latelenovela Chapter 471 The True Abyss (Part 9)
Chapter 471 The True Abyss (Part 9)
Unfortunately, Sera Masumi accidentally hit a small stone while moving. The rolling stone instantly attracted the attention of the stone man. The stone man changed his previous motionless and dazed behavior and rushed directly towards Sera Masumi's hiding place with big strides.
"Oh no, this speed is too fast. We have to find a new cover quickly!" Sera Masumi's pupils shrank as he looked at the stone man chasing him, and he quickly turned over and jumped off the pile of rubble.
However, she still underestimated the speed at which the stone man would catch up. When she leaned against a wall for a short rest, the stone man quickly caught up with her with a wooden pickaxe.
Sera Masumi was suddenly pushed against the wall by the pickaxe, but the stone man still showed no intention of attacking, but just looked at her curiously with his white eyes wide open.
In order to create a chance for himself to escape, Sera Masumi bent his body and kicked the stone man's chin hard. The stone man's chin was hit hard and made a cracking sound, and his head flew out together.
Sera Masumi was stunned. She just wanted to escape, she didn't really want to separate the other person's head from his body. But the next moment, the stone man staggered over to her fallen head and put it back on his neck.
Only this time, there was a hint of grievance in the hollow eyes of the stone man. The man on the top of the tower followed on stilts.
"It's a living person!!!" The tower man was startled when he saw Sera Masumi and immediately retreated behind the stone man, observing Sera Masumi's every move through the large hole in the stone man's chest. The stone man, in a daze, lowered his head and looked at the small head sticking out from his chest.
[Night Watchman: It would be nice to build a bird's nest here.]
[Fool's Gold: What are you trying to do? Don't go too far, or I'll fall apart.]
[Novelist: If it falls apart, have Mr. Philip glue it back together with wax.]
[Wax Artist: The hot wax is ready.]
[Painter: No!!!]
[Prisoner: A tribute to our Egg Shao's legendary gold payout rate.]
[Night Watchman: Isn't Mr. Philip in the asylum with Lady Mary?]
[Madam Red: After all, the dream world is a bit too monotonous. Let's just wait here.]
"Wow." Sera Masumi was not particularly scared. Instead, she watched the interaction between the two people in front of her with curiosity.
"Who are you? How dare you show up in the wind-eroded ruins without being infected?" The man on the top of the tower clearly didn't believe the other man was alone. "Tell me, where are your teammates?"
Sera Masumi waved his hands and said, "Oh, don't be nervous. I do have a lost companion, but I don't know where he is now. Have you seen a short boy in a blue suit?"
The stone man raised his head and shook it from the middle to the left and then to the right, indicating that he didn't know. Then he walked to a tree and shook the top of the tree vigorously, and many fruits fell from the sky.
"I'm sorry, we didn't see such a little boy." The man on the top of the tower saw that the stone man had brought a lot of fruit and generously shared some with Sera Masumi. "I hope you can find your companions soon."
Sera Masumi thanked him, put some of the fruit into his pocket, and asked, "Have you always lived here?"
"There used to be a tall tower here, and I lived at the top, so people outside called me 'Tower Man.'" After introducing himself, the Tower Man turned to the Stone Man. "'Stone Man' only started wandering around my home after the Cataclysm. He's quiet most of the time, but sometimes he acts silly."
Looking at the stone man with a "stupid smile", Sera Masumi was a little surprised.
"So, you have always lived here?" Sera Masumi looked at the man on the top of the tower and the stone man.
"Yes, he just collapsed the tower where I have been living." The man on the top of the tower looked indignantly at the stone man who was still grinning foolishly.
The stone man scratched his head, as if realizing that he was in trouble. He took two steps back, squatted down against the wall, and curled up into a ball with his head in his hands, looking like he was saying, "Come and hit me."
Seeing him like this, the people on the top of the tower couldn't get angry anymore: "Forget it, the main problem is not you anyway. Buildings eroded by wind and ruins are bound to collapse."
"So, how did you get here? As you can see, those living in these wind-eroded ruins are made of either wood or stone. Someone as...soft as you should stay in a shelter."
"Soft?" Sera Masumi looked at his own body, well, a normal person, then looked at the opposite side, wood and stone, and it was true that his "texture" was softer.
"I'm sorry, I did come out of the shelter and wanted to find food with a companion, but we got separated by the wind and sand." Sera Masumi also made up an excuse.
The man at the top of the tower put his hands on his hips and said, "I knew you'd sneak out, but I didn't expect you to be so brave. Some people in the shelter don't even dare to go out."
The stone man in front of the wall suddenly made a gesture. He pointed his hands made of rubble and wood at the ruins in the distance, and then pointed at the sky.
"Oh no! Another sandstorm is coming soon. Let's get going." The man on the top of the tower pulled up the stone man and turned back to look at Sera Masumi. "Let's go hide in the Green Waterway first. Do you want to come with us?"
Sera Masumi nodded and followed. It was better to have a local who knew the situation lead the way than to wander around alone in this dream world.
It was already night. There was no moon in the sky, and the dark blue sky was lit up by stars. Conan and his friends sat by the campfire, chatting and killing time.
The collectors are always so lively: "Hey, let me tell you, when I saw this starry sky, I thought of the disc I watched before. That movie about the starry sky was really interesting."
The prosthetics teacher smiled and said, "You've said it at least ten times. It's about that movie called 'The Whisperer in the Dark,' right? You also said you liked the heroine in it."
"Yeah, Miss Ecosphere is really amazing. She wasn't even nervous when facing the alien creatures! And that car rally video I saw before, that moment when the 'Highway Rider' crossed the finish line and reset the timeline! Ah, I love these videos!"
The sentry scrubbed the pots and pans and complained, "Those are antiques from your house, aren't they? I don't know how many years old they are. Ever since the great disaster, humans have been forced to hide in shelters. Now we don't even know what the creatures of the past looked like."
The archivist didn't join in their idle chatter, staring blankly at the guide sleeping on top of the giant. Conan, on the other hand, felt a surge of emotion after listening to their conversation.
When he saw the mycelium in the Archivist's hand, he thought that the world was about to be invaded by the mycelium, but he did not expect that the world had experienced a huge disaster long ago, so that humans could only hide in shelters to live.
"Um, sister collector, what is the great disaster?" Conan asked with pretended curiosity.
The collector looked at Conan in confusion. "Huh? Aren't you from the shelter? How could you not know this? You're such a lazy kid! This is history everyone knows."