Dungeons Appeared in Real Life Chapter 3

Merry Xmas!!

I stand with Pochi again in front of the hole.
The purpose of this time is also to explore but the main is rat hunt.
Because it is past 15:00 now.
At this time, I don't have time to explore hardly.
So, the rat hunting is the main reason.
I will return whether the rucksack fills up or if it's 17:00.
I set the alarm on the smartphone so that I can know the time.

Then, shall we go?

I proceed inside the hole.
The destination is the same as before so in the first crossroad, I go to the left.
As I proceed, I arrive at the place where we fought the rat for the first time.

There were three rats.
As for what the rats were doing, they were doing cannibalism.
They were eating the rat which I killed and just left.
Besides, I don't know it whether they are absorbed in eating or just ignoring me, but they don't look at me at all.
Anyway, this is an opportunity.
I signal Pochi to be quiet and slowly approach the rats.
Then, I approached the position where we could attack, but they are still eating.

I raise the hatchet and swing down it at the crown of the head of the rat.
The hatchet crushes the rat's head and the rat dies.
After this, the others rats finally stopped eating and started intimidating me.

But, such a thing is useless now.
I pull out the hatchet and cut at a rat nearby immediately.
Because of the wound, the rat squeals and rages, but it is not a threat.
I raise a hatchet and swing down it at his neck to give the decisive blow.
The hatchet hits his neck wonderfully and cuts off his neck.
With this, only one is left.
This one has been already knocked down by Pochi.
The battle ended without any problems.

Well, that is because these rats were small fish.
Leaving that aside I have to bleed them.

I invert it with a hind leg to bleed the rat I knocked down.
After a while, when blood stops flowing, I open the rucksack and take out a plastic bag and put it in.
Then I will put in the rucksack.
About half of the rucksack was full.

Still, I will continue.
Well then, would we move a little further?

For the second time, we move forward.
Then, we reached the place where the second fight was.
There, it was supposed to be the rat that Pochi knocked down, but I can't find like that.
There were only blood streaks.
Apparently, it seems that it was eaten without leaving any chips.

There is no help for it even if I stand straight in the place.
Let's go ahead.

As we go forward for a while, we strike a crossroad.
This time there are three paths.

Ummm, where to go?
I don't know where to go, then, do we go with intuition?
Ah, that's it.
Do I let Pochi decide?

"Pochi, which one do you want to go?"

When he listened to me, Pochi sniffs the ground.
He was sniffing for a while right, left and middle, but raise his face and barked toward the middle.

"There?"

When I ask he points to the middle, and he squeals "wan"

"Ok, let's go there"

We advance to the path that Pochi choose.
After I advance for a while, I notice that there was a rat ahead.

I see, did he chooses the path which had a rat?

As the number was one, I get rid of it without problems.
I bleed out this one too.

After a while walking, I understood that the light is getting stronger.
I thought what it was and tried to approach it, but Pochi hindered me chewing the hem of my pants.

"What, Pochi? Is there something?"

Pochi makes a small bark as affirmation.

"Is there danger?"

A small bark again.

"Really. Hmm, what to do?"

At this time I cannot make a fool of Pochi's risk perception ability.
Even before there were several times it saved me.
Therefore, I understood that it is dangerous.
However, if you do not know how dangerous it is, you can't deal with it.
Saying that I decided to go slowly without making noise.

As I move slowly, it turns out that the place where the light is getting stronger was a little plaza.
And, I also notice that there is something on the floor.
However, because it's still far away, I can't tell what it is.
I advance more cautiously and slowly.
Then, I came to find out what was on the floor.
There were rats.
However, the amount was awesome.
Not one or two, surely there are ten or more.
If you don't do it wrong, isn't it over twenty?
A lot of rats were gathered in that plaza.

It is no joke.
I cannot do anything against such large number of rats.
See here, Pochi too stops.

Slowly, I turned back so as not to make a noise.
I caught a breath at far enough distance.

Yup, I can't do it.
Let's go to other places.

Then, I return to the crossroad.

Now, because the middle was useless, it's right or left.
Before I choose left, now we go to the right?

I choose the way without thinking too deeply.
Anyway, there is no information to judge anything, so there is no point in thinking.
At such time I decide quickly.

Then, as I moved on that road there was a development similar to the previous one.
There was a plaza, and there were lots of rats.
I also felt like it was slightly less than before, but it doesn't change that I can't do much anyway.
The remaining path was similar too.
Reluctantly, I came back to the first crossroad.

When I returned to the first crossroad, and take out the smartphone to confirm the time.
It has just pa.s.sed 16:00.

It's still all right.
Well, let's go this way.

I go to the right of the crossroad.
As I go for a while, I saw a light.
I continued as it is and there was a plaza.
But, unlike the previous three places, the number of rats were only four.

Ok, what to do?
I was fighting only up to three until now.
Moreover, I managed it because I took them by surprise when they were eating.
But, this time it's not so.
When it comes to fighting these guys, is it safe to go?
If I attack, if it goes well I may be able to beat one immediately.
Even if I could leave one to Pochi, it remains two.
Is it a little tough?
In any case, how can we reduce the number?
Or, if I can distract them, I wonder if it will be possible.

I was wondering what to do with the rats, but a good hand doesn't come up.
I dropped the rucksack on the premise of fighting.
At that moment, an idea comes up.

These guys, they are cannibals.
Perhaps.

When I think so, I take one rat out of the rucksack.
I cut off one of the extracted rat's legs.
And I throw that leg towards the rats.
Then, when the rats recognize the thrown rat's legs, everyone headed for it.
The rats start fighting over the rat's leg.

It worked!

Okay, that was what I thought.
If you give a small amount of food to the rats, I thought they will start a compet.i.tion.
It hit the mark.
The rats caught the small bait and it became a considerably radical compet.i.tion.
They start biting, scratching, tackling, etc.
The rats which were dropped out from the compet.i.tion, have weakened enough to say that they are already dead.
The two who had been fighting to the end also settled, the loser is weakened and the winner also got full of scratches.
There is no way to miss this chance.

I gave a signal to attack the winning rat to Pochi.
It's faster to let do it to Pochi than me.
I judged that it was good, in order to not let the rat rest even a little.
I swung the hatchet to the remaining three of them and cut off their neck.
Because the three rats were damaged and weakened, I didn't have any difficulty in cutting off their neck.
Because I finished the three rats, I tried to head to Pochi, but It was already settled.
Pochi was sitting, looking at me.
And, He was waving his tail as much as to say that he wanted to be praised.
Of course, I praised Pochi firmly.
If you don't praise firmly at such times, he won't hear what you say.
So, I don't cut corners at all and praised (patting) until Pochi was satisfied.
After I process the rats, I put them on the rucksack.
Now that the rucksack has become almost full, I decided to leave.