Keegan P. Russ

Everything had happened in one afternoon, disgustingly terrifying cases had been reported where the special forces had to act. Corpses with bite marks, with torn body parts and we were even attacked by a corpse that got up and attacked one of our companions. This was not something that had been seen before, it was like a typical horror movie. At first there were only 4 cases, but while we investigated by taking samples from the corpses, the entire city went into an uproar when one person began to bite another and then other infected people began to appear. I was just getting started.

I didn't have a second to breathe, I was trying to help as many people as possible and killing these non-living people, I had lost control of everything, fires, cars crashing, people screaming, I was losing my mind.

Three years later, I didn't know how but I had lost contact with everyone, the infected had won and now the city was full of them, it seemed like an abandoned city but you always had to be careful. I had gotten used to handling myself, searching for ammunition and changing places to sleep. Sometimes I met other survivors, groups of them, but they were hostile and attacked me without thinking in order to keep my belongings. I still wasn't sure how I had survived everything, I just remember the last time I talked to my partner about the cordyceps fungus that was able to control insects, but now controlled humans by disfiguring their bodies and handling them. I had gone everywhere my group could be, but I never found them only finding signs that they had aborted the place.

Today was just another day, walking through the silent streets, I was armed and equipped with a backpack with my belongings inside. I was tired, sometimes I talked to myself and looked like a crazy person, but no one would see me act like one anyway. I walked into a huge pharmacy, it was clearly already ransacked, but I could find something. I walked through the dark corridors looking at each state, I grabbed what seemed useful to me, when I reached a stable I found a first aid kit closed and it seemed unused.

"Bingo..."

I muttered to myself reaching out and grabbing the first aid kit, but a voice behind me alerted me.