Ray shook his head, reminding himself that it was useless to dwell on matters like this. It didn't matter what consequences his actions might bring; he just had to grow strong enough to face them all. "Let's just think about what I should do next," Ray said as he glanced around the room he was in. Since the day of Awakening, he had been living in random empty houses he stumbled upon. He had found dozens of such abandoned homes. The house he was currently in appeared empty at first, but his exploration had uncovered a gruesome secret in the basement. There, he found several corpses, their hands bound with chains and their mouths and legs tightly wrapped with tape. At least fifteen bodies hung by their wrists, lifeless. These people hadn't died from monsters or mutated beasts. They

