BRAGR) No Stone Left Unturned Part 3 (Patreon)

We had ten people in total, so this worked out well. Frank and Sonya were in Hilde’s team with some other lower levels making the team quite balanced. While I had Angel and everyone else.

“We will check the bathroom first. Be ready for anything.” I whispered softly. Everyone nodded as I put my hand on the door handle. I couldn’t hear anything inside, but there was no telling what we might find inside.

I twisted the knob and slowly opened the door a crack. There was no light on, so it was dark, which made me frown. I slowly began to open the door more, and once it was fully opened, I let out a sigh of relief that the bathroom was empty. “ You two go in and check it out. Check the shower, just in case. Otherwise, check everything, even behind the toilet.”

After sending two in, I had the rest follow me to the second door. There was noise coming from the other side of the door, so I had Kelly do the door opening while I readied my sword. As soon as the door opened the zombie inside quickly turned around to reveal its lower jaw missing. It was a young woman, maybe around seventeen years of age. I quickly stabbed my sword through her head, allowing her to have eternal rest. “Alright, let’s check out the room.”

This room was much bigger so we had to search everything. What I was not expecting, though, was when I opened the closet door. “This…” I couldn’t help but frown. A skeleton dressed in pajamas was curled up on the ground. There was a small hole in the back of the closet, so my guess is the child died from starvation and then had its body cleaned by mice.

I gave a moment of silence for the poor thing before searching the closest. I also searched the pajamas as well to find holes in them where the mice chewed through them.

“Clear.” Angel said softly. I stood up and closed the closet before nodding. “Same. Let’s head to the last room.”

The last room was empty. We searched it up and down but found nothing. By the time we were done, Hilde walked over with a piece of paper. “This is?”

“I am not sure but it seems to be a code of some kind. It was on a male zombie that wore a white lab coat.” Hilde replied. “This is the Id. It might be a card key as well.”

I looked at the paper first to see a few numbers on it. “72983…” I then looked at the ID. “John Woods. Senior bio-engineer.”

I couldn’t help but frown. From the pass here, it would seem as if he worked in a city lab, not something you would find in a small town unless this town has something we have yet to discover.

No question notification appeared yet so maybe it was part of a side quest? I couldn’t help but wonder. I was actually interested in what we would find if we were to reach a lab that this man worked at. But the biggest question of all at this time was. “Why was a man from a lab here in this house?”

“The room we were in had a young boy in it who was also a zombie. There seemed to be signs of struggle and needles on the floor. Also…” Hilde pointed to Frank who held a silver box. He opened it and showed me what was inside.

“What the hell is this resident evil?” There were two syringes inside with some kind of blue fluid inside. Kind of sketchy if you asked me. And it seemed my thoughts were also answered when a new quest notification appeared.

[Story Quest: ‘Mills Town Horror’ Started]

[Conditions Updated…]

[There seems to be more going on than meets the eye. You have discovered evidence that seems to point out that the zombie outbreak was not an accident. Investigate further and find the root cause of the outbreak.]

[Completion 2%]

[Rewards: ???]

“Did everyone get the update?” Seeing everyone nod, I smiled and spun my finger in the air. “Alright, let’s continue!”

We continued our search through the town until we once more hit the fog. This time, we were unable to pass through it. The fog blocked our path like an invisible wall. So, we had no choice but to backtrack.

We killed quite a few zombies as we reached the fog wall once more. While we did not find anything worth our time, we were able to get Sonya to level 20. Making it easier for her to contribute. She was still in charge of the map, though, since it seemed she was quite good at it.

But now we were exiting the residential area and making our way into the town center where all the businesses were. It was here that we truly had to be careful since there were zombies walking around in the streets in packs of ten to twenty.