Dead

afterwards they finally felt more alive, it was not much, but it was still enough to restore some of their energy back, after resting again for some ten minutes or so, Lina was the first to stand up, she stretch a bit and start walking again, and Malvin glance at her, and followed her from behind her, as they were walking, something cold drops on Lina's head, she flinch, she was kind of annoyed, and she touches her head she felt it, it was sticky and slimy, she felt disgust and raised the torch above her head, she shuddered, when she raise her head and looked up,

when Malvin bumps into her, and when he saw that she had stopped he scratched his head, ' hey what happened-', then he noticed that she was staring at the roof, he raised his head, he was shock, when he found some red liquid like things, in some calligraphy form, then he looks at Lina and grabs her shoulder, he noticed that she was ice cold, he shake her, but she did not even budge, he knew that something was wrong, ' HEY!!' he shouted in her ear, and she finally showed some movement as she flinch,

'wha-what,'. she finally snaps out of it, and looks here and there, ' what happen!', she seemed shock, ' well no, I want to ask you that!', he shouted, and it echoed through the staircase, ' ??' she was very confuse, and look straight at his eyes, she was acting very strange, 'what happen why did you suddenly froze up out of nowhere, and you why were you ice cold!', he explains impatiently,

Lina finally seem to recall something, and looks at him with a terrified face, ' hurry we have to keep going!.', she finally says with a serious tone, and grabs him, pulling him down, and running down the stairs with speed, ' hey that's dangerous!', malvin yelled at her, because running down the stairs really was dangerous, one misstep and you're going to gate of heaven, and to add on, they did not even know how long the stair were,

but as soon as they began to run what seem to have no end, ended as they saw a beam of light coming from down and there was a big entrance door which was wide open, and they jump through the entrance door, and a very strong light hit their face, they groan in pain, because it was too sudden and they were in the dark for too long, Malvin slowly moved his palm away from his eyes.. he saw a glimpse of some greenary like things, and when he open his eyes, he was stunned,

the door that they went through was somehow connected to an orchard, it looked like it was something that was long abandoned, and it looks like it was run by some robots, but how?, there were veins all around the orchard and thick grasses around, mixing with some big pieces of robotic arms and many, the one which was more shocking was, how they even ended up in some orchard, when they were just in the underground floor searching for stuffs, moreover, it when he closely looked, he realises that the sun was not fake, which means that they were on the surface, it felt very bizarre for him, and just how they even ended in an orchard was out of his brains comprehension.

' how the hel-', he turns to his side, but only to find Lina missing, it was one thing after another, he turned around and looks at the back but she was not their either, and weirdly the door that they had just passed through had disappeared too, he did not even know if he was dreaming or not,

' where she you go?', he mumbled, 'you know it's not a situation where you should be playing around', he calls for her, but there was no responce he got a bit dazed, then he heard something around the bush, he was alerted and then he goes to check that bush, and when he look inside it, he saw... nothing,

' maybe it was just my imagination.', he brush it off, and his eyes suddenly landed on the door that was at the end of the orchard,

he goes to that side while pushing throught the long grasses , he looks at the lock that was on the door, he starts mumbling something very intensely, then he felt a light tap on his shoulder, he flinch and sprint back, in full defence pose, '!' after that he saw that it was Lina, he was relief as he let out an exhale, he then takes a big inhale, ' where have you been?! don't you know that I was calling for you?!', he scolded her, she just stood still while hanging her head low,

he felt a bit guilty as he thought that she was feeling down, 'but I'm just glad you're fine, or else I won't know how to face others-', he kept rumbling, while carefully examining the lock, it was not rusty considering the state of the orchard, and it looks like it was still new, then he got a gut feeling that something wasn't right,

he turns back around, and Lina was still keeping her head low, he was now concern but didn't show it on his face, he slowly muttered, ' Lina?', he doesn't get any responce from her, 'ah...ga..', she groans in a very small voice, ' what was that?', he tried to listens to her, but then, Lina quickly grabbed his arm, very.. tightly...

' ack!..', he groan in pain, and quickly shook her hand off, ' WHAT are you doing?!!', he yells at her, and the next thing, Lina had already charged on him, and then he realised that it was not her but instead an zombie!

she was aggressively trying to bite him, he fall down on the ground, and Malvin was struggling with every attack, and was not able to stand back up, and his gun has been slapped away from him, he clenched his teeth, and puts her palm on the ground, and gripped up the dirt and push it right on her face, and he was finally free,

this time the zombie was strangely very strong, and he noticed that it's eyes have been gouge out, he grabbed his gun from the ground and quickly gained his balance, and seems like the zombie did too, it was very much identical to her, his face darken after he realise something, there was nobody else nor nothing beside them, all along the way, and there was no way a zombie could have entered just like that,

and a zombie was not even capable of opening the door, that door was automatically lock just as they entered, so the only possible explanation was..... then she suddenly jumps on him again, he quickly dodges it, and takes the aim, his hand was shaking as he slowly pulled the trigger, as he was far from her, she raised her head and charges towards him, with full speed. he shot her, as he turns his head away, he could not look directly at her,

his heart ache as he shot her, but he kept a straight face, even thought they were only together for some time, she was still one of his partner, he turns towards her with a very pitiful expression on his face, ' May you rest in peace..', he bends down and prayed,

but he had to be strong, he goes towards that lock door, but as he glance at it, it was already unlocked, he did not know how, but whatever it was already unlock, he opens the door and then he found himself in...

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