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Vampire Apocalypse: Descent Into Chaos (Book 2)
Book: Vampire Apocalypse: Descent Into Chaos (Book 2) Read Online Free
Author: Derek Gunn
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light large campfires each evening to patrol their territory. This
strain on their limited resources left the thralls irritable and
difficult to control.
    Von Kruger’s thralls, on the other hand, had plenty
of power; in fact, they particularly enjoyed lighting their state
line to such an extent that the immediate area sharing the state
line with Michigan was lit up like daylight. Their barracks were
warm—however, their food levels were very low. They also had a
surplus of fuel as they had stockpiles that they had hoarded before
Von Kruger had annexed the nuclear plant which were not as critical
now. They delighted in offering these supplies at exorbitant prices
to their neighbors.
    Ever since the vampires had taken over, the thralls
had lived off the huge food stocks that all the states had hoarded
during the energy crisis before the vampires had come. The thralls
did not see past their immediate needs and lusts and animals had
been left untended, fields remained unploughed and all the time the
stocks grew lower. Some of the more intelligent cabals had seen the
potential disaster and had set their human captives to work, but,
for most, it wasn’t until the stocks had become dangerously low
that they had even thought of food production. Recently there had
been a scramble to find humans who had knowledge of farming and
animal husbandry that would be able to coax food from a neglected
land, and a search had begun for any animals that may have survived
in the wild.
    Indiana had a dangerously low human population. Von
Kruger had to curtail their feeding habits to the extent that his
vampires were complaining of being hungry. Many of the humans were
tapped for their blood too often already, and many were dying from
a combination of disease and exhaustion. A breakout of cholera last
year had taken nearly a third of their already low human
population.
    Von Kruger had been one of the few vampires to see
the oncoming food shortages and had set his remaining human
population to work some months before. They had already tilled
fields and gathered a growing animal base to feed his thralls and
his dwindling human food supply. They had quite a surplus of food
now but a dangerously low population to maintain it.
    This left an interesting balance of power between the
two cabals; Wentworth had an impressive army that could threaten
the whole area but had no power, fuel and little food to feed his
surplus of people while Von Kruger needed people badly to continue
to safeguard and produce the food surplus he had developed. He also
needed more humans to tend his power station or risk the plant
shutting down or even becoming dangerously critical from a lack of
careful attention.
    It seemed to Harris that if left alone both parties
might come to an agreement that would cater to both their needs.
However, Harris judged that it would not take a lot to nudge both
parties along a more direct and physical confrontation and he and
his team planned to make sure that peace and cool heads did not win
out. The resultant fallout would be enough, he hoped, to allow the
humans the chance to add to their own dangerously low supplies and
growing requirements, and at the same time save as many people as
they could in the resulting confusion.

Chapter 2
     
    Once the vampires disappeared from view Harris rose
to his feet and brushed the powdered snow from his clothes. The ten
other figures hidden along the ledge struggled to their feet and
rearranged their equipment in silence. They all wore Gore-Tex
“Windstopper” fleeces and, although they were cold from lying on
the ground, they remained dry underneath. Breath plumed out from
all the figures and created a small fog that the early breeze
swirled around them, creating an almost mystical vista as they
stamped their feet and rolled their arms, trying to generate heat
back into their frozen joints.
    Harris looked over the group. He had chosen this
group carefully. On one hand he needed the experience of the
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