3 Are you kidding me? (2/2)
”Aw crap, I must be going crazy.”
He had hoped for a slight miracle, but it was false hope.
He angrily spat, ”Why me? I'm just a loser! Why?”
He was finally getting a feel for streaming. Joonbum had just figured out how to balance survival and eating food. It was only a matter of time for his channel to become stable and then he even dreamed to shoot a video in a foreign country like those famous wildlife survival TV shows.
”Yeah, foreign, but not other world! I can't do it here! No electricity, no food, monsters all around me. Why did you put me here? Did I not deserve what I was doing?”
He shouted at no one. As he mumbled, cursed, and ranted, time passed quickly and a light started to come up from the horizon, lighting up all the darkness. As the light became brighter and stronger, it soon filled entire world around him.
It was a bizarre and magnificent scene to behold. All harsh feelings melted away at the sight.
”Aw hell!”
He yelled, wiping out all the anger inside him.
”It is what it is.”
As he made up his mind and was ready to accept what was going on, everything started swirling around. His eyes opened up, but the light became blurry and the entire world started to spin as if he was drunk.
”What the hell is this now?”
Confused, the swirling quickly swept his entire sight and before he could even feel afraid about what was happening, he started to see something familiar.
”Wha- where- What's this?”
The world was changing again. He was going back to the hill where he had camped the night before.
”Am I going back? For real? No freaking way? This is crap! What?”
He fell to the ground on his butt while speaking different things, expressing his disbelief. He was just accepting reality and was trying to make up his mind to survive in the new world.
Now he was going back.
”Wait… camera. My camera!”
He ran for his camera, trying to capture what was going on. His wound throbbed as he moved abruptly, but he ignored and reached out for his camera to capture at least a glance of this world shift.
”No! Wait! Hold on tight you bastard!”
Joonbum shouted at the sight, frantically pointing his camera at the shift. But it quickly faded away and it was done.
”Sh*t! Damn!”
He cursed, realizing that the footage was not long enough to actually be considered worth it. A single response saying it was a hoax would ruin the validity of the video. It was that short and unclear.
He took a long breath and shouted, ”Hey God, or Demon or whoever you are! Are you kidding me?! For real?”
Joonbum glanced around at his dismantled campsite. Shouting stretched his wound and the pain came back to him.
”Ugh, I should go to the hospital.”
Joonbum gathered his stuff, loaded his truck, and drove off. He knew he needed to tend to his wound first.
As he turned on his favorite music and lit up a cigarette in his car, he began to calm down and started to realize what an unbelievable experience it was.
'What was it really? What happened in the end? Maybe I can go back again?'
As he relaxed, he was drenched with his thoughts. Even with all the horrors he experienced, his mind was filled with one thought: he wanted to go back.