Enter System by Tom Larcombe

Author:Tom Larcombe [Larcombe, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

Marc stopped cold and Doug almost ran into him.

“Damn it! I knew it,” Marc said.

“What is it?” Felicia asked.

“You remember when I got experience for figuring out something about the System before?”

“Yeah.”

“It just happened again. I'd been musing for a while about the thought that the System might be suppressing emotions and reactions. Everyone had adjusted far too well to the System's arrival. Well, I just discovered that the System does suppress that stuff and they start to ease up on the suppression at level five,” Marc said.

“Well, that would explain a lot,” Felicia said.

“What is it? Can we keep going?” Jeff said. “I hear baby rats and I'm thinking that one of them would make a great pet. Can you imagine it? If I feed him well, he might even get bigger than the ones we just saw. A rat bigger than a Chihuahua sounds like an awesome pet to me.”

Marc shuddered.

Well, at least we won't have to kill all of them if Jeff manages that, he thought.

The nest was in the backroom of the store. Evidently the store had carried a bunch of snack foods since the wrappers from it all were torn and shredded all over the floor.

The rats must've been using that for food, but ran out? Marc thought.

Inside the nest were a batch of baby rats, only about the size of a chipmunk. Jeff practically jumped into the nest when he saw them. There was one adult rat left and Jeff pulled his gladius and stabbed it as soon as it made a move for him. Then he slowly moved towards the baby rats.

“Anyone else want one?” he asked. “There's four of them here. I can probably handle having two pets, anyone else?”

Jack cleared his throat awkwardly.

“Um, if no-one minds, I'd like to have one or two myself. My class does get some bonuses with animals so I might be able to help others train some also if they want.”

“Anyone else?” Jeff asked.

After a few moments of no answers Jeff continued.

“Well Jack, two for you and two for me?” he said. “We'll see if we can tame these little guys.”

His hand darted down and he grabbed one of the baby rats by the scruff of its neck.

“Anyone got a bag we can tuck them in? I don't want them to get hurt, but we'll need to take them with us. If we leave them, something might eat them.”

“Hey,” Doug said, “I think I saw some canvas bags, you know like the souvenir style ones, out in the front of the shop. I'll go check, but you might want to grab those shiny things in there too, are they coins?”

Jeff tore his eyes away from the baby rats and looked around the nest.

“Oh yeah, I guess there are some coins in here. Go get the bag and I'll pick up the coins after these babies are secured.”

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