
"So where should we go first?" adel asked while shivering in horror.
"Damn..do we look like beef cattle? Why are there so many sharp objects everywhere" cried Ferghus making all eyes look in horror at the man. Hisashi stuck his fingers to his lips as if he was trying to listen to something. The atmosphere was suddenly silent, all ears trying to catch whatever sound Hisashi was hearing.
Ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
White smoke billowed from behind all the stairs soaring high that it blocked everyone's view. They coughed because of the smell of smoke that was very stinging.
"No one broke away, stay in place okay!!" jerghus shouted after coughing.
"Make sure the people around us stay in their respective positions. We'd better join hands" Kenatt's orders were directly obeyed by everyone. The atmosphere went back into silence as another voice approached towards those people.
"Hey!! Did you hear any toy cars?" anastasya asked in a whisper.
"Yes.., his voice began to approach." whispered someone near Anastasya.
"Whatever happens, don't let go of your hand" Armian said trying to swallow the fear. The sound of toy cars getting closer and closer...
Armian stared intently at the toy that was constantly circling his legs.
"Don't you want to know what clue you want to tell you?" whispered someone in his ear. Armian gulped trying as quietly as possible to answer.
"I'm not sure that's a clue. What if it was just a trap? They want to keep us all scattered" Armian said hesitantly.
"But I was curious.Why, there are children's toys in this place? Don't you want to investigate? Come onl...Kenatt will definitely raise your rank if you, can solve this mystery" persuaded the man again.
"Ferghus forbids us to leave without everyone being with us" Armian replied disapprovingly, making the man gently squeeze Armian's hand.
"All right, that's your choice. My choice was to follow the toy" said the man trying to shake off Armian's hand.
"Hey!! What the hell are you doing?! Don't act stupid!!" armian shouted trying to reach the girl's hand again. He saw the shadow of the girl vaguely. To be able to grab the girl again, she had to let go of the person on her right.
"Hey, no. Armian!!" riche shouted making everyone stiffen.
"Is everything okay Riche...?" Kenatt began speaking up to make sure everything was safe under control.
"Armian took his hand off my hand. It was like chasing something. Maybe.toys it," replied Riche panicked.
"Si's a fool, where else is he this time?" anastasya panicked and worried.
"Don't panic. Wait for this smog to disappear and then we can look for Armian" added Ferghus trying to dampen everyone's panic.
"You know, this place is very dangerous, right?! You sure this smog is gonna disappear soon? How about before the smog disappears, Armian's life disappears first?!" anastasya's anger was full of rage.
"This place is dangerous. You can't harm your other comrades to save Armian" Kenatt said squeezing Anastasya's wrist.
"But.." said Anastasya.
"Armian is not a person who acts rashly. He's full of calculations. You're, like, just getting to know Anastasya's kid" Kenatt said, recalling Armian.
"See. The fog is thinning we have to find that person immediately" Riche said, ending a fight between Kenatt and Anastasya. Everyone only realized after Riche said the fog had thinned. They can breathe a sigh of relief as all the fog begins to dissipate.
"Where are we going? Riche, do you know where Armian went?” anastasya asked with hope.
"The fog weakened my view. How do I know where he's going?. What is clear is that he is chasing a girl" Riche said, then began to look at Rulby, Anastasya and Adel.
The Men only realized one thing..Isn't their group of only three women?? The Women were still with them all then, who was talking and being chased by Armian?! They looked at each other in confusion.
"You're sure he's chasing a girl? Not chasing his toys?" Kenatt asked Riche to repeat the sentence that was thrown just now, who knew Riche had mispronounced the word.
"The girl ran after the toy car and Armian called her so she could get back to our group" Riche said.
"Girl? Come on. Here are just the three of us. We're still with you, aren't we?" anastasya said he thought Riche was starting to hallucinate because he inhaled too much smoke.
"They are trying to divide our group, so that they can easily disappear" Hisashi said furiously. Ferghus choked while Riche explained to everyone.
"Master..Why don't you use your ability to track Armian?" Amarru turned towards the Great Master, astonished.
"I can't use that here. A place far from the holy word. That child we can count on now" Hisashi pointed to Ferghus. The man frowned not understanding what the Great Master meant?
"I? How am I supposed to track Armian? Come on, Kenatt.You're a cop, aren't you? You must know how to track down Armian's phone quickly" the ominous welcome just slid off Ferghus' lips.
"You know where we are? We're underground, man, there's no signal capable of penetrating this building" Kenatt said helplessly.
"Use your abilities" Hisashi said, beginning to walk closer to Ferghus.
"Capability? I could only see what would happen later but not to track" Ferghus said. Hisashi without changing his flat facial expression, started staring intently at both of Ferghus' eyes.
"Riche.give me your hand that has touched the hand of your friend Armian" said Hisashi made the man remain silent while extending his hand to Ferghus.
"It's a waste why are you asking me to do this?" ferghus protest was full of question marks.
"Our time is limited. Do you want something sacrificed today??" Hisashi this time suppressing Ferghus makes a man named Ferghus Cloy, has no other choice.
Slowly.he clasped Riche's hand and closed his eyes for a moment. He concentrated fully on tracking down what happened to Armian next.
Armian ran towards the shadow in the thick fog, having managed to escape from Riche's grasp. He ran small to keep pace with the shadow.
"Anastasiya!! Listen me!! Back!!" armian shouted thinking The girl he was chasing was Anastasya Armian's best friend. Never mind, listen to Armian.The shadow turned not even!! As far as anything Armian chased, then Anastasya's shadow was further away from Armian's reach. The Armian stopped the footsteps, realizing Anastasya was climbing a ladder!!
"Come, follow me. We've gone this far. You hear the sound of toys? His voice over there Armian" persuaded the shadowy figure of Anastasya to extend a hand towards Armian.
"We can't go anywhere. We have to go back now" Armian replied reaching for the hand of Anastasya's shadow then turned towards where they had gathered. Again Armian stopped the footsteps he felt something very different was on Anastasya!! Anastasya's hand why is it icy cold?
"Don't you remember, where should we go? Are we going back to our group?" the girl asked while hugging Armian from behind.
The deg!!
Armian felt something as cold as ice spread over his shoulders, heading right towards his chest. The man saw very keenly how the sharp nails of the fake Anastasya were getting elongated, capable of tearing anything!!
Armian wagged his hand to endure the pain, as well as the heat on his palm.
Oh, my goodness..What am I doing?! This place is too dim and I just dropped the lighter!! Armian's anger at himself realized an unforgivable carelessness. Armian crouched his hands The poor man started looking around where the lighter was. Meet me!! Gratitude from the bottom of Armian's heart was immeasurable.he also rekindled his lighters.
The deg!!
Anastasya was standing right in front of Armian's face!! Staring at Armian with an indecipherable look. Armian no longer felt Anastasya's figure sticking to his back.
"Why did you break away from the group?" anastasya asked staring in anger before Armian.
"Armians!! Run!! It's not me!!" shouted Anastasya one more on the stairs. Anastasya's voice echoed loudly until Armian turned to look at the stairs. At that time Armian felt very cornered...he had to believe in the figure of Anastasya which? In front of him, or who yelled at him to escape? Armian retreated three steps staring intently at Anastasya's figure.
Tap
tap
tap
The sound of Armian's steps backwards.
Tap tap tap precisely Armian step back makes Anastasya closer. Armian widened his eyes, when he saw everyone stepping from the darkness until Armian was able to see clearly his group had picked up.
Armian did not care anymore about the words that came out of the mouths of two Anastasya until he chose to scatter, running towards Kenatt.
"Stop making a fuss here Anastasya, or do you want to tell your position to those Devils?" the word Amarru made the girl choose silence without commenting a bit.
"So..he really is Anastasya?" whispered Armian to his partner Riche.
"So you really think the one you're after is him?" riche whispered inexhaustibly to his comrades-in-arms.
"What's? So you know, it wasn't Anastasya? Why don't you tell me "angry Armian while elbowing Riche's stomach.
"You've been yelling at me to come back stupid, but you're disappearing too fast in the smoke. Anyway, I just found out that Anastasya is still with us after, all the smog is gone" Riche rubbed his stomach.
"You don't see anymore, where is the existence of a creature resembling Anastasya?" adel asked looking for astral figures all over the room. Armian shook his head then pointed at one of the stairs not far from where they were standing.
"Initially, he was with me but because you came, including you," Armian said, stressing your words to Anastasya.
"He suddenly stood there asking me to stay away from the real Anastasya to get to him there" Armian added curiously. Ferghus with his instincts, started clenching both hands while looking pushyly towards the stairs.
"You're lucky not to follow that creature up there Armian." said Ferghus flatly.
"wait. What's up there?" ask Adel curious.
"That's what I was afraid of, when you were about to enter this room yesterday. This ladder leads us to a place full of sharp objects such as thousands of arrows, and meat-grinding knives" Ferghus sighed.
"Then, now we're going up to which ladder?" kenatt asked, starting to get tired.
"Why don't we just go there?" anastasya asked curiously at the place described by Ferghus.
"Go alone if you want to end your life. Are you out of your mind already? Why go there if, we know there's a meat grinder knife ready to float just to chop up all of us?" angry Armian is annoyed.
"But Ferghus seemed to have seen those things attack him, right? So it should be, he knew where the attack had come from. All we're doing is going in a direction where no attacks are coming up" Anastasya's crazy idea makes everyone pause for a moment. Shortly thereafter, Hisashi cleared his throat, calling everyone's attention.
"Ferghus Cloy..did you know exactly where the dangerous objects are?" hisashi asked seriously. Ferghus responded with a paled face. What does the Japanese question mean?
"What?! I think only Anastasya started to slide her brain. So you, follow in his footsteps huh?!" ferghus's protests are thoughtless.
"Are we all certain that if we climb the other stairs our lives will remain in place? Didn't you say yourself, this place is filled with sharp objects? Think carefully son, there is no place, which guarantees our safety" said Hisashi glaring sharply at both eyes Ferghus.
"We have another option, don't forget, if we all have Escape Map, saved by Adel" Ferghus pointed to Adel.
Everyone's reaction became more relaxed. Adel now felt his pants pocket and found a map pack inside. Kenatt immediately took the flashlight from inside Anastasya's backpack which he carried everywhere. Kenatt and Adel were trying to understand what the symbols on the map meant.
"I think this is a map, not intended to show this place. But somewhere else, in there" said Ferghus began to lose his spirit. Adel frowned for a moment, then glanced once more towards the map.
"Ferghus, I feel, this map asks us to find a location where there is a wall that describes many mummies. And our real journey is about to begin in that place" said Adel staring in disbelief at Ferghus. The man named Ferghus immediately took over the map, staring at it full of question marks while Amarru and Hisashi took a glance at the map.
"You can definitely find out that place quickly don't worry" Hisashi whispered as he patted Ferghus' shoulder.
Pock
Pock
The first pat, Ferghus turned towards Hisashi until their eyes met and then, the second clap, there was a force out of nowhere it came from, ordered Ferghus to put his index finger on the wall image of the mummy.
Sjssauisssseeeeee....
The magical whisper appeared to make the feathers brim.bisikan that was what the Ferghus was buzzing when his index finger was attached to the map. In the mind of Ferghus is clearly a wall of mummified relief waiting for someone to come to resurrect them!!
The image began to move away from the walls of the mummy relief towards a magnificent place.like a monument with thousands of statues in the form of a giant warrior figure, clutching a large, sturdy mace. Ferghus's gaze changed again, towards the thousand doors!! Suddenly the thousand doors opened slowly...
Krieeeeeeeek
Ferghus frowned, groaning in frustration!! He screams in pain!! Both of Ferghus' ears hurt instead of playing the sound of one door just making a head dizzy while this time, to a thousand doors squeaky loud deafening creak. The man couldn't bear it until he almost collapsed!!
Hisashi and Amarru use their inner strength to increase Ferghus' strength. Hisashi and Amarru clenched their right hands and then slapped their hands toward Ferghus' chest and back simultaneously.
Ferghus's gaze had initially darkened, now he was able to look back at the thousand doors that were now open very wide. Ferghus' vision turned beyond a thousand doors he began to realize one thing. All the ladders, they're going to lead to a thousand doors. But each rung of stairs, has its own challenges and dangers.
Hueeeeeee!!
Ferghus blinked his eyes and spewed out water as dark black as oil.
"Do you know which ladder can get us there?" asked Hisashi very curious.