Hunt for Survival

New Trouble

Shaurya

I looked down and again saw the crocodiles. They didn’t look like good pets at all but more like wild animals.

“If you keep looking down, then they won’t go away. We have to find another way.” I heard his voice and right now it is really irritating me.

But he is not that important. Right now I am thinking about what is the purpose of those men who brought me over here. As I am already stuck and don't know how to get out, it is better that I try to connect some delocalized dots.

Why had they made me hang over here with someone? Do they really want to kill us? Or they have some other motive.

“What are you thinking?”

“What is the purpose of bringing us over here and making us trapped in this deity net?” I said absent-mindly.

“I also don’t know,” he replied.

“Are you also kidnapped?” I hope that he will answer just like last time.

“Then what do you think that I am over here for? I am looking like someone who has come over here for a picnic?’

“That would be the worst idea of coming over here for a picnic. Do you see, till wherever you can see, you can only see wild forest. Then I think that there must be wild animals as well. Instead of bringing back a happy memory, you will become a memory.”

“You really have a big mouth which only knows how to sprout nonsense.”

“And you really have a sharp mouth.” I could see that he was getting furious over our useless conversation. It is not new to me, as most of the time, my mother also used to react like this. But will I be able to return to her ever?

“We shouldn’t be fighting over here like this. We are still trapped and have to find a way of getting out of here.”

“I know that but I wasn’t able to get out of the deity net before. It is really hard.” One time, Rahul’s character was the one who got caught in the deity net and he passed it to me to get out of that net, but that was really hard for me. I couldn’t really get out of it. Then the character died immediately by poisoning himself. I don’t want to poison myself.

“So you have also played that game before?” I asked him.

“I did and I never thought that a deity net like this could really exist.”

“I also didn’t think that as well, but there is no point in distinguishing between game and reality because we are already inside this.” He again tried to shake the net or tried to tear it apart but failed. "Why are you in a rush? You are also aware that nothing normal can cut it.”

“Then should we find something which is as strong as a deity.” I looked at him and thought over his words and they made sense. This is a deity's net which can’t be cut through normal things and a deity who is so powerful can’t be shaken by mere things. We have to find something which is as strong as a deity. I believe that, for a deity, this is not so hard. But looking around, we can’t really find anything which could help us.

“By seeing the situation, I don’t think that we can even try to find a thing which is as strong as a deity.”

“That is also correct, but we can’t just sit over here and wait. We have to find the way as soon as possible.”

“Indeed we have to.” I looked through my bag but there was nothing which I could find to be useful. I saw that he was also carrying a bag.

“How about you check what is inside your bag?” He looked behind.

“I didn’t bring so much with me. But let’s see what I have. Maybe it could be useful.” He said and ran his hand through his bag and then took the empty hand.

“There is nothing which can cut this,” I sighed.

“We are looking for an escape, but how are we going to escape if we have to die over here only?”

“Don’t lose hope. We still have to think carefully.” I tightly took the string in my hand and tried to break it and even used my teeth to tear it apart, instead of tearing it off, I thought my teeth would fall off. “What are you trying to do?”

“Can’t you see that I am trying to break it?”

“Do you think that we can break through here by doing what you were doing?”

“Maybe no.” I took away my hand from there and saw that in my hand there was a deep red line created because of the string.

“We have to look for another way.” Suddenly, I saw a red button on the tree and we weren’t so far from the tree. I started to move towards that button. It was about my finger tip. That is why I couldn’t see it earlier. But why would a button be over there on the living thing?

“What are you doing? Don’t move.” I ignored his words and moved towards there and through one of the gaps I took out my hand, but suddenly a crocodile jumped up and almost got my hand in a second. I took it inside. It scared me to the core.

“What was that?”

“That crocodile jumped and came for your hand.” I looked down and saw the height. It was a good distance, as a crocodile could just come up and try to get my hand. This seemed like a joke, but that wasn't a joke because they had really jumped this high.

“This place is surely abnormal.” I looked down and saw a pattern that the crocodiles were together for now, but after a few seconds they dispersed and they again got together and dispersed.

“Have you seen when I was taking my hand out where they were?”

“Maybe they were together.” I tried to take out the hand when they were together and again that same incident happened again, but after, when they dispersed, I took out my hand, but no action happened and I looked at him and he had the same expression as I was having. These crocodiles won’t do as long as we are inside this net, but even if we try to get out any part of ours, then they will attack only when they are in a circle or are crowded. I count the timing of their being together and that was four times them dispersing. They disperse for only about 30 seconds while they are together for 120 seconds. That is 2 minutes. I have to get to the button in those 30 seconds. I counted on them being together.

“What are you trying to do?”

“Just keep your mouth shut for a few seconds.” When I saw that their time started to disperse, I quickly took my hand out and tried to reach the button, but failed and the time was up as well and I quickly pulled my hand inside the net.

“What are you trying to do?”

“I am observing something and I want to click that button.”

“I saw what you have observed, but clicking something or touching something without knowing would be dangerous.”

“I know that, but do we have another choice?” I asked him and he didn’t say anything.

“I know that we don’t have a choice…...”I cut him off in the middle of the conversation because I had heard what I wanted to and knew what it was going to be.

“Then say no further. When we play games, we have to make a choice when it comes to survival. None of us knows what will happen if we don’t even give it a try. We have to take the risk. After all, we can’t avoid all kinds of risk. Can we?” I asked him and I looked down to see the crocodiles. They really have strange behaviour. I looked at the button and thought about something. My hand can’t reach it but I think I should try something else to press it, as the distance was left less.

“If, after clicking the button, the net opens, then do you know how to swim?” I asked him and he nodded.

“But do you think that it would be useful if we swam?”

“We have to swim faster.”

“That doesn’t make sense.”

“Right now I can’t think about anything properly. We have to take some steps or else we won’t be able to get further.” I kind of shouted because he was getting on my nerves now. He really knows how to piss me off. I never met such a person in my life.

“Be calm, your boiled nerves won’t make us get out of here.” I tried to calm myself down and looked for something inside my bag and found that it was a pencil. I think its length is just right and can help me. I looked down and saw the crocodiles and when I got my chance, I quickly pressed the button. But nothing happened and I sighed.

“What is going on? I don’t know who is doing this for us? I don’t know. Do they think that our life is a joke?” I said the last part in anger. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but all I know is that I have to find a way back through which I can get out of here and this forest-like place and can go back home. I would prefer to play the game on the PC and eat the food.

“You are back to yourself again. Just calm down and have patience.” I looked down and saw that the crocodiles were in a dispersed position and were frozen their only. There wasn’t a moment at all. Are they some kind of robot? “They are not moving any longer.” I heard him saying.

“I have eyes and I can see that.”

“When did I say that you don’t have eyes?” I rolled my eyes and then I looked at the tree and saw something that was kind of cracked and wasn’t looking so good on it. I tried to reach it.

“Don’t move like that.”

“Are you afraid that we will fall down? This is a deity that can’t be broken that easily.”

“This net is the deity, not the branch.” This makes some sense. I tried to reach the place and successfully grabbed it and tore open that place and, to my surprise, I saw a golden-pointed knife. I grabbed it.

“What are you going to do with this knife?” I looked at the knife and then I looked at the net.

“You know that this is a deity net and it….” He couldn’t finish his sentence because we heard that something was breaking and when we both followed the sound, we saw that the branch on which we were hanging was going to break. This is because I had moved around so much and before any further notice, we fell down in the water and suddenly the crocodile’s movement also started. I wasted no minute in thinking about their movements but took the knife and cut open the net and, to my surprise, the net cut open easily.

We fall in the middle of them, so it is going to be hard for us to get away, but with this knife in my hand, I think that we can dodge them. One of them was coming in our way. I looked back at that boy and saw that he was already in the fighting position and his hands formed a fist. I swam towards one of the crocodiles and stabbed him with that knife and in a while he was in pieces. I guess in my hand is the strongest weapon which I have ever seen in my entire gaming life. I did this two or three times just to make the path clear and, after that, when I felt that I didn’t have so much breath left, I grabbed his hand and came out of the water and took an ample amount of oxygen inside me. He took something away from my hand and I wasn’t so much bothered about it.

“This knife is so special. It had cut open the deity net, which is impossible to cut, and even scattered those crocodiles in pieces.”

“This sure is a great weapon.”

“Here you keep this.”

“You don’t want it?”

“I will find my own. This knife is special and was found by you, so you are the real owner of it and keep it safe. Who knows where we will be needing it.” I took the knife and suddenly I saw a sheath under the tree which was attached to a belt. I took it and kept the knife inside it and wrapped the belt around me.

“This is really odd.”

“Indeed.” How can there be a sheath over here? When I looked down, I didn’t see that.

“Where is my sheath?” We both heard a heavy voice which belonged to some middle-aged person. This voice was of a human, but the steps which we took didn't belong to a human. I looked at him and our expressions were mirrored.

“What is that?” I shrugged. We had just got out of trouble and it was not even five minutes before our problem was solved and now a new problem came running for us.