Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 181 Searching for Supplies

Bang!

Ogata held a knife and kicked open the door of the house in front of him.

Neither Ogata nor Atachi rushed in rashly.

Instead, he glanced inside the house with a vigilant look.

Only after confirming that there were no enemies or other messy things in the house did Ogata and Atachi step into the house one after the other.

The first impression Ogata had of the scene inside the house was chaos.

Especially messy.

There were signs of rummaging everywhere.

I don’t know if someone had come here to search for supplies before, or if the house was just this messy.

The house is very small, with no rooms but only a living room.

Eating, sleeping and other things are all done in this living room.

Ogata noticed that in a corner of the room there were a lot of moldy food with various green and purple things growing on it scattered around.

However, there were no traces of blood or struggle anywhere in the room.

Looking at the pile of moldy food, Ogata said softly:

"This family... It feels like they were in the middle of a meal and suddenly fled here in an emergency..."

"And this family has been away from here for a long time." A-Ming agreed.

Ogata looked around, and a scene began to form in his mind: this family was having dinner when they suddenly left their home in an emergency due to some reason.

And when they leave home, they don't forget to take away their important belongings.

These traces of rummaging through the house might have been left behind when the family was searching for their own belongings.

"Let's see if there is anything useful." After saying that, Xu Fang took the lead in opening a small cabinet next to him and began to look for something useful inside.

The first person to find useful supplies was Ating.

"Ayi! Look!"

A-machi turned around and showed Ogata what she had in her hand.

The thing in Ating's hand was a shoulder bag woven with the bark of some unknown tree and vines.

This shoulder bag is of decent size and can hold quite a lot of things.

"Not bad." Ogata praised, "If we have a bag to carry things, we can save a lot of effort. I just found something useful here."

Okada showed A-Machi a bamboo tube in his hand that was as thick as an adult's arm.

This bamboo tube was originally used to store salt.

Although there is nothing in this bamboo tube except some remaining salt residue, it can be used as a kettle to hold water.

Apart from this shoulder bag and this bamboo tube, this family had no other useful things, so Ogata and Atachi quickly left this place and headed towards the next house.

boom!

Ogata kicked open the door of the next house again.

But this time - there was no such harmony inside the house.

The moment Ogata kicked the door open, a corpse lying on the muddy ground behind the door appeared in front of Ogata and Atachi.

This corpse had also begun to rot, but the degree of decay was much better than the corpse that Ogata and the others had just seen in the middle of the road.

"This man is not only wearing armor, but also has a sword on his waist..." Ogata frowned.

The armor on this man looked very familiar to Ogata - the armor provided to him by the government when he got off the boat yesterday was of this style.

"Is this man a prisoner , or a soldier of the shogunate?" Amachi asked Ogata.

"...He should be a prisoner who landed on the island." Ogata pointed at the corpse's open right palm. "There are no calluses or scars on his palm that would be caused by practicing with weapons. He has been dead for some time... He should be one of the last few batches of prisoners who landed on the island."

The body was not very decayed, so Ogata and A-machi discovered more things from it that they had not seen on the body lying in the middle of the road.

This body was the same as the one Ogata and his companions had found in the middle of the village road just now - there were many bite marks on the body.

But in addition to this, Ogata and Atachi also found many scratches.

And these scratches look very much like those made by human fingers...

Ogata and Omachi felt a chill in their hearts almost at the same time...

"This man has a knife on his waist." A-Machi asked Ogata, "Do you want to take it?"

"No way." Ogata said without hesitation, "Don't you see that the handle of the knife is already soaked with corpse water? Hurry up and go into the house to find supplies."

This house seems to be the home of the village doctor.

Although the air was filled with a strong stench of corpses, apart from the stench, Ogata and A-machi could barely smell a hint of medicine.

After smelling the medicine, Ogata and Atachi showed surprise on their faces.

The two things they lack most now are medicine and drinking water.

After realizing that there might be a lot of medicines in the house, Ogata and Atachi immediately began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets in the house.

After a short while, the two of them dug out various bottles and jars emitting the smell of medicine from every corner of the house.

The owner of this house was very thoughtful. He put a label on each bottle of medicine to indicate what it was, which saved Ogata and Atachi a lot of effort.

Without thinking twice, the two of them stuffed all the medicine they found into the bag that Ating had just found from the previous household.

While stuffing his mouth, Ogata asked Atachi:

"A-Ting, do you know any medical skills?"

"I have learned a little bit, such as how to stop bleeding and what medicine can help stop bleeding. I still know these things."

"That's good."

…

After looting this house, the two men started moving towards the next house.

The door of the next house was not closed.

After they reached the door of the house, Ogata and Atachi were once again surprised by the scene they saw.

There was also a dead body behind the door of this house.

However, the corpse did not emit a foul smell of decay.

Because the corpse turned directly into bones.