Alomitsu

Chapter 3: Tomb Hall (2)

I squatted on the spot thinking about how to deal with this unexpected situation. The more nervous a person, the more likely for them to make a wrong judgment, resulting in an irreversible situation.

I wanted to use all of my knowledge of physics to deal with it, but the ancient monsters I had seen couldn’t be described and dealt with by the laws of physics I knew.

At the very least, I had to spread the news. As long as the news was made public, maybe I could still leave a mark in history, anthropology, and folklore, and my status would be unbreakable.

The premise was that I could get out alive, so I cast aside the enthusiasm in my mind. Now, it was the era of the steam industrial revolution. Many mythological statements were gradually obliterated in this era. Anyone who heard these myths would only sneer at them.

But what I encountered, could it really be explained by science? From the bottom of my heart, I thought it could be explained by science, but science did not know its structure for the time being. Since it was a structure, then there had to be a way to deal with it.

This fear came from the ancient abyss. This came from an unknown evil spirit, the historical creatures that have given me a major discovery, and also confirmed my belief in fleeing at the same time.

Looking back now, I felt ridiculous at the fact that I stood near the entrance of the cave and expressed my knowledge and self-righteousness.

At the moment, I drove away the thoughts in my head and listened quietly to the ancient words in the dark. The sound of footsteps disappeared. Even if it disappeared however, I still kept crouching. Even if my feet were numb, I still crouched. I didn’t dare to make any moves at will.

It was so dark that I couldn’t see my fingers, the underground world was deadly silent and daunting. I still raised my awareness to the limit and listened carefully to any sound around me. I wanted to make sure that I was truly safe, at least for the time being.

I realized only afterwards that there was a very quiet sound. Within my own cognitive range, in this extremely quiet cave, what I heard seemed to be the sound of licking, like an animal sticking out its tongue. It kept licking Its nose, but it was like the trembling sound of a bat gently rubbing Its teeth.

DaDa~DaDa~

I felt a very obvious gaze watching me from the darkness. No matter which direction I turned my head in, the gaze always appeared behind me. It was similar to taking a walk at night, and suddenly feeling that someone was watching you. Yet whenever you turned around, it disappeared, and whenever you resumed walking, it reappeared.

I thought that I was like a prey being stared at. Another monster in the dark was lurking, and as long as there was a chance, its teeth would rip my throat apart.

In the end, I really couldn’t bear it. This unknown fear came from the darkness, so I used the flint and the oiled cloth I had in my hand.

Smack~

I snapped the flint and steel in my hand, and the tarp was burned by sparks. At this moment, I saw what the cause of my paranoia was, and It was all around me.

Yes, that’s right. I was surrounded by people who were white like lizards. These people had no hair, sunken eyes, black eyeballs without a trace of whites, and their facial features were sunken, just like bats in a cave. Human limbs, but their limbs were as long as the legs of a locust, and they didn’t have any hair on their whole body, not even on their sex organs.

Groups of them stood by my side and looked at me. When the flames burned, they screamed harshly like the moo of a cow.

I was trembling. My flintlock was facing the left side, and then facing the right side. I didn’t know which side I should aim it at. They didn’t retreat, but surrounded me instead.

“My god, is this really a demon from the deep abyss? What should I do?” I held the fire gun in one hand and pinched the cross necklace on my neck in the other. But these monsters didn’t feel anything about the cross on my neck, and they didn’t have any fear.

They just surrounded me quietly. I couldn’t escape, and I couldn’t drive them away rashly. I was driven to a dead end, and for the first time I hated my curiosity for exploration.

Why are they not coming to eat me? They can easily tear me apart depending on the number. I stood behind the tarp, and the orange flame rendered the surroundings bright.

As the flame on the tarp got smaller and smaller, I decided to fight to the death. I couldn’t remain here and get eaten alive. I aimed the long gun at the path with fewer monsters, and the shot was deafening.

Following the sound, a monster’s shoulder was hit by the flame, and a green liquid flew out. It howled, and the other monsters were also frightened by the loud noise and dispersed.

I seized the chance of this monster being frightened and ran towards the path in the cave. I ran and looked back, silently praying that they wouldn’t chase me.

Cack, click, click, dad, dad~

This weird sound made me turn my head once, and I saw that the faces of the monsters begin to twist. Their sharp teeth rubbed and made a weird sound. They quickly crawled towards me in piles. While I didn’t understand what they were doing, I knew they were angry.

Turning my head, I noticed that their tongues were twenty centimeters in length? No, thirty centimeters? They chased me with their barbed tongues like tigers.

“Oh, my god, my god, great god, why did a poor man like me encounter such a thing? As long as I escape from this place, I won’t be willing to take risks in my life anymore.”

I thought my brain would make absolutely sensible thoughts at all times. On the contrary, my brain was already cowering at this moment. I was still young, and I didn’t want to just die like this. I shouted from the bottom of my heart, and I ran fast in the dark, but I could hear the sound of footsteps behind me.

This sound was simply the sound of their hands and feet slapping the ground as they were chasing me.

What should I do? I now felt that my breathing was chaotic because of running. Since ancient times, there had been a saying that was true to this day, and that was that misfortune never came alone.

The green light was shining in the dark, and I saw hundreds of slim slimy arms appear at a fork in the road ahead. At this time, I could see its appearance thoroughly.

The stone was its body. There were countless slender arms on the stone waving like a tortoise, but its head was not in the front, but on the top. It had no facial features, only a ball made of green slime. The head, the top of the head was also countless arms.

I thought I was going to die, but I still didn’t give up. The road was divided into many forks. With the help of the green light, I turned and ran to the fork on the other side. There was a huge spider web on the side of the fork that was knocked down. Only a black spider the size of my fist crawled there.

But I couldn’t control that much. It was better to be bitten by a spider than to be caught and eaten by that weird evil spirit. I also saw the white cavemen who were chasing me were caught by those slender arms, and then those arms peeled off the skin of these white cavemen like banana peels. I really couldn’t think that those seemingly thin and frail arms had such terrifying power.

I was fortunate that I did not get very close when I found them, otherwise my skin would be torn apart.

The huge ancient evil spirits and the terrifying underground cavemen rushed towards me, as my legs ran desperately. I stepped on the black spider, and the spider burst into dark yellow slime. The slime made me almost slip, but I stumbled a bit, because the staggering arm of a caveman almost grabbed me.

“God, please save me,” I screamed and begged God to help me. I never believed in God, but this time I hoped that there was a God, but God turned a blind eye to my cry.

The evil god like a huge stone fortress also followed me, and its green light also illuminated the road ahead for me, but I would rather not have this green light like the phosphorous fire of the dead illuminate my path.

This time, the road did not branch off, but was covered with a lot of spider webs. These spider webs were huge and covered with dust. Fortunately, these spider webs were old and not sticky, otherwise I would definitely be caught.

As I fled desperately, I found that some cavemen corpses began to appear on the spider webs on this road. Even if they had become bones, I could clearly distinguish the structure and shape of these bones that were different from humans.

A frightening thought flashed in my mind that I didn’t dare to accept. Based on these corpses entangled in spider webs, would there be a more frightening existence hidden down this path?