Undeads are walking

From Cluj to Athene - Part 25

Three cars are stopping in front of a gas station which looks totally abandoned. A lot of corpses are on the ground, cars which are blocking the exit of this gas station, and even a truck that has crashed into the gas station building. Ho Lee sees the door of the gas station is missing, and the windows are entirely broken, but he also finds a car, parked in the parking lot.

He walks closer to that car. As soon as he got close enough to look at the window to inspect the interior of the car, he saw there a corpse who had got his throat slit with a knife and was holding it in his left hand. Ho Lee sees on the car a map on the seat next to the driver, and this will give them a big help in their direction since, nowadays, you cannot use your phone as a GPS, nor try to ask for directions.

Lee tries to unlock the door, and he discovers that it was open in the first place. He opens the door, and he quickly takes the map from that seat and closes the car again because the corpse proceeded to breathe, and it was close to jumping at Ho Lee in his hands. The man takes a quick look on the map, and he sees there a few weird places being marked with a green circle. He goes with the map to the other people in the group to show it to them.

"Alina," says Ho Lee, coming with a map for them, and he puts them in the car to show the locations marked. "Come and take a look here."

Alina comes, and she looks at the map Ho Lee brought to them. After a quick look around this map, Alina looks at Ho Lee.

"Where did you find this map?"

"It was lying on the car of a zombie," says Ho Lee, and this made Alina feel unwell, but Ho Lee quickly showed her that he wasn't bitten by that thing. "It is alright. I escaped from that creature at the nick of time."

"Still. You should be more careful around these things. They proceed to get stronger almost every day with each infection they provoke... There," she pointed to a marked zone close to the dock. "This must be the zone where the military is awaiting us or will help us go to an island to settle on."

"You know," says Anakin, coming over to those two guys. "I am wondering how come soldiers haven't cleaned the entire planet already."

"They are probably outnumbered, or the military doesn't have an American level of funds. But let's get focused on our escape, alright." says Alina to Anakin, and she looks at the map. "But how come there are so many marked zones here?"

"Maybe it is possible to extract zones?" theorized Ho Lee.

"Maybe," says Alina, without looking at Ho Lee.

Meanwhile, at the front door where the gas station was supposed to be, Ana and Claudia are walking in there, both equipped with a handgun and a knife in case they encounter a sneaky zombie. Both of these girls see the lights still working on this gas station building, so it will give them a big advantage in looting, but a disadvantage if they get seen by a zombie.

Ana goes to the desk where the cashier was supposed to scan and scan products, then takes their money. She sees on the floor a corpse with his head blown up. This scared Ana when she saw the corpse, and made her wonder: "Would I have the same fate if I was there?". Before she could try to say anything to Claudia. Her eyes spotted a key in the hands of that corpse. She goes over to the desk, takes the keys, and she takes a long look at them.

"What did you find?" asked Claudia asked Ana.

"Some keys." says Ana. "But to where?"

These girls hear a pounding on their backs. They quickly turned around, aiming their handguns at the walls. Then, both of them see the door being hit by the interior. Claudia looked at Ana, who Ana looked at the key and nodded her head in approval. Claudia tries to persuade Ana to go to that door to open, and Ana goes there. She got to that door, put the key in the hole where it should be, and got the door unlocked. She opens as quickly as possible, and she aims her handgun at the thing there.

Her handgun is aimed at a human person. She is not shaking, like that man who is shaking and with his hands raised up because of the gun aimed at him. The man is a young man, with a bandage all over his head and his clothes being almost completely ripped.

"I-I am not infected!" says the man in English and shaking. "I. Am. Not. Bitten."

"What's your bandage for?" asks Ana to the man.

"I-It is a scar... A man came here and... He stole the truck from there and attacked me. With a metal bar. Here!" he tried to unwrap the bandages, and he showed them the scars on the hand he got from that metal bar on the head. "Look!"

Ana and Claudia are looking at the mark the man got on his head from that metal bar. They are not experts, who do not have that much intelligence in the subject of biology or anatomy. Claudia was looking at the man, and she asked him.

"Are you a doctor?"

"I was a medic on the front-lines when Yugoslavia was in revolution," responds the man.

"When was that?" asks Ana.

" In 1990," says the man.

"Alright..."

Ana put her gun down, and she looked at the man. She asked him what he responded there, and the man responded to this question.

"I was about to go to Greece with my family. A family vacation. But then. This thing happened and... it damaged me more than Coronavirus. It killed all my family in that truck, and the man who stole it... Fuck..." he looks at these two girls, and he tries to hold his tears. "I was about to bury them in Serbia, back at my parent's house. But that son of a b***h has stolen the truck... And they were still zombies there... I did not have the courage to kill them... I am not able to kill a man. I am a doctor for god' sake, not a butcher."

"Hey. Hey!" says Ana to the man trying to calm him down. "Alright? We will try to find your truck, man."

"No. Let him be."

"You do realize that we are in a hurry?" asks Claudia to Ana.

"Where are you guys heading?" asks the man to those two girls after he swiped his tears.

"To a port," says the woman to the man.

"Are you planning to head to an uninhabited island?" asks the man, which made those two girls surprised. "I wouldn't do that."

"Why?"

"This virus... It might take the entire world in a short amount of time, so even if you try to set up a camp in Greenland or Antarctica you will most likely get infected and become a zombie there. But it is your choice."

"So... You are not thinking of coming with us?"

"No. I'd rather remain here and stay on this base. I've still got food and health kits."

"Health kits?" asks Ana. "Could you spare some of those health kits? We've got a wounded man with us."

"What happened to him?" asks the man to Ana.

"He felt a plane that was going to send us to Athena, but it had crashed into Bulgaria. The man has an injured leg."

"Oh s**t. You've come from Bulgaria? All the way here? It must've been really hard to travel."

"Yes," says Claudia. "Could you help us?"

"Sure. But because of this... I would like a weapon. Think of it as fair trade. I will help your friend... You give me a weapon to protect myself."

"Sounds a fair deal." says Ana to the man.

"Ana!" says Claudia. "Are you already trusting him?"

"Almost," says Ana, while looking at the man who is going to see the injured man.