Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic - Chapter 300

Day 333: 8:11 A.M

Osaka: Blood Battalion Base

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

I know how many people will be eating breakfast right now and after learning that food is getting lower in supply due to the sudden spoilage, I decided to step in and save the day. I might be only good at fighting and killing the dead and some of my enemies but that doesn’t mean I neglected everything else.

After cooking a little bit, I found out a few extra ingredients left behind from making chowder. The chowder is already good enough for everyone in the base and I doubt adding more ingredients would do this good.

Seeing there are still a few leftover meat and vegetables, and we needed something a little bit lighter but can fill the stomach, I think I have something in mind that will use up the remaining ingredients without wasting them.

Miss Haruna is busy with the bowls being distributed to the girls on the counter but I know she knows more about where the extra ingredients are located.

“Sensei, do we still have flour in stock?” I asked.

“Hmm? Flour? Yeah, we have plenty of them. It barely gets usage since there are only a few guys on us here who know how to bake something that isn’t too wasteful of ingredients. So we have plenty of them,” Miss Haruna said.

“Alright take me from where the flour is, I needed to make something.”

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Since we have plenty of meat left unused from the chowder, and there are still a few peeled vegetables left behind, I decided to create a food recipe named Empanada. I don’t know where this food originated but this food is common in Southeast Asia and even in Spanish countries.

I found this food online as this can be a really good way to eat food on the go and can easily replace the need to eat breakfast or lunch while eating this. Although it can’t beat the staple rice recipes to fill in the stomach, that doesn’t mean this food cannot compete with it. Also, I needed something easy to carry and can be eaten everywhere even without any packaging or lunchboxes so this is food will be good enough.

I still memorize the recipe in my mind so it wasn’t hard for me to do it without any recipe to follow in. After an hour of skillful creation of the food, I created at least a hundred pieces of empanada, ready to be distributed to the people. I grab one myself and gobbled it. Thankfully, the taste of the food did not go bad even though it’s been a while since I last did some cooking of this recipe.

While I was in the garage and ready to move out, the two variants appeared behind me. They were already asked by Dr. Kogure the other day but Dr. Kogure has yet to say anything related to them but he already said that they are not labeled as a threat so they will be welcome to keep on staying here without any problem.

“Singularity-sama, where are you going?” Nana asked. They call me the Singularity at first but now they have added an honorifics to it that it sounded a little bit strange,.

“I needed to scavenge food for the group,” I answered while checking the car’s condition.

“Finding food… Although we do not need food to survive, we know that this is the basic needs a human has to survive. In that case would the singularity allow us to learn about this?” Roku looked at me, and it looks like he is quite curious on finding food.

“I don’t mind it. And I think this is a good opportunity for me to tell whether I can trust you as companions or treat like any other variants,” I said to them.

“Thank you for the consideration, Singularity-sama. Well then, let’s go.”

I let them wait for a little bit for some adjustments and once it was done, we set off to find some food to scavenge.

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Day 333: 8:11 A.M

Equipment: Melee: Piyavka Machete, Piyavka Cleaver

Gun: AR15, Beretta M9 Pistol

(Kyosei’s View)

Although we are on a city, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any forests around here that we can find. There is one particularly near here and it also has a farm. Some scouts tried to check it before but since there are too many undead and there are some variants lurking according to the reports, the scouts team decided to just keep the farm in mind and clear it up once it is now easier to do so.

The two variants opened the windshield and sniffed the air. It looks like they learned how to operate the car door’s functions since they can now easily open the windshield and not mistook it for opening the car door despite looking very different. They are inside the pick up truck I always use this time around instead of staying outside as they also wanted to experience what is the feeling inside the car. I am now starting to doubt whether they came from humans who got infected or they formed in some other way that I have no idea what is.

“I didn’t expect the forests to have some rich minerals in the air. It has a much purer ones compared in the city,”  Roku said while seemingly sniffing in the air.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Oh, is it weird, Singularity-sama? This is our way of tasting the minerals we need in the air,” Nana said.

“Minerals?”

“Yes. It is something we needed so that we can create our sustenance. You can say that this is the “ingredients” needed for us to get our food,” Roku said.

I am starting to find the two of them different. Besides from the fact that they are not human, they also act more like plants. They create their own food and the basic materials they needed are usually found in the air and in the surroundings. Their abilities are also kind of familiar but I am still not sure about it so I didn’t bother to think too much on it.

It didn’t take us long to arrive on the farm that was specified by the scouts. There is a small road that is overtaken by the grasses so that must mean this was indeed the right place. The moment we stop the car, undead started to appear out of nowhere and started to approach the car. And I must admit, the amount of undead around the place is overwhelming and I am not expecting this one out.

However, I notice that their faces looks kind of odd and their bodies seems kinda different than usual? It seems like they were some sort of waxy as their skin looks glossy despite being a human. They also lacked the blood on their bodies despite being one of the undead.

“Mass produced undead… it looks like they have also appeared out here too and not just on the city…” Roku said, looking sad seeing the undead before us.

Although I have the urge to ask Roku on why he calls that undead mass produced, I decided to hold back on it for now and deal with the undead that swarms the car. Stepping on the accelerator, immediately run them over without mercy, killing them in one go. But I am confused. Instead of the usual red and sometimes greenish red blood the undead usually release whenever killed, these guys are all killed while releasing brown colored liquid that if you look at it without examining it you might mistake it for brown liquid sh*t or just plain vomit by a drunkard.

Also, it seems like it was very unnatural but the amount of undead here is indeed very numerous. But there is no way that this is the case here especially since the farm doesn’t look like it is that big to fit these people. What is more confusing is that, why are there so many people out here? There is no way they are here to evacuate.

“Singularity-sama, you can’t just eliminate all of these undead by just crashing them with the car. No matter how many will be killed, the same amount will be produced again. If you wanted to get rid of these horde in this forest, you need to destroy the main source of this that keeps them from spawning again and again,” Roku suggested.

“Huh? The source? What do you guys mean?”

“We mean it, Singularity-sama. These undead you are killing do not came from real humans. They are being produced by something else and that creature producing them is the main threat here. To explore this place safely without being attacked by them, destroying the source is the only key. And from the looks of it, the source is coming from the farmhouse itself,” Nana explained.