It has been week already since I'm here, or 5days actually since I'm out of small white room.
Rain keep pouring outside the cave.
Fortunately the wind aren't that strong so the water didn't come inside the cave. The caves wasn't very deep to begin with, if strong wind blew, those inside will completely wet.
I've already tried my best to cover up the entrance with 'wall' or it supposed to be called. Neither I can do anything about it, without the sufficient tools, I already do my best making those walls.
Those wall only made from wooden branch that I collect, I put the the branch vertically while the bottom part buried little, few branch as support, I also start adding the horizontal one and then put it together with vines. After the simple frame done, I began covering it up with leaf similar to coconut/palm trees leaf, but it definitely not coconut or palm.
I also covered the bottom part with mud, I put little effort at the front while the same cases cannot be on the inside. I need to keep warm at night so must make it higher to block the wind, that was just simple survival crafting. Afterall I also like to watch random videos on internet other than reading novel and manga or play game.
Ah did I already mentioned that I doesn't have proper tools? all my tools are my hand, rock, my feet, my knee, my own weight. There no saw, knife, ropes, shovel, or anything.
All i have after being 'transported' here 5days ago is just 3 items inside personal storage or 'inventory' in game terms. My personal storage only can contain 5 slot, and 4 slots already being used up since beginning.
One is Bo'oh'o'wa'er which can contain 20L of water which' in fact, the size only looked like 500or600ml bottle. The unfortunate thing is that the inside only contains 2 and half litre of water.
Second item was map and compass, yes it set item. It didn't come independently so it only used up single slots. From my knowledge, this item was random one, someone say they got different things on chat. Yep, there chat function after getting out from small white room, that also one of features that being unlocked. I am just one of background reader, never once type anything. From there, I also know that everyone being transported to different place, completely random. I will talked about it more later!
As the third item, this was the most annoying one.
It is reward from completing mission on small white room, what the items you say? Nothing...
I thought the rewards are nothing which means you didn't get anything even if completing it, but who thought that the item called Nothing is the rewards. I tried to dispose it when I opened inventory for the first time, but who thought that this item cannot be disposed?
I try trowing it away but it come back to inventory, I try trowing it with all might I have, but nothing changes.
I tried hitting it with rock, but this thing seems indestructible.
I gave up shortly after, well at least I still can use it as a hammer when I needed it, because it harder than rock.
The fourth one just foods, small bag of bread contain 20 piece bread inside it.
I'm from Asia, it really strange for me eating breads everytime I eat. But I do not have choice didn't I? after all I'm being transported to the forest.
It still keep Raining outside, even though it not heavy as before. The problems is with the small rain like this, it can last long enough usually. it definitely will be bad news for me tonight, I glanced at firewood at the corner.
'i don't think that enough...'
'it getting darker outside'
I quickly went out the caves to pick up the water bottle.
outside the cave, there is another crude craftsmanship that I call water collectors, its crude because it can't withstand strong wind or heavy rain. It either blown away by the wind completely or the leaf that being used to collect the water cannot withstand too much water, its already hard for me finding those wide leaf inside the forest.
"it not even full yet even though it's raining all day"
I went back inside the cave shortly after, and starting to prepare making fire. On the first day, I struggled so much to make fire, making fire with the stick really not easy as it seems. Until I gave up because it become too dark, the fortune thing is that I began looking for shelter first as the priority on the first day. so its not too cold at night, even though I feel like I can die at any moment, I can't even sleep well because of animal sounds. The only good thing about this forest are there no mosquito or I might suffer more.
I grab my tools to make fire after arrange the place for the campfire itself, the tools I refer is just stick with 'rope' that connect at every end. It looks like small bow, but of course it not strong enough to be used as a bow. The rope just made by the simplest vines afterall, it called Bow Drill as far I remember, there also specific type of wood being chosen for the fireboard, I just collect bunch and trying it one by one since I don't know which one it is.
I can make fire under five minutes with correct tools nowdays. with fire being made I start preparing the dinner, I picked up two fish from 'fish stick' at the corner and grabbing another branches and start grilling the fish. The 'Fish Sticks' that i talked about is just wood branch with five fish being stabbed by the branch.
Where the fish come from you say? It comes from river of course. I didn't find the river by accident or I try looking it with map, I search for river on purpose on day 2. I search river because of two purpose; one is for water, because I only had limited water supply, I don't know how long it will last, second for foods.
Fish is your source of meat if you doesn't have proper tools to make trap to catch animals in the forest, and honestly..I don't know how to make animal trap, all I know is how to dig a pit but without tools what I can do?
So on day 2 after breakfast done, I try looking for higher ground first by climbing a tree, I know how to climb! I'm not city guy afterall. while at the same times' I keep checking the map, I keep changing my direction while visiting place where I suspect was the river. I keep doing it untill almost noon, but I gave up later before it becomes too dark and I can't make fire again.
Fortune thing that the map had a bookmark function, or I might forget where I came even though I have a compass.[1]
The map not all that mighty to be honest, it can only cover up range of 10 kilometres around me as starting point. so it is just 10 to the north, east, west and south. And it was 2D image from sky point of view, so almost all I see just green colour which cames from tree.
Only on day 3 I managed to find the river, it located up to 15 kilometres south east from the caves I stay. And because the sun still hanging high above my head in the sky, I decided going to the river.
When I came back' it almost dark, fortune enough I'm not wasting so much time at the river, other than filling up the water bottle Iam just take a quick bath. I also didn't forget while I'm at the river checking map to see if any place suitable become shelter, I chose few suitable potential spot but I'm not checking it out yet.
Journey back to cave takes almost 4hours, I can say that the distance from cave to river are barely 15 kilometres if there was straight line. But since it is my first time, and tryna figured out way to get there, it takes longer.
To catch Fish, all I need to do was just look for long branches/stick, make it into spear. The water in the river so clear, it makes easy to spot the fish. Even though I cannot catch single one after few hours on the first try.
After that, I just limit my fish catching, I'm limiting it for 1fish stick each day with each fish stick can contain 5 to 6 fish. I didn't plan to leave the forest yet in the sort period afterall, so I can't exhaust the fish and I don't have space to store it anyway. Fish cost independent slot if I try storing it to inventory, that why I never used inventory for it.
Back to the caves, the smoke from campfire wasn't much issues even though the caves not really that high, when making the 'wall' I also made sure to leave lot of empty space so that the smoke can get out, or else I might die because lack of oxygen.
As I say, the caves not that deep but the good thing is that the cave still have enough space for me to manuver. The high was barely 2 metres high, and the wide also 2 metres, I made the fire near the entrance but not so close at the same time, incase there a heavy rain.
Inside the cave, other than 'tools', there fish sticks, firewood, some wide leaf, and that about it...As for my bedding are just made of the same material as caves wall, the leaf that similar to coconut and palm. I only pick the one that dry and still attached to the tree itself, I didn't picked up any dry leaf at the ground, there usually insects on it.
It might little uncomfortable, but at least it still better than sleeping directly above dirt.
Anyway, my dinner almost done. While waiting for me eating, let me explain about world structure since I haven't explain it yet. The settings of the world are Middle ages with the Royals and Nobles with fantasy aspect, but there nothing like beasts roaming freely around the world, you could say that the world are 'safe'. So that why, even though I'm being transported to the forest, I haven't being killed yet.
Someone on chat explain it few day back, the beast are actually extinct and considered as rare items. He didn't explain more though, seems like the people who had access to the related knowledge keeping it for themselves, well that understandable.
As for people like myself, someone lucky enough being assigned with the 'role'. Some become noble, there many people bragging about it on chat even if they ware merely Baron or noble without territory (title only noble) from there I also become to understand about territory around the forest.
There are 3 kingdom bordering the forest where I'm currently at, which was Tian, Hati, and Rimosa kingdom. My situation will be really bad if the kingdom at war, fortunately that there no active war taken place. So at least I'm safe for now.
While I say that it was Fantasy world, there actually not much about it. There no status checked function, there no skills tree function, the only fantasy aspect probably was just the world itself which the monster already become extinct species, chatting function which only contains regional channel, personal storage function, and lastly was mission.
Yes! fortunately there was mission! but the mission didn't comes like cabbages, the one who get mission are completely random. I already five days here, but never once I get my hand on mission.
After eating the dinner I takes a peek outside the caves, fortunately the rain was stopping.
I began lie down on the bed next and opened chatting features.
there nothing interesting, just people talking about what they ware doing today. There also chatter noble flirting with girls, or another noble insulting each other which was part of different countries.
I was just going to close it and go to sleep instead, before someone say something interesting.
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[19:37] Roy: HOLY SH*T!! when I doing mission in the forest today...
it stated that the person with the Nickname Roy, he going to the forest to collect some specific herbs and mushroom which was mission that he got in the morning. He went deep to the forest for the first time, at first he was so scared, but it went well after that. That until he finally done with the mission and wanted to go back to the village, but he actually forgotten which direction he come from. He started to panicked and feel uneasy, he walk with uncertain, that untill he heard cracking sound at the distance. Roy instinctively turned his head to direction of the sounds, and began gluping. Glup! he was being followed!
Without thinking much, Roy began running with all his might. Whole the thing that following him also start charging at his direction. Roy didn't dare to look back or he might die if he turned back to look, all he know was the thing was heavy, the ground seems experience small earthquake when it running. Roy also explained that the thing was very big.
Of course the story itself being exaggerated by Roy, that what I got after filtering his story.
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[19:39] Navi: Lol...Boy that thing called wild BOAR, it's not Magical Beast like you thought of...
[19:39] Sun: Keke..I bet he pee on his pants
[19:39] Loyal: pft... doesn't someone already say that Beasts already extinct? but well it still good story 7/10
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Many more people ridiculed him, but there also few people who curious about it.
[19:40] Baron Stinx: Where?
[19:40] Tom: Where?
Where?
Where?
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I also thought the thing that Roy encounter was wild boars, and it was just psychological effects that happen to him because he scared. Anyway neither I can do anything about it even if I know the location, the forest where I'm currently at really so vast and I don't even know where Im current at, on which kingdom.
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[1] After review the chapter, this was seems contradictory with the fact that MC having really good memories. But, it actually makes a sense because it was noon(almost dark) and the MC just looking around without paying attention to surroundings.
Even pro might be struggle to find way if it getting dark