Chapter 2: The Shadow Smuggling Ship (2)
"Ah——!h
Bill wakes up in the fall.
The strong feeling of weightlessness and the whistling wind in his ears made him clearly aware that he was falling.
His eyes widened, but he couldn't see anything, and countless darkness engulfed him, making him one with this strange space.
Gray and white lightning slashed down from afar, and the darkness quickly dissipated, and Bill was finally able to look at the space from different heights, he could see the black sky and gray light, but after a few seconds, Bill's eyes were back in pitch black.
In the dark world, his face still carried the most instinctive fear, struggling and screaming in the air in horror, but when his voice was hoarse and he didn't fall to the ground and die, he was a little dazed, and even changed his comfortable posture to think.
"Am I already dead, is this the afterlife?"
"No, it's still this damn body, my soul is still imprisoned here!"
"Damn it, damn it, damn it! No, I haven't lived enough, I don't want to die!"
The darkness grew thicker, and Bill thrashed himself wildly, the pain waking his tired consciousness again, and gasping greedily, as if he saw a sight that he didn't know what words to describe, something darker than the darkness.
He saw the sky glowing faintly and the deep dark ground from which no light could escape, and his eyes gradually adjusted to the colors of this dark world, and he saw that the sky seemed to be obscured by black clouds, and the ground was ......
Not ——!
Bill didn't have time to think about the weird words to use to describe the scene, but he could see the ground clearly.
It's less than a second before you break it!
Suddenly, there was a faint whisper in his ears, the sound getting louder and louder, and the noisy sound waves stung Bill's brain, and he held his head and closed his eyes, not wanting to see his brain burst out of the miserable state.
Syllable!
......
"Ha ......"
"Ha ......"
Bill gasped, his chest was shaking, his body was only the pain of falling from the air, his limbs were still there, and his brains were still in his head, it seemed that it was not time for them to run away from home.
"Haha, ha, hahahahahaha, alive! I'm still alive!hahahahaha......"
The happiness of the aftermath of the catastrophe made him laugh wildly, and the laughter was twisted and hideous.
But soon he couldn't laugh anymore, and several black hands emerged from the dark ground, wrapped around Bill's body, and dragged him underground, the lack of temperature to the touch reminded Bill of the cold of falling to the bottom of the sea.
Bill's eyes widened.
Wildly shook off the black hand, stumbled up from the ground, and ran towards the boundless darkness, the stretched black hand following Bill's footsteps.
Humans can't escape the shadows, and soon the Black Hand grabbed his wrist and quickly burrowed back to the ground, dragging Bill's body into the dark earth.
Bill was terrified, he lay on the ground, his left arm completely submerged in the darkness, and half of his face was immersed in it, and the darkness crept up his face, constantly eroding his flesh.
"Why is this happening to me?"
"Why! Who's going to save me? No, I don't want to die...... I want to live!!"
Bill struggled to support himself and suddenly pulled out his left arm, the fear of death and the desire to survive gave him instant strength beyond ordinary people, the left arm that had been dragged into the ground had all turned black, and his face was covered with black markings.
The black spots covering his body shook like a shadow, slowly burrowing into his body, Bill didn't see the strange changes that happened to him, after breaking free from the black hand, he didn't dare to stop for a moment, and ran forward wildly.
The Black Hand took off again, but when Bill, who had no time to take care of the surrounding scenery, stepped into a boundary, the Black Hand Bill's pursuit came to an abrupt end, and a dozen Black Hand stopped at the boundary and fell with a bang, and the ground returned to calm.
He ran almost with his eyes closed, and the faint whispers came again, the voice becoming more and more intense, about to explode in his head.
Bill shook his head, rubbed his eyelids vigorously, and when the voice in his head died down, he opened his eyes again, and felt that the picture around him seemed to be a little different.
He saw something he had never seen before.
It turns out that there is more to this world than endless darkness.
Here, as in the normal world, the curved ground is overgrown with weeds, and the lone one is erected by the river, the water of which is rushing and the occasional mutated fish with its head full of sharp teeth.
It's just that everything is as dead as a loss of color, like a picture from an old-fashioned television set, where the wind blows and the weeds on the ground sizzle.
Only Bill is different, or color photos.
Only then did Bill realize that these images were the darkness as it was, and that his body had undergone an unknown change to see what was in the darkness.
"Whew-"
"Anyway, at least I'm safe for the time being, and while I don't know exactly what happened or why I'm here, there's hope for life. ”
Bill sat down against the tree, his exhausted body had reached its limit, and he looked up at the gray sky, and the feeling of powerlessness came back to him.
"I fell from the sky, and if I wanted to go back, I had to go through that sky. ”
“...... Damn, I don't have wings, what am I going to do? Am I stuck here all my life?"
"Why is it always me who is unlucky!"
Angrily slamming the trunk of the tree, gray leaves fell, a white light flashed in front of Bill's eyes, and a knife with a bronze handle fell from the tree.
Bill looked at the bronze dagger that didn't fit in with the colorless space, and got up to pick it up.
He knew the dagger, which a man had used to skin a water rat and stab another man in the back.
Although the dagger is limited in its lethality, it is always safe to hold a weapon in your hand in this strange space.
Bill thought he could use the dagger to kill the strange fish in the river, and if the river didn't have them, he might be able to drink some water to replenish the desperately missing water.
So Bill plucked up his courage to go to the river, and for the time being there were no strange fish coming out, but the knife in his hand still inevitably trembled.
There was nothing in the calm river, and he picked up the white water and sniffed it, but there was no taste.
The white river was in front of him, and there was no reflection of Bill in the water, but the thirsty Bill didn't notice at all, he was just wondering whether he wanted to drink the contents of this strange world.
"There must be something wrong with the water here, bear with me, maybe we can find a way out of here soon. ”
"I'm going to die of thirst, what else does it matter about the water quality? I can live if I drink it, and even if there is any problem, it is better than becoming a dry corpse ......"
Bill swallowed and struggled with his last thoughts.
The water slipped through his fingers, and he picked it up again, determined to drink it, but the moment his chapped lips touched the water, he seemed to hear a sound different from the current, and the afterglow swept to the bottom of the river, and a shadow flashed under the water.
"That strange fish again?"
Bill clenched the dagger in his hand, and his scalp began to tingle.
He rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then looked at the bottom of the river, and a huge shadow suddenly appeared, and two eyes bigger than tires suddenly opened, and a fine light appeared!