STEP NINE

Once you have collected the required items from the auto repair shop, regroup at your base. Unload everything. If your team is up for it, get ready to go back out there. But don’t go back out if it is already dark outside. I don’t care if you are all hyped up or in the mood to kill some zombies; you are not ready yet to fight at night. If your team is not up to it or it is dark, stay in for the night and go back out tomorrow.

Either way, this is the next step.

Leave you newly found cars from the auto shop (if you found one or two) at base. You don’t know the cars well; use the ones you can rely on. Leave who ever knows the most about cars at the base, so if there is anything wrong with them, they might be able to fix it. If they can’t fix the car, make sure they know where the manuals/guidebooks to repair vehicles that you stole from the auto shop are. Internet/power is still working, so they could even Google it.

Get your Bad-Ass outfit on, get your weapons, and go out into zombie-vile. For this run, you are hitting up any small-time convenient stores in your area. This might take a bit of driving around, so keep it local and quick. If you see any with broken windows/a lot of cars in the parking lot, leave it. Don’t risk the fact that there may be people hiding inside with better weapons than you. If there are a lot of scattered cars in the parking lot that means people have tried to go in, and have failed to get out.  Go to a place that not many people know about, or have a really nice owner. You are living in hell now. If you are nice and polite, you will die. You need to be mean to survive. If you know of a store with a nice owner, that is the place to attack. No decent person will break into a small time business with a generous shop keep. No decent person would. But the days of decent people are extinct now. It is time to think for you self. Anyone who gets in the way of your survival must be pushed out of the way.

Once you have found that perfect store, slowly and quietly break in. Don’t know how to break in quietly? Good.

Follow for “Step 10”. That will be what to do once you have broken into the store.

Read “Tip: How to break in quietly” on how to break in to any place, without raising awareness of other people or zombies.