My Lucky Encounter From The Game Novels & Stories

For a moment, just a moment, the army approached and the ghosts won. “You can see me?” Lucky said, sinking into her chair, her voice small and weak. Arms reached, their fingers flexing to find and grab and wrap around her neck. Tiny mouths opening to taste her flesh. To bite and suckle. “How can you see me?” Revenge spitting from painted red lips or snarling through yellowed teeth. “Stop,” Lucky said. “Please, stop. I’ll be yours soon enough. And you, all of you, you slaughtered, forgotten nameless—

Before he could finish, he suddenly clutched his chest and collapsed. Lily’s little face scrunched up in worry as she hurried to hold him, and I rushed over too, catching his body before it hit the floor. The game’s rules clearly prevented NPCs from revealing any direct information about how to clear the scenario. Then came the sound of footsteps outside the door—‘thump, thump, thump’—each one heavy enough to rattle my eardrums. Lily leapt into my arms, trying to shove the fallen boss aside with her tiny body.

That day, I was walking along the beach as usual. The sky was heavy with storm clouds, the kind that collapsed without warning. I was about to turn back when something rustled in the jungle. Something moving low, fast, animal-like. I froze, not knowing whether to step forward or dodge. And then, Adrian burst out from the other side of the path. Everything slowed. I turned, confused, and saw it. The muzzle of a gun spitting fire. A bullet slicing through the air toward my back.