Chapter 22

The adrenaline streamed through me for so long that I had become numb to its effects.

The fear of death hitting me at every corner and turn. It might have seemed selfish, but at the moment, I could only care about myself and nothing else.

I needed to survive and therefore, I simply did not have time to grieve. If I didn't survive, then who would carry the memories of my family? The memories of my sister, my closest friend, and the person I held most dear to me?

And no matter how cowardly it might have seemed, running was the only thing I could do...

And therefore, I was going to dedicate every part of my being, every organ, tissue, and cell, to make sure that I would survive... To make sure I run as fast as possible while surviving for the next 7 days.

Getting up, an unworldly amount of determination flickered in my eyes as wiped off the tears and snot that had trickled down while I had been sobbing silently.

'I am weak... I don't have anything that would make me stronger than the beasts in this forest... The oxygen levels on earth in this moment of time are way too high, meaning everything in this forest would be enlarged making them extremely strong in the process.' I touched my chin and began thinking of ways that I would somehow be capable of surviving for more than a week.

It was only then that an idea hit me like a lightning bolt crashing down on my very being as if the thing was right in front of me the whole time yet I happened to be too blind to see it.

'Of course!' A wry yet excited smile stretched at the corners of my lips as I looked towards the location where I had come from, unable to understand how I had been lucky enough to survive the encounter with the dragonflies.

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5 hours quickly passed as my encounters had dramatically dropped ever since I had been chased by dozens if not hundreds of beasts. I couldn't understand why I was the only one getting chased since many of the beasts I saw were instinctually enemies, yet I could only guess that the reason was due to the red energy I unleashed before collapsing into a slumber, yet even after 5 hours of thinking, I could understand how and why it occurred.