Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse
Chapter 100: Survival At All Cost

Chapter 100: Survival At All Cost

"Somthin’ tells me I’m not in K City anymore," I sighed when the creature turned around and walked away. "Wanna tell me where I am?"

The woman cocked her head to the side as if she was studying me. "You’re not from here, are you?" she asked. "It sounds like you are speaking my language, but your lips are forming them weirdly."

"Welcome to my world," I replied, trying to get comfortable. It turned out that I was in a cage, one that barely fit someone my size, and that was saying a lot. It looked to be designed for a dog, but not one of the pampered pooches I had seen on TV.

Instead, these ones seemed to be built for the Dobermans or Rottweilers. The exposed metal bars were less than a hand width apart and as strong as anything. Even the base of the cage was metal bars, each one sinking into the dirt under me.

"Do I even want to know how we use the washroom?" I asked, really not looking forward to the answer. The zombies that controlled us didn’t seem to be too interested in taking us to an outhouse to relieve ourselves.

"The sad part is that after a while, you get used to it," smiled the woman gently. She really was just like Elizabeth in that nothing seemed to get her down.

"Survival at all cost," I shrugged. Did I like the idea of relieving myself where I slept? Not at all, but would it kill me either? No.

And surviving was more important than my pride, no matter what Pride said.

"I think you and I are going to get along just fine," smiled the woman... Wang Tian Mu. Right, I was going to have to call her that.

"Are there others here that don’t subscribe to that belief, Doc?" I asked, my face twisting into an actual smile.

"Most of the men and women here don’t subscribe to that belief," replied Wang Tian Mu.

"Fuck you and the horse you rode in on!" screamed a woman from a few cages over. It took some fancy maneuvering on my part to see who was ranting like a crazy person, but I managed.

The woman looked exactly like she sounded. Her black hair seemed to be teased back at the skull like some 80s hair style... or she simply stuck her finger in an electrical socket; I wasn’t quite sure which one.

Her eyes were wide, with her pupils completely blown as she gripped the bars of her cage with dirty hands. Only wearing a night dress that was definitely not meant for this weather, it wasn’t that big of a surprise that she had gone crazy.

"They don’t like me much," shrugged Wang Tian Mu, not even bothering to look around. "When I was vaccinated, I somehow got a ’power’," she announced, saying the word power like it was more of a curse. "I can heal people."

"Seems useful to me," I shrugged. "If you can heal, then those around you can’t die. You would think that they would treat you like a Goddess or something."

"Goddess?" sneered another woman. "More like demon. We want to die. This place brings us nothing but misery. Raped every night if you are chosen, starved if you aren’t."

"The men have it worse. They have to go into the rings every night. Only half of them come back; the losers are fed to the zombies. And yet, your ’Goddess’ heals them over and over again, even when they wish for death."

I turned to look at Wang Tian Mu to get her insight on things. I didn’t care about death; I wasn’t scared of it. But if there were a choice between living and death, then, of course, I would take living. I wasn’t an idiot.

"Do they make a lot of wishes?" I asked, my brain already going to just how I was going to grant them.

"If I have been called to heal them and they die, I am punished," shrugged the woman with a tight smile. "It’s not like I don’t have compassion for what they are going through."

"Why should you?" I asked, seriously confused. "They wouldn’t have the same compassion toward you. How about this? Make a wish, and we can see if it will come true."

I knew she was going to ask to be freed from her prison. No one would stay here to be cursed at for saving lives. And as a doctor, that concept must be really hard to take.

"There is nothing for me to wish for," replied Wang Tian Mu with a shrug. "My fiancé is dead; his teammates, my friends must be dead, too. I have no parents, no one to care about whether I live or die. There is no point in making a wish."

"You know that’s not strictly true," growled a deep voice. Looking over the doctor’s shoulder I saw the biggest man ever striding toward us, a look of anger on his face.

Seriously, he was easily over six foot tall, with white blonde hair and stunning blue eyes. His muscles seemed to have muscles on them, and while he looked human, a part of me was screaming that he was anything but.

"Only you would miss me, Rip. Did you want me to make a wish for you?" chuckled the doctor as the man came to a stop beside her cage. Dropping to the ground, he leaned against her cage, closing his eyes.

"You should wish for a way out of here," he snarled half-heartedly as Wang Tian Mu stretched through the bars and touched his back.

"And be hunted down for the rest of my life, only to be ripped apart when I am found? No, thank you. I’m fine here, thank you very much," smiled the woman.

I was beginning to think that I wasn’t the only crazy one here.

"I have a wish," whispered a small voice on the other side of the doctor’s cage.

"Tan Ming Zhu," murmured Wang Tian Mu with a shake of her head. "You know as well as I do that wishes don’t mean anything in this new world. It’s better to keep a good head on your shoulder than lose it, wishing for things that could never happen."

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