The Last Man on Earth Page #5

- As much as anybody could be.

I'm not frightened of them anymore,

if that's what you mean.

I protect myself against them,

but only because there are so many.

Individually, they're weak.

Mentally incompetent,

like animals after a long famine.

If they weren't...

they surely would've found a way

of breaking in here a long time ago.

Come out, Morgan.

Hear that?

That's Ben Cortman.

- He was my friend.

- Your friend?

He was like a kid brother.

If I could find him and destroy him...

But you said he was your friend.

When I find him I'll drive a stake

through him, just like all the others.

But you lived through all this.

Do you know why?

Perhaps I was chosen.

That's a laugh.

Or perhaps it's because a long time ago

when I worked in Panama...

I was bitten in my sleep by a bat.

My theory is...

that the bat had previously

acquired the vampire germ.

By the time it entered my blood...

it had been strained and weakened

by the bat's system.

As a result, I have immunity.

It's only a guess, but it's all I have to go on.

You don't think that I'm immune, do you?

It's a simple matter to find out

whether you are or not.

What will you do if I am infected?

Cure me?

You don't have to answer.

I know as well as you do...

it's incurable.

There might be a way.

If not of killing the germ, at least

of containing it, keeping it from spreading.

If I had the equipment, the time.

Which you don't.

You are one of them.

I was. And without that injection,

I'll be one again.

What do you mean?

- You found a solution?

- That's right.

Exactly as you said it could be.

I take that for it.

What is it?

Defibrinated blood, plus vaccine.

The blood feeds the germ...

the vaccine keeps it isolated...

and prevents it from multiplying.

We've had it for some time now.

We?

There are quite a number of us.

And I thought you were alone.

I was going to cure you.

- Does that amuse you?

- No.

Now, I want the truth.

I want all of it. Why are you here?

To find out if you know any more

than we do.

You know far less.

We're alive. Infected, yes. But alive.

We're going to reorganise society.

Do away with those wretched creatures

who are neither alive nor dead.

Start everything all over again.

And you want me to join?

You can't join us.

You're a monster to them.

Why do you think I ran when I saw you?

Even though I was assigned to spy on you.

Because I was so terrified

of what I'd heard about you.

You're a legend in the city.

Living by day instead of night.

Leaving, as evidence of your existence,

bloodless corpses.

Many of the people you destroyed

were still alive.

Many of them were loved ones

of the people in my group.

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