1 Chapter 1: Global Incident

Two years. It has exactly been two long years since I have transmigrated into this world.

Now that I have thought back on it, I can't help but mock myself for being naive...

At first, I thought that I was some sort of chosen one that would turn the world upside down. Someone blessed with good fate and luck, as long as I would work hard enough and give it my all I would achieve everything.

But... I was wrong... No, everything, every single thing was going very wrong since the 'Incident'. I mean literally Everything!

It all started two years ago, it was when televisions all over the world suddenly stopped playing shows at the same time... Only a single channel on the television was present, it made everybody a little scared at first but it all soon changed to pure curiosity an hour later, that is because every single government around the world announced one single thing on social media at the same time.

But, we didn't know that that message was the beginning of our end... The first sign is that humanity might just face extinction at our very own hands.

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Announcement: We would like to apologize to the entire humanity for the unforgivable mistake that we have made. We, the WUSA organization (World Union Strategic Alliance) have made an extinction-level mistake. Long story short, we have unintentionally provoked extraterrestrials, an advanced universal species that are said to be natural conquerors, they have located us and are currently traveling towards us at the speed of light hoping to bring us under their control.

Based on our studies, they have Black Insect-like bodies that have been enhanced externally, causing them to develop upper-level defense with terrifying instincts but low-level intelligence. And to the results of our calculation, we will face an extinction-level threat within 3 days. We will be providing you support to the best of our capabilities, head to the nearest shelter in your area and avoid open spaces. Once again, we have sinned against humanity and we are sorry. And remember, survive to the very best of your abilities, you are our humanity's only hope!

- World Union Strategic Alliance

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And after reading that message, chaos ensued all over the world no matter what their nationalities were.

At that time, It has only been a few days since I had been reincarnated into this world, it was the day humanity received their extinction letter and also the day where I witnessed our truest self.

Death. A concept that sticks with us eternally. Due to having been transmigrated into a parallel world to mine, nothing was different. Except for having no identity and home, as my memories have not yet integrated with me at that time.

At that time I was walking across the streets, it was just a normal day like any other. Except for the chaos that ensued, people were running around the streets looking crazy, some had bloodshot eyes while others tried to evacuate.

"I'm gonna kill all of you before doomsday arrives!" A man holding a butcher's knife was in a crazed state, he slashed at every man that he came across no matter the age.

Two people have already died at his hands, while three more victims were slowly bleeding to death.

"Head to the nearest shelter!" Another man with a beard shouted, he held a baton on his right hand as he tried to maintain order.

Peep! Peep! Peep!

Countless cars honked at the same time due to the panicking populace, some had even already crashed amongst the others resulting in even more accidents.

Zack, who was also panicking for a different reason, suddenly went towards the nearest shop and closed the door as he docked behind a wall that contained a window just above him.

'Damnit! Did I transmigrate into a zombie type of cliche or something?' He thought as he looked at his own body. He was slightly malnourished, 'Shit! I won't survive in this world if that is the case!'

Clang! Ka-boom!

Something exploded, he didn't know what it was, and he doesn't have any reason or intention to know either. Looking around, he noticed that he was in an empty little store.

He quickly crawled on the ground not wanting to be seen, as he crawled towards the back part of the store. He quickly grabbed a small camping backpack on the shelf and a few others.

He looted the store while observing the outside part of the store, people were running around the streets with bags and different luggage present in their hands, though he ignored them and quickly looted across the store.

He didn't know what is happening, but he knows that it ain't something that he would be happy about. As a transmigrated person, he thought of different possibilities, it was either of these, zombie apocalypse, mana gates opening around the world, aliens trying to take over the planet, animals mutating, experiments going wrong, or any kind of cliche problems. He wasn't sure, but he knows that humanity is going to be in danger in some way or another, and he plans to gather necessities to survive the event.

Luckily, there wasn't anyone that went inside the store or Zack might have hidden as best as he can hoping that he won't be caught.

After looking around the store for a few more minutes, he was barely satisfied with what he got but that was enough for now. His life was more important that materialistic items that he wasn't sure he could even successfully carry.

Escaping through the back door and heading towards an alleyway, he peaked his head before running away comically with a backpack and a few plastic baskets.

Exiting through the other part of the street, it was also the same here, chaos was ongoing. But it seems to be a little better than the last one, no one was trying to kill each other and instead was escaping through a few military vehicles.

"Quickly! The shelter only has a limited capacity, a few seconds late and we might have to survive for yourselves." A middle-aged man in a military uniform shouted as he raised his rifle to the sky.

Gunshots sounded, while the civilians pushed around each other hoping to get a spot on the military vehicles.

"Get out of my way!"

"Please, take my daughter with you!"

"I have money, I will give it all to you, help me get in!"

"Stop pushing me!"

Wreeeng! Wreeeng!

"Wait! Don't leave!!!"

"Stop!!!"

"No!!! I don't want to die!"

Looking at all of this, Zack sighed before ignoring all of them as he hurried towards a pickup truck.

The door was open, making Zack excited, but a problem arises, a teenager that was bloodied up was carrying a few backpacks as he tossed them inside the pickup truck, he was with a little girl that was at least the age of 12 or something around that age.

"Fuck me! It's either do or run around the streets!" He cursed his luck before heading towards the teenager.

The teenager saw me walking towards them causing him to suddenly pull out a knife, a bloodied knife, I stopped for a second before trying to negotiate with him.

After a minute or so of discussion I was already getting annoyed at him as I was about to try my luck and disable him, but we both noticed that the surroundings became even more chaotic making both of our faces look ashen.

People were stealing each other's cars while some outright murdered them, bullets shots were flying all around the place making me dread my current reality.

As I was about to do or die in stealing the pickup truck, a scared voice sounded in both mine and the teenager's ears.

"Brother, let's leave quickly, they're coming towards us!" the girl, about the age of 12 years old, said panicky as he urged his brother to hurry up.

Gritting his teeth, the teenager nodded before glaring at me, he then said with great difficulty, "Fine, I agree to our last discussions and conditions. You will drive while we will be sitting on the passenger seats. And remember you better stick to your promises, or else!"

"Sure, sure, whatever you say kid." I quickly entered the car before handing him one of the plastic baskets that I brought with me, it was one of our agreements.

So basically the negotiations went like this:

I give him one if my baskets with food and necessities inside, while I won't talk to them during our journey outside the city, except if they would talk to me first. I will be driving the pickup truck while they stayed on the passenger seat, they would keep the pickup truck if anything would happen to us.

I was a little irritated at the conditions, but I quickly agreed. Staying in the streets while negotiating was one thing, while staying on the street with crazed people was another that I would like to avoid.

Holding the steering wheel, I quickly started up the pickup truck, but it wasn't working like I thought it would. I tried turning the keys on, pressing the gas pedal, and any other button, but it was useless.

My face was black as I stared at the kid, and to my surprise, he was also panicking, seems like we both didn't expect that the pickup truck won't start.

It was at this moment:

Clang! Clang!

"@#£$&©€"

Someone was trying to steal our pickup truck, he was shouting in a foreign language that I didn't know of while swinging a metal bar on the door of our transportation.

"Damnit!" I tried to keep myself calm even though the girl on my side was crying to her brother as loud as she can, I mean can't she just shut herself up!?

As the sound of clanging continued, I still kept on turning the keys on, before it finally happened.

The car turned on, with a grin on my face and with the duo's happy faces, I stepped on the gas pedal as hard as I can leaving the man that tried to steal our car to himself cursing us.

It was a few minutes later, before we had finally escaped the city. Thankfully we didn't encounter any kind of traffic, or I might have really started raging from madness at my luck

Looking at the duo's face on my side, I smiled and said, "Hehe, ain't I great?" to which I received a death glare from the brother, while the girl just nodded her head like a pecking chicken.

I don't know what would happen next, but I was sure that I would do my very best to survive in this new world, a world parallel to my previous world.

Smiling to myself, I continued driving towards the empty road in the middle of nowhere while hoping to find a safe place to avoid all of this trouble.

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An hour later.

On the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees, both Zack, and the teenager of which he later managed to learn the name of, was called John. They were both standing beside the road with different expressions, while the girl, John's sister, was called Samantha Smith and was currently sitting inside the car.

"So your telling me, an organization named WUSA claimed to have provoked some sort of alien like bugs with enhanced hard like bodies, and left us to survive on our own while they enjoy some sort of bunker for the rich or something like that?" I asked him for the second time to make that I was not hallucinating or overthinking the problem, I then muttered as I added, "A fleet of aliens, WUCA organization, mass chaos, extinction level threat... Is that all of them?"

"Yes, that's about it, no other information was given I think... So basically, doomsday is coming in about 3 days, and I plan to find a safe place to stay with my little sister... How about you?" John asked carefully, having his hands on his pockets holding a bloodied kitchen knife knowing full well that we were only using each other previously to get out of the chaotic city.

'Seems like my plan on living peacefully until old age is nothing but a dream at the moment, so I either die heroically or become alien fodder huh...' The odds were against me, I neither have a trained body nor the legendary transmission golden finger, a system or an old man in a ring.

"How about this. We will stay as a group for now until you and I find a place that we could belong to. Which means, work together, share survival items and information and such." By proposing such an outcome, my fate will either be sealed with them for the sake of survival or betray each other in difficult situations.

Which, I, of course am a little worried, I mean, literally aliens are coming, my partner would be a teenager with a sister complex, a loud mouth brat, low supplies, low survival skills, limited information... I could keep on going for a few more minutes on our disadvantages, but I quickly stopped and pointed towards something making John glance back, we noticed a car that was slowly moving towards us at the distance.

It was a red car filled with scratches, something that don't go well with me, I was about to hide behind the nearest tree before I heard John say:

"Sure, let's team up for now..." he said before he went and grabbed his sister out of our pickup truck, a bloodied knife was present on his right hand while his left hand was holding his sister, he went towards me and bumped right at my left shoulders before slightly nodding.

'Maybe teaming up was not such a good idea on my part...' I though while knitting my eyebrows for a second before they returned to normal at the next second.

Knowing what he was getting at, I just smiled and also nodded as I pointed towards the nearest tree with a smile. Signalling them to hide for now and ambush if necessary...

His sister was surprisingly not crying and was instead looking at me innocently, 'Seems like she didn't notice anything as of yet...' I thought while slightly waving at her.

After they were done hiding, I just stood there silently before I faced the incoming slow car and slowly waved my right hand with my left hand on my back, I appeared like a gentleman in the middle of the forest welcoming their arrival.