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Dave wakes up
My ringtone was the one that woke me up. "Who the fuck calls someone this early," I grumbled as I put the phone to my ear. "Alex. Alex, you need to see this." Her voice was excited. "It's Dave." I sat up, disoriented. I'd finally managed to sleep—actual deep sleep for the first time in what felt like forever. My body ached from the Howler attack, bandages covering the claw marks on my arms. The apartment was dim, early morning light filtering through the barricaded windows. "What about Dave?" I rubbed his eyes, trying to focus. That was when I saw it was a video call. Lisa had her laptop open and the screen showed what looked like a medical monitoring system. "I've been tracking the coma patients remotely. Dave's vitals just spiked. His heart rate elevated which sent his brain activity through the roof. Alex, I think he's waking up."I was fully awake now. She adjusted the screen as I squinted to look at it, watching the graphs spike and dip in real-time. Dave's brain activity
Disturbing News
For a minute, I thought I had died and everything was over. I was already walking aimlessly in a black void when I was violently pulled back. I opened my eyes and found myself face to face with my murderer.What the hell was going on? Did I just respawn? I checked the screen to see how many I had left and it was just three. This darn system used four respawn tokens to revive me. I was brought back to reality when Mr Hard face cocked the gun. I need to act fast or I would die and it would be for good this time. "I'm not your enemy," I said. "I'm just trying to survive. Same as you."He didn't budge. How was I sure these things were even human? The helicopter appeared over the treeline.I got down on my feet just in time as the bullet left his gun. I used the pistol on me to hit his knee severally until he went down then I ran the last ten meters as the helicopter touched down, rotors whipping the grass flat. I grabbed the landing skid and pulled himself aboard. The pilot didn't even
Extraction
I ran through the jungle, branches whipping my face, roots trying to trip me with every step. The blue route wound through terrain so dense I could barely see five feet ahead. No paths, no clearing, just endless green foliage that grabbed at my clothes and scraped my skin. My breath came in ragged gasps. The humidity was suffocating, each inhale feeling like drowning in hot air. The screen above me blinked. Time until extraction: 00:14:22 I'd been running for over twelve minutes and probably covered maybe half a kilometer. The extraction point was still nearly two kilometers away. The math wasn't adding up. Several bullets boomed to my left—the red route, probably. The game was throwing everything at players who chose efficiency over conscience. I crashed through a curtain of vines and nearly fell into a stream. He managed to jump across, and landed just on the far bank. "C'mon Alex, you can't stop now," I encouraged myself as my knees gave out. I got up and kept moving
The Cost of Survival
The soldier shouted something in Vietnamese and raised his rifle. I fired first. Three-round burst, the way I'd seen in movies. The recoil surprised me—sharper than the revolver, driving the rifle butt into my shoulder. The soldier went down, red blooming across his chest. The other two scattered, returning fire, as bullets shredded leaves around my position.I rolled behind a tree, heart hammering. Did I just kill someone? NPC or not, I'd pulled the trigger and watched a person fall. My hands shook so badly i nearly dropped the rifle.I forced myself to move, scrambling deeper into the jungle on hands and knees. Behind me, the two remaining soldiers were coordinating and flanking me. Just like the Howlers, they were learning, adapting, and hunting. I turned to see a grenade landed three feet away. My brain registered it before my body could react. I had maybe two seconds so I grabbed it, my hands moving on instinct and threw it back to the direction it came from. The explosion was
Reality Bleeds Intensifies
I wasn’t transitioning, I was literally falling. My eardrum nearly exploded as air rushed in, ripped past my skin, and tore at my shirt. My stomach felt as though it dragged itself into my throat. “Sh!”I reached out for something to hold onto, but there was nothing. No ground. No platform. Just air and panic and the sound of my heart trying to break out of my ribs.Then, I hit the ground hard. Seconds later, pain exploded up my spine, air left my lungs in a violent rush. The world went white, then dark, then focused.Is that My ceiling? “...What the hell…?” I pushed myself onto my elbows, dragging in air that made my chest burn. My hands shook as my whole body ached like I’d been dragged through fire.The same leg that had been shot in level two throbbed badly. The wound was gone… but my nerves remembered the fact that the game didn’t carry over injuries but my body did.I sat up slowly, scanning the room. Everything was exactly as I left it, the only thing different was the
Wide West Shootout
My pod crashed into something the next minute that sent me flying. Luckily for me, I landed on sand.“Ah...” I cough, choking on grit, before rolling onto my side. Dry air cuts into my throat so sharp it hurts. My whole body was covered in hot, red sand that felt more like powder than sand.“What the hell…?”I push up onto my knees and blink hard. Sunlight stabs straight into my eyes, savage, and unforgiving. The heat is brutal as my body begins to release gallons of sweat.I looked ahead to see various sizes of wooden buildings. There was a dirt road that led to something I couldn't see from here. I started walking, then I passed a water trough, hitching posts and a saloon with swinging doors.I can't believe this. A whole damn Wild West town was staring back at me. It didn't take long for that stupid screen to appear.LEVEL 6: WILD WEST SHOOTOUTObjective: Survive until the noon train.Time until train arrival: 00:45:00Respawn Tokens: 4“Forty-five minutes…” I mutter, scrambling to
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