Run!!

"You might not know me, but I lived across the street from your house... I always watched you from my window whenever you drew graffiti with your friends on people's car" the green haired girl blushed and said.

"You're one hell of a kid, boy" the bulky man said with a chuckle.

"So your problems started from a young age, Huh?" The busty blonde lady said in disgust.

"Hey! I'm a council member... Show some respect!!" I said in embarrassment, "You lots should follow me".

Then I began walking in the direction where we spawned, with the set following behind. The jungle was eerily quiet that we could even hear the sounds of our breathing.

The deafening silence was uncomfortable and 'everyone' was on guard, there were occasional red eyes peeking from the dark, and sometimes the feeling of being followed would come and go.

'We' have been walking for hours now but haven't reached the spawn spot yet. I decided to summon my cloak to check if we were on the right track from the sky, but that was when I noticed something wrong... Something terribly wrong.

[#ERROR#]

I couldn't access anything in my status!!

'What the f*ck?' I muttered to myself and paused my steps.

Then I began trying again and again, but the same pop-up notification kept on appearing in my sight.

[#ERROR#]

[#ERROR#]

[#ERROR#]

"Can you guys try summoning your equipments? Cause I can't access mine" I said without looking behind me, still in a daze about what was wrong.

But after asking that question, I noticed the second problem... The forest was eerily silent. I never heard the set behind me say anything, and I never heard their footsteps behind me.

I turned around and just like I thought, it has always been just me... I was alone. My heart dropped the moment I noticed my predicament, who am I without my equipments? Just Josh?

No... This can't be happening.

"Help!!!"

I heard a distant scream echo in the dim jungle, my mind was so blank that I couldn't even pinpoint the location of the scream, it felt like it was coming from all directions.

The trees in a direction began vibrating violently, like there was a horde of beast stampeding from that direction. I was confused and didn't know what to do at the moment.

"Run!!... Run!!... Run!!"

I began hearing distant cheering and screams coming from all direction. 'Run?... What was going on?', my instincts were also screaming the same word 'run!'.

I didn't want to wait to know what was really going on, so I began running in the opposite direction, just like the distant chantings and my instincts screamed.

I was really scared and confused, I could feel the violent thumping in my chest as the stampeding drew nearer behind me.

"Run!! Run!! Run!!" The chantings continued.

"F*ck!!" I screamed in frustration.

If I were to keep running with my current speed which was slowed due to the bulging backpack on my back, then whatever was behind me would be catching up sooner or later.

I quickly scanned for the tallest and widest tree in the vicinity, and began running towards the one that looked to be the tallest.

[Do not climb, keep running.]

"What the f*ck is going on?!!" I screamed out, this was the first time the system was talking to me since the apocalypse. But why should I trust someone who wanted to use me for personal benefits.

I decided to take the risk and kept on running in random directions. Suddenly, large beams of blue light shot up into the sky in different directions.

[Run towards the light.]

Luckily, there was a beam of light not too far away from where I was, so I began running in it's direction. Then I saw another player not too far away from me, running in the same direction of the beam of light I was heading to.

[Do not let him get there first.]

I didn't ask any questions and kept on running like a cheater. My agility stat was way above that of most players, so I wasn't worried about him getting there first.

On getting close to the beam of light, I saw it was just a blue door, floating a little above the floor, with no support. I quickly ran into the blue beam of light, opened the blue door, and jumped in.

I found myself inside a dim room with no windows. There was just a small bed, a closet and another smaller door to the side.

[Kill.]

"What? Kill who?". I asked in confusion, "I'm the only one..." I was saying, when the smaller door in the room opened and a fierce looking bald man walked out, at the same time the blue door behind me opened and the guy I previously saw heading here entered.

We stared at ourselves for a while, before the bald man suddenly threw a thin blade at me.

Too slow.

I caught the blade and spinned around to face the guy who had just come in, then I slashed at his throat and flipped the thin blade behind me.

*Thud*

*Thud*

Both the guy and the bald man behind me fell to the floor at the same time. Then I walked over to the bald guy and pulled out the thin blade which struck him deep in the left eye, then wiped the dagger on his white shirt.

'Sucks not be a pro player' I muttered to myself.

I sat on the small bed in the room, and stared at the blue door leading out of the room in daze. 'What was going on? Is this what normally happens in a dungeon floor? Then why wasn't I informed?' I muttered to myself.

I pulled off my bulging backpack from my back and turned it over, there was a small hidden zip there. I zipped it open to reveal a white customized glock19 pistol, with an iron case by the side.

I took out the pistol which was already loaded and cocked it, then tucked it into my pants. Then I took out the iron case and opened it up to reveal rows of black 9mm bullets stacked in an organized manner.

This was something special I got from omega Gary before the empress arrived. I stuffed the iron case into one of my multiple pockets in my tactical pant.