Today I went back on that forum to find that there were dozens of responses from different survivor groups, all sharing what they had seen and observed.
Not everyone agreed with my consensus that these things weren't quite dead, but we all agreed that they weren't human anymore. We all had identified that the bites seemed to be the main source of the infection, but we disagreed on just how long it took to become infected. The only people I had seen were that old woman in town, and the two who had been eaten outside, and they had all gotten back up fairly quickly, becoming those things very quickly. Whether they were dead or not they did seem to need blood, as one of the survivors had slit the throat of one, which had collapsed fairly soon afterwards. Apparently they had one main weak spot, which was their head. They ignored any other wound, but taking out their head or spinal cord stopped them dead. They could be outrun, or even outwalked for the most part, but only if you had space to do so. That meant sticking to wide open spaces, which increased the risk of them seeing you. They also seemed more uncoordinated during the day, as though they couldn't see well in bright light. One guy said that he had seen them looking as though they were in pain and dizzy. Someone had replied that it was probably because of the fact they hadn't eaten or drunk anything for days, and they were starving. If we left it long enough, he guessed, they would die off. This idea had been largely shot down by the other users, most of whom, like myself, wanted to get out. Some couldn't just hide, being low on food and other supplies. Apparently some areas of the city had been blacked out last night as well, another sign that the things we took for granted would soon be gone. One person even warned against drinking from the taps, saying that half of the group she was with had died after getting ill from stagnant water. There was no mention of soldiers, apart from one group that had seen special forces soldiers with a helicopter a few days ago. They had captured one of the things and flown off with him. Weirdly though the guy said they had specifically hunted this one, avoiding others. Someone guessed they might be working on a cure, but if that was so, then why go after one specific thing, and not all of the others?
I checked the rest of the internet, to see if it was still in the news. It turns out that it was. Big-time. Apparently these 'zombies', as the paper was calling them, had appeared in towns in the neighbouring counties, including Warrington, Crewe and Runcorn in Cheshire, Lichfield and Tamworth in Staffordshire, Derby, Greater Nottingham, Glenfield in Leicestershire, Nuneaton in Warwickshire, Kidderminster in Worcestershire, Madeley and Telford in Shropshire, and even the major West Midlands cities of Coventry, Wolverhampton and Birmingham. This thing was spreading faster than it could be controlled. The huge cover-up was failing though, and now all the images were being released. I even read that the Prime Minister had resigned, and the Queen had advised the people for calm, telling us to trust in our elected officials to steer us through this crisis. The United Nations was apparently considering both quarantining the whole country, and sending in troops to help. British citizens who had recently left the country were being segregated in case they were infected. It was pure chaos. If, like people on the forum had been insinuating, the government or the army did know something they hadn't said a word.
I decided that this couldn't go on. I needed to find my family. I needed to be with them, and keep them safe. Tomorrow I'm getting ready. I want to be out of this house and on the road to her by Monday.
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