After a long night setting up base and clearing hostiles around the perimeter, like any others, Hans also felt tired. But he would usually stayed up late with his friends, but that night, he felt something, something wrong with his body, it started shaking with sweat flowing like river, it's heating up, he felt like having a fever
"Uhm....guys.....I don't feel so good....." Hans said softly, gaining some worries from his friends.
"Hans? Are you alright?" Leo asked him
"No...I think I need to lay down a bit.....or maybe sleep early today" said as he logged out the game and immediately lay down his back onto the bed and felt asleep.
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*HANS POV*
As soon as I fell to sleep, I began feeling like...letting my body flowing through space. There's only silence, I felt peaceful, so peaceful that I want to stay like this forever. But a sudden fear appeared, "does this feel like I'm dead?" I thought to myself. I tried to forget it but it kept coming back, the fear started to get clearer and clearer. I began to freak out, I tried to wake up but in no vail. Slapping, biting, hitting myself in my subconscious, I did everything but it's useless. I felt pain, wait, pain?! How could I feel pain in dream?! There's must be something wrong about this.
Then, a single dot light appeared in my view.
"What's that?" I mumbled as I getting closer to it. "How did you get closer to it?" you asked. Well, it's more like I swam through space to it.
During the way, I also spotted an astronaut....or something like that. It has shape of a bean with two legs, no arm, wearing red space suit and it flowed pass me, unmoving.
"Seems like red is still sus" a chuckle came from myself as I continued my way
A few minute later and I finally reached the light source, it was a portal actually, the size of a human being. A few ponder moment later, I decided.
"Well, I have nothing to do here. Here's go nothing"
I went through the portal....
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*birds chirping*
"Birds chirping?!" I woke up immediately
"Hah! I'm not dead. YES! HELL YEA! I'M NOT..." I joyfully screamed as I swung my arm around but the joy was cut short as I have a look of my arms and slowly to my naked body or .....
"sk...skeleton?!"
I then looked around the room and soon realized
"Wtf?...This's not my room"
I'm sitting on a bunk bed, to my right is a nightstand table, there's a mirror on it, I took it to have a look of my face. All I see is a skeleton skull looking me back.
I sat down on the bunk bed again, thinking. I finally calm down after minutes passing by and came up with a conclusion
"This gotta be the worst nightmare I've ever had"
I looked at the nightstand table again, I opened its drawer and there's a pistol, a Luger to be exact.
"A gun? *smirk* Don't mind if I do" I grabbed it
There's also a cabinet in the corner, I opened it too, and it's full of uniform...
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"Hmmmmmmm....Hmmmmmmm....HMMMMMMMM....."
"Alright, guess what? I gonna wear it. No one gonna know...hehehe..."I grinned
After a few minutes, I finally got it on.
"Not gonna lie, the German always got da drip, eh" I mumbled to myself.
I ran to the mirror again. I looked at myself for so long, I admire every bit of it.
"Okay...I changed my mind. This gotta be the coolest nightmare I've ever had"
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*TING*
"Hey host, you're finally awake" a feminine voice rang up, caught me off guard
"Vas? Wh...Who's there?" I asked with caution
"It's me. I'm behind the WHOLE TIME!" the voice whispered in a creepy way which made me panic, trying to look for the source of the voice
*giggle*"You're cute, host. I'm sorry, I'll stop, introduction time. I'm Tetra by the way, an Artificial Intelligence, ready at your service."
"Okay, an AI you said? Like a system or something?" said as I finally calm down
"You could say so" Tetra replied
"Hmm...Let me guess...stat?" I said out loud
Not too much surprise, a screen appeared right in front of me, showing all necessary information such as my name, health, stamina, mana, level, money, etc. Except for the skill and title, they showed none, seems like I'll have them later in the future.
"Wow, You adapted quite quick, host" Tetra complimented
"Nah, it's nothing, I read too much web novel to know how all these things work. And...you could call me Hans. I feel strange being called 'host'"
*Vrmmm* *Vrmmm* *Vrmmm*
"Anyway...What are those noise? It start to get on my nerve"
Said as I got out of the room, rushed through the hall to the outside of the building. Now, I'm surprised. Soldiers and tanks of all sizes and types were seen strolling around the familiar base, well, the FOB base that I've been setting up with the boys recently to be exact. I then tried to approach a Pz.II F, seems crazy but I gotta try it out if it's one of my boys.
"Oi! Excuse me, mate!" I yelled at the tank
The turret of the Pz.II slowly turned and pointed it cannons at me, a shiver ran down my spine at that point. So, this is how it feel to be aimed at by a tank, huh?
"Uh...Do you by any chance se..."
*Ratatatata*
"Fuck! Shit! Okay, that's the boys"
"Hey! HEY! CHILL! CHILL! IT'S ME! HANS!" I yelled again at the tank
It finally stopped shooting at me as a voice sounds like from a radio rang out from it.
"Hans? Admin? Oh shit....I'm sorry. I...I didn't know!" The panzer hurriedly replied
"Oh ho ho....You apologized? Our modders worked their ass off for these NPC mods and you just wander around and shoot them. You know you could be ban for this, don't you komerad?" I spoke coldly with a grin which send a shiver down the spine of whoever control that panzer.
"Yes, yes, I know. I promise...I promise it won't happen again. Please, Hans, I can't stand waiting the ban to be over"
"Yea, you should, komerad."
"Umm...Uh...Hans? Are you playing with a mod now?"
"Ja, why do you ask?"
"Uuhhh...Nothing, just asking, cuz I heard that you were off early today..."
"Oh...about that, 'tis but a scratch, komerad. Nothing much to worry about, a short nap is enough for me to get back on the game"
"Okay...So, do I still have the ban?"
"Nein...you want it, komerad?"
"No no no...of course not"
"Good then, now,where are the other admins?"
"Uh...They all actually went offline after you did"
"They what? Okay, that's strange. By the way, thanks for help. And...remember your promise"
"I will"
"Good" said as I headed my way back to the building again.
"Hans, I think you should check Discord" Tetra suddenly suggested me
"Wait, you have Discord? Let me see"
As I was about to check it, I received a familiar sound
*discord call*
"Hello? Hello?! Hans! Do you copy?"
"Leo?! Yea...Yea I heard you, loud and clear"
"Good god, Hans. Hey...look, this gonna sounds crazy but hear me out. I think I got isekaied, mate. A...And the others are here too. Everybody is..."
"Wow wow wow, hold your horse right there, slow down buddy. What do you mean 'the others are here too'? You mean Jack, Tom, Ivan, James are here too?"
"Yes! They are all here with me at the war room. Come quick!"
"Alright! I'm on my way!" Said as I rushed as fast as possible to the war room where our friends gathered there.
Opening the double doors of the war room as I headed inside. Waiting for me from the other side is 5 skeletons in different uniforms sitting around a table, they turned their skulls and looked at me.
"Hello there" all 5 of them said with some chuckle
"Uuuuuhhhhh..."
"I know, I know, you look confused. Let me explain" Jackson said
Jackson explained everything happened to 'em. Surprisingly, it happened to be the same to my situation, from having fever to waking up on a bunk bed in the skeleton form , our mind were also all connected to Tetra, an AI as it called itself. The thing is this all happened to them on the day of the attack (chap 5) and me, Leo are the last to know about this.
After Jackson's explanation, I sat on the chair, looking at the ceiling, bewildered by the situation. While the others wandered around the room, talking to each other. Some just tested things out with Tetra if she got any more functions on her.
"Is this something done by gods? Could we go back? What are we going to face out there? Do we come back after death just like in game? Man...I want answers" asked me still wondering
As if my demands were answer, Tetra announced.
"Okay, everyone! I got messages from someone you guys need to meet" she said as a hologram of a woman in her shiny robe appeared in the middle of the table, startled everyone. Startled not by her sudden appear but by the gorgeous beauty that she got, nothing can compare to her.
"Greeting saviors! I'm Leia Lara - the guardian of this part of the universe. I apologized for your sudden summons, but please...hear me out. Some of my worlds are about to be corrupted by an unknown inevitable disaster. Please, saviors, help me identify and stop it on time before everything get much worse."
In front of the urgent demand of the beautiful woman, we could only look at each other, wondering what we should do about the demand. A few days before, we are just some guys spending time playing games with each other. And now, we received an important mission from a guardian herself, not to say a god.
At that point, we made up our mind, we couldn't do anything else except accepting it. Because...it's not just that simple that we could decline and go back to our normal life.
"Miss Leia, I...I mean we...we accept your demand. But...what are your offers, 'mam? We couldn't just do it for free, right boys?" I smiled nervously while saying that.
"*sign*mortals..." Leia mumbled
"Very well, saviors...what's on your mind?" she continued
"Actually...it's not something too much, miss Leia. Uuhhh..." I looked back at the boys, seeing they all nodded.
"Uhm...We just simply want answers, honest answers, miss Leia"
Leia was surprised which baffled us.
"That's just it?!"
"Uh...yea"
"I thought you mort...saviors would want more than that like eternal richness, eternal life or something else.... Nevermind, I'll answer your questions"
A few Q&A moment later, we got a summary of everything we should know. First of all, good news, we're not dead, for now, HOORAAYY!!! But if we died in this world, we died in real life. Secondly, talking about real life, we're just having a peaceful sleep while standing here our souls in the skeleton forms; if we want to go back, we just simply go to sleep and tell Tetra to log us out, just like in game and we would just wake up in our real world; but we have to be aware of our time as the time in this world is slower twice or thrice than the real world. And lastly...*clear throat* WE GOT THE POWER OF GAIJIN AND WARGAMING!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
"Alright, I think we have everything we need" I announced, looking at the boys as they nodded. I then turn to Leia
"And also I sincerely thank you for your answers, miss Leia"
"I'm glad that you're happy. Now, farewell, saviors. I hope you all have a safe adventure" said as Leia's hologram disappeared
After that, we just looked at each other, no one spoke a word. But then, I was the one break the silence.
"You boys're ready to roll out?" I spoke with a wide grin on my face
And all I received is the same grin and smirk on their face.
"Heh...I'll take that as a yes then"
END OF THE CHAPTER