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EMERGENCY ALERTA NEW TYPE OF VIRUS IS SPREADING FAST AROUND THE HOST. IT IS ADVISED THAT THE HOST VACATE EVERY PUBLIC AREA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE; CONTINUOUS STAYING IN PUBLIC AREAS MAY CAUSE THE HOST TO BE INFECTED.He got a red notification from the system, which is a severe warning. He'd usually get a blue or purple alert, not red. The sudden information about the virus spreading around him changed his mood, which was noticeable to his co-workers."Are you okay? is everything fine at home?" Dave askedHe contemplated whether to tell him the reason behind his mood change or look for another reason'Should I wait for the government to announce or tell them?'"THE SYSTEM HAS NOTICED THE HOST IS IN A STATE OF INNER TURMOIL AND ADVISES THE HOST TO TELL HIS CO-WORKERS ABOUT THE VIRUS AND WHETHER IT IS UP TO THEM TO BELIEVE OR NOT"Thank you "The preparation for dinner was going on, so the restaurant hadn't opened to customers yet." Hmm... I need to tell you all something important can you all please come out" he announced loudly to get everyone's attention." You look grim. Are you okay?""Yeah.... no, I'm not; my uncle, who's in the military, sent me a video and some inside information; there has been a virus that outbreaks that's Turning people into Zombies, and this is spreading faster than the last one so there will be a state of emergency soon. Here I can prove it to you."He played the video his uncle sent, and it played for about seven minutes, showing soldiers shooting at the zombies and how they were rushing to evacuate the citizens away from the vicinity." Fuck!""This is some movie shooting, right? It's not absolute." Zombie virus outbreak .... you've got to be kidding me."" Yeah, I also felt the same way you did when I first heard about it, and I honestly wanted to believe it was a prank, but this is real, so real that we might see some as we go home; you all might think I've gone nuts, or something but this is true" Eagan explained." I know it is true. I also got a similar message from my brother in the military; he warned me to get food and stay away from school or lock myself in without allowing anyone in, " Nora, one of the waitresses, explained." Jeez. I honestly don't want to turn into a zombie!"" First, you'll all have to stack up on food and medical supplies, and secondly, if you can't defend yourself against the stay in the door and never open to people! Until the Military sends out rescue teams, I don't think we will have them in our city yet, so we all still have enough time to get those supplies, " Eagan explained." Alright, we won't open for the day. You all should prepare yourselves for the outbreak... hopefully every one of you will be alright, and please stay safe!" Bar said to them"I came with my car today. I can drive us all to the shopping mall," Dave volunteered as they closed the restaurant." Eagan, thank you for the information, so please stay safe out there; you can stay with me if you don't have anywhere to Stay same goes for all of you, " Bar suggested" There won't be a need for me to stay with my grandmother; thanks for the invite."" As long as the internet is up, we should all keep in touch," Nora said, and they all parted ways; Eagan went home while the others went with Dave to the shopping mall.'YOU GET 100 POINTS FOR INFORMING PEOPLE ABOUT THE DOOMSDAY '"I get points for informing people?"" You also get points for saving a life. Also, my purpose is to help save humanity from being wiped out." Although he isn't sure what the system is, from what he can see, he knows that the system is on the human side.Before going home, Eagan decided it was time to inform his best friend about the virus and apocalypse.Upon getting to silver's house, he met him rushing out of his house" Where are you rushing to?" Eagan asked" Oh, you are here? Get in. I was going to yours."" Since you came to mine, do I still need to get in the car? "" It's urgent, so please get in. I'll explain things to you as we go. By the way, why are you here? Shouldn't you be at work this time, or did you quit? well, it's a good thing if you did," Silver rambled as he started the car" I have something to tell you," Eagan said calmly" So do I .... mine is bad news, so you might want to go first."" Mine is the worst news. Do you want to hear it?"" Spill it "" There is another virus outbreak, and it's worse."" I was about to tell you that ... I'm going out to buy things to use while we are on a lockdown... I'm Scared E ... the world is just recovering from a pandemic, and then this ... do you think it's a way for nature to tell us we've overstayed our welcome on earth?" Silver asked with a worried voice as he drove through the unsuspecting street, Eagan who didn't know what to say to his friend's confession of fear and kept quiet"..."" Do you think it's time to keep quiet, you asshole? I just told you I'm scared shitless shouldn't you try to comfort Me or something?"" Nothing I say can change the situation we are in right now; I'm also scared of the unknown. We'll have to focus on living each day, hoping it goes away like the last one without much damage.""I hate that you always have a point... How is it? Where will you and your grandmother stay? You can stay at ours."" The basement, it's enough for Me, Nina, and grandma."" Yes, I just got an idea. I never thought of using the basement like that.""I'm not surprised; you never think."" Hey, it won't kill you to be nice to your best friend for once, or do you have any other best friend?!"For the nth time since he got the system, he went shopping for food with his best friend in preparation for the doomsday that was already knocking at their door. He advised his best friend to stay in the door and told him that if there was any trouble, they could stay with them; the two friends separated and promised to keep in touch as long as the internet was up. "THERE'S A PROBABILITY THAT YOU'D NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN," the system said once they parted, and Eagan felt pained. "I know, but I can't protect everyone. At least, that's what I have been telling myself since I knew the world would face a disaster. I'll do everything I can to protect the people I love." Hearing that the system kept quiet When he got home, he met his grandmother in their living room with her doctor beside her. His grandmother's mother looks ghostly pale compared to how she was in the morning went he left home. " Hello, Dr. Becca," he greeted the doctor and sat across them "Hello, Eagan; how have you bee
"Your parents would have been proud of you If they were here" She held his hand tightly, her face and voice full of sad emotions, he swallowed the tears building up in his throat and replied "You always told me they're watching over me." "Of course, they are... I converted all the assets belonging to myself and your parents to money, you'll probably not need them during this time, but you'll need them once all this is over. The base can house ten thousand people at most, it has farmland for raw food and life stocks, and there are people there who have been taking care of everything; leave Nina to supervise them once you move in. I talked to Becca; she'll move into the base as a doctor, and one last thing. Nina isn't human; she's an AI." Eagan looked surprised; the lady he had lived with all these years wasn't human. Is this a joke, or was he just not attentive enough to notice? " Are you being serious? You told me she was an orphan you picked up!" The grandmother sighed and shook
Several lives would be saved thanks to his parents thinking all this through. Eagan picked up the box his parents left for him and tried to open it, but it didn't budge; suddenly, a needle came out of the keyhole and pricked his fingertip, drawing out don't blood. SCANNING BLOOD SAMPLE A mechanical voice came out of the box, startled Eagan, and he almost dropped it. SCAN COMPLETED DNA MATCHED... SELF-DESTRUCT MODE DISENGAGED. The setup amazed Eagan, and he thought, "what a brilliant invention; I mean, it was going to self-destruct if it was someone else who got it; how amazing." With all this, he was happy he wasn't sharing a room with anyone, as Nina and silver had separate rooms. The first thing he noticed as he opened the box was a written letter addressed to him. HEY THERE KIDDO, Happy eighteenth birthday from your handsome dad and beautiful mum. We hope you've been well and haven't been giving your grandmother a hard time. I'm sure you've grown up to be a fine young man l
" There's a supermarket around that corner to the left; hopefully, we'll stop there to get some resources; it hasn't been looted completely. We'll be divided into five groups, and each group will be led by one of your trainers; one group will be on the lookout for intruders and zombies while two groups will go into the supermarket to gather resources, and the other two will go into the surrounding houses to check for survivors " Adam instructed. Everyone got assigned to their groups of four persons per group and stepped out of the bust to carry out the mission given to them. Matt, a Trainer, leads Eagan's group, and the members are Eagan, Shannon, a lady who worked on the farm on the base, and Nick, Eagan's co-worker. Their team was assigned to check the building opposite the supermarket for survivors, and as they got close to the building, someone shouted from the upper level. "Hey! Please help! Please help us!" It was a blue-haired boy waving his hands frantically through the wind
The two men with the knives slash and stab—the zombie's head, with Nick and Shannon assisting from the back. "I love this; let's do this often!" Nick said excitedly amidst all the shooting "I honestly thought I'd die or something while leaving the base this morning; I didn't think it'd be this enjoyable to shoot at zombies." The survivors heard their voices, and the commotion from outside began packing their things so as not to time the rescue team after killing the zombies. They packed all the necessary items, such as food, clothes, toiletries, and photo albums. Eagan knocked on the door after killing off all the zombies "Hey, anybody in there? He asked, and the door opened immediately, revealing the blue-haired boy from earlier. "Hello," he greeted firmly "You were the one who called us the other time?" "Yes, that was me; I'm sorry for attracting the zombie to you," the boy, who looked frail and young, bowed his head. "It's okay." " Can you please take my sisters to your ba
" I never knew Festus taught you how to shoot," Adam comments as they shoot at the zombie covering the survivors to safety. "Huh? you know Uncle Festus?" Eagan asked, surprised that Adam knew his uncle, but 'it shouldn't have been too surprising as uncle Festus was also involved in the building of the base,' he thought " Of course, I'm very familiar with him. After all, he was our trainer alongside Marcus .... You might not know this, but everyone you met on the base had nothing when we met your grandmother; she gave us a place to stay and a purpose to live for ... and in return, we promised to serve you till our last breath." Eagan felt touched by the confession made by Adam and was stunned for a few seconds. " I'm sorry ... I didn't know anything ... I was just informed about all this on her dying bed, and everything seems new to me, and I'm just barely holding on." " It's a promise she had to keep; your parents made everyone promise that you'd have a normal childhood and you wo
Eagan aimed for its head with his guns while others continued the assault on his stomach; even though the weakness was in the stomach, it kept moving around. He shot at it twice, and from each gun and with the four bullets to the head and belly, they became weak. It growled out in pain, and the surrounding zombies began to gather " Fuck! We are surrounded! " " I'm out of ammo, and so are most people." " We can't relax yet if we don't want to be food for the zombies." With one last shot, Eagan finished the level two zombie, and they fought the horde surrounding them. They sat down in exhaustion when the zombies were cleared " I take it back. I don't want to do this every day ... I'm so tired," Nick said with a groan " Although it's tiring, it's fun." " Fun, my ass, it's so disgusting." " I'm aware we are all tired from just now, but we'll need to clear out the road and the zombies. We need to burn them," Adam instructed, resulting in a series of unpleasant complaints and groan
"The building at the front is for the male survivors, the one at the back is for the females, opposite genders are not allowed into each other's living quarters, if you are found, you'll be punished accordingly," Eagan explained further. " But what about married couples?" someone asked. "The third building is for couples; you can stay with your family in one apartment; I hope you understand it's for security reasons. The doctor's quarters are right behind the infirmary; you won't have to travel daily between the living quarters and the infirmary. You can stay in the living quarters since we have fewer people around. Also, note that privileges will be given based on your contribution to the development of the base; at a later time, we'll discuss the rest of the rules with you all once I welcome you." The people separated into different groups to get registered for the professions they were interested in. At the end of their registration, there were two doctors, four student doctors,