Chapter 3: The Shadow Smuggling Ship (3)
A shrill flute sounded, and Bill burst into tinnitus.
Giant wrinkled creatures emerge from the water, and the gushing river rattles and wets the weed-covered land.
The monster's carcass resembled a crumpled barrel, covered with bulging eyeballs, and the thin tentacles in the middle of its body stretched out horizontally like spokes on wheels.
The top and bottom of the barrel are protruding nodules, from which five long, flattened arms are tapered at the ends, like starfish.
Countless eyeballs searched in all directions, and finally their eyes focused on Bill, its speed was very fast, and the tentacles shot out of the water instantly knocked Bill to the ground as he turned and fled.
Wet tentacles grabbed his ankles and jerked Bill back to the riverbank.
"Shhhh
Fear came back to him, and Bill clasped his hands on the ground, leaving two terrible drag marks on the gray and black earth, he had never seen a monster like this!
Bill, who had only experienced a few ups and downs, was no longer so flustered that he was at a loss, he was short of breath, he struggled to turn over, and stabbed his dagger at the wet tentacles, but its seemingly soft skin was harder than a stone!
Bill didn't give up, he continued to stab the tentacles wrapped around him with a dagger, twice if he didn't work once, and ten times if he didn't work twice!
The tentacles were about to drag Bill back to the riverbank, and were about to drag him into the river, but Bill's left hand gripped the dagger and slammed it anxiously into the wet suction cup tentacles, and if the tentacles couldn't release his ankle, he was ready to cut off his right foot.
"Die, die, die, die!"
The speed of his hand increased, and the giant creature full of eyeballs on his body was getting closer and closer to him, and Bill was getting more and more crazy, his left hand was already out of control, and black markings appeared from the place where his left arm was cut by stones, and quickly surged towards the dagger.
Soon the dagger was covered in black shadows, and when the pitch-black dagger smashed into its iron-hard tentacles again, it let out a huge wail with a poof, and the inky juice spurted out!
The monster's body shook in pain, the tentacles of the monster's whole body trembled, and the nodules contracted twice rapidly, and then the ends of all the long arms tightened, turning into the shape of steel needles.
Enraged, it fell like a spike in its long arms, and in a panic it slashed its incoming tentacles with a dagger covered in black, and Bill ignored the panic in his heart, and his body had already taken the first step, rolling and crawling away from the riverbank.
The space suddenly disintegrated, the gray sky began to dissipate, and darkness once again enveloped the sky, and the lone tree writhed and cracked from its waist, and thorny rattans flew swiftly towards Bill.
Weeds also sprout sharp teeth, biting open Bill's skin and eating fresh flesh.
Click!
Bill has fallen into madness, with tentacles chasing behind him, and a monster with a wide mouth in front of him has appeared, and even the grass on the ground has to gnaw on him!
"This world is not normal! Where am I now?"
"There's no safe place at all! I have to get out of here right away!"
Bill wielded a pitch-black dagger to force back and try to grab his tentacles, his body was already covered in blood, red and black blood dripping on the ground, and was soon swallowed by darkness, merging with the colorless world.
The instinct to survive caused the man to frantically cut off everything that was trying to leave him behind, and with the last of his strength, Bill, covered in scars and red eyes, finally escaped from the area where even weeds eat people.
There was a flame burning in his rapidly undulating chest, perhaps the mucous membranes were ruptured due to extreme dehydration, and Bill saw that his hands were bleeding and his throat was itching unconsciously.
"What a waste. ”
He took two hard bites of the wound, the smell of rust filling his nose and leaving traces of blood between his teeth, but at least Bill felt alive again.
He gripped his dagger and continued to walk in the black space, where he had lost his sense of direction and distance.
Then Bill stepped into a silent black lake, which seemed to be a separate space, with clear square borders around it, and his footsteps spread outward with ripple marks.
Vigilantly observing his surroundings, there had been no noise or strange things around him for a long time, and Bill dared to sit down gently.
"It's not going to be the way to go, I have to figure out what happened as soon as possible, why am I here?what's going on with those ugly monsters and hands coming out of the ground, is this the real world?"
"Let me take care of it, I don't want to miss any key information and kill myself. ”
Bill stretched out his left hand, which was covered with dark spots, and still held the pitch-black dagger firmly in his hand, and he noticed the change in his left hand and dagger when he poked the dagger into the tentacle, but the situation was just in crisis, and it didn't leave him any time to think.
Now he finally had a chance to take a good look at the anomaly that had happened to this body.
"The known clue now is that I suddenly appeared on that smuggling ship and became another person, locked up in the warehouse below the smuggling ship, and there were many other people who were locked up inside like 'me'. ”
"The smuggling ship was caught in a storm, and everything was swept to the bottom of the sea by a huge whirlpool, and I believe that my memory is absolutely correct, so I should be buried in the sea!"
"For unknown reasons, I survived, and not in the sea, not even near the sea. When I woke up, I found myself falling, but I didn't fall to my death, the ground here was soft and cold like water, but it supported me to walk on it. ”
"In this strange world, I was the first to encounter the black hand that came out of the ground, it dragged my left arm into the ground, and my body should have changed at that time, yes, I could see things in the darkness after that!"
"The darkness in the ground must be very corrosive, the left arm is invaded by a black substance, and the black patches will appear, and now I can't see the situation on my face, there should be this kind of black spots, but not as severe as on my hands. ”
"And then there's this dagger, it couldn't pierce the monster's tentacles, but the black patch on my left hand has eroded this knife, and the eroded dagger can damage monsters. ”
Bill gripped the dagger and finally found hope.
"This kind of power is essential to deal with the monsters here, and my left hand has the same ability as the underground darkness to corrupt other things. ”
"The dagger appeared here for the same reason as I appeared, both fell from the sky, but we fell from different places, so it can be surmised that not only am I trapped here, but also the shipwreck and other people may have fallen here!"
Flipping through the dagger in his hand, Bill was confident in his guesses, and as a self-made mature man in his early thirties who could become half a successful man, he possessed extraordinary judgment.
"The ability of my left hand and this dagger are important to me when I get out of here, I can only rely on them to deal with those monsters, so I have to figure out what this power is and how to use it as soon as possible. ”
Bill didn't see anything famous about this dagger, he cut the sleeve of his shirt and saw black spots on his entire left arm, I wonder if it was an illusion, he thought that these spots seemed to be smaller than when he first saw them?
Holding his hand against the edge of a black spot, he saw that the black patch was slowly wriggling, like a meat worm burrowing into the skin!
"Is it alive? Damn it! Where does it want to burrow? What the hell is this? Is it energy? Is it a parasite? Or is it ......?"
"Ah——!h
Bill suddenly threw down the dagger in his hand, and he had already seen dense black worms moving around the blade, but when the dagger was thrown on the ground, all the black worms covered with the blade disappeared, and it was still the pitch-black knife.
He raised his arm tremblingly and looked at his left arm again, the dark spots were all gone, and it was still the same arm covered with old scars.
Bill's scalp was numb, he swallowed saliva unconsciously, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
"Gone?"
"No! they got into my bones!"
"Shhhh
The tingling sensation on his left arm and face grew stronger, and Bill wailed as he clung to his torn brain in confusion as waves of painful heat pounded at his fragile nerves.
He was rolling on the ground in agony, and tens of thousands of ants were gnawing at his periosteum.
Pounding the ground desperately, his body was itching and hot, and only rubbing against the cold surface of the lake could bring some relief.
The pain of tearing and swelling lasted for a long time, perhaps because the body's self-protection mechanisms were activated, and the tormented consciousness slowly dissipated, and Bill fell into a coma.
A thin gray-black mist rose from the cold black lake, and a black dot gradually emerged on Bill's head, like a passage connecting the outside and the inside, and the fog was pulled by the black dots and poured into his body.
Alas......
The sleeping Bill let out an unconscious lament, exhaling a gray-black breath.