Chapter 5: What am I? (1/2)

Chapter 5: What am I?

Gary’s eyes started to flutter open slowly as he was regaining consciousness The first thing he saere so it hard to tell if it was just about to turn to night or whether it would soon be day again As he lifted up his body, he noticed the sound of ruffling, which turned out to come from the many leaves underneath hiht He looked around and could see nothing but trees, yet no sign of a pathway or road ‘Why did I coh!” His head started to ring with pain When lifting it up he could see that the sleeves of his clothing were partially torn Thinking back he tried to re that had happened, but all that ca pain in his back side

‘That guy… he stabbedup his shi+rt, he peeked over his shoulder Gary tried to take a look, but he found nothing, not even after running his fingers over the supposed wound For a second he questioned himself ‘Could it be that all of it was just a bad drea thatdown his trousers there were signs of dried blood, looking to have dripped fro had definitely happened earlier

He should have been in pain There should have been a wound, yet there was nothing! In fact, his body felt far better than it had ever done before

‘Just what the hell happened after I got stabbed? How the hell did I get here? Sht, where the hell is ‘here’ in the first place?’

He had no memories whatsoever of what had happened from the construction site to where he was now, and in all his thinking he had coht in front of hihtly been altered and in h it was quite dark out, he could see details in the night he shouldn’t have been able to with his vision The groves on the trees a distance away, the ants crawling up on the trees, passing food to each other, and then there was the est that it was still theon… are those ANTS?!’ Eventually Gary noticed the discrepancy with his eyes ‘How is that possible? Could it be because of all those carrots Muht… Or is that just another internet myth? I bet Tohts, he registered so at it, it reaet rid of it, but wherever he would look it would stay there

Then he started to touch his face to see if he earing anything, but there was nothing The notification appeared to be glued onto his vision

‘How the hell do I get rid of this thing?!’ When thinking about the notification itself, it suddenly opened and a screen appeared in front of hi in midair

[Your bloodlust has been lowered]

[You are no longer enraged]

[State has been updated to: Normal]

‘Is that… a systeames in the past with a siamer hi to come up ays to make money The one who this would have been perfect for would be his buddy Toate it a bit

The notifications looked like they could be deleted and it looked like there werewas it was all blocking his field of vision Still, at the same time he couldn’t deny it was kinda cool Like he had been turned into some futuristic robot

Nevertheless, he didn’t like what he was reading The word ‘Bloodlust’ did not sound good at all… What exactly had happened? Had he been turned into some type of vampire and was now required to feed on blood? It would at least explain the wounds healing on his body so far He had read supernatural stories of things like that before

Quickly touching his teeth, he felt nothing and they appeared to be the same as they had always been

Then there was the second half of the ulped down and tried to look at hie a able to escape fro him, he started to consider the worst case scenario

‘No, nothing happened, stop being paranoid!’ Gary tried to convince hi like that … but would I really? … I still have no clue how I got in the woods in the first place’

Unfortunately with his tendency to forget evenmachine when his oodthose notifications, Gary decided to study the systee of hi back at him and his name by the side with a few stats

[Name: Gary Dem]

[Level 1]

[Exp 0/100]

[Health: 100/100]