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"Honey!" says a voice after opened the door of a house and walking two steps inside the house. "I am ho-"

But a zombie jumps from the couch, to the face of that man.

Eze wakes up from the nightmare he just had it, and he looks around with the assault rifle in his hands, but deactivate it from firing it. He looks around, breathing heavily and sweating after this nightmare he just had.

"it Was a nightmare…" says Eze in a whisper having a look at Chidi, who is sleeping on the couch in the living room where Eze stays leaning on the wall.

Eze raise up from his seat, and walks slowly out of the house he and his team has taken minutes ago. After Eze has arrived at the street, he looks around and sees the zombies that have followed them have disappeared from the scenery, meaning these creatures have found other humans to eat or smell of blood of humans and animals. Eze walks toward the house on the other side of the street, he checks the door to see if it is locked. The door is opening by Eze, and the man walks inside that house, he makes three steps inside the house, then he hears a snarl coming from the room on his right. Eze quickly aims his weapon at that direction, disables the safe mode and shoots the moment that zombie came on close distance to the gun Eze's holding.

After two shoots to the head, the thing trips over and falls on the floor with the face on a dish, breaking it, remaining lying without any air on that floor. Eze looks at the thing, he lets's out a sigh of relief and continues to check out the interior of the house. The man goes in the living room, where he doesn't see too much because of the darkness and the electricity system doesn't work. But out of the instinct, he decides to switch the lights, which it worked, making Eze feel amazed.

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"Ho-How did this house have any ele- Solar panels. Of course."

Eze looks at the interior of the house, which it shows to be gruesome for him because there is an infant baby, that has been eaten it's the entire torso and head, and next to that baby lays an eaten body of a little girl. with a knife stabbed in her throat. Eze, decides to take out the knife, and stabs it to the opened part of the skull, which reveals a part of the brain of the corpse. After he did the deed, Eze shuts the eyes of the small girl with his hands covered in blood from all the killing he did from Harari to here, he looks at the poor corpse of the girl and says to her.

"I know. I did this to make sure you will not become one of them." he says glances on the body of the zombie he just killed.

The man catches a glimpse of a photography that is on the wall. He gets up, goes over to that picture, takes with his hands and looks over to the picture, that reveals a happy family of four, a woman, a man and two girls, one resembling the one Eze stabbed the brain and the infant that has been eaten. Eze looks at the picture sad, then a tear falls from his eye.

"I am sorry." he said after he put the picture back on the wall.

Eze turns around, heads out from the living room, he switches the lights off, and heads outside from the house, closing the door behind him. When he got out, Eze sees five zombies coming toward him, the noise from the assault rifle and the light from the house might've attracted them. Eze decided to turn to the right direction and run toward the blockage.

When the man got near a car, he starts to break the window of that car with the gun, and sees on the passenger seat a small screwdriver. Takes the screwdriver and decides to use it as a weapon to silently kill these five zombies. But he only killed four of these zombies with stabs to the head, and one with a gun smashed to the skull of the deformed zombie. But to make sure the zombie dies, he stabs the brain with the screwdriver.

After this action, Eze decides to head back into the house, but as soon as he was walking a few steps, he hears the jet sounds of an aeroplane flying pass this city. Eze looks up, but he couldn't see too much of it, but he can see the lights of a plane flying on a high altitude and looking like it ascends. Eze looks over to that plane, wondering who is flying a plane at this hour of the day.