"What even is this? Is this even Minecraft?" he questioned as he explored the insides of an abandoned house in the village he's currently in. Everything looked incredibly real- from the minor details in the walls to the blocky pebbles in the floor, everything looked like it was in a Minecraft Animation video.
"Everything's abandoned... If I don't consider the gamey elements and just focus on the lore of this place, what happened here? Hm..." Yuri thought about the infected beings he killed back at the carriage, suggesting that it may have been an outbreak or a pandemic that caused this.
"Zombies... pretty logical since during the night, literal undead monsters spawn in the open. Was it an invasion by hundreds of those zombies or an outbreak of chaos?"
As he was rummaging through the rubble inside the house, he finds a chest sitting in a room next to a white bed- which had a meat item on top of it. He walks towards the chest and opens it, revealing useless items such as potatoes, pieces of cobblestone, iron nuggets, and rotten flesh. What peaked his interest though was a written book named "My Diary," with an unknown author. He took the book and placed it in his hotbar. He then equipped it in his hand and (right clicked), he then began to read the book.
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{Day one of writing this book.
I bought this book at the nearby store with the copper and silver I saved up. I can't wait to write more of my life in this book and read it later when I get older!
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Day three of writing in this book.
Mother created the best meal yet! I think it was a combination of vegetables and meat maybe? It was soo delicious! I can't wait to get older so I can cook like her!
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Day five of writing in this book.
Mother congratulated my father after he received a job about dungeon hunting I think? Father was crying when he opened that mail. Well, if he's happy, then I'm happy as well.
Also, he said that he'll be leaving for just a few days to do his job as a hunter. He said that we'll be rich the moment he gets back here with a ton of silver and gold. I really hope that it will come true.
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Day ten of writing in this book.
My father hasn't returned yet from his dungeon expedition... I hope he's alright. I plan to create a delicious dessert for him after he returns because my mother taught me how to bake a cake. it was quite easy actually!
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Day fourteen of writing in this book.
Mother has been crying a lot lately and I don't know why... Father still hasn't returned after another few days at the dungeon, and I kind of fear he may never come back. I also heard gossips outside of the house that the nearby village was taken over by something strange? I didn't hear much since mother called me back to
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Day fifteen of writing in this book.
Everyone's terrified and running around scared. Apparently there was a huge threat outside our village and we had to evacuate quickly. I now always see mother crying and her tears keep dropping on my skin. It's getting quite annoying actually.
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Day seventeen of writing
We've settled at a guard checkpoint and we're being inspected if we have a curse? I don't get these names and these bad things but they told us that we might be infected with it or something... I really hope this'll all end soon.
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Day eighteen of writing in this book.
We arrived at the village and settled at an inn using the bags of copper mother got from a sleeping man. I don't know why she did that but she told me that she was just borrowing it from the man, and also told me that he was incredibly kind. I think that's not the case though...
We now finally ate some delicious food made from a nearby bar giving out free food for the other people that were with us during the journey. They were really good people! I hope I meet more of those people in the future. I plan to go to the capital after I grow up and get a high-pay job there so I can help mother and father and help all of the people in need.
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Day nineteen
When I was at the road playing with the neighbor's, I saw a creepy man in a black hood walking in the streets. He looked pretty weak so I thought he was just some person that's in need of food. I gave my bread to him because I felt pity to the person... he just stared at my eyes after I gave it to him. His eyes were glowing white.. I don't know how that works but I think he's strong...
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Day twenty of writing
I don't know what happened outside, but everyone's screaming... I can't seem to find mother downstairs when she hastily went to get something. I just heard the window shatter and the screams grew louder.. I tried to find her but this old man just grabbed me and locked me inside my room. I can't get out because I think he blocked the door with furniture? I can't see outside so I don't know. The screams lessened outside after a while and I can finally sleep. I'm writing this in my bed and I hope mother's fine...
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It's morning and I think everyone's not fine. I still tried to open the door but it just won't budge. I keep seeing carriages drive past the building but they're not stopping here. I also saw people chasing those carriages. I think they were trying to get on to get out of here? I'm still waiting for mother to come back here. I'm sure she will come back.
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It's getting late and someone's banging on the door trying to get in.. I called out to them because I heard someone walking in the halls outside. I thought they were friendly, but after that they're trying to enter. The banging keeps getting louder because of the sound.. I think it angers him more?
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I'm trying to sleep but he keep barging on the door. It's so annoying. When will he get tired of this? I tried to lessen the sound by placing some pillows on the door to absorb the sound but it didn't work. Just as I was writing this, my lantern was blown out and I was forced to write on the moonlight outside. I just hope that I'll get out of this place with my family.
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The door's starting to collapse. He's about to get in. I should've not called out that person during that day. I'm going to hold down the door and
I killed him with the knife I found under my bed. I don't know where it came from but it's probably from mother. It feels so bad that I killed him. What's wrong with the person? Why was he like this? Was it caused by that curse or something? I'm going to go outside and run away from this place because it's too dangerous. I hope I find my parents outside safe and sound.
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I accidentally slipped on some black thingy on the ground and I fell on the floor. My back hurts and tons of people came up to the second floor like they're hungry. I hid myself inside in another room and locked myself inside. I'm too scared to go outside. They're barging on the door. The windows are barred with metal and I can't get out from there. I think the person who lived here previously boarded up the windows since he was scared... They're trying to get in and}
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"Holy fucking shit!" Yuri exclaimed at the book. "I didn't know I was about to read some horror story!"
'The dialogue feels kind of overused to be honest... Maybe I've watched too much analog horror on Youtube nowadays.'
Yuri then looked around the room. Items of charcoal were scattered around the place, indicating that it had a fire recently.
"So my guess was right, an outbreak literally destroyed this village and it's not just limited to here," he muttered as he looked on the piece of rotten flesh on top of the bed right beside him. "So this piece of flesh right here would be... the author of this book? I guess he or she got mauled to death. Didn't even turn into a zombie, the person just died."
Yuri then took the piece of flesh and walked out of the building. Digging a hole on the side of the road, he opens up his creative inventory and takes a chest from the selection of blocks. After closing the inventory, he then places the chest block inside the hole and opens it. From there, he places the rotten flesh and the diary inside. Closing the chest, he then patches up the hole and puts a flower on top of the grave, paying respects to the dead person.
"May you and your family uuh... rest in peace."
After adding more designs to the grave, he then leaves the area and proceeds on the main pathway of the village. Arriving on what seemed to be the entrance of the town, he saw countless metal items scattered around the place, presumably from the past NPC soldiers who died fighting a threat. Curious, he went close to an item and picked it up. It then appeared in his hotbar. He equipped the item in his main hand and saw what it was, an Iron Chestplate--but it was different in a lot of aspects. It looked more tattered and worn, showing that it received extensive damage. The durability bar shown on the bottom only solidified his thoughts about it, since it was incredibly low. It might only take a few more hits from a weapon and it'll disappear into zeros and ones.
"Dude, this mod should've been popular on the internet! Why am I only the one who gets to experience this masterpiece?!" he exclaimed as he picked up all of the items scattered around him, planning inspecting them all one by one. "Wait, I'm judging too fast. I gotta see everything this mod has in store for me first."
Looking in his inventory, he started to inspect the items he collected on the ground. Items and Weapons that he had never seen before in the mods he installed appeared right in front of him. 64-bit Iron weapons, armor, shields, and pieces of strange flesh that might give debuffs to him when his character eats it.
'The taste of blood's in my goddamn mouth... Maybe it's because the scent's origin is literally right in front of me! Some voodoo magic bullshit...'
Yuri then checks what new stuff's been added in his inventory after he downloaded that mod into the game. Continuously pressing on the next button, he arrives at a new section called (Discovered Items). Opening it showed the items he picked up recently from the ground at the entrance. Armor, weapons, items, everything he's discovered so far is placed here. Confusion took over his head as he tried to figure out how this was possible in the first place. 'Was it all random? How did they made this mod? Why am I not feeling any kind of lag since I started playing here?' This went on for a couple of minutes before he came back to his senses.
"Fucking hell, this's some real magic shit."
Double-tapping the spacebar, his character began to fly in the air. Ascending several blocks high, he took one last look at the town behind him before following the path away from the village, leaving it behind. As he looked down on the road below him, he couldn't help but notice the amount of scattered "debris" blocking the way. What looked like destroyed carriages were sitting on the side of the road, rotting away into the blocky nature below. It looked like they were stopped and destroyed by something, and he was hesitating to go down and walk on the path to investigate.
"Jesus, I'm too fucking 'curious' to go down there and see everything. I don't want to stall myself and sit here exploring this goddamn world for hours on end."
Continuing down the path, he suddenly notices something on the ground and flies down to investigate, pushing his laziness to explore aside. Another carriage similar to the one he went in before, but this time it was more populated. A group of NPCs were feasting off something on the ground, which made him kind of excited.
You see, our MC has some kind of a weird fetish for watching people get literally disemboweled from the inside out by multiple hostile creatures. For example, a man gets caught in a horde of hungry zombies and he gets eaten alive. It strangely makes him kind of aroused when he watches a scene like that.
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(CAPS LOCK) - Microphone enabled
"Hello there, fellow humans-"
"WRAGAAA-!!"
"GSHR..."
"KUUHG--"
The infected turned to him instantaneously.
"Oh you're not actually..."
The group of infected now rushed towards his position. But since he was in creative mode, they could only watch as he picks them all off with his sword one by one like ants. In just a couple of moments, the area became filled with the smell of burned flesh which went through his monitor.
"H-How does this smelling system work?! How and why did they create this?! If one of my family members enters my room suddenly, I'm going to have some serious explaining to do."
"Ah, I'll just grab the perfume in my drawer later."
Walking towards the disemboweled thing that the infected were feasting on, he wondered why the corpse of an NPC was still here.
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"Looks like you're still alive... how?"
He swung his sword at the supposed to be corpse, burning it with the fire aspect enchantment. He watched as it slowly killed the person, ending his misery. After a few moments, it turned into a puff of smoke, indicating that it's now dead.
"Rest in peace, stranger who got... literally fucking cucked."
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