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Once all of the zombies had disappeared up the stairs, I walked the opposite way down the hall I didn’t want to hear everyone upstairs dying And everyone up there was dead They didn’t have any guns or any real protection Eventually, the zombies would break down the doors They always did

I felt sick but I kept walking, stepping carefully over the bodies I’d never seen a massacre this bad

When the virus popped up alo, it spread like wild fire, but I had never seen so otten roup of three This had to be hundreds So

We had to round another corner before we un shot, and then silence I raised un and slowly turned the corner, afraid to find another pack of the infected

Instead, I saw a single soldier He stood in the un pointed down at the zombie corpses He watched to see if they were still alive, and then he killed them if they were

I lowered my weapon and stepped out

“Hey!” I announced myself before he shot us

He turned to ed Even at that distance with a gun in front of his face, I’d recognize hi just as relieved and surprised as I felt, and he lowered the gun “What are you doing?”

“I heard the zoht I’d come down and let thehting the urge to run to him, and checked behind toexactly what had drawn me out “They already evacuated him”

“What do you mean they evacuated Max?” I asked, not sure if I should feel relieved or anxious This wasn’t the safest place anyreat either

“As soon as the quarantine was coot all the medical out,” Beck said and looked uneasily at Harlow and Sommer “You shouldn’t be out here You should’ve stayed in your rooms”

“The second floor has been compromised too” I lowered my eyes “We just saw the zombies rush up there”

Beck stared down the hall towards the stairwell, debating whether or not he should go help them, or if he should stay to help us If I’d been a more selfless person, I would’ve sent him up there But I needed his help, and I didn’t want hiet out of here,” Beck said He nodded in the other direction and put his hand onMax? I need to go with him” I looked up at Beck, but he didn’t answer He was too focused on getting us out of the school alive

Three zo out there, as if they aiting to stop people fro Since there was only three of the?” Harlow asked, referring to the zombies’ unusual behavior

“I don’t know,” Beck said, his voice cracking

I looked up at hi on around us In therattle hi the re out froroans I looked past his shoulder, and I could see the like a very slowon?” I asked