The forest was starkly different from the nearby outpost he just came from. In the outpost, there was a lot of noise and a bustling scenario as human life in the settlement forged on, but the usually lively forest with plenty of animal sounds was deathly silent.
In truth, most of the world was like this, according to what Dante had researched pre-descent. If you heard a noise in the wild, that was rather a horrifying indicator of immense danger and incoming demise.
This was exactly why the pets were a thing. Spending 30 days in scenes like this would not do well for the mind, so the cute and lively pets with near-human intelligence and expressions were meant to be a buffer for the average student.
Dante walked through the shrubs and bushes, pushing them aside casually as he walked forward. His Kalashnikov was held before him, as he preferred to use that first rather than the M4A1 for reasons relating to reliability.
