96 4.20 Round and Round, The ScaryGoRound (1/2)
We drove somewhat like more than 30 minutes before stopping. We looked on the right and we were surprised that we had driven and somehow stopped in front of the archway of the abandoned house.
We all checked the time and found that it was already past 4 pm and dusk would soon ascend on this cursed piece of Land of A Thousand Smiles. Everyone looked at the guy who had accidentally knocked the offerings altar and his features still showed his worried and dark looking shadow. I looked closely at his forehand and saw that the personal light had nearly being diminished and this spelt trouble.
”Pornsak, his light is nearly gone out. This must be due to his over worrying of the time he knocked over the offerings altar in the way out. This is bad, right? Is there anything we could alleviate his situation right now? It seems that his diminishing light is the cause of this unusual phenomenon. ”
I tried not to hide the fact that one of the SPI team members had fumbled in the last minute and this brought disaster to the whole expedition team.
Pornsak reached for her phone and found that she had no reception at all and everyone flipped their phones to find that it was the same as well.
”Alright, be calm everyone. This situation is not as simple as it seems. It may be due to his mistake or some forces had used his foot to kick over the offerings altar earlier. We can't dispute any of this matters right now but there is one possibility. We need to get out of here or we would be stuck in time. ”
”Stuck in time.” I thought to myself as I myself had already been stuck in time, era and Dimension. I wonder if Max would suddenly appear and help us, but what could a 3d holographic image of a man do in this kind of situation?
”That's true, no one is to be blamed. We can only blame on the wandering playful spirits. Do you, Pornsak and HunNaa able to see those spirits with your third eyes earlier?”
The team leader of SPI spoke and I suddenly realised that I had not been able to use my third eye within that zone. I looked at Pornsak and still saw her crescent-shaped third Eye on her forehead. I pointed to my forehead and she just nodded.
”Frankly speaking, leader. We were not able to use the third Eye within that zone. As if it was a Web of magic miasma that prevents us from exercising our supernatural powers.”
Upon hearing this, he let out a long sigh and began driving ahead again. This time they saw the pushcart vendor lady and stopped alongside her and disembarked. We all sat at her makeshift table and benches and ordered a round of pork tail noddle which we had ordered from her earlier during lunch time.
I say down opposite Pornsak and noticed that the surrounding area around us was slightly covered by a white mist which was not present earlier in the day. We dismissed it as some kind of pollutant from some burning rice husks and stalks as it was the harvesting season.
But the Mist that was enveloping the area did not smell like it was burning at all.
The more I looked at the pushcart vendor, the more I became sceptical of her. Usually, before she was jovial and talkative and when we had ordered the food from her, she walked as if she was nodding along and her feet somehow was bound. She looked a bit drab in her clothes now than before.
The pushcart vendor came to our table with her head bowed. She placed the 8 bowls of pigtail noddle and everyone fetched a bowl to their sides and started to tick in. I looked at the vendor lady and found something amiss and I held her frail hand as she was about to leave.
”Wait, Na... What year is this?” Some of the members were oblivious of my questions as they started to stuff mouthfuls of noddle in their mouth, munching and swallowing them.
The pushcart vendor lady just shook her head vigorously from left to right as if it would drop off from her shoulders if she continued that way and never stop soon.
”Answer me, Na. Who are you and what are you doing here? And where is the school across this field? You told us that you would leave by 3 pm but it is now 4 plus and yet you are here serving us meals. Do I think if you might be at this right moment of time?”
Soon, one by one stopped eating and placed their chopsticks beside the bowl. All eyes were on me now as though I had become delirious and seemed out of my mind. The only persons who hadn't touch the food were Pornsak and me.
I held on to the vendor's hand tightly and the veins bulged in my left while she continued to shake like a marionette that sells snow ice in the streets of Kaohsiung night Market. I never leave my gaze for a moment as I am about to confirm the being right before my eyes.
”Speak!” and as I shouted that I stood up, took my rusty nail from the back pocket and thrust it into the back of the vendor lady's left hand. The rusty nail penetrated her hand, a blackish liquid sprayed out and it penetrated the table midway. The vendor lady screamed in agony, looked at her hand, then at me, and then to the rest of them. Sprays of her saliva seemed to escape as she screamed with a wild wide-eyed look at the next thing that would fall on her.
Suddenly the noodles in the bowls all turned to a pile of maggots, worms and all those squirmy wriggly icky centipedes and those who had consumed that earlier immediately doubled over and retched what they had eaten! Out came their mouths, as green bile and parts of those vermin that had been partially ingested by them. Half bitten bodies, legs and other indescribable parts of the vermin exhaled from their mouths as they coughed and retched even their breakfast out.
Everyone was disgusted and kept retching up until there was nothing else to expel. Teary-eyed and with snot snivelling down their faces, they just wiped it with the fronts of their tee shirts or their sleeves.