Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 344 - Anatomy of the Plant of Dead
Day 347 6:00 A.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion Base

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

After the incident, the idols decided to stay away from the walls for the time being since Yumi still can’t stand the gore and the rest still feel afraid of the events happening outside the walls. Only Misa managed to overcome everything and accepted things very quickly. Due to her tenacity, she was immediately able to get her gun to use in battle and she was free to choose whether she gets dispatched on the walls to act as guards or to go outside the walls and help the people who venture out to find things and supplies outside and also to recover buildings slowly and liberate the place from the undead. She chooses the former as she still lacks experience in the scavenging job and staying on guard with other people is much easier.

Shinobu, their manager plans to help with the paperwork and some things related to office works as she major in Marketing and Planning. She just ended up as a manager of an idol group as she has much experience in leading and also due to the persuasion of the girls. As for the others, I don’t know what they would need to be doing since they can’t last on fighting the undead and they seemed to have no experience in many things except for singing.

It’s been two days since then. Today, I was awakened by Eve who entered my room.

”Daddy, it’s morning already. The big brother and big sister infected had awakened already! Even the dog that we recovered back then with Laika already awakened from their slumber!”

I pat Eve’s head due to how energetic she was even though it’s early in the morning. It rained last night so I managed to sleep a lot longer last night. Now, I feel a bit groggy and a bit sluggish. I want to charge back up my energy to wake up and get up from the bed but my body says no and refuses to get up.

”Daddy, wake up! It’s morning already!” Eve then proceeds to pull my arm hard and I was dragged out of my bed forcefully.

BLAG!

I fell from the bed and my back hurts, snapping my sleepiness away. I quickly rubbed my eyes and sit up from the floor to quickly adjust my position.

”Uh...sorry Daddy, I didn’t mean to do that...” Eve hung her head in fear that I would be angry. However, that action allowed me to wake up like usual so I decided to pat her head.

”Nope, that allowed me to snap my sleepiness away, though you should take it easy than going hard, my back hurts a little bit from that.”

”Sorry again, daddy. I won’t do it again.”

”No worries, just don’t do it to other people as some might easily get angry. Now, what did you just say earlier? The twins and the dog are already awake?”

”Mm, they are already awake. I was in their room earlier when they woke up. It seems like they are still not sure what happened and we’re looking for you.”

”What about the dog?” I asked.

”Sister Cindy is the one who informed me since I was about to go in here, she said it would be great to relay it too.”

”Alright, you did a good job, let’s go and meet them.”

”You can only go Daddy, I promised Yumi-chan(the daughter of Pastor Shin) and Byakuya-kun to hang out with them along with the other kids today. I think I can’t go with you for now.”

”Ah, alright. You don’t need to worry about me, go and play with the others. Waking me up is already great, thanks.”

I ruffled her white hair a little bit. She said goodbye after that as I also need to prepare my clothes since I went to bed in pajamas.

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After taking a bath and getting ready, I went to the room of the twins. I can hear some voices inside the room but it is inaudible and I can’t figure out what they were talking about.

I knock on the door and they stopped talking and someone stood up and opened the door. As the door opens, the head of Cindy pops out from the door as she peeks out on who was knocking.

”Ah, it’s Kyosei. Come inside, the twins are looking for you.”

Cindy pulls the door open wider, allowing me to get inside. Cindy and the twins are not the only people inside the room. Everyone who was with us during the Kyoto expedition is in the room except for Byakuya and Eve.

”You were late, Kyosei, everyone is already here and you are still sleeping, this is the first time!” Souichi grins.

”Bro, give him a break, we got our rest after we arrived while Kyosei immediately goes to work. Meanwhile, we got to rest, especially you,” Izayoi said.

”Bro, I also have it hard during the expedition, driving without replacement is taxing too, you know?”

”Yes, we know but Kyosei worked most of the things done during the Kyoto expedition. He also needs to rest and it is fine if he overslept for a bit,” Cindy retorted.

”Guys, we are here to visit the twins and check their condition, not to weigh who did the most work back in the expedition. Don’t argue in front of the patients especially you, brother,” Nanami said.

I look at the twins who are being examined by Miyuki. They have recovered from the trouble that occurred during the skirmish in Kyoto.

”Singularity-sama, it looks like you are fine as well. Thank goodness our barrier paid off and we managed to escape from that place without dying. We wouldn’t be here if we failed on doing so.”

”It’s fine guys. We are alive thanks to the barrier. If the barrier wasn’t set up before those vines attacked, we are already dead. So it is fine, you all did good and we managed to even get out with the necessary survivors. No one died, and that is all that matters,” I said.

”The infection in that area is already too much to handle. If we stayed there for long we would have stayed in Kyoto for the rest of our lives,” Roku said.

”The big plant that started attacking us, is that also an infected?” Nanami asked.

”A variant, yes. We didn’t think too much about it when we saw those vines but when the moment the vines moved, the air suddenly changed and that is how we knew that danger is approaching,” Nana said.

We are good against an undead enemy and we can still somewhat face against the special infected but what about the infected plants? They are hard as rock and has a very unstable behavior. What if Osaka would also undergo similar process?

”Singularity-sama, I can assure that Osaka won’t have similar infected with Kyoto. It seems like the plant is exclusive on that place and won’t grow in Osaka,” Nana revealed.

”Huh? Is that true?”

”Kyoto seems to have unique soil properties that can help the plant grow significantly. I don’t know what happened there but it seems like some sort of growth chemichal was in there. One more thing, since the plant didn’t grow further after our vehicle passed through the territory, the plant is not planning on growing outside that place and it has some sort ot sentience to understand it,” Nana explained.

Now that she mentioned it, the moment we got our of the vicinity of Kyoto, the vines stopped growing and it allowed us to escape and return to Osaka. If that thing has sentience, shouldn’t we needed to destroy it before it gets even worse?

”Wait, if it is sentient, will it grow out of the Kyoto vicinity and cross the border once it feels that it is safe to move forward and grow more?!” Souichi suddenly have a realization.

”Now that my brother said it, I also wanted to ask that. It seems those plants has infinite growth and can still grow much bigger and wider since we saw it almost everywhere in Kyoto,” Nanami rubs her chin.

”We don’t know. We just said what we know by the clues and facts we have after we managed to get out. I am not even sure if it has sentience and I just speculating about it. However, it is not exaggerated enough as we already prove it due to how it chased us until we escaped,” Nana pointed out again how they indeed possess intelligence.

”In that case, our expedition of Kyoto seems to be far from done. Our first target was already rescued, which means our only target next is something we need to kill. Before it harms Osaka, we needed to pull its roots before it grows bigger.”