Chapter 109: The Depths
As if stuffed into the belly of a sunfish, the viscous mixed information like fat wraps the senses, connects with each other, and seeps into the eyes, ears, mouth and nose, expressing an incomprehensible strange situation.
William felt the fall and instinctively grabbed Kraft's arm. But it didn't help maintain his balance, his position unchanged, and the rocks beneath his feet shook more violently, but showed no signs of collapse.
The current change is like a dream-like experience, waking up in bed as you swing your hands and feet in a misty sleep of falling, trying to adjust your position.
However, this nightmare has no intention of waking up for a while, and he remains semi-conscious to continue this unrealistic experience.
Kraft's lips could be seen opening and closing, and he could say something loudly, and his congested hearing was so full that he couldn't filter out what the human voice was saying. The scenery is like a ripple perspective under the water, the light is elongated, the mouth shape is distorted, and it is impossible to know a single word.
However, the feeling of falling was really obvious, and William reflexively pressed down after his vision fell into darkness, accompanied by a cliff-like exclamation.
"Ahhh......h
……
“…… Yes! ”
The passage of time is difficult to judge, the palm of the hand touches the ground, there is no huge frustration and broken bones, not even pain, just simply touching the stone face.
If it were alone, he might have fallen closer than he had fallen, but William still experienced a counterintuitive sense of remoteness.
A voice whispered in my ears.
When he opened his eyes, Kraft's face was dazzlingly bright in the firelight. They were still in place, feeling like they had only passed for a moment, but as if they had been in the dark for too long, secreting tears to lubricate their dry eyeballs under the stimulation of bright light.
Fortunately, his vision returned to normal, he could see the shape of his mouth clearly, and after a little thought and correspondence with the voice, he found the corresponding meaning, "William, wake up!" ”
"Personally, I'd be glad to let you sleep a little longer, after all, you don't do things like a well-sleeped, clear-headed captain can do. But some things don't necessarily feel the same way. ”
"What, what?" William looked around nervously, and realized that everything had calmed down, except for a slight crack in the ground, and the change paused on the eve of destruction.
Seeing him wake up, Kraft let go of his shoulder-shaking hand and got up to pat the dust off his trousers, "Maybe it's the long-faced guy we just saw, or maybe it's something worse, but we're not alone here." ”
"Here?"
"It's hard to explain." Kraft was glad that William had heard the implications, which showed that Mr. Captain had not been confused by the change in level, but that the complex relationship was a problem, "In short, we are no longer where we are. ”
"You can understand it as a reflection in the water, similar to the real thing, which changes with the movement of the real thing, but it is not exactly the same."
"We're in the reflection?" Not surprisingly, William had difficulty understanding the process without the senses. It's like describing pronunciation to a deaf person, but only indirectly by touching the tremor larynx.
You understand the meaning, Kraft wanted to say this, but it seems that William doesn't understand it very well, and he himself may not know it very clearly, the spiritual senses are just to help him "know what it is", and he doesn't know how much time and energy it takes to "know why it is", or even more.
At this time, sighing will inevitably damage the little morale left, so he can only avoid the heavy and say lightly, "Follow me, I haven't tried to find someone here." ”
It's a pity that William's focus is out of sync with him.
"Alien ...... Sorcerer! Probably considering that "heresy" is a derogatory term, he even changed his words in time and changed his folk name.
Truth be told, it's not much better, in my grandfather's collection of anecdotes, the word "wizard" is used more often than "poison" and "evil spells".
If there is a negative typical family photo, you can generally stand in the middle position, and you can get a second seat at the lowest, and it is this identity that shows the sinister side face under the half hood behind the leader.
The neutral title should be "spellcaster" - the meaning of the word is deconstructed to be a user of some kind of supernatural power. Most of the time, judging from the wording of the text alone, the writer is still fit to sit on the iron chair of the courtroom.
But this tone sounded like William didn't reject wizards too much, and he was a little excited, overshadowing the self-awareness of being in danger for a moment, "Similar to the kind that can walk in the mirror?" ”
"No, of course not...... Forget it, you say yes and yes. It's a widespread legend that a wizard can walk into a mirror, stretch out his thin fingers from another world, and unexpectedly grab a victim who washes in front of the mirror in the middle of the night, "if that helps you understand the current situation." ”
Unlike William, who had just woken up, he had to be on guard, and he couldn't spend too much time thinking about unnecessary things.
There is no stopwatch here, and you can only estimate the time by counting your heartbeat, and now more than 800 times have passed, but when you first arrive, you will be in a state of intense movement, and you have to subtract the part along with the resting heartbeat.
At least ten minutes have passed, and it wouldn't be a good idea to stay where you are. From past experience, people are always on the one who comes to the door at the depths, and it's hard not to suspect that those things have unknown tracking capabilities.
It's a pity that it took too long for William to wake up, "Take this." ”
Kraft handed the torch to William and drew his sword silently, at least as long as they came, he had plenty of experience.
You have to pay attention to the subtle changes, like the first drop of water hitting the stainless steel ceiling on a rainy night, as a precursor, and then the sound of heavy tapping falls.
From the soft sound of fine pins nailed to the hard tips hitting rocks, the staggered undulations from far to near, gradually dense and messy.
The faint ears can't discern their arrival, and they are still indulging in the illusion of temporary safety under the warm flame, and the murmur of getting up and grinding the rubble will erase the opportunity to detect it in advance, "Then why didn't you use this earlier...... Magic? ”
William was still asking questions unconsciously.
As a bystander, Kraft probably knew how they had been tricked before: waking up in confusion after being hit at close range, unprepared to crash into something that wore a face, lured into the depths by some mechanism similar to the white light of a creeper.
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"Be quiet and listen carefully." He took a deep breath to make sure he was awake and waited for the thing to appear.
With William's speed of reaction, he didn't notice anything strange until the first face appeared, and the scalp-tinging sound of the arthropods landing was no longer like a leisurely crab's foot strolling through a reef, but a centipede using its uncountable pairs of feet.
Kraft looked at the face, not finding the familiarity it deserved, it wasn't any one in the crew.
It is more rugged than the image of the crew, and is the imprint of the rocky loess that has been with it for many years.
Then came the second and third faces, which were blisters on the dark veil that came out disgustingly. When the fourth appeared, even Kraft's face changed.
Darkness boils, and sharp or barbed structures vaguely probe the aperture, in which invisible changes occur, and broad flat faces emerge one after another, with distorted and distinctly native features.
"Now you know why I don't like to come here, right?"