At that moment, Sam raised his weapon with terrifying steadiness, pointing it directly at Neil's chest, and said in a cold voice free of any tremor:
— Let these monsters move one more step… and I will kill you.
Neil's eyes widened in shock, while Victor was steps away, fighting with blind violence, stabbing the monsters one after another, blood covering his arms and face.
Suddenly…
Neil burst into laughter.
A mad, loud, unhuman laugh.
— You exposed me… yes, damn you! You finally exposed me!
Sam knit his brows slightly, but his voice remained steady:
— Shut your mouth, you bastard… or I will end your life right here.
Neil took a step forward and said with disdain:
— And who are you… to end my life?
At that moment, everything changed.
Neil's eyes turned deep red, like burning embers, and for the first time, Sam felt something real crawling into his heart… fear.
But his body did not move.
He did not retreat.
Neil pounced with terrifying speed and stabbed Sam in his arm, a deep wound. Blood flowed, and Sam's body shook, but he… did not fall.
Sam whispered within himself, clenching his teeth:
I challenged myself… I will become stronger than the atomic bomb.
He rushed toward Neil with his bare hand, but Neil parried every attack with overwhelming ease, as if the difference between them was not human against human… but human against something else.
Sam stepped back, then raised his weapon and fired two direct bullets at the center of the cell in Neil's face.
Neil staggered slightly… then smiled.
— I am still alive, you fool.
You wasted your bullets… very smart, I congratulate you.
But it is time for your death now.
Sam laughed.
A short, cold, terrifying laugh.
He said while pointing the weapon again:
— The weapon contains ten bullets…
Seven remain now.
And he pulled the trigger.
Seven consecutive bullets pierced Neil's cell.
Neil froze in his place, then fell to the ground motionless.
At the same moment…
The monsters stopped.
They fell one after another, as if an invisible thread had suddenly been cut.
But before Sam could comprehend what happened…
The sound of a single shot rang out from behind.
It pierced his body, and he fell to the ground.
His eyes went still.
And he died.
At that moment…
The ring in his pocket began to glow with a strange light.
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Sam opened his eyes.
There was no building.
No monsters.
No blood.
He was floating in an infinite void.
Space.
And before him…
Planet Earth.
Sam let out a scream that tore through the silence, and suddenly his body transformed into a monster, very terrifying.
And the world exploded.
Everything disappeared.
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Happy ending.
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