Alomitsu

Chapter 27: Studio City (13)

“Can’t open it! Can’t open it! Why won’t it open?!” My eyes opened angrily, and the huge black fish rushed towards me, rippling the water on its wake.

Give up! I can only give up!

I don’t want to give up! Why force me to give up?!

If you don’t give up, you will die!

But if I die, Rui will die!

Why?!

To force me… It’s the end, it’s the end! What to do?!

I finally chose to let go. The black fish came, his eyes gleaming with cold light.

Boom!

The black fish hit the top of the stonewall. I was caught on the left stonewall. The huge water flow and friction scratched my skin. My internal organs were shaking. I wanted to vomit, and hopefully, I would vomit all the uncomfortable pain.

But I never expected that when the black fish twisted his head to look for me in a narrow space, it would push the stone slab away. The violent water rushed upwards, dragging my body along with it.

Puff!

I fell on this place full of ancient temples covered with blood. There were no walls around, and I could clearly hear the cheers of the aborigines below and the screams of others.

I was on the top floor of this building. Because there was no floor above, I could see the starry sky, and the top floor was actually connected to the lake! How did they build it?

When I looked back, I noticed that this building was closely connected to a huge mountain. Behind the mountain was the cave. The water flowing out of the cave was covered by a wooden mechanism, like the lid of a pot. There was a connection between this mechanism. The moving chain, the inner layer, the outer layer. The inner layer almost killed me.

I looked around for a while. It was full of heads like mummies that lost their moisture. They were densely placed around me. It was covered with dust for centuries. The dust was soaked by the moist air, which made the woods on this building to rot.

Huge spider webs spread all over every corner. Some thin bats flapped their huge and scary wings in the darkness of the corners. The surrounding murals were full of ancient Roman words, but I didn’t have the energy to take a closer look at the text above.

I couldn’t get up. The skin on my back might have a lot of blood stains. My physical strength had reached its limit.

I didn’t know who’s screaming from below. I tremblingly stretched out my arms and crawled on the ground. At least, let me climb to the edge and see that Rui was still alive.

During this crawl, the painful and wailing sound gradually disappeared. When I climbed to the wall, I poked my head out of the top floor of this building, which might have more than ten stories.

According to my crawling speed, I would not be able to reach the bottom by tomorrow. Not to mention, what I could do when I crawled down.

The damn aborigines put a prisoner, the one who fought with Kild and a brave man, on a grill. It was like they were roasting rabbits, and there was Rui on the side. Rui and the three slaves were kneeling, their hands and feet tied up.

“Rui.” I watched Rui’s back and gritted my teeth. There were too many difficulties and dangers along the way. I finally got here, and Rui was below, so would I back down?

My blood-filled hands were on the pillar beside me, my legs felt like they were tied with a rope, and I couldn’t stand steadily.

Shaky…

Shaky…

Shaky…

“Dante, my apprentice, as an excellent disciple of an archeologist, you must learn to face any risks.” My mentor Yars stood in front of me with a long sword.

“No way, sir. I really can’t hold on anymore.”

“Have you forgotten your great dream! You want to become an archaeologist who shocked history.”

“I haven’t forgotten, but my body really hurts too much, and I don’t have any weapons. I have nothing I can do. I really, I really, I really am sorry!”

“Dante!!! Remember my words, and always remember them in your soul.

“A person who wants to be a great hero is not a person holding a shield, nor a person holding a sword, nor is it a person who treats diseases. Those who can bet on their own life are qualified to be called a hero!

“Protect your companions, go forward. As long as your legs keep going, keep going forward. Bet on yourself. Don’t care about indifferent discouragement. Fall, get up, cry loudly, the winner is always in the hands of failure.

“Call out your ideals, in this way, you are a hero and you are a real man.

“The true hero is not a sword, but a faith that takes root in your heart.”

“Mentor!!!!” I shouted with great exhaustion in my heart. My mentor’s figure disappeared, and I saw this damn building again.

Fell down. I fell down again!

“Stand up, stand up, stand up!!!”

My bloody fingertips fastened on the crevices of the stone. My whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and another tear fell from my eyes.

“Yeah, I finally got to this point. At least let me help Rui somehow.”

My pants were soaked with blood. I stood up while leaning on the pillar, but I fell to the ground again.

“You can’t just fall down here. God, I have never worshiped you, but this time, I beg you. Let my body hold on for a while! I beg you!” I grabbed the withered stick beside me. I twisted on the ground, and rough air kept squirting from my mouth.

I supported the withered stick and stood up looking for the stairs, and I walked step by step. The walls along the way were full of murals.

The meaning of the above was as follows:

[In the ancient tribes, they depended on hunting and fishing for their livelihoods. Among them, the red robe astrologer would use mysterious potions to control the ancient and endangered [animals, and let them be under his control. The animals he controlled were rumored to be long extinct creatures.

[The war broke out.

[The nearby tribe attacked them. They resisted to the death, but were powerless. The king’s wife and daughter died in the war, including the astrologer’s wife and daughter.

[They hid in the cave. Due to scarcity of food, they faced life and death. The king dedicated his soul to Alimitsu for victory. Alomitsu gave the king a powerful fruit. People who ate it would have power. They ate it. The fruit repelled the aliens and established a new territory.

[Not long after, their people got extremely violent and even attacked their own people. Their heads would grow mouse heads. Astrologers thought it was a curse, so they cut off the heads of those who ate the fruit.

[The astrologer’s move made the half-crazy king very angry. He ordered the deprivation of all the status of the astrologer. The astrologer told the king that if the fruit was not eradicated, the nation would perish.

[The king ignored the warning, and the astrologer became a commoner. After that, the king raised a lot of strange fishes, and the astrologers secretly cultivated some fishes to fight against the king. This time, it completely angered the king.

[He ordered the killing of astrologers, including passing foreigners. Some foreigners were brutally killed, and some were rescued by astrologers. These foreigners were dressed in gorgeous clothes.

[The cave where the astrologer took the foreigners to hide. The food in the cave was getting less and less. The king’s hunt prevented them from hunting. The foreigners without food were hungry and cold. They gradually became thin and ragged. The astrologer finally began to resist. It was the new king who wanted to overthrow the brutal rule of the old king.

[He decided that he and the foreigners planned to kill the king and took his head to the stone steps of the tribal king. Only holding the head of the king would the tribe recognize him as the new king.

[But the astrologer’s plan failed. He was eaten to the bone by rats, including the foreigners who followed him.]

“It’s a ridiculously stupid story. Ancient stories are always religious. Now I am sure that Alomitsu may be some kind of cult, a damn cult that destroys people’s body and spirit.”

Da~Da~Da~

I leaned on the wooden stick and walked on top of this. Every time I took a step, I breathed back because of the pain in my whole body.

As I walked to the top of the stairs, I found a skeleton. This skeleton was holding a horn and a cowhide roll. The skeleton extended its right bone arm and pointed somewhere in the middle of the building.

“It’s you. Have you been sending me messages? I thank you very much.” After I saw the items taken by the bones, I suddenly thought of the cowhide rolls I had seen before.

I knelt down and stretched out my hand to open the cowhide roll. The words on it were very concise.

[My love, once passed by here. I lost her, so my friends and I came to look for her. We entered the watchtower to rest. The sky fell with the glory of God

[I thought it was God who guided me to find my wife, but we were blocked by the horrible blue ghost on the upper floor of the watchtower. My friend and I stayed on the watchtower for more than two days. My friend couldn’t bear the hunger and committed suicide.

[I really don’t have any way. In my spare time, I write down information in a cowhide roll. If someone encounters such a terrible situation, I hope it will be useful to him.

[When I came here through extreme hardships, I found that my wife was not dead yet, but I was pierced by that kind of person. It was not like a person, and the ghost was not like a ghost. I cannot forgive these demons for planting these things.

[I found some gravel holes on the walls of the building. It was a minecart left by this group of demons who built this building. It was originally used to carry stones. People can sit in this minecart and rush down!

[When I was about to push away the minecart, I noticed that my wife who was kneeling on the beach was dead. She had her throat cut long ago. These demons deliberately placed the bodies there, leaving a person as a trap. Fighting life and death, they are heinously having fun like watching a side show.

[I’m going to kill these guys, but my body is getting more and more out of control. I am turning into a huge humanoid mouse. These earth demons rushed up, and I fought desperately. But I can’t match them. I fled to the top with wounds. I wanted to die in battle, but I found that my mind was assimilating with them. In this way, I will become one of them. Fellow, this is the reason for my escape. Before I was assimilated, I would rather die than become like them, so I decided to commit suicide. God will definitely forgive me.

[Below I also found the ancient horn. I have no power to blow it, but I always feel that it will be useful. You may think I am crazy and think that the ancient horn is of no use, but I still want you to believe me. Take it, get on the minecart, and rescue the person you want to save.

[I haven’t tried that minecart before. Please think carefully and try again. No matter what the outcome is, I still wish you good luck, stranger.]

Thanks, thanks, thank you very much! The message he left was the best message for me at present, and I thanked the bones excitedly.

I stretched out my hand to insert the horn into my belt, dropped my head at the bone, and walked towards the direction he pointed.

Sure enough, there was a stacked stonewall in the center, which looked like it could be pushed down. I put my body on the stonewall. These stones were very loose and not heavy.

Wheww!

My body almost fell along with the rock while pushing. I pushed the rock down mainly by relying on my body instead of strength. I didn’t expect them to be so light.

These stones were falling downwards. Looking down from here, the road looked bottomless. In the middle of the road stood a cylindrical building. The middle column on this floor had a hole. The stones fell from here. Yes, the middle column below was completely sealed, and there were spiral slates around the column. The difference between it and the spiral staircase was that it is smooth.

On the far side was a wooden cart pulled by a rope. It had no wheels. It was made of rough and heavy wooden boards, with some gravel and an old half-length spear in it.

“It seems that this building has not been fully built yet.” I reached out and touched the rope tied to the wooden cart. The rope was particularly strong, still hard in the erosion of years, and it was full of messy burrs.

As soon as I pulled the rope, there was a “pop” from above. At this moment, I heard the howling of a mouse.

They also existed in the lower level! There were a lot of them. The dust of this building was falling down because of their turmoil. Green liquid flowed out of the surrounding stonewalls, and the crisp sound of cracking sounded from the inside of the stone walls.

Boom!!!

A huge meat ball covered with mouse heads pushed aside the stonewall, and the debris of the stonewall blasted away scratched my cheeks. It found me!

Squeak~

The piercing rat sound came from the meat ball. It twisted its body and lunged at me. It didn’t take a minute. It only took tens of seconds that it would come and tear me to pieces.

I threw away the wooden stick. My body lost balance, and I fell directly into the wooden cart. I nervously picked up the gravel and cut the rope. I couldn’t cut it at all!

A large number of blue aborigines ran in from the stairs. They saw my slender lips split to the chin. Their heads squirmed and turned into mouse heads. This was simply a city of rats.

The rat meat ball leaped towards me stepping on the stone. Its body hit the wooden car behind the wooden cart. The wooden cart was hit by another wooden cart, and the wooden car behind the wooden car was smashed. I was sitting in the wooden cart. It was also bounced along with the wooden cart.

The wooden cart rushed down. My arms were on both sides of the wooden cart, and the rat meat ball behind me rolled towards me.

Its speed was quite fast. My cheeks were shaking when the wind was blowing, and there was a violent rubbing sound from behind me. The damn meatball mouse still followed me.

Below was a spiral landslide. This time, I grabbed the wooden board on the inner side with both hands and leaned on the wooden board on the outer side of the wall to rub the wall and rush downward.

I glanced back, and the fleshy ball with a rat’s head stretched out a few thick black arms and crawled towards me quickly. This guy was like a rat spider.

“It can’t go on like this. I must prevent it from catching up with me.” I picked up the stone in the wooden cart and slammed it at the mouse ball. The stone hit its body, but it was unfazed.

I still threw the stone desperately. Even if my arm was weak, but as it sprinted down, the stone was hit by it and it bore holes. The viscous liquid flowed out of its body.

The ground began to shake, and I quickly grasped the plank on the inside of the wooden cart. Below me was a fault!!!

The wooden cart flew, and the mouse ball behind me also jumped. Its countless rat heads were only half a metre away from the wooden cart. I directly picked up half of the spear and stabbed its body. It was full of heads. I didn’t know which was its head. Its body shape shook and retracted.

The next moment, the floor of the wooden cart under my body rubbed the spiral wall and slid down. The mouse ball hit the wall. This time, I pushed the mouse ball away.

I would have ended this way, but this guy grabbed the gap in the wall with his arms and ran towards me diagonally.

Kang Dang

The wooden car fell on the slope of the spiral slide from the inclined wall, and I was shocked by the strong shock. This time the speed of falling down was obviously slower, and the wooden car was also a little broken.

It didn’t take long for the rat meat ball to catch up with me, and the stones I continued to throw still didn’t have much effect.

Two roads appeared below. One was continuing to rush down towards the landslide, and the other was the road connecting the exit. As for the road from the outside, I didn’t know if it was a road. Now I had no choice. I would die if I slide down.

Squeak!!!

The mouse ball jumped towards me with countless tongues. I grabbed a half of the spear and wiped the ground to the road to the outside world. My mouth was violently dripping and wiped out bloodstains.

There was only one direction I could control, and that was the one that made me rush to the road outside. The outside was also a landslide, surrounded by old stone fences.

The road outside slid faster. There was slippery moss everywhere. The rat meat ball rushed out of the inner building, and it flew to the outside of the stonewall and fell.

“Hahahaha! A beast is a beast! Go to hell!” I roared in surprise.

The moment I thought I already escaped the rat meat ball, the stonewall in front of me suddenly burst. Another rat meat ball was drilled inside. It seemed that it hadn’t recovered. The wooden cart directly hit it and was hit by the wooden cart. The head of the rat was directly smashed, and the wooden cart and the rat meat ball flew at the same time.

I opened my mouth nervously. The crisis came too soon.

The wooden cart flew relatively high, and my scalp rubbed the upper stone wall a few times, and it was hot and painful. Once the wooden cart fell, the wooden board on the left fell off.

The left wooden board hit the second rat meat ball. It was just that its speed was slightly slower for a moment, and I grabbed the remaining stones and threw them at it continuously.

This mouse meat ball was obviously faster than the one just now. It only took a few breaths to run behind me. I ran out of ammunition and food. The only thing I could use was the half spear.

The stonewall outside the sliding corridor was hit by a rat ball and there was dust everywhere. I hesitated whether to throw the half spear. The bad situation happened again, and the road ahead was cut off again.

I grabbed this half of the spear and slid to the ground like a sliding oar. I wanted to speed up and grab my escape with the help of inertia, but I didn’t notice the broken stone in front. The broken wooden cart crashed on the stone and got overturned. My head was dizzy and the half spear fell from my hand.

Boom!

The rat meat ball also flew up and hit the baffle of the wooden car. The baffle in front of the wooden cart was cracked by the rat meat ball. The huge force hit me and the wooden cart. I flew forward.

“Wow ah ah ah ah!!!” I held the wooden cart and screamed in horror.

I might be facing the situation of falling to death now. There was still a certain height from the ground, and the fall was over. But this time, the Goddess of Luck favored me.

All the other baffles were scattered, and now, only the front baffle and the wooden cart below the seat were left. It took me to the top of the stonewall in a thrilling manner. The wooden cart continued to slide down. There was a landslide on the right and an open space on the left. As long as I shifted to the left a little bit, I would be thrown to death.

But this damn mouse ball was still following me, but it’s not so close this time.

Crack!

The front baffle also shattered and flew. The broken half of the baffle hit my nose, and my nose immediately shed blood. Fortunately, the baffle was not completely broken. I grabbed only half of the baffle with both hands. There is no other place for me to grasp the wooden cart to stabilize my body.

“I’m coming!”

This time the external landslide connected to the internal landslide. I swayed the wooden cart to the inside. The wooden cart took me down from the guardrail of the stone wall. I slid into the building again. Just when I entered, a mouse meat ball gnawing on other mice found me.

It rushed towards me, screaming, but it was too late. It could not catch me anymore, because I saw the exit.

A stone gate was shining with light from the outside world!

Crack!

At this moment, the wooden cart hit the small steps of the stone gate. The floor of the wooden cart was shattered. Inertia made me grab only half of the front-end plank and flew out of the stone gate. The mouse ball behind me was stuck by the stone gate.

When I rushed out of the stone gate, I discovered that the stone gate was on the second floor, and I was flying like a bird. At this moment, all the rats and blue men and Rui knelt on the sand  mid-air.

“Rui!!!”

I roared excitedly at Rui in mid-air, completely forgetting that I was about to fall.