Chapter 9
Lana helped me bandage my wound and we started looting.
I took the old man's knives and shotgun.
In his pocket there are his car keys which I give to Lana while I go inside.
I step over his body and start to loot the inside.
CRACK
The wooden floor is cracking with each step I take, but I am not worried, there shouldn't be anyone or anything unless they are deaf.
There are a lot of things, loads of cans, water bottles, bullets and some drugs.
While looking I find a proper holster.
-"I'll keep this for myself."
I go to the bathroom, water is still running, must be connected to a well nearby.
I meet Lana back outside.
"Wow you have a lot of bags."
-"Yeah he had a lot of things, looting survivor is better than looting dead, normal person with a normal number of food."
"Guess so. I siphoned every drop of gasoline, the car is almost full we can still go a long way on the road."
-"There is water running in the bathroom, cold but we can take a shower, we can't on the road so I think it's a good opportunity we should eat, shower and take the road again."
"Ok you go first."
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14:00
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We took our time, ate, showered and got ready to depart.
"You drive."
-"Well...i'll really like too but truth is I don't have my driver's license."
"Oh i see, then i'll teach you go on the driver's seat and i'll guide you from the side, this road go forward without turn for a while, it should be easy, if you crash it its because you want it.
Thankfully it's an automatic."
-"Yeah the easier the better."
I feel uncomfortable in the driver's seat its strange the grip on the wheel is unfamiliar unlike a gun which is now familiar.
"Alright. First the pedals, here there is just two pedals, for know just take note that manual got three. The right one is the accelerator and the left is the brake."
She point at the stick between us.
"Now look here, this stick is to change the 'mode' of the car kinda, the P is for Parking, this lock the wheels. P is for when the car is stopped if you use it while driving it could get ugly. The R is for reverse, it's to go backward instead of forward.
The N is for neutral, the car let go of the wheel, its for when you get towed or things like this but i don't use it.
Then the main one is D the drive mode. It's quite straightforward just press accelerator to go and brake to brake."
-"And the L?"
"Ignore it, i never use it D is good."
-"What about these behind the steering wheel?"
"They are useful but not for the true driving so lets ignore them for now and stay with the basics of driving.
Turn the key and change to drive mode then go on."
21:00
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It's getting dark, i rode for a part of the time but she took my place back.
We decided to stop and we hid the car in a forest to eat and spend the night.
It's dark, terrifying, we can't see a meter beyond the car.
-"Is it really safe?"
"Probably."
-"Probably!???"
"You scared of the dark mister?"
-"I am not scared okay, i am cautious because i don't want to die."
Lana look at me and she turn the car off and all light goes off.
I can barely notice her in the dark.
"You can put the seat all the way to sleep by using this lever."
She show me how to transform the seats into quasi, uncomfortable but still, bed.
I take 2 blanket from behind and give one to Lana.
"Go to sleep, one of us has to stay awake, just in case."
-"For sure, shift of 3 hours sound good?"
"Yeah go to sleep I'll wake you up."
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I am running, out of breath in the dark but noisy forest.
CRUNSH CRACK
I can hear step on branch and dried leaves.
-"Lana! Where are you?"
"GROWL"
-"Not the answer i excepted."
I point my flashlight toward the sound and see a zombie, a woman, old looking at her old fashioned clothes.
Her handbag barely hanging on her hand, scraping the ground.
I have only one hand free i get my gun, get closer and shoot her in the head.
Her brain explode and stick to a tree.
-"Uh your brain stinks lady."
I continue to run hearing more zombies coming.
I look in my magazine, 8 bullets remaining.
I put the gun back in the holster and run.
From behind a tree, a Zombie appear. I collide him and we roll on the ground together.
Its trying to bit ma face of but i grip his neck tight and i touch the ground looking for anything that could be used to kill him.
I can't see anything.
I put my second hand around his neck and then i bas his head on the ground.
Until finally he stopped moving, my hand are sticky, my hand opened wounds all over its neck who seems slimmer.
PANT PANT PANT
I stand up but can't find my flashlight anymore.
Not matter, i run.
-"Lana!
Fuck."
Then i hear someone calling me, far away echoing in the forest.
"Alex, Alex"
Then i feel the world shaking and i fall to the ground
Day 29
0:00
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"I had a hard time waking you up."
-"Huff Huff, fuck."
"What? Wanted to sleep more?"
-"...Yeah, something like that, go to sleep."
I drink a bit of water and calm myself down.
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8:00
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We grabbed a bite around a fire and hit the road.
My back still hurt, i managed to get some shut eye but the seats are hard.
While i am driving, Lana look at a good old fashioned map.
-"So where are we going?"
"We are close to a little town turn right here."
I turn with hesitation but still manage to not cause an accident.
8:20
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We can see a row of house in the distance.
"Here we are."
There is tens of zombies wandering on the streets and in the plain around.
-"It's still better than the city."
"sight, yeah park before the second house the fence are very high, higher than us."
-"We should set our base here if its in good condition."
I park roughly before the tall and metallic gate.
-"Lana you open the gate. I'll take care of the Zombies coming our way"
I take a deep breath and then i step toward the nearest zombie.
I break his leg with a sweeping hit and finish by crushing his head with my shoes.
"Fuck its all rusty."
I turn back, the gate is barely open, a person can't even go through this gap.
I tighten my grip and hit the head of a zombies whose head almost goes off with its neck bending parallel to the ground and then falling to the ground as the connection from its brain and limbs cut off.
GROWL
Yet it's still alive, trying to bite the air.
-"So stupid..."
Looking to try my new toy i let go of the bat and take out my new knife.
I grip the neck of a zombies and plunges the knife through the jaw up to the brain.
I let it go and it fall to the ground like the other one.
Just as i started to get into it, i prepare to run toward another one but...
"Alex it's open, come here we can't kill them all."
When i look there is indeed a little horde of about 15 of them coming from the distance.
-"Coming."
She takes the car inside to the front yard and i close the gate, we can't see through it, its like being cut off from the outside world.
The engine goes off.
BANG BANG
They are hitting the gate with their head probably.
"Will the gate hold on?"
I turn back to look at her.
-"I think so bu... Behind you!!"
When i turn toward her i see a zombies trying to bite her back.