UBER ZOMBIE [9]

The infected woman screeched in either rage or agony as her face also began to dilate and distort. Within seconds, she had enlarged to twice, maybe three times her normal size, and had become so grossly malformed that she was barely recognizable as human.

'Shit,' said Logan in awe as the hideous creature thrashed from side to side, snapping the gurney's thick leather constraints like cotton thread. 'She's become a fucking über zombie.'

What once had been the Colonel's wife bellowed again and clambered to its feet, pulverizing the gurney into twisted metal and sweeping it aside with a single blow from its massive arm.

Charon, meanwhile, had succeeded in reloading his gun and was backing away in disbelief, looking up at the creature as it rose to its full height. It stood, swaying for a moment, like a gnarled, ancient tree made not of bark and sap, but of compacted, hideously swollen lumps of dead flesh.

Then it charged.