Accordingly, Cole looked up and shifted his gaze to his right side and like a miracle, he could see it..see the map embedded in a circle high up in the sky but it looked too small. He thought if only he could have a closer view of it.
And just like that..the sky enlarged, coming closer to him. Cole bought his hands forward, covering his head, dropping the M416, and fell on the ground, letting out a big outcry afraid of thinking the sky collapsing over him.
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He fell flat on the ground, covering his head with both of his hands afraid that the sky would crush him down. He closed his eyes tight, his heart thumping fastest, rapidly against his fragile chest.
The moment felt so intense as he closed his eyes, waiting for his immediate death anytime now. He never in his life that this how he was going to die. Not even in his wildest dreams.
The wind blew in the fastest speed as he could hear the 'grrrrrrrrr' sound of the enormous sky falling down onto the ground and at the same time, he could feel his death coming closer and closer.
And when after a few seconds, he felt nothing falling over him, when he did not feel something very large, infinitely heavier stuff not crushing over him, he very slowly looked up, removing the hands from his face, opening his eyes, his mouth fell open looking at what his eyes were seeing.
He closer his eyes only to open them right away and he felt like his head spinning around, or the whole wide world started rotating right in front of his eyes on seeing what he was seeing.
The sky with the map embedded in it was just about twenty-five or thirty centimeters away from his face.
This was incredible. Everything about the real three-dimensional version of the game was amazing. It was tricky only because they had never played it before in the real-life version of the game, but now when slowly and slowly they were figuring the things out, it was becoming an interesting thing.
He saw his name reflected on the map as he was viewing the map.
Crypto*Intrepid.
He shortly stood up and picked up his M416 and thanked God for not sending anyone to shot him off at least for that amount of time when he was acting all silly and afraid, trying to decide how to get a zoomed view of the map.
He ran and looked around in all the direction. The place he was right then a bit quiet and less crowded, most probably because he killed a few, some killed a dozen, and most of them headed forward unlike him who remained in the same circular place for more than ten to twenty minutes now.
He spotted a tree and decided to climb up on it and take his sweet time figuring out his present position and hopefully, they would be able to locate each other and come up with the closest destination where all of them could come and meet up.
"Guys? Can you all hear me?" Cole asked.
"Yeah."
"Yes, boss!"
"Where the hell were you?"
Chris, Matty, and Vin consecutively spoke out right after Cole completed asking his question.
"He must gave been protecting himself. " Matty answered Vin's question.
"Well, exactly. But guys I just figured out..."
"Hold on...hold on...I see Colonel Sikara." Vin interrupted Cole.
"What? What?"
"Who did you see?"
Matty's voice boomed along with Chris's bold one. Cole was shocked too. Here they were thinking that it was only them, but they were at the same time ignoring the probability that all of those who were participating in the virtual game with them could be present here too.
"Yes...yes, I just saw him. It has to be him. I mean his name is printed on his suite, Colonel Sikara. It has to be him right?" Vin elaborated.
"It has to be him because the same username cannot be used by two persons at the same time. " Chris reasoned.
"I agree. It is him. Where is he going, Vin?" Matty further asked
"I agree too. " Cole added.
"He just passed by. He did not see me or at least notice my name. " Vin said.
Colonel Sikara aka Tikal or Tikla, his real name also went to the same school as Cole and Vin. And he was a certified bully. In fact, he and his entire squad (Bhokra Patha)which included Kossoo, the squad head, Koti, and Phyko Beast all went to the same school as Cole and Vin, The Greenland Highs.
They had made fun of, cracked jokes on Cole numerous times until Cole stopped giving a damn about what they said or uttered. It was useless to get sensitive about useless talks of useless people.
They liked making fun of you because they had nothing else to do with their life and hence to keep themselves entertained and busy, they ended up bullying and offending others, much to their fun self.
"So guys as I was telling, I had figured out a way to locate ourselves. " Cole let out.
Much to his surprise when he thought that his friends would cheer him up or salute him for figuring it out before them, all he heard was the groans of annoyance and grunting of irritation.
"We know it's through the map. " Matty said.
"Yes. But we do not know how to get an enlarged view of it. " Chris added.
Cole smiled at that and he said, "I exactly figured out how to do that. "
He ran towards the big managing tree and climbed up on it. It was a little bit difficult at first because it had been a while since he climbed a tree. He stopped only when he was five feet up from the ground and hid behind a big bush of the tree.
"So where were we guys?" He asked once he was settled and made sure nobody would see him through it.
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