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After thirty minutes of walking, the team of six people have arrived at the entrance of Agbor, but when they got over there, they observed something strange. They see corpses all around the place, but no zombies walking around like on the street on the Benin City and on the Lagos. This is making Malcom feel nauseous.
The man looks around, and then he spots a few houses on fire, but no noises indicating a screaming from a humanoid species nor a dead human that has gain consciousness to walk and the taste of human organs and brains. The people of the group, decides to walk further on the street until they get at an indicator that say the following thing: "Safehouse in Onitsha, distance seventy-four kilometres".
"What does it say?" asks Ana to Tina who is as tired as her.
"Safehouse in Onitsha," says Tina feeling the spark of hope coming. "seventy-four kilometres ahead."
"We are going to be safe?"
"Hopefully."
The group of the survivors are going on the road that will lead them to the safehouse. To reach it there, they have to walk about 75 kilometres, which will take almost the entire day, but thankfully, their luck is on their side because Ramy spots with his eye a jeep, who has crashed recently. The team, seeing the jeep is at about two hundred meters from them, they are all deciding to go over there and see if they can take it.
Arriving at the jeep, a zombie jumps from the car, close to tackle Ga, but Malcom was fast and he does a powerful swing with his trusty machete on that zombie head, which it almost slices it up open. That cut was made right to the zone where the skull is containing the brain and the functions that is helping the whole human body move. The zombies fall on the ground.
"Thank you." says Ga to Malcom in Nigerian.
The group checks the interior of the jeep. Luckily, there wasn't any zombie in there, only a few blood stains on the jeep, two swords and three knives on the backseats. Zeny takes those knives and swords, and insert them into the trunk of the jeep. After he put them in the trunk, he gets inside the car, on the second row of the backseat.
On the second row stays Ana, Tina and Zeny, while on the first row is just Ga, and on the other one is Ramy with Malcom. Malcom is the one driving the jeep, while Ramy remains on the passenger seat. As Malcom drives the jeep (who was having the key in the contact engine) to the safe zone, on the backseat second row, Zeny decides to start a conversation with the two people in his English that is consider by the locals of Nigeria implacable.
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"Are you two alright?"
"We are." says Tina to Zeny.
"Good." says Zeny. "My name is Zeny."
"My name is Tina."
"I-I am Ana." says Ana in English to Zeny.
"Nice to meet both of you." says Zeny with a smile on his face. "The other people are Ga, Ramy and Malcom."
"Hello." says Ga on their front, and he turns around his body to speak with the girls and his colleague. "You two are Americans?"
"No." says Tina to Ga. "We are from Great Britain."
"Thought you were some kind of people from America."
"America?" asks Ana, then she looks at Ga. "Have you people contacted the United States?"
"Is useless." says Ga to Ana, making her hopes of being rescued by Americans shattered into a million of pieces. "We tried a few hours ago to contact them, but no signal and no available communication." he opens his smartphone and he shows the girls that he cannot do anything on it that includes checking the internet or mass-media.
"See? The whole network down."
"I-I see." says Ana feeling sad. "B-But what we can do?"
"All we can is follow their orders." replies Tina to Ana, and she slowly touches her hand. "Everything will be alright."
"Yes…" says Ana not feeling like everything will be alright and she slowly backs her hand away from Tina.
Zeny saw this and he was thinking: "Are these two good friends of lesbians?", but then, Malcom distracts everyone from their thing, when he turns on the radio that is stating an important message.
"Z Virus has attacked all of the Africa continent!" says an English voice. "This virus has also covered Europe, Asia and Australia into Red blood. Which means, sooner o' later, North America or South America will have to face the army of undead creatures. Until then, proceed to the cities classified as safehouses where soldiers will be picking you all up and deliver it to safety. Nigeria's posses only one safe zone, and that safe zone is going to be kept under watch by the Europe military and Asia military." then a brief a cut has happened to the conversation. "… come to Benin to get a temporarily safehouse where a helicopter sooner or later will deliver the damaged people to the-"then the signal cuts.
The radio signal was put down due to the electric crisis the people in Nigeria and all over the world are facing now? No, it is because their jeep got stopped by a spear who has somehow pierced the windshield and stabbed the stomach of Malcom. That attack sacred all for the passengers, and made Malcom lose control to the jeep which was in full speed, it crashes toward a car. And all of the people inside that jeep have jumped into an unconscious state and from their seats, making only Malcom, who was stabbed on the driver seat, slowly fading to death.
Then, three Africans, all wearing some kind of plants to hide their "male organism's jewellery" and all holding a spear in their hands, they are slowly walking toward the jeep with a mischievous smile. When these people have reached the jeep, it is revealed by the light these weird looking men's are actually members of a tribe due to the weird tattoos they are having and speaking in an incoherent language.