Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 274 - Slaves of the Dead Part 3
Day 315: 7:21 A.M

Melee: Piyavka Hook and Scythe

Gun: Hunting Shotgun: Modified for Piyavka Shells, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Nathalie’s View)

To see so many of them locked up in the bas.e.m.e.nt, I am wondering if this place is a secret prison at first. But that shouldn’t be the case.

”To think the gangsters are taking advantage of the apocalypse to enslave other people. It is quite terrible and I never expected that they would go this far,” Sayaka said.

”I heard of this one before. This was in a case of mass kidnappings happening all around that the police were forced to deploy special units to find the perpetrators of the kidnappings. It looks like the gangsters are the ones responsible for that for the most part,” Kou said as he helped one of the women who is wounded.

With the medics with us, the two silent medics did their job of treating the injuries of the slaves. Some have minor injuries while some have worst and deep wounds. It was so deep that I know this will leave a scar if it heals one day.

We have taken all of the imprisoned girls out of their cells and many have blunt traumas on their bodies while some have suffered severe cuts in their skins that the blood that has dried up will bleed again if cleaned up by the medics. There are also a few cases where they feel pain all over their bodies and can only cry in pain as they endure the pain while being checked by the medics.

”These wounds will take a lot of time to heal. And to think they managed to endure for too long inside the cold cell is a miracle indeed. If they are not rescued sooner, they might have died or suffer once their wounds get infected by other kinds of infection. Sure they don’t die from undead bites but they will die from different kind of infection,” Kou said after examining the wounds of the victims with very bad looking wounds.

Once the treatment for their wounds are done, they were given sleeping pills for them to go to sleep while they are being transported. They cannot feel the best experience while being transported to the base for medication so it is a better option to lull them to sleep and get them experience calm and comfort once while being transported.

While they are being given with sleeping pills, Kyosei appeared, checking the situation. There are still a few who hasn’t gone to sleep yet and the moment he appeared, many of the girls started gritting their teeth and are ready to attack Kyosei. I stopped them from doing so, Kou and Sayaka helped me restrain them from doing so.

”That guy! He is one with those people who captured us! Kill him! We can’t afford him to be left alive! He might have killed many innocent people just like our friends!”

The three of us were at lost hearing this from the girl.

”Sir! You are part of the SDF right? Why are you not delivering punishment to him?!” she looked at Kou and Sayaka with a pained look on her face.

”I don’t know what you experienced earlier but this guy is not even close to those gangsters. What made you say he was along with them?”

”I trust my instincts! Also, he didn’t even dare to set us free! Not even once! He even threatened us that he will kill us if we try to escape!”

When I heard it, I slapped my forehead in frustration. This little f*cker is still as savage as ever and I never expect him to be also savage and will threaten the girls traumatized by their kidnappers. I mean, your first action once you saved someone from kidnapping would be freeing them from their captors right? Only Kyosei would do something ridiculous as this.

Kou looked at Kyosei and decided to ask him about it.

”Is the girl saying the truth that you threatened everyone?”

Kyosei was so nonchalant that he just shrugged it off and answered it so half-heartedly.

”Yes. I admit it that I threatened them. I am a little pissed by these gals since they immediately judged me as an evil person and I am colluding with the people of the gangs. That pissed me off that I decided to just give up explaining things to them and just play along with their accusations.”

That is just messed up reasoning and I expected that already. To think he would rather do follow the misunderstanding rather than fixing it. This guy is extremely wack indeed.

The girl still wanted to say something but the sleeping pills finally took effect and she also goes to journey on the slumber land of dreams.

With that, they were one by one transported to the vehicles for transport. We also investigated the place and apparently, the mansion is one of the bases where the gangsters are gathering for meetings and other stuff like where they held most of their prisoners to be sold to the slave market that just recently appeared. 

Kyosei last night was able to spot the party of the gangsters while executing a few survivors who resisted by hanging on their own gallows. It was brutal and if it was me, I would have stormed in and try to kill them all. They are just toying the human lives so why would I feel remorse on attacking them.

It would be too much for Kyosei to kill them all one by one without being discovered. It takes skills to annihilate them all. But because it was Night Rage, Kyosei is being pursued by the undead and was even followed by a new variant, Kyosei decided to use them to annihilate them all, leading themselves for their deaths.

As for the slaves, he didn’t want to open the jails and free the girls since the Night Rage is still on fire and the dead outside the mansion is still on the loose so before things go wrong with them freed, he decided to let them remain inside so that in case a siege occurred, he would be able to let them safe for the time being by curling themselves inside the jail room.

”Ugh... Kyosei, I don’t know anymore if it is your second nature to make enemies everywhere you go,” Nanami sighed.

”Maybe so. I have no idea about it but it could be very possible.”

Now we only need to wait for the slaves to wake up. As for the Piyavka Harvest, it was also a success. With everything done in a flash, we returned back to the base, riding the cars we used earlier.

”Hey, Nathalie. You and your brother were among the members of Kyosei’s group in the past right? How come you guys trust Kyosei without even asking him on what he is doing?” Sayaka asked.

”Ha, well, Kyosei is somewhat unique but he is a kind individual. He always looked so pessimistic and he keeps on degrading others without a care in the world. He was harsh on me at first too but we already understand well that Kyosei is just always like that. His mind is much more advanced compared to us and even if he hate people, he is clearly creating a group of people that is now loyal and none were willing to stop.”

”He didn’t criticize you for your bad language barrier before when you came here in Japan?”

”Well, not at all, he is in fact, capable of saying it with us.”

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DAY 315: 8: 45 A.M

(Kyosei’s View)

Nanami dragged me to her vehicle to discuss the new variant that chased me.

”So you named it ”Swordsman” due to how well this creature uses it’s arms  like a sword, is that correct?”

”Yes.”

”It’s another variant we needed to watch out for. Since there are already four types of Variants that endanger us with their ability to penetrate defenses, things are not so good.”

”You mean the Hurlers, Birds, Decapitators and Pukers right?”

”Yeah! With their ability to destroy barriers, and walls, as well as the way they penetrate the crowd, another one appeared. We would need to be wary of these variants as they will kill anyone who is not careful enough.”

”So what do you think about the new variant?” I asked.

” With High risk comes with rare chances to win but we can’t afford how much Piyavka we managed to harvest just now while harvesting this from the usual undead we kill. Since that creature wield too much of it, we need to consider what will happen if we run into one. It was most likely a walking source thing. If it is possible we will kill it.”

Now that it is proven that the variants appear time and time again, with different abilities and different levels of danger. Finding the cure is needed as soon as possible if we wanted to survive this ever changing world of the dead.