6. Day 2
Alex opens his eyes slowly, confused for a second, not remembering how he got here.
‘….. Right end of the world and zombies’
Alex sits up slowly incredibly sore from yesterday.
‘I got to come up with a plan, at least for today. I currently have food, water, and shelter here, but I’m too close to the highway. If one zombie notices me and stars making a ruckus it could bring a horde down my ass, also the gas station is pretty much in the middle of nowhere so no one will come here. I can be alone for a couple of days or weeks but if I don’t talk to anyone for longer than that, I’ll eventually go crazy. That means that I should leave this place and look for more people after all there is strength in groups.’
Alex gets up and quietly moves the desk out of the way and opens the door. Looking around for any unexpected trespasser Alex makes some noise by hitting his pickaxe against the door. After waiting for a couple of seconds, he steps outside the office and makes his way to the bathroom.
‘One of the corpses on the ground could be the owner of the truck, but I’m not sure if taking the truck is a good idea, it seems old so it’s probably loud too, but I could take pretty much everything in the store, or at least the most important things if i take the truck’
After Alex finishes relieving himself, he makes his way back out to get clean bandages and comes back to check his wounds. After taking off his old bandages he is surprised to see his injuries are almost healed.
‘This isn’t possible, those wounds should have taken at least a month to heal. It must be the black substance, there isn’t another explanation.’
After thinking for a while, he comes up with a hypothesis.
‘The …. Let’s calle it the … ‘big night, night’ no, that sound beyond stupid. Theee um ‘The big knockout’ eeh, it’s alright, but I might change later. Anyways, when The Big Knockout occurred it changed something inside our bodies which probably affected some people negatively transforming them into zombies and the rest of us, humm I’m not sure if it had any effect or if it had a positive effect on the rest of us, but it can heal wounds. So the conclusion that I can make whit the current information that I have is: The black substance that transforms people into zombies has two parts one good for people and one bad, when I got bitten and scratched I probably managed to push the bad stuff out and kept the good that helped me to heal faster.’
After thinking about this for a while he thought that this was most likely the case.
‘I wonder what could happen if I only take the good stuff’.
As Alex thinks of the possibilities, he put the new bandages on for protection and in case his injuries opened.
‘Too bad that I must get injure to get the good stuff…. I got to think of a better name. wait, the black substance was trying to get to the center of my chest maybe it was trying to combine and start to invaded my body from there.’
Alex looked at the bodies and thinks for a moment
‘On one hand I don’t want to desecrate their bodies and I don’t think I have the stomach for that. On the other hand, if there is something in their chest that could help me in case I suffer a serious injury, which is pretty much a death sentence in the post apocalypses world, I definitely want it.’
Deciding to leave the decision for later Alex makes his way towards the office to finish his food. After having breakfast Alex looks out of the windows to search for more zombies, he finds 4 two on the back of the store one in the stees in front of the gas station and one in the front of the front door, the one on the street was walking away so he didn’t have to worry about that one as long as he waited a couple of minutes.
While waiting Alex looked around the pockets of the corpses, finding 2 sets of keys 4 phones whit death batteries, more than 300 dollars on cash and change and one pocketknife. He also recovers the gun that he had dropped at some point during the fight.
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‘Why would anyone carry an empty gun, just to look threatening? Maybe she thought that she’ll never need to shoot? But then why carry a gun at all? Hmmm let’s check her purse.’
After a little search Alex found her purse whit a full magazine.
‘Why? just, why?’
After one more search around the store, for anything that he could use in an emergency and moving the bodies in case of another fight. Alex packed everything that he could fit in a backpack that he found in the office, checked for the zombies outside to make sure they were in the same position, except for the one in the street, that he found them. They were all in the same position.
‘siiiigh ok, let’s go trough the plan one more time. Deal with the zombies one by one (if possible), check which key belongs to the truck. If neither of the two works, go into the woods. if one work doesn’t turn it on just yet, load all the water and food that I can. Only stop when it’s full or if more zombies that I can handle show up at the same time. Always keep my backpack with me.’
Taking in one more deep breath Alex zips his jacket, thighs the straps of his backpack, and makes his way towards the front door.
Ones he is close enough to touch the door the zombie outside attars to get restless. Alex does not waste time and quickly opens the door, letting the zombie in. It rushes inside as fast as it can and stops to look around. Ones inside Alex closes the door and charges at the zombie with his pickaxe. The zombie barely has any time to react before the pickaxe is all the way inside its brain.
‘hoooo one down two to go’
Alex makes his way to the back of the store to see if the other two reacted to the sound. Ones there, he notices that there is only one.
‘This could be really good or really bad.’
Alex looks around the store through the windows, finding it on the front of the store Alex makes a quick fist pump.
‘YES’
Repeating the same proses than before Alex quickly finish the second one
‘Only one more, lets get it done quick so I can either lode the truck or star walking’
Seen that the last one is still in the same spot Alex puts his backpack in the bathroom, so it doesn’t get in the way or makes more sound. Quietly Alex opens the back door and sprints towards it. The zombie manages to turn around and take a few steps towards Alex before getting hit in the head by the pickaxe.
‘Whoo-hoo’
Alex raises both his hands in victory.
‘That wasn’t so…’
Before Alex could finish that though he notices movement in the tree line. 1,2,3, zombies are sprinting towards him. Making him spring back to the store.
‘shitshitshit’
Ones inside he grabs the door to close it but stops.
‘If I close the door and they start to bang on it they will attract more. I have to finish them inside.
Stepping deeper into the store Alex prepares himself for another fight. He doesn’t have to wait long before the first one rushes into the store getting a pickaxe to the face for its troubles. Right behind it comes the second one and Alex barely has time to retrieve his weapon before its tris to bite his face off. Using his pickaxe as a shield Alex catches the bite whit it and since the zombie didn’t want to let go Alex rams its head into the wall making it let go, but before he can finish it the third one makes and attempts at grabbing his arm. Making Alex take a small leap back and throwing his arm as far away from the zombie as he can. Taking advantage of Alex’s opening the zombie goes for his neck. Alex not being completely taken of guard brings his other arm, that is holding the pickaxe, down on the head of the zombie as hard as he can. As the third goes down Alex notices two more running towards him.
‘I can do this!, I can do this!’
“I CAN DO THIS!!”
Alex quickly grabs the pickaxe with his two hands and starts to swing at them, but because he didn’t have time to gather strength his swing only worked to keep them at bay. Alex managed to not get bitten but the zombies still managed to give him some scratches. As Alex thinks of a way to break the stalemate one of the zombies grabs his weapons and the other goes for his neck. Out of options Alex grabs the zombie by the neck and using strength that he didn’t know he had, lifts it up just enough to slammed into the other zombie. As he goes to finish them up Alex feels incredible pain in his leg. Looking down Alex sees one of the zombies that he had taken down had bitten him in the leg.
“MOTHEFUUU”
Alex brings the butt of the pickaxe on the head of the zombie making it let go. Alex brings down the head of the pickaxe to finish for good this time, unfortunately this gives the others enough time to recuperate. The first one jumps at him grabbing the pickax not prepare for this the zombie manages to disarm him, not giving Alex any time to prepare the other on charges at him. Out of option Alex throws a haymaker catching the zombie right in the middle of it’s face. Alex hears a crunching sound and then sees the zombie crash into the wall hard. This surprises Alex so much that he is too late to react to the other one. It bites Alex on the shoulder and claws his back and chest. Alex suppresses a scream, grabs the zombie, and throws it with everything he has towards the other one. He picks his weapons up and finishes them with two well placed hits.
Unwilling to get caught off guard again Alec looks around the store for more enemies, finding only the one he had smashed into the wall still ‘alive’. It’s crawling his way toward him.
‘The last hit wasn’t enough to kill it, but it looks like it did some serious damage’
Walking towards the zombie he stops besides it and stomps on the head hard, killing it. After making sure no more were coming Alex closes the door quietly and sits down to start getting rid of the black substance that was already trying to gather itself.