The CURSE: Deadly Games
● THIRTY TWO ●
"Lor, what is this?" eleanor said softly as she glared at the surroundings with eyes of disbelief.
"I-this cave. But how do we get out of here? It's so dark and it looks like this cave has no end" Baylor said.
"There are kerosene lamps and torches!" exclaimed Eleanor when she saw some equipment that had been prepared by the game maker.
His voice that continued to resound unceasingly made the feathers of meuduk both stand upright and shrouded in fear.
"Come, we'll go there!" yep, Baylor with a small volume.
They are a little afraid of their ever-echoing voice, making them start to think strangely about the ghosts in the movies. But, actually there is no harm if they are afraid. Anyone in their position must be scared, right?
They walked step by step towards the bright lights and burning torches and grabbed them and looked for a resting place.
"What should we do now, Lor? I'm confused" sighed Eleanor.
"I don't know either. How about we go around and find out the circumstances around, we know we can find a clue. Sitting still is useless" Baylor said.
"Yes, you are right" replied Eleanor.
They then began to walk down the stuffy cave together and began to find clues one by one.
Eleanor suddenly paused for a moment when she felt something accidentally seen on the cave wall as it passed by her
with a little flame torch light.
"Lor, Lor, wait a minute. Put me the torch," Eleanor asked as she moved her finger, asking for the torch from Baylor's hand.
"All right, what's up?" baylor said, inserting the torch he was holding.
"You see, on the walls there are carvings" Eleanor said, bringing her torchlight closer together.
Baylor squinted his eyes and found the carving that Eleanor was referring to.
"Yes, you're great, Ele. Since when are your eyes so observant?" goda Baylor, trying to melt the atmosphere.
"You're such a bitch. You still have time to tease me at a time like this. You are the king of puzzles, quickly help me find the meaning of these carvings," said Eleanor annoyed.
Baylor then began to observe the carvings, while Eleanor tried to find other clues.
***
"Aghhhh!!!"
The sound of shouting boomed in the mysterious room. Gray wall paint and decorated with various trinkets and strange dolls. Not a few other strange objects are displayed around the room.
"How did the girl get inside? How dare---," he did.
"Aghhhhh!!!" again, full of frustration.
"You, just look!!"
It hurt so much that he tried to control his breath and the cold sweat that kept pouring out between his closed eyes.
***
"Lor, there's a door here!" eleanor exclaimed after a long search for another clue.
Baylor, who was focusing on observing the engraving instructions, left him and ran towards Eleanor, who was about 10 meters in front of her.
"Door?" baylor murmur.
"Yes, you see this. Here there is a key hole and around this there is a dividing line," said Eleanor, pointing one by one.
"Yes, you're right. But where's the key?" ask Baylor.
"Is it possible that the challenge is to find the key to open the door?" eleanor turned her eyes toward Baylor.
"You may be right" Baylor replied.
He began to panic back to where he had originally observed the carved paintings.
"What does the engraving mean?" eleanor asked a moment later.
"I don't understand the point. But it looks like he was describing the birth of a princess in a kingdom, he then grew up full of happiness, then he fell in love with a prince and the love was broken?" lang Baylor was a little hesitant with his understanding.
"Isn't the story the same as we read, Lor?" ask Eleanor.
"Yes, I think so!" exclaim Baylor.
Why had this not been thought of by him before? Ah, what a sloppy. It was fortunate that Eleanor who was endowed with super memories managed to make up for her flaws.
"That story is real?" ask Eleanor again.
"Maybe?" baylor replied hesitantly.
Suddenly, their sense of smell detected a substance unusual for them to breathe.
"I don't know" answered Eleanor with her head.
"Come on, you used to be very good at chemistry" whined Baylor.
"What is carbon monoxide gas?" eleanor was guessing.
"Gas carbon monoxide? Isn't that a dangerous gas?" ask Baylor again.
"Yes, if this is carbon monoxide gas, we have to get out or we're going to die here" Eleanor said.
"Looks like my chest's getting tight, Ele. I'm serious" Baylor said, stroking his chest, causing both to panic.
They don't want to die from carbon monoxide poisoning out of nowhere. Moreover dying silly without a fight.
"Where the key is," whined Eleanor in panic.
Both of them were busy looking for the key to open the door and no longer ignored the voice that was no less busy echoing.
"Lor, it looks like we're going to lose. I can't take it anymore. Our lungs are damaged, Lor. Forgive me for bringing you here" said Eleanor, gasping, her chest tight.
The two began to sit and tend to sit still on the ground, their lungs were no longer able to exchange oxygen anymore. And .. well, they can't breathe and breathe their last breath in the dark cave.
Surprisingly, moments later, they were free-falling back as they had been at the beginning of their entrance into this mysterious world and arrived back in the same cave as the last place they exhaled.
"Lor, are we dead?" eleanor asked after opening her eyes again.
"No, Ele. We return to this cave after death. What's that supposed?" baylor asked astonished after seeing the same location as before.
Even a puzzle king does not understand how this game world works.
"Lor, take a good look at this map board, the love sign that was originally five pieces is now the remaining four pieces. What does this love mean by our lives?" eleanor asked when she saw a difference in the map of the game she kept from the beginning.
"You mean like in the Jumanji movie?" ask Baylor.
"Maybe? But where did that carbon monoxide go?" Eleanor.
"I don't know. We better move fast. We can't die in this game anymore" Baylor said.
"Yes, you're right" muttered Eleanor, her head still spinning at the thought of all these things.
Eleanor and Baylor began walking footpaths that left only hundreds to thousands of footprints behind them. Eleanor's steps came to a halt as her eyes were fixed on something on the rocky ground.
"Lor, wait a minute" said Eleanor.
The kerosene lamp he was holding was closing towards the ground, lighting up the path.
"This is a star symbol, Lor. This is Cancer" cried Eleanor with her eyes perfectly open.
He then turned back and found another star symbol somewhere else on the endless vast rocky ground.
"Look! This is Gemini, and this is Taurus" he said.
His smooth legs did not stop walking slowly while bowing his back looking towards the ground followed by Baylor.
"Then this is Aries and there are no other stars. Means the rest is ahead" Eleanor's light accompanied by a proud smile puffed up on her face after making a big contribution to her game.
"What does that mean?" their inner.
"Ele! It seems I'm starting to understand what we should do" Baylor exclaimed.
He then walked back to the front.
"Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricon, Aquarius, and Pisces. Twelve stars are here!" exclaim Baylor.
"That thought is proof that the story in the book is real. What in the story is there mention of the zodiac?" ask Baylor.
They began to scrape the contents of their brains, trying to recall everything they had read until their brains were hot and sick emitting invisible smoke.
"Aah! Virgos! The princess was born at the time the star of Virgo appeared!" exclaim Eleanor.
"Come, get back to Virgo's!" take Baylor.
"What's wrong with Virgo?" eleanor asked when they reached the rocky ground of Virgo.
They looked at him carefully and found no clues.
"Ele, you see that. Around this ground there's a slight crack" Baylor said as his eyes detected a fine scratch that should have been very hard to see.
"So?" ask Eleanor.
He still doesn't understand Baylor's intentions.
"It's possible that this land could be unlocked" Baylor said, and his hands began to try to lift the scratched soil according to its shape, perhaps they could find a key or other clues.
"Meet!"
