The fat man headed towards Vlad and Katya.  Vlad shouted:

- I will distract him, and you shoot him, understand?!

- What?!

- I say...

Before Vlad had time to finish, the fat man rushed at Katya.  Vlad ran to her, but the mutant scratched him on the stomach.  He took the pistol and pointed it at the fat man's head.

- Die, scum!  - yelled Vlad.

He pulled the trigger.  The slurry spray flew to the sides.

- Thank.  My God, what's the matter with you?

- Wounded.  - said Vlad, clenching his teeth in pain.

- I’ll give you some bandages and fix yourself.  Damn, the sky is darkening, it's going to rain.

- Damn, it was still missing!

Katya gave Vlad the bandages and he wrapped around the place where he was scratched.  They got up and walked on.  Passing a building shaped like an iron, they came out to the road.  On the opposite side, they saw two survivors walking down the street, but walking slowly and looking around.

- Let's not touch them.  Let's just walk quietly.  - said Katya.

The guys stood still for a while, huddled against the wall and watching the survivors.  Soon they passed and the couple moved on.  It started to rain.  Vlad said:

- Stop, halt.

- Okay, just do not speak for a long time and do not speak loudly.

Katya sat down and took out water, Vlad canned food.  The rain began to intensify and already resembled a downpour.  Lightning was visible in the distance.  For some reason, the guy was always fascinated to look at such natural phenomena.  It reminded him of his last walk with his parents.  He and his father and mother walked along the Boulevard of Mechanical Engineers and admired the beauty of nature.  The sky was getting dark, which meant that it would soon rain and suddenly the guy heard thunder, and in the distance he saw lightning.  This was the last time Vlad saw trees, flowers, bushes and grass as we see them now.  Then he did not understand how beautiful it is.  And the next day, a meteorite fell and destroyed it all.  Now there are only tree trunks with dry branches, there are no flowers at all, the bushes are also dry, like the grass.  But a person still does not understand how beautiful it is, and continues to destroy it when it is almost not there.

- Get up, let's go already.  - said Katya, interrupting Vlad's thoughts.

- Right now I drink water.

- Okay, catch up.

She got up and walked down the street.  After finishing the canned food and washing it down with water, Vlad got up and went to catch up with Katya.  He wanted to ponder again, but he had to go.

- We're getting close.  - said Katya to Vlad coming up to her.

- I know.  Where did those two go?

- Gone.  Come quickly.

- Not so fast!  - said a voice from behind.

- Who is it?  - Vlad asked.

- It does not matter.  Get on your knees, hands up!

- Here's your answer.  - said Katya to Vlad.

- Both shut up there!  Sergei, are we leading them ?!

- I hope it was a rhetorical question? - said the second voice.

- Stand up!  Hands up so I can see!  Forward!

Vlad and Katya got up and walked with their hands up in the direction they had come from.