I felt the earth tremble after each impact of massive body on the floor. Pressed against the wall, I counted each subsequent crash, which became more and more chaotic.

The noise, similar to the trampling of elephants overhead, did not allow the tense muscles of the body to relax. The whole hall was being destroyed, and the screeching of the shelves as they were dragged from one end to the other was maddening. They howled, destroying everything in their path. I was even surprised by the durable material of the ceiling, which withstood such a load and did not fall apart.

They clearly had a clear goal, they were not going to leave and leave the gas station, obeying their instincts, they scoured everywhere in search any survivors.

At some point, one of them managed to find a way to the stairs and he began tumbling down the stairs to the first floor.

Oh, those sounds of the stairs breaking, the heavy, uneven snuffling before rolling down to the first floor, scared me, I was afraid that they had already smelled us.

I felt a sense of dread and held my breath, retreated a few steps and stepped on something soft.

Wet palms grabbed my wrist, and I almost cried out in surprise. I think I stepped on my neighbor's foot, he swore softly. Something heavy shifted under my foot and I quickly stepped away.

Mr. Mark pulled me by the hand deeper into the room. I walked carefully so as not to accidentally hit anything.

At the same time, something howled heartbreakingly down the corridor. Goosebumps ran over my skin, and it seemed to me that they became louder and somehow different. Than the howling of last night's creatures.

It was as if the monster on the other side of the wall was much bigger than I had seen before. Imagining a huge ugly figure, I was seized with horror.

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The door will not stand, even barricading the door with all the gas station shelves wouldn't be enough to stop them.

I was frantically thinking about the next step.

The neighbor wrapped his shirt around the flashlight to dim the light and began to scour the corners in search of a safe exit.

Something ran a short distance and crashed into the wall. The roar echoed through the empty corridor, and in response, my knees buckled, I froze.

There was a sickening squelch as something soft was torn apart. Splashes of blood fell on the door like rain There were sounds of slurping and rattling with the cracking of bones. It devoured...

I barely restrained vomiting, clutching my stomach, I joined my neighbor in search of a way out. Nervously searching every scrap of walls and ceiling and floor.

I didn't want to experience the agony of being killed by this creature.

The roar.

The stairs completely broke down as the others descended to the lower floor.

Having come running and pushing each other apart, a couple of monsters were already fighting for the right to tear off a piece of flesh.

A guttural rumble, a warning growl and a continuous champing filled the room, as if they were inside and not outside, separated by only centimeters of crumbling wall.

They were devouring the corpse, and I knew we'd be next if we didn't get out in the next few minutes.

Something with a thud began to beat on our door, but it was a small effort that could not destroy the wooden obstacle, perhaps because of their massive bodies. the narrow corridor was too small for maneuver, and from simple movements they touched a flimsy barrier.

The dim light highlighted something white on the brown wall at the top left.

A medium-sized ventilation grille, if we try, an adult can crawl through it.

All that remained was to silently open the ventilation grille and hide from the monsters' sight.

Mr. Mark nodded in the direction of the boxes, and I put down the shotgun and began to creep quietly towards our escape ladder.

Rolling up my sleeves and listening to the serenade of the already almost finished "feed", I dragged 4 boxes with reliable contents capable of withstanding the weight of an adult.

The neighbor put everything in one pile, made sure that the structure would withstand my weight and, nodding to me, he invited me to test the structure.

At first, I was taken aback by the sudden sensation of being a trailblazer, but then convinced that I was smaller and it would be easier for me to pass through the exit, I stepped on the first box and climbed up, carefully, trying not to make noise, tried to remove the grate, but it wouldn't budge from the wall.