Cast Out (Book 1 Done; Book 2 In-Progress)

Chapter 6

Currently: Walking through the Boundary Forest after realizing they were lost and picking a random direction to go. Zhang hopes they're headed deeper, but everyone else is hoping they're headed out of the forest. Misa and Alexa suspect the MC of being more than he says, while Zhang remains oblivious.

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In a large mansion, there was a room where two capsules could be seen.

One of the capsules was empty, and the other was occupied. Clanking noises could be heard from the capsule that was unoccupied, as it parts of it were removed and thoroughly examined.

The man who had been taking apart his capsule slowly stood up.

"Cr*p! I can't believe it... They actually decided to go forward with it..."

He looked over at the person that was in the capsule next to the one that he partially dismantled.

The man inside it wasn't even a few feet away from him, but he knew that at that moment, both he and the man might as well have been standing on different planets.

A complicated look was in his eyes as he stared down at the almost 40 year old man lying down in the capsule.

"Stay safe Raes. I hope to God that I'm wrong, and it's all just in my head."

With that, Caesar went to task putting his capsule back together before the man he considered his brother decided to come back to Earth.

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A weird feeling washed over him. Wahshi had the strangest sensation that somebody had just been staring at him.

Looking back, he only saw Misa and Alexa walking together.

Both Misa and Alexa immediately averted their eyes. Most people wouldn't have caught it, but Wahshi was not the average person.

'Something's off here...'

Their surroundings were far from quiet. The sounds of birds, insects and different animals were always with them.

Even though he'd never had to trek through a forest before, even he knew that the most dangerous time would be when everything went silent.

Being around so much wildlife, it was normal for it to be noisy. You knew there was something wrong if everything suddenly went quiet.

But it didn't feel like that at that moment.

'It's still noisy in our surroundings which means that none of the insects, birds or small animals have run away from a dangerous predator yet. Which should mean that there's no danger around us. Why does something still feel off then?'

As the last rays of the sun disappeared, he suddenly realized what exactly might've been happening.

Zhang was clearly leading them all deeper into the forest, since the last bits of direct sunlight was now covered by the tree canopy. The forest vegetation had gotten so thick that he was almost up to his knees wading through it.

Despite the obvious signs that they were headed the wrong way, no one said anything at all. That, coupled with Misa and Alexa's strange behavior meant only one thing.

'Sh*t, they know I'm a Player!'

It was clear that they were luring him deeper into the forest to kill him, where no one would know about it.