Crash-landed On An Island With Nine Beauties
Chapter 93

"I can't believe this."

He was scrolling through the system window, checking out all the skills. That would be his hundredth time doing that. It seemed as though he wasn't getting enough of it. Probably it was way too good to believe.

"I probably should exchange points for all the skills."

He nodded to that and started to click on several skills which his fingers tapped. He didn't for once check out the costs of the skills, instead, he went ahead unlocking all the skills till he got to the last one. "No way... did I really unlock all the skills? And features?"

His eyes scurried to the experience points which he had left.

"378k experience points left. Wow! This is way too good to be true."

He allowed every sense of judgement in him to absorb the feelings which dominated his mind at that moment. It was very exhilarating.

Suddenly, he pushed the system window back in. He looked around him. He couldn't tell precisely where he was. It was late and gloom had gotten the best of the woods.

"Where am I?"

He strained his eyes to see where he was. He wasn't with a torch, and the moon wasn't up either. It was quite a disadvantage to him.

"How am I supposed to get to the Boabab tree without hitting my head on several trees."

The realization of that thought was quite scary as well as its consequence. Thinking about it alone sent chills down his spine.

Suddenly, his eyes began to sting.

"Ow, my eyes. It hurts."

He put the back of his hands to his closed eyes, rubbing them with urgency yet delicately. He couldn't ruin his vision because he wanted to feel comfortable. If you asked him, he had no idea what was happening to him at that moment.

The stinging graduated into burning. It seemed as though his eyes had been set on fire. It hurt so bad that he couldn't itch anymore, he only groaned and danced around in wild ectasy. Without warning, the strange and uncomfortable experience stopped and his body system seemed to be back to normal.

"What was that about?"

He touched his eyes. He couldn't feel any iota of pain.

"Why did it hurt so badly? I thought I was not going to see anymore. I thought the system would take my eyes because of the many skills I have just unl---" Suddenly, he noticed two round blue lights on the trunk of a tree.

"Huh? What is that?"

He walked briskly to the standing trunk and touched it. When he did, his hand interfered with the projection of the illuminant and dropped on the back of his hand.

"Huh?"

He got more confused. The size of the two balls of light was the size of a baseball each. What was there not to be confused about?

He looked away from the trunk and the light followed. He looked to another direction and the light did the same.

He began to shake his head, muttering,

"No, no way."

He gulped. There was a sudden realization which had just hit him, but he was reluctant to entertain it. He just couldn't. Perhaps it was too early to do so.

He stopped looking to and fro and looked to the earth. The two baseball-sized lights fell on the damp earth.

He shrugged. The more he tried to shake off the ideas which were forming at the depth of the consciousness, the more he embraced them unconsciously. It seemed as though his mind was playing some sort of tricks on him.

"It can't be. No way..."

He gulped, as he slowly put up one of his hands. He didn't look at his hands yet. He kept pushing up the arm slowly till his left hand was at the level of his chest.

Then slowly, he raised his head and arced his vision to the level of the hands. He looked at the back of his hand. Only one of the balls of light could seat gracefully in the back of his hand.

He gulped again, his heart pounding heavily in his chest. He was very nervous, but he had no idea why he should. Probably because he was in denial of the fact which was conspicuously presented to him. Seated in front of his eyes.

He put up the other hand, not too close to the first nor too far. When his second pupil fell on the second hand, the second ball of light dropped.

"Oh shit... my eyes are torches! Electric torches! What the fuck!!!"

He was caught between the claws of emotional hurdle. He didn't know which emotions to nurse. Whether to be happy or confused. Or scared. He had hard time doing that.

But then suddenly, as though his brain finally came to a conclusion, his face broke into a wild laugh.

"Oh my God!!! This is insane. What is this called?"

[Ping! Host activated the Lunar Vision of the night. Duration: The fall of the night until the sun rises.]

Damien didn't need further explanation. He nodded to what the system had said.

That moment, he allowed a feeling which he rarely gave room; he was grateful to the system.

"This is cool. I can get this over with."

He began to walk up the path, as quickly as he could.

"This isn't helpful."

He decided to use the zoom function. He zoomed through the woods to the cave where he had found the wolf and Evelyn. Before going in, he activated the invisible gait. He walked into it and searched through.

"Where is she? Is she not here?"

He walked out and zoomed to the castle. He walked into the castle. The girls were eating. The castle was lit up with torches.

He couldn't take note of what they were eating. He didn't care.

"If she is not here, then where could she possibly be? She's neither at the cave nor here."

His eyes squinted for a moment.

"No, no... that can't be. I trust Der, she would take care of her."

I TRUST DER?

He couldn't believe that he said that himself. He still had grudges to settle with the wolf.

He zoomed out of the castle. He decided to check the other safehouse, but neither of them were there.

"Where could she be?"

He bit his lower lip. He zoomed out of that space and halted in the woods. He flipped out the system window. The torches in his eyes helped a lot.

"Let's see if the system would be useful. Cos I don't see why I would have a myriad of skills but wouldn't be able to use them when I need them most."

He began to scroll through. He scrolled and scrolled until it felt like his finger would burn from scrolling.

"I can't believe that this system is so usel--"

He choked on his words when he noticed two skills that were in assembly.

"What is this? Could this be it?"

"Nether TV? Nether TV pro?"

He chuckled at how funny the names of the features sounded.

"Oh, they are features."

He nodded then clicked on the first one.

"Nether TV, let's see what you can do for me."

As he clicked on it, a different window hovered before his eyes.

[Ping! Nether TV: Place your request.]

"Uhmm... my request."

He didn't want to make a mistake. He pursed his lips and thought for a while.

"A TV should show me where someone is right?"

He nodded. It seemed as though he had finally gotten a grip of it.

"Show me where Evelyn is."

He came to a decision.

[Ping! Nether TV: Browsing through the jungle.]

"Wow, how interesting."

Damien admitted.

[Ping! Nether TV: The location of Evelyn found. Only one moving image matched the request. Search minutes: 3 seconds.]

"What's it saying?"

Damien was quite impatient. The TV went static for a while then suddenly popped up the image of Evelyn. Oops! Not an image, but a video of Evelyn sleeping. "Oh... Wow... Evelyn..."

That seemed too good to be true. Damien's wild eyes said those.

"But where is this place?"

He studied but couldn't come to a judgement.

"It seems like she is in a hut. But this isn't the safehouse. Where could she be?"

Something hit him,

"Wait, could it be?"

He shook his head.

"That's impossible! Why would she go to the village of the Cannibals? By the way, the huts have all been demolished... so, that does not make any sense."

[Ping! Nether TV: Fifteen seconds more to shutdown.]

"Huh? What the fuck! Fifteen what?"

As much as he wanted to argue, he knew he didn't have much time. That wasn't the time to argue.

"Could you make the camera go around the room."

He wasn't sure if that question made sense. Probably he thought it was a CCTV.

"Wow..."

There was a movement in the video which exposed other angles of the room.

"The surfboard!!!"

He screamed when he saw the surfboard which was leaning in one of the corners of the room.

"I know this place."

He didn't wait for the TV anymore, neither did he push the system window back in, instead he zoomed off.

It was just a wave of the air and he was already at the front of the hut. The hut which wasn't far from the foot of the Boabab tree. The hut which he had given to Der to sleep in.

"Why does she move from one place to the other?"

He argued.

"I thought she lived in the cave but now what?"

He dumped the thought.

"Where the fuck is that dummy?"

He looked around for the wolf but couldn't replace her. He got tired of searching.

"After all, I wasn't here to replace her."

He grunted in displeasure. He walked back to the hut and strode in.

Evelyn was lying on a mink. Damien remembered, he made this few weeks ago when he was bored and wanted to try something new out. Plus he had also made it because of cold.

He dumped the thought.

He slowly walked into the hut. When he got to her, he went on his knees and lay beside her. He wrapped his arms around her and activated the visible gait.

He pushed his body closer to her to feel her warmth.

"Huhnm..."

He heard her mumble, moving slightly. With his arms passionately wrapped around her in a cuddle, he closed his eyes.

He didn't seem to be scared of being caught.