Zombie Virus

By Carla De Oliveira Sampaio Sanches

The story takes place in the year 2027, when a virus ravages the world, and a biomedical doctor in training manages to discover a vaccine, but at the same time discovers an even worse virus. While her childhood friend, obsessed with time travel, takes her on a trip to the future, in an apocalyptic world, where she has to learn to fight against zombies, the most powerful ones rule, she meets someone who protects her with tooth and nail, and even with life itself, because she is humanity s hope to get rid of the zombie virus, and maybe even cure it... will she make it... follow me on this adventure and we ll see together where it takes us lead to...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clube de Autores
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023

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Chapter 2

The next morning, her friend was waiting for her in front of her house at six o'clock sharp, as they had agreed: _ Our Luna you have a terrible face _ says Mike.

_ I didn't sleep at all at night _ says Luna _ Why? He's been doing his experiments on vacation, who was the victim now a guinea pig or a rabbit. _says Mike in a playful tone.

_ No, this time it was me.

_ What?! You're crazy, doing experiments on yourself, you know that's against everything we study, experiments on humans are only allowed after years of study with animals, and the researcher can't do that on himself.

_ I wasn't going to tell you, but as we promised never to keep secrets from each other, and as we are practically brothers from different families, I applied the zeta virus to myself during the holidays, and tested the vaccine, which altered something in my DNA, and fought the virus, so as not to leave any traces, and I didn't have any sequelae, at least that's what I've been able to verify so far, with regard to human guinea pigs, the world's pharmaceutical companies have long used human beings as guinea pigs, but the population is not always aware, as not all vaccines are completely safe, you know well, as you have seen everything that has happened in the last seven years.

_ It has been seven years since medicine has been trying to develop a vaccine against this virus and has not found anything 100%

efficient, and you in two years of study, do you find it in the basement of the house? Mike says incredulously

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches _ Is the sermon over? Are we going to see that wormhole or not, or is it just the worm in your head again?

_ Engraçadinha....okay, I'll leave the sermon for when we get back, and this time I'm sure, we'll travel through a portal.

_ I just hope I have prepared my diving equipment for nothing, because going to another submerged cave is not in my plans.

_ Fortunately you won't have to use diving equipment, and you know that not all our excursions involve diving, the one a year ago you fell into the water, thank God it wasn't a big deal, despite you having been unconscious for 2 months, but unfortunately, you know that it involves water as usual, I already explained it to you....

_Okay, you don't need to give me another one of your lectures on wormhole theory. I just want to know where we're going.

_ It's on Aunt Preciosa's farm, where we spent the summer with our families, remember?

_ I remember, but only now did you find it? _ asks Luna mocking the story.

_It's just that the hole I found only opens from time to time, and with the right alignments.

_Just want to see..., I hope this time it's right, because I'm already tired of your excursions, although this time I need to go out a little.

_ Had a good coffee?

_ Yes as always, and I brought goodies, and coffee for us to eat and drink, something on the way. In addition to my wetsuits, and I already have a bathing suit underneath, as usual.

_ Great, let's put your costumes in the trunk, along with my recording equipment, since you prepared them, if we need them, they will be in the car.

They put Luna's things in the trunk, get in the car and leave: _ Damn I miss those times. _ says Luna remembering her childhood.

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches _ It's been a long time since we've been there, remember the times we got together, in the woods and let the employees of mine go crazy looking for us?

_ Of course I remember, but your aunt, when she saw us coming back covered in mud from head to toe, gave us a sermon, and then told us to take a bath, laughing at our adventures.

_ Good, but let's stop talking, because I need to pay attention on the way and you need to take a nap, because you didn't rest the night from what I understand and the last two hours of travel the steering wheel is yours. _ says Mike.

_Beauty _ says Luna, laying down the car seat, to accommodate better. _ Mike only tells me one thing, how do you intend to prove your theory, if instead of going to the past, we go to the future? And how do you intend to return? If you die in any of the times, you won't be able to come back and that will have been in vain, besides causing a paradigm, as you say, or if you change something that you shouldn't, it will cause a domino effect, which can change the whole present, and maybe even make things worse.

_ I know and I will be careful not to change anything, and whether in the past or in the future, the alignment always happens on the same date, in the Bermuda Triangle, every year ending in seven, on the seventh day of the seventh month, at seven hours and seven minutes. In the Amazon, every ten years, I just can't say the exact date yet, but I'll find out the place and the exact date, if we fail today, and at this point we're going to happen every 30 years every August 8th, in the part in the afternoon I just don't know the exact time because the alignment starts at 17:00, and I don't know how long the portal is open.

_ Ah so we have enough time, why the hurry?

_ Because it's inside Cuca's cave, and we never went in there, because they said it was a labyrinth and that Cuca was going to catch us, remember?

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches _ I remember, and then we went back a few times to your aunt's place, but we didn't go to the cave for fear of the cuca, and when we were older, after the last mess we got up to by staying two days in the woods, we preferred to have fun in the lake, but like you know this?

_ Because I read the book of a researcher, who said about this portal, and that it opens every thirty years, it will only open again in 2057, I cannot risk losing this opportunity.

_ It swears as it knows that it is not any invention.

_ Because he brought items from the past and showed pictures of that time with items he had taken from the future.

_ Swear that you, will believe in montage, he could have made montage in the photos, and items from the past, any collector, can buy?

_ Well, we'll see if it was a montage or not...

She falls asleep, while her friend continues the explanations about how the hole was formed, about the points he had researched, when suddenly, the car stops and Luna wakes up: _ Hi, now it's my turn. _ she says a little sleepy.

_ No, I didn't feel tired, I wasn't going to be able to sleep, I had a thousand adrenaline, so I came driving the whole way, and you were sleeping so well that I didn't have the courage to wake you up.

_ So let's go soon, to come back soon and I finish my studies.

_ Calm down, I have to get my equipment. Don't you think we'd better eat something, so we'll have energy for the long walk?

_ Yeah you're right, let's eat something first.

The two eat the cake, and some sandwiches that Luna brought, and have a cup of coffee, then divide the weight of the equipment, and what was left of the picnic. And walk along a trail.

Half an hour later:

_ Here we are. Let's unravel the secret of Caverna da Cuca_ says Luna in an amused tone.

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches _ Not only the secrets of the Cave, but also about the wormhole, do you have any idea? _ says Mike excitedly.

_ Let's go, before I give up.

_ Wait, in case we got lost, I brought some of those pebbles that we discovered on our last excursion, because they glow in the dark and will mark the way back, because remember that there is a labyrinth inside.

_ Right.

Mike takes a small bag from his backpack, which contained several blue pebbles, girls that had an extraordinary glow, takes two flashlights, handing one to Luna. They get lost at first, go back part of the way and take another path, until they find a beautiful lake after walking for another two and a half hours. When they find a beautiful lake:

_It's dark here, let me get my equipment ready to light everything, because only with our flashlights, the recording won't be good, I want the recording to come out very clear, so there's no doubt.

_ Come here how are you going to light everything, if we don't have energy here.

_ You forgot my solar energy batteries, I charged them all and installed them in my equipment, they last for 48 hours, and if I need to, I can take a few more in the car.

_ Okay, it's still fifteen o'clock, while you arrange things, I'm going to take a dip, to cool off after all this walk. _ says Luna, staying only in May. She jumps into the water and takes a dip, when suddenly the lake lights up and she feels something pulling her down, she had jumped into the lake, at the same moment it formed a whirlpool and she hears her friend throwing her box of steel, while she tried to swim to reach the surface, her friend watched her without doing anything else, he just said:

_ Sorry Luna, I've been thinking about what you said, if you manage to get to the past leave a mark that I can understand, I can't risk not

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches being able to prove my theory, nor die without fulfilling my dream, now if I can get this box to come from the past, for the future, I will be able to prove my theories, I have your keys, in case I can't return to the present.

Luna gets tired and gives up fighting against that whirlpool of water, and ends up letting herself be carried away, fainting afterwards.

Chapter 3

Luna wakes up and finds herself on a beach, and beside her she finds the steel box with her name engraved on it: _ Mike! Your Cretin. _ he shouts, getting up and taking the box _ it appears I'm not kidding, where are we?

She sees someone walking along the beach: _ Hey you, where are we? _ screams Luna.

The person turns and they come running towards him, when he realizes that the person was all deformed, he looked like a living dead person, and did not respond to him, he runs away, but when going up a staircase he ends up tripping on one of the steps and falls, and that being ends up reaching her and jumping on her calf biting her immediately, she screams in pain and asks that being to stop, but when she sees that he doesn't stop, and that if she didn't do something she would be eaten alive, she looks for something to defend herself, and luckily manages to find a gun nearby, what's left of a policeman's body, she takes it and shoots twice at that being who couldn't say exactly what it was, the monster falls dead: _ What was that? _ he asks himself _ it's better for me to get out of here and look for a safe place, before another monster like that appears, and look for something to fix that wound. _ he says looking at the wound he had on his leg.

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Zombie Virus, by Carla de Oliveira Sampaio Sanches She takes her steel box, gets up and leaves limping behind a safe place to shelter, until she can understand what was happening, she didn't believe that she had traveled in time, and she didn't remember anything that had happened, the last memory is something about your friend screaming to leave a mark in the past, that's all. She walks around for about three hours, aimlessly trying to recognize the place where she was, she was already getting tired, when suddenly she sees another group of those beings that she didn't even know what they were, in the distance, because they looked like walking corpses, and she sees a man flying with an aero item, the second he passes by her in the direction of those strange beings, it seems that he had looked her in the eyes, as if he knew her, that man goes towards the group of creatures and kills them with a single accurate blow in the heads, while the bodies of the creatures fall lifeless to the ground. She hears someone shouting: _ Careful girl, behind you...

Too late, she didn't even have time to turn around and feel something, jumping on her back and knocking her to the ground, and a bite right on her left shoulder, but soon after she feels something warm running down her back, then she realizes that the creature had been killed, as she turned to take the creature's body off her, she saw a young man with a sword in his hands pointing in her direction, and he said:

_ Sorry miss, but I'll have to kill you, you were bitten _ so the young man raises his sword, to decapitate her.

When he closes his eyes and thinks that everything is lost, that he would die without