Chapter 5: Help me.
1:15 pm
"Elisa! Elisa! " Called her Leila as she prowled the courtyard of the fortress.
Damn ... Where did she go?
She wondered, worried.
The fortress is big, she can be anywhere ... And the risk of biting someone else is high. Perhaps it would be easier to issue a communication to the fortress staff, rather than randomly searching.
She said to herself.
"Commander Malcal!" A voice called her.
"Major Hammel ... What is it?"
"General Smilas wants to talk to you."
"Excellent ... so I can warn him of the virus."
Oscar looked at her in bewilderment.
"What virus?"
"I have yet to find out. I only know that it turns whoever is hit into a madman who attacks anyone who comes within range."
"But you are sure?"
"Anna was struck by it, after being bitten by Elisa, my cat."
"This is serious ... If that cat is not found it could infect other people."
"Exactly, major. For this you must find it, and if necessary suppress it. Spread the word."
"Gladly, but follow me first."
"Yup."
At the same time, Dr. Sophie Randall was visiting her husband Takeru, who had been in a coma for five years because of a failed experiment.
"Good afternoon, dear." She greeted him.
The scientist was fatally pale and sweaty.
"I'm not feeling well at all today ..."
She coughed.
"I ... I contracted a new virus. And I fear that at any moment it can lead me to madness."
She snorted, wiping sweat from her forehead.
"I'd like to be wrong but ... I've been getting worse since Anna bit me ..."
Her breathing became labored. Suddenly she vomited blood. She fell to her knees as her vision clouded over.
Takeru ... Help me ... Help me please!
She thought desperately as she slumped to the ground.
She lost consciousness for a few minutes. When she came to, she opened her eyelids, revealing two glassy eyes. Rising to her feet, she stared at her spouse in a coma, then roared and punched the glass of the cryogenic cell, breaking it.