[I]Logical (In Rework Time)

Zones 13.4

Part 4's

Me and the soldier followed in that line, I don't know his name but he looks quite experienced.

We arrived at the bush area, there we found a weapon that was placed carelessly.

The soldier unlocked his weapon, he told me to wait here. “If I don't come back soon you have to run and ask for help on the others.” he gave me a knife, “Use this if needed,” then he disappeared behind the bushes.

The bad feeling I felt was getting stronger, I looked around but there was nothing. A few minutes passed and nothing happened, something must have gone wrong.

I decided to follow the person earlier, after passing through the lush bushes. There are two sets of footprints, one of which looks newer. I followed the tracks, both sets of tracks leading into the dense forest.

Following the two pairs of tracks I went deeper into the forest, through the trees I went deeper and deeper. Camp is not even visible from here. Surrounded by the trees I felt something watching me, I kept going Following the trail I finally reached a field. In the middle of the room. I immediately took a hiding place and observed from where I was hiding.

In the middle of the field was a man in the same uniform as the members in the camp. The soldier who was with me earlier approached that person, he approached slowly. When the man in the middle of the gazebo turned around the soldier was silent, his legs were shaking, his arms were getting weaker and weaker until he dropped his weapon.

The man in the gazebo approached the soldier. The person's eyes were red, his hair was disheveled and he salivated.

That person is disgusting, is he being affected by something?

He groaned and ran fiercely towards the silent soldier doing nothing. After being near the man strangled the neck of the soldier who was with me earlier.

It seemed that the soldier came to his senses and tried to break away, he pressed down the elbow of the person who attacked him but it didn't work. The soldier almost lost consciousness, his grip on the elbow of the person attacking him began to weaken.

This place is far away from the camp, no help will come soon. I can't just run away and leave the army, instead of me not having the heart to leave the army, there's a chance that the person who seems to be affected or rather possessed by something will come after me.

I only have a knife left behind by the strangled soldiers, I could have taken the weapons left behind by the possessed, but if in the middle of the road before I reach the weapon I am attacked by a strange creature then it makes no difference if I go and leave the army.

Given the creatures that were here, a blade like this would not be able to destroy them. This knife is a knife made specifically for military purposes, this knife is sharp but as I said it will not be able to destroy the creatures that are here. This knife shouldn't have been able to rip apart the flesh, suddenly the thought popped into my head.

I looked at the knife I was holding, this thing from its shape looked very strong and sturdy. I lifted it up, the moonlight that pierced through the leaves regarding the blade reflected the light onto my face.

I made up my mind, I ran as fast as I could. I attacked from the right side. When the man reached my reach I stabbed him in the arm, the man was in pain and let go of his giggling and hit me. The knife I used before got stuck in that guy's wrist.

The punch was very strong, I immediately fell down because of the blow. The man approached me, he was standing right in front of me. His hand prepared to hit, he raised his hand and then threw a punch. Just before his punch hit me the sound of gunfire rang out, the soldier shot the man with his previously dropped gun.

The shot pierced through the person's chest, the person collapsed within a few seconds. The soldier approached the man's body, then examined him. He checked the pulse and the sound of the man's heart beating.

His expression was grim, without Berli asking I knew the condition of the man could not be saved. Suddenly from the wounds that were on the person's body a kind of bright blue colored liquid came out. The liquid was alive and trying to get out, the liquid was trying to get close to me.

The liquid was like a parasite that was looking for a host, among the living liquid there was a kind of dark blue colored stone. I immediately pulled out the knife embedded in the lifeless man's arm, and pierced the stone.

As soon as the stone was pierced the liquid slowly began to turn into a blue-colored dust like the jellyfish before, but this time there was no wind the dust did not disappear so I could see the dust more clearly.

I touched the dust with my index finger, then rubbed it with my thumb. It was no different from ordinary dust. There's nothing special about this dust so I'm not interested anymore, I look at the necklace on the corpse of the previous person.

I looked at the necklace, it had a name on it.

“Chris John,” said the previous soldier suddenly, “He's my brother he entered the military a few years after me.”

“Oh yes introduce me corporal William John.”

“I'm Lucy,” I said introduce myself.

“Sorry to make you witness this terrible thing,” said the Corporal.

“Ah is okay, sorry I didn't run like you said.”

“At least want to save me, even though it ended like this,” he said in a gloomy tone while looking at the lifeless body of his sister.

“What should we do with his body?” my many.

“Actually I don't have the heart, but we have to leave it here,” said Corporal William while taking the necklace that is on his sister's neck, “We have to leave this place immediately.”

Just as we wanted to leave this place, suddenly a flock of two-headed wolves surrounded us. It was very bad we had no chance, from behind the trees appeared a creature that resembled the figure of a man. He continued to approach and then stopped near the wolf pack, that person looked at us with a sharp gaze.

I watched the person, from his body slowly came out a dense fur. The same fur as the wolf's, I don't think Corporal William saw it.

Corporal William doesn't seem to believe what he saw.

“What is it,” said Corporal William.

Corporal William shot one of the wolves and managed to hit both his heads, he pulled me and we immediately ran.

We ran but some wolves chased, our speed was inferior when compared to the speed of that wolf. While running I remembered one thing, I hit the tracking bracelet that was in my right hand.

The bracelet electrocuted me, I almost lost my balance when it electrocuted.

But Corporal William's hand kept pulling me, I ran as fast as I could. We were almost out of the forest, the bushes were already starting to show. When I felt we had hope of something blurry happening, the man whose body had wolf-like fur was already in front of us.

The man's body was almost completely wolf-like, just that he was standing on both feet, like a werewolf usually depicted in the story.

We couldn't keep running behind us was a pack of two-headed wolves, the soldier raised his gun to the werewolf.

“Take a chance then run as soon as possible,” without saying anything more Corporal William shot that werewolf, “Lare!”.

I ran as he said, gunshots kept coming. I looked back and saw two wolves chasing me. I managed to get out of the forest but the two wolves were still chasing me, one of them hit me and managed to make me fall.

The wolf was beside my body, trying to bite my neck. I immediately turned around and held his right head with my right hand. His left head tried to bite but luckily I had a knife in my left hand.

Unfortunately there was nothing I could do with the other wolf, he tried to bite me. But before that happened someone shot the head of a wolf who tried to bite my neck with a gun and stabbed the other head with a knife. The wolf whose head was held by me tried to escape, but the other head was restrained by my left hand, the knife I threw did not want to come off, the shot from the gun hit the wolf's head and made the wolf meet its end.

My body feels heavy and difficult movement, “Lucy, are you okay?” it was a familiar voice, I looked towards that voice, it was Olivia.

“Copral William is still in the forest,”.

“Aaaaaa!”, that was the voice of Corporal William, he seemed to be hit by a painful attack.

Oliva ordered his men “You check there immediately, otherwise allow immediate retreat!”.

Not so long ago there was a continuous gunshot, Olivia memapahku, from the forest of people who had previously come out carrying Corporal William who was seriously injured.

Oliva immediately ordered a retreat, we retreated as soon as possible to the camp. The wolves did not catch up, including the werewolves did not chase.

Arriving at my camp started to feel heavy, I could no longer hold on. My eyes began to open, my vision began to blur. Olivia took me to the medical tent, bleeding me from a wolf bite immediately, my right hand was badly injured, but because the electric shock from the bracelet made my right hand numb so it didn't feel anything. In retrospect, I was lucky to use my right hand to hold back the wolf when I felt nothing.

The human instinct to survive is indeed very strong, even people who actually do not care about his life like me the instinct to survive really appears when there is a danger.

It is said that the person who decided to end his life by drowning in the sea also felt the same way. In many cases people who end their lives by drowning are found that their hands are trying to hold anything that can be reached. Even though his hands were tied he would try to hold onto anything. Even in double suicide cases both partners held each other's hair as tightly as they could, as their bodies were found each still holding tightly to their partner's hair.

Human survival is one of the strongest feelings there is. I lay down, I tried to empty my head, I didn't want to think of anything for now. Unknowingly, I began to lose consciousness.

I opened my eyes, unaware it was morning. “How many times have I fallen asleep involuntarily like this.” I tried to sit, some parts of my body still hurt. Despite some distress I finally managed to sit down. My right hand on the bandage, the pain just felt, the wound on my right hand not so deep, but I can't use it freely.

“Oh you are awake,” I turned there Olivia is standing in front of the entrance tent. He approached and stood in front of me, “Lucy, what are you really thinking, going out nights like that!”. From her expression Olivia looked angry. “You know this place is very dangerous but you are still desperate to go out,” he said in a high tone, Olivia is really angry.

“I'm really sorry about that, I won't go carelessly anymore.”

“Indeed it should be!” He continues to shape me.

I just fell silent unable to say anything more, it is indeed my fault for leaving just like that, even though I was with a soldier, this place was dangerous, so I shouldn't go off like that.

“But I'm glad I can still see you alive,” Olivia's voice has calmed down.

“Thank you, but Olivia you don't have to be that angry.”

“Lucy, to be honest before I have never spoken freely other than with anyone other than Major Sam.”

Hah what does it mean, the way of speech really changes, I said in my heart.

“Although we just met but I feel like you're close enough to me now, this Lucy may be a strange request but will you be my first friend?” olivia then stretched out her hand.

Even though he said so but I really don't know what a friend's name is. “Olivia I honestly don't know anything about friends, and also I feel that friends are troublesome so...."

“Oh so” said Olivia with disappointment.

“I haven't finished talking, as I said I think friends are troublesome, but if it were you I think it would be different”.

“You are serious, so now we are friends” he said.

I saw his face, he looked radiant.