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The man stared Riley waiting for him to react, "What the hell are you waiting for? Standing around is going to get you killed!"After that, he bolted into the alley, "Come on! I'll explain on the way!"

Riley considered his options. So far, this was the only guy who seemed like he was willing to help him. Shrugging, Riley follow after the guy with the shovel, trying to keep pace, "What...what's going on?"

The guy didn't even look back, "You know how there was that anthrax scare back in the 90s? This ain't anthrax. What ever the hell this is, it kills the people, then revives them, and repeats the process on who ever they bite." He turned a corner and sprinted towards an exit that lead to a parking lot of a stripmall.

As Riley caught up to him, it was slowly dawning on him, "So...what, the corpses are alive?"

The guy shrugged and tried to explain, albiet out of breath, "We were advised to not call them that, news called them 'Viral Victims', but we all know that it's not true. So we've taken to calling them 'Husks', you know, from that game Mass Effect."

Riley stopped to think, ''We? There's more people with him?''

The guy looked across the parking lot, "It's not too bad, guess the other gunshots lured them away," He peeked out again, readying his shovel, "Get ready to run, we're holed up in 'In Bloom' garden store." The guy took off again across the asphalt. During his sprint, he swung his shovel again and caught a shambling body, causing it to crumble.