Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 228 - Tokyo’s Deadly Secret 3/4
(Chiaki’s View)

I still find everything unbelievable from the guy I am conversing with even with the live footage he just shown to me earlier. The scene he has shown to me looked a lot similar to those bird’s eye view on a street full of zombies and I find it hard to believe just by looking at it. Only if that was not live, but it was actually live feed so I am hesitant to even call it as an edited.

Many of my questions are still pending and I was about to ask him about it but all of a sudden, the feed froze and disconnected a little bit later.

”Huh? What happened? Why is it disconnected? Did we lose the internet connection?” I asked and looked at Yuya.

Yuya fiddles on his laptop again and tries to reconnect the video feed but unfortunately, it didn’t work as intended.

”Looks like his internet connection is cut off. Due to his situation, he was currently facing in his apartment, it was hard for him to connect to the internet. I can hardly contact him everyday which makes it hard for me to stay in touch and get proper info from him,” Yuya said and sigh.

”So what are we going to do? Our only source is gone.”

Yuya smiled and continue to fiddle with his laptop. ”I already anticipated this and I am already prepared to relay the info to you if ever we failed on communicating with him. Since I already asked him many times before, I already managed to take down the notes and list down some of the facts. Although it was limited and quite small than if he relayed it himself, at least I can give you some of it to piece the picture.”

I pondered a bit before I nodded at his proposal. Besides, what choice do I have? 

”Alright then, give me the clues I needed.”

Yuya nodded and fiddled his laptop once again before he shows the screen to me. He also pulls out papers from his bag, detailing many things on it and some of them are more than scribbles.

”Let’s begin. He already told us earlier that the apocalypse has started. Of course, we knew that there are different kinds of apocalypse to list down based on the movies and some fictional things from novels and games but what apocalypse is he talking about? Since you saw the zombies on the ground floor, from the feed, we can safely say that the apocalypse he was saying is the zombie apocalypse.

Now here are the facts that he managed to tell me. First, everything outside Tokyo and Yamanote Line is currently in chaos and currently suffering the apocalypse. Remember the time last week, the government forbids every people from leaving Tokyo out? Even asking other people living outside Tokyo is forbidden to stay in contact with them.

Also, take note of the news of Tokyo suspending all transportation modes that can take anyone outside Tokyo. Many were inconvenienced at that time and I can tell you have experienced that.”

”Yes. I indeed experienced that stuff. Trains and sh.i.p.s are all forbidden causing everyone who wanted to go and work outside Tokyo. Protests were conducted at that time too,” I said. That even was quite chaotic since it caused a lot of trouble, panic, and chaos to many people. The military was even involved at that time too so it was impossible to forget.

”Right. And did you remember the reason why the transportations were halted?”

Reason? That’s right, I was so focused on the situation alone that I forgot what is the reason the government issued. If I remember right, they didn’t give any.

”You are thinking that they didn’t give any reason right? Yes. They didn’t give any, they just halted every transportation that can lead outside Tokyo. They even sealed up subways and other places with barricades and soldiers guarding too. Then what purpose are they doing this? It’s due to what was happening further in the tunnel. It was much more dangerous if it passed inside Tokyo.”

”You mean, the zombies?”

”Yeah. I asked the guy in the feed earlier what the zombies are like. Apparently, they call them undead since zombies are for the slow-moving ones. He described the undead as slow in the morning and fast and deadly in the evening. But there is no further proof of it that what he said is real. If those things managed to pass through the subway, tunnels, and railways, chaos will occur.”

Just as Yuya continues his explanation, I heard shouts and noises of people like they are protesting. It was quite noisy and even though our room that we are using is a semi- soundproof, it didn’t really block all the noises outside.

”Just what the heck is going on outside?” I opened the door and decided to take a look at what is happening.

All the customers of the cafe are all looking outside the glass window at the protesters passing the street. Due to the number of people in the street right now, it became too crowded and the bright and devoid of people street outside the cafe is now truly chaotic.

”I smell a scoop here!” I said and pulls out my camera so that I can snap some photos to the situation brewing in.

It was quite a commotion and all the people are all raising placards and signs as they head to the barricades.

”Chiaki! Where are you going?!”

I am already outside the cafe and already squeezing myself to the crowd just to get myself across the street and climb to a building with a good vantage point to snap my scoop.

I was in the middle of the crowd when a gunshot was heard in the surroundings. Even the protesters stopped their protest. From the location of the gunshot, it was clear that it came on the front of this crowd of protesters. It didn’t take them long before everyone started dispersing. Also, I heard the voice of a male soldier booming using a megaphone to relay the message.

”We are the JSDF. To maintain the protocol of keeping the citizens inside the quarantine area, we won’t let anyone ruin our efforts of sealing all the exit out of Tokyo and the Yamanote line. So if you all wanted to cross, then be sure to avoid our bullets. Anyone who will step further in our barrier will be immediately locked to shoot, whether you are rich or poor.”