Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 348 - Relief of the Dead
The next five days experienced several rainfalls which resulted in the peace at night happen and everyone managed to catch up to sleep. People are much quite simple with it when it rains everyone rejoiced as this was the easiest life we experienced for the whole year. Until now, the rain is quite doing enough job to make the hard ground very soft and forming the puddles to pool of water. It was quite a blessing for us though since the water supply we have are running out. With a filtering machine donated by the Bang Gunstore after some of the people who took some quest from them accomplished the task.

With the filtering water machine, we no longer need to worry about dirty water and contaminated water that might cause diarrhea and other complications. We only boil the water whenever we needed to have one before so with this machine, it wasn’t a hassle task anymore.

Also, we received very good news from Big Man Joe. They have agreed to join forces with us by forming a moving caravan. It was one of the ideas I gave to Haru during the early days though he dismissed it since it was too early to do so and we need to settle down a little bit and gather resources before doing the caravan. That way, we can easily ensure that we can easily gain contact with other survivors not only situated in Osaka but around Japan. 

I was hoping that we can get a good vehicle to cross the seas and the air so that we can get dispatched and get allies around the world to unite and fight back the undead. Nanami’s friends online also wanted something like that to happen as staying alone or in a small group in this world is just a pure slow burn and might bite them back someday if they are not careful enough.

Though there is good news, there is also mysterious and bad news that arrived. The mysterious news we received is that the people that look like my parents are still around and they seemed to be avoiding settlements and other places with human survivors. What is much more mysterious about them is that they are not affected by the Night Rage and they seemed to be able to evade the dead and the undead never attacked them even during Night Rage. It was a peculiar trait as that is just not possible. Almost all of the bases are suffering every night time and those who can’t handle the Night Rage are creating underground bases instead to survive the nighttime. Even I would be jealous and would very much like to know how they do that.

As for the bad news, we have received movements from Kato around the neighborhood. He was very active during the afternoon and nighttime as we sometimes get some footage of him moving around in his infected state. He was ripping undead and survivors alike though most survivors that have been killed so far are those opposing factions of survivors that have done many things that create chaos and cruelty to other innocent survivors.

We still have no means to capture Kato and return him to normal but if we do have one, we will make sure to get him back.

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In the meantime, we are gathering intel. According to the info we received from scouts, a supply plane has been spotted. It has been reported to have dropped crates from random places and many people are trying to mark all of the supplies.

”Are you guys sure that what you guys have seen are the supply planes? There might be supply planes but some of them are just disguised to be one and they are tasked with eliminating survivors,” I tried to confirm the rumors.

”Yes. We have already marked one of the dropped crates and we have already guaranteed that they are indeed dropping crates of supplies. One has already been obtained and confirmed that they are supplies containing canned foods, a gun and a few bullets, and a medkit,” the scout said.

”Huh, they are actually generous enough to give out those things casually? Instead of dropping supplies, they should be able to do something to the survivors instead of leaving them to this hell hole,” Souichi mocked the ones dropping the supplies.

”So are you saying you trust them to take you somewhere else?” I asked.

”No. Those bastards can shoot me dead if they think I am infected even though I am not. I would rather not let them take me away from here. What I mean is that they need to find a solution on stopping this madness and restore everything back to how it was.”

”Wishful thinking, four eyes. I bet they would love to have this situation continue forever. Anyways, we need to analyze if those plane will be passing by in this area. Although it is not necessary for us to get the contents of the box, it is a welcome one if we get at least a gun and medicine as we always welcome free stuff,” I said to redirect the situation from getting more serious.

”We have some guesses though we do not guarantee it. They usually drop the boxes where the undead flocks the most. Two of the five crates that has been spotted to be dropped here in Osaka has been retrieved while the last three are not recovered due to how thick the horde of undead that were surrounding them. No ordinary group of survivors can easily take them unless they go guns ablazing or use a car to run through the dead, grab the package and escape,” the scout said.

”And you are saying one of those crates are currently in one of the Shinsaibashi’s red zone?” I asked.

”I can confirm it. I just sent the drone just now and I am seeing the crate that he is describing,” Nanami said and handed me the controller of the drone which is a table that also has the monitor of the camera to get a surveillance to what the drone is seeing. There was indeed a large crate with a parachute attached to it and a green smoke signal that is continuously releasing the green smoke that is thick enough to ignore.

I also recognize the area it was dropped in and like scout said, this place is the red zone of Shinsaibashi area due to the overwhelming amount of undead that seems to be a place that can’t be cleared since it remained to be crowded even if the Night Rage which helps out to clear the crowded place due to the horde exist every night.

”What is the plan Kyosei? We can take it but we need to waste lots of resources like bullets to take that box out of the area. It is not going to be a viable thing to waste resources especially that we don’t know how many valuable things might be inside and how much the contents will be able to pay off the resources we will spend,” Nanami said.

I think for a while and calculated the amount of things we need to consider to recover that box especially in the red zone. I can handle myself in the red zone without problem since I don’t need to worry getting bitten but the others are not fine and they will need resources that might be needed to be expended to fully fight back. Even if the undead are not in the influence of the Night Rage, that doesn’t mean they are easy to beat up especially a horde. Only a few people can handle the battle against them in a horde and are capable of switching to melee and range.

”Scout, can you tell me again what are the contents of the crate? If the content is just bland and not interesting enough, I don’t think we need to risk our lives to take it out of the red zone.”

”Canned foods which includes water and non-perishable goods, a random gun, usually a pistol or a rifle and a box of bullets, and a medkit containing medicines needed to tend wounds and other kinds of injuries and easy to cure sickness.”

”Now that I heard it again, it seems generous in first glance but it is a problem since we need to expend quite a good amount of resources to retrieve the crate. We will be walking in a trap if we tried to take it. We will also lose more resources than gain anything significant,” Souichi said, giving voice to my concerns.

”What’s wrong Kyosei?” Nanami asked and took the tablet away from my hands and took a quick glance on the situation on the crate.

”Huh? What is going on?”

The monitor is showing the horde parting a way from the crate like soldiers giving salutations to a royalty. What made my eyebrow furrow is not the strange behavior of the undead but the people walking towards the crate. It’s none other than the people who looked like my parents.