The Apocalypse Mechanic 1 by Leo Thornvale (.ePUB)
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The Apocalypse Mechanic 1 by Leo Thornvale
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Overview: The safe zone rated him non-combat and parked him outside the wall. Then the school bus he was fixing became the only shelter in the apocalypse that moves.
The System came to Earth, and now the night belongs to the Tide: the turned dead and armored river beasts, hunting from dusk to dawn. Kills only turn into levels if you sleep inside a System-graded shelter.
At Lock Nine, a safe zone built on an Ohio River dam, the boss sells the beds near his shelter’s core to paying families. The women who hold his walls sleep on wet cots at the cold edge, where the shelter is too weak to level anyone, until they burn out.
Lew Mrozek’s class reads [Mechanic]. What it doesn’t say: he hears a fault before it breaks, whether it’s a wall about to give or a fighter one bad night from burning out. And he can rebuild a dead bus until the System grades it a shelter.
[Mobile Shelter: Grade F]
Every salvaged upgrade raises the grade. A woman who asks to ride with him levels in a single night.
The strongest women on that wall finally get to choose where they sleep. They choose the bus guy.
Kirsten Halsey captains the wall: golden braid, white tank top straining under her work jacket. Forty nights on the dam, and her shield now flickers on half a beat late. Her right hand shakes when she thinks nobody’s looking. Lew noticed the first night.
Nobody runs the river road faster than Shay Mulcahy, and she hasn’t slept a full night since the world ended. Copper curls, torn leggings stretched over a round backside she knows he’s watching, and one question for him: is his back bench long enough?
The walls themselves were built by Gretchen Haller, who was never once allowed to sleep inside them. Heavy curves under a straining flannel, a pencil behind her ear. She measured his bus twice. She’ll decide about him in the spring.
The boss wants the bus. A sniper on a rival safe zone’s train has it in her scope. And something the size of a barge is coming up the river behind the next Tide.
Under the six notes every System core hums, Lew can hear a seventh, from the north. It’s getting louder.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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