Chapter 18: The First Base
In Joe’s house, in a dirty room, full of vomit and black saliva. Joe carefully immobilized an elderly man on the floor. The old man already had the familiar red eyes of a level 1 zombie, and tried to bite him all the time while Joe tried to bring some consciousness back by talking to him.
"Dad, please calm down, we’re going to bring you back..."
"GRRR"
Rick, seeing that Joe had finally immobilized the old man on the floor, approached and used one hand to pin his head to the floor and then poured the cure potion for the ZY Virus into the man’s mouth. Soon his grunts diminished, and little by little he stopped struggling, becoming unconscious.
Joe quickly checked his pulse and breathed a sigh of relief when he confirmed that he was only unconscious. As Joe put his father on the bed, Rick opened his eyes to see if the red color of the pupils would change, but it seemed that this change would not be so fast. After making the old man comfortable, the two of them quickly cleaned the entire room.
Joe still wanted to stay by his father’s side, waiting for him to wake up, but knowing the urgency and security preparations they needed to make, he just left a note next to his bed. Rick also didn’t know how the cure would work, nor when he would regain consciousness.
As they began to move through the village, Rick saw several makeshift walls. They were made using abandoned houses to create a circle that kept the central area of the village completely blocked off. In this way, the empty houses were robust defenses. There were even overturned cars forming walls between one house and another.
But Rick knew that this method was only good at the beginning. As soon as level 2 mutant zombies appeared, and there should already be some of them around... They could easily climb these makeshift walls or simply walk through the houses, breaking down the doors with their superhuman strength.
"We have 120 survivors, The local clinic was where the worst outbreak occurred, with many sick people. But the villagers closed it from the outside, isolating the dead and infected inside..."