Hvisland: A VR Colony Sim Game

The bald-headed man shook his head, then dropped his knife to the ground and raised his hand.

I took a deep breath. "Get out of here, leave them. However, you must remain vigilant."

So, my colonists lowered their weapons, looked at the husband and wife for a moment, then left the place.

"Again, th-thank you." The wife wiped her tears.

I just hope this time I won't regret my decision.

My colonists continued on their way. This time, they found no obstacle. All that could be seen were large tents and scattered items. Perhaps the rest of the soldiers have already advanced to the battlefield against the mermans.

I pressed the pause button and did a quick check to the frontline. As I expected, Jia was already there to lead the troops, albeit while doing cover behind a boulder.

After a few more seconds of walking, my colonists came to a white circular tent that looked the largest of the lot. There is nothing special about the tent. Everything is plain. At least on the outside.

My colonists exchanged glances and nodded their heads, then passed through the curtain covering the tent's entrance. Once inside, I could see the rooms with cloth walls. I can't believe that all this is owned by a nomad group. How do they carry, pack, and assemble all of this?

Leva, Eric, and Manu checked each of the rooms warily. However, they found only standard items such as sleeping bags, sacks, or small wooden pieces of furniture. Sometimes, they find some women who don't wear any clothes, with bodies full of slashes and bruises, looking terrified. When asked about Kat's whereabouts, they just shook their heads. Perhaps they had been threatened not to speak up, or they would be punished.

I can't ask my colonists to force them. They've been through too much trauma.

"Weird." Eric checked the umpteenth empty room. "A tent this big must be used for the leader, right? Perhaps the man named Jia was leading an army, but wasn't he worried that this place would be invaded? Why are there no guards at all?"

"I think like you too," Manu responds while looking around. "Didn't he keep anything of value here? Or maybe he just doesn't care about all this anymore? He had already found someone he considered his soul mate, so he wanted to live a quiet life somewhere?"

"Guys?" Leva called out in a muffled voice.

My two male colonists came to Leva, who had entered a room in the deepest part of the tent. They were instantly shocked by what they saw, myself included. In a room that was quite dark because the cloth walls were black, they found things that made me shudder. There were whips of various shapes and sizes, chairs with thin needles sticking out, wooden objects shaped like oversized dildos, and much more.

"The minds of the people here are indeed twisted." Manu approached an object that looked like a child's horse toy but with a thick triangular wooden plank with a very sharp tip for the body. I can't imagine a woman being forced to sit on that sharp part. Her crotch will definitely feel excruciating pain.

Eric turned on the flashlight he was carrying. I caught my breath when I saw that there were still many torture devices in the room.

And when Eric's flashlight hit a corner, I couldn't breathe. There was a pair of legs covered in blood there. Women's legs.

"No." Leva widened her eyes at that, then ran towards it, followed by her two male colleagues. "No, Kaaaat!!!"

It was the corpse of a naked girl with bloody wounds all over her body. Her face was also very bruised and hard to identify. And her straight black hair is of medium length.

No. I my insides feels like squeezed out when I saw such a gruesome sight.

This is impossible, right?

The jaws of my two male colonists dropped while Leva knelt down with tears already starting to flow. However, not long after, she frowned.

"No, she's not Kat." The red-haired woman hissed, then looked at the others. "Her body shape is different!"

"Check her eyes." I gave orders to Eric.

Please.

Eric crouched down and opened the corpse's eyes, examining it with a flashlight. I immediately breathed a sigh of relief when I found out that this corpse's pupils were dark green instead of amber. So did my three colonists. They sighed almost simultaneously.

"We can't stay here for long." Eric took off his jacket and draped it over the woman's head. "We still have to find Kat in the other tents."

Yes, we don't have time to sit still. I ordered my colonists to get out and split up to visit the other tents.

"I feel guilty for saying this, but how about we forced them to say where Kat was?" Manu gulped. His face looked doubtful. "That would save time, right?"

Ah, maybe I really should be ruthless. Again, I'm reminded that you don't always have to follow a moral compass in situations like this.

So, I immediately prevented my other two colonists from refuting Manu. Then, I ordered Eric to pull one of the women into one of the rooms. The woman almost screamed, but Eric immediately covered her mouth.

"We've caught your friend!" Leva shouted according to my orders. "We don't want to hurt you! Our main goal is to save a friend of ours! So, everyone in this place, get out right now!"

"Please, say it now," Eric added.

No one obeyed. The women remained silent in their rooms. Leva patted her forehead and took a deep breath. "Do we need to burn this place to get you guys out!!?? We really just want to know where our friend is!!!"

"If no one will answer, we will have to do something to this friend of yours." Manu glanced at the hostage, who was already in tears. "And to all of you one by one too. Behind us is a torture device waiting to be used."

Finally, another woman came out of her room and came over to us, still naked.