Road trip
"We bring you breaking news this evening of a very, troubling event that has been identified over the past 24 hours today, people everywhere are evacuating and panicking in the city of Staten Island New York City, West Brighton area, people are seemingly going berserk for whatever the reason and attacking other citizens-"
"Dear god.."
Dave said as the news lady talked, I elbowed him and told him to be quiet, we needed to hear this, clearly.
"The Director of CDC is advising that all go into shelter immediately and board up your windows and lock your doors for these people can and will try to break through them, 7 people have
currently gone missing as of today and it is unknown what has happened to them or where they are, we can only assume they are dead, we will now switch over to a speech presented by the Director of CDC now.."
We all stood and looked around to see if we saw anything out there in the dark cold of the night and we saw nothing,
Yet..
"Good evening citizens."
The lady said over the crowd of panicked reporters at the bottom of the screen.
"We are very sorry for this day, and we will finally come forth about this matter, we found a couple bodies of the attackers and it appears they have been examined to have traces of a
chemical known as Zylix, a chemical the interferes with the brains cells and makes them extremely erratic, its an upgraded version of compounds found in agents such as Trintellix,
nefedezone, and trazodone, agents as such are typically used to help with depression, a common problem here in the U.S.A, this drug, Zydolix, has caused unspeakable side effects over the past few months and all dangerous cases were taken care of.."
She flipped some paper on her pedestal,
"I thought the news reported said this has been going on since today, what's with the sudden big timelasp?"
Dave pointed out, I looked at him and he had a serious look on his face, something I don't see often.
"All citizens are advised to stay in whatever shelter your in and lock and board up any windows, if you are not in shelter, you are in high risk of being at-a-a-a-a-a-ah--------"
The TV began glitching,
"No not now!"
Sarah said walking over to it and started smacking the TV in the back in hopes it would work. The TV suddenly fuzzed back in with a loud noise,
"Do not attempt to attack the crazed people, they are so much stronger than normal, and are extremely short tempered, if you see any suspicious individual that appears to be standing, running around erratically, if you
hear any unusual sounds from outside your home such as meaningless ramblings, or screaming or shrieking, then please, do not engage, instead walk the other direction immediately, and avoid drawing any attention to
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