I was told that the mutating Zombie virus had spread to pigs. Because of this, all pork was banned in the country. I had no way to supply the special meat. Zombie pigs were reported but I never saw anything like that. I do know that my meat supply stopped coming a few days before the big pork scare and subsequent banning. I have not been able to get hold of my suppliers at all and had to go to the Investors. They supplied meat, but it is really low grade. The restaurant cannot be maintained as a high class establishment like that and I had to make it Zombie only. That took a big hunk out of the date night business with the Zombie loving community. I am not sure what the Investors are sending over and I do my best with it. It might be Beef or whatever meat they have laying around. They said to not ask questions or feed the meat to the living. Not that any living are coming to our place anymore.
The high class Zombies went down hill fast. It was amazing how bad then got within a week. All of the clear communication they exhibited stopped within 24 hours without my special meat. Within a week they were as bad as the roaming Zombies. It was very bad for business. Most businesses stopped using Zombie labor because of how unpredictable they were getting. You could not go outside after dark. That was when people got aggressive and started to get violent.
The Zombies were acting strange, but the living were just crazy. Zombie round ups started. Any Zombie that was not sponsored by an individual or corporation was removed from the city. I heard that there was an underground forming with Zombies mobsters. Some group or maybe multiple groups were using Zombies to force people into payoffs and protection money. There were a few protests, but everyone protesting just stopped. No trace of them anymore at all. Even the reporters stopped talking about it. Things did calm down a bit after the street Zombies were removed from the city. The problem was all the refugees from the south. Now that we had the wall and security around the city, no new people or Zombies were allowed in. The officials ended up putting the suspicious Zombies out with the refugees camping around the walls and tunnel entrances. They must not have liked the situation, because they left quickly. They did not even take their stuff. All that could be seen when you looked over the wall was Zombies roaming and old tents and camping equipment.
The TV was reporting that the big cities were all becoming independent, since the feds could no longer control the highways between towns. Commerce was still taking place, by Zombie reinforced security teams on contract. They had large off-road vehicles with tank tracks that could go through almost anything or over anything. I think I even saw my brother on one. His place had closed and I was not able to get hold of him, but I am sure it was him on one of the big trucks surrounded by Zombie Security.
The cleaning business was paying the bills and the restaurant was nasty but functional. The Investors would not let me close it down. I really didn’t want to run the place if I could not do it well. At least the Dry Cleaners and Hostel were rewarding. It was nice to clean up the town a little.
Ever smell a Zombie Fart? It was not so bad when I had a good product, but lately it has been horrible. Rotting meat really does not agree with the digestive system of a Zombie. I can see them bubbling in the Dry Cleaning fluid. It is as if they are rotting on the inside. At least it smells that way. I sure hope this panic settles down and things can get back to normal. Maybe some Human Beef hybrid meat will be able to be made soon. Or Buffalo Human, nice a lean with a smoky flavor.
I worked out a way to keep the Zombie Farts from being so bad. It was a simple charcoal filter in a small tube that could be inserted in the anus of the undead. I had a few buyers but no one really wanted to deal with the trouble of bending a Zombie over and inserting the device. My brother did show up and buy the entire inventory I had available. He was doing really well and had some extra funds to spend in an effort to keep his Zombie staff from stinking up the place so bad. I was able to talk him into a contract at the Dry Cleaners and we saw a lot more of each other after that. He had used his skills with the Zombie Security to get a management job with the delivery companies. He was a big shot in the Zombie Security world now.
