Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 311 - Aquatics of the Dead
Day 341: 7:30 A.M

Osaka: Construction Site on the Base of Blood Battalion

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Construction for the new path towards the farm started much earlier to finish the construction as fast as possible. Rain is still pouring down the sky though not as heavy as last night. It was more like a little drizzle but still enough for you to be drenched if you stand in the rain.

The people doing the construction are all wearing raincoats which helps on work in weathers like this.

Without the threat of the dead threatening the construction, the workers didn’t fear the lurking dangers and continue their works without having to face anything that might endanger their lives.

Still, we didn’t go too far and monitor the workers to keep them safe. With Uncle Matsubara’s guidance, the construction proceeded smoothly and the work is almost done after a few hours.

The walls need polishing but it is much bearable now and around 4 in the afternoon, it was completed as it connected to the farm. Despite the completion though, the rain is still pouring from the sky heavily. The winds are also getting stronger which means a storm is currently approaching.

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Day 341: 5:00 P.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion Base

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

The kids that are playing before in the rain went back inside the base due to the bad weather. 

It should be snowing but the storm seems to have passed by causing all the acc.u.mulating snow to become real water, destroying most of the snow piled up and even the snowmen created by the kids on the yard are all being swiped by the cruel rain.

Right now, most of us are hanging out in the living room while some decided to do some of their hobbies somewhere, and those who really don’t have anything to do other than just to idle decided to stay on the walls while hiding in the little hideouts on the walls to safeguard themselves from the rain and wind while still keeping in watch outside the walls.

”Damn, this might be the first storm we experience since the apocalypse, right?” Souichi said while sipping coffee.

”Yeah. I thought it would snow but the rain is quite a surprise even for me though I would say it is not bad to have one rain once in a while since the snow ones do not stop the Night Rage at all,” Nathalie said.

”But dang, I really want to experience using a kotatsu in this cold weather, I keep hearing that staying underneath the kotatsu during winter is very godly,” Steven suggested.

”Oh, kotatsu eh? Indeed, winter needs the kotatsu feeling. However, I don’t think we can procure one right now. Aside from the fact that kotatsu runs on electricity, we do not want to use up much of our electric supply as we only rely much on solar and generators to keep ourselves able to use electricity. Despite the electricity is still running, we don’t know how long will it keep on running,” Nanami said.

”Ugh, this is indeed troublesome, electricity is a big resource we needed to run the base so having a kotatsu would just increase the chances of low resource in electricity,” Stephen scratches his head. It seems he was also looking forward to experiencing the kotatsu feeling but that would not be possible as of now due to the electricity reasons.

The windows started to get drenched in rainwater due to the strong current of air blowing all over the place, which made the water droplets splash on the window.

”We need a bit of backup this time around, we are under attack, Over!”

His voice is serious and he doesn’t sound like he was saying nonsense. Souichi pick up the transceiver and answered the distress call.

”What is going on?” Souichi stood up from the sofa and put down the mug of hot coffee on the table, switching it on his rifle that he leans on the wall.

”You can see it for yourself, sir! Bring the others too since I don’t know what to do with these abominations while raining and has low chances of hitting enemies using the gun!”

His voice is distraught and I think he is panicking. Due to this, everyone in the room, including me decided to check out what the heck is happening.

As soon as we get near the walls, we hear a few screeching sounds. Once we get into the walls and see for ourselves what the hell is happening, we saw the usual undead... with fish scales and fish heads. They even have the tail of a fish to complete what they are.

”Is the manga of Ito-sensei happening now?! F*ck, I don’t want things that happened in Gyo to occur here too!” Izayoi said while looking at the weird creatures.

Looks like Izayoi also thinks it that way too and not only me the moment we saw the moving creatures below the wall. Most of them looked like fishes but if you look closely, their head that looked like fishes still has the traits of a human head, only a bit deformed and mutated. Although it doesn’t look similar to the creatures shown in Gyo, they are almost the same since both are fishes and infect humans too.

Souichi aims his gun at the fishes below and with a pull of the trigger, a bullet shot itself out and penetrating one of the fish heads.

Souichi’s target bursts its head off. However, it didn’t fall, dead like the usual undead, and continues to move like one. It then started shaking a bit and a little creature started to crawl out from the neck of the headless undead, prompting Souichi to once again aim and shoot at the creature.

BANG!

A small creature that looked like a fish was about to jump out, only for Souichi to hast it. Once have done the blasting, the headless body finally falls to the ground and the fish heads notice the dead body and started feasting on it.

”Let’s go and kill them all! They are the same as the normal undead but we have to kill them twice!” Souichi said while reloading his gun.

Witnessing it, everyone begins loading their guns. I also loaded my guns and rush towards the huts on the walls to ensure we do not fall over the ground and get outbalanced while shooting since the strong wind is still blowing so hard and the rain is clouding up our visions. Not only that, it is getting colder the longer you are drenched in the water.

Gunshots started ringing the moment we have arrived at the huts and started killing them. Although it isn’t Night Rage yet, these creatures were acting like they were influenced by the Night Rage and they also devour their fallen brethren too.

They might not look human anymore, they still have retained a few parts of them which makes them a little bit more humanoid.

We knew that they are annoying and they uselessly keep on banging on the metal gate and do nothing but create noise. However, we don’t want them to keep on piling up on the metal door.

With their weight, they can destroy the gate without problem even though Kota ensured us that this gate will have trouble falling.

The battle continues until the Night Rage is raging on. The normal undead is absent of course especially since the rain is falling so bad from the sky but that doesn’t mean the fish heads are giving up and are all killed. They continue to ravage the gate and keep on piling up. Thankfully, the newcomers always devour the fallen undead fish heads which is why the undead bodies are not acc.u.mulating a lot. It saves us for bodies to clean up after the event.

Only about a few hours after that, the storm slowly subsided and although the rain switches from heavy to light, it also shows some development to the arrival of the fish heads. The amount running to attack the door slowly reduces and their numbers are dwindling. 

It didn’t take long for them to disappear. We killed the remaining undead fish heads and sighed in relief the moment they are wiped out. We have fished out every single fish out of the wall after the storm.