Aiden stood frozen by fear.
He stood still for an entire hour, trying to understand what he just experienced.
"Just… What just happened…? This can't be real…?" Aiden mumbled to himself.
"This can't be real… I am just living in a simulation. Yes this might be it… And the way to get out of this game. It is to beat it." Aiden's eyes flickered with a new hope they haven't experienced in a while.
He made his way towards the free log.
He sat on it, and didn't even think about trying to pour some soup for himself, as that girl is always watching.
He waits until everyone is asleep. He then drinks every last drop of the soup directly from the pot. He couldn't handle his hunger.
Then he goes straight to sleep, ignoring the inhuman shouts coming from within the forest.
The next morning has come, everything plays just as yesterday, and he knows what is coming for him.
But the pilots are no longer here. And thinking about them made him forget the fact that the girl is behind him.
He then gets knocked to the dirt.
"I don't care where you came from, but you won't live here for free, you've got a sturdy body, so you are eligible to be in the hunting team." The girl said loudly.
"Hunting team? How many people are there?" Aiden grumbled.
"Ugh… It's currently me and that scrawny looking guy there." She pointed a finger at where that guy was.
Aiden looked in that direction, and there was a skinny looking guy, probably in his 30s.
"How is that guy eligible then?"
"He knows some stuff or two about edible plants and mushroo—, no time to spare, lets go."
Aiden is forcefully dragged, his butt getting scraped by the dirt.
"Okay. Okay, I'll go, just stop dragging me." Aiden grumbled
"Good choice, and don't you dare try to sneak away from."
"Whoa, chill out, I won't, I won't you have my promise."
The trio has now gone out of the forest, they successfully found edible plants and drinkable water. But on their way back, they encountered something they won't be able to defend against.
'The basket filled with all kinds of plants was dropped on the ground, next to Aiden's shivering feet. In-front of him was that same monster, that's been ruining all his plans.
The girl gets picked up and pierced by his two horrifying massive antlers.
Then he rips her apart.
That scrawny looking guy, picked up a dagger that was once the girl's and tried stabbing the monster with it, but it did no damage, in fact, it only broke itself.
The monster looked back, and with a single swat, the man's head was already on the ground.
The monster was distracted, and he took his chance to flee.
Aiden frantically stood up, then started sprinting in the direction of the fire.
"Th-ey're sac-rifice-s wo-n-'t be in v-ain."
Then he noticed him, and started chasing him, Aiden's adrenaline took over, he started running, not even paying attention to the obstacles ahead, he hit a tree, and fell over, he got his nose broken. His head is spinning. But then he looks back, the monster was right behind him, grinning like a maniac.
"Fool…" The monster muttered.
Boom.
Aiden's head is rolling away from his body.
Carrying a horrifying shocked expression.