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    In Curtea de Arge?, on a normal apartment, a door is kicked by Ron, and when it opened wide enough, a zombie raises from the bed and heads toward the one who opened the door. Ron, having his assault rifle, he shoots the thing head, and look at it how it falls on the dirty floor.


    "Seven." says Viktor in English to Ron.


    "Check this room." says Andra going inside in this apartment equipped with her knife.


    The three people are checking this apartment, located on the third floor. The ones below didn''t have anything of valuable for them. Not clothes, not ammunition, not melee weapons, not food, not even books. They all have nothing good.


    Ron goes to the room where it is supposed to be the bathroom, when he opened the door wide, he saw in that room a corpse of a dead zombie, laying on the bathtub, and having a bunch of mushrooms growing slim and decaying body.


    Thing that made Ron to quickly close the door, making the two teenagers stop their searching and look at Ron.


    "Mushrooms." says Ron in Romanian language.


    Viktor and Andra understood the signal Ron have given to them, and all of them are evacuating this apartment, and check the other apartment to see if they will find any useful supplies in there for their needs. But, like the ones below, this one was empty, and without anything useful for them to use in creating ingenious and creative close combat weapons.


    And this block, having one last floor, the team of three people are deciding to unison to check the last floor. The three are going upstairs, where they see on the stairs a head of a doll, an object that scared Viktor and Andra, who thought this was another zombie head.


    "That scared me a bit." says Ron seeing the doll, and he kicks it out of the way, falling to the ground floor, and landing on the three corpses on the lobby. "Let''s get going."


    The group continues their advancement to the fourth floor of this block, the last one of the first building they entered it.


    This floor wasn''t like any other, this floor had all of the apartment doors locked with planks and nails. From there growling, and fists beating in doors could be heard by the group of people. A thing that made all of them turn around and leave this floor, back to the third, where they all decided to get furniture pieces and drag them to the stairs leading to the fourth floor, where they can use this said objects as some sort of barricade against zombies.


    This barricade construction was an ingenious one because Ron had the bright idea to use the metal pipes from the floors as some sort of pikes for the zombies in case they will break the doors, but this may be improbable since their bodies must situate on the decay state after they were blocked in there for God knows how long.


    But a question is making the survivors keep wondering: "Who and why?".


    All wondering who was the craziest person to attract a huge number of zombies into this floor. And why he did that instead of letting them go outside.


    The three people are heading outside of this block, and they start walking toward another block, that is situated on where it is the Café that Viktor used to go in there every morning to get his three RON''s coffee with sugar and milk. They enter the backside of where was a metallic cage used as door. That said metallic cage has been taken down by Ron and Viktor who used a saw from their safe zone.


    Ron, Viktor and Andra are entering the building, and on the first room, they see in there a corpse of an elderly woman, who was eaten a long time ago by the zombies. The three survivors are entering the kitchen and in there they see two zombies who were standing still and looked at the windows outside. Viktor and with Ron are quickly jumping on the zombies, and stab their heads with their knives. The two things tried to bite the survivors who jumped on them, but they couldn''t do it because these survivors are wearing anti-bite zombie suits like everyone.


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    These anti-zombie suits aren''t the ones the people from The Organization are wearing. These present only protection on the torso, arms and legs. Their protection being metal bars sewed into clothes. While their body is protected, the head and the neck are on the risk of being attacked by a zombie or knocked unconscious.


    After the two zombies have been put down, the three survivors are searching the storages, the desk, the drawers, the fridges and under the tables. Their search was futile because this whole café had expired food that no longer could be eaten without the risk of food poisoning. It also presented a lot of plates, cups, and other kitchen appliances in there, untouched by four months, all having dust on them. Besides these there were also money, blood, guts from humans and blood stains that look really old.


    "Nothing here." says Ron in Romanian language to the two teenagers after they were scavenging this café.


    "Let''s check the other room." says Viktor opening the door to the second room of this café, room that was rarely used before the apocalypse.


    The moment Viktor opened the door and looked at the room, he notices on the walls a few stains by the colour black. Right when he was about to take a step inside, he has a look on the ceiling. The thing he saw there, will be the last thing he will see. There was a zombie, who the moment Viktor looked up the ceiling, he pushes from there and lands on Viktor, pinning him down and biting the neck of the teenager.


    The two survivors have quickly jumped on Viktor, where they killed the zombie by stabbing the head, and pushing away from Viktor body. Looking at the zombie closed mouth, we can see blood all around the lips, and pieces of skin from the neck of Viktor.


    Andra and Ron are looking horrified as they look at the neck of Viktor, who is barely breathing, and couching blood.


    "Viktor. Viktor."


    "Andra… I am sorry." says Viktor coughing the works, on a faint voice, about to die soon.


    "I''m so sorry. I am so sorry, Viktor!"


    "It wasn''t your fault." says Ron in a broken Romanian language, siting on his knees close to Andra. He then looks at Viktor wound, then at Andra.


    "No." she said to Ron, tears coming out of her eyes.


    "I am sorry."


    "No. No. No. No. There can be a way to save him!"


    "I-I-It…" tries to say Viktor. "It''s pointless." he looks at Ron, and sees him with the knife in his hands. "Please… Do it."


    "I will…" says Ron to Viktor.


    "A-Andra…" he says with tears on his eyes, as blood comes out from the wound and from hi mouth. "I-I… love you…"


    "I love you too." says Andra crying and sobbing as she sees her lover before the apocalypse, closing the eyes and about to drop his last breath.


    When Viktor has dropped his last breath, Ron quickly stabbed the head of Viktor to cancel his transformation as a mutant eating human meat.


    Then, Ron gets up on his feet, walks closer to the body of the zombie who was on the ceiling on the other room, notices something strange at this zombie. He sees the zombie having a darkish blue skin on his fingers, and the rest of his body green to dark and white like most of the zombies seen outside. This one was much more different than any other zombies seen so far by Ron and Andra. His eyes weren''t there. He had no eyes, but his ears on his shaved head were bigger than Ron and Andra ever seen before.


    "What the fuck is this thing?" asks Andra looking at this thing, feeling angry because o the killing this creature has done to her boyfriend.


    "No idea." says Ron in Romanian. "We have to get out of here." he says to Andra.


    "But we cannot let Viktor like this." argues Andra.


    "We will not." says Ron to Andra. "We will come here later to take the bodies and burn them. Right now, we have to alert the others about our findings."


    Andra understood what Ron said in English, and with remorse, she left the body of Ron in the café and walks with Ron to the backside of this building, and walk back to their base to tell them what happened to Viktor and about the new variant they''ve found.


    After a few hours, the soldiers and many other volunteers have gathered all of the zombies from the buildings the two squad have checked. They gathered around two hundred or so corpses, put on a big pile on the car park, together with the body of Viktor since they do not want to risk infection and spreading of the virus. Andra has tried to convince them to try and burry Viktor, but she couldn''t try to convince them to do that. And she accepts that her lover from the apocalypse and who on this apocalypse has it will be burned in her front eyes.


    A lot of things have happened in these ten days for the two teenagers.


    Andra and the other people from the safe zone have looked at the piles of zombie bodies on the car park, burning like logs on a normal fireplace. The disgusting and bad odour of the bodies that were released in the air have made some people get out of there and walks back to their safe zone, made some of the soldiers nauseous. Even if the smell was bad, Andra still stand there, and looked with tears in her eyes at the body of Viktor, burning on that pile of zombies.


    While the bodies of the zombies found in the apartments and blocks were burning, three researchers are entering the building where that strange zombie from the café was. Now the zombie it is placed on the same café, but stripped on a table in case the thing will come back since the stabbing wound on the thing was not deep enough.