How Zombies Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 230

The streets were filled with zombies as much as when the zombie outbreak first occurred, or perhaps even more.

Queens, which had been finding some stability, turned into hell again.

Endless gunshots, zombies running towards the sound.

Hell unfolded once more.

Aiden and Jane ran.

Zombies relentlessly pressed their mad cries and disgusting teeth towards the two heading for the research facility.

The two pulled the trigger incessantly towards the rushing zombies.

The zombies’ life or death didn’t matter; they just shot at the zombies blocking their way and fed bullets to those closely following behind.

Due to the constantly rushing zombies, the two’s stamina was already starting to hit rock bottom.

They planted bullets in the zombies rushing in front of them and shook off the following zombies with all their might.

After running for a while, the two, having shaken off the pursuing zombies, entered a building where no zombies were visible to catch their breath.

"Huff... huff..."

"Seems like we’ve come about halfway... phew."

Aiden quickly assessed their current position.

Jane was breathing heavily as if she might pass out.

"There are too many zombies, Aiden."

Jane said, barely catching her breath.

"We have no choice but to break through..."

Crash!

Click!

Something fell over and entered the building.

Aiden instantly raised his gun muzzle to pull the trigger, but the fallen something hurriedly spoke.

"It’s, it’s me! Aiden! It’s Sean!"

"Sean?"

Aiden lowered his gun.

"You’re alive?"

"Sean, I’m glad you’re safe!"

The two were glad to see Sean, but they couldn’t approach him.

Even in the dark state, Sean’s condition was a mess.

The wounds visible through the gaps in his torn clothes.

Because they didn’t look like wounds just from falling.

Aiden slowly raised his pistol.

"Sean, I’m really sorry in this situation, but... were you bitten?"

"N-no! These are wounds from crawling through small gaps in collapsed buildings while running for my life!"

Jane, hearing Sean’s words, tried to approach to check his wounds, but was stopped by Aiden’s hand.

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"Wait, Jane."

Sean spread his arms wide as if feeling wronged.

"L-look! If I had been bitten, I wouldn’t be fine now, would I?"

That was true. Quite some time had passed since they separated from Sean, and if he had been bitten during that time, the mutation would have already occurred.

But strangely, Aiden couldn’t easily let go of his suspicion.

"Haah... Sean, the situation is really bad right now. You understand, right?"

"I know well that you can’t help but be suspicious. I was hiding in a corner of the opposite building watching the situation, and when I saw you enter here, I followed."

Only then did Aiden lower his pistol.

"I’m glad you’re alive, Sean."

Jane welcomed Sean once again.

"Sean. We need to return to the research facility as soon as possible. Can you move?"

Although he had let go of his suspicion, Aiden’s voice was stiff.

Because he couldn’t forget the sight of Sean’s back as he ran away, abandoning the two.

He knew he might have done the same in that situation, but once can easily become twice.

They had caught their breath for a moment and rejoined with Sean, so they had to head straight for the research facility.

Aiden stepped out to the building’s entrance first.

And he looked around, but it was difficult to clearly assess the outside in the dark state.

Trying to detect if there were zombies around by sound as much as possible, there seemed to be no sign of zombies nearby.

"Let’s go. Jane will take the lead. Sean, please stay in the middle. I’ll follow you two from the very back."

Seeing the two nod, Aiden gestured.

Jane started first, then Sean behind her, and finally Aiden closely followed the two.

The three ran side by side on the dark night road. In between, some zombies that sensed human presence rushed in, but since Aiden had picked up a sturdy iron pipe in the building, he easily dealt with one or two zombies.

It was almost there.

If they ran a little more, the research facility would be visible.

Jane, who had been running for a while, stopped and raised her hand to stop the two.

"Shh!"

Sean was about to say something, but quickly closed his mouth at Jane’s appearance.

Aiden passed by Sean and stood next to Jane, looking in the direction she was gesturing.

"...!"

The rooftop of the research facility was visible.

And the lights on the visible floors below were still shining, but the problem was the movement visible inside.

’Zombies... are inside the research facility!’

Aiden groaned.

Then Sean pushed Aiden aside and looked towards the research facility.

"...! La-Lyla! Liv!"

Sean pushed the two aside and ran.

"Sean!"

Jane called out to stop Sean, but he didn’t seem to hear.

Then Jane suddenly ran after him.

"Jane?! Damn it!"

Aiden had no time to stop her.

He could only follow her.

As Sean ran shouting madly, zombies around the research facility started rushing in.

Not just one or two, but at least 10 or more zombies.

"Sean! Wait! Sean!"

Jane struggled to follow Sean and grabbed his shoulder.

"Let go!!"

Sean roughly shook off Jane.

And he committed an unimaginable act.

Thud.

He strongly pushed Jane into the zombies rushing at him.

"Sean?!"

Jane is pushed away.

The zombies rushing behind her flash their teeth.

Aiden was watching all of this.

As if in slow motion, he sees Jane being caught by the zombies.

Jane’s face was visible.

In that situation, Jane looked at him.

And then, she smiled.

"Ah... Ahhh!!!"

Bang bang bang bang!

"Jane!! Jane!!"

Aiden fired his gun like crazy.

Changing magazines, he poured out bullets.

Aiden killed all the zombies that had crushed Jane.

And he rushed in and started clearing away the zombies.

"Jane...! Jane...!!"

Aiden couldn’t come to his senses.

What on earth was happening?

After clearing away all the zombies, Jane’s terribly bitten and torn appearance was visible.

"Ai...den."

Jane called Aiden with difficulty.

Aiden grabbed her hand with trembling hands and caressed her face.

"Jane... What is this. You, you can’t leave me, Jane...!"

"...Ai...den. Kill... me. Before... I... bite... you..."

Jane spoke, struggling to hold onto consciousness.

Aiden just shed tears endlessly.

"Ple...ase... Aiden..."

"This is... too cruel, Jane... Why on earth...!"

Aiden felt like he was going crazy.

It was instantaneous.

He didn’t even have time to do anything.

Aiden felt Jane’s touch.

"Cough! Ple...ase..."

Jane looks at Aiden, coughing up blood.

Her whole body started to writhe as if she was beginning to mutate.

"I’m sorry, Jane... I, I just can’t..."

Jane’s mutation is nearing its end.

"Urrgh... uh... Ai... uhhh."

She raised her body.

Black liquid flowed from the red blood on her body torn here and there.

Jane embraced Aiden.

And.

Chomp!

She bit Aiden’s neck.

He painfully aimed the gun so that his and Jane’s heads overlapped.

"I love you... Jane."

Bang!

Thud.

The two collapse.

Embracing each other.

Aiden’s consciousness fades away.

His life as an ordinary doctor, the happy days spent with Jane, the days they struggled together in the research facility after the zombie outbreak occurred, all flash by.

And Aiden’s consciousness darkened.

* * *

Darkness was engulfing Aiden’s vision.

Time passes.

It’s impossible to know how much time has passed.

Aiden suddenly thought he might be in the afterlife.

’I’m thinking?’

Aiden realized that he was thinking.

’Can I open my eyes?’

As soon as Aiden thought that, he was able to open his eyes.

The world was visible.

He tried to raise his body.

"Ah..."

Jane’s corpse was visible in his arms.

However much time had passed, parts of the body were rotting.

Aiden gently placed Jane aside and looked at his hands.

Skin that looked discolored, with a greenish hue.

It was the skin color of a zombie.

"Did I... become a zombie? But my consciousness?"

Aiden shook his head and looked at Jane’s corpse again.

He couldn’t think of anything.

He just thought that the person he loved had become a zombie corpse lying there.

Aiden stood up and looked around.

Some zombies pass by him.

They glanced at him moving, but just passed by indifferently as if dealing with another zombie.

The ruined appearance of the research facility was also visible.

He carefully picked up Jane’s corpse. He hardly felt any weight.

He couldn’t understand at all what state his body was in.

"A zombie with consciousness? Was there such a type?"

Aiden just trudged to the research facility carrying Jane’s corpse.

The first thing he did was bury Jane’s corpse in a place right next to the research facility.

He spent a long time making a grave and placed Jane’s corpse there.

"I love you, Jane."

After covering the grave with soil, he then entered the research facility.

Several zombies were wandering inside the research facility as well.

He went up to the second floor.

-Kuuuh.

Sean was visible.

He had become a zombie too.

Anger should be rising, but Aiden himself felt nothing.

"Emotions... don’t seem to be felt."

Even if he felt no emotions, he had to do what needed to be done.

Looking at the broken bookshelves nearby, he found a sturdy-looking piece of wood.

Swing swing

Thwack!

After swinging it a few times, Aiden swung it right at Sean’s head.

Just one hit.

Sean’s head exploded.

Has his strength increased? To explode in one hit, Aiden was puzzled.

And after looking at Sean’s headless corpse for a moment, he went up to the third floor.

There, his white coat worn for research and a name tag with his full name ’Aiden Lee’ along with his photo, the hospital name ’Pittsburgh Medical Center’ and his specialty as a surgeon were placed on the desk.

Aiden went to the bathroom where there was a mirror, put on the coat, and hung the name tag around his neck.

And he looked at his face.

As decomposition had started while he was collapsed, a hideous green-skinned zombie with rotting flesh falling off was visible.

"This is... me now."

Aiden didn’t have any particular impression of his appearance.

Just the thought that he was a zombie with consciousness, that’s all.

After tidying his clothes, Aiden looked around the third floor.

Zombies were still visible around, but what he was looking for wasn’t there.

Finally, he went up to the rooftop.

Only then did he see what he had been looking for.

The appearance of a mother and daughter who had quietly embraced death in each other’s arms.

The pistol placed at her feet seemed to explain the situation at that time.

Aiden left them as they were and came back down to the second floor.

And stopping by the room where weapons were stored, he gathered some weapons and a sturdy iron pipe and started dealing with the zombies inside the research facility.

After disposing of all the zombies, Aiden started sealing off the inside of the research facility.

He didn’t get physically tired and his strength had increased, so he could easily lift heavy objects.

He blocked the broken glass walls with various furniture and strongly blocked the entrance leading to the third floor.

Like that, it took a full day to block all entrances leading to the inside of the research facility, and then he stood blankly outside.

"Now... what should I do?"

Jane is gone.

Only the primal worry about having to continue living remained.

He slowly walked around the research facility.

Anyway, with nothing to interfere, he slowly organizes his thoughts.

Thud

A motorcycle, slightly damaged but in fairly good condition, was visible at his feet as he walked absentmindedly.

And the key was in it.

Aiden easily lifted the fallen motorcycle.

And he tried starting it.

Vroom!

It starts well.

Zombies reacted to the motorcycle’s engine sound and approached him, but they just stared at him without attacking.

Aiden looked around the motorcycle.

Seeing a helmet with a visor and all black in color scattered around, he picked it up and pulled it tightly over his head.

"For now... shall I return to Pittsburgh?"

Vrooom!

The motorcycle roars with a rough engine sound as it speeds away.

Putting aside for a moment his worries about what kind of life he should live now.

He heads towards Pittsburgh where he lived.

To find a way to live as a zombie in this world that has become an apocalypse.

Side Story. The Beginning of the Zombie Outbreak [End]