"What?" Haden said, looking very confused at our words.
"If you don't know what it is, just read the guide in the menu."
"Oh, okay." Haden sat there for a few seconds before
"Are these like a touch screen on your phone?"
"Yes"
Haden gestured his hand to click the screen invisible to us, and it seems pretty funny looking at it from another perspective.
Knowing it would take a while for him to read, I asked Jake to follow Leonard outside since we need to make a fireplace for the long term.
Using the leftover branches from the tree we chopped down, Jake made a match after I told him to make a bowdrill with his shapeshifting power, but since Jake didn't know what a bowdrill is, I had to explain it to him, which took not too much time but long enough for Haden to finish reading and digest the information from the guide.
"So I can control this floor since I became one of the co-owners. How do you even know that? Oh, by the way, the people outside are my acquaintances The woman who you saw mumbling is Marie Garcia, and the crying woman is Betty Smith, and the corpse she is crying over is her husband, Jacob Smith. He was killed by the goblins."
"The reason we know we are the floor owners is because the Headless Man we saw when we came here told the three of us that we have become the owners of this floor."
"The headless man was here?"
"Yes, as far as I'm aware, the system doesn't notify us about being the floor owners (I forgot), it only appears in our [Floors] option." I said it with the intention of summoning the screen, and it heeded my word.
_________________________
[Floors]
{Search Floor(s): Number}
{Search Owner(s): Name}
- Floor 1: Goblins Settlement (Cleared)
+Owners: Leonard Kevler, Eliza Chrona, Jake Merten, Haden Johnson, Marie Garcia
Floor 2:???
+Owners:???
Floor 3: ???
+Owners:???
Floor 4:???
+Owners:???
Floor 5:???
+Owners:???
...
_________________________
Because the screen couldn't fit all 1000 floors, it only shows up to 5, but there is a scroll bar and a search bar for Floors and Owners.
"So I can basically do anything on this floor if I have enough stamina?" Haden asked.
"I think, well, how much Vigor do you have?"
"I got a total of 200 Vigor." He said it, and I went speechless.
"That's double the stamina of an average human male. Did you really have double the stamina of an average human male before you came here?"
"I felt my body getting a bit stronger when I got in the white room, do you know why?"
"I think it's probably because this place rounds people's stats up, since it used an average human male as a reference, it turned everyone's stat into an average human male, and if they have better initial stats than an average human male, the system will give you more additional stats to round it up." I said, and he looked convinced by my words.
"It's just a theory I just came up with on the spot, though, so take it with a grain of salt." I said.
We finally finished making a campfire, I looked at the fire, and a thought suddenly came to mind, the last time I ate was the night before I got transported here. It's currently noon, but I only feel a bit hungry. Normally I would be hungry, but at this time of the day I don't feel the need to excrete waste either.
'Did the tower enhance everyone's digestive system?' Was my thought at that moment, but I couldn't just idle around. I took a sharp wooden spear and a wooden box, went toward the river, and started spearfishing for food.
"So, what are you planning to do, Mr Haden?"
"Well it looks like we have to live here long term whenever we wanted or not I think I have to stay here and built a stable settlement for people to live in, the next batch might be coming here soon."
"I want to ask, what did people do after we entered the tower?"
"Everyone was confused and scared, The headless man's appearance scared me, I asked around for my brother, and I heard someone tell me that a man that looked like my brother disappeared. When I touched the tower, I was scared, Marie, my friend, got my mind back on track, and we came inside the tower, Jacob Smith, Betty's husband, who I had never heard of before, decided that he would go with me to find my brother. He brought his wife with us, and we entered. It was a while after you'd entered the tower, the people outside were still afraid of the unknown, It was pretty weird being in bed, but then wake up with your shoes on your feet, isn't it?"
Now that he talked about it, I was in the middle of spearfishing on the shore. I looked down and saw that I had my shoes on.
'How was I able to unconsciously ignore this? What the heck? Why didn't I realize this sooner when I was running away from the goblins?' Were the thoughts inside my mind, now I have even more questions.
"I don't believe you are the second party that came into the tower, it's impossible."
"Well yes, I think I was the 11th party or something, the people before us are mostly teens or young adults."
"And they haven't come here? It looks like bad news has happened to them. Actually, I want to ask, What happened to Marie Garcia?"
"She was about to get assaulted by the goblins, but I managed to save her, but when we were distracted trying to save her, Jacob got ambushed, and his carotid artery was cut by the ambushing goblin, and he died of blood loss."
The number of fish was quite abundant, even though my aim sucked, I still managed to spear 8 fish, Looking at the sun straight up pointing at us, I knew this was currently high noon.
I polished a few sticks with the rock, washed those sticks with the river water, and pierced the fish I caught and started cooking.