Chapter 5 - Day 7-8

"Ah this, yeah they talked about it on the TV the pandemic started with random people around the globe, some scientists even emitted a theory."

-"And what do they think started it all?"

"They thought the virus was airborne transmitted but some people, almost a third of the population, with a higher resistance to the virus were not infected by the virus in the air."

-"But i saw people get bitten so we aren't immune."

"Indeed it seems that when we are bitten the virus still gets to us."

I take a minute to think.

If some people are resistant to it then is it possible to be immune even to bite due to long exposure of the zombie virus in the air?

If so we can't kill the bitten recklessly we need to wait for them to transform in case they become immune to it.

This is natural selection, the ones who survived are the ones gifted with better virus resistance.

I was lucky, i could have died just like this, that's quite frightening.

-"Thanks for the information, let's get up there."

19:00:

We got up here without trouble and she instantly hopped into the shower.

After that, we set up signals for "i", "you", "go", "stay", "zombie", and more.

Day 7:

8:00

"It's time to go down."

-"Coming."

We get out and head down.

We arrive on the 9th floor.

There is nothing, and it is close.

This will repeat itself until the 6th floor.

There i check the apartment door.

!It's opening, i check quickly i can't see a thing but i can smell it, iron.

I do some signs so that when we enter we each check a side.

We go in and we see it,

I frown at the sight and the smell.

On the sofa, a woman dressed in a dress that used to be white, a kitchen knife deeply into her right eye socket.

This wasn't the shocking part. A meter away on the ground a fallen chair, at head level, i see legs, i look up, and i see it, with a light blue tinted face.

I see a ring on his finger, i look down i see one on her too.

To survive he was forced to kill her, i pity him, he couldn't bear it, he chose not to be part of a world where one needs to kill his family to stay alive, maybe he was right...

I still can't give up, i will try my best to rebuild the world we once knew.

I turn back, i see the light in her eyes, the hopes dim.

-"Snap out of it, Lana, this isn't the end, suicide already existed, and so did disasters, you can't give up yet, i need you to rebuild the world, i can't succeed without you so please help me so that nothing alike can happen to anyone ever again."

She was shaken and in a daze for a moment, she weakly smiled at me and said.

"I'll try my best to see the dawn of the world that you want to create so much."

-"Alright let's loot this place"

..

"I found some food and you?"

-"I found a handgun with some bullet in the bedroom."

"! That's good news, how many bullets do we have then?"

-"20 bullet, but i don't know how to use it."

"I know how to."

-"Really."

"Yeah i have a permit my dad wanted me to be able to protect myself."

-"Then take it, when we go back can you teach me how to use one?"

"Sure."

-"We still have some time, we go one floor lower?"

"Yeah lets, go"

We got down to the 5th floor, Lana took the lead, she make signs,

"There is nothing"

I nod.

We go in and, nothing in the hallway.

She tries to get to the door.

*SLAMM*

We are startled and stunned for a second.

In a low voice, i say:

-"A door?"

I made some signs to go back up.

...

Upstairs

We got to our apartment.

"We heard the same thing right?"

-"It came from down but i don't know which floor."

"There may be people down, that's a good news!"

-"Yeah. Hopefully, we can meet them before they die."

"How can you be so hopeful and so pessimistic at the same time."

-"... i am indeed hopeful but i am still not blind enough not to see that few people can survive this world."

"Yeah, for now, it's easy as we are in a closed building and many people were at work during the outbreak, it must be one of the less zombies populated buildings. Most zombies are swarming outside as this is a big city."

After 1 hour:

-"So can you teach me how to handle a gun"

"Yes let's start."

She taught me how to handle it, dismantle it, and clean it, i quickly absorbed this knowledge but unfortunately, i couldn't fire it to train as we did not have enough bullets and the noise could gather outside zombies into the first floor and make it hard to ever get out of here.

For now, she will keep it as a secondary weapon for emergencies.

Day 8:

We got up quite late, around 11:00.

Today we will, yet again go down a floor, toward the 5th floor. We are almost at the bottom i am quite excited but also afraid of what's to come.

...

I, in the lead, make a hand sign, and we enter the 4th floor.

In front of the elevator door, i see the janitor's trolley, without anyone, we search in it, there is household product.

Ah, there is nothing in here.

Then i hear a sound of clicking, i look at Lana and i see her agitating a bunch of keys.

!!

It must be the janitor's with this much key. We will be able to loot everything from now on that's great news.

I look her in the eye and give a thumbs up to her.

I missed it, if not for her i probably never would have found it.

Now we can access the 13th, 9th, 7th, and 5th floors.

We now direct our gaze to the door and she tries to open it but it's closed, she takes the keys and tries the one with a 4 on it.

*CLICK*

! It opened.

She checks, nothing, she opens and we go in while letting the door open to secure an escape route. There is no one.

Lana opens the bedroom door and a couple of zombies jump at her.

She doesn't have time to react, she is sent to the ground, grabs her bat, and hits the first in the head which i then finish with a good hit in the brain.

While i kill it she struggles with the second one. She gripped her bat on the two extremities and pushed the thing's head back with it.

Then she pushed it to the side and finished it with 2 good hits on the back of its face.

*pant* *pant*

We are already out of breath. She seems as fit as me. 

"Thank you"

-"We are a team it's natural.

"Even so, thank you." *huff* *huff*

-"Need a break?"

"No, let's loot this."

-"You search the bedrooms, the kitchen and i look in the bathroom, living room, and terrace."

"No, i take the bathroom!"

??

-"Why?"

"Because."

-"Then i take the other bedroom."

I really can't understand her.

I didn't find much, a card game which will chase boredom away, a pair of sunglasses and i took some clothes that fit me.

-"Found anything?"

"There wasn't much i found just a can of food, how can people live with just this much food."

-"Well we still have some leisure in terms of food."

"Not for long if everyone has this much food. Let's go up and search for the 5th floor in the hope of more."

We got up and searched the zombie-free apartment, it was as disappointing as the previous one, there was only alcohol, in a sense it was amazing, i had never seen that much alcohol.

We then went to the 7th floor, we couldn't end it in this manner, and we did well, we found another handgun with about 30 bullets.

We also found some food so we have less than 2 weeks of food and as usual some medicine.

I take the handgun and hand over 5 bullets to Lana, we now have 2 handguns and every 25 bullets.

-"Let's end it here we did a lot today, we looted 3 apartments"

"I agree, we need to rest"