I awoke in a cell well it wasn’t really a cell in a normal sense; it was a small bedroom that could fit about three people, it had a sink, toilet, and shower but the door was a glass panel that was dyed crimson from blood on the other side of the door. Before even trying to explore I made sure I armed myself; I opened the system store only to find most of the weapons within were extremely expensive but I could afford one weapon, it was labeled as a crudely crafted crossbow with twenty bolts. I sighed as I poured all of my credits into it followed by it falling out of thin air onto the mattress along with a small quiver of crossbow bolts. As I picked it up information flooded my head along with how to use it.
[Name: Crude Self Made Crossbow LV 1
Durability: 5/5
Details: a self-made crossbow that is quite weak but it will get the job done, every five shots reduces durability by one]
Loading the crossbow and strapping the quiver to my back I moved towards the glass door, the glass was not attached to the latch giving me the chance to escape but once I exited the room the only thing I could see was the remains of the crew that were now plastered all over the room. Even if I experienced similar situations this is just too much, my stomach turned as I passed through the hall way of meat and into another hallway but this one wasn’t covered in flesh just wires short-circuiting. I kept my crossbow ready as I moved down the hallway but as I went further down I finally heard something other than electrical failure.
As I turned the corner I was greeted by a humanoid figure pounding on a room at the end of the hall; it had blood shot eyes, no hair, bloody hands and mouth, and torn clothes with its insides hanging from its wound. Yep definitely not human, but it’s carrying a wrench so it has some intelligence, the question is should I deal with it or not? If I take it out now it will give me an exp boost and I won’t have to deal with it later but then again if someone is in there I’ll have to deal with them. God this is frustrating; adjusting the angle of the crossbow I fired a bolt towards the creature but it suddenly moved causing the arrow to hit it in the neck, the creature fell to the floor and let out a gurgle like roar followed by several other creatures running down the hall out of a room with fresh blood on their hands and face but one of them was still holding a half-eaten foot.
“Fuck well aren’t you beautiful.” (Me)
Roar!!!
“Ah I know I’m handsome but you don’t need to go screaming at me.” (Me)
Peng Peng Peng Peng!!!
I fired four bolts from my crossbow as I moved backwards towards the cell I just left; the first two bolts went into the closest creature one in the arm and another in the head, the other two bolts pinned the second one to the wall but I shot another arrow into its head before it could free itself. I directed my attention to the first creature I shot which was still on the ground but instead of giving out a roar for help it was a roar of aggravation as it tried to move its body towards me.
“Sorry bud but my meat isn’t for you but good luck next time.” (Me)
Peng!
I collected my arrows through my inventory since I didn’t want to touch them while covered in those things blood, I also put their bodies in my inventory for later which will probably raise some questions when I take them out but still if I left them laying around it will be a fire hazard. Moving towards the door the creature was pounding on I poked my head in to see what was inside but I could only see the outline of a storage room.
“Hey if your dead just yell out if not well yell as well but more of a human yell please.” (Me)
“Who are you?!” (Male Voice)
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“Quiet Jack we don’t know who he is?!” (Snobby Male Voice)
“Enough both of you, and Jack you should have kept quiet and checked with us before opening your mouth. (Mickle J Fox????)
A few moments after the voices sounded I heard shuffling in the room followed by the lights coming on; I could see about fifty or so survivors huddled on the floor with the majority of them being male, there were three men standing in front of the group each with their own unique look. The first one was a tall body builder that looked Russian and I’m not being racist or anything like that he seriously looks like a Russian soldier, the man beside him was well dressed with a scowl on his face probably a man used to be in charge or close to it. The final person was an African American man that looked like he was in his sixty’s keeping himself up with a cane; he had grey hair and a semi thick beard.
“Mind telling us who you are young man?” (Old Man)
“Now that you asked sure I’ll tell you, I was the guy that you guy’s locked up for a week and then your crew turned into cannibals, so anyone else having a shitty week?” (Me)
“You bastard those were our friends and family!!” (Russian)
“Well not my problem.” (Me)
As I was about to leave I could hear arguing from the three behind me, as I stepped out of the door I heard a shout from the storage room followed by the old man limping out avoiding the black blood on the ground like the plague.
“I know this is wrong of me but can you help us get to the bridge; if we can get there we can turn on the automated defenses and take care of the corrupt, we can take control of Salvation once again.” (Old Man)
[Mission: Escort Survivors
Rank: Unknown
Description: you were asked to escort the survivors to the bridge to end this nightmare but the corrupted crew have been eating constantly and it’s highly possible there might be a evolved corrupted on salvation
Reward: S Class Safe Hub, Unknown]
“What will I get out of this suicide mission?” (Me)
“I don’t know, we can discuss it when everything is settled but you can use our facility that’s the least we can do.” (Old Man)
“Fine I will take three people, if we take too many it will draw too much attention.” (Me)
“Thank you Sir!!!” (Old Man)
‘Don’t thank me yet.’
After agreeing to the mission I walked back inside the storage room and checked over the notifications that I got from killing three creatures or whatever they are. It looks like I got two LV’s from it along with my ranged weapon mastery LVing to LV 4.
[You have paralyzed a Lesser Corrupted LV 1]
[You have killed a Lesser Corrupted LV 9]
[You have Killed a Lesser Corrupted LV 7]
[You have LVed up 2x]
[Specialist LVed up]
[Choose 1 Occupation skill
*Compass
*Map
*All basic Resistance]
[Points and Credits have been allocated]
[You now have a 40% chance of hitting desired target]
[For stepping into the world of specialists you have unlocked the Occupation Skill Store]
[Skill store will allow you to buy skills that you have turned down when you advance in your Occupation however the price is quite large]
‘All Basic Resistance please’
[All Basic Resistance LV 1: you have a 1% chance of resisting a negative affect]
‘Show me the price for the other skills’
[Compass-400 credits
Map- 600 credits]
‘Buy both of them’
[compass: never get lost while exploring, a compass will be displayed on your hub now
Map: everyone needs a map even you, surveys all surrounding areas and shows all hostiles, displays points of interests]
The mini map was encircled by the compass at the right of my vision right out of the way but still there for me to see it. After looking at the surroundings on the mini map for a second I turned my attention to the group coming towards me, the old man had a bag on his back along with the other two. The Russian soldier followed closely behind the old man while a new guy followed behind, he was dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a blackened face but you could see determination in his amber eyes.
“Are you ready to depart?” (Old Man)
“Just waiting on you old timer.” (Me)