Day 3: Death by Vanity

Clark seemed quite encouraged by the idea of getting out of the secure zone and venturing into the unknown at the mall. When he returned to the bulletin board that was in the security room he could see that some papers had already been removed and others added.

—What's up, Megan? —Clark greeted, placing a hand on Knox's right shoulder. —Did you see me in the parking lots? This hero thing is a piece of cake.

—You were lucky the dead ignored you —Megan replied indifferent. —But you're still appreciated for rescuing that woman.

—And what happened to the other papers? —Kennedy asked, somewhat confused.

—The civilians were killed. There was one man trapped in a clothing store but eventually other people came in and shot him down and raped his corpse. As for the others... the zombies got to them and killed them.

—What about that paper at Felicia's Beauty Salon? You mention a blackout...

—I honestly don't know what happened, it looks like someone messed with the camera. It won't let me see anything, so I decided to highlight this fact. The camera stopped transmitting hours ago.

—Something suspicious may be going on —Clark sensed. —Either way I'll investigate.

—Don't waste any more time then. —Megan went back to check the cameras and, after observing a civilian committing suicide, immediately went to the board where she proceeded to remove another one of those notes. —I'm so sorry we couldn't do anything for you... whoever you were.

Clark exited the shelter and, alerted the snipers to cover him since he was going to attend to a "matter". Clark was confident to see how people like Harry or Bryan made sure to take accurate shots at the zombies' heads. On the other hand Clark was quite disgusted by the particular smell of the dead as they had not been removed and, consequently he had to be walking among the multiple headless corpses of the people who were eventually killed by the members of the shelter.

—How the fuck are we going to clean up all this shit?

Clark was treading carefully as he knew there could be a possibility that some of those dead were still active. Seeing one of them still crawling on the ground, Clark mercilessly began to stomp on it until its head was crushed, giving off a black liquid.

With a baseball bat in his hands, Kennedy enjoyed attacking any dead that came his way. He thought it was pretty cool that something inside them made them so fragile that, with a very strong blow, their heads could detach from their bodies. Something that surprised him was that the heads were still active since they were still moving, at least they were still moving their mouths, however they were not making noise.

Clark noticed that some of the dead were still ignoring him, so much so that he walked past them and they were still lost staring at the ceiling, although they probably weren't seeing anything because they were completely blind. Kennedy had gone down to the second floor of Grand Mont Plaza, noticing that the third and fourth floors seemed clearer than the first two, this was logical considering that the snipers usually used their ammunition on the dead in the last two squares, not the first two.

As he descended the stairs, Clark noticed that some of the zombies were devouring each other, and not precisely among those who were active, but the "corpses" of those who had been killed beforehand. Clark then understood that the zombies could ingest both human and rotting flesh, as the corpses that were ingested by the dead showed advanced signs of putrefaction and a color ranging from green to black to purple.

Clark was not prepared for what he was about to see when he headed to Felicia's Beauty Salon.