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Meanwhile, at the place where Charlotta is placed by her brother to protect the valuable cargo, she observes the corpses of zombies, who were moving on a fast speed and running like chickens without heads. Charlotta saw how some zombies were screaming into the sky as the raindrops were falling, and she saw some undead zombie type, feasting on the zombies, and becoming full zombies. She knows these zombie types, she also knows their behaviour when it is raining.

A few of the dozens of the zombies, have remained on their feet when the rain stopped, and this number of zombies was very dangerous for Charlotta because if a zombie smells her, this will be game over for her. And if she would try to attack them from the truck, this will end badly for the special cargo and she will be trapped. So, her only logical solution it is to abandon the cargo and try to make them follow her into a trap. But what trap?

After she looks at her surrounding, she sees only a road with damaged cars, a few abandoned buildings that are still standing, and a small dense forest where it will be dangerous for anyone to venture in. Charlotta doesn't have many options to chose from. In fact, she would be safer if she would run from the truck, and hide at a building until her brother will come back with a working truck.

Charlotta takes her sword in the left hand, while with the right hand, she opens the door of the truck, slower and carefully to not make any noise. After the door was opened wide enough, she leaves her seat, and she closes the door, slowly and careful as she was opening it. But, when she closes it, a small creak was heard, and this, have alerted at least six zombies near the truck, who are already walking on normal speed toward Charlotta.

The Viking woman, seeing the zombies approaching her, she runs away from the truck, into the nearest building, that looks like a factory. Charlotta runs for almost one hundred meters, and when she gets near the fence, she climbs it up and jumps on the property. When she landed, she notices three zombies who were at fifteen meters from her, feasting on a corpse of a poor cat. Charlotta, uses her left hand and cuts the head of a zombie, then she stabs the second zombie in the head before he turned his head to Charlotta, and the third one, got decapitated like the first one. Charlotta switches the sword to the right hand, and she goes to the door of the backside of the factory, that is having the text written "Employees only!" in English, stating this factory was an international factory built for immigrants (a thing that is happening in the future and not in current years on Sweden).

Charlotta tried to open the door, but it is locked. So, to make her escape, she goes to the front door. She takes the right side, not wanting to risk it with the cat that may be going to become a zombie animal (zombies animal are frequent, but cases are extremely rare because zombies are eating more animals than humans who are still alive). The moment she got on the front side of the building, she encounters another three zombies, and she kills all three of them with three swings of her sword. Looking at the front entrance, she observes the building having the entrance destroyed by a semi-truck who rammed into the front building, leaving a gigantic hole for anyone to enter.

"…crap." says Charlotta to herself looking at the semi-truck, she then has an idea. "Please, Odin! Let this vehicle has enough battery!"

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Charlotta goes over to the semi-truck.

She was about to open the front door of the cabin, but she stops after she sees inside the cabin a zombie who was smashing his face on the window. This scare Charlotta so bad, she dropped on the floor, covered in blood and guts. She looks around her, and sees on the floor countless corpses, all of them butchered and killed in the head either by a gunshot or by a stabbing. None of the corpses were decapitated.

The girl is looking at the semi-truck, she sees how the zombie inside the truck is smashing his face on the window and with his hands. That thing continues to smash his head into the wall, not realizing this will be killing him. Charlotta let him do this, rather than waste her energy to kill this creature. She has much more urgent business to do, and that includes five zombies who are coming over to the factory.

Charlotta decides to engage in a combat fighting by using her only weapon, her beloved sword. She manages to decapitate three zombies in the fight, and stab the last two heads, right on the place where a stabbing like this would stop their brain functioning for good. After she does the killing, she hears the window of the semi-truck break, and the shattered pieces fallen on the floor. But with the break of the window, the alarm of the semi-truck has happened, and Charlotta needed to run to the upper floors, and hide into one of the rooms over there.

Going upstairs was easy for her, because there weren't any zombies to make her run difficult. She managed to get on the first floor of the building, and upon getting there, she observes a room that is labelled with a white etiquette as storage room. The woman enters that room, but upon entering the room, she can smell the horrible stank of decayed corpses. The woman immediately left that room, fearing there are zombies who would get up on their feet and attack the poor Viking cosplayer.

She searches for another room, but she got unlucky for three times because one was locked, and other two were having zombies who were about to get up to their feet and turn around toward her scent.

Charlotta runs to the hallway, wondering if she will ever find any way to hide away from the creatures on the ground floor and the first floor who are getting up. When she thought the fate would let her die, she sees an open door that is having a label written "Boss's Office". Charlotta enters the room, and there, all she sees is a corpse of a soldier who killed himself long ago. Charlotta inspects the body on the floor - after she locked the door by using a table she pushed – where she found three smoking grenades and a flare to alert helicopters or aeroplanes, also a revolver, with only eight bullets.

Now, Charlotta doesn't know a smoking grenade is a useful weapon on this apocalypse because a weapon like this can make the zombies stop from moving and stand still for the next five to twenty minutes, making them ignoring their human target or any target that triggered their senses of attacking. Hence, she decided to toss the smoking grenades away and keep the flare because this would be more useful when the night will come.

And the revolver she found, it only has five bullets in the magazine. Charlotta checked the storage room of the bullets the gun provided. She continues to search the body of the corpse, but she doesn't find any bullets in his pockets or on the backpack tossed on the floor. The backpack was completely empty.

Charlotta raises to her feet, she goes over to the window. She is surprised to see she is in the view of the damaged truck she abandoned a few moments ago. The girl also feels scared when she sees about a hundred of zombies heading toward the factory, and trying to break the fence she jumped over a few seconds ago. The girl looks on the sky, and she can see the sun about to go down.

"Charly… Please be quick…" she tells to herself to calm down as she looks down the window to the big horde of zombies coming.