LostMisery8756 Survived Eight Ambushes, Lost to Simple Arithmetic

The infected came at him eight separate times, the worst bout a fifteen-hit mauling that left him at less than half his health and, evidently, no wiser for it. He beat back every single one. What he did not beat back was the slow accounting of blood and water that kept running in the background while he congratulated himself on the other math — the kind that doesn't announce itself with a growl, just a color on a screen he apparently stopped checking. He logged in twice. He left once, for good, without a shot fired in either direction and nothing to his name but a very thorough record of surviving the wrong problem.