Harvested

In the 22nd century, Earth has been harvested by a race of aliens known as the Xini. In the aftermath, all the planet’s resources have been stripped. Dakota sets out from Dallas in search of his lover, Grayson, who vanished on his way to St. Louis after the invading fleet departed.<br><br>Dakota faces unknown dangers in the devastated plains of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma as scavengers -- human beings reduced to shells after the Harvesting -- roam the earth attacking anything that moves in an effort to survive.<br><br>He finds a group of survivors struggling in what little remains of Oklahoma City, led by the tough, handsome Colonel Welch. While Mother Nature unleashes a fury of natural disasters to purge herself of the Xini rape, Dakota must decide whether to stay with the colonel and help him make the colony viable, or continue onto St. Louis to find Grayson.

Alex Morgan

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40 Chs

Chapter 22

“I don’t see anything different,” he said.

“It’s there,” the colonel replied. “The wind storm last night was the worst we’ve had since the Xini left. I figure we’re in for a blowout soon. With the sun breaking through more and more, the atmosphere is heating up and trying to purge itself of the pollution, but without some sort of ecosystem, it might be just chaos. We’ve got some gardens going, trying to grow food and other plants, with some success. With each failure, we make a couple strides forward. It’ll be decades before the ecosystem is robust enough to affect the climate.”

“How do you water them?” Dakota asked. “Water’s so scarce.”

“Actually it isn’t scarce, just not easy to get to, and what is available, is poisoned or non-potable.” The colonel squeezed Dakota’s shoulder. “I got people at the lakes and reservoirs around the area working or purifying the water for human and plant use.”

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