He is trying to collect samples of the disease, all the while avoiding the military of the government that is trying to contain the spread of the deadly virus.
This virus acts like a normal virus at first, the hosts start to feel run down, get the chills, have fevers, feel tired, and have coughing fits, but nothing that can't be cured by some good rest and antibiotics. This can all be cured if caught in the early stages of the virus. The virus binds to the DNA in a host and mutates the host overtime. Step four of the virus (the stage of it that turns the host into a fury zombie) is triggered when the host is attacked and scratched by a person or animal that has been infected by the virus as well. This causes the virus to enter stage four instantly and the host turns into a zombie within seconds. The virus goes through the digestive system, and once it has, the host cannot be killed by any means. The virus is also transferable by touch, air, and water. The only way to kill the host with the virus is to sever the head or to burn the body in extreme heat. The virus is also transmittable by air and water, so staying indoors is the only sure way to contain the virus and protection against it. Hosts will attack the living to spread the disease, but will also attack the dead in attempt to eat the food that has rotted in their mouths. By the second day without care, the body of the host will dissolve away to nothing and the virus will be airborne once more, ready to infect people again.
DeForest has been tracking and collecting samples of the virus for many weeks and years, but evidently it was more than he could handle. He has been exposed to it again and again in the past, but this time he had bad luck. The virus has mutated heavily and is airborne. DeForest soon discovers the horrible truth about the virus. The virus has different stages of mutation, so it is airborne for one weak and can still be digested for a few more days. After it is digested though, it mutates even further, becoming airborne and digested at the same time.
DeForest has two-three days before he will be dead. He decides to just lie there and wait to die. His only other option is to accept death with no fight and to turn into one of them.
That is when he hears a voice, a soft beautiful voice. He attempts to yell out, but he has no voice.
He hears the voice again and realizes that it is actually a song being played on a guitar.
The door to the basement is busted open and DeForest is carried out and put down on a bed.
He hears the song end and then the notes of a different kind of guitar.
He hears crying by the bed and realizes that it is him that is crying.
"Do you like the song? It's to help you feel better" she said.
"Who are you?" DeForest asks.
"My name is Claire, Claire M. Woods, and I'm your friend."
"I don't know who you are, but I have never heard this music before. Where did you get it from?"
"My mother was a singer that I kind of used to idolize. That's how I decided to learn the guitar. Claire Woods is her full name."
"Why are you here? Why with me? My friends don't help me, so why should you?"
"I'm here because I like you and I want to help you.
