Prologue
It took only five year for us to lose the majority of mainland US and another two for the rest of our overseas territory to fall to the cordyceps first began in the east coast then to the west coast and slowly made its way over the year to the mid west. The government tried to keep things in control, of course that failed miserably. These days you probaly wouldn't see a runner maybe in a horde there are five or ten of them but they are quite rare these days. Although in the early days there were only runner, millions of them just running at you. Looking back I was quite lucky to get into the quarantine zone, the horror of accidently running to a horde. I couldn't imagine the terror those would have, well actually I do know that feeling. The government gather the best mind of america together to find a way to combat the infected and a cure to the cordyceps brain infection. At first the scientists thought it might be somekind of a new strain of virus but they quickly discovered it was mutated form of Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis hence the name cordyceps brain infection. So, many experiment were done to find a cure unfortunetly all of them failed and with the dwindling resources the government gave up on trying to find a cure instead focusing on fortifying the QZ and restablish connection with the other QZ. The only good thing that really came from all the experimentation was a device that could detect those that are infected with the cordyceps. For the QZ well it was never meant to be a permanent home for those that manage to get in but with how fast it spread they never manage to make a plan to where we would go after this. Ironically only QZ near the coast was able to survive, the further inland a QZ is smaller the chance for it to survive long terms. So here we are surviving in the post-apocalypse US and my name is James Mccoy.