Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 230 - Deadly Discovery
Day 10, 12:24 P. M

Osaka Streets: Inside the Pickup Truck

Melee: Brass Knuckles, Wakizashi, Kitchen Cleaver(Repaired and Enhanced), Piyavka Sickle

Guns: AR15(Scope and Suppressor Attached), Colt 45, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Leaving early doesn’t mean my scavenging job is productive. Most of the buildings I tried looting are either fully looted or no things worth to loot and bring along. But thanks to Laika doing the sniffing and finding good things for me to loot and also finding danger around the place that I failed to notice while scavenging, my runs are smooth sailing.

Still, to think that the supplies are getting troublesome to find. Even a single piece of canned food is very rare for me to find. Most of the loot I got are materials that Nanami wanted me to procure, a few melee weapons, tools, and some gallons of clean water. As for food, I only managed to find a single crate of instant noodles and some pickles that I don’t think I will be eating at all.

Most of the time, instead of looting, killing the undead consumes most of my time and it ended up like that most of the time. Looking at my watch, it’s already lunchtime and I have not gathered a lot of food at all. What is worse than that is the amount of undead on the road. After the death of the Behemoth, the undead started to increase once again since the Behemoth have reduced their numbers before.

Sometimes, I also hear gunshots somewhere echoing in the air. For other people, finding a new survivor is a top priority but now that we are integrated into the SDF group and my group, getting more survivors means more need for supplies. With the limited amount of supplies left in buildings, it is imperative to keep your group enough and able because running a charity to all people will not help in the long run, therefore, I usually avoid to find any of them.

I don’t know where I am right now but I can still remember where to drive the car back to return to the Tower but I am unfamiliar with this place. But that is not much of a bother for me, I prefer to explore this place and find out where is the most suitable area to loot things. This is not just for me but also for the group. As the acting leader, I can’t show myself to others as an incompetent leader and only order my members to do the job even though I can do it myself.

Not too far from my location, I spotted a good place that seems to contain a good amount of loot based on the look from the outside. It is a store that sells miscellaneous things from clothes, food, and tools. An all-around shop if I say so myself. I stopped the car nearby the shop but not just in front of the store so that in case someone like bandits and thieves suspects that I am here, they would go to the first building where my car was parked first.

”Let’s go, Laika. Don’t make too much of a sound okay?”

”Ruff...” Laika responded softly like she understood what I command her.

I surveyed the area first. If there are traces of people recently around here, I have to be cautious. It won’t hurt for me to be cautious about my surroundings once in a while. That way, I can avoid more conflicts that might result in danger and a chance to die here and now. I don’t want to happen that yet until I get clues about my parents and their connection to the virus Galea. And of course, I can’t forget my group too.

Even though I am far from the gunshots, the echoes of the sounds in the air felt like it was just around the corner. I didn’t bother to check out the situation and decided to quickly finish the scavenging task before the undead in the surrounding area gets attracted to the gunshots.

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Day 10, 12:37 P.M

Osaka Streets: Miscellaneous Store

Melee: Brass Knuckles, Wakizashi, Kitchen Cleaver(Repaired and Enhanced), Piyavka Sickle

Guns: AR15(Scope and Suppressor Attached), Colt 45, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Entering the store’s premises, I can tell that the place has been looted but it was a hasty scavenge due to how the place is a mess. I also spotted a few of the infected undead scattered around the area and divided by the shelves, allowing me to plan out my attack and clearing. Looking at the sickle and the cleaver in my hands, I nodded to myself and focused.

”Time to do the work.”

I let Laika stay near the entrance around the fallen shelf to make sure that Laika can warn me in case some kind of trouble brews outside the store while I am there clearing the undead. I only do this whenever I need to clear the stragglers around the place.

There are at least 10 of them standing around the place. They are strategically positioned around and I almost thought this was just a game but if I mess up, I am doomed. With quick thinking, I silently move near the first undead and grab his hair before bringing down the cleaver to the undead’s head. I followed it up with the sickle and lopped off the head off from his neck to make sure it won’t rise again. I made sure that I won’t be making any sounds while executing the move and luckily, it didn’t attract any of the attention of the other undead.

The next one is currently standing with another undead. It is not as easy as the first one but I already have a way to execute the two. Without any hesitation, I throw the piyavka sickle to the second undead before rushing forward after releasing the sickle while wielding the cleaver. The sickle landed to the second undead but it is not that strong enough to penetrate the skull of the second one but I didn’t worry about it and rush to the third one and grab her hair and strike the jaw of the undead hard, breaking it apart due to sheer force.

The second one approached since it didn’t die from the piyavka sickle but that allowed me to make my move and grab the piyavka dangling on his head and pressed it deeper before breaking off the head from its body. And as a follow-up, I strike the female undead and lopped off the head with quick reflex.

I made quite a ruckus but luckily, the remaining undead seems to have been stuck on their places and have not moved out in there. The rest of the undead are easy and they were killed immediately before they can swarm towards me.

When the killing was all done, I drag all the dead bodies to an open space on the store and started to loot every single thing in their bodies whether it is pieces of jewelry, coins, and cash, even cigarettes and lighters are not spared. Things like this might not be useful to you but this is a treasure to other people if it is possible, you can use them as an item that can be exchanged for a better item you can use so these are not just useless and random.

After that, I surveyed the store’s storage room and remaining rooms. One room is locked and breaking in is hard if you try to destroy the lock because it is not that easy to break but lucky for me, this door is just another door for me to open using my lockpick.

CLACK!

It didn’t take me a few seconds before I managed to open it. But what lies beyond the door stunned me. A blob that looked similar to the blob from the Behemoth is currently hanging suspended on the ceiling. What is more, these blobs formed a massive cocoon-like membrane. And just by looking at it, that thing is alive.