Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 270 - Escape Against the Sword of the Dead
Day 314: 10:00 P.M

Osaka Streets: 

Equipment: 

Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Blade Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

The chase continues as the Night Rage’s duration continues to tick down. It’s not easy as I have to continue to run. It isn’t easy and the feeling of being chased is returning to me just like how the Juggernaut continues the mindless pursuit against me while I was in Kirishima High School.

I managed to survive against the Juggernaut by sheer luck but now that I am faced with an almost invincible body. I tried shooting the lunky bastard but this guy is capable of cutting bullets midair. Nevertheless, I didn’t lose hope and continue to run away from this infected variant.

I might sound exaggerated but this guy is not just casually following my steps, this variant is slashing obstacles to obstacles without any care, be it walls or doors, even some infected like the Juggernaut that is just plainly blocking the road was not spared. It is a walking cutting machine just in a humanoid form.

My first plan is to kill it in ranged attacks like the gun. However, it is proven ineffective. I don’t have the Piyavka modified guns that can fire Piyavka bullets so when I said that I can’t execute this plan via shooting, I really can’t.

The second option for me is to fight it in melee and hope to overpower this bastard. I am confident in fighting in close-quarter combat but that doesn’t mean I am confident in taking this guy on who can easily cut through solid objects. If I wanted to defeat this guy, I needed to make a surprise attack and kill this guy in one blow. The problem is how to do it.

There is no guarantee that my Piyavka weapons will be able to hold out. Seeing this lunky guy use the sword-like arms dangling around its arms and cutting walls and other solid objects like butter cut by a hot knife, my weapons will immediately snap, losing my weapons I can use for melee combat.

Hiding and waiting above the buildings and rooftops is also not a viable strategy. I tested it out earlier, and I was immediately wrecked by the ”swordsman”. This guy basically cut all of the foundations of the building I was staying and the house collapsed. This guy can just cut almost everything if it needed to do so.

I am thinking of tiring this variant and hold out till morning comes as it is now a common knowledge that variants like the Juggernaut does not survive during the morning and will disappear. However, that is also not a viable strategy. I just remembered that Stalkers are basically variants too but they can also survive the morning and still be alive and active. What of the ”Swordsman” is also a variant with the same trait?

Now my only choice is to keep on running and thinking of stopping this guy. I can whip up some quick explosives using the gas tanks in the houses but that is a little bit risky and troublesome. I don’t have the ”Swordsman” as the only problem, I also have the running undead chasing my ass for the majority of the night.

While I am busy contemplating on what to do to fight this blade undead, my headphones once again started to halt all the music in my ears before it once again connected to Nanami.

”Kyosei! Why are you still not home? It’s dangerous here and most of us are struggling against the ”Headaches” as we have to keep an eye on both the ground and the air to avoid being assaulted by the Headache and the undead below! What are you doing?!”

”I also have problems on my own and I can’t dare to bring this problem of mine there especially if you guys have been having troubles against the flying heads, then this problem I am dealing with will destroy our defenses if they managed to do something!”

”Huh? Are you also dealing a variant too?!”

”Yeah, this bastard variant is just making me full of headaches so if you don’t want me to bring this shitty lunky variant to the base and wreck our walls like paper then let me deal with this for now! might be going back once the sun comes out.”

”You really need to come back or else I will beat up your face for not coming back.”

Trust me, this is a hard choice. With the ”Swordsman” cutting everything on it’s path, I am starting to question how long will I be able to survive this sh*t.

I continue running, jumping, climbing, evading and most of the time, killing on the rooftops and the roads just to escape. I might be fearless but dying due to this lunky swordsman is another sh*tty thing. I will continue my way forward, and find a way to kill this one.

My distance from the Bang Gunstore and my current location is just too far already that I no longer recognize where the f*ck I am already. If I am not being chased by the undead, I might bother check this place out but because I don’t have the time to do some trivial things, I don’t care anymore.

A few more minutes later, I discovered a big place that looked like a mansion. The lights are on and it seems to be like someone is using this place. What I didn’t expect is for these guys to be holding a party. I took a quick glance and notice the people are wearing the same clothes as those gangsters. Moreover there are so many of them that are clearly up for a terrible deed. What made me furious is that I saw a few people hanging on a platform. Then, I just realized it, that place is a gallows.

I grit my teeth seeing the people being hanged. They are also hanging kids too which is pretty horrible already. It looks like this gang needed to be stopped and looking at the approaching undead alongside with the ”Swordsman” that is casually walking to catch up to me.

My anger is getting higher and higher that I decided to do something crazy. I will use the undead hoard alongside the ”Swordsman” to wipe every people in that little group.

”To fight evil, you also needed to be an evil person too.”

There are no walls for me to bypass the gate of the mansion so I have to land into the ground and run towards the gate as soon as possible which in turn, exposing my back to the ”Swordsman.” However, what I am currently doing right now is to lead the horde to the bunches of sinners who trample human lives.

RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN!

On the gate, there are people stopping me from running. They looked like your typical rugged people and the others looked like bandits. They are wearing stylish clothes but they reek the smell of sc.u.ms. Just looking at these gangsters made me get pissed and despise them. There are guards guarding the gate and they are pretty lax considering the amount of undead and sold materials are not thay easy to acquire. They keep on stopping me but that doesn’t mean I will stop. The guards did not really care much. Before they knew it, the undead horde has started running towards them all. Now it is massacre time.

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A/N: 

Undead corner here. This time, we are going to talk about the ”Swordsman” which just debuted its appearance last chapter. This will obviously be updated to the extra chapter too as part of the infected.

Danger Level: Level 9

Normal Level: N/A or not yet implemented it.(As there is still no way he wanted to get out of here.)

Night Rage Level: Level 9

Individuals before they became this creature: Homeless Guys

Description: The ”Swordsman” is an infected in a form of a homeless person. It sometimes manifest while going to just hang out over instead. This guy’s arms is dangling but never to underestimate the power of the dangling arms. In just a matter of seconds, the massacre will probably happen if this guy is left alone to do it’s little job which is to destroy the word.

Although they are more similar to an undead, they have distinct pictures that you can imeddiately tell from regular. The Swordsman is full of protruding swords on the body. It will become your death if this sharp spikes will hit your vulnerable body. It’s arms will also be playing the role of being a natural sharpened knife as slicing you in half will be easier for the variant to do so.

Despite being a creature closer to human appeared, the arms are what made them terrifying. They are also quite troublesome and will need a lot danger involving on them.