not matter if the individual could hold his breath for a minute or an hour, infection it was absorbed in the same way the skin and then immediately gave the death by asphyxiation.

  Yuri Antonov rereading the pages trying not to miss any detail and knew how many lives had been lost so that that information came safely to your hands. He turned the page to the next chapter examining a little photos attached, street corridors and extensive avenues were filled with corpses of all kinds, men, women and children. There was a natural disordering of vehicles and people anywhere to look in the photographs, but no other animals. That surprised him. He deduced that it was a selective evolution.

  "After the incubation period - continued report - lasting for up to about six hours, or even less, derived from the biological condition of the host, the human skin had a gray color as if it were a very ancient mummy, but opaque appearance without wrinkles, almost as perfect as when they were still alive. This was followed by a shorter period of time, about two hours after this initial processing, so that the bodies take the first changing signals acquired when the bluish, almost transparent, as we can see the veins under the skin. Although at first it was thought that it was a process of fermentation due to cause of death, the following hours showed that this was not the case, the bodies took on greater muscle mass and more robust, hands and feet were slightly more elongated and had sharp nails and very strong. "

  "Finally, in little more than twelve hours of contamination started, the bodies acquired" life "as if resurrected from deep sleep and returned to walk on the land. Yuri was amazing that something similar is happening in the world in which he lived. He remembered historical cases like the Black Death in the Middle Ages and more recently the Spanish flu, but everything I read and saw in photographs showed that had come humanity's time to pay for their arrogance after both play of the Gods. "A endnote still caught her attention was required reading.

  Read carefully the field observations and the final page of the report; "The sighted mutation would not have such a negative ratio if the human judgment of characteristics could be preserved, however, we found, there is a brain and cognitive degeneration of the individual process, which knew not give up because of the long period without oxygen of vital parts, or by the virus incubation process, the case is that the living dead become human beasts destroying everything in its path, incredible forces holders with nothing we can do. "See the Field Report II.

  There ended the first phase of the report collected in Australian territory in little more than twenty-four hours before. Although not all of the continental country had succumbed to the toxic cloud was known fact that the survivors lived a hate war that had no explanation.

  Combat Ace human beasts were caught in the open with all kinds of resources that were available to anyone, but in almost all known cases, the defeat was inevitable unless he found a cure quickly. Yuri took the second dossier was codenamed Protheus: Field Report II. She sighed deeply before turning the first page.

  "Individuals do not behave like humans or any other known animal, have enormous strength, even the smaller stature, we know in our society as children. They are agile, fast and voracious may reach a grown man in a matter of seconds without requiring much effort. The skills acquired by stretching the edges; I quote, hands and feet, enable a better balance in the past and random movements, aware of the fact that they have keener senses, according to the latest studies in the distance. "

  "We witnessed some of these new creatures in pursuit of humans who had not been infected, although we could not say that there was a strategic plan, the convergence of the living dead to this human group was immediate. Possibility of being able to detect human scent over long distances. Important note; humans this group that we saw not survived and even been developed into new living dead, were butchered leaving exposed viscera and separated from the main body members with extreme violence. "

  Yuri had to put the photos on the table so he could better observe the sequence of events that were so painstakingly described in the report lamented that none of the observers has survived, but silently thanked that have sent data before being discovered. more turned a few pages describing the different ways in which creatures behaved, it had been an extraordinary job of observation. Those men deserved to be decorated as heroes, but it would have to stay for another life. He opened the last chapter.

  "Protheus - Final Conclusion: This is a new way of life that rivals human, but more ada
pted to the environment. Tends to multiply according to the infection levels to which humans are exposed in the natural state, with highlights to major centers and cities that will become real fortresses of hordes of undead. It is recommended an early study of a global pandemic short term, not being the object end of the study this premise. God help us and forgive us. Dr. Lev Ivanov. - Virologist "It ended there the most complete field report existed.

  The Russian General put his face in his hands and briefly thanked for being the last of his line. Interestingly mourned on not leave offspring for decades in that lost their family members one by one, successively, with nothing could do. He had no wife, was married to the Red Army since he could remember, and it left him no space to dream of having children or something. Opportunities? Had a few, but in the same way that appeared in your life, so also are gone. Now it seemed a miracle that he regretted only death itself.

  He took the two reports and removed the spiral that kept the leaves together chronologically, went to a small table and pulled out a plastic cover covering an old fax machine, for him that was still one of the media safest in the world, nothing very advanced technologies. There were two places where I needed to send that information, the first would be to Oliver McQueen, although everything had begun because the Corporation NOMAD, loyalty between the two men was unquestionable. Arranged the sheets in the top tray and pressed the memory button, in less than a minute the first page out from the bottom of the device. He had begun the transmission of data. After nearly five minutes was over the first transmission.

  Now it was the decisive time in his career, would certainly be considered a traitor to send information as confidential to the second destination, but it now seemed very have little significance unless they could stop that infection, which seemed unlikely, none of them would survive to be penalized or tried for treason. Beat quietly with again grouped sheets so that all continue with the same size and form a single volume, placed them in the top tray and leaned back in his wooden chair in front of the small table. The phone vibrated in his pocket and made a message receiving noise that identified the origin without difficulty, the display was just one word, thank you.