"This is the last time. " Vin let out.
"Yes. Last time. Man, I m tired from closing eyes and wishing the same thing over and over again." Chris vented.
Cole let out okay. He looked up at the zoomed view of his map twenty-five to thirty centimeters away from his face and thought only if he could locate his buddies. The faces of Vin, Chris, and Matty reflected in his mind because he missed them so much and suddenly a miracle happened.
A miracle that was what happened when Cole heard the sound...that familiar sound of the female who said, 'Welcome to Pubg!'
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"Your targets are located!"
"Vinyl is in the Shelter, Martgalus is in the apartment six hundred and seven, Schools and Commander amid fifty-six degrees west, twenty-five degree east of south."
Cole remained awestruck, sitting on the branch of the big managing tree. All the three red marks were highlighted on the map, the name tag propping up, a blue circle wrapped around the targets to distinguish the targets more lucidly and clearly.
His voice died inside his throat as he heard the lady and saw the map of the targets highlighted just for him.
Damn! Damn! He got it. He located all his teammates. He felt like jumping up and down, screaming out to the damn crowd and letting them know that he finally succeeded.
What more exciting was the Chris was really closer to him. In fact, he was in the same region as Cole and he just needed to walk a few distance before getting to him.
And after figuring the leftover calculation inside his mind, he could make out, in fact, Chris and him were only a mile distance away from the map all these times. He just needed to turn west and walk a few more steps and he would have had found Chris.
"Hey...Cole.Cole?"
"You there? Cole you there?"
"What did the dancing barbie say again?"
Chris, Matty, and Vin questioned with a few seconds paused right after they heard Cole going silent and the familiar voice of the female, whom all of them had heard.
But what the barbie said they could not hear it clearly. It was a bit unclear for them to listen and know plus in Chris's and Vinny's place, the surrounding was way noisy for them to hear shits clearly.
"Guys...guys I found you all. " Cole let out." I found you all guys!!! I found you all!!!"
"The fuck? How did..did you even?.."
"Damn!!! How the fuck did you..."
"Fuck all the how and when. Just tell where we are and maybe we could unite right away."
Vin interrupted Matty and Chris right away for knowing how and when was not important at that time but to know where exactly they were in located in the damn place.
He did not want to play the game of try and try again or the hit and trial method either for another zillion times only to come up with a profitable outcome the next instant.
Plus, he was a bit scared of the fact that Cole might ask them to try and locate him and they would have to do the damn thing over and over again.
Hell, they could not even get the wish to work and let them have a zoomed version of the map and only if they could do the locating of the team members, it would never be possible.
There was of course some sort of rule or briefing why their wishes were not working and only Cole's were working. It had to do something or maybe Cole unknowingly had some sort of benefits that only his wish worked well and not there's. And Cole did not know about it
But they would figure those out later, right then there the important stuff was to locate each other through the map of Cole and come up to a similar place where they can reunite again and then find a way out of this fucked up place.
It was evident from all these endless ruckuses that they all had to go through that this was not fun....the game was not fun...it was fun but not fun in this mode, the real-life, three-dimensional version. It was fun only in the virtual model.
"Chris fire your M416 up in the sky," Cole asked.
His friends were taken aback by what Cole just asked Chris to do. Why was he asking him only to fire bullets up in the sky??
While Color wanted Chris to fire up in the sky so that he could hear the noise and walk in that direction only because Chris was very close to him. At least that was what the map showed.
"You know you would not hear a damn noise even if I fire. That is how this shit works. You can hear what we say but, not the gun sounds. I mean I have been shooting for so long now, did you..did you anything?? " Chris pointed out.
"No, but then...well yeah you are saying the right thing."
Cole almost forgot about that piece of information.
"Exactly. So what now Cole?? Do you have any other alternatives??" Vin intervene.
So he jumped down from the tree and looked up at the map as he followed the direction. He thought of how-to and where and in which direction he should start walking for the north -the south-east-west direction was not written on the map.
He kept looking at the map, the targets of his friends where they were located, and reckoned of how to and where to start from now. He was never too good in handling the map thing. Plus this map really looked like those of the real life version.
But then he did what he had been doing all these times. Wished it and the result was displayed right away.
"Direction for Commander*Intrepid chained!"
"Follow the green lines for a traffic-free route. Red lines are filled with enemies. Yellow lines are semi-free, semi enemies tact. "
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