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Brian Phillips-Personal Narrative

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He was wearing a pair of tattered old jeans, almost like overalls and a torn plaid red jacket, his work boots were thick and covered in a mix of blood, dirt and broken glass. I immediately recognized him as Brian Phillips, an elderly German man who worked in the slaughterhouse a little ways outside of town. The look on his face was of pure sheer terror and he stammered out an uncontrollable mix of German and English in a furious fright. Richard raised his hands as he tried to calm Brian down and eventually, he was able to begin from the beginning. “Okay, okay so I was walking through the shopping district, just an area where I usually pick up my groceries for at home and out of nowhere these bunches of people just dove for me, trying to bite …show more content…

Richard and Ben helped Brian get to the basement which had been doubling as a protecting shelter from the endless Viles and the rest of us rushed out with Felicia handing me a shotgun and arming herself with a pistol as we went to investigate with the others. We entered the rusty metal building and noticed that a large semi had gone through the fence and wound up crashing into the water right next to the warehouse; we looked towards the fence and saw that more and more of those infected people had begun rushing through the …show more content…

Judging by the look the colonel gave me, I had guessed he already was. So I decided to come clean about everything. “The truth is, I used to work as a scientist in the town. I used to specialize in diseases and how to prevent them or find cure for what couldn’t be prevented. Before this outbreak had happened we had found a certain gene, almost like a mutation of some kind. We tried to study it and instead we just discovered exactly what had happened. The gene would kill the host before the body reanimates and begins to hunt and spread the plague, which we had named the Berserker

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