2 002 Where am I?

A blinding light hit my eyes and even if it was close it still woke me up. I groaned and felt myself laying on something hard and rough. I sat up and instantly clutch the sides of my head only to feel relieved when I felt no pain whatsoever.

"What the hell just happened?'' I asked in confusion. As I was about to pull myself up my hand was placed on something wet and I hissed at the stickyness of it.

"What the heck is–"

I couldn't finish my words as my gaze landed on it. It was a small puddle of blood that was almost dry. Goosebumps ran up and down my spine as my eyes were glued to the disgusting and horrifying sight infront of me.

"W-who's blood is that!?" I stuttered, backing away from it but my confusion didn't end there. My back bumped into what appeared to be a wall or so I thought till I moved my sight towards it only for my mouth to fell open. It was a busted door with broken glass and a missing handle, shards of glass were below me and if I wasn't careful it could dig into the flesh of my palms. I instantly moved my hand away from the ground and stood up in panic.

"What's going on?" I asked again to no one in particular but myself. As soon as the panic went away from my head a realization came.

I woke up in a stone pavement which appeared to be a road and backed up against a ruined store which meant, I wasn't in my room!

My eyesight adjusted and now the blinding lights weren't so blinding anymore and I could focus my gaze on my surroundings, surroundings that almost made me pee my pants.

Busted and broken buildings, shops and houses. Broken roads that was stained with dried or fresh blood, an eerie silence all over the place save for the blow of the wind that seemed like someone was whistling in my ear. A ghost city.

I gulped hard as my mind seemed to have mental breakdown from everything I'm seeing right now.

"This must be a dream right?" I laughed as I place my hand on my face, slapping my cheeks repeatedly.

"C-come on you can wake up now" I stuttered, slapping myself even harder.

"I said wake up!" I screamed and slapped my cheek so hard my head turned to the side and my ears rang, blood even dripped down my nose.

I felt the pain of that slap, I heard my scream echoing all around, I tasted the blood that dripped down from my nose. This wasn't a dream; It's a nightmare!

I slowly sat down and leaned my back against the wall, a shaky smile plastered on my face.

"Is this a punishment from God for calling my mom stupid all the time?" I laughed, shaking my head repeatedly.

"Or was it because I skipped meals and sleep for four straight days?" I pointed out then my mind turned on a lightbulb.

"That must be it!" I stated, clapping my hands. "I died and I'm now in hell!" I burst out laughing at that till I was clutching my stomach.

Everything seemed so funny to me, I couldn't remember what happened after I passed out yet I know blood was dripping down my nose and ears.

'Kinda sucks that I died after placing no.1 in the leaderboards' I lamented in my head and that's what made me stop laughing.

"I placed number 1..." I murmured. My eyes squinted and a smile was once again back onto my face.

"I was number 1!!" I screamed, hearing my voice echoe for a few times before screaming again. "I was the king of that game! Woohoo!" my throat began to hurt from all the cheering but I couldn't help the happiness inside me even if I was in the middle of nowhere right now, I guess my mind was a little messed up right now. I started to do a little happiness dance, I was all alone in that place so no one would care if I'm stripping all my clothes and waving it around because of how happy I am at the moment but sadly that happiness didn't last.

Out of nowhere I heard a growl from afar and I whipped my head so fast towards that direction which made my neck hurt.

"Ow! Goddamnit" I cursed, placing my hand at the back of my head and massaging the aching spot.

The growl became louder this time, like it was getting near me. I could also hear some sloppy, wet footsteps coming towards me, not just one or two but many more.

My gaze slowly moved upwards and to my utter fuckin surprise I'm seeing a bunch of bloody people with a green and purplish complexion.

"You're...kidding...right" I stated breathlessly, like my voice wouldn't come out.

It was zombies, I was seeing zombies coming towards my direction and I'm not dreaming.

"They're not real..." I tried to convince myself as the zombies got nearer. "Come on...this is seriously a joke" at this point I was shaking, my feet were glued to the ground and my heart was beating loudly against my ribcage.

Finally as one of the zombies were only a feet away from me, my body acted on its own out of panic. I hurriedly whipped around and ran at the opposite direction. I ran and ran to nowhere in particular but I didn't stop. My body lacked exercise due to me being always locked up inside my room and infront of my PC but surprisingly my stamina is holding up. As I felt myself get tired I did a U-turn and entered one of the nearest building I could see and hid behind a counter, panting heavily for air.

I didn't hear any footsteps or growl which made my panic lessen but my confusion was still present.

"Someone please tell me what's going on" I begged even though I know no one was gonna answer me.

As minutes pass by, my head was starting to clear and I didn't leave my hiding spot in fear of what was outside. I came to the conclusion that this was somehow a punishment for being an awful son and a shitty person.

"I'm sorry" I murmured and waited for something to happen yet silence met me.

"I swear I'm really sorry, I regret it" I murmured once again, keeping my voice low and once again, nothing happened.

"Seriously this ain't a funny game" just as I said those words something popped up infront of me that almost freaked the soul out of my body. It was a green screen that was almost transparent with something written on it.

<Welcome Player69XRT5>

"What is this?" I gasped, my eyes wide like flying saucers. The green screen matched the notification screen on the game that I'm obsessed with.

With curiosity and eagerness to know what was going on I tapped the screen.

<You're now inside the game>

=In order to survive you must find resources and craft food, armors and weapons=

=Level up by completing tasks and gaining advantage on crafting more powerful equipment=

=Team up with other players and survive together=

=Good luck!=

The screen disappeared after the last sentence that left me dumbfounded.

First of all I was inside the game but how?

Second, how would I craft items? I know there was a panel on the game to access the 'crafts'

Third, what would happen if I died?

And lastly, it said team up with other players so does that mean I wasn't the only one inside this game?

I wanted to know more but I don't know how to make that green screen appear again so I just sat their wondering. 'If I wasn't alone, should I go out and find other players?'

It sounded like a good idea but I didn't want to put myself in danger. I need to know how everything works here first because clearly this isn't just like the game, I don't have a mouse and keyboard to open tabs and panels. I can't see my items, battle coins and even HP bar, nor do I know which part of the game map I was. Everything is unclear so I have to stay hidden for now till I finally know how everything works and when I do, I'll go out and find other players.

I sighed heavily and place my hand on my head only to flinch when something hard hit my forehead.

"Jesus that hurts" I groaned and looked at my arm. There was a small wrist watch on my arm, but instead of seeing time I saw weird numbers above and a color green rectangle.

'Wait this is familiar'

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