บท 2: In a Zombie World?

Dreams are journeys where our imagination can create from the most realistic to the unthinkable, all in a span of seven to eight hours.

In a heavy sleep, Airon Darcy who was covered in sweat could not wake up, without him noticing, the clock on his wall stopped spinning.

"Tick-tock-tick-tock!"

Airon had already woken up when the sound of that paused clock became louder and louder in his ears, but he didn't move immediately. He closed his eyes again and felt the surroundings around him. In the distance there was a sound coming from a television. Airon Darcy, who felt that everything was fine, opened his eyes again. At first glance, this place seemed to be a very dark room.

"Where am I supposed to be? This is my body, don't.... Calm down!"

Airon sat down on what seemed to be his bed, looked at his hands and then touched his face. This feeling oppressed him again, feeling that this is not his body and his life, seeing things through different eyes and acting strangely to others.

"No, this time feels very different from the other time..."

According to his memories, this happens to him very often, being expelled from school for hitting classmates and having violent impulses. That feeling of strangeness came over him more and more frequently, but now he knew that some kind of information from his dream was fueling it.

Although the doctors diagnosed him with depersonalization - derealization disorder, he knew he was not crazy, this was not his life and he was most likely in some sort of dream.

Putting on his shoes, Airon awkwardly walked out of his room, he looked at his alcoholic father who kept staring at the TV day and night as he walked to the door.

"Hey, motherfucker... Where the fuck do you think you're going?"

Airon completely ignored the words of that man who was his father and walked out of his house, he looked around and with a heavy breath he ran hard.

"This time it's different, I'm sure..."

While running with all his strength, Airon Dary reached a kind of park, due to his exhaustion he dropped on the ground. Looking towards the position of the sun, he felt a buzzing in his ear.

On his wrist, the watch he was wearing had stopped its hands, just like the one in his room, and he vaguely remembered that yesterday he picked it up from a pile of garbage.

Airon looked around again and found that many people were looking at him with twitching eyes, apparently puzzled by his behavior.

"What the fuck are they looking at?" 　

He subconsciously pinched his thigh with his hand.

"Pain, this doesn't look like a dream."

After looking at his body again, Airon realized he was wearing clothes and everything seemed fine. Feeling the eyes looking at him like a weirdo, Airon felt himself getting angrier and angrier.

Just as he was about to say some kind words, a feeling of dizziness hit him. Airon closed his eyes, feeling suddenly sick, he tried to endure this feeling without making any weird sounds, after ten minutes, the dizziness finally disappeared.　

Airon took a deep breath, got up and ran out of the park. He needed to find out the current situation immediately and take initiative.

Ignoring the stares of passersby, Airon ran to a shopping area and slowed down.

Airon Darcy, walking slowly through the streets, observed the details around him. After passing a newspaper stand, he picked up a newspaper and began to read it. 　

Printed, May 23, 2010, Georgia - Atlanta.

Looking at the gentleman at the stand, Airon casually asked, "Excuse me, is today May 23?" 　　

"Yes." 　　

"Of the year 2010?"

"Surely it's 2010, right?"

Ignoring the curious looks of the people around him, Airon asked the same question in different places, and everyone strangely gave him the same answer.

When he came out of one store, the owner looked at the young man coming out with a thoughtful expression and muttered, "It seems that young man had another attack of his illness..."

Although the previous times were not this way, Airon suffered attacks of his disorder from time to time, so many people knew him in this place.

Airon found a shady spot by a tree and sat down, making her mind work rapidly.

"Atlanta, Georgia, 2010... Am I truly in that world? I don't feel strange anymore, this body feels like mine, do I really? I could be on The Walking Dead?"

"Haha, how is that possible?" Airon shook his head and thought, "But could I have been transported to this world without realizing it? Isn't that depersonalization disorder actually something illusory, am I not drugged?"

For some strange reason, Airon suddenly remembered having lived another life, that person who could be him had a somewhat depressing life, but finally died apparently by thieves.... At that moment, he felt as if something was slipping from his analysis, but now that no longer mattered.

On careful thought, Airon discovered something more satisfying, namely, he now has a lot of knowledge that he didn't understand before, including some languages. Before he could only speak English and like everyone else used it to communicate. Now he is fluent in Spanish, French and some Norwegian swearing.

And the rest of the knowledge is about things he seemed to know but didn't know before today, mostly fighting experience.

Thinking about this, Airon began to recall information about The Walking Dead and could remember many details he had carefully studied.

The Walking Dead story started in the year 2010, without knowing exactly the unclear timeline of the main events should at least the plot start two months after Rick Grimes woke up from his coma in the King Country hospital outside Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after that the main story he was very familiar with began.

But here's the problem, Dr. Jenner of the CDC, when Rick's team arrived at the CDC to seek shelter, told a lot of valuable information, so if you consider that, the Apocalypse would begin at least 120 days before the main plot began.

The so-called "wildfire plan" is actually when the governments of many countries find an unrecorded source of deadly disease, so experts in biology or experts in the field were recruited to discuss countermeasures. Once personnel are chosen, this building is locked down with nothing able to get out or in so easily. In this lab they recognized that the virus began to spread long before Rick Grimes fell into a coma.

When Rick awoke, it was at least two months after the outbreak of the virus and more than ten years for major events to happen in the far future plot. If calculated from early April, the plot would begin in early July. So now it is May 23, you still have more than a month before determining the exact start.

So there are many ways to confirm if you are in the world of The Walking Dead. He can search nearby locations to find the famous Rick Grimes, just like you can go to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to look for Dr. Janner.

Thinking of this, Airon regained his composure. After all, this was a dangerous world, but he knew that this world, The Walking Dead, the walkers would not be the only enemies of humans in the future.

Next, Airon had to get some money first, after all, it would be difficult to move according to his plans without money.

Getting up from the ground, Airon looked around and searched for a quiet place to find a clever way to get money.　

Kings County, a suburb of Atlanta.

In a police car parked on the side of the road, two people were talking.

"If the bastard now dared to advance again, I'd really smash his fucking face in."

"Calm down, there are assholes everywhere."

"Rick, sometimes I really don't know what to do. This county job isn't for me."

"What are you going to do if you don't do this? Please be mechanical in this place?"

"Haha, maybe I'll consider it." Shane asked, "By the way, how's Carl?"

"How's Carl? Come to my house for dinner tonight, you can ask him yourself."

"He's fine, I expect you to brew my favorite beer."

"Don't worry."

The two were sitting in the car, chatting and eating fast food. If Airon was here, he would know that these two cops were Rick and Shane, some of the important people in the main plot of this world.

Now, as Airon discovered that he was in the same town where Rick was supposed to be working as a cop, he had to slowly familiarize himself with the plans he was going to make and have some relationship with Rick. Considering the future, it wouldn't hurt to have that relationship.

While he was thinking about all this, he went into the mall to get something fresh to eat, he needed to hydrate as soon as possible.

"If there is no money, borrowing things can be the solution in extreme cases. This world doesn't have a nice future and it's something you can't avoid."