10 Push Up And 10 Sit Up

Indeed, there's an analog timepiece at the right edge of the system, it was keeping the track of time and date for him, and looking at the time, his heart almost pop out.

"Damn, what's this? Is this thing really correct, how can it be 6:23pm?"

He couldn't believe, did he sleep throughout the day or the time isn't correct, there's only one way to find out. He stood up and walk to the hallway, staring at the sky, the night sky hasn't come out yet, but he could see that it's already dusk, the sun is at its horizon. He had come here before when he first woke up, but he didn't pay it any attention as his mind was focused on the footprint, but seeing that it was sunset now, he almost collapse.

"Test… economic test, we are having economic test today. F*ck, how did it happen that I slept throughout the whole day." He sat down weakly and ponder his thought in somber mood. He still couldn't believe it that he missed school today, he even missed test, and all of it was the fault of that damn bastard.

"I even get to avoid a beating from John and those two boys." He still remembered what he did in school yesterday and what will happen to him today but he has narrowly avoided the consequence today.

…today.

"Well, it's not as if I've avoided it forever, I'll still get face my consequence on Monday; but that's Monday, I need to face what is to come today first and I stinks."

He knew he stinks, he reeks of blood and the whole room and hallway also reeks of blood, he needs to find water to wash himself.

"Is there any place I can wash? I think it's time to explore this dark street." He said as he got up and move to the room Jone is devouring the dead creature, his dog also needs to wash.

A few minutes later, he's walking on the dark silence street with Jone slightly behind him. Although, it isn't dark yet, the sun is just retreating back, but dark silence street, is what he decided to name the street.

He couldn't say it's a peaceful street because the silence that exist here is different from being peaceful, it's almost ominous. There are new buildings here and there, uncompleted buildings and some many other building that work just started on it.

It looks like the street was just discovered and it's unexplored.

What makes it ominous is the level of forest, the forest stretches from the entrance of the street, if human civilization get here, the forest will be no more. The forest that exist on this street is not deep and not as dangerous like some other forest out there. Emmy is currently heading into the forest in search of stream.

He couldn't go to public shower to wash himself and there's no other option, so he decided to venture into the forest to look for a stream.

As he entered the forest, the view is not what he expected to see; the trees are short and most of the sides are bushy, but that's not all, after the entrance of the forest, the landscape to the left was clear and deserted with dead and burnt trees here and there. It looks like human civilization is upon the forest faster than he thought.

Up ahead, he could see peaceful water moving right gently with the flow of time, there were pieces of rock inside the water and on both sides was a large murky vine that stretches from the middle of the forest down to the stream and covering both sides like a pond.

Without wasting any time, Emmy dashed towards the stream, stand on a large piece of rock and started washing himself. In a few years now, the beautiful stream will turn to a drainage channel while different skyscrapers will replace the dead forest and shadow the street.

"Wicked human civilization." He said as he plucked out a few weed to wash Jone black skin.

After washing himself and Jone, he put on new dresses and left the battered one in the forest, Jone also look as neat as ever, he knew he had to be careful now while going back, Jone's white skin is back, so walking carelessly on the street could spell doom for him.

He left the forest and walk back to the uncompleted building to have a good sleep and prepare for tomorrow, he has something to do tomorrow.

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The next morning, Emmy woke up startled, there's an unusual tone ringing in his head.

"What the hell? That stupid alarm." He had forgotten that he was the one who set an alarm on the system. After exploring the system yesterday, he discovered that he can also set an alarm on the timepiece, so he added one to wake him up by 6:30 in the morning. What he didn't expect was for it to be loud and frightening.

"I guess; I just need to get used to it."

Standing up, Jone was laying at the entrance of the room, he stood up and stretches a few time before looking around the room. He has abandoned the first room, he's now in the third room of the third floor. Here, he will be hard to be found and he will know immediately if someone visits.

Today is Saturday and Emmy planned to do what he hasn't attempted since the day he was born, he wants to do push up and sit up, yes - he knew it won't be easy, but nothing has ever been easy for him. The system didn't force him to do it, nor did it threaten him with some dangerous punishment; in fact, he can even avoid it forever and not do it at all, but he convinces himself and will force his body to do it. If he managed to do it today, the outcome will determine if he will continue doing it or not.

"Ah, today is going to be tough."

Going to the edge of the room where the remaining food was kept, he opened the container, brought out a water that's always chilled, he washed his mouth and started consuming the food. The remaining food isn't much but still, he fed Jone out of it and himself. He knew he won't get to eat another food today, who knows - maybe this will even be his last food on earth, that's why he only fed Jone a little portion.

He gave the dog little food, not because of his greediness, but because Jone hasn't done consuming the carcass of the large creature he has been consuming since yesterday and he knew Jone will continue his feast today. He didn't even want to feed the dog at all, but he can't bring himself to do that even if the dog has a large meat to feast on.

While Emmy himself, this might be his last meal and at the same time, it might also be the meal that will save him from starving to death, all he have to do to achieve that is to endure and not give up. Emmy took his time to eat his food because he knew today will be a long day.

About one hour later, Emmy stood and look at himself again, his heart is beating heavily, it was as if he was going into war. He had a black body suit on with a black short and a long socks, his round belly was protruding out of the tight suit. He had spent an hour resting after his meal making it to digest, Jone has already left the room, off to complete his feast.

Clearing the middle of the room, he lied down with his belly hugging the floor, hesitated for a moment, then place his palm on the floor and tried to use it to raise his body up. At first, his hand and body moves half an inches, then it stopped before his belly hit the floor.

"Damn, this is not going to be easy, I can't even move my body."

He do it again ending up with the same result, without giving up, he do it again, still with the same result, again and again, again, again and again and again…..., he do it to the point that he can't achieve the same result anymore, he can't move his body up to half inches again, until his body stop listening to him, his hands strained, sour and heavy, sweat running down his face.

"I…. ca..n't…. give up, … I must… con…ti..nue." It's even hard for him to breath, his throat is dry. Glancing at the water bottle of chilled water besides him, he stretched his hands to grab it, but his hand refused to move, it was as if a large rock was in place of his hand, it felt heavy.

'No, this is bad, I haven't spent up to five minutes and I'm like this.'

His plan was to keep doing it till he managed to do ten, no matter the amount of time it took, but now, he knew it will take a whole day for him to do ten push up, and he still need to do ten sit up which is a lot harder. Although, he's ready to keep doing it every day until he do ten, the problem is that, once he failed to do ten of each today, he will have to do twenty tomorrow and next tomorrow will be thirty, until he won't be able to do it again. That's the punishment for his daily quest.

'This might be more difficult than I thought.'

He closed his eyes and everything turn black.