Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 243 - The Dead Nightmares Part 3
Day 11: 3:00 P.M

Osaka: Shitennoji Gakuen Junior and Senior High School: 2nd Floor

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

Guns: AR15(Scope and Suppressor attached) Colt 45, Beretta M9 Pistol, Hunting Shotgun

(Kyosei’s View)

I spent a few minutes thinking on what strategy do I have to do to bypass that creature. I have that plan to use the Night Rage to lure it out though it isn’t a viable strategy. What I am more tempted to do is climb up the rooftop by using the grappling hook but even that is not a viable one since I am not so confident in my grappling hook to swing around and help carry my weight to carry me up to the top. My parkour skills are also not going to be useful either in here as the windows are all glass windows and can be quite risky if I say so myself.

On the other hand, Aika is already doing some good swings using the wakizashi. Although the wakizashi is much smaller compared to the normal katanas usually used by real samurais, this doesn’t mean the wakizashi is nothing but a smaller one. I used it before and it is very sharp, my only problem with it is that I don’t know how to wield katanas that much.

Aika shows mastery of using it which means she at least have some training from it. She also flaunts her family name a lot so I assume her family had some huge influence and a powerful ones living here in Japan though everything was just a big guess since she did not reveal anything nor do I wanted to hear her explain it.

Now, my only choice is to obliterate it. The piyavka can certainly kill it but that doesn’t mean it will always work immediately especially if the enemy is something I just faced off. In my battles against huge threats like the Juggernaut and Behemoth, I always have this thing to make the difference, allowing me to survive most of the dangerous fights I was in. The thing that I needed is explosives and one thing is for sure, and that is I lack it.

I have used all of my grenades in my last fights and even my last bit of C4 that I have as a remnant from the battle of the Behemoth is already wasted. I have created molotov c.o.c.ktails before but now the question is where to find the ingredients and necessary materials to complete a viable and good molotov to use?

After getting a good rest, I stood up and prepare my weapons to see if they are in good shape.

”Are you now going to do what you are about to do now?” Aika asked.

”I have to gather some materials. If I want to get past the third floor, I have to prepare some explosives.”

”Huh? You needed explosives? Isn’t your gun and melee weapons enough to kill the zombies?”

”From what I can tell, you haven’t seen any threats more dangerous than the Stalker I guess?”

”Hmm, during the night, we always get attacked by big mosquitoes and the zombies are so active at night so we have to seal up the entrance and keep ourselves inside our gym and to avoid the horde. Other than that, none I could think of.”

It’s understandable. According to Chie and the other’s testimonies, the Juggernaut gets too weak in the morning that once it gets to morning, it will slowly revert back to a regular undead which resulted to why they are missing in the morning. Other mutated are not that active in the morning either which causes some survivors who holed themselves inside a building at night and only goes out in the morning would be sure they haven’t seen much special infected in the morning. Since the Gluttony is still here during the morning means it it functions in both day and night, making it a dangerous fellow.

”Follow me. Let me show you things the outside is suffering right now.”

Although Aika is confused, she didn’t say anything and followed me back to the third floor.

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Day 11: 3:09 P.M

Osaka: Shitennoji Gakuen Junior and Senior High School: 3rd Floor

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

Guns: AR15(Scope and Suppressor attached) Colt 45, Beretta M9 Pistol, Hunting Shotgun

(Kyosei’s View)

We slowly creep on the hallway, enough for us to see what it was doing and how the creature moves. As soon as Aika have seen this, she wanted to scream in fear though I managed to stop her the moment she opened her mouth as I covered it before a sound can escape.

”Sh*t, you will get us killed if you screamed like that.”

”I’m sorry, this is the first time I have seen a monster that disgusting myself.”

”There is no point in screaming if you are just disgusted by it. Now that you see it, you have now a clue why I needed to get some explosives. I don’t feel that comfortable if there are no explosions.”

”Are you sure you are going to fight that? That is a very big monster!

”There is nothing I can do and this can also reduce the danger during Night Rage. You have to stop asking for now and let’s get out of here for now.”

Before I can even go back to the second floor, one tendril appeared out of nowhere and attacked. I managed to repel it and stop it from its tracks after pulling the Piyavka sickle out and cutting the tendril that tried to grab me.

”Go! Run to the second floor! Don’t be reckless!” I shouted as I notice the Gluttony is approaching.

”But-”

”Stop hesitating and do what I say or I will blast a bullet on your brain to make you understand!”

Aika immediately scurried away the moment she heard that allowing her to reach to safety. Now facing the Gluttony, I waved the Piyavka and started running to the other direction. And just like I expected, it started following me, with it’s tendrils trying to ”reach out” to the running me.

I also pull out the Beretta M9 Pistol and started firing on the Gluttony. As expected, the bullets just bounced off. The skin and fat it possess is just insane that I am right to say this monster is disgusting. I can still tolerate the Behemoth’s gelatinous skin, but this guy is just pure mixture of disgusting sh*t and abomination of all infected.

The tendrils are fast but they are not that durable as I can easily cut them with the Piyavka though they are just fast enough to function and predicting their attack pattern is a little bit on the hard side. There are still a few undead in front of me like the Pukers and the Stalkers but before they can terrorize me, the Gluttony mistaken them as me and they started grabbing them one by one.

But one of the moments I wanted to wash my eyes with chlorox is the scene where it’s bloated head started opening and revealing itself as a cavity known as the mouth. As for its other features like the eyes, nose and ears, they are all missing.

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Kyosei the author here. This time, in our undead corner, we will discuss the dangers of the new infected that Kyosei and Aika encountered on the third floor and that is the Gluttony.

Danger Level

Single: Level 9

Horde: No data

Night Rage Single: Level 8

Night Rage: No data

Individuals who became these creatures: a gluttonous person

Info: This guy is unique existence and the first appearance of this creature is unknown. It was a big humanoid lump of flesh, walking in all fours, and is currently describe as ”melting flesh”. It’s height is not precise but it is enough to reach the ceiling without touching it. It was called Gluttony due to its behavior of devouring almost anything. Although it looked like it has a bloated head in first glance, the head was instead composed of a large mouth which questions what happened to its eyes, nose and ears as they are now missing.

The hairs on its body also mutated becoming similar to receptors and feelers of some insects and some animals. You can call it, the Gluttony’s ”Antenna”. Even though it has no eyes, the feelers are enough to act as its eyes and will detect anything moving around it. Though it acts like an antenna, it has limited range and can only feel presence 3 blocks away from the main body, other than that, it was blurry. Not only does this act as antennas, they also act like tentacles and can grab things so when approaching, watch out for them all the time as they can sometimes extend up to three blocks away from the main body.

It eats everything, nothing is spared. Undead, humans, other infected creatures, even concrete and glass are devoured. With it’s saliva that acts as an acid as lethal as a hydrofluoric acid, anything can be melted once it went into its mouth.