ZOMBIE FALL: ATTACK ON HUMANITY

CHAPTER 2: FAILED REMEDY

After sitting still and watching more lives waste, suddenly a group of billionaires rose up from all over the world seeming to provide a safe haven for the survivors, those people took on the title of seer, many of them I knew and some I didn’t know, the name seer was actually invented by one of the billionaires in Africa who was among the people that rose up to proffer a remedy to the survivors. With this burden lifted from my heart although, that was what I would use to console myself from what was about to come, I was able to go on another hunting. Three weeks into the hunt I was able to secure three million more lives, after doing a ground check on our resources we were sure of an extra four months in our hunt. After the four months, we gathered the total of eighteen million survivors making it a combined total of twenty three million survivors gathered. During the hunt, we weren’t able to ascertain what was going on in various part of the world where the seers took over, but when done hunting and returned back to the fortress safely, we began observing what these so called seers were doing, the so called help they were providing to the survivors in their zone. After spending four months and three weeks on my hunt I came home to discover that the remedy which I thought was a breakthrough to my worries was a hell-hole which many of the survivors won’t want to be in if they had an option of where to run to.  These seers were not what they claimed to be, they weren’t the survivors they posed as, it was just a plot to make money out of these helpless humans, I mean what is wrong with us humans? At every slightest opportunity we get to help one another we use it to exploit ourselves, the strong prey on the weak, the rich devour the poor. These men were out to exploit the poor survivors of the apocalypse. I could not let that happen, I had to do something to liberate these poor humans from the bondage they were in. I thought of what to do until an idea popped into my head, I decided to have a walk with seer Ibaka Ndaka an African weapon dealer, billionaire, actually the first billionaire who made his billions dealing on weapons. During our little talk, I tried to make Mr Ibaka see the consequences of exploiting these poor people during this crucial time, and he kept on yapping about crucial times calls for crucial decisions, all his sentiments were about exploitation, seeing what I do is not exploitation it’s a way of teaching this weak buffoons to be strong and fend for themselves, huh! While he kept talking further, trying to justify his cause of exploitation, I looked at him, his pitiful and naive words, I asked myself why a human like this was brought into this world. After my deep thought I cut in and ushered a statement, you call these people weak buffoons because they are poor and with no way of helping themselves but just to survive, or because you are rich and well-defended. Where were you when all this was going on? Where were you when your own country was being ravaged by this pandemic? You were nowhere to be found, covering and hiding in your villas and fortress while these people had to face their challenges held on and indeed survived. Now you come out from the shadows to take advantage of the situation, to enrich yourself by making slaves of them, so appalling you should be ashamed of yourself Mr Ibaka. He then cuts in and try to correct my pronunciation of his name, he said I don’t care for all what you see yourself as Mr Williams, Do you think you can save this people? Do you think you can hold the line when this zombies things attack? Because you’ve, been gathering them, taking them to where  ever you take them to, it’s just a matter of time Mr Williams just a matter of time before your naive self-righteous act will be folded as he said those words, they hit me hard I had to give it a thought because I knew what he said were true, I knew it’s just a matter of time these zombies will attack and it’s just a matter of time they will know our location but while he said those words he did not utter them out of anger, there was trace of fear in his tone; it all came out peacefully like he knew what was going to happen, it kept resonating in my head I kept asking myself these questions what are all these seers up to? But despite the fear already registered in my heart I had to say something to show I wasn’t moved at least to put up an act, yes Mr Ibaka it seems you are right, I knew all of what you speak of and I have plans to handle those threats, let’s say in due time those threats will be a thing of the past. Deep down, I knew I had no plans, no way of handling what was about to come and I knew that deep down in his heart he knew I was past bluffing, before I left I gave him an offer hand for us to be allies and wished him good luck in whatever his plans were but he turned down my good luck, and said “You need it more, Mr Daniel good luck is for the weak”. After the meeting, I returned home and those words kept resounding in my head I couldn’t sleep, I was too restless and I was lost in deep thoughts, these thoughts included how I could save the millions of lives on those islands when the zombies attack next, I was overwhelmed with thoughts part of the heavy thoughts in my head was why the zombies haven’t attacked yet, what could be keeping them. At about 3:15am in the morning, I began drawing out a plan to help save the millions of lives on the island.

          First, I knew there were no leaders and the population on the island was too much for me to keep up, I made a list of things needed on the island. First I had to create a representative council for rulers since the population consists of people not only in Africa but also people around the world I had to look for people of honour who would represent the various continents on these islands. I then picked seven people who would serve as members of the council of representatives, each from various seven continents of the world and one extra from the Arab world, one more as my aide the following are names of the council members from Africa Mr Femi  Seyi an ambassador from the African union, the youngest ambassador there is next was lady Ahmed Zara was representative of the Arab world, Sir Morgan freeman was the representative of Europe, father Xorn  representative of North America, Miss Aleyah Garcia representative of south America, Hashimoto Todoki and finally my aide Vanessa Wesley . After informing them about my plan and what their post entailed they were happy to accept the position. A week after inaugurating them into the council and showing them to the eye of people they began their work, after the inauguration ceremony I breathed deeply a sign of relief that another burden have been taken away from me, all I had to do was to continue executing plans gradually and with the help of my new council members and my aide who was appointed to handle business when I’m not present or available and also give me advice I began putting more things in place. Now the council of representative has been put in place my next target was to put up a war council. As if this was a relieve I didn’t have to scout around for long to get people to put in place to take on the work of my war council which would include, a general, commander, weapons master, a strategist, reagent, a captain and head of weapons forgers. Which was also a group I would have to put in place because of the war council, The weapon forging council would consists of different engineers who were professional in what they do ranging from mechatronics engineers, computer engineers and programmers etc. All these would make up the weapons forging council but I knew this very council would have me go far in searching for capable people to take on these positions. I gave these all my thought and consideration looking to formulate a way of locating people capable of these various positions. Until my aide gave me an idea which gave a relief to my thoughts, Sir, concerning the position of forge masters what if you organise a competition in that effect it will be a competition that will determine the most capable hand to hold down the position and also would give out the brightest minds amongst the people that would be willing to work under the forge masters. It’s like killing two birds with one stone, after listening to what she had to say it then hit me, I couldn’t think about people who would do the work of forging weapons as she said killing two birds with one stone instead of stressing the forge masters, and leaving them with the burden of going out to select bright minds that will be able to forge weapons which was going to take time which we don’t have, I had to make do with her idea.

          With no sufficient time, I began making preparations for the competitions every human on the island who had an experience in engineering, IT and people who studied it in school were all free to join. I had to set out a target number of the people we needed from the competition so after deep thought and questioning I came out with a certain number of 650 which were divided into categories of what we needed for the weapon forge group, they were about five which the first was weapon engineering and functionality category ranged from chemical engineering weapons to biological engineering weapons which was paramount in fighting the zombies and also energy induced weapons. The second was the system security category which would consists of people with deep knowledge of information technology ranging from computer programmers, computer engineers and software creators they will be responsible for producing advanced cyber security system including A.Is and computer that would control heavy tactical weapon created by weapon engineering category they would also have some hand in cutting out the internal structures of the weapons. The next was the fibre optic design category; these categories would be responsible for engineering the external body of the weapon and their functionality. Last category was the system control category responsible like said above for the control of the computer system made and also responsible for their functionality. All these categories have their own course studied by several people, but the competition only needed the best 650 people but looking deep down into the situation, it would be bad to let down the rest of the competitors because they would not make it to the first 650 people, seeing the general predicament of the world many would be counting this opportunity as a form of livelihood, to sustain themselves and their families. I had to revisit the draw board and include an invisible category to the list, which will not be mentioned until after the competition. The category included those who did not make the act but showed good form in the competition and also those that would be used as help when it comes to assembling the weapons, of course they would have a technical knowledge on all these things because they studied them but couldn’t make the cut eventually. After creating the invisible category, I could not give a suitable name for the category not because it was invisible, but because I ran out of ideas but in all ways I was hopeful that I would a name for the last category later on it could be during the competition or maybe after the competition, I wasn’t certain of the time but I was sure to find a name.