Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 302 - The Stream of the Dead
Day 333: 9:54 A.M

Osaka: Forest Farmhouse

(Nana’s View)

The singularity already burned all the remains including the food that was stored inside the farmhouse. I honestly have no idea why the singularity did that despite looking for the food they needed to survive.

I telepathically asked my brother if he knows why he did it like that and he said he understood the gist of it. But unfortunately for me, I don’t think I have understood why he did it.

Indeed, humans are strange beings. But we are here to help the arbiter and the singularity achieve their goals. It might take a while for everything to sink in but for the sake of our survival, I have to do this. And with my brother here, I know the feeling is mutual...

Day 333: 9:54 A.M

Osaka: Forest Farmhouse

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Once most of the things needed to be burned have turned to ashes, I went ahead and looked at the mess of the fleshy things around the farmhouse. I already searched the whole place and the only valuables I managed to find are the tools used for farming. But yeah, I found some tools for farming like the watering can and hoe on the storage area. Which means the farm is still around here somewhere.

I went outside and checked the whole area until I managed to discover the farmlands behind the little bushes and trees just behind the house. I was expecting it but still did not know it will be located here like this.

The farmlands have been abandoned and are already overgrown, clearly lacking the owner who should be clearing the weeds and controlling the vegetation of the farm itself. This means this farm has been abandoned for a long time or the owner died when the apocalypse strikes.

There are still plants and some vegetables overgrown already like the squash on the ground creating a few tangles of vine on the ground which means the latter reason is the one with the most likely scenario that occurred that time. And since it’s already a few months after the apocalypse has started, this farm would naturally look like this so there is nothing for me to be surprised about in this place.

The farmland is big enough for it to be good enough for us. With many of our members not capable of fighting against the dead, this place is a very good place to let go.

I didn’t contact Nanami yet since I remember during the time the scouts discovered this place that they have managed to retrieve a few gears for fishing like some fishing rods, a few nets, and some hooks needed for fishing. Due to that, we gained access to fishing with the help of those tools but due to the nature of fishing to need a peaceful place to fish, it was hard to get it done.

There might be some riverbanks around Osaka and they can be good enough places to fish but they don’t have the best place to get tranquility in fishing. With the threat of other survivors appearing alongside the dead interrupting your busy fishing time, you would most likely not going to acquire any fish at the very end.

I don’t see any tools for fishing when checking all the tools in the room where the tools and other kinds of things needed for farming are stored. But that doesn’t mean I am going to give up looking for it. There is a big chance we can go start fishing and procure fish enough for everyone if there is indeed a fishing spot.

The scouts didn’t scout the whole place due to the threat of the dead that keeps on pressuring the scouts which caused them to flee. Because the trouble of spawning undead has been solved, I decided to continue scouting the place to make sure I don’t regret it for not spotting earlier.

With the help of the twin variants who watch my back, we managed to traverse the forest easily. There are some dog attacks in between but with the help of Nana and Roku, the threat is not that serious.

Not too long since I went off to check the areas unmapped by the scouts, I hear the sounds of water flowing somewhere around the area.

”You hear those water flowing guys?” I asked the two variants.

”Yea, Singularity-sama. It is indeed flowing water,” Roku said.

With that confirmed, I went and followed the source of the sound and found a stream, not too far from the farmlands.

There was three undead standing still on the side of the stream so before they can go and ruin the place when I found them, I sneak behind them and immediately performed a sneak kill to the three, stabbing the two on their heads using the Piyavka Machete and the last one was just purely smashed by my hands on the ground.

Once they were removed from the stream, it was safe again to check the place. There was a small shack near the stream. It was locked but that was nothing to me who knows how to open locks easily.

The stream is clear, it was unpolluted and a full of life area seeing all the fishes swimming around once in a while. There is even a small boat enough for two people to ride on docked just near the shack which means this was used by the previous owner as a good place for fishing. Finding this place was a very satisfying moment.

Knowing that the time is always on the run and we needed to secure this place, I call Nanami to be able to relay some message to Haru.

The conversation is short but he was delighted to know that there is still a good source of food in the future with the discovery of the place. It was a short conversation so I just decided to slow it down. Since the place is cleared, and I propose to take this place on us, he ordered a few men to take care of creating a few defense mechanisms in the area.

Once things were done, I decided to discuss another matter with Nanami.

”Nanami, I discovered something else when I arrived here. Do you still remember the time the scouts who discovered this place and they returned after the horde of undead blocks their progress?”

”Yes. Of course, I still remember that. We are still planning that out but since you have already cleared the place, I don’t think I will need to plan out something so that we can clear the area. Why do you ask?” Nanami asked.

”In reality, it wasn’t a real horde but works similarly since they are still infected by the Galea Virus. However, all of them are not once human. They were just some sort of made from a sort of flesh odd to cut. It was like cutting a root from a tree. They even have this weird blood color once killed compared to the real undead.”

”Huh? The hell is that? Are you saying that if they remained to function, they can produce an imitation undead and annihilate everyone if they are produced infinitely?!”

”Yes, that is basically how it works out. If it wasn’t for us destroying the cause, this matter will continue without even getting any end.”

”So, what is the cause of that?”

”Some sort of flower that looks like a parasite grows from the dead body on the bed of a room we just discovered and killed it. The undead that was being mass-produced came out from the fleshy walls that were attached to the normal walls of the house. If we didn’t kill the parasitic thing, the main source wouldn’t have died and it might have already amassed a lot of undead in the area to surround us.”

”Have you secured some sort of sample out of those things you mentioned?” Nanami asked.

”Yes. I stored it safely for Chie and Dr. Kogure to study. I asked the variants about it but they seemed to have no idea about it so our only hopes of knowing the new enemy are to study it,” I said.

”If this is something that has big trouble on us, this might be one of the reasons of the Night Rage attacks every day. If we can take this chance to remove all of them, we might have a way to stop the Night Rage attacks once and for all,” Nanami theorizes.

”Although I am skeptical about the theory, we are not too sure, and trying it out isn’t bad at all. It will be a good step to know if we can end the apocalypse much sooner than expected.”