"It's strange but comforting, I think the way forward from now on would be to make my own tools and be as self-sufficient as possible, or at least with the basics..."
I put everything away and got ready to go outside again.
...
//fuosh//
"Brrr I need warmer clothes."
i walked to a tree near the river
'withdraw stone axe x1'
//cut/// //cut// //cut/// //cut///
fall... crash!
"keep it in inventory."
[warning: the item is too big to fit normally in the inventory do you want to break it down into resource 'wood']
"then I can't keep something too big in the inventory, good to know now, yes, break the tree into wood."
[acquired: wood x25]
"hey... so a tree gives me 25 wood, let's chop down some more before we go back"
moving on to the next tree I repeated the process and started felling.
cut/// //cut// //cut///
fall... crash!
'decompose the tree and put it away'.
[received]
so I kept on chopping and chopping until I reached the sum of 150 wood and my poor stone axe lost its edge and my hands started to go numb.
"haa~ how tiring... at a time like this I could use a good glass of water.... Water? ah that's right, the main reason I came to the river was to fetch water!"
'I can't believe I'd be so stupid to forget something like that...'
breaking down and putting away the last tree I cut down I approached the riverbank and carefully placed my foot on it.
'it's a bit slippery, from what I can see it should be about 7 or 8 centimeters thick, this ice'.
taking the wooden axe with force I hit the ice leaving a spider web pattern
break...
Still not enough... I need to hit harder to break this ice.
hitting several times with the stone axe I finally managed to access the water underneath so as a celebration and to replenish my energy I drank from it until I was full.
"withdraw steel pot x1"
I filled the pot with water and then put it away again.
[steel pot with water x1].
"hm? what is that?"
just below where I took out the water I see something moving it looks like... a crab, but with four claws instead of two.
"a crab... let's see if the old method of irritating them works."
'remove wooden stake x1'
I made these things to use as javelins however when I put them away it showed them as stakes, now I'm using one to hit the crab and annoy it, it's almost as big as the rabbit and it looks like its shell is very hard.
//grab//
"that's it boy, I got you!"
with a strong pull upwards the crab flies up into the sky for a moment before it safely entangles itself against the snow next to me.
"haha you're in pretty bad shape don crab, you landed on your back!"
withdrawing another stake from the inventory I drove it hard through the crab's stomach finishing it off.
[you have killed a level 0 mutant beast].
[acquired: wooden box x1]
'was it a level 0 mutant beast? wow, i didn't know.. maybe there aren't even normal animals in this place'.
'well.. that's ok too, I think, keep the crab and the wooden box in the inventory please'."
[Received]
with a flash the crab arrived to my inventory, I'll see what to do with it later, now it was time to go back and prepare a fire, at this moment I urgently needed some warmth.
...
already in the shelter I prepared a stone bottom so as not to burn the wooden floor and surrounded it with more stones to prevent a burning branch from falling.
I used a thick branch and split it into several parts before arranging them together with many twigs and several wood chips that I used as tinder before making a small flame with friction and placing it carefully on the tinder in the center of the fire, and so it burned... the fire in the fire grew little by little until it reached a good height and illuminated the dark and empty room.
"haa~ I needed this.. haha this stuff about hunting camps finally saved my ass from freezing to death."
warming myself with the warmth of the campfire, I could finally relax.
these hours have been a scandal... first the news kept announcing about that stupid virus and the increase in cases of 'police violence' against those 'poor sick people', then those voices all over the world calling themselves gods announcing some kind of evolution in the world...'.
"and now I'm here... stuck who knows where, freezing in a stupid survival game and for what? I have no F*cking clue".
I couldn't help but huddle closer to the fire as I sank into my thoughts.
'my friends and my brothers are annoying but they are smart... I think they will be fine, I wonder if any of them came at the same time as me or if they will come later, I remember this thing said that more players would join later and also that family members would be placed near the previous players'.
"I have to prepare this place for when they arrive, otherwise I'm sure they're going to give me a very annoying lecture haha."
In the time I spent remembering what I left in the real world the fire was slowly consuming the wood I had so I put some more in finally realizing that it had been a while since I had stood by the campfire.
"Speaking of before... I still haven't opened the boxes I won when I killed the rabbit and the crab."
'remove 'wooden box x2'
with this two identical wooden boxes appeared next to me.
[do you want to open: wooden box x2?]
"yes, open the boxes"
[purchased: box of stock cubes x1 and porcelain soup bowl x1]
[purchased: empty bucket x2]
"hmm... it's not that bad, although it could have been better".
'show me how long before the chat opens'.
[0 hs: 38 min: 22 secs]
"it's almost time..."