Alomitsu

Chapter 35: Nightmare (3)

“Why do you want to do this! Bruyer!” I asked in a low voice to the Gauls trembling in the dark. His bravery was beyond doubt. What made the brave Gaul afraid? Therefore, I did not ask in exclamation, but in a low voice.

“Shhh~~” Bruyer gestured to me to be silent. The sparks did not dissipate, and they let me see Bruyer’s movements clearly in the dark.

Beep~ Zizi~

A harsh but rhythmic sound rang outside the wooden house. This sound again sounded like the typing of a telegraph, but it was a little different from a telegraph in that it was mixed with a harsh rubbing sound.

I closed my mouth and did not dare to make a single sound. I became careful based on Bruyer’s actions. He stood motionless in the corner, and I sat on the bed half-up. Both of us did not dare to make slight movements.

I was scared because of the inexplicable fear that Bruyer passed on to me. After experiencing Studio City, I became sensitive and especially hated the darkness. I always felt that some terrible creatures would run out of the darkness.

The harsh sound outside the wooden house lasted for more than half an hour and then disappeared. When it disappeared for a few minutes, Bruyer pushed open the window blocked by the straw. The blue smoke that extinguished the flames flowed outside, and the cold wind made me feel my thin clothes. I hid in the straw.

“Bruyer, can you explain it to me? What exactly was it just now?” I asked the Gaul in a flat tone. He didn’t tell me everything. He concealed some important information.

“Dante, I will tell you tomorrow. Tonight, I don’t want to mention this. I swear to God that I don’t want to hide it from you.”

The moonlight through the window shone on the Gaul. I looked at him and sighed, “Mr. Bruyer, I didn’t want to pose as a superior person to question you. I believe you have a reason not to tell me.”

“If you can, you may not want to know about this for the rest of your life.” Bruyer laid the tied straw on the ground and spread it out. This was his bed. In order to prevent me from freezing, he slept in the cold ground.

I stretched out my hand and stroked the bandage on my leg. This Gaul changed my dressing, like a knight who loyally followed his morality. He made me grateful. It seems that human nature in the world was not so bad.

Lying on the bed, in the silent snowy night, my back felt cold, not from the cold temperature, but from the malicious sight of the darkness. It made me extremely uncomfortable. I thought it was watching me. Who is it? Or is it just my hysteria?

The next day, mild sunlight shone on my face. I woke up very late, and my brain was passing on my tiredness. My quality of sleep last night was also quite poor. The inexplicable sight made me unable to sleep peacefully.

Bruyer went out hunting, and there was nothing else worth noting except for a few pieces of dried meat and a piece of clothing made of wild animal fur.

I tried to get out of bed. During the escape from the studio, I was glad that my bones were not injured. After half a month of unconsciousness, my wounds healed a lot. Now, except for the weakness, I was like an ordinary person walking out of bed. The only bad thing was that I needed to hold a long slender tree stick to support my body’s center of gravity.

When I opened the door after putting on my fat clothes, I was deeply shocked by the strange sight in front of me.

Have you ever seen such a scene?

In the distant sky, there were flakes of snow falling, and the hot sun was standing in the other half that blended with the sky. The winter and summer were separated. I had only imagined this kind of scenery.

I watched this scene for a full ten minutes. After I recovered my mind, I started my investigation in this uninhabited town. Because Bruyer entrusted it to me, I had to investigate it clearly to repay him for his care for me. Although according to my plan, we needed to leave and leave a message to Rui where we have gone. After the incident last night, I thought it is not safe here.

But I could smell his dependence on home from Bruyer’s words. He wanted to live quietly. He was reluctant to live in this small town. Yes, he almost became a slave and yearned for a dull life, so I could only help from the side.

Every house here was made of stacked wood. The unique scent of the trunk of this wooden house reminded me of the sweet food in the wooden house in fairy tales. I stepped on the snow and made a squeaking sound.

Soon, I noticed the anomaly. The windows of the buildings in this small town were all open without any straw or wooden boards. The windows of wooden houses were very small, so children could get in. In order to maintain ventilation, residents would use wooden boards to block the windows and open it during the day.

I found a slightly different wooden house. It was located on the edge of the town. It was solitary and excluded. The wooden house was riddled with holes, like someone pierced it with a sharp object.

I walked carefully into the wooden house, and the familiar stench got into my nose, which exuded the same smell as the wooden house my grandfather lived in before his death.

These holes, like those drilled by a giant woodpecker, made me observe carefully. There were dry green marks on the edge of the wooden hole. I thought of the green slime crawling outside the grandfather’s wooden house.

“It can’t be a coincidence.” My face might not look good. Since I discovered these liquids, nothing good happened to me. Now, I had to track it down. This was more than just repaying Bruyer’s care. There were also supernatural phenomena that got me stuck and unexplainable.

Inside this wooden house full of holes, I found a thick pile of parchment with the words “Cooked Ba” written on it, and it could be seen that the person who wrote it was very anxious.

I read this person’s notes softly, hoping that he wouldn’t come to trouble me because I read his  notes without authorization.

The content of the note was as follows:

[Regarding the recent land subsidence in the village, I don’t want to say anything. The only thing that pushes me to keep recalling this incident is to protect my children. My time is running out, I can’t hold on for months.

[This terrible thing is pressing on me, but I can’t tell other people. I can’t believe that God will bless me.

[Here, I have to mention that I have witnessed strange corpses drifting on the lake behind the mountain, which also coincides with some strange things circulating in the town.

[But we are not worried. Ten kilometers to the northeast is the main city of Goning. If something terrible happens, we can run away and seek asylum.

[I still live a normal life as before. Something strange happened. A young man with a sunny personality lived next door to me. When I opened the door and walked out, he was sitting in front of his house. On his stump looked gloomy and sneaky, his hair messed up like weeds, and his pitch-black sunken eye sockets seemed to tell me that he hadn’t slept well.

[I greeted him. He didn’t respond to my friendliness as he did before. Instead, he sat on the stump and breathed hard, like a wild boar breathing rough air. He made me feel a little scared.

[I never saw him again in the next few days. When I saw him again, he stood in a daze at the gate of the town. I didn’t recognize him at the time. I thought it was someone from outside the village. He changed completely.

[I passed by him. He did not show any dangerous temperament. Although his body is strong, he lost a lot of weight in these few days. The dark eye sockets caused by poor sleep revealed a dim, sleepy melancholy. A sparse beard grows from his clean chin, and even his thick lower lip hangs.

[He looked ridiculous, ridiculous and harmless, so I was worried to go to his parents. I knocked on the wooden door but no one responded. Where can they go?

[When I wanted to knock on the wooden door again, things changed. He stood not far away and looked at me. His eyes let me fully experience the horror of the prey being caught by the hunter, so I hurried back home and hid.

[At dawn, I could clearly hear the smashing sound from the wooden house next door, and he howled like a wolf’s roar in the moonlight.

[The children next to me shivered. They were frightened by the sound. I put on my clothes and pushed open the door and walked to the door of his house. Suddenly, there was a terrible and unusual howling in his wooden house.

[I didn’t knock on the door of his house. The fear in my heart made me go back home and drank a few glasses of inferior wine. It made me a little drunk. My children wrapped their bodies tightly in their little quilt, like a wet and trembling bird.

[I was determined not to let my child continue to be terribly irritated. I planned to discuss the matter with the mayor when the sun was completely up. With this idea, I fell asleep quietly under the anesthesia of alcohol.

[“Destroy~Burn~Ahahahahahaha~~~”

[The chaotic screams awakened me from the hazy alcoholic anesthesia. My children were pulling on my clothes. They showed a look of fear. I didn’t know what was happening outside. I picked up my hoe and opened the door and rushed out.

[But I never expected that things would turn into a shocking tragedy.]

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When I was about to open the fifth piece of parchment to see what happened below.

DaDaDa~~~

The sound of teeth colliding quickly, yes, this was the sound of teeth colliding. How fast it was, enough dozens or even hundreds of times per second. Humans did not have such a fast bite force.

The sound came from the roof of the wooden house. I kept reading, grabbing the tree stick beside me with one hand. My weak body couldn’t make much strength, but I still hope that if there was a crisis, Bruyer could come back from his hunt in advance.