Prologue

Isn't it funny how a lot of people say that they like something and call it so cool and exciting because of a show or movie they watched or a game they played, but when it happens in real life their attitude shifts in the opposite direction because it wasn't as cool or exciting as they expected it to be?

I used to be like that too.

My friends and I would have long conversations about how we would react in certain situations and come up with plans and strategies to survive a war, a nuclear explosion, and of course, a zombie apocalypse.

We would laugh and say things like "We can handle it!" because in our minds we were equipped with the necessary information to survive such things.

And how badly we were proven wrong when it happened.

In 2020, we were forced into a situation that I thought we were prepared for because of my experience in games and observations in movies I watched. But it was like a smack in my face when I was painfully reminded that movies, shows, and games were different from real life.

Disease broke out, a virus that spread like wildfire around Insula. They called it the Inmourti Virus, Latin for the undead. We didn't know how it started and we didn't know how it would end. All we knew was that the odds were against us.

Back then there were moments when I forgot I was awake because I wanted so badly to believe that it was all just a nightmare and that I could wake up and continue my normal life. But the reality of it all was that I was in a living nightmare and that the normal life I once had would be a distant memory.

You might be one of those people toom people who were like me. Want my advice? Life doesn't always go the way you plan it, it's better to brace yourself for uncertainty, and just do your best in any situation that you find yourself in because you can never be completely sure of what's going to happen next.

My name is Lanz Caldwell, and they call me Scavenger.