Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4 – The Sweepers
Nightfall Night signified the cold It also signified death
An enorh the ruins, its pitch-black forht as its beady little criht The area around it was rife with ditches of water The water was a deep green color and thick with the aura of rot and conta been steeped within that foul water
There was sorohich could be seen in spots throughout this area, eht wasn’t enough to illuht see
The giant rat vigilantly scanned its surroundings Finally, it caiant tunnel This was perhaps a transportation hub of the Old Times, or possibly an entranceway to an ancient, enor fro worlds… but by now, none of this mattered
The giant rat hesitated, unsure of whether or not it would go in It could serous scent
Right at this ht could be seen, followed by the sounds of ether
The giant rat was so startled it instantly dove into that tunnel A few seconds later, it eiant rat’s screeching sound continuously recede, aled deeper and deeper into the tunnel Finally, the giant rat’s nashi+ng, and chewing sounds
A few ht from a torch shone over this place
Mad Dog stared at the enormous ruins before him, a frown on his face “You sure this is it?”
The fat arette in his mouth “The layout here is extremely complicated Supposedly, those bastards are pretty sly It’ll be dangerous if we try to force our way in, and we’ll also set off the alarms It’ll be hard for us to wipe’m all out”
Mad Dog frowned even more “Then what should we do?”
“Why do you think I brought so h his question was offensively stupid, then tossed his half-sround “Rookies, send in the bait!”
Several of the ers “Y’all deaf? Slyfox told you to move it!”
The scavengers were both cold and frightened The yawning black tunnel before them seemed to be the entrance into hell itself By now, even the most foolish of them could tell that they were here to just serve as bait, bait to lure some people out That was it!
But… did the scavengers have the choice to refuse? Only if they couldbullet Otherwise, none of them would be able to escape Slyfox’s pistol!
The scavengers had no choice but to be driven into the tunnel, raising their torches high as they slowly shuffled forwards
“Be careful in there, rookies” The fatslowly in a relaxed h the tunnel “Take things slow Let the pawns stay up ahead of you”
The tunnel was both cold andstench of rot and decay, and it held ae-covered tools that lay abandoned Many hout the tunnel, and it was filled with the signs of dangerous creatures living within it
Cloudhaas terrified out of his senses, but also quite puzzled For so towards him from an unfathomably deep part of this dark tunnel He had never sensed anything like this before The feeling was both subtle and indescribably peculiar
What secrets were hidden within this place? And ere those powerful excavators planning on doing?
Ancient ites that littered the tunnels The scavengers were also able to see many suspicious traces, such as tattered bits of cloth, aniealed pools of blood But the layout here was quite co for twenty or thirty minutes, no one was able to tell which direction hich
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
A shrill sound rang out fro across a blackboard The sound was ear-piercingly sharp, and it rang out continuously, sometimes loud and so from
Darkness is so out the most primordial of fears, and the fear of the unknown can multiply all other fears a hundredfold!
The scavengers halted their advance, their bodies stiff with fear and their foreheads covered with sweat They didn’t know if they were to advance or to retreat The darkness around the their nerves to fray evenpoint already
“AHHH!!” A scavenger suddenly let out a horrifying, blood-curling screa which they would never be able to forget At some point in tis The vast s looked like beetles, but there were also long, centipede-like creatures that were hanging fro up their bodies The entire area was filled with the things
Cloudhawk frantically began to brush away at his clothes, his leg, his stoun to crawl all over his body He hadn’t felt theun to burrow their way into his flesh He frantically clutched at his torch, pushi+ng the blazing flaainst his own body It was better to suffer heavy burns than to let these bugs eat their way into his body and kill him!
Bugs! There were bugs everywhere! They were clustered so tightly and were so nus was before them!
Even the boldest of ht By the tis, it was already far too late By the time they tore their clothes open, they found that their bodies had already been transfornizableabout underneath their skin
“NO!”
“AHHH!”
Several scavengers let out horrified screas all ih every available orifice, and if they couldn’t find any they wouldtheir teeth
“RUN!” The scavengers were already at the point of co out, it was like a spark going off in a rooht The blazing fear burnt away all their rationality and intellect, causing all of thean to flee in every direction
A few ion Before any of them had the chance to so much as relax, the ones at the front stumbled into some sort of trap
Whoosh!+ A large bucket of powerful green acid was overturned above the the acid to be poured over their faces and bodies The powerful, corrosive acid instantly began to eat away at thee clumps of acid-eaten flesh and hair to fall off their bodies as bloody blisters began to appear on their faces and their hands
“AHHHHHHHH!” A scavenger let out a horrified screaht now, he looked just like a de at his acid-eaten head out of blind instinct, with the result being that he hi a bloody skull The flesh on his fingers had also withered away, leaving only the bones… but oblivious to all of this, he continued to just scream like a madman
Cloudhawk stared at this horrifying, breathtaking sight He was stunned and unable to give voice to his astonish overridden by an even ht – these were all carefully prepared traps, traps laid out by sentient, intelligent beings!
A sharp spear suddenly stabbed through the darkness The scavenger’s chest was pierced through as easily as paper, and the terrifying strength behind the spear caused both it and the scavenger to be nailed firmly to the wall
A steel hook shot out as well, reaching out towards one of the fleeing scavengers and ripping off half of the flesh fro, continuing to scream madly as he fled as fast as he could His blood and intestines gushed out for quite a few round, all traces of life having fled him
This was a slaughter This was butchery!
“Don’t be afraid It’s all a trap If we just…”
The scavenger didn’t even have a chance to finish his words before a long knife cah the darkness The knife wasn’t that sharp, but its wielder was so terrifyingly strong that the knife sliced all the way through the scavenger, froh to the lower flank The man was ripped in half, and the blood from his bisected body instantly sprayed across the faces of those around him
His organs flopped out to the ground, and they were still pulsing
The scavenger didn’t die right away, but all of his ‘courage’ disappeared All he could do was let out an absolutely inhuman scream, filled with such despair and horror that it was like aaway at the spirits of the survivors
Is that thee creatures in front of him, the likes of which he had never seen before The creatures were completely nude and unclothed, but their bodies were corowths that looked like the knots on a tree or tree roots Fronarly, wart-like growths
They also had large growths atop their heads which looked nant tus, with knees that inverted backwards instead of forwards This gave the creatures superior running abilities and leaping abilities As for weapons, they pri knives, spears, and stone hammers
There was at least one thing which the excavators had told the truth about – there really were sweepers here!