Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 309 - The Construction to Repel the Dead First Part
.Day 340: 9:00 A.M

Osaka Streets

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

6 days pass by so quickly. Time went by after I was injured by Kato and barely escaped and now, I am as good as new like I don’t even have been troubled in pain and didn’t almost meet death. 

Although I am now ready to go back to the job, I am still prohibited by Miyuki to do things that I usually do as some of my internal injuries are showing signs of healing and if I got injured again, the healing process might get interrupted instead.

It was kind of troublesome to once again have nothing much to do. In the meantime, I train Byakuya to fight and teach him some of my techniques in fights like how to fight in a dirty way that will keep you on the advantage against the enemy. I also help once in a while in the kitchen and as always, once I started cooking, the whole kitchen goes into a frenzy. They still have no idea it was me who cooks the food and yet they keep singing praises on it.

During Night Rage, I also help on guard duty but since there are so many outposts that have been created to stop the undead horde from getting through, it is also a little bit boring now.

Today, I decided to go and ask Nanami for some job to do. With everything getting boring after a few long days of no literal work. I tried doing things by myself and do some of my usual hobbies but with the lack of appeal it has nowadays, I don’t have much tolerance in sinking to a single job that I rarely enjoy now.

I tried going to the HQ only to find it empty, not even Haru is at his usual desk. I tried looking at the schedule board since they post there what their schedule is and I realized that today is Haru’s day off. I guess even a person like Haru also has to take a break once in a while. I didn’t know about this as I am always busy outside and hunting undead that I don’t know whatever is happening to the base and the people’s schedules though I don’t really care.

After knowing the reason why the HQ is empty, I decided to look around the desk of Haru after seeing it cluttered with different papers with some complicated topics on it, some are even printed in English. Since I am proficient in reading English words without difficulty, I picked up one of them.

From the looks of it, Haru did some contact with other people overseas and I think most of the printouts here are from Nanami herself since she always keeps in contact with the people from overseas. It is most likely that Haru is looking for some information on the other side of the world for anything that might benefit us in the long run.

Then, I suddenly notice a few photos of people on the bottom stack of the paper. I checked the photos and notice that there are a few more photos inside the folder, placed at the bottom too. It is kinda odd to see photos of people here all of a sudden so I checked on it real quick and realized it immediately.

These people are all either the parents or close relatives of everyone here including mine, Nanami, Miyuki, and the others in Blood Battalion. There were also photos of my parents though they are marked deceased already. Some of the parents of the others are also here that I kinda realized what makes Haru busy nowadays and why he keeps on asking Nanami’s help.

To find missing people and people who live from other places, someone who knows how to track them without physically going to the place is the best choice. But to be able to track this much info on everyone is very impressive.

Many of the photos of the people have the tag of three question marks labeled if they are alive or dead. Some of them, especially the parents of Nanami have marks on their photos of ”alive” which means they are still doing fine in the apocalypse. Nathalie and Steven’s parents have their mother as deceased while their father has the same question marks on them, meaning it is still unknown whether they have survived or not.

Knowing this much, I decided to return the photos to where they were placed. It was very interesting to know that this is quite something else and knowing that they are looking for their close relatives makes it a little bit better for everyone in here if they know the efforts Haru and Nanami are doing.

Since they are not working right now, I decided to refrain from disturbing Nanami right now. Even though I wanted to find something to do, I am not desperate enough to ruin someone’s rest day just for me to find something to do.

When I left the HQ office, I saw the two variants, Roku and Nana both chatting outside on a bench. They are not floating right now which they usually do whenever and wherever they are so it kinda changed the vibe that they aren’t floating at all. I overheard what they were talking about while I am in here since the corridor and the bench they were sitting at is just near to each other.

”Are we sure that we should tell the singularity about this? Things will get messy if he knows this one,” Nana looked at Roku with a worried expression.

”I know this is a risky move and we might end up dead if we reveal this info to them but I don’t think I wanted the humans to perish. They might have some flaws but so are we. Also, I tend to like the behavior of the human that is guarding me so I think it will be worth it. And even if we are going to be killed, it won’t change anything at all. We are destined to die in the future so there is nothing to do with it. There won’t be changing whether we die sooner or we die in our intended time,” Roku said.

”Although I agree with you, won’t they be involved in this matter sooner than expected?” Nana asked.

”The sooner they know this, the better their chances of surviving and it might give us a chance to know what our real purpose is for the singularity and the arbiter and this world.”

Although I am curious, I am not someone who will confront the person talking like that behind me. I would rather they be direct to me than for me to confront them on what they are talking about.

They left after their little conversation and despite the information being lacking just by eavesdropping on their conversation, it is nothing much for me and will wait for them to say it to me.

I walked around the base looking for anything to do when I noticed that there was some construction happening on the north part of the base. I was staying in bed most of the time during the few days of rest so this construction is something I don’t know about.

As I went into the construction, I realized the construction is meant to extend the road of the base towards the farm.

I heard they were already doing some construction to close the farm and stop the dead from entering the farm again but this is new to me that they will create a closed road to access the farm without risking your life to go out in there. No wonder there are many guards assigned here and only a few guys left behind to guard the usual walls.

The northern part of the base is what makes the ruckus of sound is coming from which is why the undead who are nearby will also come and get attracted to the sound of the construction. There, I saw Uncle Matsubara directing the construction from happening. He is acting like a boss for the first time on everyone. The men doing the construction are some of the men who were once slaves and were rescued and brought back. Some are SDF who just recovered from the injuries while the others are volunteers.

”Uncle...” I said as I approach him while directing on the men.

”Oh, Kyosei. It looks like you are getting up and about now huh? How is the injury?”

”It doesn’t hurt anymore but I am still prohibited to do my usual work.”

”Are you looking for work? Why don’t you help me direct this construction and also help deploy the guards to protect the construction from the dead? Sounds good?”