7.Day 2.1
After 15 minutes of clearing his body of the negative stuff Alex makes his way to the bathroom to clean himself and retrieve his backpack.
‘That was a shit show, I should have made it get closer instead of me running towards it like an idiot and I should have taken the gun with me…. actually, if I hade use the gun I would probably been inundated in zombies before I finish shooting the magazine.’
After finishing cleaning his body Alex looks out the windows one more time for more zombies. Not finding any Alex makes his way towards the front door.
‘Ok here goes or nothing’
Alex steps out of the store quietly. Making sure that no zombie is waiting to ambush him, cautiously he makes his way towards the truck. Alex takes out one of the sets of keys and tries to open the door.
‘Let’s see……… YES got it.’
Alex opens the door and starts to look around the truck for anything that could be useful. He finds another jacket and a hunting knife.
‘Great! I needed another jacket since I ruined the one that I had, and the knife could serv as a secondary weapon.’
Alex gets out of the truck and makes his way back into the store. After a few minutes he comes out with a water bottle case and loads it in the truck while doing his best at staying alert. He makes many trips into the store to take everything that can be useful. He had a few incidents when a zombie got attracted to the sound, he was making but it was never more than one. After more than an hour moving boxes, the truck was full,
“haaaa haaaa “
‘I’m tired but I did more than what I could have done yesterday. It wasn’t my imagination or the adrenaline I’m getting stronger. The good stuff is healing and improving my body……... ok this stuff need a proper name in case I have to explain it to somebody else. Hummmmmmm ok the good stuff is going to be called Vital Energy and the bad stuff is going to be called corrupt Energy.’
Alex enters the store and looks around for anything else that could be useful, his eyes falling on the corpses. After a couple of minutes of indecision Alex decides.
‘SIGH…... I need all the advantages that I can get if I want to survive in this new word.’
Alex closes the door, takes out the hunting knife and makes his way towards the closes body, the body was one of the zombies that he had killed today.
‘His hand… all his fingers have black claws’.
Looking at the hands of the ones he killed yesterday, he notices that they only had one or two claws in their hands.
‘The woman that I saw transform doesn’t have any. This means that they are changing. This, this is bad, like really bad news’.
The realization that things are going to get more difficult as time passes reinforces Alex beliefs that he needs all the advantages that he can get. Using the knife, he makes a deep cut below the ribs. Alex takes a deep breath and puts his hand inside the body. After a little bit he found what he thought he was looking for. Pulling out his hand he takes out what appears to be a dark green stone roughly the size of his thumb.
After looking at the stone for a few minutes he puts it in a plastic bag and starts collecting the remaining one. Once he is finished, he has 16 stones in total. Alex looks around one more time looking to see if he is missing anything else.
Slaps his head
‘Of course, gasoline I’m in a gas station, but wait, I don’t know how to active the pumps from the register…… can I still pay with my card?’
Alex pays for the gas at the pump and starts filling the truck.
‘I’m surprised that worked. Is the internet still working? The plumbing and electrical system are still working so the internet should still be working. Maybe I can make some phone calls. Too bad I only know my parents’ phone number by memory, and they are all the way in Panama in a cruise, maybe I should have gone with my brother and his family to Disneyland in Miami, a less I wouldn’t be alone’.
After filling the truck’s tank, he goes inside the store to take some of the fuel cans that he saw. As he is filling the fuel cans he thinks of his destination.
‘If I ever want to see or hear from my family, if they are alive, I need to have the means to communicate with them first. And the only organization that could have the means to do that in these times is the army, so I should look for an Army bases or installation. The only Army installation that I know of is an Army core of engineers building that is close to my parents’ house. That should be my first destination.’
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After finishing filling 4 cans he puts them in the back of the truck and gets in. He turs on the car and drives of as fast as he can. As he drives, he constantly looks in the rear-view mirror expecting to see a sea of zombies chasing him. Fortunately, he only saw one and he quickly left it behind.
‘On a normal day it should take me less than 1 hour to get there but right now I would be happy if I can get there today.’
There were a few reasons why he didn’t though that he would be making it today.
‘The highway most likely has a lot of abandoned cars and zombies so it should be easier and safer to go trough the back roads, unfortunately I’m not really familiar with this road so I’m likely to get lost’.
As he makes his way along the road, he makes sure to go slow and with the windows down in case he sees someone or if someone is yelling for help. After driving for about 5 minutes, he sees zombies that start running towards him when they see him. Some tried to jump on top of his truck, but he is too quick for them and runs over the one that tried to attack him from the front, quicken he leaves them behind.
‘I’m not getting down to get those stones…... no let’s call them cores it sounds cooler.’
As he drives, he approaches a residential area.
‘I should get away from here fast’.
Alex tries to speed up but is unable because of the cars that are abandoned in the middle of the road. He is still able to keep going in this direction, but he has to slow down. As he makes his way through, zombies start to come out of the houses and run towards him.
Alex speeds up as much as he can but the faster, he goes the more difficult is to doge the cars on the road. This gave the zombies a chance to catch up.
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One of the zombies made it to the top of the truck and stars clawing at him from the window. Startled, Alex veers the wheel hard to the right hitting a car. This slows down the truck, slow enough for more zombies to get on.
‘Why didn’t I close the windows?!’
Now there are two zombies on the driver side and one on the passenger side. The two on the driver’s side start to claw and bite him and all that Alex can do is defend himself with one hand. The one on the passenger side quickly joins in the fight by entering through the window.
Alex, without any other option, lets go of the wheel and grabs the hunting knife that he left on the passenger seat. With a quick move he stabbed the one inside the truck in the eye with the knife but letting go of the wheel made the truck crash into another truck. This made the other two pause their attack so that they could hold on.
Alex takin advantage of this, passes the knife to his other hand and stabs one of the zombies on the top of the head. The other one was unable to hold on, had been flung towards the front of the truck on to the truck that he had crashed into.
Alex, not wasting time, puts the truck in reverse and backs up hitting a couple of zombies that had gotten too close, changing to drive Alex floored the gas and gets away.
As he drives off, he tries to expulse the corruption, but he is unable to get into the proper mind set. After a few minutes more of driving, he is forced to get off the road and stop the truck, the corruption is making him feel dizziness.
Around 15 minutes later he is feeling better, but something is different.
‘My whole body is sore, I’m not getting that feeling of energy from before and i think there is still some corruption left inside of me. I need to find shelter where I can try again and rest’.
Alex gets back on the road but instead of keeping going in the direction that he was in early he takes a road that he only knows would take him to some farms.
‘I need to go somewhere where the population is less dense.’
After driving for some time, he starts to see less cars until he decides that he is far enough.
‘That house will do’
The house that he is heading to has ample space in the front to see if anything is coming and is far enough away from the others that if he makes a loud sound their neighbors might not hear him.
‘I hope is either empty or occupy by normal people’
Alex gets as close as he feels comfortable with and presses the horn quickly.
Honk
Alex only has to wait for a couple of seconds before a person burs out from the front door and is quickly followed by another one. He puts the truck in reverse to get some distance stops, then puts it in drive and floored the gas again running over the approaching zombies.
Alex stops the truck and looks around to see if the commotion attracted more zombies, after a couple of minutes Alex gets off the truck and makes his way towards the zombies with his pickaxe.
‘One is crawling towards me and the other is death’.
After finishing the zombie Alex makes his way towards the house but doesn’t go inside. Alex walks around the house one time making sure that there aren’t any zombies in the surroundings and to see if there was anyone trapped inside. After his round he knocks on the door a couple of times, but nothing happens.
Making his way inside, he closes the door behind himself. Walking close to the walls he closes the curtains as he makes his way around the living room until he gets to the kitchen where he spots a big puddle of dried blood.
‘One of them must have changed on the first day and attacked the other one’.
As he makes his way around the house, he finds the back door and the door to the basement. After looking at them he makes his way towards the stairs but stops when he sees a land phone with an answering machine flashing the number two.
Letting his curiosity win he plays the first voicemail. The voice of a young woman started to play.
“Ma, Pa something weird just happen to me. I think I fell unconscious while walking to my class. I’m scared, can you come pick me up, I want to go to the hospital. Please call me when you are on your way’.
Alex grimaced at the end of the voicemail, imagining a young woman waiting to be pick up at school by her parents only to get attacked by a bunch of zombies.
Hoping that the second voicemail is from the young woman telling them where she is so he could go look to see if he could find her.
“Ma, Pa”
The voice of a man sounded.
“Something crazy is happen on town, I just saw Ms. Maggie bite some guy’s hand off and she isn’t the only one attacking people. I’m going to pick up Lindy at school. You guys lock the doors I’ll be home as soon as I can, and call Jeffrey see if he is ok.”
Alex lets out a deep sigh and makes his way upstairs. After making sure that the house is clear he makes his way towards the bathroom and takes a long hot shower.