The bridge stretching across the dark waters trembled beneath the weight of panic and destruction while emergency vehicles attempted to evacuate civilians toward safer districts, and Alessandro De Luca stood upon the fractured concrete with storm-colored eyes fixed upon the chaos unfolding ahead of him. Smoke drifted across the night. Warning sirens echoed through the distance. The city appeared trapped between survival and collapse.
Several ghoul beasts emerged from the burning wreckage scattered across the bridge while frightened civilians stumbled backward in terror, and the creatures advanced with unsettling confidence because hunger had overwhelmed whatever caution remained within their corrupted minds. Mothers shielded children. Strangers pulled one another toward safety. Fear united people who had never met before.
