"Huh? Where am I?". Hugo questioned himself as he got up from the ground.
He was confused as to why he was still alive, "How is it that I'm still alive and breathing?".
He remembered getting stabbed by that knight, and he was supposed to be dead by now, how come? He remembered seeing his mum and siblings lying on the ground due to the arrows that penetrated their bodies, and he remembered how they were stabbed. Definitely, they must have killed his dad before they chased after them.
Thinking about these made his heart ache with pain, what has happened has happened. But coming to the main issue, why was he alive? While he was in the Ivairis kingdom, he's heard stories of reincarnation and transmigration, seems like that's what happened. There was no other explanation for it. He didn't even know if he should be happy or sad that he was given a chance to live again...his family was gone.
He was in different outfits, before he was killed, he was dressed in light-blue robe, but look at his dressing now, very different from how people dress in ancient times. He was in brown T-shirt, baggy black trousers, and shoes. The shoes were different from the ones they do wear in ancient times. He hadn't even noticed the environment around him.
He first glanced at the houses around, they were different, they were better than the ones in ancient times. He was also seeing things he had never seen before, cars...and they looked cool. But something was odd, why was everywhere this silent? weren't there humans around here? Well, it was nighttime, so they must have gone to sleep.
But even with that, something still felt strange, he was having the feeling that something happened. There was a car in front of him, and the top of it was damaged. And seems like he was seeing a figure in the car, a dark figure, and seems like it was a human. He began sauntering towards the car. And on reaching the car, he put his face on its glass to be sure of what he was seeing.
First of all, he confirmed that it was human that was in the car, but from what he was seeing, the person wasn't alive. It was a female, and there was hole and blood on her forehead. And close to her was metal, yeah, it was a pistol, she shot herself with it. Hugo hadn't seen a pistol before, so he didn't know what it was, but he was sure of one thing, the lady inside was dead.
He became confused, what caused the death of this lady? Did the people living around this boulevard didn't see her in the car? Or was it recently that it happened? When everyone had gone to sleep? The strangeness of this place increased, something was definitely not right. He began contemplating if he should shout at the top of his voice to see if he could attract anyone's attention, but he decided not to.
He began sauntering heading to the junction in front of him, and reaching the junction, he cornered the other street. And what he saw made him cover his mouth in shock. There were dead bodies on the floor, and seems like they've been there for a long time 'cause they were smelling. This street was in chaos, everything was scattered.
Apart from the dead bodies on the floor, there were cars with shattered glasses. There were fallen poles, glasses on the floor, blood on the floor, and so on. This confirmed Hugo's suspicion that something was not right, something happened here, but he didn't just know what it was. He needed to see one human for his soul to calm down a little, the silence around was killing him also.
Just then, he sighted someone come out of a junction in front of him. He couldn't see the person's face, all he was seeing was a dark figure, but he knew that it was human...and a male. Finally, he's found someone, he started sauntering and waving his hand so the person would notice him, but the person didn't.
The person was just standing, and he was facing the other side, that's why he hadn't noticed him. And Hugo noticed something else, the person's posture wasn't stable, like, he was shaking a little. Was something wrong with him? He's got to make this person notice him as fast as possible, so he voiced out,
"Hey! Look here".
The moment he made that utterance, something that had never happened took place. Something that he had never seen, something he never thought he would see. An interface appeared in front of him, and this is what he saw while hearing the voice of a system,
[ Ding! Ding!]
[ Alert! Incoming danger]
[ Get to safety or defend yourself]
Then the interface disappeared, and Hugo didn't understand what the system was talking about until he saw that person running towards him. Why was he running like this? His running was really weird, it was just like staggering running, this wasn't how a normal person does run? Hugo started moving back a little, this wasn't normal.
He couldn't see the person's face yet, all he was seeing was a dark figure running towards him. But as the strange person got closer, he saw its face, holy shit! what he was seeing was far from normal. First of all, its running wasn't normal, secondly, its eyes were red. Part of its mouth was bloody, it seemed hungry for blood. Hugo didn't even want to call it a human, he wanted to call it a bizarre creature...a monster.
Before he could turn around to run, it reached the spot where he was standing and tried to bite his neck, but Hugo held it...one hand on its right hand and the other on its left shoulder. F**k, it was strong, Hugo wasn't sure he could hold on for long. Staring at its face, Hugo could see the endeavors it was making to bite his neck, look at its bloody teeth.
Hugo was still holding on to it, but he was already losing strength, the zombie was pretty strong. If he goes on like this for some minutes more, the zombie would rip out his neck. He needed to do something, he had nothing sharp with him that he could use to stab the zombie. There was a car beside him, and glancing at the car, he came up with an idea.
Using his might, he smashed the zombie's head to the car glass. Thinking that that was enough to bring the zombie down, he was wrong. The zombie attacked him again with a bloody face, but he wouldn't let this f**king zombie bite him just like that. He held the zombie once again, using more force, he smashed the zombie's head to the car glass once again.
That was enough to bring the zombie down, it fell to the ground, but its body was still shaking. But there was problem, incoming troubles were yet to come. More zombies were already on their way due to the sounds they've been hearing, the sounds of shattering glasses. To make it worse, the car started making sounds, the work of the horn.
Honk! Honk! Honk!
Hugo could feel it, he could feel that more zombies were coming, his mind can't be wrong about this. And apart from his mind, he could feel their running from the ground, they were getting closer. After some seconds more, zombies came out from the two intersections in front of him, gosh! they were many. They began running towards him, and he couldn't help but wonder if they were running towards him or the car.
But this wasn't the time to be wondering, these zombies would feast on him badly if they catch up to him, look at their number. Without wasting any time, he took to his heels. As he was running, he glanced back to see what was happening. Many zombies were around the car, the sound it was making was drawing them to it, they just surrounded it and were doing all sorts of things to it.
And just as many were around the car, many were chasing after him. Did the car horn not attract these? They must be really thirsty for blood. If they catch up to him...men. Hugo faced front and continued running, and though he was in motion, he was still very watchful and careful. Who knows, a zombie or zombies could just pop out in front of him and feast on him.
What was he gonna do now? These zombies wouldn't stop chasing him. What was he gonna f**king do?