Shadows of JiangXi

[Kriss92]

After several miles Alexander Vorobiev stopped running to catch his breath, and to check the contents of his backpack. He lit his lighter and started to examine things in the backpack.

"Night vision goggles, should put them on, some light sticks, boots, gas mask, a rope, i'm sure glad i took that with m'-"

Alex's thought was interrupted by another strange sound coming from the darkness, so he put out the lighter, and decided to use the night vision goggles.

"Allright, maybe it was just the wind" Alex thought "right, got to wear the combat boots quick, otherwise my legs will freeze, and continue heading south."

With the much warmer and more durable boots on, Alex stood up, and was ready to continue running, as the radiation sensing equipment started bleeping again.

"What the...? I have to get out of here, now!"

Alexander started running again, and soon he was able to see a little bit of light, so he turned off the goggles, and kept running.

Once he got to the spot where the surroundings could be seen, Alexander saw that ahead of him was an old farm of some sort, the only problem was that between him and the farm was a canyon with clouds shielding the bottom from being seen.

Something moved in the nearby bushes, so Alex took the AK-74 gun and turned to them. A human-like shape was approaching him from the bushes.

"Stay right there, or I will shoot you" Alex shouted at the shape coming his way

"Khelhjnb kfhdsff shfhfhfhfh foood" the shape replied in what appeared to be it's own language

"I'm not taking my chances against that" Alex said to himself and shot 8 bullets into the chest of the mysterious shape.

"Kheljnb kkshh bleah" the shape was making sounds after falling to the ground

Alex walked closer to the mysterous shape, saw that it had once been a human, but now had mutated into... something because of the radiation

"Burn you, урод, you" Alex said before putting the two remaining bullets in it's head, and reloaded the AK.

Alex took a cigarette out from his pocket and lit it, he was exhausted, and his shoulders were really showing him what pain is all about. The sight itself was epic, a man, with some anti-radiation equipment, sitting on an edge of a canyon, smoking, like a little lit match....

"I should check how deep it is" Alexander decided to take a rock and throw it into the canyon "one...two...three seconds. Where's the bang? Probably clouds shielding the sound from coming up," Alex was ready to get up once again, he had finished smoking, and a sound of the rock hitting the ground reached him "what was that..? like thirty seconds? Well, i don't want to fall in there anyway, who knows what lives down there, if I manage to survive, but now i have to get over it, not think about falling in it. I've got a plan..."

He took the rope out from his backpack, tied a rock to it, and tried to throw it to the other side. First time he missed it by 5 metres at least, so he tried to throw it again. Missed again, then Alexander remembered a technique olympic sportsmen used to use at throwing a bag. He spun for two seconds, and then let the rock go, this time he hit the perfect spot, the rock along with the rope tied around a metal post near the edge on the other side, so Alex tied the rope to a tree on his side of the canyon, took a short piece of rope and thought:

"I should be able to slide across using the rope, as the other side looks slightly lower than this one, but the rope would probably catch fire, i need something else, that wont catch fire that easily..." Alex spotted the empty AK-74 mag on the ground "this wont catch fire, i'll use this one, yeah.. Stopping shouldn't be much of a problem as the difference between the two sides shouldn't be that big"

Alexander tied the mag to the rope, took his backpack and everything else and began to slide across the canyon, using the ropes, but he accelerated much faster then he thought, and soon Alex crashed into the other side of the canyon at a decent speed.

Alexander almost fell in the canyon, but held on, and screamed in pain so loud that multiple echoes could be heard. He barely could climb onto the other edge of that canyon. Then Alex took another piece of the rope and tied his right hand to his chest in a 90 degree angle, it was obvious that nearly all bones in his right hand were broken, and tying up his hand was the only way Alex could bear the pain. His right hand was not to be used for shooting anymore.

"Can't... let pain stop me..." Alex repeated to himself while being on his knees "Get up, Sascha, you don't want to die here, you are a survivor!" -he continued while getting up...

With a facial expression of pain like no other you'll ever see, Alex started walking to that old farm, and the radiation meter started bleeping again

"Oh, no, not again!"