“Huff…huff”
The man regretted his choice after climbing a few meters.
At first, he thought that it would be like any other cliff, but when he began climbing, the texture was closer to soft earth than rock.
That made it harder for him to establish his footing. He had to dig his nails and feet into the wall like a mole to climb up.
Doing this was several times more challenging than rock climbing. He also needed to worry if the wall could carry his weight.
The man desperately climbed the wall, forcing him to endure the pain due to using fingers to dig into the walls.
How much farther would he need to go? He thought.
Suddenly, the scaffolding on his right foot collapsed.
“Shhh!”
The man could barely escape falling by extending his arms and desperately hanging on the wall, but he felt the pain from his shoulder like they were about to break.
The man bit his lips.
The smell of his blood was not enough to distract him from the pain taking over his body.
“Huhup… Whoo …Whoa … Whoo … … .”
He held his breath for a second, to try and control down his breathing, then he reached out once more.
And in the end, the man was able to climb the cliff.
He collapsed on the floor without any time to look around.
“Ugh… Heo… … .”
How long has it been since he tried his best to do something like that?
It was odd; he felt accomplished despite the desperate situation he was in. He looked up at the dark sky and was relieved.
He felt so relaxed that the pee he’d been holding in finally burst.
“hmpf … … .”
The man raised his body, and only then was he able to look around.
“Huh?”
At that moment, the man panicked. He noticed that he was at the edge of a massive jungle; it was unlike anything he had seen before.
He rubs his eyes and looks again.
“How did this happen?”
The man had many more questions in his head, but he had a more urgent problem.
“Grr… … .”
After relieving himself, he began to feel his hunger emerge.
He checks the GPS on his phone, but it’s still not working.
“Should I turn off the power first?”
He heard that turning one’s phone on and off consumes more battery life, but he couldn’t recall where he heard it from.
The man then thought that his phone might run out of power while in the jungle, so he decided to turn it off in the meantime.
But before he could turn it off, his phone beeped.
“Oh!”
The man hurriedly opened the message.
Start the tutorial.
1. Let’s practice the basics of combat.
―Collect five rat meat. (0/5)
“… … .”
The man was confused for a moment by the unknown message. However, it’s arrival meant there was a signal.
He quickly checked his phone for signal bars, but none had appeared.
“What the hell… … .”
He walked around, trying to find an area with coverage, but then he saw something.
A red light slowly emerged from the jungle and showed itself before the man. He rubbed his eyes because something must’ve been wrong with them.
“… … .”
The man closed his eyes and slowly opened them.
In front of him was a giant mouse with overwhelming red eyes. It seemed to be the size of a puppy.
Only after unconsciously swallowing his saliva did he recall the message he received.
“Five… rat meat?”
“Does it mean I have to defeat that monster rat? But how?”
His only weapon was a multi-tool that looked like a toy.
He hurriedly dug around his pocket to get his multi-tool, but the monster rat attacked before his hand even found it.
“Ugh!”
The man failed to avoid the blow and fell, and then he felt the rat-bite into his forearm.
“Ahh!”
He shook his arm in a sharp pain like a fire, but the monster rat was like a parasite that did not intend to release his arm from the teeth.
The man thought that he would go insane from the pain.
“What would have happened if I hadn’t reflexively swung my arm?”
Perhaps the rat would’ve sunk its sharp teeth on his neck instead if so he would have died.
“Oh, ah, ah!”
The man stretched out his hand and, using a hard stone, crushed the rat’s head.
Puck!
Was it finally losing its grip? The man let go of the rock as soon as it hit the monster’s head.
Kiric! Kick! Kiririk!
Strange sounds came out from the monster rat. It sounded almost like a laugh.
The man was forced to endure the pain in his arm, which felt like it would fall off. He moved it again when he found something that could become a weapon. That time, he held a branch in his hand.
He was afraid to hold a tree branch, which as thick as his two fingers, so he held it upside down and stared at the eyes of a monster rat as if he were going down with an awl.
When he finally moved the palm of his hand, the monster rat, with a loud cry, finally released his arm.
“Okay…”
The man got up and leaving the rat that attacked him on the ground. He used his other hand to help himself up.
As he looked around, he found a small boulder, he lifted it with both hands and approached the monster rat struggling with pain.
“This damn little mouse…”
The man stepped on the struggling monster rat with one foot and smashed its head using the small boulder in his hands
puck!
Kiririk!
A dull sound rang out, and the monster rat cried out louder, struggling to escape his feet.
When the man saw that, he was overwhelmed with unknown madness.
“Die! Die! Dying what!”
Twice, three times.
The man hit the mice with rock like crazy.
What state was the rat in?
The man dropped the rock down after discovering a dead body completely disintegrated under his feet.
With the blood dripping down his nose, the man realized what he had done.
“Ueup…
Nausea had finally caught up. The sour gastric juice came up from his stomach because he still had not eaten.
“Okay…”
When the burning pain from stomach acid reached his throat, the man frowned and turned his head.
A moment later, the man just recalled the content of the message from the previous cell phone.
“Rat meat… five…”
Considering that it was said to be five rat meat, not a rat, it means you had to cut off the meat part of the rat.
However, the man shook his head and screamed at the sky.
“Who are you! Come out, you motherfucker!”
The fact that someone sent a message, and then the monster mouse appeared according to the content meant that someone was watching him.
He understood the English language, but he can’t blindly follow some anonymous text.
Then, as if answering his cry, he saw a red line coming from the jungle.
“Damn… “
He was still recuperating when four more rats arrived.
No matter how brave a person was. There was a limit to how much he could take.
Kirik! Kirik.!
The monster rats, while making some sort of noise, slowly approached him.
The man finally picked up the rock that he struck on the first monster rat with, but a dull, large rock was not the right choice against this slick giant rodent.
The monster rats, like skilled hunters, roamed around the man awaiting an opportunity to strike.
The same goes for the man. He was waiting thinking of a good strategy, unlike earlier the rat was already injured when he hit it with the rock.
Both parties kept their eyes peeled, waiting for someone to make the first move.
The moment he aimed at a mouse, another one jumped on the back of his neck!
Once the man became aware of this, he tried to dodge the rat; unfortunately, it managed to bite his shoulder instead.
“Great!”
Unlike before, the time location was worse. That is because it was out of sight and was inaccessible.
The man screamed and let go of the rock he was holding. Then, as if anticipating it, the other monster rats jumped at the man’s neck.
Fortunately, one missed, but the other two succeeded in putting teeth, each occupying one man’s forearm.
“Oh, no!”
The man was desperate and tried to shake off the monster rats with teeth in his body, but they clung to him, waiting for the man to get tired.