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    Almost at the dark, a van comes at the radio station who was earlier this day raided by a group of four survivors. The van it is exactly the same as the one who was used to block the entrance of the radio building. Jon and Raoul are getting out from there, they are walking to the backside of the building. As they''ve got there, they see the corpse of their friends, all rotted and with flies flying above them.


    Jon is getting his colleague corpse from his feet, he drags him to the van. Raoul grabs his brother by both of his hands and carries him to the van. They walk for a few minutes and as they got into the van, they put these two corpses there, then they put a big blank to hide the corpses and the rotten smell of it.


    They close the van backdoors where their friends'' bodies are hidden, and after that, before they would be able to get back to the van and leave the area, they hear growls of zombies. Both of them are turning to the direction where the growls are coming from, which is on their backs, and see more than ten zombies coming at them. Raoul and Jon are quickly entering the van, Jon goes on the driver seat, and he drives the car to Jon''s house.


    "These things are getting on my nerves." says Raoul looking at the reflecting window to see the zombie groups following them in slow steps.


    "Do not worry. If we get at the house, we will shoot these creatures." says Jon continuing to drive and paying no attention to the creatures following them in slow peace.


    As the van drives away, the creatures continue to walk after them. Some are walking on their two legs, and a few of them are crawling because either they had their legs broken, one of them or they were having broken legs before they have become mutants. From that group of zombies walking to the road, a creature is running on four feet like a dog to the van, he screams and growls like a crazy hobo man who is into drugs that found in the nearest dumpsters.


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    A few hours later, the duo are at their house, they have finished burying their friends'' bodies. Raoul''s brother body is buried next to a tree, while the body of Andrew is buried next to Gregory. When they finished the burial, they are letting a minute of silence to remember the good times they''ve had with them their whole life.


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    After a while, Jon goes into the house, installing the radio and make it work. Raoul decides to remain outside for a bit, looking at the grave he digs for his big brother who has suffered a painful death. Being eaten by seven creatures is a worse fate, but not as worse than seeing his own parents, becoming parents and killing them. Raoul takes a sigh he falls on his knees, and he starts to let the tears flown from his eyes, he begins to sob as he looks at the grave, and he yells.


    "I-I am sorry, Gregory! I am so-sorry I was not there."


    He cries and begs for God to end this thing. He does that for at least one hour, until he Jon slams the door from the inside. He has done a loud bag, and as Raoul was looking at the reaction Jon got, which was happy, he seems he got great news.


    "Good news! Somebody might be coming after us!"


    Raoul gets off from the grave of his brother and runs inside the house to hear the good news of Jon he got for him. He enters the house, and runs to the living room, where the equipment put together by Jon is. Raoul looks at Jon, who is sitting on the chair, he puts the headphones on, turns on the volume, and gets the microphone.


    "Hello!" says Jon to the microphone. "Can somebody copy my message, over?"


    "H-H-Hello." it was a voice coming from the radio under some low frequencies. "C-Can you c-co-copy the message? Over!"


    "I cannot hear you clear." says Jon on the radio feeling a little worried. "Over."


    "T-There is a… There is a blackout in progress on France." says the man from the other side, being much clearer now.


    "What?" says Jon extremely worried. "What blackout? When it will happen?"


    "I-In three days." says the voice. "The blackout will be happening in three days. Please, whatever you do, do not- "it suddenly cuts the signal.


    "Hello." says Jon worried on the microphone connected at the radio. "Hello! Do you copy me? Over! Hello! Can you hear me? Over!"


    They look at the radio for a few moments. Raoul and Jon are already feeling overwhelmed and scared by the fact the electricity from France it will be cut out in a few days. Jon stops the radio signal, and he gets off from his chair, and talks to Raoul.


    "Luckily we have a generator. But it only works on gas. And I do not have enough gas to make it working for a few weeks or days. We will be needing some gas."


    "Where we can take it?" asks Raoul.


    "There are a few gas stations close here. We will be taking at the next day the van and drive there, where we will be taking the necessary gas for the generator. until then, we should rest."


    "We need gas only for electricity?"


    "Not only for that. To electric fence. Alarm system and the radio." he showed him the radio which is installed complete.


    They are leaving the room, and gets outside where they are going to do check to see if the turrets are on, the electric fence works properly and turn on the alarm system. After this checking, they are going into the house, they close and lock the door behind them, and they go to their rooms. Sleeping because today was a busy and a sad day to live.