I followed Scott and Abigail out of the staffroom. Scott went to the stage and took out the microphone. Just as he was going to talk, I stopped him. "What are you doing?" Scott said angrily. "The zombies are sensitive to sound, the second you speak the entire mountain will start covering zombies." I said those calmly as I understand he is stressed. He said "Thank you."
He quickly took out his phone and typed out something and students and teachers started coming down from classrooms. They all looked surprised at seeing me. Then they remembered that I left them.
All of them then started accusing me of leaving them. The teachers started telling the students to calm down and let me speak my explanation for leaving them.
It did not work as they kept on shouting. I took out my bag and took out a grenade.
When they saw the grenade, they were scared. One brave student asked me shakingly, " What are you going to do with that grenade?". I replied "It's not a grenade though it looks like one." Everyone was going to accuse me before I started speaking. " This is a smoke grenade which is filled with the virus that caused the rats to itch the rash on their body so bad they started bleeding but the itch did not stop. It worsened every second."
When I stopped speaking they were terrified looking at the grenade in my hand. I continued and said "If you calm down and listen to my explanation, I will not throw the grenade at you all." After hearing me they started making them look as calm as possible. I started my explanation " When I heard the alarm, I started thinking. Knowing the majority of you will panic and the minority will follow them. I started looking at the vehicles. From the report I heard there are 334 students and 14 teachers and 1 principal. The lunch lady and other supporting members of the school will only come here after 12pm. The vehicles will probably be enough for all of you to go to the shelter. So I drove my bike and took some supplies and came to school to get students who couldn't escape the school." After saying the explanation they all looked a little suspicious but the smart ones already did the math and said it's true. Still a small number of students are still suspicious but most of them follow the majority.
I then said "As you all know I am a biochemist. I work in a lab and you know the projects I do. I will try to find the cure or vaccine for this virus but I need a zombie to examine their body. I also need small animals to conduct tests to see whether the vaccine worked or not. If all of you help I will help increase the percentage of people surviving in this incident. I can't guarantee that you all will survive but it's better to follow me rather than dying after surviving 6 months."
They started murmuring and finally the representative of each grade agreed to work with me. The teacher followed them as well.
I then announced "I will later choose 20 students and they will work with me." Scott dismissed the students and all the teachers and Scott asked me to follow them to the staffroom to discuss the plan for the future.
When they entered they looked at me as if I already had a plan. I sighed and said "I propose that the students eat the food in the cafeteria in minimum quantities for survival. Same plan for water. After the food and water is over. I will distribute the canned food I have. If that is not enough, me and the students who are deemed fit mentally and physically will get supplies from supermarkets. Then we will get supplies whenever we need them. Before that we need to figure out how to kill the zombies. I propose I will select the students and go out to try and kill a zombie. Does anyone have any other ideas?"
They were fine with the idea as they couldn't think of the idea. Then a teacher asked the question "Does anyone know why the principal left us?"
Then they looked at me as if I knew the answer. I then sighed again and said "I think it's because a bus alone will have more chance of escaping than a group of vehicles. He took the rich kids because their parents had a higher chance of survival because of their planes and helicopters. He probably thought the parents of those students would help him cover up this in case any of us or the parents of other students survived."
"Then why didn't he take Thomas Lancaster . His family is also rich." Another teacher asked.I asked another question back "What's his personality like?"
The teacher answered, "He is quite smart and he has always helped other students if they have any trouble."
"That's the answer to your question. Since he is smart and kind, he will probably tell his parents about this. They will probably take legal action against the principal. Do you think he will want to take such a huge risk."
Scott who was in deep thought before said this "We need to up our security more. We need to get more weapons for everyone. So I propose the idea that we form a group and get the weapons within three days. The discussion was finished after 1 and a half hours.
I then went to the science lab and checked what all was in there. It did not have all the things I hoped for but it was ok.
I took a break and started thinking about these events and what all to do. I have to get a group ready for battling zombies within three days and get enough weapons for all of us and more importantly get the materials necessary for making the cure.
What a day, I went from a normal biochemist to zombie virus cure find.