I am proud to announce that we have
new signs of life. Our group was peacefully approached by a small carload of
three people: two women and one man. They are making a cross-country road trip.
They announced their intentions quite early. They were looking for a place to
hole up for the night, maybe some gas and a little bit of supplies. We were more
than happy to accommodate them.
I know that this is a risky thing
that we did and unless they are playing a long con game, they were willing to
surrender their arms peacefully. We refused. The logic is if things go down,
that extra weapon might be the difference between life and death either for
them or for one of our family. They had a good vibe about them so we allowed
them to integrate.
Ray and Michelle Banion and Kim
Fischer have survived all the way from Georgia. They have said that
intermittent transmissions on the Emergency Broadcast Network have called for
people to make their way to Denver. Supposedly, there is a military safe zone
there. We aren’t packing our bags just yet but they seem pretty confident. They
are confident enough that they are wanting to move on tomorrow.
Supposedly, there is still a little
bit of traffic along the cross country highways provided you can avoid the
roving hordes. That is the biggest threat to any survivor right now. And
according to Ray, these are not small bands. They number in the thousands. In
the tens of thousands. No vehicle is ramming its way through a crowd of ten
thousand zombies. The only way to combat something like that would have to be
through air superiority. Maybe that is why we are still seeing so much
helicopter activity. It is possible that the Air Force is launching old style
napalm drops where they are flash frying the hordes along the highways?
When we asked why Denver, apparently
there is something called the Lazarus Formula. I supposed if the government had
time to brand this contagion as Kharon, they had to come up with a name for the
cure.
Lazarus: He who returned from the
dead. Don’t think the poignancy of that name escaped us. I seriously doubt that
any person could be brought back from the brink once they have died but maybe
it stops the fever. Maybe there is a cure.
I want to hope. I really do. Like Fox
Mulder said, “I want to believe.”
