Sam was caught off guard and if it was a lesser man, that would have spelled certain death but Sam was aware of something watching him for quite some time.
Sam was a soldier through and through, there was no way he would drop his guard to the degree of being defenceless.
He has encountered enough evolved to know that they had an abnormal pattern, ranging from cautious to reckless.
The creature leapt at him but Sam managed to get out of the way just in time, picking up a rock at the bed of the stream in the process to fight with.
Sam chuckled, he was impressed that a zombie could move the way it did despite being dead for quite some time.
It showed no signs of decay. Not only that, it showed no signs of being dead.
"Would you look at that…" Sam commented as the body that had narrowly missed him lay in the water right in front of him.