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Chapter 23 TISZ Wick

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Walking is really hard. Breathing is really hard.

This kind of thought was the only thing that's filled the brain of Nasrul right now. The body of his feel really hot. It feels like the temperature increase.

“It hurt…. It blazing… It hot…”

Nasrul know that this is not because the temperature of the surrounding place increase. It came from the whole of his body right now and it became harder as the time goes on.

Although the pain that came from his cell all over his body has alleviated before this, at the time that he woke up. The pain from his whole body began to come back just now.

It came little by little, as the time goes on and that became his burden right now. The amount of pain that he must bear will be more than the threshold that he can bear because he has already experienced this pain before and it will only make his able to ready his heart on the amount of the pain that will come.

With every step that he took it became more hurt and it goes straight to his brain.

Before this, at the time that he awakes from the slumber. At the beginning of this hour, he thinks that the whole body of his body does not feel as much as the pain that he feel at the end of that third hour was because of the body of his was numb. All over the body of his fell under the state of numbness.

Although the numbing sensation was not transferred to him and he cannot feel it, but he still thinks that the body of his in the state of numbness. The thing that making him skip a beat was that even though that the body of his was in the state of numb, the pain still bypass it.

He does not know on how that he can bear it before this. At the time that the pain came on the first time.

The only thing that he can think of was that the feeling of death at that time was too overwhelming that it affect his thinking judgement. This makes his able to bear it as most of the thought of him at that time was on the moving his own body to safety.

Nevertheless that action of him was futile as he was unable to move from that place and run. Even with the thought of running from that place has dismissed most of the pain that he feel and his will that forcing him to be conscious.

Nasrul walk slowly step by step while in the meantime using the tree trunk as the support. Using this method, it lessen the burden on his body, allowing him to move away by using lesser energy than without using it.

“Hah… Hah… This is really tiring. Urgh… that pain gonna come back. It still only the middle of the fourth hour right now, just a little more. Just a little more half an hour to go through. Nasrul, you can do it”

While moving around Nasrul talk to himself occasionally. This was done so that he can distract himself from the pain, even if it a little. Not only that, it also to make sure that his heart will not give up easily as the time for all of this to end only just half an hour from now. Given all of what the watch was saying true, then the only hope to survive was to pin onto the rule that has been set up.

He does not know whether the people that make all of this can salvage him out of this place and save him. The only hope that he can make was that they had the ability to save him even with this kind of wound. If they were able to make all of this, it must mean their technology will be high.

He does not know which organization that make this kind of sick game, but he can only hold the notion that they will be able to treat him after this. That his only hope to survive this.

“Hah… Whether I live or died, this is the only path”

Crack…

After contemplating himself, Nasrul was awoken from his thought from a sound. With the speed that he can manage, he hides behind the tree immediately. It was a relieved that he already close to the tree when that sound travel to him.

The sound of a branch of a tree was step by someone. Not only just because the tree branch was step by someone, it came from the sound of the branch that has been steps like it sounding close to his position.

Step by step the being taken and it has gotten close to the place that he was hidden right now. The candle that had the fire put out at the moment that he heard the sound and go into hidden was grasped in his palm tightly. It as though that the candle was the most important think in the world.

As the step was getting closer to his location that he was hiding right now behind a large tree, he begins to restlessness. To say that he was scared, of course he feel really afraid right now. The thing that came close to him was an unknown.

The closer the step sounding and the closer it is to his place of hiding, the heart of Nasrul feel like it beating at an alarmed rate.

[Beat, Beat, Beat, Beat]

The sound of his heard sounding.

[Beat, Beat, Beat, Beat]

The sound of the heart of Nasrul continues to beat vigorously.

As the closer he crouched down while making sure that no other body part of him can be visible to the person that walking close to him.

Nasrul then move the head of his to the corner of the tree trying to peek on the mysterious presence that moving closer to him.

Slowly, slowly, slowly

Moving his head to the corner of the tree with the speed of a turtle, he peak at the figure that right now that he feel moving closer. He is not moving suddenly so that it will not create any unnecessary noise as he do not want to alarm the one that move to his location.

Looking closely with the corner of his eye, he saw it the figure that was moving closer to him can only be seen with the silhouette of the general outline of that person. Attributed with the darkness that cover this whole place and not using any candle, making it hard to see the person that moving closer to him.

Closer and closer and closer toward him

The figure that entered the line of sight of Nasrul that he cannot before begin to blur less and less. This makes the outline of that figure became visible little by little.

He begins to be able to see clearly that person. Yes, it is that person.

The figure that Nasrul look straight right now is a person that he knows. The silhouette of that person was a person that became one of his companions at the start of this nightmare. That person is Zakiran.

The first person that talks to him at the start of this nightmare. He was also the person that entered the same group as him at the time when the group selection was made. The person that enter the five man team for a group that began to wander around the place searching for the clue with also the same group that when they meet the threat together and run from it. To find the clue hidden around the place they work together to find it.

Right now, the first person that he know at the beginning of this dangerous place is not in the same condition at the first time he meets him.

The clothes of Zakiran right now can be said is covered in soil. The T-shirt that he wear had been covered in the soil at a few places. The same can be said to the pants that he wear right now.

Zakiran can be said that he no longer looks like the salesman that wear clean clothes and the expensive looking cloth also seem to be blown off by this image of him right now. The closest image that he shown right now was a person that had been robbed and involve in the fight.

Although Nasrul saw that the person that he look right now is a person that he know. He do not come out of the hiding place right away. He waits for Zakiran to move closer to him.

The moment that Zakiran moving closer to him at that time he moves out of the hiding place. Right now he has made sure that no danger exist from his observation.

The moment that he move out, he greets that person at the same time.