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Raoul is going outside the house, he looks all around him. He notices a zombie crawling to his direction. He realizes the zombie is far from him, and he also noticed the turrets are down, due to ammo shortage. Earlier they were used to kill a few dozens of zombies who were trying to breach the walls and get into the cabin. Raoul takes his knife from the belt, he walks close to the creature for a few seconds, and at the moment he got close to it, he stabbed the creature head without any mercy. As he took the knife back from the head of the mutant, he cleans it up by using a dirty towel, and he puts it back to his belt.

"Oh, dear." he says looking at the fences who have been put down by these creatures earlier. "This would be tough."

He goes back inside the house, and as he got in, he hears Jon calling him. Raoul quickly runs to Jon room, where, he opens the door, and he looks at the bed. When Raoul opened the door wide, he sees Jon on his feet, with his skin having the same colour as the mutants, Jon looks at Raoul, and he tells him.

"How?"

"N-No idea." he says shocked. "D-Did you got bitten?"

"No." he says as he looked at his hands. "I was not bitten by any of these creatures… Then how?"

"Sir!" says Raoul shaking to him. "What happens to you?"

"I…I think I am transforming into one of them." he says, and after that he coughs so hard, that he falls on his back to the floor.

Raoul runs to Jon, and as he got close to Jon, he tries to make him consciousness as he grabs his face, and proceed to beat his cheeks in order to keep him alive. Jon continued to open his eyes, as he begins to breathe heavily.

"Raoul." says Jon. "The fence has fallen, the turrets are down, and the ammunition… is still here." he said the last part feeling angry. "I don't think you can stay here forever… Lots of people will come and get this cabin for themselves or family… Or…"

He raises his left hand who is shaking and points at a drawer from his room. He looked at the drawer and he tell Raoul.

"There is the bomb trigger. Press the button and in about a minute, this place will explode. It is your call."

"Sir!" says Raoul to him almost in tears.

"I was not informed by the fact this virus can infect even people who are not bitten." he says sounding depressed. "Whoever made this virus. Hope he will be a zombie and be killed slowly." he looks at Raoul as he shakes and holds his crying and sobs. "You have to take anything you can when the time will come… Try to contact the radio, the soldiers, and give your location… I have written the location on a note, I-it is under the desk."

"I got it." says Raoul holding his knife.

"Don't worry about me, Raoul." says Jon to him. "If I have to go, at least, I was able to face this crisis and see how dangerous it is." he laughs, and he proceed to cough for three times, which he started to throw some small blood on the jeans Raoul is still wearing since the spread of this virus. "You'd better take some new jeans."

"I will…" he wipes his tears coming down with his left arm.

"Y-You remember the location I told you, right?"

"Yes." responds Raoul.

"Good. This one it belonged to my nephew… I wonder if he made it alive this far… Anyway. I would like to ask you something?"

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"Anything sir."

"Can you please burry me next to the corpses?"

"O-Of course I will."

"Great…"

Jon started to shake uncontrollably, he coughs so hard that you can say he got the worst grade of pneumonia and as he was coughing, blood flew from his mouth and landed either on Raoul's clothes or on the floors. Jon's body stops from all of that shaking in about three minutes, then Raoul, he starts stabbing Jon's head three times to be sure he would be dead, and after that, he falls on the floor, close to Jon's corpse.

Raoul continues to cry and sobs as he is looking on the window outside, where he sees the skies being accompanied by gray clouds which advertise a bad weather with raining and thunders. He decides to get up after a few moments, then, he takes a blanket from the bed where Jon was trying to sleep earlier. He used the blanket to cover the man body, and he carries it on his arms with a sad look on Raoul's face.

The moment he got to the "cemetery" of his fallen friends, Raoul put the body of Jon on the ground, he leaves hi, only to go to the cabin and take from there a shovel. When he found the shovel into the garage of the dead owner, Raoul goes there and starts to dig a three feet deep hole to make Jon be buried, like what a man used to be before all of this.

It took Raoul an hour to dig the grave, and when he finished it, he drops the corpse of Jon into it, and he buries with the sand he took to create the grave. He was sobbing and crying as he was doing that. He managed to finish this burial, and he stays at the grave for a few moments, before the raining come, which was in almost one hour.

Raoul came back into the cabin which now belongs to him, and he heads to the living room, where the radio is still working. He sits on the chair, he puts the headphones and calibrates the transmission and everything else to make it work. It took a few tries, but he managed to get someone.

"Mayday! Mayday!" says the person from the other side of the radio, which made Raoul to jump from his seat. "Can somebody hear me?" says the person in a stressful voice.

"Yes!" responds Raoul as he activates the microphone. "Can you state yourself? Over."

"What?" asks the person. "I do not hear you good. Who are you?"

"I am a survivor in Maine, France. Who are you? Over."

"I am a teenager on Poland." responds the person on the other side of the radio. "Can you contact the military?"

"I am afraid I can't. I also tried, but all they have told me is to wait for an outpost, and take supplies they are throwing to us. Over."

"Really?" he said the teenager triggered. "These people are arming us instead of save us?"

"How are the thing there? Are there zombies? Over."

"There are thousands of zombies on the city!" says the teenager. "Some are even able to climb the buildings! I need help, please!"

"Alright, alright." says Raoul on the radio. "Don't panic. Be calm and breath slowly. Alright? Over."

"Okay…Okay…"

Raoul could hear the kid over the other station breathing slowly, and shaking it. He then, looked at the radio station for a moment, and he asks him.

"What are your soundings like? Over."

"I am in my apartment. Floor Three." he stopped for a moment because he heard a noise there. Raoul also heard the noise. "Oh no! There are probably the dead's!"

"Kid! You know how to kill them if they are zombies?"

"No."

"You have to stab their heads with a sharp object. Over."

"Like an umbrella."

"It has that sharp thing at the end? Over."

"Yes."

"Good. Stab the heads between the eyes."

"That would work?"

"One hundred percentage. Over."

"C-Can you tell me what is the difference between zombies, please?"

"…Zombies are having a greenish, blueish or darkish colour. Over."

"Thanks."

"Good luck, kid. Over."

"Wait! Can you contact an outpost for me, please!"

"I will try kid. But you have to send me your location. I might be able to call for help, but I cannot guarantee it will come. I am in Maine, and I face the same problems as you, but you are having a family, while I am by myself. Over."

"I understand… I will try to contact you later."

A noise like breaking is heard from the Raoul station, and the kid screaming is heard. Raoul almost jumped from the seat because this noise scared him. He takes the microphone, and he try to message the kid again.

"Kid. Kid! Kid! Are you there?"

He tries for about three more times the same sentence, but, when he was about to close the radio. A miracle happened.

"I. I… I did it." he responds the teenager breathing heavily from Poland. "I managed to kill three zombies..."

"Good job, kid! Over."

"Um, sir… I am living in Kraków, Poland. On an apartment complex." says the kid on the station who is slowly making his breathing be normal.

"I got it." responds Raoul writing the name of the town on a piece of paper, and the apartment complex on it. "I will try to contact you again later, until then, be safe and lock the door. And remember. Zombies can be killed in the head. Over."

"Goodbye, sir!"

Raoul ends the transmission with the kid, and he tries again to connect with the radio station from the military. It took a few minutes, but he finally made a contact with one, and this one speaks French, unlike the broken English he speaks the teenager from Poland.