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The things in the museum not much improved, same after 3 weeks of the attack, the zumbis opted for staying in the museum, there were many, try clear the ground floor in their situation, was practically attest suicide, they practically had nothing to defend themselves of the zumbis´ blood, they lost in numbers (Not counting Carlos' situation). And they didn't have much weaponry, just one hatchet, one pistol and one rifle but both with no bullets.

"What to do now? ", this question was made by James 3 weeks ago, but it still runs through their minds, going out is risky, stay at the museum would only last a few days, what would be the next step to be taken ?.James, Dimitri and Carlos have spent these weeks hoping that most of the zombies left the museum, but unfortunately they remained in the museum.They also use this time to estimated how long the food would last.,Dimitri estimated it would last 6 weeks if they rationed, but Carlos still seems to be very sick, so he ate twice as much food, As the days went by, seeing how Carlos eat Dimitri estimated 3 weeks for the food ends.

Between looking at Carlos eating and looking at the cloudy sky, (that leaves all the colors overshadowed leaving them "gray"), was James and Dimitri's entertainment during those weeks.But instead of entertaining and relaxing they, just got more and more worried and desperate. James got up from the cold floor, where he was lying and went to Carlos to talk to convince him to cut down on food consumption, this attempt was not the first, James had already tried to talk to Carlos, Dimitri already tried too, but both attempts ended in failure. Maybe this attempt would work, maybe Carlos would finally listen.

----Hey man, how are you?

----Hi (cough), I still feel bad, even more looking at this damn cloudy sky, (cough) and you ?

----I'm fine, I just feel bored, you know just lying on this roof with nothing to do, like i knowit's better to do nothing than to take a chance out there but it's still..... boring.

-----(cough)..i know... ho...(cough) i know how it is.... have you seen the news ?, maybe this will help to pass the boredom (cough)... my dad used to do that to pass the time...

-----Unfortunately i can't do that, do you forgot?. James sat next to Carlos, the two haven't looked at each other, they seemed to have been mesmerized by the cloudy sky.

-----Battery is very low, even trying to rationalize usage, it seems that these things are made not to last, Don't you remember that I told you that yesterday?

----(cough)... Really?... (cough).... i think my...memory is getting bad.

The conversation between the two ended up running out of topic, James wanted to delay talking about the food for a while, but he was forced to speak soon. James for the first time during the conversation looked at Carlos, Carlos looked bad, his face was as if he was awake from a hangover and eyes fixed on the cloudy sky.

-----You know ?...., there's something I wanted to talk to you about, our current situation is not good, we have little food and you have been eating a lot, could you try to eat less?.

----But (cough) ....i´m.....not...very well.

-----i know!, but we are almost out of food....

Carlos after listening to James, looked at James with a disgusted look, slowly got up (even presenting difficulty) and started yelling at James.

------ I fucking knew!, you shit americans, just because I'm an immigrant you treat me like trash.

James is furious, and goes towards Carlos, grabbing him by the shirt and starts yelling at Carlos.

----This is not a film of social criticism !, i don't give a fuck if you are an immigrant or not, what I care about is if you keep this shit up, me, Dimitri and you are going to be more fucked up than we already are. Before the fight could escalate to something worse, Dimitri went to them and intervened in the fight. James and Carlos look at each other and finally decide to go their separate ways.

A FEW HOURS HAVE PASSED

The sky remained cloudy, Carlos was sleeping, snoring ferociously, apparently James and Dimitri arguing about the possibility of what to do didn't wake Carlos up. James ran a hand through his blond hair, trying to think of an idea. Until something popped into his mind, James got up and started rummaging through the pockets of his jackets. The first jacket that covered the other was almost entirely torn, with several parts that expose James' other clothes.

Finding nothing in the first jacket, james tossed it to the floor and headed for the other.

-----Until the BlackDucky jackets resisted....But what are you doing anyway?. Commented Dimitri as James rummaged through his jacket. at a certain time James found what he was looking for, he pulled it out of his right jacket pocket (tearing but still the jacket in the process) a key with a keychain with the image of a man carrying a fish.

------This is not ...

----yeh ...(cough) that crazy guy's key.

Interrupted Dimitri who was approaching them. Dimitri walked over to Carlos helping him walk.

-----This may not be a good idea !, think about it , we can get food and medicine from other less risky places.

-----But we wouldn't find any weapons, all the gun shops were looted.

---- (cough)... you know..... this guy could... be delusional.

-----Carlos is right, there may not even be a container!

-----Even so, I still think it's better to try, if there is nothing....I can try looking for groceries around there.

---- Anyway, most of the zombies are concentrated here in the museum, so you could easily sneak around town.

-----(cough).... you are not thinking about it, right?.

----want it or not, it's better to try, what do you think Dimitri ? .

-----Only one of us should go, Carlos is bad , maybe .... something will happen to him.

Carlos pretended not to hear and looked at nothing. James stood up and said "I will, you've been shot (a graze shot actually) and I like to play a hero".

----How corny!

Dimitri spoke and the three laughed, this line was unexpected for Carlos and James, as Dimitri almost always had a cold (introverted) posture. In the end Dimitri agreed, gave James his brown jacket (James still had one of the jackets, in a deplorable state but still usable, but thought it best to accept Dimitri's jacket to wear over the other jacket, after all it would protect more), a cloth to wrap the neck and a backpack (the backpack Dimitri used to take food and medicine to the roof when the zombies invaded). Dimitri just kept the rifle, even without bullets, it would scare away invaders at first sight. And so a few hours later James left.

IN THE TOWN

" Ok..... shit.... relax, think about what to do, i can't kill zombies, my head is unprotected, I can't take chances with the blood spatter. And to make matters worse, all I have to defend myself is my hatchet, I took my pistol even without bullets it can scare other people at first sight (I stole your idea Dimitri).The way to the port is relatively short but i have to go through a place first,..... i can't believe i'm going to do this.... and to make matters worse this cloudy sky continues." Thought James as he descended a building down the fire stairs.

So James decided to go to the place, took the path to the left down jhonson avenue. The streets were deserted, cars abandoned (mostly damaged),stores looted and destroyed, for some reason the color of the environment was gray leaving the bodies on the floor almost invisible, the corpses were in a state of decomposition leaving a horrible smell in the air. After passing through 2 streets James came across zombies, one of them had a knife (James couldn't tell if it was a tactical knife or a kitchen knife) stuck in the left shoulder and his mouth was with a huge gash, the cut showed his rotten teeth. The other did not have a right arm and was missing some fingers on his left hand, "what the hell happened to these guys".

James hid behind the alley wall where the zombies were, the zombies were standing in the alley, looking at the door of a building "former tenants maybe". James looked down the sidewalk and saw a glass bottle, he took it and walked away a bit from the alley threw the bottle away and hid behind an abandoned car. The sound of the bottle breaking made the zombies come out of the alley, James took the opportunity to cross the alley, halfway through James looked back. When he turned around James was sure the zombie with the gaping mouth looked at him, but James thought it was just his imagination, James crossed the alley and came across a hardware store.

The front door was ripped off, with a closet serving as a barricade. James pushed and held the cupboard to the side and entered the store, "as the last time", James walked around the store a bit until he saw the iron door, walked up to door and knocked lightly .

----Hi, remember me? I was going to the container you mentioned.... I thought to see how you are.... so how are you?..... my group is fucked up, another group attacked us and now we're low on resources.... so it would be of great help if you join us. James knocked on the door again.

------Can you hear me..... hey!..... you are not.... James leaned his back against the door and collapsed to the floor.

----Dead..... everyone I know they always end up dying..... why?.....Why!, I do not want to be alone but no matter what I do, it always ends in death..., loneliness always follows me... but this time i don't know if i will resist.... how i wish i had a cigarette right now or a cereal bar (laughs)....WHAT FUCK !

James gets up startled after hearing something move, James goes into defense mode and goes to find out what it is. A cat!, it was a gray cat that made the noise, James dropped to his knees and breathed a sigh of relief.

----(laughs) (laughs) I have to go somewhere.

"As it said in "NEUROMANCER", The sky over the harbor looked like a TV down or something like that, it's been a while since I read the book, it is impressive the harbor pier was without any corpse on the ground, the container exists he was strangely in the middle of the port, the key is in my hands, I confess that I'm anxious".

IN THE CONTAINER

James approaches the red container with a drawing of a man holding a fish on the side of the container. As he put the key in the lock, James heard laughter, James scared, leaned against the container and tried to look where the laughter was coming from James saw an object he couldn't make out what it was at the moment pass quickly almost touching your eyes.

James jumped back in fright, his eyes were looking at the ground but when he looked up he saw something he didn't want to see. The knife's glow was intense and whoever held her was a woman, she was entirely covered in blood.

----Hey calm down i don't want to hurt you.

James started to run when he realized the knife was coming towards him, the knife hit the ground but soon came back towards James, James ran to the right side of the container. The woman attacks the air even though James is farther away from her, these movements were like spasms, The woman laughed as she chased after James, making him extremely tense,"I can use my hatchet to kill her but this blood.....she might be infected.....best not to risk it".

After walking around the container, James felt the woman getting closer and closer, This was confirmed when the knife passed grazing his back, James kept running and went back to the right side of the container. he spotted some barrels, which he hadn't noticed when he took the first turn around the container, James was standing behind them waiting for the woman, when the woman saw James standing, she started towards him, when she got close to James he knocked over the barrels causing her to trip and fall, as she moved in a disorganized way she fell down easily.

Immediately after she fell James ran to the container door, despite his nervousness, James manages to turn the key that was in the lock. As James was about to close the door, the woman appeared trying to force her way inside. James didn't believe her strength, the door was practically closed but she didn't seem to have a problem with it, realizing that she would be able to open the door, James decided to make a "bet", James knocked on the door against the woman, this seemed to have no effect (as he already imagined).

So in a risky act, James threw the door hard on her, it stunned her and made her stumble but she didn't fall, James ran to the bottom of the container and when he got ready to use the hatchet (as he didn't appear to have any more options), he saw an m1911 pistol, it was risky, it could be discharged or worse broken, but if it worked James could escape the blood spatter. James walked up and grabbed the M1911 cocked and aimed at the head of the woman who was already inside the container, James pulled the trigger.

A flash came out of the gun as James fired, the woman was pushed back by the shot, but didn't fall, just as she was about to run, James fired another shot this time knocking her down, James walked over to the body with a safe distance and shot her in the head again.

-----She was infected no human could get shot in the head and still be standing, wait what is this, she's wearing a supermarket worker's outfit, and the name tag says Robin....so this was the bird that you talked.

James began to loot the place, in addition to the pistol that was in the container, there were medicine, food and two more weapons, a magnum revolver and a glock.Looking a little further, he found some papers with indie song lyrics, military equipment such as vests and helmets but they were worn out and stained with blood and a military file that talked about American military doctors who let the virus spread in the USA, were hiding like civilians with fake documents, the rest of the document was stained with blood making it impossible to read the rest of the document. Making sure there was nothing else useful in the container James decided to leave, as he was about to walk out the door he felt something in his stomach when James decided to look down he saw a knife stuck in his stomach, in her spasms the woman ended up pulling the knife to the side, ripping James' stomach in the process.

Feeling extreme pain, James fired a shot towards the woman, James didn't realize if the shot went off or not, James fell to the ground and put his hand on the wound, James tried to get up but couldn't, he dragged himself a little but stopped when he looked at the wound and saw his organs.

------Fuck ... I ... should .... know (cough), I've seen on the news that .... (cough) a man survived after... getting 5 shots in the head..... in the end I'm alone.... The last thing James heard was laughter.

IN THE MUSEUM

Dimitri found himself in a terrible situation, a few seconds ago he fought with Carlos who had his hammer hidden, their fight didn't last long until Carlos tripped and fell from the roof of the museum taking Dimitri with him. Carlos died with the fall but Dimitri did not, when he regained consciousness he felt a pain in his right leg, when he looked he saw several zombies around him and the day was about to dawn.

and so began another day in NEW ECO