Zombie Master

Intermission 2

Sara Nakagawa was holding her head.

No, she's not the only one.Not only the staff at this facility, but also researchers around the world trying to do the same were holding their heads.

Zombie apocalypse is in danger of extinction of humankind in a short period of time, and researchers in each country of secrecy usually abandoned that principle and actively exchanged information online.Not all were trying to monopolize the honor of establishing a cure, but they had a much stronger sense of crisis.

The shape of what appears to be a new virus found in laboratories around the world was already in the thousands.

For example, the virus found in the blood of a zombie named A, the virus found in the blood of a zombie named B, and the virus found in the blood of a zombie named C all looked different.It was common in that it had a suitable appearance for swimming in the blood that stopped flowing, but if the virus discovered by Sarah had a long whip, it was discovered at an American laboratory. The virus that was slaughtered produced two fish tail fins, and the virus found in a Russian laboratory produced three whip hair-like viruses.

"What the hell is this !?"

One researcher instinctively shouted in a video conversation on the Internet, which was the true intention of the other researchers.

However, they had a certain fact in a very short period of time.

The shape of the viruses that kill brain cells remained almost unchanged in every country.From this, it can be easily inferred that the shape is the most basic and seems to hold the key to transforming humans into zombies.It was enough to hope that the completion of an antiviral drug against this form of virus would put an end to the zombie apocalypse.

It is also being demonstrated that the virus is likely to occur only in humans.Through various animal experiments, not only mammals such as mice and rabbits, but also non-human primates such as monkeys and gorillas have not been confirmed to develop the disease.Even in those animals, the virus reaches the brain, but it seems impossible to multiply by failing to replicate itself.

They believe this is the reason why no non-human zombies have been found yet.

Not all humans bitten by zombies become zombies, and it can be said that humans who became corpses without moving as zombies did not develop the disease.

Furthermore, it has been confirmed that this virus undergoes unique shape changes throughout the body, but that shape change seems to occur only in individuals with brain cells.I can't say for sure because there is not enough data yet, but it is thought that attacks on various parts of the body begin only after the brain cells are struck by the virus, and as a result of the attacks, they become zombies.

Based on these facts, not only research on antiviral drugs but also approaches to counter the virus from various angles are being taken.I don't know how long it will take for it to bear fruit, but if we can achieve results before humanity becomes extinct, it is a victory for humankind.Even if they survive less than a percent of their peak, if they can overcome the virus, they can increase in number and regain their prosperity.

At least Sarah believes so.

For her, who has both her parents sick, the virus can't help her anymore.

This is just a fight for her.I even think it's my mission to win the fight against this virus.

The battle was extremely dangerous, and even the slightest carelessness could be fatal.However, a strong sense of mission repels the fear of the danger.Not only her, but researchers all over the world had the same feeling.

But ... it happened about a week after Sarah devoted herself to research to save humanity.

The corpse of a zombie brought in for research ... If the corpse is a moving zombie, the expression may be strange, but for a zombie that has been damaged beyond a certain level and has stopped moving, that is the only expression. He wasn't completely dead yet.

In the unlikely event that his hands and feet were restrained, his neck was torn off and he bent in an unlikely direction, resulting in some staff being bitten.

Naturally, there was an emergency manual that assumed a number of situations, and such situations were also assumed, and training was also conducted on the first day.In this case, the zombies are restrained and there is no harm if they are not approached, so it was necessary to urgently restrain the bitten human with a restraint in his pocket.

However, in the event of an emergency, everyone who was there panicked, and those who were bitten sank into the place while holding the bitten wound with their hands and screamed unvoiced. Human tried to clean to see the wound.

There are a few people who do not become zombies even if they are bitten.

Unfortunately, the bitten staff turned into a zombie in less than a minute, attacking a former colleague who was worried about him.

Fortunately, it was unfortunate that they were able to ring the emergency bell before they were all attacked, but things were already irreversible.

"Why ... like this ..."

Sarah moaned desperately.

Due to the nature of the facility, there are strict doors in some places, and by escaping into them, shelters against zombies become a substitute.The facility isn't that big, so if we could escape quickly, we would have been able to stay up until the regular SDF arrived.

However, the incident happened when he happened to be in the hallway, and Sarah heard the sound of an emergency bell and headed for the nearest evacuation site, but with the door in front of her, she became a zombie. I was attacked and my left arm was bitten.

Part of the flesh on the left arm is scooped out, and blood rushes out with dull pain.It's too late to think about it.

After biting Sarah, the zombies headed for another place, but Sarah couldn't afford to think about her whereabouts.

"Nothing yet ... about this virus ... I haven't figured it out ..."

Rather than the fear that I might become a zombie, the regret of that is just filling my heart.

But I don't have time to think about that.

She has something to do as a zombie bite.The time to become a zombie is probably around one minute.I don't have half the time.

Sarah squeezed her last power and entered the room in front of her, pressing the emergency red button.As a result, the door automatically closes and locks.Then, a message is displayed on the monitor attached to the door on the corridor side to inform the danger.Originally it was a response when a biohazard occurred, but now it is used as an indication that there may be zombies inside.This is the manual that a zombie bite should do.

After seeing that the lock was safely applied, Sara collapsed on the spot without power.

She soon let go of her consciousness as various thoughts came and went.

“…………”

And how much time has passed?

Sara woke up.

I'm confused about what I was doing now.My head is heavy and I can't get my ideas together.

"……Ah!?"

And she remembered that she was bitten by a zombie and fell.

When I saw the left arm bitten in a hurry, there was a dry blood, but there was no wound.It was as if I hadn't been bitten from the beginning.

"this is……?"

Then, Sara checks the situation while slowly remembering her name and background in order to calm herself.

"Okay, I'm me"