After roughly walking for about an hour, we arrived as far as we did yesterday.
"Shresta, what time is it right now?"
"Let's see... it's about 12 noon right now..."
"Okay lets take a break before continuing our walk"
Said Kim Jaesuk.
While on the way here, we decided to get to know each other, and I found out about our new member of the group. The guy with medicine knowledge is called Adrian, an Asian who has long hair that looks like emo style, covering a side of his face. He also wear a round glasses.
The two girls are siblings called Anna and Cindy. They're both ABC like me, but they're still in high school. Both of them were in the track team back at school, so I expect them to have a lot of stamina.
And lastly, the lady with the kid. The lady's name is Raissah, and the kid's Jova. I honestly think that they not gonna make it out of here just based on how tired they look like right now. And it's not like we can keep taking break just because of them.
Kim Jaesuk even piggy backed the kid while walking, but the lady seems to get tired rather quickly.
While sitting on nearby rocks, I eat some bread and drink water just enough to make me not hungry. Other people did the same too, as even they realised that they have to save as much supply as possible.
We also brought all the kitchen utensils like knifes, forks, and each of the men are holding a wooden stick. There was two knives, but the other one went missing with the other group that got wiped out.
Finishing up our break, we decided to continue walking further into the forest.
I'm not even sure if we're ever gonna get out of here, but we still keep on walking onward for hours, with a few breaks within.
The sun then started to set and it becomes not as bright as before.
(rustle...)
Just as we're about to take a break, we suddenly heard a noise coming nearby.
Kim Jaesuk suddenly ran towards where the sound comes from, followed by me and everyone. We then realised that he's staring blankly at something, which prompt us to look towards where he's looking at.
There stood a couple of deer, big and small. Probably an adult and a kid.
"Hey... that's a deer right?"
Anna asked.
"Ye... yeah... I think so..."
I replied while stuttering. It just comes as a shock to me to find an animal after walking for hours inside this forest.
I then remembered something that I read from a web novel, and then said to everyone:
"Guys, I think we should walk a bit more"
"Ehh?"
"Since there's an animal here, it means that a water stream should be nearby, or that's what I read in a book in the past"
Everyone then widened their eyes and agreed to walk around the area to look for said stream.
After walking for ten minutes or so, we finally found a stream of water. We also saw couple of deers along the way, which makes it easier for us to found this place.
I then dashed toward the water trying to scoop some with my hand to drink it. Just as I was about to drink it, Shresta suddenly shouted from behind.
"Alex, don't drink it directly!"
"Eh what?"
"You can't!"
"Why?"
"See the water? There's fish living inside, which means the water might contains germs and parasites. If you drink it directly like that, you might get sick"
"Wha... I didn't knew that. How're we supposed to drink it then..."
When I said that, Shresta suddenly taking out a cloth from his bag, he also started gathering some stones which he said will be used to filter the water.
Everyone seems interested by what he's doing, including me, and started paying attention.
In just a minute or so, He succeed in making a water filter out of stones found on the ground, a piece of cloth, and a bottle of water cut into two.
"You're quite knowledgeable about this kind of stuff huh... Come to think of it, you even know how to tell the time just by looking at the sky"
Kim Jaesuk said.
"Umm yeah, I kinda like camping back when I was a kid, so I remembered some simple stuff"
"That's amazing isn't it! I'm so glad that you're here..."
"Tha... thanks"
"Guysssss... Look at what we found!"
I was listening to Kim Jaesuk praising Shresta when suddenly Cindy shouted at us from afar.
"I think we can spend the night here..."
When I heard that, I ran over excitedly. Look and behold, its a cave! One that looks like from anime and manga where people spend their night in a forest!
I can't believe that I'm getting excited over this.
After talking about it to the other, we agreed to spend the night here.
When the night fall, we were about to sleep when Shresta started putting something on the cave's entrance.
"What's that?"
I asked.
"Oh this? It's like an alarm, so when they touch this it will make a sound to alert us. Just in case..."
"Ahh okay..."
No one really talked about anything tonight, maybe because everyone's just tired after walking for the whole day.
I then proceed to close my eyes, going into a deep sleep.
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(cling cling...)
(cling cling...)
I woke up to the sound of the alarm that Shresta made.
Opening up my eyes, I look at the entrance.
Raissah, the lady with the kid, is going out with Jova. I guessed they probably are just going to take a piss or something. So I didn't bother to say anything and went back to sleep.
...
Not sure how long has passed,
"Kyaaaakk!!!"
"!!!"
"Wha-what happened??"
Suddenly everyone woke up thanks to the scream coming from outside, including me.
I quickly took a look around and realised that the lady with the kid still hasn't come back yet.
Kim Jaesuk got up straight away and started running towards the entrance bringing his knife followed by me.
"What was that.."
"No idea but not something good for sure"
Out of the cave, it's not as dark as I thought. Probably because of the moon but we still can see quite far.
"Where did the voice came from earlier?"
"Lets split into two groups. Andy and Martin go that way while I'm going this way with Jaesuk, the other stay here and keep looking out"
I said while pointing at the opposite way of where me and Kim Jaesuk are going.
"Shit, its my fault..."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw them went out earlier, but I thought they were just going to take a piss or something. I should've went with them"
We looked around and still haven't been able to find them. As we're trying to look again, Andy shouted at us.
"Alexxxx... Jaesukkk, come here!"
"What is it?"
"Look here..."
Pointing at a certain direction, we saw a body. It's the body of the lady which is almost unrecognisable due to how badly its been tore apart.
"What the fuck...."
I muttered under my breath.
Kim Jaesuk then said,
"Let's go back..."
"Yeah..."
Everyone agreed straight away.
Arriving back at the cave, everyone started asking what happened.
They were horrified hearing that the lady is now dead while the kid is missing.
"Looking at the state of the corpse, there's no way the kid's still alive"
"No- no way..."
Kim Jaesuk concluded.
"It wasn't that dark outside, so we should get moving now. Start packing up your stuff and get your wooden stick ready"
"No-now?"
"Yes, do it quickly"
Once again, Kim Jaesuk made a decision on our behalf. No one wanted to go against it anyway since it's the right course of action, or at least everyone think so.
After packing up all our stuff, we started walking towards the trees once again.
We walked in two live, with me and Kim Jaesuk in the front, Anna and Cindy behind us, Adrian and Shresta, then Andy and Martin at the back.
While walking, we stayed on alert at all times. Looking around, holding a wooden stick each on us while Kim Jaesuk has his knife, the atmosphere is very tense right now.
"Shresta, can you tell what time is it right now?"
"Umm, sorry I'm not sure because its this bright even though its supposed to be night time"
"Ahh.. okay no worries..."
"..."
While everyone's on high alert right now, I'm just glad that everyone's trying to calm themselves down instead of panicking.
(ssskkk)
When thinking of what's going to happen next, I suddenly heard a sound coming from our right.
"Ahhh..."
Turning my head over, I saw a big white wolf standing there looking at us.