What Would You Do If … Dilemmas In A Zombie Apocalypse: No. 20 – The Lone Survivor’s Dilemma
You are rummaging through an abandoned house looking for any canned food which those who’ve come before might have overlooked. Suddenly there’s a noise outside the room you’re in. You run into the dark corridor where you see a shadow shambling towards you – or is it two? You’ve only got one bullet left so you don’t want to waste when you can just run away. With the way to the front door blocked, you run to what you figure must be the back door and dive through. Unfortunately, rather than finding yourself outside, you find yourself in a small cupboard. Before you can go back into the corridor, you hear hammering on the door. You assess the situation: you’re trapped with no way out unless you go back into the corridor, you’ve got a gun, but it only has one bullet in it and you’re really not sure if there’s one zombie on the other side of the door or two. If there’s one zombie, you’ll be able to shoot it and escape, but if there’s two the second one will get you after you’ve used your last bullet to kill the first. The chances of you being rescued is pretty much zero as you haven’t seen another living human in weeks, and the longer you wait the greater the chance of more zombies turning up. What do you do?
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