Journey to the Wasteland

I've decided to leave the subway which I stayed for couple of days after the nuclear bomb hits the nearby city. I've decided to travel the new apocalyptic world with no assurance that I can live. I've already contaminated by radiation and I know my system was already affected, I need to find something that can help me to live in this wasteland. When I got out from the subway a black dust and debris are falling from the sky, the atmosphere turns into black as the black smoke occupied the sky, there's no light reflecting to the surface and its a bad news. I knew that without sunlight for month then the whole world will enter in nuclear winter. I start traveling in wasteland to find important things such as food, thick coat and water for me to survive and ad preparation to incoming changes of temperature throughout the planet.

I walk on the street and the devastating scene made me terrified, there are bodies everywhere, they are stock piled and some body parts are scattered everywhere, some are suffered in third degree burn and died due to radiation. I vomited due to scene that I found. Everywhere I saw corpse of humans. I have no time to bury all of them since I'm also thinking about myself since I need to save time before the winter will come. First I went to the mall hoping that there's anything that I can use but when I went to the mall the whole building almost collapse. Glasses are shattered, ceilings are collapse. I went to grocery part of the mall and the ceiling of it roll collapse but I need to stake my life to get foods, there are radiated dust entered at the store that's why it's not safe to eat those unpacked foods.

I went to the corner of canned goods, bottled water and carry as many as I can. I choose those canned goods since it will take years before gets expired. I want to get more but that's the only amount I can get. Then I decide to bring those goods in my rented house. I already knew that my house is already gone due to the impact but I'm hoping that the things I prepared for this kind of scenario still there. I lift those things I got inside the mall then walk straight in the street of my house. The whole residential area had been Wipeout by the impact and still I need to avoid those corpse scattering around the street. I feel devastated to see my house ruined into pieces, I am hoping that the bag I prepared was still there, I life those debris and I'm glad that the bag is still covered with plastic. I removed the plastic and check what's inside. There are clothes, money, documents and 2 pistols that I prepared in times of emergency.

I know that once this kind of apocalyptic event will happen then guarding self with weapons is best to secure ourselves from any harm against other greedy survivors. I remember that I have little storage room that hides under the basement that's why I lift again the debris and went down at the basement. I saw ropes, knives and tapes that's why I get all of them and put inside the bag. I also checked those things I have if it's contaminated by black smoke, there's a water service but the pipes releasing a black fluid which means the water also contaminated by radiation. After the preparation, I went outside the start the exploration. I have no plan to go near where the center of impact happen since there's a high radiation present in that area that may kill me. I travel in north direction and hoping to reach a place which had warm temperature. As I walk down the street, the tall buildings, busy streets, crowd of people are already vanished and replaced with collapsed buildings and debris are everywhere. It's totally a wasteland.

My vision also gets blurt since the black dust covers the glass of my gas mask. I can't touch the black dust with my bear hands and I'm lucky that I found a gloves in my basement. I am living in this devastated world due to nuclear war, I am losing hope to see other survivors. I am planning to help other survivor but in times like this, you can't trust no one. While I'm walking I encounter a group of men walking towards me then they point me their guns. I also point my gun towards them and to avoid having bloodshet spread, I tired to negotiate with them and trade what I have that they have. They ask me if I have water then I gave them two bottles with exchange of 4 pieces of biscuits. It's a good trade for me since I feel I have lack of food. After the trade I left the place without any harm and continue my journey into the wasteland. The next thing I will do is to find a way to communicate or atleast gather a information if the government built a safe place for everyone to live with.