Alomitsu

Chapter 18: Studio City (4)

In my horrified gaze, the red-robed old man’s body was squirming, and the old man’s feet, which  were like plump grapes, broke open. The cubs of mice drilled out of the plump bubbles.

These young rats went against the argument of time. In the span of a few seconds, the small rats grow into their adult form. These rats had a rotating pattern on their backs, and the old man that they ran out of, had his body completely covered by the rats, who were stacking on top of each other in the shape of a pyramid.

The rats’ piercing screams were akin to two steel weapons constantly rubbing against each other. The sound of tearing gave me a headache, as I staggered towards the stairs behind the throne.

I couldn’t run back, because the way back was a dead end, and the more important thing was that I hadn’t met Rui, and I could only find Rui and escape by going deeper.

I stepped on the blue light and shadow stone slab and made a crisp “squatting” sound. I didn’t run very fast, but It wasn’t that I didn’t want to run fast. The harsh sound was shocking. I couldn’t distinguish between east and west anymore, and my head hurt more and more.

When I ran to the stairs, I turned my head and looked at the old man in the red robe sitting on the throne. His waist was covered up with mice. His vine-like hands pointed to where I was, and the person under the red robe could not be seen clearly. His face made obscure words intermittently.

What he meant to express was probably, “Darkness is coming, go hide.”

Did I hear it wrong, or were the old man’s teeth grunting? My head hurt too much at this point and I couldn’t tell. I was like a patient with epilepsy, shaking from the blue light and shadow ladder behind the throne and falling and rolling off.

When I fell down the stairs, I hit my head. It was just as painful as if I really hit the stone steps. Fortunately, the beach on the ground did not make me fall heavily on it. The heavy white sand resisted a large part of the impact.

The piercing headache disappeared, and I slapped the sand on my body before standing up. The red-robed old man didn’t chase me, but stayed in this magnificent palace. I didn’t know what he was doing.

Sorry, I was not at all curious what he was doing. I wouldn’t go up again, as at least, him not chasing me was the silverlining.

The magnificent building was the middle point of this road. If the road ahead was the road of high officials and the rich, the road behind me was completely different.

In the second half of the blue-ray silhouettes, their shapes were like ancient savages that have not yet metamorphosed. They showed a strong and sturdy body, their hair was scattered and covered their faces. Everyone held a wooden stick in their hands, and the top of the stick was tied with a stone, which represented the Stone Age. Let’s call these figures aborigines for the time being.

The light and shadow city wall surrounded these seemingly barbaric blue light and shadow aborigines. They couldn’t go out. I tried to beat the city wall to see if it could penetrate it, but unsurprisingly, the city wall was still the same sturdy wall I remembered it to be.

These aborigines were sitting together with their mouths constantly open. They were communicating, but there was no sound. This was good, as they made a lot of space for me to move forward.

The road ahead began to curve, starting from the beach and heading into the coconut grove, as if it was leading me to their jungle tribe.

In front of the coconut grove, it was the first time I saw an aborigine who had escaped from the group on this road. He squatted on the ground with his hands gnawing on something and made a real “click” sound.

After hearing this sound, I immediately bent down carefully and picked up a huge shell from the sand. This was my weapon, and I could stab the tip of the shell into the enemy’s face swiftly and quickly. Of course, this was also just me trying to comfort myself.

I bent down and took a catwalk towards the coconut grove. My eyes were always on the blue aborigine. As I got closer, I saw what was in his hand, and he also keenly discovered me.

There was blue dirt around his mouth, holding a baby with its organs in both hands. His mouth was constantly sucking, sucking on the blue baby’s organs like noodles.

“Ohhhh!” He madly threw away the blue light and shadow baby, then angrily beat his chest, like a gorilla pouncing at me on the beach.

He can see me!

My other hand grabbed the sand on the ground and sprinkled it towards this aborigine. The sand I threw out flew into his blue eyes, and the sand passed through his head magically. This aborigine seemed to have real eyes, as she covered her eyes and wailed.

I took the opportunity to rush towards the coconut grove. After just a few seconds, my feet stepped on the moist soil again, and the cold touch of my soles made me feel fully alive again.

I rushed along the city wall, but I didn’t find any blue aborigines along the way. They seemed to have disappeared.

What made me stop was a house full of green moss. The house was made of stones, and except for the gate, the surrounding walls exposed neatly arranged holes.

I didn’t hesitate to get into this abandoned stone house. This was the first real physical building I saw since I came here.

This room was not dark, a burning blue light and shadow oil lamp illuminated the room. I looked around the stone house, but It was difficult for outside light to enter. Why was this light and shadow oil lamp so dazzling?

My view of this light and shadow changed again. These lights and shadows did not seem to be refracted from the sky, but some kind of strange product formed from the ground?

There was a small bed, a bow and a quiver full of arrows in the stone house. All these objects were made of blue light and shadow, but If one touched them, they had the same feel, as if they were real objects.

I put the blue shadow bow on my back and picked up an arrow to sit on the bed. I was very tired now. I had a short rest time and I would try to rest as much as possible so that I could move further.

Puff~

Legs! Something under the bed suddenly grabbed my legs! It was pulling me down.

I was pulled down directly from the bed. My jaw fell on the ground and my head was dizzy.

I lowered my head and saw an extremely special blue aborigine. He was short, like a dwarf, and what made him creepy was that his blue eyes were particularly bright and radiant.

“Go away, you damn thing!” I kicked the native with my legs, but he didn’t let me go. He opened his mouth to reveal the inverted triangle teeth, which were not human at all.

He bit my calf severely, and as his blue light and shadow teeth pierced into my muscles, the pain made me growl.

I pulled the blue light and shadow bow and arrow, and pointed the arrow at the dwarf aborigine. He was not afraid of the bow and arrow, just like a wild beast biting the wound of its prey.

“Go to hell, demon!” The arrow shot through his blue light and shadow head easily, spraying blue blood like fluorescent powder on my calf. Is this his blood?

After he was shot through my head with a bow and arrow, he fell straight to the bottom of the bed, as I watched his head keep leaking out blue phosphor blood.

“Damn it, oh my god. What the hell is this?” I groaned under the bed holding my calf, the dwarf’s teeth were extremely sharp, and my calf muscles were pierced by the dwarf aborigine’s teeth about as deep as my fingernails.

I tore off the sleeves on my arms and wrapped them around my calves to suppress the bleeding. I climbed from the bottom of the bed to the bed, yet this seemingly easy action took me five full minutes.

I desperately adjusted my breathing, hoping to use my own breathing to relieve my pain. I needed painkillers, and soon, I would set out to find Rui.

I laid flat on the bed and looked at the roof of the stone house. Several bats hung from the roof, but they didn’t regard me as an animal that could pose a threat to them. They just hung upside down lazily.

I watched these immovable bats carefully. Their bodies were black and were no different from other bats. What attracted my attention was a cyan leather scroll pressed under the feet of several bats.

This scroll was glowing blue and merged with the surrounding moss-covered roof. If one didn’t observe it carefully, one couldn’t find it. This was most likely the lower part of the cowhide scroll seen from the watchtower.

I resisted the pain in my calf and sat up, took an arrow from the other side of the bed and aimed it at the bat on the roof.

The blue light and shadow bow and arrow shot at the bat with a ray of blue light, and the bat fell to the ground like a stone. Since the roof was not high, I could easily aim it , and after my fifth shot, the cowhide scroll came down.

I limped to the place where the cowhide scroll fell and took a look at the bats. These bats were the same as specimens, their bodies were coated with a kind of beeswax to prevent them from damp and decay.

These bats shed dark yellow liquid after being shot, which smelled like cow urine. I waved my hand to cover my nose, picked up the cowhide scroll on the ground, and prepared to read. Maybe It contained information that could help me make sense of all of this.

Hiss~

The grass outside swayed and made commotion under the gloomy light and shadow. I looked at the grass on the opposite side through the door, and a huge blue-shaded saber-tooth tiger came out of the grass.

The extinct feline had also been perfectly reshaped by the Blue Shadow!

I quickly pulled the bow and arrow into the full moon, but my arms couldn’t stop shaking. The opponent’s size was too big, and I had no chance of winning at all. I had to make a choice whether to escape or to fight.