On the tent where the three survivors are tied up and locked into this weird smell, Chief of the tribe, enters it, and sees all the three people slowly waking up from their hard sleep. Ga notices the Chief who decided to take a sneak peek inside this tent, then he sees him staring to get inside the tent, holding on his hand the sword it was made by using an elephant tooth.
"Who are you?" asks Ramy in Nigerian, hoping to get some explanation from the Chief of his tribe.
The Chief of this tribe, goes near Ga. He looks closer on its neck, he then, checks the rest of its body. After he did this quick check, he goes to the Zeny, where he does the quick check like he did on Ga. After this, comes Ramy, who remained still, and hold his strength to fight. He knows it would be futile to provoke this man at this moment, especially since it is locked up good, and in this tent there are a few dead corpses who were killed way before the infection has started in Africa.
The Chief, not responding to the questions he is asked by Ramy, Zeny and Ga, he is going to one of the corpses from this tent. He takes a corpse who is having probably one meter and half. He drags him out of this tent, and walks to where the two girls have been escorted by three other tribesmen who remained here to protect this tribe who is starting to run down on its population from obvious reasons.
The chief throws down a human corpse to the feet of the two girls, who are being held on the arms of the three tribesmen. The Chief, tells something to its tribesmen and it is not decipherable to the two girls. One of the three males from this tribe, is approaching the corpse, he takes a dagger and cuts the neck of the corpse. He was cutting like in salami or like in cheese. After he made the cut, he takes the head off from his shoulder.
The two girls are sweating and are shaking as they saw the tribesman cutting the neck of that human corpse. Tina could already feel her stomach wanted to throw all of the food she has eaten since the beginning of this apocalypse has started. Ana could have fallen to its knees, but she is held strong by a tribesman who is looking angrily at her. He did not say it to her to stop shaking, but by his looking, Tina understand this man wanted her to stop shaking and remain on her feet.
The tribe member, holds the head of the corpse on its two hands, and he shows it as a tribute to its chief. The Chief of this tribe, takes a small dagger from a second tribesman who is holding Tina, he uses the dagger to take out the right eye from that corps, then he swallows it whole, from the dagger. An image who was making Ana barf, then vomit. The tribesmen are ignoring this, meaning this is not the first time an event like this has happened.
The Chief looks at the girls, then, before he could take another eye from the head of this corpse head, he hears a growl coming from a tent. The three tribesmen are looking at the tent. From that tent are emerging six zombies, were tied up to ropes, fried and with clothes almost burned up. The Chief yells to its tribesmen to go at it and kill them.
All three tribesmen leave the Chief and the two girls who are tied to their hands. They jump on the corpses with their improvised swords and proceed to attack the zombies. But their attacks fail, and all three tribesmen are getting jumped by the is zombies. Not even one of them got killed in the head or decapitated. These three men have only stabbed the torso and legs, not head, neck or even eye.
The Chief, looking scared, he goes to his tent, leaving the two girls be their food for zombies. Tina looks around, she hears screaming coming from the tent where the three boys are locked up, she runs to that direction with Ana, who is still trying to hold her together after the things she just saw with the head.
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"Help! Help!" yells Zeny from the tent who is being held.
Tina and Ana are coming into the tent, there they see the three people locked up, tied to their feet and to their arms to poles like pigs who are going to be killed. Tina sees a small dagger from the tent at the tent, she tries to grab it with her mouth and she throws it to the back of the hands of Ga, who catches it and manages to cut the rope from the pole. After Ga managed to free his hands, he uses the knife to cut the ropes to his legs, then he goes to help the two teammates of him to free themselves, and the girls by cutting ropes who are keeping their hands.
" Good. We are free." says Ramy in Nigerian to his friends. "Now let's move from here."
"Right back at you." says Zeny going after Ramy, leaving the tent.
"What happened outside?" asks Ga in his broken English to Tina because Ana is scared to see all of those corpses there and leaves the tent, where the two soldiers are going to loot this tribe who is falling apart.
"T-They were trying to feed us a corpse." says Tina scared by relating what just happened moments ago. "and now… They have all died… Everything happened so fast. First corpses came back and ate three tribesmen, then the Chief ran back to his tent, and heard yelling from there. Probably another zombie ate him."
"God… It is a miracle." says Ga looking around. "We managed to get saved by these lunatics. So, we better not waste this change by talking and use it to get to the Airport."
He leaves the tent, then comes Tina, who remained there to look at the corpses of zombies there. She wonders what happened to Malcom, but she does know that he died in the car crash. She did not spot the body of Malcom, but she did see a small knife from the sand. She takes it, and there she found on the blade of this pocket knife, that is used by Spies or by any assassin, the letter M graved with black permanent marker. Tina takes the knife, thinking this belong to Malcom, she decides to keep it hidden on her clothes. The scientist woman leaves the tent.
Outside, she sees how Ramy and Zeny are killing zombies by suing the elephant tooth swords from this tribe. They managed to provoke more damage than what could the actual tribesmen would do it. These two slashed all the six zombies, including the three tribesmen who were about to become zombies, by stabbing their heads with the swords.
"We should keep those, man." says Ramy to Zeny in Nigerian.
"You're asking?" jokes Zeny to Ramy in Nigerian.
Ga leaves another tent, by carrying a few guns, two AK's and two-barrel shotgun on his back, together with a backpack that contains all the necessary ammos to make these weapons work on killing the monsters from distance.
"The tent over there has an impressive collection of guns and ammunition. Meaning this tribe has captured more people like us in the past." says to Ramy and Zeny in Nigerian, who are already heading to that tent to take the remaining ammunition from there. "Do not take too much. We have a lot to walk to the airport."
"We will walk?" asks Tina in Nigerian to Ga.
"Yes." says Ga turning around to Tin, speaking in his broken English. "Our mission is-is to deliver you two to the destination. We will even walk a hundred of kilometres to the nearest airport if we would have to. Now you two… Go and get some weapons as well. We have a long way to go."
Tina goes there to grab the weapons from that tent, grabbing what she could carry and would seem important. Ana, who did not speak Nigerian nor could understand their conversation, remained frozen in that place, then she goes after Tina, who is walking to that tent.
"What did he say?" asks Ana coming in the tent with Tina who is taking a look at a pistol with a suppressor.
"To grab the weapons, we could carry." says Tina to Ana in English, not looking at her. "And walk to the airport."
"To Zeindar?"
"Zinder." corrects Tina. "But first, we have to know where we are at the moment."
Tina takes a look at Ana, and she cans see her fear, as she is looking at an assault rifle. She almost forgot this girl was a victim in a school shooting in America many years ago. Tina, takes the handgun, with a few rounds of ammo, and leaves with Ana to the tent, who did not take anything from that tent. They walk to where the three soldiers are standing to kill the Chief of the tribe who has reincarnated as a zombie.
"Is he dead?" asks Tina seeing the bullet holes on the head of the zombie.
"He is." says Ga looking angry at the Chief, then he heads to the North. "Let's go."
"To where?" asks Ramy.
"To airport. Where else?" says Ga not stopping from walking into that direction.
"Are you sure this the good direction?" asks Ramy again, but Ga did not respond to the question.