1 Survive To Get A System (1/2)
2025, Chicago, United States, May
The sky is light blue, the birds flutter around, the leaves of the trees are attracted to the wind from time to time, there are many people on the streets, there are couples walking on the street holding hands, there are children playing with their bicycles, housewives carrying shopping bags to prepare lunch and in this bustling street we find a somewhat old house.
”Ahh, why do I have to be so mean modeling this sword!” A man screams in despair, this man has gla.s.ses, black eyes, unruly black hair, his skin is very pale as if he did not receive sunlight in months and what stands out in this man is his thin body that makes even his cheekbones are marked.
This man is Kayle, a 3D animator with knowledge problems in what he works at, he graduated from a rather bad university, which made his knowledge in 3D modeling bad...
Kayle looks at the screen with an expression of despair, but his eyelids suddenly feel heavy, he tries to stay awake, but for some reason, he can't contain the dream he feels, soon everything around his darkens and falls asleep.
...
”Hey, wake up!”
”T-that guy still doesn't wake up? If we stay longer, that thing will kill us!”
Kayle hears loud noises that disturb his sleep, then feels that someone is shaking his body, his eyes slowly open, he looks around and is surprised at what he sees. The sky is green with many spiral-shaped clouds, it feels as if his body feels light as if it were floating in the water, try to get up from the floor, but when he moved his body, a viscous liquid covers him, he gets up with a little effort, looks at the floor and observes that the entire floor is covered with a viscous green liquid.
”If you're already awake, hurry up and try to run!” A man in a black suit shouts, the man is covered with the same viscous liquid on the ground.
”It comes! That thing comes!” A fat man screams repeatedly, the fat man has acne all over his face and his expression shows that he is very afraid.
”Sob, sob... W-why is this happening to me?” A blonde girl says with tears in her eyes, she is shaking while protecting herself behind a muscular man.
”Do not worry, that monster is very slow, I a.s.sure you that nothing will happen to you” Says the muscular man to the blonde girl, is trying to rea.s.sure her. The muscular man is bald and his face is quite attractive.
Kayle does not understand what is happening, recently he was doing a 3D model at home, he remembers that suddenly he felt a little sleepy and fell asleep. But he won't understand how he ended up in this strange place!
”Guiiii!”
He suddenly hears a loud noise, the noise is unpleasant to hear, the noise is like someone is killing a pig, Kayle looks at where the noise is coming from and when he sees what is coming to him he feels his stomach is churning. It is an extremely unpleasant monster or that is what Kayle thinks, he can see organs of all kinds, there are intestines, tongues, eyes and many more parts of the body of a living being that hang from the monster's body. The monster has a body covered in blood and where a head is supposed to go there is a hole full of black teeth.
”B-blergh!” The girl suddenly vomits, it seems she could not bear to see such an unpleasant monster.
The muscular man has an expression of disgust, the girl throws upon him, staining his body vomit.
Kayle was deeply surprised by this vision, he did not expect to see something so unpleasant, but seeing that the monster was slowly approaching, Kayle regains his senses and asks the man in the black suit ”What's going on here? How did I get to this place?”
The man in the black suit has an incredibly poor complexion, he is quite afraid of what is happening ”I-I don't know, I just remember waking up in this place recently, I really don't know anything, but that doesn't matter, we have to try to run away fast or that monster will reach us!”
”Don't you remember why you are here?” Kayle can only swallow all the questions he has and try to escape. But he instantly realizes that he cannot walk well, his steps are incredibly slow, the liquid that is on the ground makes it very difficult to walk.
Kayle used to think that the monster was very slow, but he realizes that it is even slower than the monster! ”How do you pretend we run away with this thing on the ground?” Kayle tells the man in the black suit.
”Splas.h.!.+”
Then Kayle sees how the man in the black suit falls to the ground ”Ahhh, we're going to die, we're all lost, it's impossible to run with this d.a.m.n thing on the ground!” The man in the black suit screams. .h.i.tting the viscous liquid with his fists.
Kayle understands that the man in the black suit is not in a position to respond, seems to have lost hope of finding a way to escape. Kayle can see the monster approaching the fat man with acne, there is only a distance of 1 meter between the 2.
”D-don't get close! I-I was just playing video games at home, w-why do I have to appear in this d.a.m.n place!?” The fat man stutters some words of fear.
Kayle knows that if he continues to see everything that is happening without doing anything, soon everyone will be eaten by that monster, look around for something that will help him out of this situation and try to save the fat man. There are many trees, the trunks of the trees are black and the branches lack leaves. Kayle tries to find something in the soil between the viscous liquid, soon sees that there are some roots in the soil that are too thin to be seen with the naked eye, in addition to the roots being covered by the viscous liquid. he discovers that all the roots are connected to the trees, Kayle grabs a root, tests the resistance of the root and sees that it is very difficult to break it.
”You, the fat one, there are roots in the ground, look for some root and with the help of the roots try to get away from that monster!” Kayle says, then look at everyone else ”Everyone to do the same!” He grabs the root tightly and pulls it. With the help of the root, he feels that his steps are faster, now it is not impossible to get away from that monster.
”Y-yes!” The fat man with his whole body covered in sweat grabs a root and walks away from the monster ”Hahaha I'm doing it, this thing can no longer reach me, if I had a gun I would make monster mincemeat!” The fat man laughs at the monster. him seems that he quickly forget that he was about to be eaten by that monster he is mocking.
The other people do the same, they all go in the same direction, trying to get as far away from the monster as possible, after walking with the help of the root for a while, everyone can hear the roar of the monster more far.
”Haaa haa haa” The blonde girl falls on her knees panting, she still can't believe they managed to escape from that nasty monster.
The fat man is even worse than the girl, recently he was laughing at the monster, but now that he escaped, his face is covered with tears and snot.
Kayle looks in detail at every corner of where they are, check that there is no monster in the surroundings ”Now that we are safe, does anyone know why we are in this place?” Kayle asks looking at all the people around him.
”I'm just like you, other people woke me up” Says the muscular man, he's very close to the blonde girl.
Kayle thinks that the muscular man has a special attachment for the blonde girl, even before waking up, he saw the muscular man next to the girl, he is probably interested in her, but he doesn't care too much since the girl doesn't seem to care.
”I-I was the first one to wake up, at first I thought it was a dream, but when I saw that monster approaching I had no choice but to try to wake them up...” Says the fat man, now it seems calmer that they are safe.
The blonde girl looks at the fat man with a mocking expression ”Lies, you didn't try to call us, only that your pig shouts made us wake up”
”It's true what the girl says, I was the second to wake up and the reason I woke up was because of the screams of the fat man” Says the man in the black suit, he has a shy smile on his face. He recently lost his sanity and made a rather embarra.s.sing show.
Kayle sees that everyone seems to be calmer ”And now what do we do?” Kayle says.
”This place is covered in this disgusting green slime and the only thing around it is ugly trees” Says the blonde girl who looks at the place with an expression that she will probably vomit again.
”Leaving the monster aside, there is something else that seems strange to me and it is the sky” Says the fat man who points his finger at the sky.
Kayle looks up at the sky, he saw before that the sky is green and the clouds are like swirls. All clouds are spirals, but looking in more detail see something out of the ordinary...
”What is that thing!?” The blonde girl screams in surprise.
Everyone also noticed the thing in the sky, in the sky there is a small black dot that is difficult to notice if you do not observe it well, but when you see it in detail you discover that it is a human face with a spooky smile, the face It is black with protuberances all over the face, from the protuberances comes a green liquid that falls to the ground, the face has no eyes, but its mouth has a pair of green lips that form an extremely wide smile.
Kayle feels that a chill ran down his back quickly, he looks back at the viscous liquid on the floor and realizes that it comes from the protuberances of the face in the sky. He looks at the other people, they all tremble, the blonde girl has her white face because of the impact of seeing the face in the sky. Kayle understands that if he lets people despair because of fear, some problems may occur in his small group.
”Everyone, there is no need to be so afraid, it is true that that face is not pleasant to look at, but it does not attack us like that monster” Kayle breathes and keeps talking ”What if we talked about what we were doing before we woke up in this place? We can find some clues, by the way, my name is Kayle” Says Kayle, it's the only way he can think to rea.s.sure everyone.
”My name is Jacob, I was playing a game of magic and swords, you know these games where you can level up and kill monsters” Says the fat man, look at everyone thinking that someone would understand, but only sees everyone with expressions of not knowing what he is talking about.