*Gasp*
With a loud gasping sound, Alan found himself back inside of his apartment living room, still laid on the couch though his upper body had risen, his chest rising up and down quickly as he slowly came down from the panic that was currently coursing through his body.
'What… what the hell was that?' Alan thought to himself as his breaths slowly started to calm down whilst his mind wandered back to what had just happened.
His mind still felt somewhat foggy, the memories of the dream that he had just had already starting to turn slightly confusing however there was one thing that he could still remember clearly as day and that was the last words that the shadowy figure had uttered towards him as the world had broken down and he had woken up.
'Do not trust… do not trust what? What exactly was that thing trying to warn me about?' Alan thought to himself, it was at this moment however that the jazz music that had still been playing on the radio at the small round table by the floor to ceiling windows started turning into static instead.
Getting up from the living room couch, Alan slowly walked towards the table and looked outside, it had already become morning, he had likely slept for a few hours though he did not know how many exactly, the world outside however was bright, though not sunny, infact the entire street seemed to be engulfed in some kind of white fog that almost swallowed half of the buildings on the street.
'That… certainly doesn't look nice, especially with how the system isn't working and the fact that another being came inside of my dreams and warned me about something whilst at the same time talking about the system which no one should know anything about.' Alan thought to himself whilst he looked at the street, the static that was coming from the radio at that very moment cleared up as the voice coming from it changed.
Even though the static had cleared up, the radio didn't go back to releasing the sound of jazz music like it had before once more, instead the voice that came out of it was a masculine voice, someone talking formally like a teleprompter of sorts.
"Ladies and gentleman, a military site has recently exploded in the area and the resulting gases have spread, the police and fire fighting forces and even part of the military has been deployed to deal with the situation. Please do not leave your houses in the meanwhile as it could be dangerous, whilst this situation is ongoing, the entire city will be on lockdown. I repeat once more, do not leave your houses or apartments." The teleprompter voice said through the buzzing radio whilst Alan's eyes slowly but surely widened in both shock and confusion.
'There are no military bases anywhere near here, at least none that I know of, and at the same time, an explosion of that size that would have caused the city to be affected by gases would most certainly have been heard, however I heard nothing yesterday. And the supernatural events that happened… wait… could this be?' Alan thought as his mind whirred into action, going through everything that had happened to him until now and then he finally reached a conclusion that he was certain was most likely to be the case of what was happening around him.
'The system said that I cannot enter the system dungeon because currently I'm partaking in some kind of supernatural event and thus I cannot teleport my body out of it. This entire scenario, the military thing exploding, the radio, the shadowy figure and the falling asleep and dreaming of the ocean and everything about this…. It's all part of the event or the scenario… this could be system related instead of… something that is caused by some other real supernatural creature, that would also be why I cannot leave, because if the system itself created this scenario then it would also have the ability to interfere with other system functions such as the dungeons whilst something real like what happened with that damn skin-walker couldn't do anything about the system.' Alan thought as he slowly came to a conclusion before his brain finally came to another realisation, that cemented his thoughts about the entire situation even further.
'And the reason as to how that shadowy figure knew about the system and how I have yet to die even though the system has been exposed to another person besides myself… that also explains it, if the system is behind this entire thing, then it all makes sense.' Alan thought before he shook his head for a moment and then looked back down at the street for another moment before walking way only to notice a note on another table that he hadn't noticed yesterday.
'Not that I didn't notice… that table wasn't there yesterday when I slept, I'm more than sure of it, my intelligence stat is way too high for me to forget something like that.' Alan thought for a moment before he walked to the table.
The table was of a simple dark wood circular design. On it was a piece of paper with a few numbers written on it whilst a phone was located on the wall right above the table.
+XX XXX XXXX - Security.
Looking down at the number written on the paper and then up at the phone, Alan gave a shrug before taking the phone in his hand and pressing the numbers written on the paper quickly and then clicking on the call button.
*Ring…*
*Ring…*
*Ring…*
The phone rang three times before a clicking noise was heard from the phone as the call connected to the other side of the line.
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