1 A chance to live

James smith regarded as a genius that came once in a century , he already had his masters and ph.d at the age of 25, he studied mechanical engineering, today was his wedding day well an impromptu wedding his fiancee Lily had forced him to come to the civil affairs office today as she managed to slip out of her parents custody, her parents never really approved of James because he had too much of a commoner background

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James smith wore his suit hurriedly, He was getting late for signing his marriage contract. He quickly got into his car and zoomed off, while cursing at every traffic light he got stuck at.

A yellow car could be seen at the other side of the highway moving at a shocking speed of 90 miles per hour, police cars could be seen pursuing the highspeed driver, A helicopter was in the air tracking the yellow car's movement

" The road's been cleared, we have men at the end of the road, He's trapped now"

" he's made a sharp turn right, sh*t is he trying to get himself killed" The police man in the helicopter cursed, The yellow car had made a sharp turn right it crashed through the road pavement and fell down the hill smashing into james's car on the road, the impact had started a fire, both cars were caved in.

Screams could be heard on the road, people were panicking, as the flame on the hood of the cars kept rising higher and higher, The police took action swiftly, they cleared the area as the fire trucks came, the fire was put out as an ambulance came, the health workers poured out as the officers forced the two doors of the respective cars open, as the two heavily injured men, as they were placed in the ambulance, A major surgery was conducted on the two

two days later, The news were announced the suspect had been successfully treated and the victim was still in coma.

James's fiancee (Lily) visited James in the hospital, she blamed herself for rushing the wedding, The doctor called her into his office.

" Miss am afraid your husband has entered a vegetative state, the chances of him waking up is one in a thousand"

Lily fell backwards,the doctor hurriedly went to support her, her head was feeling heavy she felt like she could die from shock.

"Miss, I know this is hard for you but you must make a clear decision now do you want to keep in a vegetative state or do you want, well otherwise"

The doctor knew it was hard for her she also knew any woman would be on the verge of having a mental breakdown placed in lily's current situation, but if she didn't tell her who will

Lily thought about it she couldn't let him die, she also couldn't bear watching him in such a state, if she let him live it would seem she was doing it for her own selfishness and others would advice her to put him out of his misery

'but who cares about what they think' she thought

"I want him to live " lily said in between her tears

" But it's ex..."

"You don't have to bother about that " Lily interrupted she was already determined to let him live besides her family was rich and had high ranks in the government and military money truly wasn't a problem.

Two weeks later, The suspect had been taken to court he was sentenced to death,This was a doing of lily's family, meanwhile at one of the hospital room's James laid, he was punctured with so many IV needles with bandages covered almost everywhere on his face he looked like a mummy from ancient egypt, no one knew he was still able to think he was able to remember what happened , he thought to himself how he wished not to die as he kept remembering the scene the car hit him from nowhere the first wish in his head was to survive was to get to the civil affairs office.

Suddenly a cold voice spoke "suitable host found, transmigrating soul " as the voice finished he could feel himself being vacuumed out, he saw himself in a coma on the hospital bed, he was seeing himself in a third person perspective

'did he die'

he didn't have time to give the situation more thought as everything suddenly went dark, he felt like he was transversing through a bumpy road

After some time the bumping feeling came to a halt, he slowly opened his eyes what he saw was a gray sky

'last time i checked I was in the hospital about to die, suddenly am here outside and wait isn't the sky supposed to be blue' he thought

He tried moving his limbs it was fairly easy, the sense of feeling seemed to come to him, he felt something spiky on his back he jumped up he was actually lying on the sand

He was trying to make heads and tail of this situation of this

' First am in a serious coma then am here lying on this sand '

James wondered, he suddenly thought of something could he have reincarnated in another world, he only heard of this in webnovels he never really thought it was actually possible

"Welcome, Host" the cold voice sounded in his ears again

He looked around warily he didn't see anyone or anything

"Who are you, and where" James called

"You need not worry am your system I will be helping you accomplish your task" the voice responded

" Wait what system, task am i dreaming" James responded to the voice confused system task it felt like he was day dreaming about webnovels again,

"I can assure you this is not a dream this is a test if you pass you go back to your world"the voice was even colder as it responded

"Wait but aren't i dead..."he asked

"Your body is still alive in your world, If you pass the test, your body will be healed and your soul will be transferred back, if you keep asking questions I'll send you straight to hell" The system said it's voice as cold as ice

'What kind of cold system did i end up with this cold system that doesn't even like answering questions why the hell are you calling yourself a system' he cursed wildly in his mind

"So what's the task "

"Main mission: escape from this ruined world in 365 days

Time left: 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 27 seconds

Completion: return back to your world in good shape

Failure: soul sent directly to the deepest parts of hell

Today's mission: adapting, survive 24 hours in this desolate world

Reward: ???

Failure: soul sent directly to the deepest parts of hell

"

The system finally finished telling him the task

'wait what does it mean by ruined world' James thought as he surveyed the world for the first time

Apart from the gray sky and ash sand the place was devoid of any life for a long range if not for the temperature he would have believed he was in a desert as he walked around he tripped on something he turned to look at what he tripped at he felt a chill run down his spine it was a decayed human skull it had nearly been turned to sand, This wasn't a ruined world this was an abandoned one how was he even going to survive not to talk of escaping

And failure didn't even mean death or judgement he would be sent directly to hell

well it was all for a chance to keep living he thought he will give it all he had.