Creak… creak…
This place seems to be like it does not even have any people in it. Even though he knows that this place was abandoned by the people or the people who have been massacred, it is the first time in his whole life that he has reached a place that is totally devoid of people.
Tap!
Tap!
Tap!
The silence can be said to be a little creepy as even the sound of his footsteps, he can hear it clearly. This place really fell out of this world. Even he, himself felt out of place.
Most of the houses that he just came across, most of it already crumbled to the ground. Right now, Nasrul saw one of the houses that can be said to be intact from the condition that it is still maintaining the shape.
The house can also be said to be located right at the intersection. A great way to create a blind spot.
Looking at this, Nasrul stops for a moment.
(Do I want to continue or not?)
The question lingers in his mind for almost three minutes before he makes a decision. To move.
There is no other choice he can take except that. He had no food or water. A basic necessity for humans. It is between whether he died of dehydration or died from an attack by Kabane.
Even though he made that decision, every step he takes it feels like there is an iron chain that shackles both of his hand and leg. His body feels like a ton of lead is strapped too.
"Ha… Ha…"
With a silent step he moves toward the house while putting his hand on his mouth trying to contain the sound of his breathing.
He is only an ordinary person that never crosses something that puts his life on the line and now he comes onto it. Any ordinary person already crumbles down on the ground but he still moves and takes the next step.
He is the one that decides it, so he needs to confront it.
He felt right now that he wanted to crap and run as fast as he could from this place. But he still takes the next step again.
When looking closely at Nasrul right now. His hand that holding his mouth trembles really hard and he even uses another hand to support it. Even his leg shaking hard showing his fear right now and also not to mention his eyes right now almost tearing up.
If he does not take this step, he will not be alive. If he does not take this step, he will not be able to stand the pressure and might cause suffering if he is bitten while living an eternal hell until death claims his life.
No matter what choice he makes between long death and immediate death, he chooses the latter. A choice that one will not make even though most know. This fear. You can see from the reaction that Nasrul displays right now.
Creak.
The moment that he took a step on the stair of that house, all the hair of his body stood up and almost caused him to pee right now. The fear almost kills him.
Nasrul lingers in that same spot while closing his eyes on whether to continue or not.
Creak.
Biting his own lip, he continues on while moving slowly and carefully at the same time.
Three more steps.
Two more steps.
One more step.
He reached the door of that house. The door shut with only a slight opening. He does not know what is in there but he remembers watching a movie about what to do at this time.
He moves toward the wall beside the door while holding his mouth with one hand and the other supports the hand that holds the mouth. He almost tears stricken.
Slowly and slowly moving his ear toward the wall.
"Umph…"
Only a soft sound of wanting to cry that occasionally escapes his mouth. If you do not stand beside him and put an ear near the mouth, the sound is only audible to that reach.
Nasrul put his ear to the wall trying to hear whether there was any sound coming from it.
5 seconds.
10 seconds.
20 seconds.
40 seconds.
One minutes.
After an entire one minute! Then he detached his ear from the wall.
Nasrul is not entirely sure but there is no sound coming from the house meaning that most possibly that there is nothing that can move in the house present. It gave a little hope in his heart to survive this.
He crouched down and then moved toward the door. He moves really slowly so as not to cause any sound escape.
Right now, Nasrul is barefoot. It is unbearable for modern people like him to walk barefoot but this is what saves him. A person that walks barefoot does not emit sound if you have not intentionally tried to create it.
He put his hand on the door frame and using a little energy and as carefully as possible push it a little.
He then tried to take a peek into the interior. With the sun in the middle of the sky right now, the light creaks into the house from the opening in the roof and from the door to reveal the inside.
Looking at the inside and making sure that there is nothing in there, he pushes the door more to open it fully.
After fully opening it, he falls down. His leg cannot take anymore as the feeling of relief comes to it, it reduces the supply of energy to his leg. Even though he should get up, Nasrul stays sitting in that position for a while to calm himself down.
"It is safe. This place is safe."
Saying the word that unbefitting of a man, Nasrul sprawled out on the floor and lay there for almost ten minutes.
What human is more afraid of?
Tiger, monster, zombie, Kabane!
No, it's the unknown!
Nasrul never met this Kabane that was supposed to be an enemy but he knew the strength of this creature. They are strong and not easily defeated.
Unlike zombies in the movie, if need this Kabane can run as fast as the steam train. There is also the variance.
Just a normal Kabane is already stronger than how about the other, they are strong. As a normal human he cannot even match against ordinary Kabane, nothing can be said about the variance.
After contemplating this thing, Nasrul then gets up and looks at the outside of the house. Unlike before, right now he is calmer than before.
He already experienced the fear just now, and now he has his guard down from feeling of relief. Looking at the surroundings of this house, there is nothing around it that can be said to be dangerous.
After that he looks inside the house again to check what is available to him.
There is water that can be said to be accumulated from the raindrop in a vase shape. There is an opening at the top from the light that the sunlight penetrates. This opening is directly on top.
The water also has a clear color, he thinks that he can use this for drinking water.
For food. How can he say it?
The only thing that can be constituted as food here is the mushroom that he found growing from the wall. The wall of this house is made from wood so there is an edible mushroom growing on it.
From his experience looking at the mushroom here, it is brown in color. Not an attractive color, maybe it is not poisonous. He remembered looking at pictures of this mushroom before.
He also has a look at the place where people grow mushrooms for business. There was a tour that allowed him to see what kind of mushroom was exported out.
This mushroom has the same color. There is one thing he hopes, hopefully this is not poisonous mushrooms.
The sky is almost dark, so he takes one of the chairs and puts it in front of the door forming a triangle. This can make the door harder to open and make them not think much there is someone here.
Nasrul then goes toward a corner that can hide his silhouette and shadow from being spot on. Waiting for the night to pass peacefully.