Same Life, Different Choices!

Bai Lang was surprised by what he saw outside. Some mountains seemed to have popped up out of nowhere. Up in the air there were some gigantic birds mid-flight. On the ground some humans seemed to be turning or were already turned into zombies. Some of the already turned zombies started to attack the people whom didn't regain their senses yet from everything that was happening.

In the streets some caves had popped up. Out of which you could see some little green dwarfs appear. No, Bai Lang thought to himself, those are definitely not goblins. Goblins don't exist he screamed inside his head!

The zombies seemed to be the humans which the god had dubbed 'unlucky test subjects'. Luck is really that important thought Bai Lang? Why do I suddenly feel like what's to come next is alot harder then it could have been if it didn't depend on luck he complained inside his mind. I never felt that particularly lucky in my life....

But maybe Bai Lang thought let's look at the upside since I wasn't lucky before the event, I get to be lucky now since I never used up any luck? It's sad that Bai Lang only would figure out in the next little more then 25 years that this wasn't really true sadly enough.

Before Bai Lang could get over the surprise of everything what happend some fellow humans which were attacked by the goblins or zombies seemed to be able to fight back. Some humans screamed while they got devoured by zombies or goblins. Other people suddenly seemed to be able to form ice or a fire wall which kept the zombie and or goblin away from themselves. Other conjured a sword out of nowhere, but were to scared to use it and threw it down and started running away. But where could they go? The whole world was chaos.

From his window Bai Lang could see a husband pushing his wife into the mob of zombies to get away. At the other end of the street a child's crying was attracting the monsters, therefore the mother decisively put down the child turned away and ran.

Bai Lang was stunned is this what the world really has come too? For once Bai Lang was happy for his upbringing. Bai Lang was raised knowing the cruelties of war and the sacrifices it required. While also being taught that not every human could bear these responsibilities and burdens. Bai Lang always considered that to be true, but right now Bai Lang could see with his own eyes what happend when people were made responsible for their own safety and the safety of others and what choices people would make when bearing this responsibility under the threat of life and dead. Bai Lang quickly realized it would turn most people in actual monsters although still being human.

It made people ruthless because people were absolutely terrified and able to do almost anything to ensure their own safety. Bai Lang realized ofcourse there would be some exceptions to this rule. People who would die trying to save and protect family members. But Bai Lang also realized that these people would be in the minority. Besides these 'good people' whom sacraficed themselves died, which would mean that even if their would be still 'good human beings' they would be in the vast minority after the start of Paradise, especially since people with an actual good heart were even scarce to find before the start of Paradise.

Before Paradise started a stranger might lend you a helping hand. It didn't take Bai Lang long to realize that after today that would be a thing of the past. No human would help another at risk of their own safety. Realizing this Bai Lang was scared of what the future would hold.

Bai Lang thought about everything what happened after the world changed. He recalled the feeling of being dunked in a big tank of ice cold water. During this experience Bai Lang also registered screams coming from outside during this time. Bai Lang made the assumption that this feeling was in some way related to powers some people got? The zombies what about them Bai Lang thought? Are they the humans who failed to go through this transformation and therefore became 'failed test subjects' aka zombies? The more Bai Lang thought about it the more plausible it felt to him that this was the indeed the case.

After living in Paradise for two years already Bai Lang felt like he knew everything there was to know about the ruthlessness of humans. However Bai Lang soon realized that he still underestimated the true meaning of cruelty humans were capable of in the second year after the start of Paradise. In the second year his still then fiance Claire ( whom he never married since he promised Mitzuki not too) ran ahead of him turned around and blocked of the exit behind her.

Through the window which was busted a long time ago he could hear Claire crying. She cried about how Bai Lang tripped and fell twisting his knee. How Claire had gone back to help Bai Lang but he refused her help and let Claire go ahead. How Claire decided to run to get Georgi's help. But before she could get Georgi's help, Bai Lang was ambushed by zombies. Claire continued by depicting how horrible it was seeing Bai Lang die screaming for her to get to safety.

Bai Lang felt like he was hit over the head, how what happened? He clearly ran back to help Claire when she tripped. After helping her stand up some zombies were nearby so he had to take them out first, which gave Claire the chance to run ahead of him and that is when Claire locked him inside. When Bai Lang was about to call out that he was still alive, Bai Lang heard Georgi say Bai Lang wanted you to be safe. It isn't safe here move out.

Bai Lang was absolutely godsmacked by the fact that the group abandoned him within just a few minutes without even checking if he really was dead. Especially since this group had his family members, his fiance's family and soldiers under his brothers command.

During there two years Bai Lang made sure to make himself usefull to the group. Since he wasn't a soldier before the end of the world he obviously wasn't as skilled a fighter as everyone else. However that didn't mean he couldn't fight at all?! Bai Lang fought himself never dragged people down in his group and protected himself with the skills he acquired from the training Bai Lang received while he was young.

All the studies Bai Lang did while he was young came in handy to. He invented alot of gadgets with drops and the new materials which came to the world. Did research on the classes of this God game system and what it entails so people wouldn't chose something that didn't fit them. Bai Lang was sure he didn't lie if he said he was one of the reasons, one of the important reasons why the group was even still alive today. Because of his, Bai Lang's, research and his gadgets?! And they just left him for dead without taking a minute to check, if he was actually dead?

Bai Lang felt utterly betrayed for two years he was running on fumes too make sure to give everything to a group whom never really seemed to appreciate him much. But Bai Lang figured he was just imagining things because of his low self esteem issues, which Bai Lang had struggled with since he was young. Bai Lang felt like he gave them everything and they couldn't even wait a minute to check if he was dead? Bai Lang felt utterly dispirited. This was even made worse when Bai Lang was finally able to make his way back to HQ in the evening and everyone had moved out. The entire group had moved out without even leaving a note for the chance that Bai Lang was still out there. Bai Lang realized his brother and parents thought he was dead since Claire told them he was, but not even leaving a single clue behind about to where the group was going confirmed to Bai Lang the entire group thought he was dead and accepted this as a fact and moved on without any problems. This was the day Bai Lang completely gave up on humanity. The only one Bai Lang still held hope for was his best friend Yao Mitzuki, but was he even still alive?