💀🐭 RATARUS 🎃Short Horror Story for Halloween

Manuel Rodríguez is a middle-aged Mexican who crossed the border into the United States a couple of years ago, —although still undocumented— managed to get a job as a security guard at the prestigious pharmaceutical Astro.

His first and only assignment will be to live and protect the company's facilities located in a small town near the border. These modules known as "Dualitaten", served at one time as an experimentation center for the development of treatments, against what they called "The New Disease." An apparently genetically modified virus, which some time ago escaped from a military research laboratory, and which claimed many lives at its worst, being on the verge of becoming a global pandemic.

The facilities are now an asset of little importance to the company; its two small buildings are in total abandonment, serving as a refuge for criminals and the homeless, also bringing with it the proliferation of a large herd of wild cats in their surroundings. Which is why the authorities have demanded that the company take charge and solve the problem, given the continuous attacks by the press and animal protection groups on what is currently happening in that place.

It begins to get dark, while Manuel arrives at the place driving a truck that the laboratory assigned him with everything he needs. There is little you will be able to do that night, so just take a quick look at the desolate place, and unpack your things to settle inside Building 1, in what used to be the residence of the scientists.

With the assigned supplies, he is able to reset the sensors on the perimeter security fence and power the buildings' external lighting system. With nothing else to do, he prepares his red bean dinner and settles comfortably to watch television, subjected to the oppressive heat inside that old building without ventilating for a long time.

Little by little his eyelids became heavier; the exhausted man was succumbing to fatigue and hot temperatures. Surprisingly, something activates one of the perimeter alarms, which awakens Manuel with a great fright, still a little confused and startled, he takes his flashlight with shaking hands to go out to check the outside fence.

Under the cover of the darkness of the stormy night, with lightning and thunder but no rain, walk the path illuminated only by the reflection of the old exterior lights that are placed on the buildings, about 50 meters away. "At least outside the air is cooler!" and her sweaty body gradually begins to dry out.

As you walk through the fence, you begin to notice very strange things, a foul and nauseating smell invades your nostrils to a point that makes stomach contractions unbearable shortly before vomiting, as you can grab part of your shirt and bending his arm tries to cover his nose to lessen the stench of the stench of death.

In his curious quest to discover the origin of the smell that stirred all his dinner; Manuel continues advancing to discover cherries on the fence the decomposing corpses of many cats, which hedge all his skin, although some were already just skeletons dried in the sun, others instead seemed to be quite fresh, the thick blackish worms still ran among their torn flesh, remains of skin with rotting cat hair were scattered throughout that area of ​​the patio that faced the back of Building 2. That infernal vision caused a terrible feeling of unease and repulsion to the lonely watchman, who thought of taking precautions extras, imagining as the cause of that disaster, the fights between the wild cats for the territory.

Upon entering his residence again, trying to find some calm for his soul, he began to hear disturbing sounds, they were loud meows of what he presumed was a herd of wild cats. Leaning out the window, he counted about 33 cats that were bristling, growling in a very persuasive way against one of the doors of Building number 2.

I'm already sick of the cats, and knowing that that night I would no longer be able to sleep. Manuel decided to immediately install the ultra sound system that the Astro laboratory had provided him, in order to drive away the herds of cats that had become a real problem in the area.

The system worked perfectly, in a few minutes the cats fled the place overwhelmed by the disturbing sound waves that only they could hear, like a vibration inside their brains.

At last Manuel could enjoy his long-awaited rest; he turned off the lights and went to sleep...

But a couple of hours later, he would realize that running those cats was the worst mistake of the remainder of his short life. Sharp claws settled on his neck as the monstrous rat climbed over him, crushing his chest, and immobilizing him completely to the point of almost stopping his breath. The last thing Manuel saw before his head was savagely devoured by the animal's jaws, were his enormous red eyes that lit up like fathoms of hell, showing in the shadows, the human characteristics present in that gray fur monstrosity resulting from mutations in genetic management.

This is an original story written by me, "susurrodelmisterio"

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