4. I'm not a Zombie

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His head is killing him. Felt like thorns have grown inside it. Squeezing his brain out. Hammering it with giant shoes.

Axell is gasping for air. His body is sweating, drenching as if he had been swimming. He doesn't know how long he has passed out.

His head swirls when he tries to rise from bed. Hazy. It takes him few more minutes before his eyes could focus again.

He looks around him. His mind is blank. It takes ten minutes to remember everything.

High fever.

He lost consciousness. He touches his face and hair. He staggers up and walks to a vanity. He looks closely to his image in the mirror.

He looks awful as if he hadn't bathed for days. That's the truth. His body is indeed a bit smelly due the sweats.

His skin looks unhealthy, a bit gray. His dry throat, hard to swallow his saliva.

He is worried if he has turned into a zombie.

His belly rumbles loudly. He imagines eating human flesh. He covers his mouth with a hand. He feels nauseous. It's a good sign.

Conclusion : he isn't a zombie.

He turns on water tap to drink some water. He fills a glass to the brim. He is going to drink it when he notices the color.

He sniffs the crimson colored water. The smell of rust. It's blood.

He rushes and vomits to a toilet. Nothing comes out except gastric juice. He hasn't eaten anything for few days.

Axell wipes his lips with a sleeve. He has to find out the truth. He turns on TV.

A news reporter is reading, "Breaking news! Almost all the cities in China are in total chaos. People are biting each others like mad dogs. Casualties are high. The government is trying their best to secure everyone. Stay at home!"

He switches channels.

News from all around the world is reporting the same thing. Crazy cannibalism happened at the same time. Worldwide chaos.

Axell whispers," Tristan ain't lying. There are zombies out there."

He takes a peek through a window. Living corpses are moving slowly on the streets.

A dull thud noise in the corridor. Eerie moanings. Too much like a horror Apocalypse movie he has seen in the past.

Someone is barging into the door. Trying to break it from outside.

Axell pulls down a thick curtain and he holds it tightly. The door hinges finally breaks down.

Two zombies with incomplete bodies are rushing into the room. One of them got a nasty bite wound on the neck. The other one lost its arm.

Axell throws down the curtain to block them. He manages to pass them and heads downstairs through the stairs. He is lucky that his room is only on third floor.

Somehow he manages to reach lobby safely.

A female zombie is aiming for him. She is still wearing hotel uniform. Her face is decaying. She should be the beautiful receptionist lady he has met before.

He kicks the lady zombie away.

He mocks, "A bite isn't part of hotel hospitality."

There are many bags in the lobby, must be belong to the guests.

Axell grabs a golf stick. Ten millions yuans worth is used to smack a zombie head. The headless corpse falls to the well polished marble floor.

Black blood is oozing out of her neck

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