2 Chapter 2
The time has come, and Logan was getting ready to go outside, this time he decided to only carry the Kopis Sword, a SIG SAUER MPX K: MP5 Killer submachine gun, two magazines of 35-rounds with a suppressor/silencer to keep the noises at minimum, put a multi-purpose tool in his pocket and wore a backpack.
"Alright, I'm ready to set out." Logan said with a serious tone as he double checked his equipment, before he took the mpx in his hands and opened the door, before closing it behind him.
"Ughgh….grughrgh"
"Oh…Wow, they look uglier in reality." Logan observed as two walkers nearby started to limp over toward him, one was more slower due to it having a broken leg that was bent on the knee in the opposite direction.
Logan simply pulled his Kopis which have a balde about 18.9 inches in length or 48 cm. Walking toward the first one and with one move he slashed the Kopis vertically toward its head while expecting the blade to only went a bit deep, his eyes widen in surprise when the blade cut down the head in the middle until it reached the neck before, Logan swiftly pulled the blade from the dead Walker before moving onto the second one who was close and this time he pierced instead of slashing and the blade went through the head without any resistance, and the blade wasn't getting stuck in their skull which is good.
"Phew. That did go better than I expected, but let's move on from here before more start appearing." Moving to the house next door with my Kopis sheathed back and the mpx in hand pointing toward all directions while getting closer to the door.
After confirming nothing was wrong he took a multi-purpose tool from his pocket, pulled one which is used in unlocking doors, and put it in the keyhole of the door and start twisting it until he heard a *click' then he twisted the doorknob opening the door with a push then raised his weapon before entering.
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After looking around the house he found nothing of importance other than some cans of food in the kitchen with most of the other food already spoiled. Logan decided to do the same with the other houses around, but still keep his guard for any potential survivors lurking inside those houses.
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After going through about 6 more houses he managed to get a decent amount of canned food for when he leave the place, he filled two bags with some while leaving his backpack for anything else, which came in the form of lighters, and other stuff he could use, in one house he found an expensive looking chess board which he took with him. Looking at a watch strapped on his wrist, it was 2:13 PM when he finished looting the houses while also killing some walkers he encountered either outside or inside those houses.
"Damn, that's a fine loot I got today, just that could last me alone for about a month, three weeks and four days. This is a good start, but those walkers smell way too horrible, maybe it's due to my enhanced senses but it took me a shit lot of willpower to not puke. Being a super soldier is a bit of a double edged sword it seems, even my emotions seem to be enhanced…" Logan said to nobody as usual as he went through everything he got from his little stroll.
After he finished going through his loot he put everything in the van, where he already put most of the stuff he decided to take, unfortunately there is not much space left to keep more supplies, which consist of food, weapons, meds, and tools.
"Maybe I can put some of the larger stuffs on the van's roof, tie them tightly and leave more room for other things to store." Logan is always one to think things over twice or even thrice if needed, that's what fighting terrorists for years did to him, forcing him to develop a bit of a paranoid mind.
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In the next three days Logan scouted the street where his house is located, fortunately or unfortunately he never encountered any survivors, only walkers, which means that the survivors may have moved to somewhere else, perhaps a safezone built by the military to protect any survivors.
Chances are high that the town is mostly empty, but there is still a chance a few people may have stayed and hide instead of running like most would do, afterall there are all kinds of people, normally citizens would follow the government and military's instructions, but some people make different decisions under the effect of strong emotions, some may be simply too attached to their homes, therefore refuse to leave, which is due to emotional attachment.
Today is the day he decided to leave, but he carried some food from the fridge for the consumption of two days, to conserve his supplies. Afterall having an extra day worth of food, means being able to operate at 100% for another day.
"Alright Logan, you got everything you need, all you have to do is move out, and avoid big roads, or the busy areas in here. So glad I found a map." Logan adjusted himself on the driver seat ready to fully face the outside world, he used the garage remote to unlock the garage door, before driving out and closing it and moving out.
Just as he was about to leave the street a loud noise resonated all over the place.
BANG!
CREAK!!
Coming to an abrupt stop, Logan rolled the window looking around with squinted eyes with a dead serious face.
"That was a gunshot, someone is still in this town, but since it was shot in an open area, it's hard to track where it came from, but I'm sure the general direction is east." Logan said as he considered his choices, 'either I go after the noise to try find the culprit, but I still have to be on look out since that noise will surely draw a lot of attention of the Walkers, or move further from it because there is a chance it could be hostile, Super Soldier or not, all it take is a bullet to kill me Logan contemplated in his mind.
"Alright, let's try to find who made that shot discreetly, and I can decide afterward. Maybe I will be lucky and they are friendly." Logan decided to follow the noise, but discreetly without having to reveal himself to them until he made sure.
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After a little while of driving, inspecting the road around him, while killing a few walkers along the way this time he took an ax which he certainly loved using, thus he kept one on himself and with his SS strength he had easy time wielding both his Kopis & the ax at the same time, he was having a bit of fun butchering all those walkers.
Logan has one thing on his mind from yesterday, not because he didn't decide until then, but simply his mind was occupied with other matters that slipped his mind until yesterday, and it was 'how can walkers recognize each other and differentiate prey from another walker?' Some of them look no different than normal people, others have nasty scars, but there is nothing much that makes them different from humans, other than those noises which can be replicated, or how their limbs are rusty in their movements, OR that last thing which sounds more plausible, smell. All of them smell horrible, perhaps have to do with their bodies being rotten, especially if they stayed for long under the sun.
"It may only be a theory, but seeing as they are mostly unintelligent assuming a few have a tiny bit of intelligence or perhaps muscle memory like that walker I killed on the third day of my scouting, it does still have some credibility." Logan kept driving slow since walkers as their namesake can only walk, thus no need to go fast, his mind fully operating trying to uncover the mystery of both the fact that some walker show a little intelligent behaviors like the one he mentioned before
{FLASHBACK: ON}
Logan ventured a bit further from his abode close to a hardware store to see if he could salvage anything from it. That when he noticed a walker pulling a car's door handle trying to open it but failed, due to the one who was inside it locking it from the inside before committing suicide with a bullethole in the head, other than finding out about the smart walker, he got a gun although it was out of ammo he still got a Glock 17, and he already have a good amount of ammo.
{FLASHBACK: OFF}
Lucky for him for the last few days he wasn't forced to use a single bullet, which he hopes will continue far longer, shaking his head to keep himself focusing on the task at hand he took a turn in the road, but he noticed a corpse down and more walkers around that area, he drove backward and kept moving his car a little further until reached a parking lot with few parked in it.
Getting out he noticed a walker inside one of the parked cars banging on the window, locking his van he started moving swiftly back toward the area he noticed the downed body which is a dead walker considering all the other walkers around ignore it.
Peeking from behind a tree on the sidewalk, he noted the number of walkers here are larger, which means that something attracted them and adding the dead walker, it's highly possible that the gunshot came from this place and whoever made that shot either ran away after looting the houses around, or they live in one of this houses in the neighborhood, Logan observed the area before he pulled back.
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