I am dead tired after Doc made me help him with his zombie resuscitation project. I don't get why do you even need to resuscitate a zombie. One, a zombie is an undead, when it is deader, we don't need it to come back from the dead undead. Get? Never mind, I know I don't make sense now, so is Doc. So far, in the camp, no one says dares tell what can Doc or cannot do. Doc does what he wants. The only who gets a say is the Boss but the Boss usually says nothing. I dread having to go back to the lab to help Doc again. Arranging severed zombie heads and matching them to headless torsos, is not exactly fun.
"You ok kid?" Limo gave me a big pat in the back. Ouch.
"He stinks of zombie guts, eww," Sze Sze giggled as she came closer to me, took a whiff and back of. The zombie horde was exterminated. Thinking back, Limo was calm in dealing with majority of those undead but as I mentioned, there were a few he missed who noticed me and came straight for me. I only learned how to work a gun like 10 seconds before. So eventually, all I could was to take flight and run, even after Limo told me not to but I wasn't ready to be zombie food. I just got here and I intend to get out alive. I ran heading to the woods, I figured I could climb any tree and wait it out.
I guess running to the woods was a bad idea because I heard more moaning noises and with trees and bushes all over, it was really difficult for me to distinguish where and if there were any zombies around and I was right damn it.
Not too soon, I was surrounded by a few zombies which began popping out here and there like mushroom. I panicked, trying to get my gun to work. It worked. I mean, I managed to start shooting but I wasn't a very good shooter in real life I realized. I did my best to shoot the approaching dead bodies. The odor, horrible. Ten times worse than sewage. How I know? I don't know, I assumed.
Being the bad shooter, I was, my ammo ran out pretty quick and that was I thought I have outrun them and I might I have to do skin contact with them. I looked around, zombie, zombie and zombie. I picked the one which looked the easiest to headbutt and escape from. Ran towards it, gave it a kick in the crotch and pushed. I don't think crotch kicks work on dead people. It staggered and fell though. I ran and shit, more zombies appeared in front of me.
I checked my arms for any signs of the game, anything to signal if I get refreshed to the start if I died by zombie attacks today. Found none so the only logical thing to do was not to take my chance by tying and to try my best survive instead. The moaning got louder which meant more of them appearing. How the heck this is happening to me?!
The tree! I forgot my original plan to climb a tree and to wait it out. I managed to find a tree and evaded enough zombies to the tree. Turned out, I wasn't a very good climber either. I blamed my childhood now for not playing out more often. I didn't know climbing a tree was this difficult. Ouch, I scrapped my knees and hands.
I did my best to climb up a branch and managed to sit on a branch. Suck that zombies! You can't get me. Well, yeah, they couldn't reach me but it didn't help my case because they know I was up the tree and as more zombies come along, well, they have the power majority to shake my tree.
I could only wait it out. They better come fast. I got worried as more zombies started to come and I thought I feel my tree shake a little. I looked around, the sun has set and the evening dusk is turning dark. I really thought I will die there.
Zombie moaning noise are annoying I tell you. It didn't stop and it will make anyone who hear it anxious. From up the tree, I could take a good look at my surrounding. The gate where Limo took me out from seemed like a side door to a fenced-up settlement. Kinda fancy since it was an autogate which let us out. The settlement is now lit up with lights. Wow, they even have watch tower over looking the fences. Probably to watch out for the zombies horde or whatever else.
I looked up the sky. Stars. Beautiful stream of stars and dark purple sky. Wow, it was beautiful. I wonder what will happen to me now.
All of this started when I was supposed to investigate a rival game for my work but somehow got sucked into this game myself and woke up to everything weird. I wondered if this is not the reality? What if a zombie apocalypse really happened in reality and somehow, I don't remember how I ended up here? I only assumed I was in a game since it's zombie apocalypse. I mean, come on. What are the odds of a zombie apocalypse happening in the real world?
I was snapped out of my thought when I heard gun sounds and shouts. The zombies trying to get me all turned to the direction of the gun sounds and gradually started heading to that direction. I saw a glimmer of hope. They must be here for me!
I didn't dare to get from the tree but the gun shots were getting nearer and occasionally, I saw sparks of light. I can even smell fire smokes and patches of fire flares. Someone is flaming these rotten walking meats.
"I'M UP HERE! HELP!" I shouted, trying to get their attention. Suddenly from below the tree I was at, I heard rustle.
Thinking it was them, I shouted again, "HEY! I'M UP HERE! HELP!" Bad idea because what emerged was not my rescue troop but another hideous looking creature with fangs, on four, eww, looks like hair coming sticking out under their mouth. Since when ugly killer creatures have moustaches. It looked up and obviously saw me and attempted to climb.
Shit! I'm gonna die!
It was struggling to climb and had great difficulties but it had great strength and was shaking the tree violently and I felt the tremble. Oh my god! This is it, I pray for my last moments to be as pain free as possible.
I heard a branch crackled. It managed to climb up to the opposite branch and turned its direction to me. Shit. I looked down, I could probably jump but not without a sprained or worse broken leg. I swallowed. It was coming nearer. My heart pumping so loud I heard my own heart beats.
"JUMP!" I looked down to who shouted at me. THE DUDE WITH THE SOOTHING VOICE!
"Jump! I'll catch you!" He wanted me to jump? Jump I will.
Without a second thought, I jump with my eyes closed. When I opened my eyes again, I was not dead, yet. Was safely nestled in his arms. Our eyes met briefly but before I could say anything else, he chucked me aside. He chucked me aside.
Standing between me and that creature, he got his weapon, something like a big laser gun and started shooting the creature. He lasered that thing a few times, it doesn't look too hurt and made it growl more aggressively.
"Duck!" Limo appeared from nowhere and chucked something like a grenade when that thing opened his mouth, stupid thing. The dude with the soothing voice shielded me and we braced for the impact.
We were hit with the huge mess; it was all purple goo. What thing has purple blood gut?
"You ok kiddo?" Limo said as he posed in front of me and the dude with the soothing voice, he pushed me off the moment the explosion subsided. Rude.
"Yeah," I said as Limo helped me up. Uncle Pob came from behind with a team or reinforcements.
"Got it all?" Uncle Pob asked, to the dude with the soothing voice of course. He nodded, "Yeah, I think that was the last one on the radar, this idiot got off lucky," the idiot, he meant me. Rude. I didn't say anything since I was still in shock and I don't think I should argue with the person who just rescued me.
"Next time kid, when I told you not to move, you don't move. A zombie horde is just child's play compared to what's in the woods," Limo patted my back hard. The dude with the soothing voice just looked at me without any expression.
"Let's head back. How's the other team?" he asked Uncle Pob. We all started walking back. I felt a wince in my left ankle. Ouch.
'Neutralized the other side, they are already back, it's only us now," Uncle Pob said and noticed me, "you walk ok?" I nodded and forced myself to continue. I have to man up too.
As we walked back, I caught the dude with the soothing voice looking at me frequently. Must be thinking what an idiot I am.
Damn it, my pen's going out of ink soon. Will write more after I get some new pens. Wait, maybe I should steal Tent's.
Signing off,
Touya369