Alomitsu

Chapter 31: Studio City (17)

“Come on, Rui. We’re almost there.”

Now less than three hundred meters away from the temple, black fishes shuttled under the stone slab, and their sharp teeth came out of the stone slab and attacked me and Rui from time to time.

The flying fishes could leap out of the sea to prey on plankton.

The blue shadow blackfish made a leap posture similar to that of the flying fish. A blue shadow blackfish leapt and bit on Rui’s shoulder. Blood immediately ran down from Rui’s shoulder.

I couldn’t pull out its snake-like head. This would tear the flesh off Rui’s shoulder. I opened my mouth to bite the fish. The fish was not very big. It was as big as an ordinary adult grass carp. This was also the only thing worthy of comfort.

The blue shadow blackfish noticed that someone was biting it, but it didn’t let go. Its pale eyes just kept shaking.

“Let go of Rui!”

I used my teeth to tear off the muscles of the blue shadow blackfish.

I took two bites, and on the third bite, severe pain came from my back. A black fish bit my back, which made me yell in pain. A blue shadow blackfish was on my back! I held Rui with both hands, and I had no way to catch it.

Two hundred meters!

The blue shadow loaches, twisted like a group of leeches, swam in front of me and Rui. They were like creeping tentacles coming out of the stone slab, and the eyes on their triangular skulls were shining with white light.

One after another, they came out. Many of them were as long as the sea witch’s hair. They blocked our way forward, and Rui, who had no choice, had to run into this blue shadow blackfish jungle with me.

(Note: Gorgon and the Sea Witch are of the same type. When a man sees the Sea Witch’s appearance, he will turn into a stone statue, and the Sea Witch’s hair is a little snake that is constantly twisting.)

Even if Rui was tough, he couldn’t completely escape these blue shadow loaches.

That’s right, I didn’t hide a few times. A blue shadow loach caught me and Rui, and it wrapped Rui and me with its body. The snake head approached us. Me and Rui were struggling in mid-air, and I even smelled the stench from its mouth.

“Come on, you bastards.” At this desperate moment, a white man with blond hair waved his arms. He grabbed a stone and hit the loach.

He was a brave man, and I gave him a grateful look.

This group of loaches ran towards him, including the one that caught us. It loosened its grip. It might think that the little man insulted it, and the person who insulted it was more than its food. Importantly, these loaches seem to have human thoughts.

“What are you doing! Why didn’t you eat them just now?” The giant skeleton roared angrily. Following his roar, the loach seemed to understand the skeleton’s commands, and they swam towards us again.

After a short respite, Rui and I sprinted a hundred meters forward, and we were only one hundred meters away from the gate of the temple.

“This moment has finally arrived!” There were only a few blue shadow blackfish in the 100 meters ahead, and they could no longer be a stumbling block to stop Rui and me.

“Dawn, I saw the dawn,” Rui shouted excitedly. He rushed into the gate of the temple. The white man who helped us followed us. He was also safe and sound. I didn’t find the other white man, and I wasn’t sure if he was alive or dead. I couldn’t be distracted to think about him.

And these strange fishes and the blue shadow ratheads stopped at the gate of the temple and did not come in, as if they were afraid of something. The angry blackfishes nearby could only gnaw on the sluggish blue shadow ratheads.

“A bunch of damn trash!!!”

The spiral tower of the temple began to vibrate, and the dust in the temple fell with the vibration. While Rui was carrying me and running down the stairs, I saw this huge skeleton stand up through the gap in the stonewall. It was burning with blue shadow flames, and it was like a titan. Every time it moved, the whole ground was shaking.

The dusk of the doomsday!

I couldn’t describe it other than this.

“Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” Rui under me started to gasp. His physical strength was almost reaching the limit, but Rui still ran wildly on the old spiral staircase with the white man.

“Mouse meatball!”

After I saw the figure on the corner, his face changed suddenly, but the mouse meatball did not chase us. Its body was weirdly decomposing. The heads of mice fell from its body, and the mouse meatball that was like a leather ball gradually became flat, and the blackfish on my back also turned into mud and fell off.

A ray of golden light fell from the tower. This light made the mouse meatball’s body quickly turn into mud after touching it. They could not touch the light from the outside world. This light could kill the mouse meatball and blackfish.

My choice was correct, this was the way to escape.

Kap!

The mouses’ heads were trampled under the feet of Rui and the white man. The mouse’s skull was stuck on the soles of their feet, causing them to sweat in pain. Neither of them was wearing shoes.

The scattered mouse heads slowed down their running speed. I was worried, but it was not their feet that I was worried about.

It was a skeleton that was as tall as a mountain. It was like an evil mountain giant. It took a big step toward the temple. Every time it walked on the ground, it trembled. It made my heart tremble even more.

“Run!!!!”

I screamed when I saw it. At this moment, my fear could not be concealed. It was not only me who was afraid, but also Rui and the white man.

“Give it back to me. Give it back to my country, foreigner!!!”

Whew! Bang!!!

The stone wall behind the three of us was punched through. A burning bone fist the size of a small boat appeared in front of us. The bone fist smashed the wall and grabbed a few times. It obviously wanted to catch us, and pieces of rubble kept falling from both sides of the fist.

The violent wind from the outside immediately followed the stonewall and entered the spiral staircase. The three of us stood near the top of the temple and looked at the dark blue shadows below. We didn’t know how much we were from the top.

The three of us did not dare to stay. Before the second attack came, we could only try our best to run upwards. The three of us were all nervous to the limit, and we were faced with a more frightening demon.

The huge impact caused the entire temple to sway, and the stone wall behind the three of us was beaten by the huge white bone fist again.

“Don’t look back. Run forward.” It was the white man who was talking, and he was so nervous that he clenched his fists, causing blue veins to appear on his arms.

“Why are you attacking my kingdom and trying to kill me and my people.”

It was another punch. This time it hit above us. The stairs were smashed. Pieces of rubble fell from above our heads and fell everywhere. The three of us stood on the edge of the stairs and fell down. It’s all gravel, but these gravel hurt our back.

“Alomitsu!!!” The huge skeleton stood beside the temple and roared.

Rui ran to the broken staircase with me on his back and jumped. He could not jump on the upper step, but he grabbed the edge of the staircase. I glanced at the bottomless hollow below, as if hearing the wailing of the dead under this abyss.

I also grabbed the edge of the stairs with one hand and pulled us up with my other arm around Rui’s waist. I tried my best to help Rui reduce his physical exertion.

“Ah~!” Rui raised his arms and led me up the stairs. Rui let out a tired roar, and I turned to look at the cut-off stairs behind me. Now it was the white man’s turn.

He took a few steps back and ran towards the stairs under our feet. He wanted to increase his chance of jumping through the run-up, but he was out of luck. He hadn’t run to the edge yet, and the huge white fist punched the stairs under his feet, forcing him to jump.

I let go of the hand that grabbed Rui and moved towards the white man’s arm. I grabbed him, but I rolled down the stairs, and Rui at the top grabbed my knee.

The big hole in the stonewall let me see the angry skeleton outside, and it intended to swing its fists again and send the three of us to hell.

“Climb, climb quickly. I can’t hold on anymore!” Rui yelled, and the white man took my arm and climbed up my body. When he climbed the stairs, Rui’s arms trembled with excessive force.

I haven’t been pulled up yet!

The boat-like bone fist hit us again.

“Run up. I will protect Dante,” the white man yelled at Rui, and the white man dragged my body to the upper stairs and dragged me up. My face slammed viciously on the steps of the stairs. I put my painful hands over my face and shouted, “Aw.”

Is this your way of protection?

There was another deafening sound, the huge white bone fist pierced the stonewall, and the gust of wind brought the rubble down on us. I watched the boat-like bone fist grab the large piece of rubble and took it back.

Whew~

The gravel fell from the steps we were on just now, and the bone fist retracted again, and it found that it hadn’t caught us with a roar of hissing lungs.

The air was stirred by its roar.

“I’m here to carry Dante. Your foot injury is heavier than mine. My running speed is not worse than yours,” the white man yelled at Rui, because of the pain I was holding my face against my shoulder. Running up the stairs, Rui looked at me a few times before moving forward. Rui’s approach was correct. His speed was not as fast as before. It’s not a good choice to continue carrying me on his back, and Rui was convinced based on what happened just now that the white man would not abandon me.

The temple was shaking even more. My eyes narrowed due to the pain of seeing the huge skeleton squatting down and inserting his hands under the temple. It wanted to knock down the temple and let us be buried under the ruins!

Whew~ Whew~

Dust fell from above like rain, and our backs were covered with a layer of dust. The dust made us cough constantly. Crushed stones continued to fall from above. There were even iron tools and melted mouse meatballs, including densely melted corpses of ratheads.

“Aren’t we there yet?!” the white man asked me anxiously.

“The ghost knows how many layers, I slid all the way down.”

The time we made a joke about fate, we just saw the golden light leaking from the top, two floors above. At such a critical moment, the temple began to tilt, and we fell towards the middle.

But the difference this time was that there was a rope in the center of this deep well-like hollow. The rope was covered with rough linen barbs. The hands that grasped it were immediately pierced. Even if it was very painful, they dared not to let go.

They grabbed the rope and climbed up. The temple tilted more severely. If it went on, it would be finished. It must be faster. I also stretched out my hands to grab the rope and climbed up, and the barb went into my palm, stinging like a cactus thorn into the palm of my hand.

The rope suddenly fell down. The rope was so old that it couldn’t hold us. This made us pale with fright.

“Jump! Jump to the next step and run up.” Rui’s roar made me and the white people notice the stairs beside me. At the exit of the spiral staircase laid the bone that left me a message. The stairs rolled to the middle of the hollow and fell downward.

“If you jump, you must swing the rope. If you swing it by yourself, the rope will be broken!” The white man roared uneasily as he looked at the rope that was about to break.

“Swing together and count to three.” I yelled.

“Okay, Mr. Dante. Take a good hold of Mr. White,” Rui said to me and set his eyes on the stairs next to me. I grasped the white man’s waist with my arms instead of grasping his shoulders. His shoulders were underneath. It took force to jump, and grabbing his shoulders would interfere with his strength.

“One.” Rui and the white man shouted at the same time and swung the rope.

“It’s too late. It’s going to be broken. Jump now!” The rope swayed three or four times, and Rui who was above howled. The white man also screamed after hearing Rui’s words. He carried me on his back. Jumping onto the stairs, the three of us leaped through the hollow in the middle and rolled down on the stone steps, while Rui fell down the stairs. The white man quickly stood up and grabbed Rui’s hair.

“Ah~” Rui’s hair was gripped tightly and he yelled in pain. At this moment, I stretched out my hand and grabbed Rui’s arms. I couldn’t pull Rui. I didn’t have enough strength. The man loosened his grip on Rui’s hair, grabbed his arm, and pulled him up. When Rui climbed up, blood dripped from his head.

The three of us knelt on the stone steps and dressed coarsely. Our rest was only two or three seconds. We must continue to move forward. This time, the white man clamped my upper body to his elbow and ran with Rui to the very top. He used too much force, and I couldn’t breathe.

The door that appeared in the center was shining with golden light, and the sweet smell of sea breeze outside the door made us instantly refreshed.

“You guys! How dare you run to the top!” A skull the size of a house, burning with blue light, rose from below. It looked like the meteorite that killed the Cretaceous dinosaurs. Our hairs flew from the wind.

“The last step!” Rui grabbed the white man, and the two of them led me towards the golden gate with all their strength.