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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 1

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A shadow, a shape; nothing more. Gunnery Sergeant Goforth froze us with a slight hiss... Fox is damn-well trained, even for the Light Drop. Gates stopped next to me; he touched my arm, silently pointing to left and right. I saw immediately; whatever the shapes were, they surrounded us from eight o'clock to four o'clock... we might be able to retreat, but we couldn't flank. I watched the gunny; Arlene Sanders was whispering something in his ear. She was our scout, the lightest of the Light Drop. PFC Sanders could fade into the night so not even a werewolf could sniff her out. My best buddy.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 2

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5 My first reaction was to laugh. This was a childhood nightmare, a bogeyman. The part of me that had worked so hard to grow up just couldn't believe in something that looked like this. Only trouble was, the damned thing didn't appreciate its own absurdity. It took a few steps toward me where the light was better. Movement made the figure less ridiculous. Shadows played across its rough hide, and I saw that the wrinkled flesh under the eyes were wet. I hated to admit that it really was flesh. The eyes flickered with an angry red light. The worst features were the lips curling back to reveal ugly, yellow canines. This was no Halloween mask with a rigid grimace. Inhuman as this monster was, I couldn't confuse it with an animal.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 3

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It was Gunny Goforth—and he was alive! "Gunny!" I shouted, ecstatic to have finally found another live one in this nightmare. He didn't answer; my God, that should have told me something. He raised his old .30-99 and aimed it right at my chest. I threw myself to the floor just as the bullet seared over my head. "Damn you to hell!" I shouted, outraged that the universe had decided to foist a new, improved zombie on me. Too late; I'm sure he already was—and me with him. This new horror seemed even more unfair than that crazy brown monster with the spikes. I'd settled into a nice, predictable pattern about what to do with zombies. No fair changing the rules now!

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 4

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Up to now I'd been spared seeing them eat. It sat on a table, hunched over, making hard, crunching noises. I caught a glimpse of something red in its jaws as it turned its head to the side; fortunately, it didn't check its six. If I'd found another shotgun by now, I would have blasted the blasphemy from behind . . . but sometimes frustration is the father of fortune, for suddenly I heard a whole bunch of the bastards walking right past me—on the other side of the thin, computer-maze wall. If I had followed my gut instincts and shot the demon- ic son of a bitch, I would have been ambushed. Shaking from a retroactive adrenaline rush, I silently told myself that my objectives were to find Arlene and get the hell out of here, off Phobos, and find a radio somewhere!

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 5

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But there I stuck. I braced my foot against the floor and shoved; several minutes and several pounds of flesh later, I was utterly convinced I could never fit through that crack unless I dismembered myself and threw the pieces through one at a time. Wonder if I'll seriously consider that option when I see what's ahead? I thought. So now what? I sat on the floor, pounding my head with my hand in frustration. If I went forward, I was on my own. Arlene was no coward ... if the Thing ahead scared the bejesus out of her, enough that she forced her way through a crack several sizes too small—then what in God's name was it?

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 6

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She placed a firm hand on my shoulder. "Nice of you to volunteer, Corporal. Rank before beauty." "Pearls before swine. I was about to delegate, PFC!" I looked around. "The layout's different here than on Phobos." Looking back, I observed the vista of emptiness we had walked through to get to this point. I had the feeling that the walls were squirming when I didn't look at them. "More dead ends. I don't like jumping into a fire when I'm getting fat and happy in the frying pan. But we're humanity's vanguard, right?" It sounded sarcastic, but I didn't mean it to be. "We've got to find out what's happened and communicate with someone up the chain."

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 7

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20 The video map showed us how to get to the central elevator for all of the Deimos installation. We were very near. All that separated us from our goal was a wall. The wall had a switch, a full-body bas relief of a cloven-hoofed alien. And it wasn't his tongue that re- quired flicking. My face flushed. "Um, you'd better take this one, PFC Sanders. "And here I thought you were a born lever-puller." Arlene flicked the switch; the blue-gray wall cranked down into a slit in the floor, revealing a spacious lift. "Deluxe service," Arlene said, pointing at the labeled bank of elevator buttons. We'd made it through the Containment Area. Below us was the Refinery, then Deimos Lab, the Command Center, the Central Hall, and three levels below that which were unlabeled.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 8

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Arlene sprinted across the room and threw herself into a face-first baseball slide, scooping the key card in her arms. She slid to a halt... but she was still on the base! For an instant she froze. I couldn't possibly reach her in time—and a horrible image flashed through my mind. If Arlene died, in the next cycle, I knew I would jump on the machine and die alongside her. Thank God I didn't have to make that decision; at the last second she made a panic roll off the platform. Arlene left the key card on the stamper, near the edge; but it was a simple matter, when the piston rose, to scoop it off from where she stood.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 9

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"There's secret, there's top secret, and then there's 'rat us out and we'll push you out the airlock.'" "Point taken. If we're going to find out what's really going on, then, I think we need to go the same way as before. Down." We hunted through the level, but couldn't find an exit, a secret door, anything. While we were searching, Arlene's mood improved. That we were still alive was a miracle. Any monsters who tried to have us for lunch would get a bad case of indigestion. No matter what we were up against, I was going to bet on human unpredicta- bility. We hadn't spent a couple of billion years clawing to the top of the food chain for nothing.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 10

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As Ritch held court, Arlene perked up and started paying attention. She was getting that expression she wore when a boyfriend betrayed her. Suddenly, her mouth dropped. "You mean you—activated the Gates yourselves? You turned them on? Jesus Christ, you brought those things here!" Arlene had a romantic side that tried to believe whatever nonsense officials put out as the truth du jour. I'd gotten over that sort of silliness long before I joined the Corps—it wasn't a long-term healthy attitude for a jarhead.

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Knee deep in the dead | Глава 11

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The damned, stupid spiny had killed him after all. I stared at the dead face of Bill Ritch, the captivity and torture survivor, comrade, the man who gave us a real chance to defeat the alien invaders. I looked at this brand new corpse and something snapped. "I'm sick of this," I told Arlene. I shrugged off my beloved rocket launcher and handed it to my best gal-pal. "Keep an eye on me, First Class. You'll know when to use it... and don't, God damn it, miss." "Show me the apple, Flynn Taggart, and I'll pop it off your head."

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