The damaged brains

Chapter Seven - Rotten food.

 
My heart stopped beating knowing that I have been injected by a virus , maybe what was going to happen to my brother and I was far worst than what happened to those infected people . I was so scared and I felt as if I didnt have much time left to be myself .

" Dont panic , you will be fine .. the virus is supposed to protect you . " Jack the bold man interrupted my thoughts.

Dont panic !! We just found out that there's some virus in our system and all what he tells me is not to panic !

Grey ran out of breath , he was so scared . My brother always had a phobia of jerms and only the sound of the virus made him lose his control . He started shacking and screaming asking them to stop the car . Mr Andrew pulled over by the side of the road while the three of them kept staring at Grey with astonishement .

" Look at me .." I turned his face to mine with my hands and rubbed the back of his neck . " Its okey .. I am here , I am with you ! Just breath ." I tried my best to calm him down as my mother always did . And somehow it worked , he slowly calmed down and his heart beats came back to normal , I hugged him tight .

" Is he okey ? " Ian asked me from behind my brother's back . I didnt say a word but gave him a slight nod .

" Grey my kid .. we werent trying to harm you I swear ." Mr Andrew sounded worried . " Just know that you'll be fine .This whole thing is so much for you to understand ." He kept his hand on the wheel , his eyes on the road .

" Try us .. " I dared him , I have witnessed the most weird and disgusting things throught the last week and Im pretty sure what ever he was going to say , no matter how crazy it would sound . I would buy it .

" When the infected people lose their  brain completely  , all what their body responds  to is the desire to feed their hunger , and they never get enough . The loss of the brain made their system fall apart , nothing is ever enough for them . " he paused to catch his breath .

" Until now nothing is certain but there are  two things we know vey well so far . First , those of the security service , the army , the higher forces and governement agents were treated after their infection . A brainless bodies were like robots to those who are behind all this , they used them to serve their plan and give the PX39 to people , they made it easy at first . After all we all trust the army and the governement and thats why a lot of people responded to the call and actually went to take the injection believing it to be recommended by higher forces to protect us from a world invading virus. Not for so long though , people started to see the horrible symptoms this so called "anti-virus" had , and so they stopped heading to hospitals .." He gave us a brief period of time to process what he was saying .

" the infected people never eat each other .. they're brainless yes but something in their system tells them to keep away from the infected once , they see themselves as rotten food , something not eatable . The high amount of Neurotrasmitters produced by the damaged brains might be the cause they refuse to eat infected once .. in matter of fact we dont know that for sure but it's the most logical hypotheses , and we made our minds to it ."

We waited for him to finish but he didnt say another word , I havent fegured out a way to put all the things in one line yet .

" So you gave us drugs to make our brains produce large amounts of that chemical ? " Grey asked , at least his brain was working something out  . Mine had a blurry vision , I felt stupid .

" Not drugs no .. " Ian kept looking forward while he explained things for us .
" Based on molecular properties , the most famous sorts of Neutransmitters includes Amino  Acid such as dopamine , glutamate and glycine . In the normal case they get stored in synoptic vesicles clustered close to the cell membrane Axon terminal of the presynaptic  neuron .. "

" English please ! " I snapped my fingers getting his attention into me .

The bold man tried his best to keep his laugh but at last he exploaded laughing out loud .
" Please pardon Dr Ian ."

So he was a doctor , I could feel that he was embarassed , he looked away out of the car window .

There was an awkward silence then Ian took a deep breath and continued trying his best to make things as simple as he could .

" The virus we gave you is not harmful , not so much . It effects the brain making it produce bigger amounts of three major types of Neutrasmitters which are : Dopamine , Serotonin and Glutamate . This as you may observe will damage the way your nerve cells normally works .But the virus on the other hand had access to consume all the amount of Neutrasmiterss your body doesnt need . But it still will be inside your system . And to the infected poeple you are a rotten food . " He sounded so smart . That was so genius , I couldnt help but staring at him .

" Why just us ? " Grey found it hard to believe him .

"What do you mean ? " Asked Mr Andrew .

" You guys havent injected yourselves , either you used us as an experiment mice or the thing you just told us is a complete bullshit ." I said raising my voice at the end of my words .

" Look .. " The bold man turned around to face us as he led his arm under the car's inside light .

He too had the same bruises my brother and I had from the injection .

"Ian give me your arm .. " He did , and we could see the bruises on his arm too .

Mr Andrew pulled over and he too did the same . " You have to trust us .. try to have some rest , the road is still long ahead of us ."

" Where are we going ! What about my mother ! " Grey's fear was clear in his tone .

" she's allready waiting for you . We're heading to section One . " said Mr Andrew and the car once more moved down the road , while the five of us kept quiet , all lost in his own thoughts.