Chapter 53 – Eternal Night (Part 10)
The interior of the building was hollow and lifeless, like a shell abandoned by time itself. Jack and Evelyn moved through it floor by floor, their footsteps echoing faintly in the silence. Nothing remained but corpses strewn across the halls, slumped against walls, or piled in corners like discarded trash. The ruins carried no warmth, no sign of movement, not even the faintest pulse of a living soul.
By the time they reached the top floor and descended again, their expressions had darkened. Neither spoke. The silence weighed heavily, broken only by the soft crunch of debris beneath their boots. Jack had immense tolerance to death and dead corpses in general as he saw them as nothing but an empty vessel of a past existence, but even he found it difficult to stomach. This wasn't a battlefield where soldiers clashed with the expectation of death—this was a massacre. Families, staff, students… their end had been merciless.
