Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 294 - Scavengers of the Dead and the New Signs of Variants
Day 328: 8:34 A.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion Base

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

After gathering their equipment that they needed to bring for the operation, Izayoi and Cindy arrived in the garage. I am already waiting for them to return as I check up on the car we will be using for this.

Cindy is the same as usual. Wearing a casual outfit, carrying a bag containing all her supplies and ammunition alongside a few things necessary for curing wounds and disease in the fastest possible way. She is wielding a bow that fires off Piyavka and Normal Arrows while on melee, she has a Piyavka Coated knife. She also has a Beretta M9 Pistol though is for emergencies in case she can’t use her bow and arrows in quick succession. You can say that is the normal way of preparation.

On the other hand, Izayoi wears a tracksuit, with all of the little bags strapped around his belt, legs, and arms. There is even one bag strapped on his body and a backpack making me question if he is going to scavenge with us or he is going to a place where he needed as much inventory space as much as he can.

His way of strapping those bags is good enough for him to move and not hinder his actions. He also carries an AR15 with a scope which is different since he usually carries a Springfield sniper rifle. He has a Piyavka Coated Knife too and a pistol that looks like a SIG Sauer P226 though I am not too sure since I have only seen these kinds of guns in the catalog of guns in the armory as a guide for all the survivors to guide them for the gun of their choice.

”What’s with the bags on your body? Don’t tell me you put so many paraphernalia needed for a simple scavenging mission?” Cindy looked at Izayoi with one of her eyebrows raised.

”Heh, a true man can carry lots of bags to satisfy his needs. Since we will be going to a place where PC consoles are located, there are also many things I can also scavenge and claim for myself!”

”Claim for yourself? Isn’t that being too greedy?” Cindy looked at him with a ridiculous stare.

”I don’t think anyone would want to use the things I will be filling these bags with nor will they gain interest with it, maybe if we are talking about Nanami-senpai and Brother Kyosei here and I might say that it changes things here,” Izayoi said confidently.

”...” I can tell from Cindy’s look on her face that she didn’t understand a word he just said despite how simple he said all of them.

”Alright, let’s stop chatting, and let’s proceed with our mission. I suggest you Izayoi to be the one who will lead us to our objective. I think you know where to find them around in the area?” I look at Izayoi.

”I can think of a few places but there is no guarantee we can find a working console with the specs needed and required by Nanami. We might get a few parts but we shouldn’t hope to find a whole console ready for the picking.”

”Then let’s get going.”

...

Day 328: 9:20 A.M

Osaka Streets

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

We tried some of the PC cafes but most of them have been robbed so there is no hope of getting one on them.

To make sure we have a bigger array of places and to widen the chances of finding one, we even went to electronic shops and keep on looking. Izayoi has already scavenged a few parts that he is certain to be needed for the console.

We also have to deal with a few undead in the area to avoid confrontation with them in greater numbers but it seems that finding the best console will not be good to do right now.

”Ugh, all the stores and PC cafes we searched around with are all busted. How the hell all of them are all busted? It the apocalypse and people should be caring about the daily necessities instead of taking their angry issues on a console!” Cindy is now fuming.

”There might be someone who is also a computer enthusiast and has been the first one to grab one with them nad thrashed the rest or we are just unlucky to find broken consoles. Let’s not give up hope and look for other stores again,” Izayoi said.

”What about a mall? I frequently see a few PC parts selling in some malls, if we can’t have a good chance in the normal shop for electronics, maybe we can find one in the mall?” I suggested.

”We have chances on that. Let’s grab onto it and let’s go,” Izayoi said.

Of course, we continue to search around the stores we passed by but still busted so we still didn’t stop and went to the nearest mall we can get in.

...

Osaka Streets: Mall

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

I don’t recognize the mall we went to and I am not familiar with this place so I can only rely on my sense of direction to get around here properly.

Just like most of the malls I have raided so far for supplies, this mall has been ransacked already and has seen the ravages of the apocalypse and also the survivors in it.

Blood and dead bodies of former employees and customers have been rotting on the floor. Since they are all dismembered pieces of the bodies, they don’t move and they remained dead.

”This mall is a little bit quiet like there are no undead around here or even further inside,” Cindy said while looking around the area with her bow, ready to nock the arrow on her fingertips anytime.

”I usually come here whenever I needed some things I needed to buy. It has a wide variety of things you can buy for your necessities and your hobbies so we might have a big chance of finding a working console.”

”Relax your senses guys, we are the only ones here. However, don’t let yo

ur guard down-” I said but stopped abruptly on what I was about to say when I noticed a few presences in the area.

I signal the two to be quiet and ready our weapons while looking around the surroundings. I am not too sure about it but it seems there is someone else in here besides us.

”Be careful, there is someone else besides us in here. Don’t let your guards down.”

The two nodded. It seems I am not the only one who noticed the presence.

Since we didn’t see anyone, we continue further inside but the presence is getting more and more obvious that I don’t think this is some sort of normal coincidence already.

”I spotted someone!” Izayoi said and ready his AR15 up.

I quickly followed where Izayoi was looking but there is no one in there. But yes, I can feel the presence of something else.

”Are you sure about it? I don’t see any...” before Cindy can continue what she was about to say, something moved not too far from us.

”What the f*ck was that?” Izayoi cursed seeing the one walking towards us.

The one walking towards us is not human, however, this one appears to have human female features. However, although she looks female, she doesn’t appear to be human. She has reddish-purple skin with her hair looking like moving snakes though they are moving gracefully and don’t appear menacing.

She has the curves of a s.e.xy model and I must admit that her body is something that even the modern models before the apocalypse has begun would want to have. Her face might look peculiar, but she appears to be not a harmful one.

We didn’t shoot though we didn’t also put down the guns we have aimed at the female figure.

She tilted her head while staring at us one by one. If she was one of the undead, she might have already attacked us but it was the opposite. Instead, we heard her talk.

”Humans? Are you the fabled humans my brother talked about?”