The Apocalypse: Everyone Wants My Bargaining Token

ce, and plunged the office bui

gency broadcasts blared from ev

trembled, her voice cracking over the speaker: "Seek immediate she

s had descended upon the streets. Traffic was choked in ev

hicles, punching and clawing over half-empty bot

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nations with bone-spiked hides and razor-sharp fangs, lunged into the crowd, tea

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ell alongside her boyfriend, Gregory Wright, and her best friend, As

regory shouted, pointing toward

doors just as dozens of terrified citizens

ds. "Listen to me, everyone! Don't panic! I am a corporate supervisor, I know

ntic crowd. People nodded, treati

room, Maya immediately began inspectin

g wreckage; no help was coming. Worse, the supermarket shelves were already strippe

" Maya urged, approaching Gregory. "If we ration

ting," Gregory said with a reass

f beans and water bottles. But as she leaned down to reach a

the stock room meant for employees. He was stuffing high-calorie protein

eside him, wat

this with Maya?" Ashley whisper

plies into the bag. "Look at her. She's too soft. Sharing this with thirty people

rd Maya. A brief flicker of guilt crossed her face, but sh

ed her mouth to confront them, but b

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sts burst through the entrance, roaring as glass shards rained onto the concrete flo

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as knocked off her feet by a terrified man, he

reaching out toward them throu

eyes. There was no love in his gaze, only col

's dead weight!"

e didn't stop. She followed him as he s

ough, and slammed the reinforced metal door behi

ocked he

slammed her palms against the

grew louder. A mutated beast slammed an i

ehind an overturned vending machine. She held her breath, tears burning her eye

like agonizin

The monsters, lured by the screams outside,

ody bruised, her clothes soaked in dust

ropped against a crushed cash register. He clutched his bleeding arm with one

cked and white. "Please... I'll give you

ped around her final item: a small, half-fille

bleeding man, th

said, her v

bottle. The man eagerly grabbed it, shoving t

leted, a sudden, blinding sensat

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urge of terrifying energy rose from deep within her s

ed. Maya gasped, staggering back

r seemed to freeze

nged inside her. She wasn't j

the shattered front windo

d sky. Distant explosions shook the city skyline. Sirens wa

ld was comp