Many patients lay down around Molly. They were also in a coma.
The hospital was deserted and gloomy. Everyone left, except for immobile patients sleeping on beds unaided. Molly gasped painfully as she consumed the oxygen supply, but she could only portray her despair in her own mind. With one final breath, she died.
In an instant, a soul-like creature broke through the hospital window and entered Molly’s ward. It pierced through Molly’s chest and struck her heart. She began rocking from side to side, while her eyes were wide open and glowing red. Her bed was moving so hard that it was clanking with nearby objects, pushing other patients down their beds. Within a few seconds, she resurrected from death. She got up from her bed and began lurching like a zombie. She leaned on the shattered window, overlooking at the turmoil of the city. While her lips were curling into a smirk, she crushed and mangled the patients behind her, with bloody entrails ricocheting and bouncing off the walls. She jumped off the hospital window with ease. Anon, she disappeared from the ward, leaving no trails behind.
After a few minutes, the power failure was somehow fixed, enabling city lights to switch on and shine. To gain a sense of security, residents returned into the abandoned houses and hid.
Molly landed on the ground without any injuries after jumping out of the window. She didn’t feel any pain at all. Her mind was embedded with only one command, to go to the pyramid and reactivate it, so she began lurching towards it. On her way, lights started to flash and flicker. Residents peeked out of house windows when they could perceive movement outside.
“WHO IS THAT OUT THERE?” A resident asked her husband.
“WHO... KNOWS...” Her husband whispered.
Molly froze and stopped dead. She was standing right next to that resident’s house. She turned her head and stared into the window with her big red eyes.
“Oh sh**!” The husband whispered.
They sat down under the windowsill to prevent the ceiling lamp casting their shadows on the wall. The lamp flickered and turned off suddenly. They pursed their lips firmly and held their breath to prevent making any sound. After a while, they peeked out again. They could not spot the strange figure outside. But from the reflection of the windowpane, they caught a glimpse of a pair of glowing red eyes becoming larger and larger behind them.
“AHHHHHHHHH!” the husband screamed.
A purple aura wrapped around Molly when she raised and flattened her hands in mid-air. It wafted around the couple and levitated them.
“MONSTERRRR!” the woman shrieked while she flailed her legs.
Their arms were magically manipulated to strangle themselves. With their eyes wide-open and body shuddering, blood and flesh spurt out of their mouth like a fountain, which were all absorbed by Molly. She even absorbed the bone particles.
The ceiling lamp flickered and switched backed on again when Molly left the house with blood stained on her clothes. The couple vanished with no traces of existence in the house.
Along the row of houses, the same thing happened again and again. The light was out, then switched back on after a few moments. However, no one could hear screams when they witnessed Molly entering or exiting the houses. A portion of citizens vanished into thin air in Giza.
*JAIL IN ANTARCTICA*
“Giza was devastated after a paranormal explosion happened in the Giza pyramid. About 1000 citizens disappeared after a police investigation since 6 AM, not yet proved is it related to the explosion. Fortunetellers say this might be the end of the world....” said a reporter on the radio.
Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.
Todd was sitting in the prison canteen listening to the news.
“Bullshit news...” Todd whispered, slamming the power button of the radio.
Todd was apprehended after fighting with a man in the hub about trivial matters. He has already been detained for a week now.
The only thing he loved about prison life was that he didn’t have to do boring research, and he could undergo mandatory body training to keep fit. Within a week, his body was toned and fit.
Todd was still furious about that man who fought him with no reason. He wanted to duel him again with his new body.
In Antarctica, there were no courts to try criminals, so the facility just put them in the prison immediately. There wasn’t a thing called fairness.
*OUTSIDE THE OIL MINING FACILITY*
About a week ago, when the soldier discovered Spencer’s corpse, he tried to transport him back to the facility. However, the ocean has already washed his body away. The facility did not want to waste resources to recover his body. He was carried away onto an iceberg miles away from the facility and left rotting there. His body was 70% decomposed under the exposure of intense sunlight.
A soul-like creature swept through the sky and pierced Spencer’s body, making him jump for an instant. He started to have a seizure like Molly, and his eyes turned red. Flesh and muscles were rebuilding on his skeleton at an extraordinary speed. He scrambled up and began lurching when his body was rebuilt. In his mind, there was only one command like Molly, to reactivate the Giza pyramid beacon. He looked around his surroundings and heard a thumping sound above him up high. It was a helicopter that departed from the oil mining facility. He knew where he had to go, so he sucked all the energy out of the power storage he charged a week ago and started trekking towards the facility.
Guards were deployed onto lookouts at the corners of the mining facility. A guard was using his binoculars to spot trespassers. He did a double take when he realized a human figure lurching towards the facility.
“Look at there! A human intruder! I have never seen that before in Antarctica!” the guard yelled in shock.
Several other guards used their binoculars to ensure that the guard was not joking, or else they would report him. Nowadays, people were apathetic and gloating to others, and they don’t even care about others’ lives.
The head of the guards on that lookout reassured the guards and covered up the incident as he didn’t want to cause any alarm within the facility.
Spencer reached the door and stood still.
“Open the door,” Spencer whispered.
Soldiers in the main surveillance room noticed Spencer on the surveillance camera screen. They covered their mouth, being startled.
“Isn’t Spencer dead? How come...” A soldier doubted.
“I say open the door,” Spencer repeated.
“Hmm... I don’t believe in a resurrection. It must be an imposter!” The General said.
“Maybe we could ask him about his personal information from his data log to validate his identity. Like his birthday.” A soldier said.
One soldier pushed a button to enable remote communication with the door.
“Hello, Spencer. What is your birthday?” The soldier asked through the microphone.
“4/7/1988,” Spencer said.
“Then what is your staff ID?” the soldier asked after he made sure Spencer did not have his ID card with him through the screen.
“1900FX-$&?87E.” Spencer recited.
“General, should we let him in? He could answer all the questions correctly.” The soldier said.
The General lost in thoughts when he needed to decide. As people were selfish and apathetic, he refused to let him in.
“Tell the guards on the lookout to evict this imposter from the gate.” The General commanded.
“Hey, you! Leave now! Or we will fire the guns at you in 20 seconds!” The guard at the keep shouted through the loudspeaker.
“NO. OPEN THE DOOR OR YOU’LL REGRET IT.” Spencer snapped.
“GO AWAY OR WE WILL FIRE THE GUNS NOW!” the guard yelled.
“Naive,” Spencer whispered.
Machine guns fired barrages of bullets towards Spencer. They sped through and refracted the light through the air as the temperature of the bullets were so high. Spencer stood still, doing nothing to defend himself. The bullets penetrated through his body, but Spencer didn’t even make a scream and felt excruciated when they struck him. Although his flesh and blood spilled onto the floor, and there were many holes in his body, the holes were mended and recovered magically. All the guards and soldiers stepped backward and opened their eyes when they perceived what happened.
“IT IS NOT HUMAN! IT IS AN ALIEN!” the guards screamed.