“These aren’t the zombies
your parents first saw in old movies,” Clarke said. “These zombies are quick,
intelligent, organized and growing fast in numbers.”
While zombies are
traditionally viewed as slow and brainless, Tori Winslow of the League of
Supernatural Nations cautioned that today’s undead are hard to tell apart from
their human counterparts.
“There are only two signs
of turning: the desire to devour brains and raw meat and the animalistic
intelligence,” Winslow wrote in an email to a group of organized militia.
Jesse Victors can attest
to the speed and warrior skills of the zombies.
“The outbreak started with
a single infected zombie who attacked unsuspecting humans,” Victors said. “I
got ambushed about 10 minutes after the virus was detected.”
Capt. Jon Kuhl
understands it won’t be easy to prepare novice human fighters for battle.
“We try to instill courage
and positivity into the soldiers,” Cool said. “But the reality is many of them
will not make it past their first zombie attack.”
Indeed, as of 9:10 p.m.
there were 131 plagued individuals at USU, according to the league.
By that time, militia
member Brady Christensen had already resigned himself to a fate worse than
death.
“No way I’ll survive,” Christensen
said. “With the number of infected growing by the hour my chances of survival
are slim.”
UnDeadline reporters Michael Royer, Becca Glover,
Paul Christiansen, Jessica Wardell and Joseph Meadows contributed to this report.
