55 Rainy Night 1 (1/2)
The White Eagle held out the pistol and slowly stood up against the wall. He gave the other two a signal.
The two of them immediately understood and stood up. They grabbed the guns from their waists and opened the safeties.
Kacha!
Another lightning flashed across the sky, and the light blinded the entire room.
The White Eagle pressed his ear against the wall. He was listening to something.
”Someone is outside.” He lowered his voice. ”There is more than one person!”
When his ear left the wall, mists of white dust dropped from the wall with a constant brushing sound.
”Who is there!” The White Eagle let out a deep roar as he rolled forward. Two bullet holes appeared from the wall he originally stood against. Someone had shot through the wall.
The White Eagle rushed to the door. He slammed the door open and dashed out.
Garen and Dale Quicksilver cautiously remained in the room without moving.
Garen held the gun in his hand and leaned beside the window while staring cautiously at the door. All of the sudden he felt his collar get pulled.
He turned around to discover the window was open. There was no one that could be seen outside. Rain continued to pour down, blurring the vision as close as a few meters away.
”What’s going on Garen?”
”Someone was grabbing my collar,” Garen said in a bewildered voice. ”Maybe I am just too nervous and got my clothes caught.”
Dale approached the window and peeked outside. ”This is the second floor and high above the ground. The window probably caught it. Be careful and don’t stand in front of the window. Even if you can’t see anything in this weather, it’s still dangerous.”
”Got it,” Garen responded.
Bang!
A gunshot rang in the adjacent room.
”Let’s go!” Dale dashed out of the door, and Garen followed.
The two of them rushed to the adjacent room. It was the same room from which Garen had been pushed out. It was empty.
”White Eagle!” Dale yelled.
No response. Only the door behind him creaked.
He turned around only to discover that Kelly, who had followed him, had disappeared as well.
”Kelly?” He raised his voice. He tightened his grip on the pistol in his hand, and his expression tensed up.
”The White Eagle! Kelly! Are you guys here?”
The wind suddenly blew on the half-open door as it gradually opened.
Creak!
The noise was oddly disturbing in the quiet hallway among the sounds of rain. Outside the door was a pitch black emptiness, there was nothing visible there.
Dale felt his hand holding the pistol begin to tremble. He realized something was strange.
He scanned the room.
The room was abnormally clean. The spider webs on the bed were gone and replaced with a clean white bedsheet. Multidimensionally shaped tiles covered the floor without a trace of dust.
The box at the end of the wall was spotless as well.
”This place is strange.” Gloom covered Dale’s face as he deliberately opened the gun’s safety.
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Bang!
Garen followed. He saw Dale dash into the adjacent room. The wind pushed against the door and closed it for a moment before he opened it again.
”Hmm?”
The peculiar thing was that he couldn’t see a trace of Dale who was just one step ahead of him.
”Dale!?” Garen slowly opened his safety and walked into the room.
The room was littered with dust. Water spilled on the floor in front of the window. Someone stood in front of it with his back turned.
Garen looked carefully. The person’s clothes resembled the White Eagle’s.
”Dale?” He questioned with his voice lowered.
Tatata.
He heard footsteps behind him.
Garen turned his head and saw the White Eagle run into the room.
”Where’s Dale?” The White Eagle asked breathlessly. ”Someone was in the room beside us. I didn’t manage to catch them.”
”Dale was beside the window?” Garen pointed at the window as he turned around. He was shocked to discover that the figure had disappeared. It was as if it had vanished into thin air.
”What happened? I just saw someone at the window!” he said in a deep voice.
”Could you have made a mistake?” The White Eagled walked over, frowning. He examined the floor by the window. ”There are no footprints. There’s no way that someone was standing there.”
”That’s impossible,” Garen said firmly. ”I am confident that someone did stand in front of the window. Oh right, where is Dale?”
”Isn’t he with you?” The White Eagled asked with agitation.
”I just saw him rush into this room, then all of the sudden he vanished! My vision got blocked by the door for less than two seconds, and he was no longer here!” Garen said with seriousness.
Kacha!
Lightning painted their face pale white.
”This is going to be a problem.” The White Eagle’s face became sober. He took out a match to light up a torch he’d brought with him. The bright yellow light slowly lit up a small portion of the room.
All of the sudden, he thought of something. His expression changed as he leaped beside the window and looked down. The dark grass field was empty. He let out a sigh of relief.
”Dale only came in one step before me!”