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In a building, which used to be a normal supermarket, at a room where employers used to work, some survivors are there, Artur, Ebba, Edla and Charly, while Sigurd and Charlotte are searching on what used to be an apartment complex, and now it is a post-apocalyptic ruin.
Sigurd searches on the hallway of the ground floor, while Charlotte enters the second apartment since the one it is looked and has a lot of banging hits at the door and growls specifics to the zombies. Charlotte, opens the door quickly, and as she did that, she looks at what used to be a living room, a crawler zombie, coming straight to her. Charlotte takes the sword, and stabs the creature head, killing it immediately and without any mercy. She continues to walk in the room, ignoring the other corpses of the zombies on the floor.
Charlotte arrives at what used to be the kitchen of this apartment, she notices on the table a map of Sweden, there it is shown with a red marker, the road from this city, Vaksala, to Vato, a city not too far from here, where the Port it is located. Charlotte takes the map, and she hides it under her Viking coat, then she leaves the apartment.
"Have you found something there?" asks Sigurd to Charlotte after he took out the spiky part of the hammer from the zombie head.
"Just a map." she says to Sigurd, and she hands the map to him. "Here."
Sigurd takes the map, and looks at it. Then, after a few moments of analysing, he looks at Charlotte.
"This map might be useful to us. Good find."
"Don't mention it." says Charlotta going at the third door, and opening directly.
As she opened the door, Charlotte looks at the interior of this apartment. She did not encounter any zombie creature through her scavenging. But, she did not find anything useful. No weapons, no food, no water, no gas, nothing.
She was about to go to the fourth room to scavenge the interior, then, these two people hear some noises outside. Something that resembles a car, or like a jeep. Charlotte goes to the window of the hallways, and she looks at the street where the noise it is coming from. Sigurd joins her, and both of them sees a bus driver, stopping at the bus station indicator.
Charlotte decides to take out her sword and goes outside, wanting to know, what does that bus driver does in this apocalypse.
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After a few seconds, Charlotte got outside, walks a bit to the bus where it is stopped at an ex-bus station. She was about to take her weapon, but she notices the doors of the big bus being opened, all three of them. But, she saw something truly terrifying there, that made her draw her sword from the sheath at a fast peace, and stab the first zombie out of twelve coming out of the bus.
After she killed the zombie from the bus, another three are walking to her, and Charlotte has to step back from the bus, at about five meters distance, and before she could've done anything else, the doors of the bus gets closed, and the bus leaves this station.
Charlotte continues to fight the three zombies, but Sigurd came and kill one of those creatures, by stabbing the head of I, and pushing on the street. Then, Charlotte kills the two zombies by decapitating all two of them, with a single sword hit.
After all of this, Charlotte looks at the bus, driving far away from them, without stopping, and running over a few corpses who were once categorized as normal Homo sapiens species. She looks at her sword, seeing it all with blood, she takes off a cloth from a zombie corpse, and washes the blood from it.
Sigurd comes close to Charlotte, he looks at the corpses she has slaughtered and looks at her cleaning the sword from the blood of those creatures.
"These things never stop coming." says Charlotte looking at her sword after she has just cleaned it up.
"Are you okay?" asks Sigurd looking at Charlotte turning around and putting her sword to support.
"We should keep scavenging." she says going back into the same building, and Sigurd, walks after her, feeling uneasy about this survivor actions.
After a while, Sigurd and Charlotte enters an abandoned room from the underground of an apartment. Upon entering this building, they do notice a smell that attack their nose and make them almost puke. It is the same smell that haunts them after all of these years since the start of this awful event in human history, it is the smell of corpses, human corpses. These survivors, are not able to see what is there, until Sigurd has the idea to use the flashlight he found on the first floor.
With the help of the electrical device that generates artificial light, the two people are seeing a few corpses of rats and humans on the floor. Some of these corpses, mostly the ones resembling the rats due to their bone's system, are in state of decayed, while others are with flesh but with insects all around their bodies, insides and on the holes of their bodies. Sigurd and Charlotte are ignoring these corpses, and look around this room, hoping to find something useful, and they do found something, a radio from the 2000s.
Sigurd takes that radio, he looks at it, and before he would try to figure out how to turn, Charlotte grabs the radio, takes from Sigurd, and checks the back of this thing. She notices the device doesn't have any batteries.
"This radio works on batteries." says Charlotte. "It will be hard to find them since they haven't been fractured three years ago."
"Wait." says Sigurd looking at the back of the radio Charlotte handed to him. He notices this radio requires two big batteries to work. "I have an idea."
Sigurd leaves this room with corpses decaying and horrible stench. Charlotte, after she stabbed the head of an awake crawler zombie type in this basement, she goes after Sigurd. As she left the building, she observes Sigurd heading to the building where her brother is and the friends of this man.