Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 254 - The Dead, the Human Survivors, and the Gangs Part 1
Day 312: 7:00 A.M

(Kyosei’s View)

10 months already went by after the outbreak has started. Although humanity has not yet managed to recover from it, things are now much more bearable compared before.

We are currently residing on a mansion currently situated near the sea and a few minutes away to the forest. Just like what our ideal base should be, I made sure that the location is perfect and defending the place is not hard to do so and we didn’t regret our actions as it turns much better than before.

Abandoning the Tsutenkaku Tower, the new base became the new place for everyone. And since the forest is near us, we have been able to harvest enough materials to create houses for everyone, allowing us to convert the surroundings of the mansion as a small community.

We also built the walls and it was the main priority of the project as it will also act as the first shield against the undead during Night Rage. We also started reclaiming on the surrounding buildings too, creating outposts for our supply runs, allowing to get some temporary break and resupplying ammunitions in case we run out of them and to also act as a station that indicates that we are already near the safe zone.

Food supplies also starts to get stable too. With the help of the wide land, we managed to create a garden to grow vegetables for our greens. Relying on canned goods and dried meat are not healthy in the long run and aside from that, it doesn’t last forever and is not unlimited due to the limited supply and lack of production from people. Urban Gardening at least helps elevate the burden of food shortage. The non-combatant people in our group are in-charge of taking care of this place.

As for our combat power, we slowly acc.u.mulated enough Piyavkas to exchange for weapons. As of today, our Piyavka weaponry are all given to every soldiers and survivors who are on the supply run or exploration group. As for me, I have to remodel the Piyavka Sickle to a machete since the sickle form has trouble in usage aside from killing. I can’t use it for dismantling and it is troublesome in my part as the Cleaver also has limited actions to perform too.

Right now, we already managed to reclaim a few buildings and cleared out the undead surrounding it, converting the buildings to facilities to lessen the usage of the tents as they are now used for some emergencies like deployment outside the bases.

Also, during the span of 10 months, the Night Rage has also toned down a bit of difficulty the moment many of the people in my group are now in access to Piyavka weaponry. Although it is still not safe every night due to the special infected appearing exclusively at night like the mosquitoes and the Juggernauts, it is no longer a problem fighting back on them and struggling with their attacks.

The study with Virus Galea is also progressing but in a very slow rate as it needs more study materials, specimens and bigger understanding to fully know how to cure it. Aside from that, only Chie and Dr. Kogure are the ones doing the job as most of the people around us are not that brainy to understand the fundamentals of this and that. Eve also gives out some samples from herself for testing from time to time but Dr. Kogure do not want to risk her life on this study. Since she holds one of the main parent virus in her body, he didn’t want her to die just because we are desperate for a cure.

If we are talking about our medical team, many of them are now Combat Medics. Many of the my members before are medic and now combat medics. Cindy and Miyuki are the examples. They are not just staying at the base and waiting for casualties. Due to the new nature of reclaiming the surroundings, hunting and scavenging resources alongside with the growing threat of the undead in the morning, the medics are now trained to be also capable of fighting against common threats while capable of administering basic to complex methods of first aid.

Currently, those two are part of my team. Yes. A team. Although I am a lone wolf, I was forced to team up with others as Haru suggested this to avoid casualties and to also increase the work I can carry out. Aside from them, Aika, Souichi, Okabe, Sena and Kaito are part of my team. Haru assigned them to me as they are more comfortable working with them and they don’t mind me being the leader of the operation.

Before, my job is wandering around and scavenging things for the group and if there are someone who is trustworthy enough to be recruited, I can bring them along. Now, it is a secondary task and the main task is always securing an area and clearing out the undead in the surroundings. We also have the opportunity to loot the buildings depending on what is available inside or if it does not affect on our main priority.

I may not be too comfortable working in a team but at least they are good support and I will not complain on that to them. They are fantastic enough in their work alone.

Ah yes, before I forget, Nanami is still the main brain and the ones executing of things and developing technologies and high tech things needed for survival. I still remember when she asked me to install that prototype on the Tennoji Gakuen where I met Aika, it was followed by another one which is to install the second one to somewhere near the base. The third one is pending as she is currently helping on the Bang Gunstore developing something though I have no idea what it was.

One last update, Kato has already managed to awaken from his coma. Although he is disabled now after losing a few limbs, he is still fine. He managed to stay alive. Despite him not being able to continue the chance to participate in missions, we are still glad he is alive. But lately, he is spending most of his time alone somewhere in the base while riding his wheelchair that we managed to take when we raided a small hospital. We have no idea what he is doing but I guess it will take some time before we know what he is about to do.

I will be ending my journal here for now. I have to accompany Eve to a regular checkup. And besides, this journal might be new but it will never replace my experiences realtime.