Jamie crawled out and fell with a thud. The passage opened five feet above the ground. And because she couldn't see it, she fell. She dusted herself and looked here and there. Sawyer was already helping the other group. Jamie found it weird. They were all competitors. Why would he help someone else?
Jamie tried to see if anyone else needed immediate help. She found a girl lying down unattended.
She walked towards her and noticed an obvious zombie bite. This was bad. She could turn into a zombie. It depends on the bite. She quickly got some ointment from her space and prayed the girl to be okay while applying it to her neck. It looked like the zombie had tried a vampire bite.
Were zombies reading vampire books these days? Like the romance ones? Jamie then found the girl twitching and foaming. Adverse reaction from the bite. If she couldn't save her now, she would die. Jamie has seen such scenes. Most of the people died when a zombie bit them. Only a few turned into zombies. What were the criteria, they couldn't find!
They considered it a good death if they didn't turn into a zombie.
'Sister, what would you do if I got bit by a zombie?'
'I'd pray for you to not become a zombie.'
Gem curiously looked at her then.
'What if you turn into a zombie?'
'I'd want you to kill me. Never hesitate and send me to hell.'
Jamie felt her vision clouding with tears. She blinked them away. She just prayed that this girl fought with her fate and lived. She wasn't going to become a zombie. That was a relief. She then looked at the fighting people.
She wondered why the quest was too easy. Get a vine. Simple. But now she saw the challenges.
Fight mutant plants
Fight mutant animals
Fight zombies
Fight mutant zombies
Wait, mutant zombies? Why was a zombie shooting fire at them? Who was the zombie?
"Everyone, duck!"
No need to tell her. Jamie already laid herself on the ground. She didn't want even one hair of hers to be burnt.
She was already battling Grey hairs. Yes, like her previous self, her current self was getting Grey hair. Was the stress finally getting to her?
Life here was so stressful. She had seen some people with malnutrition. Apocalypse didn't allow you to survive. So no one cared how they survived. Only a few were good-looking and healthy. Not everyone had the fortune to eat well.
"Damn zombie, why is there a level seven here?"
Cursing. A lot of cursing.
So, level seven zombies here could use powers. Good to know. Good to know. Cool. Cool.
Jamie almost wanted to run away. If there were more level seven zombies, can't they not form a team and kill them all?
"Aim at its chest first. We need to stop the powers. Then it will be a normal level five zombie."
The other group leader yelled. Jamie wanted to roll her eyes. Was this zombie deaf and slow to understand? It was intelligent so their plan could be understood by the zombie too.
Sure enough, the zombie evaded all chest attacks. Now what?
"You aren't fighting?"
Who spoke?
Jamie turned around. The girl sat up.
She woke up fast.
Cute girl
The girl blushed. Then she looked shocked. Then she looked left and right.
"Yeah, they are still fighting. You should rest."
"That, sister, who are you?"
"I'm Jamie. I'm from another team. You were bitten by a zombie."
The girl was frightened.
"Stay away from me."
She tried to run. Jamie wasn't having it. She couldn't get her to move and wasted all her efforts.
"Sister, don't touch me. You will be affected."
"No, you are fine. See. You have recovered."
The girl looked everywhere and then sat a little away from Jamie.
"You mean I survived a zombie bite?"
Jamie nodded.
The girl became pale.
"Sister, don't tell anyone this. It has never happened. People will look at us like research objects."
Oh, so no one knew that zombie bites could be saved sometimes. But like the girl said, Jamie wasn't going to tell anyone and land herself in trouble. She was already keeping so many secrets. One more wouldn't hurt.
But she had to keep her mouth shut. It was easy in reality but she could utter some stuff when she was dreaming.
"Don't you want to go fight, sister?"
Jamie wanted to but she didn't. They had a good partnership. And when they fought in formations, adding someone who had no knowledge of it, it was nothing short of self-sabotage.
The girl's eyes widened.
"Sister, how old are you?"
Before nineteen, now seventeen. What to tell?
"Seventeen."
"Sister, why did you save me?"
She couldn't let someone die before her.
The girl nodded as if she just solved an age-old math question.
The zombie fight was not stopping. They weren't able to hit it in the chest and now most of them looked charred.
Because Asher and Leo didn't use their special powers, it was becoming more and more difficult.
"If only someone awakened water powers," Sawyer said while furtively looking at Jamie.
Yes, water powers. Jamie only had some water guns.
"Yeah, like something that could shoot water."
Sawyer wasn't stopping.
Jamie felt he understood her.
"I have a toy."
She took out her backpack. And miraculously brought it out. It shoots water.
Sawyer looked at all of them and wondered who was going to get it.
Jamie, the unconcerned person who absolutely didn't know that her space was granting powers, shot the water gun in a parabola. Sawyer knew that it wasn't going to end up in his direction. It was caught mid-air by the captain of the other team.
"I want to check."
He quickly poured water from his bottle into it. He didn't waste any time and shot water at the zombie who was targeting his members.
Then, a shocking spectacle occurred.