The Devil's Legs Upside
Escape!

The first thing I did was crawl slowly towards the window. Luckily for me, when I heard the phone call from Lim earlier, I entered the room in a hurry, so that I did not close the door of this room. I glanced at the creature from the window, observing its movements. The creature resembled a thin, blonde male worker whom I did not know, O Lord, how many more workers had died. Seen, he looks upset and hit the computer screen to the point of being destroyed. I saw an electric spark strike and hit one of his bruised hands, but he looked ordinary not to feel the slightest pain.

While peeking, I stretched out my legs to reach the door of this small gaping room, then opened it slowly. Pretni is now directing his attention to the main monitor screen. The brightly lit screen, still displaying the underwater imaging image I was displaying earlier. Gawat, the button to open the Well-head gate is near that screen! I immediately stopped my feet from opening the door and tried to wait for a moment. My time is only five minutes before Julia turns off the power all over this bridge!

The creature walked up and approached the main monitor screen, then it screamed out loud all of a sudden. His cry was like the sound of a suffocating person yet with a tone so loud it boomed, to the point that I covered my ears for not being able to bear it. Does he hate the light? What he hates are the WILDAB humans who plugged that giant drill, I'm sure!

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It's been about two or three minutes, I don't know, the creature's still not satisfied punching the big screen to shreds. Gawat, if Julia's hunt turns off the electricity, I won't be able to catch up with her time if not now. Then, slowly, I crawled out of the room, while continuing to pray in my heart.

I crawled into the nearest computer table in front of me. The creature is still trying to tear apart the wires attached to the screen, it seems he is not satisfied just breaking the outer surface. I peeked carefully, the gate-opening button was right on the table behind the creature, which meant I had to crawl through it first in order to press the button. It was obviously impossible, I had to rotate a little further to avoid it.

Utilizing her who was busy, I began to stretch around the room. Using the rows of computer desks as protection, I steadily moved my hands and knees. Until I finally reached the round table, the table used to be close to Mr. Teigl, exactly a few rows from the computer table behind the creature. There I don't want to crawl into the table. A little more I can reach the table with the control button.

With a slight roll I sped up my pace until I got below the table where the button was. I can't stand up and press him directly, Pretni's gonna notice me. I forcefully reached out from under the table and fumbled at the button. Once I found the button, I without a doubt pressed the button.

THIIIIITE

“GRRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRRR”

BRAAAKKKK

With the Pretni reflex it immediately turned back and hit the table until it was broken. Luckily I immediately pulled my hand back, I completely forgot that the button would sound when pressed.

BRAAAKK BRAAAK

“GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR”

He kept hitting the table where I was hiding, breaking. The fracture almost poked my head, which was right under that table. I shut my mouth and closed my mouth, praying that this darkness might hide me, before the creature noticed me hiding down here. I also hope that Julia immediately turns off the electricity, so that the light that shines from the direction of the Well-head Drill room goes out as well.

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Instantly the atmosphere was silent, the creature no longer hit the table. Lothawat! I began to hear the sound of her footsteps approaching from the left. My heart stopped, my hair was scared, come on Julia! It's been five minutes, right?!!

This time I could see a pair of upside-down legs stepping in front of me. The leg was a pale blue full of bruises, and every step was heard a horrible 'crash' sound, which seemed to have broken my heart. Followed by the fishy smell, similar to the smell of rotten fish, which was so stinging If I could hold my breath, I would definitely hold it for as long as possible.

The footsteps finally stopped, and the palm was facing towards me. Of course it means he's facing the opposite direction to me. I took a deep breath, this is my chance, if he turned his body and tried to push down the table, I would hit him in the face as hard as he could.

BLIPS

Instantly AC the room dies, as well as the power supply of all computers in the room is mutually unpretentious die. AND FINALLY! Julia turned off the power! Instantly the atmosphere became darker than before, because the light from the Well-head Drill room was dead. Pretni stopped his steps for a while, he seemed confused by this changing situation.

“RRAARRRRRRRRHH”

No, he was not confused due to the changing situation, but he was struck by the moaning sounds of other creatures faintly heard from a distance. It seemed like the sound was coming from outside the room. After a while, the Pretni finally stepped out from before me.

“Huuuuffffffftttttt.

I snorted in relief, barely! Even so, I'm not completely safe. I was still alerting my senses, listening carefully to the footsteps that were falling away. After I thought it was safe enough, I finally ventured out looking up from the table.

From a distance I saw Pretni walking out of the room. The moaning suddenly became clearer and more thunderous, as if dozens of people were marching down there. Right, well, I've opened the Well-head gate, the other Pretni-Pretni must have burst in. They'll all be banging Drill tubes again. I don't wonder why they do that anymore.

All of this must have been due to a large chunk of rock that was hit by our Bridge drill bit. That lump of stone must be some kind of ancient temple or building on the bottom of the sea, where they lived? or maybe a place to lock them up? What is certain is that the ancient building was already damaged by a giant petroleum drill, and these inverted foot demons burst out from the bottom of the sea. No other explanation is more logical than this. Although I myself still can't believe that they came from there.

'You should always appreciate the sea, because you'll never know what it holds down there'

My grandfather's words seemed to no longer apply, sorry cake I really did not expect the sea would harbor such a terrible demon.

I settled slowly, exiting the monitor room, while continuing to think wildly. Mr. Teigl must have known all this, and he kept drilling even though he knew there was an ancient building blocking him down there, you son of a bitch! I also remembered the words of Abeba that they were crashing at the stone, Abeba did not know about the reality of the stone? Maybe because he's the new engineer here, so are I and Lim. According to the lessons I got while in college, this is usually because there are many petroleum sources based on rocks that are forced to be drilling by crashing into sea objects. Surely Mr.Teigl knew there was an abundant source of oil under the building. Not wrong, he is more concerned with money…

When I reached the stairs of the monitor room, my body trembled in fear when I saw the sea of humans.Pretni Sea, swarming giant drill tubes. About a hundred more people, burst in, from the gate of the Generator-Compressor Platform. Even faintly, I can also see from the gate of the Production Platform a sea of humans that is quite a lot also flooding in. Perhaps their number is more than that, because at that time the illumination was only from a small amount of moonlight coming in from the open gate of the Platform Generator-Compressor. If this much, then EVERYONE ON THIS BRIDGE IS DEAD! I can't stem the fear in me, my heart is beating so fast, how do I get out of here?

I closed my eyes for a moment, then I tried to analyze the situation. The moonlight tonight is quite bright shining from the direction of the Generator-Compressor Platform gate, which is right at the end of the stairs of this monitor room. While from the direction of the Production Platform gate was very dark, it seemed like the moonlight was shining brighter only in the direction of my left. That's why I can only see clearly the pretni entourage jostling in from the direction of the Generator-Compressor Platform gate. Going down these stairs would be suicidal, and with that many of them, I would be an easy target.

Do I have to wait a minute until they all come in? Then I sneak out? This group of zombies seemed jostling, difficulty entering because of their large numbers. They're not all going in anytime soon. I promised Lim I'd meet them at the Living Platform docks in an hour. I looked back at the clock on the wall of the monitor room, about 40 minutes left. I have to find another way to get out of here.

My eyes were exploring around the drill tube. As I expected, these creatures circled the drill tubes and started trying to damage the steel walls. They did not seem to notice me who was standing watching them from the porch of the stairs. Sure, now I know why they're trying to break that drill tube. On the back side of the darker drill tube, I vaguely saw a smaller crowd of Pretni. Either because it's a little bit or because it's so dark on that side I don't know. Then, I got the idea in my head to sneak in from there. My goal is certainly the Production Platform gate whose number of people looks more tenuous than here. Yeah, there's no other choice, I have to try to get out of there.

My plan is to get out of here through the Production Platform gate. Then I will continue to run up to Living Platform, and quickly to the Generator-Compressor Platform, as I said to Lim called earlier. Obviously this is very dangerous, but I am very sure that this time on the Living Platform there will be very little Pretni left hanging around, because they have all mostly come here. But that's just my guess, I don't know what will happen after I get there. But my thinking holds that only this path is the safest.

I took a deep breath... continued my escape..God! save me's…