Even though I'm not a very religious person myself, I always find myself praying in bad situations, is this some kind of way to comfort? myself? maybe because he used to tell me...
"God... Our dear father is really something to admire, Lukas. He listens to those who even betrayed Him more than once, can you imagine... even listening to someone who hurted you deeply?"
No, I can't... that's why I am praying... to find strength to kill Anna.
While I was praying, we nearly come close to the Anna's Pizza place, We also heared the entire city is in lockdown and soldiers are outside, this is our only chance to rescue Steve, before Government forces us to leave the city.
"Are you all ready?" Evelina asked to us, this is might be the first time I saw both of them being this serious. "I will do anything to rescue Steve-" before William finished his sentence I somewhat reason said something "Do anything, but not dying" William was quite shocked but smiled "Yes, Sir." he said
"*Bzzt* Listen to me everyone, This is Major General Henrick Johans, speaking. We had a lot of reports of people doing cannibalistic activites, The entire Country has entered an Emergency state and Soldiers will march inside the City, everyone who is inside will be arrested, If you think you are innocent, we highly recommend you to go outside of the city immediately, Everyone who refuse arrest will be shot without questioning. May god be with us *Bzzt*"
Evelina, closed the radio and sighed. "Yeah, we are definitely are in a terrible situation... but we can't leave now, not without Steve" We both nodded and finally arrived at the pizza place.
William holds his nose "It smells much much worst now, ough..." I knew the smell would be bad but this might be too terrible "We should get something to cover our faces, any ideas? William looked at me and said "We can go and get some from the next shop, they sell clothes, we can use it to cover our faces" Evelina stepped up and said "We gonna steal things now? no one is probably inside there and we don't know if anyone is infected" I looked William "She is right... but William is right as well, we can't handle the smell" Evelina looked at me "You got any plans then?" I looked at both of them and sighed "Okay fine, I will go there and pick some stuff to cover our faces, meanwhile you both go inside-" Before I could finish my sentence, Evelian replied "Are you crazy? go alone? and you tell us to enter without anything?" Evelina is right but her telling us all this without trying to find a plan annoyed me "You know what, screw it we all go to that shop now break in and take whatever it is needed, anyone try to even go near us will get shot alright? is this a good plan?"
Both of them were not sure about it but clock is ticking fast and meanwhile William was thinking Evelina replied "Okay, let's do it that way"
We all entered the place, the place was actually didn't smell that bad. The door was closed so I shot the door and looked at them, "Come on, we don't have time"
We entered the place and quickly looked around to find something and in less then few minutes we find some scarf that can be used, before we left, we saw a woman with a gun and a child behind her, "Who are you people!? one of these monsters!?"
Evelina dropped the gun and slowly walked to the woman "Hey, calm down. My name is Evelina, I am a cop and we thought everyone le-" before Evelina could finish her sentence the woman aimed at Evelina's head "So you expect me to cop enter my shop forcefully and steal stuff? you expect me to believe that?" Evelina stopped a moment and looked around us, she gave us a look like she trying to say "What are we actually doing?" but after that few seconds, William step up also dropped his gun "Listen, we needed to rescue our friend and we need some type of mask because we need something to cover our faces because of smell and possible infection" William's words were more make sense that she started to pull the gun but second thought made her aggressive again.
I realized we are losing time so meanwhile the Woman pointing the gun at her I slowly walked more to the right to make her more confused to drop her guard but to my surprise she shot near my leg "You think I am stupid?" I walked back, at that moment I got no choice but to do something stupid but if it works we might get out of this mess
"Don't you need a car? I don't see any car nearby and even if you did you would not be here" Woman looked at me with fear, I got her but I need to make her feel comfortable enough to let us go "If you don't want to believe us sure, but you are in the upper hand here, you can take our car if you let us take these scarfs and let us go" William and Evelina looked at me with wide eyes, they realise my gamble and both of them wanted to refuse I looked at them and replied "If we die in there it does not matter if we still have the car or not, if we rescue steve and ourself from that place we don't need to leave and let military arrest us" Evelina grabbed me by my throat "Are you insane!? what did you do-" before Evelina beat the living piss out of me, the woman yelled "I agree, but if any of you move an inch I will not hesitate to shoot" It took few minutes but we made it back to car, she took the keys and before leaving she came near me and whispered "Thank you, my name is Daina. I will never forget about your sacrifice" she entered the car and slowly opened the car and left
Before I could even look back to others, Evelina slapped me so hard that William had to push both of us away "Evelina, you know, Lukas find the most fastest way... surely not smartest but what we need right now is not smart plans we need time" Evelina is surely pissed but the idea of Steve, making all of us force to work together.
Evelina opened the store and looked at us "Get ready, if we die... it was nice knowing you all" William replied "Let's try to rescue steve and get out of this place all alive"
We entered the Pizzeria, it smell so horrible that we are surprised that not one of us even puked yet, "Guys, look!" William showed us that inside of kitchen there was a different looking door, all of us pulled our guns and shot the door, but the door didn't opened
"Oh... fuck... how we are dumb enough to not think of this? we can't open this door" It is indeed a terrible situation but Evelina chuckled, "Only you two are dumb" Evelina pulled up a grenade "I had a feeling that Sander would take more than one" William hugged Evelina that made the grenade fell...
At that moment... only think I could've think of was "Great, that's how I am gonna fucking die?" I closed my eyes and Evelina grabbed the grenade and said "Okay depressive suicidal manchild, the thing is not active yet... but stil..." she turned around and hit William "You still almost killed us!" both me and William face was red from shame
"Get back now I will throw it and run" she threw the grenade and the door exploded and with it all the windows as well
for a moment I questioned, why isn't it already exploded yet from the first one? before I could think more, Evelina grabbed me and said "You go first" I looked at the door, it was completely dark, I pulled my gun and my flashlight.
My only thoughts is that at least learn what is going on a little bit and not to die, from this moment I feel like this is just the beginning of a long Death or Freedom situations. I looked back to Evelina and William and told them
"Don't worry, we will live"