Near Ackland Mall
It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve last written. So much has happened in that time.
I stayed a couple nights in Caiger Mall. There I saw survivors killing each other. It was pretty shocking.
When I first got to the mall, I was so relieved. There were hundreds of survivors milling about, and it seemed so civilized and orderly. I managed to clean myself up and get a change of clothes. I was thinking that I could stay there for a while, that there was saftey in numbers. With enough people and all the supplies in the mall, we could fight off any zombe horde that tried to get in, and wait it out in relative comfort until the zombie menace is finally dealth with.
Then, I saw survivors killing each other. It was horrible, terrifying. I learned that the zombie infestation has driven many of the survivors crazy. Some survivors even help the zomibies find others survivors to feed on. The rest of us — the true survivors — have no choice but to put them down, if we want to survive ourselves.
After a couple days in Caiger, and after seeing a number of survivors killed and dumped into the streets, I really didn’t feel safe in the mall anymore.
I wondered around down. Hiding and resting in various buildings, looking for supplies, and killing a few isolated zombies I came across. I walked all around Chudleyton and much of Darvall Heights and only saw a few zombies. At the time, the area seemed safe.
I was able to listen in on a lot of chatter over the radio. Most of the malls are broadcasting on a dedicated station. After leaving Caiger, I started listening to broadcasts coming from Ackland Mall further south, on 27.50 MHz. Ackland Mall is in Havercroft, which until recently had been completely overrun by zombies. But that changed.
Several organized groups of survivors banded together, went into Havercroft and cleaned up the zombie mess. They made Ackland Mall safe for survivors again.
I heard most of the drama unfold over the radio. It was pretty exciting.
Some survivors are trying to get organized around Ackland Mall, to keep it permanently free of zombies. It would good to have a safe mall so close to the center of town.
But I haven’t just sat an listened to the radio. I’ve killed a few zombies myself. I’ve gotten pretty good at using a pistol, a shotgun and axes, and I’m now able to get past most of the barricades that people set up.
At the moment, I’m a few blocks away from Ackland Mall. I was going to head over there today, but I ran into a zombie, and luck was not with me. I used up all my shotguns shells, all my flare guns, and every bullet I had, and didn’t manage to bring him down. If not for my trust fire axe, he might have gotten me.
Finally, the axe finished him off. But at the end of it, I didn’t have enough strength to make it to the mall. It’s pretty nerve-wracking, because I saw a horde of about 20 zombies a few blocks away from my location just before I ducked into a building. I don’t think they saw me. I hope not.
