Chapter 21: Great professor
Nolan moved through the hallways of the second floor like a shadow cast by death itself.
He didn't stop.
He didn't hurry. And with every new infected that stumbled into his path—he dispatched them with surgical, almost insulting ease.
They were coming in twos now.
Not just the scattered singles from first floor.
Pairs of infected, heads twitching violently, bodies contorting with that jerky madness, skin peeling and eyes void of reason. But it didn't matter.
He dealt with them like he was bored.
Knife—throw—right into the skull of the first.
He would step forward as the body fell, tug the blade free, and without a break in motion, block the momentum of the second infected with the first's corpse—what Earth players called a "momentum blockage."
It was a classic trick from the players of Earth: using physics against the horde.
It had become famous in survival games and combat VR simulations, but few ever pulled it off with this kind of smooth, slow-motion grace.