A new dawn and a second attempt (2)

The way home became relatively short due to John's speed and he also played an important role, not looking to cross the street and cutting the road to get home as fast as possible, just being 1:00 in the afternoon, which meant he had almost 9 hours to be in the game.

When he arrived home the key to the front door was already in his hand and he quickly entered unlocking the entrance, locking it behind him and placing his shirt on a hook beside the door, the stairs were barely noticed by his feet and he had finally reached the camera, but before stopping he removed his shoes from his feet.

"Well, time to fix this problem of mine!"(John)

The capsule closed after John got in and put the helmet on slowly letting his consciousness go away from his body, opening his eyes again and finding himself in the forest once more, although the surroundings seemed to have changed a bit, several trees destroyed, the ground was the same and the monsters' bodies were gone, but not the blood traces where they had fallen dead.

When looking around, everything seemed very quiet, although strangely the singing of the birds and the sound of the wind were not heard, which made everything around disturbing, as if something had happened, something bad, suddenly John could feel a level vibration on the ground, as if something very heavy was silent somewhere, but no matter where he looked around it was and would be impossible to locate the origin of such a tremor.

"If the ground is shaking so slightly it means there's a giant boss or monster in this forest...wait...where there's a giant monster, there must be other players hunting it!"(John)

John stood up and suddenly and realizing immediately he looked at his back touching it, feeling that it no longer had the short in it, strangely his health was also complete which indicated that the regeneration per second worked even if the character was offline, which was a good thing since going in and being badly hurt would be a little annoying but understandable if he had no health regeneration.

Wherever John looked, the only thing his eyes could see was an infinite amount of trees and vegetation, as if the forest where he was was never touched by the human race, although it would be a little questionable since the zombies previously found prove that there were human beings in that forest.

"A plan...plan...plan...I have no choice but to keep walking...oh, a mountain, that would help a lot!"(John)

There were no options or anything else to try, but a mountain or some high place would help a lot to see the whole top of the forest and see if there was any human or any other kind of building in the place, John's first idea was to use the trees as high points of view, although you could not do much, the trees were not high enough between one and another and the canopy was too thick to see anything on them, so quickly the idea of climbing a tree was discarded.

"Shit..."(John)

John without thinking more, since it would be useless and would continue to waste the daylight, decided to start running, but different from before this time using his strength to jump and surprisingly when giving the first jump he rose enormously above the trees, but it also proved to be a terrible idea at that time because when he fell on the trees hitting himself with many branches until he fell to the ground, it seemed that the movies and anime of the characters that fell on trees were and landed unharmed was not so realistic and he ended up discovering it the hard way.

As he stood up again, he could see many blows, cuts and bruises on his body, obviously without a body armor to prevent such damage, jumping among the trees was not even a remotely viable idea, although it did allow him to see momentarily what seemed to be a village surrounded by cut logs which seemed to form a wall further on from where he was, which made him feel a certain joy and tranquility in knowing that he was not lost in the world.

The speed of movement he had in the game was only a little faster than when he ran home from work so the increased speed of movement was basically unlimited sprinting and also obviously he got tired at a certain point, But he lasted a long time before he became so agitated that he wanted to stop and rest and catch his breath, and also his bare feet were a problem when running in the woods because if he hit his foot on some sharp rock he could also cut or even break his foot or bend it, slowing it down temporarily or even permanently, so the danger of damage at that time was very high, but there was no time to lose because otherwise he would remain trapped in that damned forest for a long time.

Strangely enough, running through the trees in the direction of the previously seen structure. John could not get out of his head the sensation of being observed, or stalked in his case, suddenly he stood still and looked back, looking with his eyes for anything that looked suspicious, curiously in the branches of a tree you could see a kind of silhouette which seemed to be transparent, Almost equally, the alien creature in the "Predators" movie, upon realizing it, John tried not to show as if he had noticed it since he didn't know if his stalker was looking to attack him or just watch him, at least he had been able to confirm that someone was following and watching him.

"Ignore him, we can take care of him, later..."

John said to himself with a very low voice avoiding that he heard it and taking his way, being at each moment closer to the structure until finally he arrived, the wall of cut logs was immensely high, strangely the logs had moss in their external side which indicated that the structure had a lot of time, a good and bad sign to his eyes, Unfortunately, as he approached the entrance, he managed to confirm his suspicions. On the inner side of the wall there were houses made of logs, unfortunately these houses were covered with moss and nature had claimed everything again, on the ground near the houses lay some skeletons which indicated that this place had not been abandoned but that it had been attacked and everyone had been killed.

Almost all the houses were destroyed externally and the doors had been destroyed or broken down, indicating that those who attacked this village were very strong or big and that they had no problem entering the houses and massacring the people, for John's bad luck there were also some skeletons smaller than those near the entrance, also indicating that there were children here.

"Damn...damn it all, I was so close, shit, shit, shit!!"

John had become frustrated because his only sign of nearby humans only ended up being a destroyed location where the skeletons of the former occupants lay and houses that no longer served any purpose.

Looking around again, he could not help but feel sorry for the poor people who had suffered such deaths, the only thing he could hope for was that they would die quickly and painlessly, there was nothing left for them to do, most of the skeletons were covered with plants and their bones had turned green because of the plants taking over everything around them.

"hmmmffff..."

sighing and calming himself was necessary to think clearly, a piece of wood nearby in the house helped John to at least dig a few holes in the ground and place the bones. At least to pay his respects to the deceased, it was the least he could do, the plants that had covered the houses had some flowers, which served to leave them on the tombs, a grave could not be complete without a flower on it.

"HEHEHEHEHE!"

The silence was suddenly broken by a macabre smile. John raised his head and saw at the entrance of the village what appeared to be a black and white wolf, which suddenly smiled and showed an extremely human face, its eyes were red, bloodshot and its teeth were deformed, broken, as if they had bitten into things that should not be bitten, another small group appeared behind that wolf, all showing that strange and disturbing face.

"What...the fuck?"

John stood up with the stick in his hand and knew that once again he would have to fight, but this time he wouldn't think twice about getting hurt like the last time.

"LET'S COME! YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME, COME AND GET IT THEN!"

Without even caring about anything, John took a couple of steps forward with his arms open and yelling at the wolves or whatever those things were as a sign of provocation, the wolves no doubt responded by running at him, adding to the disturbed smiles on their faces, but one of them had the bad idea of wanting a bite on John's face, the world learned quickly what it was like to be torn in half.

John had no problem taking the wolf from his jaws and struggled to separate it, but in return he split the wolf in two halves without any difficulty, his guts fell to the ground and the other wolves suddenly stood still and the smiles on their faces faded, but they did not turn back instead their faces had become expressionless until the one who seemed to be the leader of the pack showed that psychopathic smile again and the others soon followed.

The pack leader nodded his head, causing the four wolves behind him to suddenly attack John at the same time, apparently not only was he the leader by appearance, but he was also intelligent or commanded the other wolves in some way.

Two of the wolves split up and ran around John from left to right while the other two went in the opposite direction, perhaps trying to confuse them, but John could not pay attention to four enemies at the same time, his only chance of getting out alive was to fight without paying attention to the damage he would receive.

"I really got off to a bad start in this game."(John)

John's sarcastic voice was heard by one of the wolves that suddenly jumped up and bit his leg, but was quickly intercepted by John's fist that buried his hand in the ground, shattering the wolf's skull easily. When he removed his hand from the ground it was bleeding a little bit because of the wolf's skull and the hard ground, The other three wolves remaining this time had not changed their expression, but were more aggressive and determined, again two dared to attack and again John's fist was more than enough to smash the head of one of them, unfortunately the second wolf bit John's shoulder, nailing his strange and grotesque teeth into his flesh.

"You're... You're gonna regret this... you son of a bitch..."(John)

John watched the wolf for a few seconds and then immediately grabbed the wolf by the head and threw him to the ground and stomped on his head with all his might, causing the ground to crack with the force of his feet.

The wolf stepped backwards to show his intention to escape, but at that precise moment an arrow pierced his head and plunged him to the ground, John was surprised and looked around for the person who had shot that arrow, but he could not see anyone present, it only occurred to him that the person in camouflage was responsible.

"You have a lot of strength for just a young human... what God created you?"(mysterious female voice)

A female voice suddenly echoed behind him and he instinctively raised both hands without having any intention of fighting, obviously it did not seem right to turn around and suddenly attack someone who had helped him a few seconds ago.

"Don't shoot... I have no intention of fighting you..."(John)

John said with his hands up showing that he had no intention of attacking, besides that at that moment he had heard behind him how the bow was tightening, because of that he lost the opportunity to move and react, the slightest attempt to do something would result in an arrow through his head.

"Answer my question, human, what God has created you and what kind of strange power has he given you to have such monstrous strength at such a young age?"(mysterious female voice)

"...excuse me, but no god created me."(John)

John answered, but to be totally honest that question she asked, was totally irresponsible because no one had created him, he was just a character in the game, but the npc were programmed to behave in a unique way, seeming to be totally alive.

"Listen, hurry up and shoot or put your weapon down, my arms are getting tired of being in this position."(John)

"Ok, but just because you buried those bones I'll trust you're not a psychopath in the woods, but the minute you think of doing something, I'll cut your throat and let you bleed out like a pig, got it?"(mysterious female voice)

The words of that girl did not seem at all pleasant, but John anyway had not planned to do anything wrong, he was not so, finally could put his arms down and be in peace, when turning around saw that the mystery woman was no longer present.

"What...hell...could you at least tell me where north is?...hello?"(John)

Again loneliness was present and this one seemed to be very affectionately attached to John and again he had to try and find a way to find civilization or at least the north.