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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2 The Mysterious Man

As I climbed out the window, I still couldn't see any vehicles, no cars, tractors, nothing. Whoever lived here was long gone. I headed straight for the street, I was going to walk until I found something else other than this farm, but how long would I even be walking? I don't know where I am.

I picked a direction and started walking, but everything I was walking past was just field, I noticed more of the people crucified. I couldn't help but wonder why so many people were dead here. As I was walking, I saw someone up ahead, it looked like a person and not one of those creatures, I yelled out to them.

"Excuse me! Can you help me?"

The person turned around and looked at me, then immediately turned the other way and started running, I started to chase after him, he wasn't letting up, I was slowly gaining on him, as I got closer and closer I realized that the same smell I smelt back at the farm was once again filling my nose only this time it was stronger.

After running for a few minutes, I caught up to the person, it was a man, he was a taller man, taller than me with a muscular build. As I reached him, he turned around and grabbed my arm where he then brought me to the ground. Once I was on the ground he held out a piece of glass and cut me with it, the man was going to kill me.

I quickly rolled out from under the glass and jumped up to my feet, he was quick to react and swung the glass out, I jumped back dodging the glass. I started to back up, but he was being the aggressor, he began walking towards me I ran for the side of the road, I didn't want to go all the way back to the farm and walk the other way, I was going to have to get past him.

As I was running, I managed to pass him and ran down the road. Although it was strange, no matter how far or fast I ran I never seemed to get out of breath, I felt invigorated. After running for a while I noticed there was a car on the road, it was stopped, I walked up to it. The windows were gone, as I looked at the car it was like I knew how to operate it, I looked around inside the car and noticed that whoever left it left the keys in.

I got in the car and turned the keys, but they wouldn't turn anymore, whoever left it must have done so in a hurry since they left the car running when they left. I got back out of the car and continued walking down the road. There had to be people who weren't hostile in this world.

As I was walking, I had another memory come back, I was in the backseat of a car, in the frontseat were two older individuals, a male and a female. We were all singing a song.

Suddenly the man in the driver seat turned around and asked, "Son, are you ready to get to the campground?"

I responded to him, "Yes but I need to use the bathroom! Can we pull over somewhere please?"

My Dad chuckled and said, "Sure we can, I will pull over at the next gas station."

We pulled over at this gas station, and I ran inside to the bathroom.

Last time the memory was triggered by looking at something in the memory, but this one seemed to be random, I continued walking, my stomach started to growl, I knew I was getting hungry and from the looks of it I had a long road ahead of me. I was hoping that I could find something to eat before I starve. That's when I saw in the distance, a building. I once again started to run, I needed to know what was in the building, as I was running, I heard something strange.

It was coming from the distance, from behind me, I looked back, and I saw a Humvee, it was heading straight for me, and sticking through the roof of the vehicle was the man that I saw earlier, looks like he called in backup. And if history repeats itself, he is going to be hunting me down.

I picked up my pace and started running faster towards the gas station, but the Humvee was gaining on me fast, there was no way I was going to be able to outrun it to the gas station. I turned to my right heading straight for the fields, if they can't see me, they can't hit me with the car. As I got into the field I kept my head down.

I was trying to make sporadic movement so they couldn't predict where I would be and as I expected the vehicle whizzed right past me, it was but a few centimeters from hitting me. I looked back to see the tire tracks and I started heading towards the gas station, then the vehicle stopped running, and I could hear the men now out of the vehicle.

It appeared to be about 6 guys who were in it, I had a bright idea I decided instead of heading to the gas station in the field I could try to hijack that car, that way they won't be able to follow me anymore. The only problem was going to be trying to evade the 6 men who were currently searching the field around it without getting caught.

I continued keeping my head low, crawling to the vehicle, I was trying not to be caught, then I heard one of the guards getting near me, I had to do something, I picked up a rock and threw it away from me towards another guard, the sound of the rock was heard and the guard that was near quickly left and ran to the noise I took this opportunity to make a run for the vehicle, as I was getting inside the vehicle I could hear a gunshot go off, luckily it didn't hit me I closed the door and started the vehicle. It started right up where I started driving it to the gas station.

As I was pulling out of the field I had accidentally plowed over one of the men, the one with the gun, the front end of the vehicle had gotten damaged.

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