Spy school: Guilty or not?

Chapter 5: Everyone in one place

Hello, I'm sorry I haven't written so much much time but I come back and there can be some bigger space time but I'll try to get back to writing frequently, but for now please be content with this chapter.

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I was waiting for Erica, who went to look for some kindling. It was dark, only the moon and stars illuminated the sky. I wondered what was happening to the others, I hoped they had found each other and were doing well. Meanwhile, Erica returned with moss and mulch.

"Don't worry about the others, they'll be fine," she said. I looked at her, "They've probably found each other, everything will be fine, my mother can take care of them," she added.

It actually lifted my spirits a bit, but I was afraid that the spider had caught them or that they were in trouble.

"I'm going to look for help and find others" Then she added " don't move from here, okay?" She sounded threatening, but in the last word she sounded more like she was worried. "Okay, I'll stay." She raised the corner of her mouth slightly, nodded and left.

Of course, when she left, I followed her after a while, don't blame me, I just shouldn't wait for her to show up if I might bleed out by then. So I set off, I only wanted to walk a short distance because it was hard to walk with my insensitive limbs, my body hurt less than before, but that was because I couldn't feel my legs. I was walking for about 5 minutes when I saw more open space, large hills and small buildings in the distance.

One of them looked like a hospital and the rest were ordinary shops and a hotel. Surprisingly, there were a lot of people there.

I was wondering whether to go, there or find Erica first. Suddenly someone put a blade to my throat and hissed in my ear, "I told you to stay, someone could kill you like that" so it was Erica (unfortunately) Then she let me go. I looked at her sheepishly as I understood that what I did was really unwise, but I decided to defend myself.

"I know it looks silly but I could have bled out if I had stayed there,"

she looked at me like she was going to punch me but instead she said "Every option was risky, and you chose the most risky one," I smiled weakly, because it was true, and said the first thing that came to my mind, "But we finally found the village, didn't we?"

"bravo, congratulations, wait no, you're late, I was first" she said, annoyed

she looks really pissed and I was the one who caused all the fuss, so I said "I'm sorry" she looked at me as if she was checking if I was telling the truth. After a while she sighed "okay, come on"

I was glad because she said it in a good tone and it showed that she wasn't already upset. I quickly joined her, but that moment of standing still made my body stop functioning properly and I almost fell over. It was strange, I didn't feel anything, but I knew that everything hurt and it was terribly difficult to move my limbs, I stood up and started to really want to sleep,

"Is everything okay?" Erica asked, I looked up heavily, I felt that my eyeballs were constantly moving.

,,I-I don't.. Don't knoow"

"Ben! hello??" suddenly everything stopped, "what happened?" I asked with a trembling voice

"It's hard to explain, but your body stops working, like it's shutting down," I looked at her in horror.

"What," I choked out. It'll be better if we go to a resort," I looked at her curiously, "is this a resort?" I asked "Mhm, I did a little reconnaissance and there are at least 2 restaurants, a hospital, 3 hotels, attractions such as boating, hiking in the forest, many trails and a nightclub."

"I understand," I replied. We walked to the center for 3 minutes and suddenly we saw something like a bus stop, we stopped and after about 37 seconds a small off-road bus pulled up and we got on. Erica immediately started talking to the driver so as not to see what condition I was in. But he saw me, looked in the mirror and said, "You cut yourself on something, didn't you?" I looked at Erica and she nodded for me to answer

"uh, yes",

"Shall I take you to the hospital?" the guy say

"Yes please," Erica replied

I sat painfully on the seat and closed my eyes to rest a bit, and suddenly I realized that the driver should have reacted differently to my appearance, but instead he was calm as if it was normal. I looked at Erica with fear, but before I could say anything the driver spoke first "You did this to yourself on the bone trail, didn't you?"

I looked at him a bit curious, then at Erica, she nodded her head to confirm, then back at the driver "um, yes" he nodded understandingly "You know, this route is cursed, I keep taking people from this route to the hospital" I looked at him with interest and he continued saying, "And if they were some minor contusions, but not, people come back from there covered in blood, sometimes with broken bones and sprains.

"I once had a case where someone lost a leg and two people were missing." He became silent, this place is bad, despite everything, everyone wants to go there, but no one made it out completely unscathed.

Curious about the conversation, I didn't notice that we had already reached the buildings.

"Okay, this is the hospital", he stopped the car in front of the building so that we could leave. When we got out, before closing the door, he said "get well soon", we thanked him and he drove away. I looked around and noticed that there were a lot of people.

I tried to see something else, but suddenly a familiar voice shouted "Ben!"I turned around in surprise

I looked towards where I heard the voice and saw Zoe and Mike running towards me. They were both dressed in summer t-shirts and shorts, looking like typical teenagers on vacation, unlike me wearing torn, wet pants and a torn and bloodshot t-shirt.

They stopped in front of me, Zoe looked at me as if I had come back from the dead, "Shit, Ben, is that you?"
"You look like you've been living in the jungle for a week and fighting everything you can," added Mike.

I looked at them, "I... need..."

"Quick help, and fast too," Erica said, leaning against the hospital wall with her arms folded.

"Apparently I look good enough to not attract anyone's attention," she said in a cold tone. Mike grimaced, and Zoe was still surprised, Zoe tried to explain "It's not like tha" ,,"Is my mother with you?" Erica interrupted, Zoe nodded her head confirming "bring her, I'll take care of Ben in the meantime" she grabbed my hand but I didn't move, I just stood there, Erica looked at me with uncertainty,

"Ben? Is everything okay?" I could barely hear her, barely make contact, the only thing I was sure of was that I didn't feel anything, I was only shaking, I could only move my head a little. Erica noticed this, raised my hand abruptly and said quickly, "There's no blood flowing to your limbs, God." , she took me on her shoulder, help me carry me, she said to Mike, Then she looked at Zoe, "You bring my mom quickly."

All I saw was when we entered the building and Erica called the nurse, then I simply lost the strength to look and drifted off.

Hi guys

I've been away for a while, but I'm back (at least for a while). I hope that I'll be able to write other chapters quickly and I'll try to use the ,,-" sign in the characters' statements, just like in the book. We'll see if it works and I'd like to hear your opinion about this style of writing. That's all bye for now.