Twenty-one hours ago, in Uzice, Serbia, on the abandoned outpost, the three survivors, Dragan, Milan and Goran, have finished their talking with the rescuers from the island, and now, they are barricading the room, and arm themselves with anything sharp enough to be a weapon. At the discussion, the one person who was talking to them, has told them a squad will be coming to make the extraction and establish a new outpost, but he also said it will take a few hours until the said squad will arrive. About twenty or so hours.


    Milan and Goran are on the ground floor, blocking the main door by pushing furniture from the other apartments. They pushed a large, two desks and an even a big round table from a kitchen to be sure the main door wouldn''t be open by the things outside called zombies, or by that Priest who is still hunting them down.


    "We''ve finished." says Milan to Goran after they moved the table to the door to use it a blockage.


    Both of them are admiring the blockage they''ve made, and after about a minute of looking at the blockage, the two people are going upstairs, to the room where Dragan is situated, checking on the streets via window to see if there will be some kind of meat-eating creature outside of the streets. Outside, the sun is about to be raising from its slumber, illumining the wrecked abandoned outpost.


    The two survivors have entered the room where Dragan is looking on the window. Goran tells Dragan.


    "We''ve blocked the main entrance."


    "Good." says Dragan turning around to his mates. "Outside zombies have started to raise."


    He let Milan and Goran look at the window, to see the zombies raising from the street and start walking on the street, or just standing up and looking at the Sun. Milan observes a corpse of zombie who cannot get up due to its legs who have been severely cut from its body, the thing is looking skinny like a human who hasn''t eaten for two weeks, on the brick of dying.


    "That thing is dying." says Milan to the zombie on the street.


    The other two people are looking at the zombie that was pointed by Milan.


    "It''s crazy how some zombies could die to starvation." says Dragan to the three people. "But I don''t get how others can survive fine without any nutrients."


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    "Maybe it depends on their virus?" asks Goran.


    "Or infected." says Milan.


    "I feel bad for this one." says Dragan. "Probably he had a good life here. A wife and a kid, maybe."


    "Unlike us." says Goran in a joke. "


    "Yeah…" says Milan.


    Then, the group spotted on the window, a zombie, who is climbing a building to the other side of the street. The group quickly realize this place is infested with Climbers, so they immediately back away from the window, and starts covering the window to not be spotted by these annoying infected. One time they''ve dealt with this, and Milan almost died if it wasn''t for Zoran who severed the hands of the thing.


    "That was a close one." says Milan to his people after they''ve covered the window.


    "Yes…" says Dragan looking back on the covered window. "These things are getting worse, and worse each day."


    "Agreed."


    The three people are going to another apartment, checking to see if they could find anything useful to help them survive longer. As they checked the living room of the apartment, Goran finds a mobile phone, he tries to turn on, but its hope vanishes as he observes the device shows the sign of not battery. He puts the phone back on the table and continues its searching''s with his friends.


    Dragan enters a kitchen room, in there he sees a map of Uzice city, he looks on it, and sees a lot of red circles and green circles on the map. On the red circles it is written words like "Infected", "Risk of dying", "Gone", while on the red is written only one word, "Safe". On the map there were about five green circles, and the zone of Uzice, where the three people are, indicates the green mark. Dragan sees a piece of paper on the table, that piece of paper states only islands names, about twenty of them. Some of the names of these islands were hard for the three people to read it or even try to pinpoint it on the map because these three were having bad marks on Geography back when they were in school.


    "Found something?" asks Goran coming in the kitchen where Dragan is.


    "Only a map with safe places." says Dragan to Goran looking on the map. He sees a red marker near the left edge of the table, he takes it and scribbles the word "Safe" from a green one, and writes "Dead". Then, he puts the marker on the map, and leaves the map. Continues its searching on the shelves with Goran.


    "Canned food." says Goran to Dragan after he found a box of canned food that contains pork meat. He opens the box, and from there he takes a small can that has pork meat in there. "I used to hate to arrange these things."


    "Me too." says Dragan. "But we used to buy them when we were on low on College."


    "Yeah… Bad thing none of us managed to graduate from it."


    "Whatever happens, happens." says Dragan. "That''s a way my Father used to told me when he found out I quit college."


    "Mine almost disowned me." says Goran putting the item back, he takes the box from there and moves it to the table, where he let it there, and continues to search the apartment for useful stuff to extend their survival time.