ODDS OF SURVIVAL - TAEKOOK

CHAPTERFIVE

Jungkook drove until his eyes itched and his head throbbed like someone had bashed it with a baseball bat.

He had no idea where the hell he was going, but what the fuck did it matter?

Something told him he should stick to rural areas, since denser populations probably just meant a higher concentrations of zombies at this point.

He went south because it would be winter soon, and if they were stuck sleeping in the car when that happened then a warmer climate would make it easier.

Taehyung drifted in and out of uneasy sleep in the passenger seat beside him, and when he was awake he was either messing with the stereo or staring at his phone trying to glean information from social media.

For several miles they were in range of a radio broadcast of someone rambling incessantly about the current state of things, his theories on what caused it, and how it happened so fast.

Some of it sounded pretty far fetched to Jungkook, but then who the fuck was he to judge?

Government conspiracy?

Sure, that was believable enough.

Vampires?

Why not.

Leprechauns?

He was pretty sure he had the tallest, crappiest one sitting right next to him in a prissy green polo shirt and khakis.

Anything was possible at this point as far as he was concerned.

From what they could put together so far the zombie thing was some sort of infection, but no one was really sure where it came from.

Theories ran from government-sanctioned chemical food additives to aliens deploying a biological weapon to "cleanse the Earth of homosapiens."

Real conspiracy-nut shit, but whatever. How ever it started, most theorists assumed it had been going on for longer than anyone realized, with the government collecting infected citizens and hiding them away to be studied.

Taehyung even found a twitter account where someone posted photos they'd taken with their camera drone of a walled off complex secluded in a forest somewhere with hundreds of zombies milling around inside.

So the popular theory was that the government was hoarding away large groups of zombies and then some mysterious thing happened that caused them to escape virtually all at once and flood into the general populace to wreak havoc.

Or more likely they'd all been set loose intentionally, because it seemed like way too much of a wide-spread coincidence for it to have been accidental.

Taehyung was in the process of trying to determine if this was a problem specific to the US or if the entire world was being overrun with zombies when he lost his cell signal and got so pissed off about it he almost threw his phone out the window.

It was almost funny, except nothing was funny anymore, or probably ever would be again. Everything fucking sucked and nothing mattered.

Apparently something like amusement showed on his face, though, because Taehyung bared his teeth at him in that ridiculous little angry grimace he got when he was about to start a fight.

"What are you so amused about? I'm trying to figure out if there's any hope of a safe place to go, but maybe that doesn't matter to you!"

"Who cares if this is the only place in the world with zombies? How does that help us? Are we supposed to steal a boat and sail to Europe? Do you follow politics at all, because people were worked up enough about immigrants and refugees and shit back when the only things they worried about were terrorists and having enough resources and shit.