Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 289 - The Aftermath of the Deadly Raid
Day 320: 12:00 P.M

Equipment:

Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

The screams of the gangsters’ boss ended after he was attacked by everyone simultaneously without stopping on their attempt to avenge whatever happened to them because of his actions. On the other hand, I am sitting on the truck’s passenger’s seat to rest while holding the phone of the gangsters’ boss.

Despite the cellular network is no longer working after it went out of service, 2 months after the beginning of the outbreak, he still seems been using the phone to hold the contacts of his previous acquaintances that he saved inside the phone and all of their conversations before the cellular out of service incident.

Scrolling around them, I actually found a few tidbits of contacts with a man named Mitarai Aoba and someone from the black market that he keeps contact with to sell things especially dead bodies. The latter is something I keep on hearing with the gangster’s circles especially during the time where the slaves I rescued in the mansion was meant to be sold after the night rage. As for the man named Mitarai Aoba, I have no recollection of him. It sounds a little bit familiar but I don’t think I remember anything involving to him.

As for the black market, it seems the black market is the first to make contact with him and their messages went way past even before the apocalypse began and has been the supplier of illegal firearms that they can use during riots. No wonder there are so many illegal guns all over the place in here despite the law in Japan where guns are prohibited. I didn’t question it before because we needed it for the sake of survival but now that we have most of the guns we needed, I began to wonder how come we are able to procure those guns without being caught in the law before the outbreak has ever begun.

I look back into the tortured guy and saw his lifeless body being dragged by the people and put him on the side of the road.

”Kaito, order them to bury the guy. Despite being  one of the men responsible for those crimes, we can’t let it go to rampage once it got infected by the Galea Virus. We can’t afford for this guy to morph into something else while we are no looking and burying his body is the best way to keep things safe.

Kaito nodded as he also heard about the first appearance of the Juggernaut before. I also speculate something on the Behemoth’s origin is similar to what happened to Kaze but because it is just a speculation, I don’t really have any close idea on its real origin.

Then, one of the slaves raised her hands.

”What about we use the incinerator? They have one here to burn some of the corpses they wanted to dispose and they cannot sell. I have been used by them as a maid so I know what things they do on the cadaver room.”

”Oh, so that was a working incinerator. Kyosei, I second on her opinion, rather than digging holes on the ground that will last us several hours before we are done, we should instead use this chance to incinerate his body instead. We won’t need to worry about a body if it was turned to ashes,” Kaito said.

”You have been inside the Cadaver room?” I asked him. I am curious what is the cadaver room looks like.

”Yeah. It was located in the third floor. Since you cleaned up the second and ground floor and didn’t proceed to the next floor, you didn’t discover the place.”

Some of the slaves has no idea what is the cadaver room while the others who have known about it just didn’t say anything to others.

”What does that place looks like?” I asked Kaito.

”It is similar to a morgue, only worse and looks like the meat stockpiling section in a slaughterhouse as they also hang dead bodies on hooks like they were meat of animals being slaughtered. Those who can’t stand the gore would surely puke looking inside.”

Hearing that, I am doubting what the black market is going to do with the corpses they purchase and how much for one body for the gangsters to gather them in one room. It is also not a surprise they have an incinerator, with less people in Osaka right now and most focused on things they needed for everyday survival, they can easily take things out and bring them somewhere and build them a proper usage of exhaust in a building like this.

I took a mental note of the black market as I think we will be soon getting its attention in the later days after the annihilation of the gangsters.

With their suggestion being a viable and reasonable one, I agreed to this and let them carry out the cremation. They also wanted to cremate the others to stop the dead bodies of the other guys who were inside the cadaver room so I agreed to them. I went down from the truck and inspected the lifeless body of the guy earlier. He still looks like he is alive and just passed out from all the abuse he received from the captives and to make sure he won’t be waking up and will no longer have any chances of escaping, I pull out my Beretta M9 Pistol, and pulled the trigger, putting a bullet into his forehead.

And as my suspicion was confirmed, the alleged dead guy opened his eyes in the very last moment and opened his mouth wide to stop what I was about to do but he was a second late for his execution.

”Cunning bastard,” I murmured before putting back my pistol back to its holster.

...

While the cremation is ongoing, we raided the building one last time and gathered the food supply of the gangsters. Since it is already lunch time, I allowed them to grab anything they wanted to eat right now for lunch time while they are going to carry out the incineration task.

I also assigned a few people who will be watching guard outside for a moment since the threat of a drifting horde of undead might appear. Even though it is free from undead right now, without anyone left to operate any thing that repels the undead, they will naturally find their way here too.

While eating lunch, I decided to check on the base for any situation updates. Since I heard that they have sent a few men to lower the defense power of the base and to do some besiege tactics, I wanted to see how everyone is faring so far.

Tapping my headphones, the other line slowly connected and the voice of Nanami once again transmitted to my ears.

”Sup, Kyosei? Done with the work in there?” she asked.

”Yeah. We are just taking in some tasks to finalize everything and once it is done, we can return to the base. What about the situation over there? I learned here that they have sent a few men to attack the base and lower the defense. Did they already arrive?”

”Yep, done since earlier. They aren’t worth to mention at all. Even the undead during the morning in a horde poses more threats than them which is pathetic.”

”What did everyone do to them?”

”Most are captured while some were killed in the skirmish. They keep on saying that the main force will soon come and wreck the base apart.”

”The main force eh...that is insane trust coming from them. Unfortunately, they might need to wait forever and they will not be rescued. We already wiped out the main force they are talking about.”

”I am not surprised. So are you going to bring another bunch of people in here again?” she asked.

”We have a few who will be going back to their bases while half of the captives will be coming with us since they no longer have any sort of home they can go back into. They can be a good addition to the workers in the garden and the household chores and for those who can fight, they can also be part of scavengers too.”

”It doesn’t really matter though. We will return after the lunch, please inform Haru about the new people later so that he won’t be surprised.”

”Okay, then good work out there. Say that to Kaito too.”

”Mmm, alright.”

After that, the connection was cut off and the music in my headphones resumes. Although things seems to be done, I think we are just on the edge of the iceberg as things are still not going to be a good thing especially with the black market that seems to be doing something with all the dead bodies they keep on purchasing and if I am right, they can barter for dead bodies for supplies like guns, ammunition, and other supplies. There is also the guy named Mitarai Aoba. Although he is suspicious, I still don’t have any points of clues that connects that he is a possible threat but I think it is worth to take note of them.