A snake struck out as the mechanic entered the foliage, slapping dead flesh and leaving two small holes in its nearly gone calf muscle. The creature’s pace quickened as it reached a small patch of dense jungle trees. The creature sensed that the increasing sound was not natural, was not the wind or incessant rain noises it normally ignored. The mechanic took a small step forward in the direction of the noise the open tendons on top of its foot flexed and pulled the small foot bones as it moved. Translucent gray fluid dribbled from its chin, hitting its bare and nearly skeletal leg. The sound grew louder, exciting the creature, causing salivation. It could hear a noise in the distance, something familiar-a nanosecond flash of audible recognition, then it was gone and forgotten.
The former mechanic stopped and cocked its head sideways. After a few hours of reanimation, the anomaly completed replication and replacement of certain cellular structures inside the eye, resulting in rudimentary short-range thermal sensory ability, balancing its death-degraded vision. There it microscopically altered the physical make-up of the inner ear ossicles, enhancing the hearing. Along its path of self-replication and infection, the anomaly made a quick stop inside the ear canal. It anchored and replicated in the brain, but only in the sections where primal instinct developed and was stored via DNA and electrochemical switches from eons of evolution. The anomaly (as it was known) spread quickly throughout the mechanic’s nervous system, altering key areas of sensory anatomy. “He” became “it” shortly after the punctured heart stopped and the body temperature began to fall, letting loose the mystery that reanimated dead people. The mechanic had met its demise via the barrel of a Panamanian soldier’s rifle, back when the national curfew was still being enforced. Soulless figures walked about, searching, reacting to the firingsĪ corpse wearing only a mechanic’s work shirt shuffled about the area. The jungle was already beginning to reclaim the canal regions, commencing a long bid to erase any evidence that man had split the continents a century before. The many canal structures still remained at the whim of the elements, showing creeping signs of decay and neglect. The scene below resembled an area following a Category 5 hurricane or aerial bombardment.
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