While the tension of vent crawling tendon skeletons was running high with everyone in the group, the ceiling above Higson was broken out as a pair of skeletal arms with basically tendons still attached to them reaching to grab him. Doing a quick pivot on my right foot, I swung my sword violently, cutting the arms off while shielding Higson. Welles snapped around and unloaded into the ceiling with a corpse missing its arms falling through and bouncing off my shield that I had positioned to cover Higson's head. Looking at the others, I made them enter the safe room with the doctor rather forcibly while I stood outside it, knocking my shields bottom onto the floor.
I kept doing this as I advanced to the far end of the lab with the sounds of something scurrying in the ceiling above me, seemingly trying to pinpoint me. I made it halfway when two figures clawed their way out of two vents, the one above me now scratching rather impatiently at the ceiling from the vents. Looking at the two emerging figures, I knocked my shield onto the ground rather violently as I took a stance to charge slash one.
"You scrapped autonomy class statues are fucking ugly. I prefer if you had kept the rotting flesh on you."
They seem to have taken offense to my insult, but I don't really care. I had eighty points, and I think I knew where I wanted to put them. I turned my forty strength into sixty, my twenty-four agility into forty-four, my twenty-six dex into forty-six, and my fifty luck into seventy. Mid charge towards the one on my left as I raised my sword and swung down as the Skeleton Walker approached me. My sword cleaved it in two down the middle, along with half of a lab table. The third one had attempted to sneak attack me, but I luckily had dodged by pulling my sword free from the lab table.
My new stats already show an effect as I dispatched the third one after it hit the table. I had nearly cleaved fully in half by stabbing it in the back of the head. That was when the fourth had clawed its way through the ceiling finally and used its boney fingers to dig into the ceiling along with its toes. It had released a screech at me before it came charging at me while on the ceiling; it didn't get far though before two bullets took out its arms. Causing the torso of a ribcage to be swung down from the sudden loss of arms, making it nearly fall off the ceiling as it clung on by its toes still.
Not missing the chance, I lunged towards it and stabbed my sword through its skull as the blade caught fire, roasting the brain inside the exposed, somewhat fleshy skull. Looking at where the bullets had come from, I saw that everyone else had left the safe room, with Bradly having fired his gun. As smoke was still coming from the muzzle of it, giving them a little fist raise with my sword, I watched Higson shoot them all, but the one which was cooked and cut in half, through the head to make sure they were dead. Looking at the doctor, I told him to please confirm if we're all infected or just a fluke chance. It took another two hours, but we had our answer; after he finished, we all really were infected somehow, and it is not something you can shrug off like, "He died; he wasn't bit so that he won't turn."
"Well, thanks for confirming our theory, doctor... Would you like to come with us? We could use someone with your skills."
"No... I've lost all reason to continue in this hell hole, but I hope you gentlemen can make something of this world. I already set the CDC to purge the infected in here, but if you would like, you can have all the drives and files we have on the various other diseases, so you're not clueless. Just do better than my wife and I ever could with this mess... She died trying to help; I want to join her soon... So please consider the files as my parting gift to the still-living survivors."
We all knew when a man was set on dying; we're soldiers. We've seen our men and women give us that look daily. So we didn't argue with the doctor; we left him to his desire as we split up; I went to the server room and then the archives while the others secured the helicopter. I cleaned the rooms out by storing everything but a few things into a big box to make it look like I had something, at least. With that, our CDC adventure ended with us just getting air born when the building sealed shut tightly and rumbling slightly; fire escaping some outside vents. We gave the doctor a silent send-off as we headed towards the farm once more; we've been gone for almost an entire day.
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Name: Biazar Lazurus Chimera
Race: Human
Age: 21
Titles: 2nd Lt. , Mad Man, The Gamer, Squad Leader
lvl- 18 1,045/1,800
Stats
HP: 18,500/18,500
Mana: 18,500/18,500 (Locked)
Str: 60
Agi: 44
Cha: 20
Dex: 46
Wis: 26
Int: 30
luck: 70
Points:
Money: $8,000
Abilities: Abilities: Gamer's Mind- passive lvl max, Gamer's Body- passive lvl max, Appearance Default- Passive lvl max, CQC- passive lvl 5, leadership- passive lvl 4, Marksmanship- passive lvl 195, Blade Mastery- passive lvl 230, Blunt Mastery- passive lvl 120 Stealth- active lvl 200, Observe- active lvl 603, Spy- passive lvl max, Thief- active/passive lvl 600, Technician- active/passive lvl 400, Doctor- active/passive lvl 300, Radio Operator- active lvl 299, Psychosis- passive lvl 800, PTSD- passive lvl 800, Soldier- passive lvl max, Assassination- active lvl 200, Builder- passive lvl 600, Multi-Lingual- passive lvl 900 Negotiating- active lvl 300, Point Gain Efficiency- Passive lvl max, Han Xiao's Machine Knowledge- passive lvl max (EX), Necromancer(EX)- active/passive lvl god
Gear: Prototype PMR30 railgun (handgun (200 .22 magnum ammo), M16A2 rifle with (360 5.56 rounds), Dawn Blade (long sword (6ft long), quarterstaff, grenades (6), Molotov's (3), thieves tools, Varying Tech Tools, combat knife, Guitar
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