Remain Human: Changed

Part 8: Sewer rat (Part 2)

10:09AM

The feeling of the water through your boots was a feeling that you have long since become used to, along with the possibility of getting Trench Foot.

You kept poking the murky water with the dipstick much like how a blind person would use a guide stick to feel his way around.

You'd been walking for what you assumed was for a few kilometers within the tunnels, though lately it's been going straight and more taller now. You're legs have long since dulled to the feeling of water inside your boots and socks and you're fairly confident you've got a serious case of Trench Foot. You briefly pause to rub some sweat off your forehead.

So far, you've been lucky to not fall face flat into the dark murky water because given how cold this place was, you wouldn't stand a chance of surviving both Hypothermia and whatever disease that you'd probably contract here. Dipsticks' been real helpful. 

Out of sheer curiosity, you pull out your phone. Even though most comms services are down, this particular GPS app once popular back then can still work just fine even though the map that it currently uses is pretty much outdated and can even track your own location. 

You turn on your location and waited for your phone to load up your location.

Sadly, considering you're deep underground, the GPS was spotty and the little blue dot that represented your location kept glitching around the road where your ATV fell. 

But it was the area where the road collapsed after all so you roughly knew where you were.

You were actually retracing your steps now that you look at it but a few turns here due to low-visibility showed that you were actually heading deeper into the city area. And considering that most parts of the city were bombed to all hell back then, it made pretty good sense as to why a sinkhole formed over yesterday.

Not like that info's gonna help your current situation right now. You're gonna have to keep moving and find a way upwards.

Maybe just maybe, you'll see the magic ladder at the next bend...

Maybe... maybe...

1:46PM

Another crossroads this time. All 3 tunnels leading into inky darkness as the water reached your mid-thighs.

Judging by the way the water was faintly moving through dropping some pieces of lint from your pants pockets on the surface of the water, straight ahead.

Already at the back of your mind you had a feeling you won't be getting up topside as quickly as you'd imagined doing as you began wading through the water, loud sloshing splashes echoing through the tunnels.

The tunnel continued to take a bend or so for the next hundreds meters before you stopped.

Letting the water around you still, or as still as smoothly flowing water can get, you listened intently. You heard something while you were walking and it was coming from where you're going. Sounds like a mixture of rushing water and loud booms from the looks of it. 

Well, might as well take a look. Probably the only interesting thing you've ever found that wasn't random pieces of flotsam in the dank water...

1:52PM

Huh...

Right in front of you was actual open air. Open rain to be exact. 

You're standing near the bottom of a chasm of sorts. About 10 or more meters wide, rather long way forwards before turning towards the left and nearly 2 floors deep you wager. Between both sides of you were the unmistakably torn-down man-made sides of foundational structures and broken off basements segments, complete with piles of broken rubble, rebar, pipes and even a shell of a car some distance away.