Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic

Chapter 349 - Are the Dead Always this Strong?
The others didn’t expect it, especially those who have not seen the footage yet, like Souichi who also knows my parents personally.

”The f*ck?! Isn’t that Kyosei’s parents? The hell is this? How come they are still alive!? I have attended their funeral before! That is not possible at all as I have seen them inside the coffins!” Souichi couldn’t believe what he is seeing.

”You are not seeing anything wrong brother, I can guarantee that you are seeing 100% authentic footage. It is also live and cannot be edited so it is don’t accuse me that this is the work of digital art,” Nanami said.

”I never said anything about that!” Souichi rebutted. ”However, care to explain properly? Seeing Kyosei not surprised by this would mean he already knows it.”

”Yeah, alright. There is no need for me to keep it a secret anyways and Kyosei would need all the help he needs to get to know who they are. Anyways, those two are some of the people we have seen in the footage we captured in Shinsaibashi. To think they are still in Shinsaibashi, isn’t this some sort of coincidence that we run into them?” Nanami then looked at me.

”...” I didn’t say anything. Since I have run into them right now, I think it is time to confirm everything and learn the truth.

”Kyosei?” Souichi frowned and looked at me.

”We will be going to the red zone. Prepare the car and the weapons. We will go slaying and loot retrieval along the way too.”

”Wait, what? You want to proceed and take the loot out from the red zone? Isn’t that dangerous and also a waste of time?” Souichi frowned.

”Idiot brother, you should know that it was not even his main priority of going in there, we are going there to meet up with his parents or whoever they are. Use your brain sometimes,” Nanami said savagely.

”...” Souichi adjusts his glasses to hide his embarrassment.

”We need to hurry. Nanami, become our navigator using the drone, help us track them down.”

Nanami nodded and I went down from the walls and headed to the garage to take a car out.

”Hey, wait for me! I am coming along too!” Souichi said as he scampers to follow me to the garage.

...

Day 352, 10:21 A.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion Base: Garage

(Kyosei’s View)

Nanami helped us procure things to use for the raid. And since we are talking about taking out the loot alongside us, she also called us some a.d.u.l.t helpers along the way. 

”Dang, Kyosei. How long has it been since we worked together on something? It’s been a year right?” Mr. Tanaka grinned as he pats my back.

”Haha, if it is a heavy lifting job you needed, then you will not be disappointed with our work here, all the muscles we have acc.u.mulated for years aren’t just for a show,” Mr. Suzuki said and started flexing.

”I really want to have muscles like you guys when I grow older, but damn, it is hard to do so and it exhausts me a lot just by working out a little bit. It stresses me out and I am having trouble on things if I am on the shift the very next day,” Souichi sighed.

”Eh, it is a normal thing, kid. If you wanted some muscles to grow on your arms and body, then you can join us if you want to go on a workout with us. We will guide you on the efficient way to work out your muscles properly,” Mr. Suzuki said and grinned.

I slightly shook my head. In honesty, it is just for a show, in my opinion, having muscles just hinder my movements in moving around, I better not do get anything that would make me too muscular, or else, I might become a muscle-headed guy like them if I don’t get to be careful.

...

With the car and the weapons alongside their wielders are here, we departed to the center of Shinsaibashi where the red zone is currently located. And as expected from a red zone, the amount of undead in the surroundings is just so overwhelming that there is no possible way for it to be passed by foot without being mangled by the hungry undead prowling in the area.

Despite the amount of undead, they are all just normal undead and can be easily disposed of without any problems. But they are not a good idea to handle during Night Rage. It would just be similar to diving into a group of piranhas ready to rip your body apart.

The car we used is a normal sedan with iron platings to enhance its defenses a little bit and will allow us to handle bumps and crashes while colliding the dead. Even if the undead is too easy to kill due to their abnormally weak and brittle skull, their amount is enough to whittle the defenses of a car down to drain.

”Are we still far from our objective, Sis?” Souichi asked.

”Not too far but not too close yet. Keep on going and you guys will eventually reach the objective in a few minutes.”

”...How reassuring for a navigator...” Souichi sighed and lay his back on the seat while beside him is the windshield that keeps on thumping and banging. He can’t see what is happening outside due to the amount of flesh and blood that is sticking on the windshield.

”If these guys try to invade our base, we will have to maximize the defenses even further. The amount of them is not a joke,” Mr. Tanaka shook his head while focusing the driving.

”The smell of rotten flesh is also getting unbearable too which means it is now too troublesome to even deal with manually. We need to immediately clear up everything here before things get too bad and suffocating to handle,” Mr. Suzuki said as he watches the blood splatter in the windshield.

The car keeps shaking every time Mr. Tanaka crashes the car into a horde. It was not too great for everyone inside the car as the shaking of the car gets too annoying to handle.

”Mr. Tanaka, can you please slow down and ease up the driving? I feel like throwing up with the way you drive this car,” Souichi said while holding his mouth.

”Even if I do, we would be in danger if I do that. We need to be more efficient in passing through this area if we don’t want to get wrecked apart by these flesh-hungry corpses. Do you want that to happen to us?” Mr. Tanaka looked at Souichi in the rearview mirror who was holding his mouth to avoid throwing up.

”Urgh...please continue... I think I can hold on for a while... Urp...”

”Take this barf bag I carry sometimes and relieve yourself from that,” Mr. Suzuki handed him the barf bag which Souichi immediately grab and put in his mouth.

The undead attacks keep getting troublesome and getting too heavy to handle with our car. If Mr. Tanaka won’t be careful, we will be easily toppled upside down by them and we will be forced to fight. Thankfully, Mr. Tanaka is quite adept at driving the car, he can drive a truck so driving the sedan is nothing for him.

”Hey, is it just me, or the undead around this place is getting much stronger and much hostile compared to the ones we just smashed through?” Mr. Suzuki looked at us on the back seat.

Now that he mentioned it, the attacks earlier barely have any challenge against our car, they might try to block the road but they don’t even survive the moment the car passes by which allowed our drive smooth. But now, it is getting a lot rougher.

I can’t see what is going on outside due to the smeared blood and guts on the windshield that stops us from seeing anything. Only the front windshield is a bit clean since the wipers of the car are doing their job wonderfully.

”It’s not only just you, man. I keep seeing these burly undead keeps on blocking our car, we managed to crash through them but we have to go full force to crush them down without much problem. But they keep on interrupting the drive and I don’t think it is quite just a coincidence that they are appearing right now,” Mr. Tanaka said.

Once he said those words, we heard a loud roar outside the car that caused us to get wary as we are already wary of the abnormal amount of undead with big bodies to appear constantly around. Even if it is just a coincidence, there is no way it would just be a mere coincidence, it is just too frequent. Also, I don’t think the infected have those special infected ones since they only appear during the Night Rage. And right now, it is still early to call it a night. There is only one thing that might be possible.

The normal undead are evolving.