The boy looked around again and recalled the portal he was launched against, and especially the scientist.
Putting all of these together and it is clear where he was, he is in another world after the scientist for some reason sacrificed his life by self-detonating and thus the portal activated, and after that was that the boy was launched directly into the portal.
Who was that scientist anyway?
The boy knows that the scientist told him his motivations and why he created the portal, but who knows what he said?
He was tightly contained in the hazmat suit back then that even his ears are covered!
But regardless, the boy knew one thing is that he couldn't go home anymore.
"What the fuck..." He silently murmured and walked towards his left. After walking for a while, in about forty steps, he came across a cliff, to which the boy looked at the cliff, it was nothing...just clouds that leads to who knows where, is the depth of it leads to land or an ocean?
"No wonder its so windy in here!", The boy said as his hair dances in response to the wind's greetings.
His directions are lost, and unable to process what had just happened in his life, getting scolded by his mom, and then getting abducted by a scientist to transfer him to another world. This all happened in a period of just one day.
"Life truly works in unexpected ways...", He mumbled to himself, and went towards the direction of blue leaf forest, where is he supposed to go?
He has no choice but to move on, and even he can sense that he will be having quite a journey within this strange new world.
He walked towards the forests and he can hear many sounds at once in his ears: birds, crickets, and of course the winds.
As he went down, the forest doesn't get darker, instead the blue leaves grew brighter and brighter as it shines towards the dirt path paved by the unknowns, could it be humans?
Or other creatures?
The thought that there may be different creatures here lurking around the forest creeps the boy by a miles, but the cliff leads to unknown, the forest isn't different, it may lead to unknown but at the very least provides a hint or a clue of whatever that unknown may be.
"In choosing a path, one must have a slight hint of where that path will lead to, or else an aimless path will lead to nowhere but a dead end, or could possibly be an even worst scenario!", He muttered while walking around the bioluminescent forest.
The sight was very beautiful, it was very similar to an aesthetic background, the blue leaves that shines and illuminates the forest and the dirt pathway in the middle that leaves to somewhere else, and the boy in the middle, walking around to the clear path.
The unique nature of the forest, if it were on earth, it would have already been turned into a tourist spot.
The boy knows he is not alone, but he wants to enjoy this serenity for a while, rather than being stuck and having a hard life at home...
"Is this what it feels like living in a fantasy?"
An hour later of reflection and he already spaced out of his mind..
But then suddenly, somewhere around the corner of his ear, he heard footsteps in haste- no, rather it seems like its running towards his direction!
The boy widened his eyes as it obviously interrupted his session of mindless thinking!
He turned around and saw a guy wearing a cloak, sprinting towards his direction! His hands aren't shown as it's hiding beneath his cloak, rather than that, with the figure beneath his cloak, it looked like he was carrying something!
The boy widened his eyes and an instinct, "What do you-"
And an instant he saw what's behind the running cloaked guy, there are a bunch of man chasing him! All of them are very bulky and wielding a large iron broadsword while shouting angrily towards him!
"Come back here you fucking thief!!"
"You have no right to steal that artifact whatsoever! What you are doing is going to cost both of our lives in danger!!"
There are hundred people trying to chase after him, but it pales in comparison to how fast this thief is running!
"Thief?" The boy questioned
One of the hundred man spotted the boy in front of the thief's way and immediately shouted with a grave voice, "Hurry stop him!!!"
The boy snapped out of his utter shock, and blinked twice, "Huh? Me!?"
He then tried to do something, I don't know!
Stand in front of the thief's way? Even he doesn't know what he is supposed to do, so he attempted to stand in front of him and opened his arms wide.
He gulped and then said, "Come at m-"
But then the thief running towards him suddenly threatened him in a deep voice, "If you dare!"
Revealing his sharp dagger eyes, and then in comparison to his eyes, he revealed a dagger in his left arm, raising up as if looking to stab the boy in front of him without a second thought.
The boy immediately shivered and then moved out of the way, because obviously, there is no way he is willing to sacrifice himself and end his life after just being transferred here!
He wanted to shrug this off and walk to the other direction, obviously, the trouble happening here is supposedly none of his business.
The thief went passed him and luckily spared his life, the hundred man chasing towards the thief also went pass through the boy, until one of them stopped and looked at the boy with daggers in his eyes.
"You stupid kid! Why did you let him pass by?! Do you have a death wish!!"
The man wielding a large iron broadsword scolded him.
"Huh why?" The boy questioned and backed off a bit.
"Don't act stupid!!!" The man shouted even louder and then joined in to his hundred men crew again to chase after the thief.
They are all continuously screaming while chasing after the thief
"Hurry up! Hurry up!"
"Surround him from all side!! We cant let this monster escape with that!!!"
"We're doomed!!!!!!"
Everyone is panicking but the boy scratches his head, and can only question, "What is even happening here?"
He approach a certain man as hopefully the other guy this time would be gentle as to explain all the events that has been occurring right before his eyes.
"Um excuse me, what is going on?"
But unfortunately this guy wearing chain armor also replied with a scold and panic evident to his face,
"Are you kidding me? Are you an idiot or something?! That thief has the Ancient Skyline Ball! If he takes that we're doomed!"
Ancient Sky- what? The boy didn't understand what the guy clearly said, due to the panicked tone of his voice, he couldn't word it that much properly.
"We're doomed?..."
"You absolute fucking idiot, you don't know?? That ancient artifact thing is what keeps this sky island floating above the sky, if someone stole that artifact, this island will lose its balance and will fall down to the ground after about 5 hours!" The man said in a panic.
"Oh....shit..."
Moments later, the boy joined the hundred men.
"GIVE US BACK THAT ARTIFACT!!"
His voice was loud but it was drowned away by the loud noises of the other men shouting at the thief.
The boy disregarded this trouble and wanted to walk away from it, but when he realized he too is in grave danger, he has no choice but is forced to join in with the others.
In choosing a path, one must have a slight hint of where that path will lead to, but even though there is already a slight hint of the path of where the boy chooses, it still lead to a grave danger, as choosing a path is where the chooser still has control over the situation.
But if its chosen by nature in unpredictable circumstances, for example, the boy spawning in this island after transferring to another world, the choice is not applicable and is force to meet with the dangerous situation, can it still be salvaged?
"How long have you guys been chasing this guy anyway!?" The boy asked.
The guy in turn replied with a heavy huff and puff in his mouth "It's been 3 hours! Yet this guy thief hasn't budged out for a while! He has incredible stamina!"
"Do we have some sort of ladder or at least a rope to climb down this sky island?"
"Yeah, but its unclear whether its long enough to reach the ground! This sky island is after all over the height of an entire mountain and half an island!"
The boy then grabbed the random guys hand and then run towards the opposite direction.
"Hey! Where are you taking me!? I- I mean, we still have some business to take care of!!"
"Who cares about that right now! Just take me to that huge ass ladder! There are currently hundreds of man currently that guy right now! A single individual like you has no business to take care of that thief when there is a whole mob chasing after it!"
The random guy stuttered, "But-"
"But what?! You'll ruin your reputation as some sort of guard or something?! Who cares about pride if you still have a life!! Just take me to that big ladder and let's get the fuck out of this island before it collapses!"
"Besides that thief won't go to the ladder anyway! He knows there are guards waiting there so its the only safe thing we can do!"
The random guy thought about it for a second all this boy is spouting makes sense already, we only have one life! How can we bother to waste it for heroic deeds??
But the guard showed a stiff expression, he is paralyzed by the weight of his decision.
Should he move now and follow the boy? But doing so, he will live to sacrifice the rest of the elite guards.
But if he follows the elite guards, he will risk his life!
With racing thoughts, he is frozen, turning both from the boy and to the elite guards.
"So you are telling me you chose to die?" The boy said, noticing the guard's hesitation.
"Everyone is already at the bottom of this island, running away from the sky island that is fated to collapse, and those idiots are still trying to catch the thief even though they are supposed to be focusing on the civilians below to not only save their lives but also for self-preservation.."
"Additionally, the fact that thief has been running around this island for three hours while there are two hours left before this sky island collapses means that the thief is stalling you guys time and clearly wanted all of you dead so he can gain something out of your corpses!" The boy replied.
The guard widened his eyes, slowly, he thought, that the boy is starting to make some sense..
The guard looked at the boy and then at his fellow elite guards
"Should I warn them?"
The boy showed dismay, "Try it, but just so you know, those guys are willing to even sacrifice their stupid honor for the sake of the slim chance of getting the thief back. The thief obviously is playing with them, better to leave soon-to-be dead dogs behind..."
"But they are my...."
The guard wanted to say...
But at the same time, there is no space to wonder about that thought for now and dropped his armor and led the boy to the direction of a giant ladder. "Follow me, quick!"
And then turned to the other direction, leaving all his fellow guards behind.
They run for about thirty minutes of time, and with heavy pants, they finally arrived at the large ladder that is said to lead to the ground, they also saw many villagers already in there piling up and panicking.
"Faster! Faster!!"
"It's gonna collapse for two hours!! Can you guys fucking hurry up!!"
The pandemonium of villagers screaming and crying everywhere in panic fills the air.
There are currently foive different large ladders that leads to the ground, and the boy and the random guy picked the one with the least people lining in it and they finally went climbing down..