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Rotter World
Book: Rotter World Read Online Free
Author: Scott R. Baker
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Horror, Occult & Supernatural
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and on the fast track to becoming sheriff. His life had been so normal, with a house on the beach and a fiancée, Susan, who, while high maintenance, loved him dearly and made him feel like a man. Like everyone else throughout the world, he had remained blissfully ignorant that in a research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army had created a virus that killed off living tissue and reanimated it, with the horrific side effect that the reanimated tissue required living tissue to obtain the nutrients necessary to sustain reanimation. At least that’s how the government and the media had described the process once the outbreak began. Officially the government referred to it as the Revenant Virus, or R Virus. For those caught up in the months-long feeding frenzy that followed, they had called it by the more appropriate name of Zombie Virus.
    Unfortunately for mankind, the R Virus had come to the attention of the vampires, another nightmare most humans had been completely unaware of. Vampires had lived among men for thousands of years, farther back than even they could remember. By the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand had intermingled with humans, being careful how they fed so as not to draw attention to themselves, hoping their victims would be counted among the mass of missing persons. Small bands of humans had known about their existence and hunted them with surprising success, mostly because the undead had to regenerate during the day and avoid sunlight, their immobility making them vulnerable to attack. So the Vampire Council, the decision-making body comprised of the masters of the ten most influential covens, had developed a plan to steal the R Virus and release it on mankind to keep the humans so occupied battling the living dead they would stop hunting vampires.
    It turned out to be the biggest miscalculation since Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. The vampires had failed to take into consideration the fact that the rotters’ constant necessity to feed derived from the need to sustain their reanimation through the nutrients found in living tissue, even if it came from vampires. Rather than dealing with a small number of hunters who could only take down a few of their number at a time, the vampires now faced millions of rotters that tracked them down with a ferocity unmatched by man, sniffing them out in the dark recesses where they hid. If the vampires’ inability to move about by day had been a detriment when dealing with human hunters, it became their demise when confronted by zombies. Vampires had practically become extinct within four weeks of the outbreak.
    Not that Robson or anyone else gave a fuck considering the holocaust the rotters had brought to mankind.
    No one knew for sure how the vampires had gotten hold of the virus since those who masterminded this insanity fittingly had been among its first victims. Nor did it matter. Once the vampires had stolen it, they created a small army of zombies across the world, confining captured humans in isolated buildings and injecting them with the virus, waiting until it killed the host and reanimated the body as a zombie. The virus was extremely virulent with an unusually rapid gestation period. A single bite from one of the infected could turn a human into a rotter in a few hours. Multiple bites could turn a person in minutes. Once bitten, there was no cure.
    That’s how it had begun. One morning mankind had gone about its business, oblivious to the fate that awaited it. That night, the vampires had released the virus-infected humans on mankind. Twenty-four hours later, society had begun to sound its death knell.
    The first zombies had been a fucking nightmare. Recently reanimated, the bodies had only just started to decay, which meant they were still relatively limber. As a result, the initial attacks by these zombies, or swarmers, had been fast and vicious. They had descended on humans like packs of rabid dogs. As weeks and months passed and
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