8 At least I am not that guy (1/2)

Harrison reflexively tried to sniff when he came again to the room with the sound of ventilator noises but sadly he discovered his body still did not belong to him. He heard noises comming from the room.

There was an alarm kind of beeping comming near him and the whooshing sound of a door opening with frantic footsteps.

The cacophony of sounds comming from the bed near him and the frantic footsteps didn't promise anything good but reminded Harrison of a tune Baba O'Reily by The Who...

”He is in v-fib.”, some nurse whose last name was not Finkle said.

”Begin CPR and someone get the d-fib.”, nurse Finkles voice was heard.

The sounds of chest compressions and counting to thirty was heard along with two wheezing sounds after every count.

”Paddles are on. Charging. Stop CPR. Clear.” someone yelled a male voice this time.

There was a weird discharge sound and they continued with the manual compressions.

”He is still in V-fib. Clear.”, the yelling did not stop.

After repeating the cycle for what seemed like ages a male voice just said in resignation.

”Call it.”

”Time of death 6:43 a.m.”, another male voice said.

”Don't be sad. We did all we could.”, he said next as if consoling himself more than the other peple who helped him perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

”Who will take him to the morgue?”, the other male voice said.

'I guess they very are used to this working in the ICU.' Harrison thought.

No one responded but there was a noise of a gurney being pushed out a few moments later.

'At least I am not that guy.' he sighed in his head as he contemplated his next move.

Suddenly the tune of Paint it black by The Rolling Stones jumped in his head and as he heard the beat and lyrics in his head someone came trough the door.

”Could you give me some rest. I need to tell the doctor to give you something stronger.” nurse Finkle said as she pumped him full of drugs again.

The song faded out into the oblivion and he found himself again in the cave. The lights were partially on as the sun was still having trouble of reaching into the depths of the forest from the angle it was shinning from.

He got up form the bed and sniffed at his clothes. They smelled fresh still even though he went to bed in them. He still did not figure it out that he was away from the cave for less than a nanosecond he thought he at least slept for a couple of hours since he ws fully refreshed from fatigue and mental stress.

As he climbed down the cave rocks he saw movement. There were rabbit like brown creatures drinking from the stream. Rabbit like since they had all the features of a rabbit minus the ears. They were not as cute and looked more like fat rats on his second look. He gently lowered himself and took out his bow and the quiver from the inventory.

'I will call you ratbits. I hope you are delicious. ' he mused to himself.

The distance between him and the closest ratbit was around 15 meters which was quite the distance further away than his practice shots. He drew and arrow and took a long breath before releasing it. It made a twang and whoosh sound before it flew in the direction of the oblivious ratbits but fell just short of the first one.

By the time he knocked the second arrow they were long gone obviously spooked by the sound the first shot made and he could just drop his bow in defeat and put it back into his inventory.

'I guess I need to practice some more and raise my level before I can skin you.' he sighed in resignation.

He went back to the target practice range and took out his bow and arrows again. This time he was 10 m away. The strength bonus was doing it's thing and he didn't get tired as easily since the bow string was easier to pull and the bow kept straight longer. His accuracy was still less than desirable but at least he was hitting the target and some arrows evem managed to stick out from the tree.

He soon raised his Archery level to 6 but he decided to continue after putting 5 more meters between him and the target.

As his arms started to hurt as he achieved level 7. He checked his skill llist and attributes.

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Lumberjack\t:\tLevel\t3

Carpentry\t:\tLevel \t1

Masturbation\t:\tLevel \t1

Archery\t : Level\t7

Swordmanship :\tLevel\t5

Mathemathics\t:\tLevel\t10