111 Nightmare Attack (2/2)
”Anta? It really is Anta!” Staring into the darkness, scared out of his wits, Sandro stumbled back. ”You’re back?! How can you…”
Crack!
”Calm down, Sandro.” The Pyramid King’s slap forced Sandro back to reality. Gazing around, he narrowed his hateful eyes, ”Someone is messing with us.”
”Boss, I-I heard his voice.”
”That is Phantom Voice. Musicians love using it to mess with people.” Sam Luo forced a cold laugh, repressing the fear in his heart. He had interacted with those legendary figures in all his years living in downtown. Those legendary figures would come do dirty work for money too.
The Pyramid King had hired some before, and had even killed some. No matter how powerful a low-level musician was, he was still a man, and would die when he had lost enough blood.
”He must be close if he wants to affect us, but there’s nowhere to hide here” he murmured. His hawk eyes locked on his underlings, ”He’s hiding within you!”
The group instantly grew restless. They studied each other in shock. None of them had expected a demon to be hiding amongst them.
”Everyone here looks familiar,” Sandro said. ”There can’t be a musician.”
Growing sure of this thought, Sam spat out, ”For a musician, changing a face is easier than changing his pants!” With his command, the men behind him raised their bows, aiming at the crowd. Stunned, the thugs began yelling. Some gripped the handles of their swords.
”Sam, what are you doing?!” someone yelled. ”We’re here to make a living. How can you do this to us?”
”No one is allowed to move!” Sam stared coldly at them, ”There is a traitor amongst you! No one is allowed to move until we find him! Otherwise, I will be dragging you all to the grave with me. Don’t blame me for being heartless!”
In the crowd, Bai Xi stepped back subconsciously. She had started to regret being here. She was here because she worried about Ye Qingxuan, but now he was going to get her killed! But what had just happened made her suspicious. Could her gentle and kind cousin really be the one who had fooled all of those thugs? Or was there someone else? Someone even more dangerous…
She looked around instinctively, observing every terrified face. But there was no trace of Ye Qingxuan. Suddenly, she thought of something. Seeing the surging darkness outside of the area illuminated by torches, she finally knew where Ye Qingxuan was hiding. ”That *ss…” she thought.
At the same time, a vague melody sounded. As if the hate sleeping in the cemetery had finally awoken, the melody resounded in each person’s ears. The melody, containing countless feelings of franticness, turned into a black river, flowing into their hearts. And so the deepest and most painful memories in their hearts were awoken, bringing with it ineffable terror.
”Monster! There’s a monster!” Bai Xi yelled in a deep voice, helping Ye Qingxuan create panic. ”Run, the Pyramid King wants to kill us!”
With that, some men could no longer take the strange tension and ran, but the Pyramid King’s men coldly raised their bows. The arrows whistled through the air, and a giant hole was made in the back of the running figures. The rune Explosion had been carved onto the arrow! Within a few moments, the writhing body on the ground stopped moving. Black blood flowed from the wound, dying the broken tiles on the path, seeping into the dirt.
”Sam has started already! He wants to kill us all…” Bai Xi yelled in another voice after changing her location. ”Get rid of him! He’s crazy…”
The crowd rustled. Anger flashed through everyone’s eyes as they instinctively grasped their weapons, but they were met with a row of raised bows.
”I said no one is allowed to move!” Sam roared. His eyes darted around, searching for the source of the melody. ”Get the f*ck out! You motherf*cker, I know you’re here!” But the sharp melody continued to echo like swords scraping against each other. It wailed with inexplicable frustration and depression, as if a vengeful ghost had climbed out of its coffin.
”I said that I will come,” the dark melody echoed in the dark and decaying cemetery. A deep voice sounded. It was polite like a gentleman, but filled with mockery. ”Thank you for preparing such an unusual welcoming ceremony. To return the gift, I want to bring you the greeting from…an old friend.” With that, the dark melody grew in intensity, rushing into Sam’s ears like a tidal wave. The chilling sound was like furious roaring, like a demon singing in hell.
Every note slammed into the weakest part of his heart. Every melody dug at his unspeakable past. The dark melody resounded in his consciousness, unearthing the nightmares entangled in his memories. The Pyramid King saw fresh blood flow from the ground. Before him, the corpse that he had just shot opened its eyes. The soulless eyes ignited with fury. It was raw hate.
The corpse’s face gradually changed, becoming rough and wild, like a werewolf. His body was filled with arrows. He had been turned into a porcupine, but he refused to die. He stared at the Pyramid King, the man who had once been his brother, ”Sam, Sam, Sam…”
The Pyramid King suddenly remembered the moment before the man had died. Lying in blood, Anta had stared deeply into him and murmured as if he were cursing him, ”I will not forgive you, Sam!” It truly was…a lifelong nightmare!
”It really is you…” The Pyramid King stumbled back. Unable to accept the reality, his face turned ghastly white, ”You’re dead! You should be dead!”