The zombies standing between me and the hole moved out of the way before I took my second step.
Who knew that something without a brain could be so smart?
I kept walking, watching the zombies shift back against the basement walls, leaving a clear path across the wet concrete floor straight toward the jagged black opening. It was like I was a living sacrifice to a God that I didn't know.
Too bad they didn't understand that I wasn't the sacrifice....
I was the God.
Behind me, several voices rose at once.
"Rouxi!"
"Stop!"
"Are you insane?"
That last one was absolutely Wei, because apparently the man had decided that shouting obvious questions counted as battlefield leadership.
Commander Li moved first, which I was beginning to understand was simply how the man functioned. He took one step after me like he was fully prepared to throw himself between me and whatever was waiting inside the hole again, and I almost sighed.
It was one thing to be noble once.
