***

"It was my fault." says Andra looking at the fire place, all by herself because all of the survivors and soldiers have gone back to their safe zone.

The teenager stayed there until the body of Victor, who was on the base of the zombie pile by the way, has been burned to ashes. Looked on the pile that is still burning for a while, and then she decides to head out of there, but as she was about to go, the girl hears a noise coming from a block.

Andra gets her handgun and points on that location, holding the flashlight on the other hand like in the movies. The flashlight illuminates the thing, which it made the thing cover the eyes with his right hand, make a few steps back and growls. And Andra, pulls the trigger of the handgun, hitting the heart of the creature.

After the creature got hit, the thing steps back a few more steps, then he looks pissed at Andra and runs to her with aggressivity. But Andra continues to shoot the zombie on the head zone. Killing it with three bullets.

"What's going on?" asks a soldier coming to Andra, worried.

"A zombie, sir." says Andra to the soldier.

"How it is possible?" asks the soldier to Andra. "We killed all of them and burned them all."

"I don't know."

The two people are walking toward where Andra has shot the thing. but to their surprise, the thing that Andra has killed was not a zombie, it was a human. But the human she just shoots wears some of those jumpsuits the Liberators group would wear. But upon closer inspection, the body has some bitten marks on the face and hands, meaning if even is it wasn't killed by Andra, it would be still transformed in a zombie.

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But the thing that Andra will never realize is that this person, was the one who tried to demolish Vidraru den in hopes it will kill destroy the safe zone in Curtea de Argeș and the community in Valea Iașului. This was the leader of this Liberators gang who kidnapped Mihaela and other women almost two weeks ago.

Andra and the one soldier, seeing the body, they do not have a choice, other than to carry the body to the burning pile who is still going on, and throw it in the fire like the others.

"So… Want to come inside?" asks the soldier.

"… I guess." says Andra going ahead.

The soldier and Andra are heading back to the safe zone, not looking back on the pile of the zombies, who will burn until the morning.

***

Two days later things have gone peaceful for the people in the community. After their discovery of the fallen Vidraru Den, they can all breathe a sigh of relief that nothing will danger their safety on this hellish world. But even if the Liberators and the den are gone, there is still that issue with zombie.

This zombie issue becomes harder and harder to survive after the remaining population of the humans in the world realized these monsters could mutate.

In the community of Valea Iașului, inside of a house, a man, wearing usual clothes with the logo of "The Organization", sits on a desk. The man in that house checks his laptop. An unusual thing to do in this apocalypse, but the man does this because he is the only one in this entire county who controls camera drones.

On the display of the laptop, the image shows the remains of a village called Radureni, who has been overtaken by zombies weeks ago. The village was partially burned, destroyed and infested with zombies and dead corpses. This is something normal that this person has seen every single day, nothing to unusual. But, when he looked with the drone on the East side of the village, on the forest, he saw something horrifying.

A zombie horde is approaching the village, horde that measures more than a kilometre wide and long, probably more than tens of thousands of zombies. A horde like this will destroy the entire safe zone of Curtea de Argeș. And maybe the one in Valea Iașului if they can pass the city.

The person looks horrify on the laptop. In a hurry, the person runs to the higher ups and show them the dangers that is coming to their direction.

And that said danger, will be a difficult one to overcome for this community.