Chapter 80 - 80. Dark Room (by Foreign Figures)
They had not shown us anything, not told us anything, and seeing the face of the soldier before , he was short on just pushing
in the abyss.
To hell with laws, to hell with being a minor, we had lost all rights because we were prisoners.
The iron fence could be removed every half-ter, and I now saw down into the darkness.
Ah, there it was—the excitent I had so long waited for. As adrenalin made
giddy, the thought of slaughtering a few monsters and maybe humans aroused
quite a bit.
Following the rope on
with my eyes, I noticed that it was fixated on a big iron wheel standing far away. The wheel would slowly and automatically turn to give us more rope, to let us down. The rope now was just a bit loose.
I had the backpack on my shoulders, and turned my back to the abyss behind . Raising my hands as if to fly, I looked at the soldiers eyeing
in the distance, and my soldier, who was losing his patience right before .
Turning to the side, I saw Henry with a look that seed like worry—can't say, too far away.
I stepped back with my arms raised, feeling like a king, like a god, as I was to let this world behind myself.
I let myself fall.
The thrill of falling and of my life being on the line, literally, as anybody could easily cut the rope up there made
excited beyond words.
The impact of my fall wasn't strong, the rope not as loose, as my feet soon landed on the earth wall. I was now at the beginning of my descent, already a few ters down.
"AH!" Soone scread, and I saw soone in camouflage falling into the abyss. Following were a bunch of gunshots, and another man falling, it was one of the baldies.
"WHAT THE FUCK?" I yelled?
"YOU ALRIGHT KENNY?" Henry yelled back, his voice seed far away.
The rope loosened more, letting
down deeper.
"YEAH! WHAT HAPPENED?" I SCREAD BACK.
"NO IDEA!"
"OH."
"HOW FAR DOWN ARE YOU ALREADY?"
"NOT FAR, STOP YELLING!" What if his voice lured the monsters down there, or if so earth loosened or anything?
"OKAY! SEE YOU LATER!"
Hearing him yell again, I groaned in annoyance.
I jumped vertically along the wall, matching the timing of the rope, while holding on to it. Gloves would now be practical, but like this, I could only watch out for my fingers and palms, letting go at the right mont, before grabbing it again.
It seed one of the baldies had thrown his soldier down, only for him to get shot. How dumb can soone be? What exactly was the outco he had anticipated? Or had he just gotten cold feet?
The trip down continued; they had not stopped to let down the rope; apparently the plan was still going.
This damn descent continued until my feet were numb. When I looked up, I could not even perceive daylight. Now it was just pitch black, all around . The mont I jumped down again, I couldn't even tell where 'up' or 'down' went.
I didn't like the darkness, and contemplated trying to get a flashlight, no idea if that would even work if I conjured it up because it would work with batteries, so it was sohow electronic? No idea.
However, as long as I had no light, nobody else had as well. The mont I used light, I would be visible and leave the safety of the dark. Now I sohow wished for Henry to yell again, to give
a feeling of realness.
I had approximately overco a distance of a skyscraper when I felt sothing was wrong. It was difficult to take a breath, and my body felt strange. As if I were hung upside down, my blood flowing in the other direction with difficulty. Next was my stomach churning uncomfortably.
If my theory had been false, and there wasn't anybody coming back again from this hole, had they at least tried to send a rabbit down, looking if it was alive when they pulled it back up? Can't be that we all die because of so strange happenings while we descended, can't it?
Yet, I knew of this feeling, I rember it from the ti I had before I had lost my consciousness when the deer had dragged us away through the first portal.
The portal should not be standing on the ground, this ti, the hole itself should be the portal, or at least a region along it. My heart sped up, and I thought of what to conjure up that would lessen my fall if the rope ripped.
A helt from playing baseball? A mattress that I had to sohow carry? So inflatable seat or anything? A beanbag?
However, before I could think of anything, the rope ripped and I fell.
The pressure on my body intensified, and I could only think of cursing before losing consciousness.
'FUCK!'
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'Damn it, that hurts.' I blinked my eyes to look where I was, only for a water drop to enter them, making
blink furiously. It stung extrely.
Sitting up, I tried to look around, but not only my body hurt, my eye did as well. I pressed it shut with my hand to look around with my other eye.
This was a cave. My brain needed so ti to possibly rember why I was here.
My whole chest area stung, and I felt like air was pressed out of . There were a few rocks; I could see just well with my one eye; no one else there, no monsters.
Looking up, I was in for the next surprise, this cave had an intact ceiling, with a bunch of rocks hanging down, like in a stalactite cave. The air humidity was extrely high, and there was a fluid that dropped down, not sure if it was water, or sothing else.
The sharp rocks that hung from the ceiling and protruded out of the ground glowed strangely, giving
a good look.
I fought myself up, noticing that I had landed on my backpack. Trying to blink through my other eye again, I walked along the path in between the rocks, that seed to lead sowhere.
My eye got better, and I could see normally when I saw a light that ca from the exit of the cave.
I was sure to enter the black forest where the monster deer lived, anticipating to test my weapon finally.
But the closer I ca to the exit, the less I could believe my eyes.
This was no fucking forest.
When I stood at the exit, I looked down at an endless landscape of trash.
No sun, no moon, undefinable light from the sky, and only trash lying around.
I had seen that scene sowhere before, but it was far in the future.
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