Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 301 - The Deadly Source
Day 333: 9:00 A.M

Osaka: Forest Farmhouse

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Just like what Nana said, the undead that I keep on killing and killing for the past hour seems to be not decreasing at all, they are instead increasing in number which is now getting alarming, and moving the car is now getting harder to do so.

”Looks like what you said is right, there is no way a medium size farmhouse to be able to house this much undead all at once.”

”Are you going to go inside and destroy whatever is producing the mass-produced undead?”

”There is no other choice. Just killing them by crashing the car is not enough to eliminate all of them. I need to personally take care of the problem myself.”

I get rid of all the undead around the car first so that it is much safer for me to go out. Since they still keep on spawning at a crazy rate, I have to play safe. Once it was good to move, I went ahead and opened the car door and ready my weapons. Nana and Roku also went out of the car and ready their tendrils for attacking.

”We will help Singularity-sama in this battle. We need to destroy the source as soon as possible.”

Although I still have no idea what she meant as the source, I think I can see the gist of what she wanted to say and portray about the source but because I am not yet sure, I have to see for myself what is this source.

The undead was easier to kill than usual and the way I cut their necks off from their body, it felt a little bit unusual and peculiar.

It was like I am cutting a vine or a weak branch.

Although the Piyavka machete and the piyavka cleaver still works as it should, it seems a little bit weird and unusual even for me who knows the feeling of cutting flesh, it doesn’t sit right for me whatever I try to do.

”I am not cutting flesh and blood,” I muttered myself.

”Yes. Singularity-sama, they are no blood and flesh, they are just imitations of the normal undead you keep on seeing and killing every day. Although they work the same, they are not the same beings as that undead. They will be forever going to appear again and again as long as you don’t destroy the main source.”

We made our way inside the farmhouse and continue to slay the undead on our way. Thanks to the support of the twins, I didn’t get any trouble finishing things more easily.

As soon as we made our way inside the farmhouse, what made me stunned is the amount of fleshy substance there was inside. It was very bad that I even thought we entered the mouth of a monster and went straight to its stomach.

”What the hell is going on in here?” I frowned as I continue to walk inside. The fleshy things are all squishy and just like flesh, whenever pressure is applied on it, some sort of liquid is getting released every step, making it a little bit creepy at the same time.

”You haven’t seen this kind of thing in the past Singularity-sama?” Roku asked.

”No, I have seen this stuff before, do the two of you know what these fleshy things are?” I asked him as I have seen this before when I was against Gluttony before. However, this kind of thing is not this bad and troublesome.

”Yes, Singularity-sama. We have no name of it yet but we simply call this kind of place, ”Corrupted” and the fleshy things that keep spreading around are called ”Corruption”. There are plenty of this kind in the mall you visited last time so if you guys didn’t run away from me, you guys would have witnessed those things and be alarmed.”

”We will explain things a little bit later, Singularity-sama. If we don’t hurry, those things will keep on multiplying and we might get overwhelmed as a result,” Roku said.

He is right. I can’t afford to dawdle. If I take too long in this area, I would be stuck here and even the twins will be in danger too since they are also not safe against the undead.

I explored the farmhouse for quite a while. While most of the house has been transformed into a fleshy substance already, there are certain areas of the place that is not transformed and remained the same. However, there are already signs of the flesh things creeping everywhere so I guess that it will be covering this whole place soon.

There is an occasional undead horde appearing out of nowhere in the area and I have to deal with them as swiftly as possible. With the help of the two variants, I managed to get rid of them before they can overwhelm us.

Soon, we arrive in a locked room. Unlike most of the doors here that can be yanked out and can be opened using the pick locking skills of mine, this one doesn’t work and has been locked like this. Force also doesn’t work. As I tried to force it open but to no luck.

I wanted to abandon this room but Nana stopped me from doing so.

”Singularity-sama, this room contains the source that we are looking for. We just needed to force the room open to locate and destroy it!”

I tried looking for a way until I noticed that the walls that are covering the room are not made of concrete but was made of wood. It doesn’t seem like that at first glance but if you inspect it a lot closer, you will notice that it was wood and is easily taken down. Seeing this, I went into the room where some tools were present and grab the ax, went back to the room, and immediately started to destroy the wall using the ax.

It was easier than expected and the moment the wall fell, a very bad stench came running out the moment the room opened up.

”This rotting smell, it smells like a rotting corpse is being held here for too long.”

I continue to destroy the wall and create enough space for me and the others to fit inside.

Once it was big enough, I entered along with the others and notice that the place is not even infected by the red flesh thingie.

It was a normal bedroom and from the looks of the bedroom, it was a room of a male farmer. Based on how his lifestyle goes, he doesn’t seem to be doing anything bad. However, some sort of bad stench is coming from the bed area of the room that will make anyone not used to the smell puke out.

I went into the bed and slowly approached it. It was covered by the blanket so I can’t see it. Once I removed the blanket, a red thing that resembles a human body appeared before us. It does resemble a normal human body but the octopus-looking monster seems attached to it that made it looked creepy and annoying.

The Piyavka Machete proved to be lethal enough that the monster squirmed wildly the moment the machete pierced through them.

SKREEEEEEEEEEE!

It released a long howl before it died without anything to help it. The squirming flesh also seemed to stop everything from moving and everything became dead. All of the undead that wanted to attack us slowly fell to the ground and faded.

”It was confirmed, the Source of the corruption has now been destroyed. We can now slowly walk around the place and get what we needed to get here,” Roku said.

I also notice that the flesh-looking things attached to the walls and floor are slowly detaching themselves out of them that the squelchy sounds are getting annoying I don’t like to listen to it.

Since the dead body was still there, I extracted a little bit of a sample of it for Chie and Dr. Kogure to test and know what kind of stuff it was.

It took a few minutes before the slimy squelching sounds ended. The moment it ended, I already knew that the fleshy things on the outside has finally detached themselves from the walls and fell to the ground like nothing.

With the farmhouse safe, it became easier access for me that I checked the supply this farm can offer. Once I finished pillaging the place, I found out that I can fish in the nearby pond. The vegetables on the field are still untouched makes it very ideal for the group.

There is also quite a lot of food on the boxes in the storage room. But I decided to burn it. With the infectious thing occurring in this place, eating this will not be this safe.