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Zombies in Town
Valeria González Lomelí
José Mario López Villarreal
Zombies in Town
The big old man was sitting on the front porch while his wife was watering the roses. Every afternoon they did the same exact thing, and they have been doing this for the past thirty years. They watched the sun come down sitting on the rocking swing they had at the porch. But that day, something different happened, the sun all of a sudden came down; it all became dark before seven o’clock. “That’s strange”-the lady said, “It’s still early for the moon to rise”. Weird noises started to sound, and all the dogs from the neighborhood started barking. “Look!” the old man yelled. “What?” asked the lady. “There! Didn’t you see? There was a bunch of funny looking men running down the street.”-“Well I didn’t see anything, let’s go inside, it’s getting cold.” said the lady. So they both went inside and he turn on the teapot while she was cleaning some dirty dishes that were on the sink. It was quiet and peace surrounded the little, old house. The bell ringed, it was the next-door neighbor John, he was pale and his hands were shaking. “What’s going on? Are you alright?” asked the old lady. “Those men, they are everywhere!” said the neighbor with a shaky voice. The old man got up the couch and went to see what was happening. “What men?” asked the old man. “Haven’t you heard the noises? Or see the weird things happening outside? Nobody believes me but there are some strange men, with bright yellow eyes, with pale green skin and they are destroying everything and trying to hurt people, I was lucky I ran faster than them and got here before they could do something to me.” Said the neighbor. The couple was amazed. “Turn on the T.V. and see by yourselves” said the neighbor. The old man went to turn the T.V. while the lady offered the pale neighbor a glass of water. “There has been a series of strange incidents going on the town, people assure the attackers are not exactly human, police haven’t identified the responsible for this. Authorities suggest some chemical that came out from the military base located outside the town has infected these creatures. Now people are wondering why the military have these kind of dangerous chemicals in their installations.” The T.V. reporter said.
“I need to go and investigate” said John, but the old couple refused, so he insisted and went out of the house silently because there were a lot of strange sound in the outside, he got up in his car and drove to the military base to see what was happening there, there were a lot of weird people trying to enter the base by biting the fence, so John drove between all these people and got inside the base, then he asked one of the soldiers what was happening, so he told him: “Yesterday we were doing some experiments and one of our men got in contact with the gas and went crazy and started to try to bite us, but we controlled in security room, but this morning he was gone and we heard some strange noises in the laboratory and we saw that he was hitting on of the containers of the gas and that how the gas spread”, “But if it a gas why not all the people is infected?” John said, “This is because a lot of people is immune to the gas but this kind of infection can be also transmitted by a bite, so that is why we need to take care, because you can be immune to the gas but not to the bite”. After this John got out of the base to go back with the old couple, while he was getting closer to the neighborhood he saw that it was infested with these weird people so he drove faster to the house, and when he got there he saw that the old couple had become zombies. After watching this he turned back to run, but he was surrounded and that was the moment when a zombie attacked him and got bitten…
Moments later he woke up surrounded by military but he was not transformed.
“What happened? said John.
“You were bitten” said the soldier.
“But, why I was not transformed into one of them”.
“Because you are immune to the bite, so we need to extract your blood to use your DNA to create a protection. We extract your DNA, make the protection and then give this to the people, so they become immune too.”
“And what is going to happen to the people that are already transformed?”
“We can’t do anything for them”.
