Surviving the Apocalypse with my Multiplier System novel Chapter 77

The team worked nonstop, digging them out. When most of the outer debris was cleared, Rayne helped move things inside to speed up the process.

Julian tried to help but was quickly scolded by Rayne, who told him he was injured and should not put any strain on his back. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

It was already dark by the time they were finally freed from the cave-in.

"Thank you for your hard work," said Julian to Alpha Team.

"Boss, where did you find such an... interesting shirt?" asked Noah. He couldn’t believe his eyes. His very particular boss was wearing a loud purple shirt with a picture of a fluffy white cat on it.

Julian looked down at his shirt, then glanced at Rayne. "Well, we found it in that store across the street, and I thought it was pretty cool," he said matter-of-factly.

Noah felt like his longtime friend had turned into a different person, but he also noticed how much more cheerful Julian had been since the day he went out to save Rayne from the hurricane.

"Boss, I’m glad you’re okay. Do you want me to look into those guys over there?" Ian asked, pointing at the dead bodies. He had noticed them as soon as they came into the area and understood what had happened.

Julian nodded. "Yes, I want to know if they’re just a small-time local gang or if they’re somehow related to Damien."

Rayne listened with curiosity; this was the first time she had heard about this Damien.

Ian looked around and walked over to the bodies to inspect them further. He noticed that all of the men had strange, bulging veins on different parts of their bodies, mainly around the chest area.

He had seen many dead bodies in the past, and this was the first time he’d seen this strange phenomenon.

"Boss, come take a look at this," he yelled for Julian.

Julian heard Ian’s call and made his way over. Rayne wanted to take this opportunity to spend time around dead bodies so that she could be a little less nervous around them in the future and followed behind Julian.

"Look at this. I’ve never seen anything like this," Ian pointed to the areas with the abnormally protruding veins on each of the men’s bodies.

Julian bent over and looked at them closely. "They all have it. Could it be a disease of some sort? Maybe a drug?"

"I’ve seen many people on different kinds of drugs; none of them have caused this kind of symptom," replied Ian. He took care of the underground organization for Julian and was in regular contact with all sorts of arms and drug dealers.

Ian needed to get in with some of these shady figures in order to gather information, so seeing all sorts of illegal drugs was fairly common for him.

"Then could it be a disease?" Julian asked. His mind flashed to Rayne’s conversation about it being an ’apocalypse.’