As they approached the superblock, Arnold realized that he was still dying, so he needed a potion. For some reason, he hadn't found any special packages that hadn't been opened in the building he was in. He suspected this had something to do with the Breeder, so he plucked up his courage and spoke to him.
"I need a health potion."
The Breeder looked at Arnold.
"What is that?"
"It's a vial of liquid that is capable of healing wounds. Without one of those I'll end up dying."
The Breeder continued on his way. Arnold thought the zombie would let him die, but after a moment he spoke to it again.
"Do you think it works on zombies too? Talk to me only through our mental connection, I don't want the Siamese to find out."
Arnold was confused. Siamese? What was the Breeder talking about? After a moment of silence, he decided to answer.
"I don't know, but I do know that they work on me and I am part zombie, so there is a chance they will work. The only problem is that after healing you will feel exhausted and very hungry."
Luna thought this was indeed a problem, but it's the best option to win over the Siamese.
Luna had never felt so weak as it did at this moment. The situation was so dire that it suspected that if Arnold was fully healed, it wouldn't be able to win against him. Luna could feel itself beginning to heal, but the process was slow. It would be better to find one of those potions and try it.
"Where can I get one?" Luna asked Arnold.
"In the special packages that were originally from the humans. They are white boxes that you should have seen."
Luna immediately understood what he meant. They seemed to be everywhere, so it ordered the Windwalkers to accumulate them and move them out of its sight.
This had turned out to be a bad decision, as Luna had no idea where the Windwalkers had accumulated the packs and now they were all dead.
Luna thought about where it could get one and luckily came up with an idea. The breeder hadn't explored many apartments in the haven and it was sure that in one of them he could find a package.
"Listen to me, Arnold…"
At first Arnold was surprised that the Breeder used his name, but he soon focused on the words that followed. The zombie explained what had happened and the problem it had with the Siamese zombie, which seemed to be planning something.
Arnold swallowed hard, the situation was worse than he imagined, but if he wanted to survive he would have to help the Breeder and kill the Siamese. He remembered seeing the zombie, but didn't know its abilities.
Luna and Arnold discussed how to proceed, and by the time they reached Block 2, they had a concrete plan. The Breeder would concentrate on trying to free itself from the doomed haven, while Arnold would try to find a health potion in the nearby rooms.
The problem was that neither of them knew where the Siamese were. Luna had an idea of how to attempt an attack, but for that it would have to recover a little more energy.
Arriving at the superblock parking lot, Luna ran into another problem. Its instincts knew that the haven was lost, so they were screaming loudly at Luna to go out and kill all the humans. The Breeder resisted this temptation and approached the entrance slowly.
Upon entering the haven, Luna screamed so loudly that it got all the Stalkers in the building to freeze in fear. However, the call of its instincts was so strong that the Breeder couldn't do much more for Arnold. It left the infected and Shadow on the floor and sat down, closed his eyes and concentrated entirely on fighting its instincts.
Arnold got up from the ground with difficulty, he was still bleeding. He gathered his strength and headed for the first apartment. He hoped to find a special package on the first floor, as he doubted he had any strength left to go up one floor.
Meanwhile, Luna tried to resist its instincts. The Breeder had done it before, so it decided to repeat the experience, but it didn't have the same result. Closing its eyes helped Luna to concentrate, so it began to resist harder and harder. It couldn't explain very well what happened, but at some point, he went into a strange trance.
Luna opened its eyes and found itself in the parking lot of the superblock, but everything was different. There was much less mess around her, everything seemed orderly, as if a battle had never happened anywhere, as if the world was at peace. However, there were shadows. They were hundreds and hundreds of dark, opaque silhouettes of Stalkers that occupied the entire parking lot on all sides and stared at him. The Breeder approached one of them and attacked it, but his hand passed through it without doing anything to it. He watched the shadow for a while longer, until something caught his attention to the left.
A shadow in the parking lot suddenly disappeared. This was enough to make Luna realize that some shadows were steadily disappearing. The Breeder approached all the nearby shadows and it didn't take it long to notice that some were different, as if they were other types of zombies. Luna began to suspect that what it was observing were the zombies that inhabited its shelter and that they were constantly dying.
This gave The Breeder an idea. As it watched the shadows, its instincts kept pressing, but it decided to ignore this completely and start looking everywhere for a specific shadow. To Lunas's surprise, it had to walk out of the parking lot to the front buildings. There, to its dismay, the zombie shadows were disappearing at an alarming rate.
Luna continued its search and it wasn't long before it found itself in front of the shadow of the Siamese. This zombie's shadow was larger than its actual form. Luna thought for a moment that this was the place where they were hiding, but realized that this made no sense. There were no Stalkers in the parking lot, but there were hundreds of their shadows in this place.
Luna circled the Siamese's shadow again and again, trying to think of something to do. Finally, The Breeder approached it and try to touch it with its hands. In that position, Luna concentrated on thinking about the zombie and trying to make a connection. To that end, its instincts proved useless, as they continued to push The Breeder in another direction with ever-increasing force. Luna didn't have much time, so it tried to do something, anything.
To its luck, Luna's clumsy attempts met with limited success. Unbeknownst to it, Luna accessed the connection its shelter maintained with its inhabitants. The system had created a network of souls, all connected by recognizing each other as inhabitants of a shelter. Even the Siamese, which had not joined with sincere intent, was tied to the shelter by this bond.
Luna agreed to that connection, but, unfortunately, it was very weak and The Breeder could only use it to sense where the Siamese was. Luna averted its gaze to one of the buildings near the haven, where the annoying human who could dodge everything used to live.
Before she could experiment any further with this connection, the push of its instincts grew to an unbearable level. Luna was forced to look away and let itself be carried away by this force. Before Luna knew it, it entered the superblock, where the Breeder found a completely different scene.
The entire interior had fallen to pieces, the walls were corroded, the doors had fallen down and pieces of the ceiling were scattered on the floor, which was also eaten away. What attracted the Breeder's eye, however, were the strange stains that were everywhere.
These spots were on every surface and seemed to have life in them. They moved, trembled, and gradually ate away at the shelter as they advanced. They were also made up of hundreds of black, white and gray stripes that flickered at high speed, changed color and moved slightly.
Luna looked away from one of them, confused. It moved closer to the source of the atractive force. The Breeder noticed that as it got closer, the spots all around the place began to calm down, as if its proximity eased them.
The Breeder approached the stairs, climbed up to the fifth floor and stopped in front of an apartment. Lunawondered the reason it was this specific place, but it didn't take long to remember. It was the place where it had appeared, where it had started its life just a few days ago. Curiosity got the better of Luna, who opened the door with a punch and, just as the Breeder remembered doing in the past, walked in.