17:00
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On the bed meditating i start pondering.
I have a few theories, they died of natural cause, they killed themselves with pills, but we would have found the box of medicine so unlikely. Or maybe the virus is airborne and some people are weaker and got infected just by breathing which mean i was really lucky.
I should ask Lana as she looked at the TV.
-"...so what do you think?"
"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 people who get bit transform 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 don't transform.
This is natural selection, the ones who survive 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
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This night we made up some hand sign so we could communicate smoothly.
Day 7
8:00
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"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 closed.
This 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.
Lara signal me. When we enter, we'll each check one 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 buried into her right eye socket.
But that's not the shocking part. A meter away, on the ground, there's a fallen chair. At head height, I see legs. I look up.
A man. Face tinted light blue.
He's wearing a ring. I look at the woman. She has one too.
To survive, he must've been forced to kill her. I pity him. He couldn't bear it. He chose not to live in a world where you have to kill the ones you love just to stay alive.
I still can't give up, i will try my best to survive and I'll try to find my parents and friends.
But i am not blinded by hope, they are most likely dead.
Gritting my teeth I turn around and see the light dimming in Lana's eyes.
-"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, 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."
-"Alright...Let's loot this place"
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"I found some food. You?"
-"I found a handgun in the bedroom. And some bullets."
"! That's good news, how many?"
-"Twenty bullets. But... I don't know how to use it."
"I know how to."
-"Really?"
"Yeah i have a permit, my dad wanted me to join the military just like him, his father and his grand father before him."
-"Then take it, when we go back could you teach me how to use it?"
"Sure."
-"We still have some time, how about we go lower?"
"Yeah let's go"
We got down to the 5th floor, Lana took the lead once again, she make signs,
"There is nothing"
I answer with a 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.
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Upstairs
We got to our base.
"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."
"Right...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."
10:00
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-"So can you teach me how to handle a gun"
"Ok."
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She taught me how to handle it, dismantle it, reload 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.
For now, she will keep it as a secondary weapon for emergencies.
Day 8
I got up quite late, around 11:00.
Today we will, yet again go down, toward the bottom. We are almost at the bottom i am quite excited but also afraid of what's to come.
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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 it, but there is only household product.
Ah, there is nothing in here.
While feeling frustrated and screaming internally 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 her a thumbs up.
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.
Nothing
She opens and we go in while letting the door open to secure an escape route. There is no one or thing.
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 weapon, 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. The zombies jaw gripping her weapon she grabbed her weapon on the two extremities and pushed the thing's head back with it.
At this moment i kick him on the side and finish it with a thrust in its mouth.
*pant* *pant*
We are already out of breath.
I help her stand up while wiping my forehead
"Thank you"
-"We are a team it's natural."
"Even so, thank you." huff huff
-"Need a break?"
"No, let's loot this."
-"I take the bedrooms, the kitchen and you look in the bathroom, living room, and terrace."
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 some drug and some book to read."
-"I found some food and junk item. We still have some leisure, we have about 9 days of 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 took it all, maybe it could be useful to burn things, make molotov maybe?
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 25 bullets each.
-"Let's end it here we did a lot today, we looted 3 apartments"
"I agree, we shouldn't push our luck."