Chapter 13: A Major Threat
Still at SC12 University, the group of college students, led by Travis and Maggie, made a great effort to clean the cafeteria building where they were, eliminating all the zombies from the area. After all, they had convinced the students that the place was well protected and had a good supply of food and water.
Of course, this cleanup wasn’t without casualties, and after the death of so many infected, especially a strange infected with red eyes. Some medical and veterinary students asked to perform an autopsy on some corpses, in an attempt to find out some additional information about the strange disease.
Now, the most experienced student of this group, who had already started his residency at a hospital, came to meet Travis and Maggie with worried eyes. Noticing their hesitation to speak, Travis was direct.
"Just tell me what you found out, no matter how bad it is..."
"Well, without technological equipment it’s impossible to do more detailed analyses... Besides, there aren’t even basic instruments and alchemical materials needed in this building. With that, the autopsy was very simple and rudimentary, just like our initial diagnosis...
...There was nothing different about the corpses of all the monsters, other than their black saliva. So we confirmed what you said, we deduced that biting is the main means of transmission and the initial version of this virus must be airborne, since there were many corpses without signs of biting, which makes us immune to this airborne variant... As for the infected one with red eyes, we noticed much more resistant muscles in his body, almost inhuman, and near his heart, there was this."
After the young man handed Travis an asymmetrical red crystal the size of a fingernail, he excused himself and left.
Maggie, who was looking at the crystal in Travis’s hands, frowned as she realized that he was in some kind of trance as he stared at the crystal... But in a matter of seconds, he threw it into his mouth and swallowed it without hesitation.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?" She screamed, moving away from him.
He just stood there in silence for a while, then looked at both of his hands and clenched his fists tightly a few times, as if he felt something different in his strength. His eyes turned to Maggie, and a small smile appeared on his face.
"What are you talking about?"
"You swallowed that thing! Why did you do that?"