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Festering Madness
CH 26: Interrupted reading

CH 26: Interrupted reading

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3/4/2036

He's gone! He's been driven out of the territory, his own city???

Wolf has fled out of fear and defeat, He was completely defeated and barely survived by running away due to the help of few of his loyal subordinates, the rest bowed their heads to the new ruler of the city

What am I going to do? I can't go travelling throughout the city anymore and my best friends left me behind

Why did you abandon me?

I hold my breath every time I goes past, Its horrifying and revolting even to me who's dissected hundreds of zombies and variants to try and study them or at least leave behind records for some experts to find

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This page had been messy just like the last diary but it didn't have that feeling of chaos or madness it had

Carefully feeling the page I noticed long dried tears across the page, he had cried while writing it

It hurt my heart to see his despair through these notebooks

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20/4/2036

I was able to get a few buildings from it while it was asleep, from my elevation I began sketching it to see if it had any weakness, or maybe just out of habit, I'm not sure myself

While it seemed like a savage four legged beast it looked more like its arms had grown elongated and it had completely changed from what it once used to resemble

It had patches of ripped and long dead skin, causing holes in its hairless grey hide exposing muscles, tendons and roots of nerves

Its thick neck connected its body to its head protecting it like armor, it lacked a tail like most of the variants but it had protruding spine bones like many other variants I've seen

Is that a special quirk to those that have been infected?

A mouth ran down to the base of its head making the whole neck and head resemble a wolf like creature, four equal fingers accented each limb

The rest of its features all blended together or I was too far away to tell them apart at my current location

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10/5/2036

The creature went mad and killed over half of the creatures that had become loyal to it

Why? Why did it suddenly lash out like this out of nowhere?

Apart from that chaos I had been making quite a bit of progress on my new farm, luckily I had collected a large amount of soil from gardens and plant shops before that fucking wolf abandoned me

I pulled out everything I needed form the apartments I had stored my supplies in, I hope this farm doesn't die out of nowhere like my last one

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It seemed that Paul still harbored some resentment towards the wolf that had to flee for its life

'Maybe this is what caused his downwards spiral?'

The more I read of his survival the more interested I became in his methods and experiences

Sometimes the words spoke to me and at other times I felt the raw emotions engraved in the books yellow, frail pages

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3/7/2036

The farms been acting weird, it should be producing crop by now but the plants continue to grow and grow without showing any sings of blooming soon, I'm to scared to try and cut them down as it feels like their constantly watching me when I'm down in the lobby

Although my plants have been acting weird, I haven't witnessed this 'mutation' in any other vegetation I've come across, maybe I'll take a sample from it and compare it to normal plants

Although I have been confined to my apartment due to the numerous monsters that follow 'it' and has been hunting down survivors and other beasts alike I have noticed a steady decrease in zombies

Does that mean this city is almost cleared out? I no longer have to be so scared of being bitten and turned into one of them!

Finally a dark cloud has passed in this shit world

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'Is this about the time the humans that couldn't handle MR began dissipating and breaking down completely?'

It was a well known fact in history that upon that day there were a number of humans that were overloaded by MR energy due to their constant contact to it so their bodies and minds broke down at an extraordinarily fast rate compared to others

They quickly resembled half dead creatures that everyone called zombies and could poison others with excess amounts of MR through piercing their vessels, this was akin to a plague that wiped out god knows how many

It was these zombies that owned an entire age. That was until stable mutants emerged, like the wolf he spoke about in the diary

'I do wonder why they were called zombies though?'

Flipping through the pages I stopped at two entries that seemed extremely interesting

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20/10/2036

More and more of these 'zombie variants' have been emerging and have challenged 'it'

Even the subordinates of 'it' grew stronger and rebelled against it causing it to retreat further into the city

How do they keep getting stronger?

What's the catalyst?

Everyday I become more and more interested in the abilities of these creatures

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27/10/2036

After carefully watching the new creatures I noticed weird differences between them

Each creature has its own unique type of ability

The one that resembles a bug like creature has the ability of splitting its body apart to become smaller versions of itself

The lizard like creature can can regenerate its whole body, although it tends to protect its head from its opponents

Apart from these I haven't collected much information on the others

I will continue the research

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After finishing off the diary I put it inside of my satchel, it had important information of multiple different mutants

Although the mutants mentioned might have already been hunted I could still keep it as it was an interesting discovery to find these

After making sure the diary wouldn't get damaged I moved onto the next one

This diary was more boring than the last one's so it was a pain in the ass to finish but I knew that there would be more rewarding events in the other ones

Picking up the sixteenth diary I sighed knowing I would probably be in for yet another boring story of his survival

As I was about to open the next diary I noticed something from the very corner of my eye

It was slow and crawling across the roof as it tried to make a sudden ambush on me

'How is a root all the way up here?!'

As it crawled across the ceiling I calmly grabbed the other diaries I had yet to read and stuffed them into my satchel

I made sure not to make any sudden movements that might cause the roots to promotively attack me as I grabbed everything I wanted to take

After securing my satchel I stood up and slowly walked around the vine and slipped through the doorway and entered the large living room again

After entering I noticed the vine retracing Its steps as if to follow after me albeit at a slow pace as it checked places looking for me as it slowly sped up

After a minute it began coming straight towards me

Just as I prepared myself for the vines assault I noticed more and more of them appearing in the room

'Oh for fuck's sake'

They came out of the cracks in the wall, the holes in the floor boards and everything else that they could possibly find to make their way inside

Tens of hundreds of vines all slithered into the room in a matter of seconds trapping me in front of the barricaded window

I didn't have anyway of escaping as the homemade bricks were unbreakable for a regular person and everything else was the same

'What can I do to escape? What can I use?'

My mind rapidly started analyzing anything and everything within arms reach or inside my satchel that I could use to prolong my life