Outbreak Chronicles: Dead Pandemic - Chapter 310

Day 340: 11: 21 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)

“Deploying soldiers to fight off the horde while the construction is ongoing?”

“Yeah. I heard about you that you have a knack for deploying people in a fight and can easily analyze most of the dangerous situations without any sort of problem,” Uncle Matsubara said.

“I have a little bit of knowledge but isn’t that going to confuse everyone especially that the leadership is swapped to me?”

“Some of them will do but I know that most of them won’t mind. I worked with them before during the time we are still trying to make the Tsutenkaku tower as our base, they already experienced that kind of treatment before so don’t mind it much.”

I don’t think I have a problem with that. I have a decent amount of ability to determine whether a fight is going to be dangerous or not. Although some things will become unpredictable, I don’t think I will be having a hard time on this one.

“Walt’s let’s begin,” I said to my uncle.

“Take this little radio transceiver I am using to command them. Every channel is dedicated to one team leader so if you know what to do, then command them as you see fit.”

I nodded and went to check the team leaders. Six leaders are forming six squadrons of volunteer soldiers that will be commanded by me. The two of them are already deployed and are currently defending the current construction so I didn’t call them. The last four leaders accepted the change of command and I decided to check the battleground’s situation.

There are three sides of the construction happening, the left, and right sides and the north side of the road. Since the south side is the base, there is no need to deploy anyone in there. The risky parts are the left and right sides while the north side isn’t much.

The undead that is coming most of the time is normal but since we are situated near the forest, there are some occasions that a few undead animals appear. The most prominent to appear as undead animals are dogs, wolves, and some birds. There seem to be no signs of infection from cats, and cattle especially to the latter in which they would no rise from the dead even if they are killed and not eaten. As for the cats, I don’t think I have seen one but I see plenty of cat corpses mangled beyond recognition in cages alongside some animals that were devoured so I don’t think I know much about a cat turning into an undead. A dog has the most likely scenario of getting to become an undead.

I checked the specialties in the battle style of everyone and take note of their battle style. That way, I won’t be confused about whoever will be deployed and where.

I climb up a tree to check the two sides. The two sides already have the two squads deployed and they are doing well at the moment. There are a few undead that passes by to harass the construction but it was mostly taken care of before it escalates to somewhere troublesome and life-threatening.

After a few minutes, observing the situation, the undead horde is slowly starting to form that even the north part is no longer getting safe.

“Squad C and D, move into the front, defend and repel all the enemies. Fire at will.”

The two squadrons immediately move and attack. The two sides are also getting a hard time so when the horde starts to significantly pose a threat, I also deploy the two remaining squads to help the two sides.

“Squad A, fall back a little, support Squad E, and don’t let the enemies penetrate the defenses. Squad F, don’t slack off just because you guys are doing the support work, help Squad B too.”

Whenever I find the squads getting tired of the fighting, I would let the backlines support the ones dealing in the front. Sometimes, if the situation is harder to deal with, I would ask one of the squads from the least attacked area to help too.

I also don’t sit down and just give commands. With me on the advantage of the trees, I sometimes attack using the pistol if necessary.

There are also some occasions of the dogs appearing too but thankfully, they were around 1 to 3 dogs at a time and not a horde all at once. Undead dogs are pretty agile and annoying to deal with. Even I would never like to deal with the undead dogs if necessary.

After an hour, the construction stopped because lunchbreak is coming in. I let them clean up the remains of the horde before I allowed them to be dismissed and eat food.

“Your commands are not top-notch but you command them with ease. I didn’t know you can do things so fast without much problem. Although you are not a soldier, how come you are very good at this one without the training?” he asked.

“RTS and fighting in real life.”

“W-what?” Uncle Matsubara is confused.

“Real-time strategy games and fighting in real life. I combined them both.”

I don’t mock the people who would say that you can’t learn a strategy on games. But to me, I managed to be able to deal with the situation and let the battle be much easier is due to my experience in such games where I needed to manage resources and deploy units while maintaining the limited amount of things you can use and to how effectively use them to your advantage. And with the help of fighting in real life, I can easily tell whether things will become difficult or not.

“I know the way I command is quite amateurish but I can only do so much with this amount. Don’t expect too much on me.”

Since the construction should be almost halfway done before the Night Rage begins, I have to keep up with the commands. Thankfully, the undead attacks lessened quite a bit after lunch.

Before 5 in the afternoon hits on the clock, the construction was also done, and managed to reach the quota needed to be done. The soldiers show signs of fatigue from fighting already though they can still push themselves if needed. Thankfully, they are trained in times like this so it’s not even a problem at all if they push forward, or else, if they are in a real war, they are all dead without a doubt.

The rain started falling around 5:30 in the evening and further signs of the undead started to disappear. But just in case, we decided to block the road in the construction site to avoid the dead to attack the base in case the rain stops midway in the evening though it rarely does that anymore.

…

(???)

Argh… it’s so painful…

“How does it feel to return to this body of yours once again and be back in control once in a while huh?”

The voice inside my head is mocking me as I slowly try to get composed on my body.

It’s been a few days since I lost control of my body. I didn’t realize it at first until I saw Kyosei fighting against me. He was injured at that time and I can tell that I am the one who caused the injuries he sustained. It wasn’t fatal but I don’t want to remember that I hurt my friend and almost killed him without any hesitation.

“Hahaha, so are you regretting your choice of giving up yourself? If you have thought things much properly than now, you might have no problem dealing with things like this right now. Due to your weak-willed ways, you almost toasted your friend and almost smashed him to death. How awful of you to do that huh, hahaha!”

“Shut up, shut up, shut up! I don’t want to hear your voice! Get out of my head now!”

The guy on my head smirked. He smirked while talking.

“Me? Leave this place? Do you think you are in character? Do you think you can still go and control things to do on your way? Well, too bad. Your body obeys me more than you. Sure you have some interesting stuff but, I don’t think you are worth it to be the one who needs to do it?”

“You…”

“Ha, I like the face of you who seems to be always lacking the emotion at first and decided to use his selfishness to avoid some things. It makes me want to pity and laugh at you at the same time for creating linear and predictable things. Your anger is empty, and I know that you are worthless. Only one way for you to be useful is to die in his hands. Since you are infected now, you will be hunted by Kyosei soon.”