If time was, but time is, but time was not, is time to be, if not time could be just in time, to see time pass by time, and acknowledge the dao of time. – Some Webnovel.
"Why can't this author ever make any damn sense, how is this stuff even popular???" yelled Roland Grump at his laptop computer(1) in the middle of the eerie night. The blood moon was high in the sky and his neighbours were deep asleep but undisturbed by this peculiar existence's ramblings. Almost as if this eccentricity had been witnessed by them too many times to count, making them immune to his behaviour. Perhaps it helped that Roland lived in the middle of the Monteverde Cloud Forest.
For the love of all sane things alive, how such a whimsical human being was able to survive half an apocalypse would remain an epic mystery to the world. Yet without any other humans left alive on the isthmus, who could solve this mystery? All the world knew was that this was a forbidden zone, ever since the Curse of Panama. It all started as folklore and fairy tales of evil spirits, until large numbers of individuals were being reported missing on the isthmus between both North & South Americas. The painful cries, at night, of men & women being tortured on their last breath- yearning for eternal bliss yet being anchored to this life by 5 feet of hell(2), spread through the lands.
The fear of all things unholy, however, could not overcome the humanity, oh the acclaimed humanity that was once the foundation of the American dream. Nuked and washed asunder by terrible means the entire population of mankind on the isthmus was dealt with within 1 sleepless night. Just one line on a history book, covered in dust and hidden deep within an ever-increasing forbidden library. Man can never escape fear from the unknown, whatever caused the phenomenon ended with the destruction of the land.
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'It was fine until the 525th chapter, but then the author just had to magically make a world ending threat appear which the protagonist is preparing to deal with by going back in time and destroying the evil entities roots.
Great, I guess it is time for a new light novel to read- it's always better when they are dealing with small time threats and more gets done in the initial chapters anyway before it starts dragging out on and on and on.'
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"Why is it so difficult to find a good web novel, aaaargh if only I could ask someone else to suggest something good. Unfortunately, that's a no go, can't reveal that I'm alive here or it will put a target on my back. Let's see if I can roll a dice and whatever number I get I'll read that novel on the ranking."
'''Trring Trring'''
What was that noise, it made Roland jump from fear. He was the only one living there, the only reason he survived was that he was a hacker and was able to keep prying eyes away from the unregistered bunker beneath his home, and the fact he had gotten radiation blockers from the black market. No one else was supposed to know about him or this place. It took Roland a while to figure out where the sound came from- it was the old landline, somehow still operational.
He edged near the phone, thinking maybe it was just a hallucination, there was no way this old thing still worked. But should he answer if it rang again? Possibly, what is the worst that could happen, he could hide in the bunker at the first sign of trouble. There was a passageway underground that would take him a few miles away to another linked bunker.
'''Trring Trring'''
It rang again, breaking any hopes that this was a hallucination. Hesitantly, Roland picked up the phone.
"….. ….." ???
It was dead silent on the other end, was it just a fault in the phone?
'''SKZZZZZZZZ'''
A high pitched tearing sound came out of nowhere from the landline.
"The hell was that????" screeched Roland, rolling on the floor. His hands covering his ears, yet not slowing down the blood drizzling down his earlobes.
'Did they find me' was the last thought in Roland's mind as he lost consciousness,
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There was suddenly a bright light, it blinded Roland for a few seconds. The next thing he knew, he was outdoors, standing on a mountain peak. Looking around, his jaw dropped at the craziness of this.
"Woah this place is so cool, the scenery is awesome from up here. This wooden sword in my hand looks so realistic and I can even smell the dirt on it! I must have been dead tired to fall this deep asleep, either that or I'm dead."
A few seconds later, looking at his clothes, Roland was surprised, "Why is there so much blood around me? Ah who cares anyway, dreams don't normally make sense, I could jump off the cliff and still be fine, would probably wake me up though if I'm somehow still alive...."
'''Whoosh''' Roland suddenly felt a breeze hit his chest, it must be freezing up here. With that thought, he decided to go down to the bottom.
'''Thump''', "The hell just happened" cursed Roland as he was hit in the face by a tree on the mountain path.
"Wait, did I get here all the way from the top in just one step, what is going on?" There is no chance that this is real right wondered Roland, because if it was that would mean he was teleported to a new area and there could be danger nearby. He remembered there was blood on his clothes, "Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?????"