774 Roland
In the world of the Dark Tower, after Roland communicated with the mage, he had doubts about whether the black rainbow he brought to Jimmy was one of the reasons for the energy imbalance in the Dark Tower world.
It's just that it's not easy to return to Earth, the door he used to return to the Dark Tower from New York was the same door he used to fight against the Men in Black before, but it was very far away from his hometown, and he didn't plan to return to Earth at all when he left his hometown to wander around this time, so now his location can't confirm where to return to the original door.
In fact, the entire Dark Tower world has entered a period of decay many years ago, many places have been abandoned, and there are no GPS coordinates and maps similar to those of the earth, relatively speaking, except for the familiar surroundings, it is difficult to accurately locate other places.
This has led to the current troublesome situation, and by the time he gets the cause of the calamity from the mage, he will no longer be able to find a way back to Earth unless he follows the previous route in the opposite direction again.
After thinking about it again, Roland still chose to come back and find Jimmy, the world of the Dark Tower is his hometown, even if there is only a small possibility, he still hopes that this world can be a little safer, even if the world is already coming to an end, it is much better than doing nothing.
In addition to various physical disasters, what is more serious is the demons or resentful spirits that appear in various unexpected places without regularity, and there are things that have unintentionally crossed the rift from other worlds, and Roland has eliminated I don't know how many along the way.
According to the impression of the return route, in fact, it is impossible to take the same road exactly, sometimes Roland will also admit the wrong way, and when he finds out that he has gone wrong and then returns, there will be problems, strictly speaking, the current Roland is actually more still wandering, the only good thing is that he now has a goal, whether it is the previous door or other doors, he still hopes to find Jimmy and take him back.
Roland's ability to come to Earth this time was actually an accident, and he saw a suspected rift on the way to his travels, where the sky and the air occasionally changed colors of light, and occasionally there was a dark red or black glare.
Standing on a high vantage point, he could see a nearby gathering point, but when Roland arrived at the gathering point village, he found it empty, and found several corpses in several rooms.
This scene has been seen many times during this time, and there is no doubt that there should be something nearby, these corpses are already somewhat decomposed, and they have been dead for a while.
The biggest advantage of encountering this kind of settlement is to collect some supplies, after all, it is a horseback ride, and it is impossible to carry too many supplies with you, so you must replenish it every once in a while, and now this settlement has been abandoned, just enough to collect a wave.
Everything was normal, but when he arrived at the well room, he was suddenly attacked, and a huge spider monster approached the door from the roof of the well room, and suddenly rushed down when Roland entered, and several long legs almost hugged Roland.
When Roland encountered a surprise attack, he immediately bent forward and pounced, dodging the spider's embrace and pulling out the left wheel at the same time, turning around to shoot, but the spider monster's movements were very fast, although Roland's bullet fell on it, it was not killed directly, but only made a few holes, and some green blood flowed out.
The spider monster did not leave after dodging the fatal wounds, but moved along the walls and roof of the house, occasionally spraying a spider silk to try to tie Roland, and would also use its long spider legs to stab Roland.
Roland didn't stand still either, he shot back while moving to dodge the spider's spurt, although the spider's dodge speed was fast, but it didn't completely dodge Roland's bullet, but it was not hit in a fatal position, and he could still launch a counterattack against Roland.
Because of the failure of several attacks, the spider suddenly let go of the roof and landed on the ground, Roland faced the spider head-on, making a little less room to maneuver, and immediately reloaded after dodging, and was suddenly touched by a spider silk in his leg between shots.
The spider pulled the spider silk with one leg, and rushed towards Roland at the same time, he was pulled by the spider silk when he dodged to the side, and stumbled a little, and had to fall to the ground, took advantage of the situation to roll under the spider, raised the gun and aimed at the spider's head and eyes from the bottom up to shoot continuously, the spider's size and its structure limited its flexibility, and after being shot in the head, he immediately gave up Roland, rushed towards the well in the middle of the house, and did not choose to climb down, but fell directly.
Roland's legs were still stuck with spider silk, and he was dragged to the well by the spider, Roland stretched out his left hand to hold the top edge of the well, and raised his gun with his right hand to shoot several times below, but he still didn't hold the spider's pull, and fell from the well.
The spider didn't hear the sound of water when it fell, this well should have been abandoned, Roland tried to reach out and support both sides of the well to reduce the speed when he fell, but there was no place to borrow strength, so he could only fall to the bottom of the well, but he was lucky, he should have been lucky when he shot down just now, he just killed the spider, and when he fell, he just hit the spider and didn't fall injured.
Got up from the spider and wiped the spider blood on his body, only then did he realize that the bottom of this well had been transformed, the upper well was not wide, but the space below was a little large, probably in the shape of an irregular slender cone.
Roland lit the small torch he carried with him to light up the place, and found a lot of cocoons wrapped in spider silk around the bottom of the cave, put away the left wheel, pulled out the dagger, cut one and looked at it, and then he gave up looking at the other cocoons, the habits of spiders are known to everyone, this cocoon is obviously its food box.
With the torch, Roland can see the details of the bottom of the hole, and he found a crack hidden in the corner of the wall, he was about to approach when a big spider suddenly emerged from the crack, similar to the spider he killed before, but now only the head and front legs have passed through the crack, "bang" Roland pulled out the gun very quickly, although the incident happened suddenly, he still quickly pulled out the gun and fired a few shots at the spider, the spider had already come out of the crack, and immediately retreated after being shot, and returned to the opposite side of the crack again.
Roland raised his gun to aim at the rift, and after waiting for a while to see it come back, he looked up at the hole with some light above, he couldn't jump up at this height, if he wanted to leave, it was estimated that he would have to dig a lot of footholds in the cave wall.
After a moment's struggle, Roland adjusted the bullets on the revolver, took some food and drink from his backpack to replenish it, sorted everything out and walked towards the rift.
The spider could shuttle back and forth through the rift, apparently the world on the other side was at least much better than his current situation, and when he passed through the rift, he found himself in a small cave, with a lot of spider silk marks around, and there was an obvious light at the entrance of the cave, the kind of spider that was shot was no longer here, and there were some spiders on the ground whose blood was spilled and left along the cave.
Roland slowly moved towards the exit of the cave, this is obviously not a cave dug by humans, the entrance of the cave is not very big, Roland first checked the outside of the cave before drilling out.
Outside the cave is a forest, looking left and right, Roland climbed up a section, looking into the distance, there seems to be a small village not far away, there are some buildings, and then look around, there are no obvious buildings found elsewhere, it seems that this should be the nearest settlement.
After determining the direction, Roland climbed down the hill and walked towards the settlement, he had just come here, and it was still unclear what the environment of this world was, after losing his horses and the reserves on it, Roland was now in urgent need of supplies, otherwise he would not be able to support himself for a few days with only a little food and drink in his bag.
The spider's blood had already entered the woods, and now was not the time to chase, and it was important to ensure your own safety.
It was still troublesome to move through the woods, and Roland wasn't sure if the spider would have other companions or if it was in the woods, so he was moving slowly and beware of the other party attacking him from all corners or overhead.
Finally out of the woods, the nearest house was a hundred or two hundred meters away from the woods, Roland looked at the surrounding grass and the buildings in front of him, and made sure that there was no obvious threat before leaving the woods and walking towards the house.
The shape of the wooden single-story house Roland is very familiar, after approaching he did not walk directly into these houses, but walked around them for a while, it seems to be very quiet, quiet excessively, there is no sound of motor vehicles, no human voices and animal sounds, but just look at the appearance of this village, it seems that there is no dilapidated feeling, there are several houses with American flags floating on them, obviously the place he came to is the earth, but I don't know if it is the earth he has been in before.
Roland picked a house that looked relatively new and walked over, before he entered the door, he smelled some rotten blood, this smell was not quite right, he looked through the window, kicked open the door and walked in, the house looked a little messy, you could see an obvious pool of blood on the floor, and there were traces of dragging, but there was no body, and it was strange that he did not go out from the traces of dragging.
Roland checked the room, made sure that there was no one in the room, then went to the bathroom to check the water and electricity situation, then took out his mobile phone and charger to charge the mobile phone battery, returned to the living room and turned on the TV, and found that everything was similar to when he left, it seems that this is the earth.
He went to the bathroom to take a shower and cleaned up the spider blood and dust from his clothes before picking up his phone, putting on the battery and taking a look.
Jimmy's text message has arrived, Roland directly dialed Jimmy's FBI mobile phone to notify him, but he didn't let him come, there are all kinds of strange situations here, let's take a look first.
After resting in the room for a while, Roland changed his clothes, prepared his gun and walked out of the house.
He walked around the small village along the neighbor's house, only to find that there was no one here, and a lot of blood was found, but there were no bodies.
The lights in many houses were still on even in broad daylight, and it seemed that the accident should have been at night, and apparently it was very fast, and it did not alarm anyone else, according to the current situation, at least there was no outside police intervention, and only two houses found a falling pistol and a shotgun in the scene, apparently they did not carry out an effective counterattack.
Roland searched the house by the way during the inspection, and replenished himself with a batch of .45ACP bullets, for a village like the United States, having a gun and bullets at home can almost be regarded as standard, but many calibers are not right.
When he inspected the house, he found a lot of anomalies, some of the houses had broken windows, some had holes, and traces of spider silk were found in many places, it seemed that the spider he encountered was nearby, and judging from these houses, it should have captured a lot of people as its reserve food, and even considering the time of the people here and its movements, it is very likely that it is not just a spider.
Roland found a relatively closed room to seal the doors and windows, and then rested here, the spider did not take these people for long, and these houses have refrigerators and food reserves, this environment is already very good for him, at least there is no need to sleep in the wild.
Roland has spent more than ten years with Jack to clean up some supernatural events on the earth, although it is not the main responsibility, and he has not done everything, but it is undeniable that this is actually his own idea, in essence, Roland is still a good person with compassion, for what happened in this village, although it has little to do with him, but he still hopes to solve it as much as possible.
Although he gave Jimmy two guns and a black rainbow, he didn't know what Jimmy was like now, what happened here was obviously not explained by the spider flood, the two spiders he encountered were almost bigger than people, even if only the torso was about the same as a human torso, this kind of thing would definitely not be naturally generated, it must be related to the Dark Tower world, and it was not even ruled out that it was related to other worlds.
There are spider monsters in the dark tower world, even larger and stronger, Roland has dealt with them before, the biggest harm of these things is that they will seriously harm the ordinary people around them, they basically do not pose much threat to people like Roland, but for ordinary people, they can't run away after being targeted by them, unless there are powerful defensive weapons, but not everyone in the dark tower world can get a gun, and it is difficult for ordinary people to threaten spider monsters with knives.
The people in this small village were obviously attacked by spider monsters, and Roland found a lot of guns here, if they could all defend themselves with guns, they could at least resist and contact the outside world for support.
Another potential threat is that they are still fertile, and if left unchecked, it may not be long before they fall apart.
(End of chapter)