The CURSE: Deadly Games
● THIRTY SIX ●
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The atmosphere instantly changed instantly as they opened the door. Even a step had not been taken, the location suddenly changed without them noticing and again the place brought about excessive anxiety.
Bruk!!
The door closed by itself and they were locked back in the room. Their eyes looked around and swallowed their saliva with great difficulty.
Now, the place doesn't seem as bad as it was before. The two of them were in a compartment like in a giant cube where every wall was covered with wood and there was not a single window or door, only the wood can be seen and covered perfectly.
However, the room was huge, many times that of their bodies. Their total body is only as big as an ant on an asphalt road around which there are tall skyscrapers.
In front of them was a burning fireplace and its size was unusual, but extraordinary. Their size even exceeds their height. In the middle of the room, there is a wooden table and a wooden long chair that is no less large.
"Lor, how sultry" said Eleanor, unscrewing her collar as the heat enveloped them.
Even in that room there were no windows or vents at all so that not a single wind was opposed to the heat.
"What are we supposed to do here?" ask Baylor.
His eyes were unceasingly looking at his surroundings that were full of gigantic size until his neck was now sore from having to keep looking up.
"Lor, the fireplace is huge. We can die of heat here" said Eleanor.
He did not brag about it, because indeed the fire that was even much bigger and taller than them was now a member that would accompany them in the arena of the game this time.
"Come, Ele. We have to succeed in one try this time." Baylor pulls Eleanor's hand and invites her directly to look for clues. He realized that they could no longer be stunned and lament their fate long ago, trying to learn from their previous mistakes
***
"Auchhhh!!" muttered someone who just woke up.
He held his head, the place where he had been hit. He opened his eyes slowly and found himself lying on a hotel bed. He looked around and was surprised not to play when his eyes could not find the book or the figure who carried the book he wanted so much.
"Aghhhhh!!!" frustrated screams.
He stood up and walked in stride while occasionally holding his bruised head but covered in thick hair so that his head looked ordinary without any injuries. He walked up to the door and .. he was locked inside! But as it turned out, this was no big deal for him and could still make him smile happily. His hand reached for the doorknob and he whispered a spell at such a small volume that normal human ears could not hear it, only infrasound living things could hear its utterance.
Just as he opened the door, two pairs of eyes on guard immediately glared at him with enormous pupils, who else if not the guards who were about to catch him.
***
Arriving at the wooden tables and chairs, the only thing that could be a place to search for clues for them. There were no drawers or cabinets like the arena before. But there was no need for them to climb up the table and the big chair to search, just a glance could be determined there was not a single item there - empty.
"Lor, how to look for clues. There really was no se-," she was cut off when Eleanor's eyes, combing the whole room, found a padlock hanging from a nail embedded in the wooden wall.
However, it was very very far up there, it was impossible to reach them even with a long ladder.
"Lor! There's a padlock there!" eleanor exclaimed as her hands rose pointing at the padlock.
Baylor followed Eleanor's index finger and saw a hanging padlock. His eyes took the initiative to look at the entire room but only the upper part.
Sure enough, there are a series of objects that are pierced with nails to stay in a high place.
"No way," he murmured. He still couldn't believe the distance and all the clues.
"Ele, is there no stairs at all?" ask Eleanor so that the two immediately look for objects that can at least help them climb to the top.
Both of them are now silent and rotate their bodies, very carefully with whatever objects are actually there.
"It seems like nothing, Lor," said Eleanor regretfully as she could not give them any good news that would encourage them in the vastness of this vacuum.
However, Baylor did not hear Eleanor's words very much because her eyes were narrowing to a point. I don't know why, but there seems to be an indentation. But what looks is the same wood as all the walls.
"Ele, did you see what it was?" His hand was patting in any direction behind which was actually Eleanor's hand to invite her to look along with him. Enough with the sound, Eleanor approached Baylor and followed the direction her eyes looked.
"Nothing, Lor," said Eleanor confidently there was nothing there.
The cusssshhhh!!!
The sound of the roasting flames suddenly shocked them. The sound is like when you are watering on a high temperature pot that has just cooked on the stove.
"How can it burn?" ask again.
Baylor swiftly distanced Eleanor from the fire.
"So-so I held the chair, and suddenly there was a fire just like that" said Eleanor nervously.
He was still afraid of the fire. What if he was burned with that chair? That's how he thought.
"You got him?"
"Yes, I was holding the chair for a backrest, but suddenly the fire lit up" replied Eleanor with her eyebrows lowered helplessly.
Then, Baylor walked up to the wooden table and tried to hold it.
Yushhh!!!
The same voice came once more, and the fire really did appear just as Eleanor had said. Baylor looked into Eleanor's eyes and her mouth gaped in disbelief.
"Don't hold anything empty-handed" Baylor said.
His mind is now very dizzy. How can something burn by simply holding it. As he remembered earlier he had held Eleanor's hand, but nothing happened that they did not want like this.
How to take a hint if not through the hands. He did not even understand what Eleanor was saying, then shook his head. How much longer do they have to be under this kind of pressure? It is inexhaustible why Eleanor must be the victim of the curse of so many people on this earth.
"Come, come with me!" take Baylor.
His hands were about to hold Eleanor's hand, but he recalled that they should not hold anything with their palms and fingers.
Eleanor simply followed him carefully from behind, making sure she did not use her palm for now.
"This is the stairs, Ele!" yelling Baylor while rubbing the surface of the stairs. Calm down, not with his palm, but with his elbow. Very creative at the right time, not in vain his brain developed for 20 years.
The stairs were camouflaged with wooden walls around. The height is also in accordance with the size of the room so that it is difficult to see its existence.
"Come, we lift it together! We have to move quickly this time, "he ordered firmly.
***
"Hey, you!" shouted one of the security guard who was on guard when they saw the door they locked open and the evil woman came out from there.
"Who are you?" ask another security.
"Hahaha .. it looks like you guys haven't been kapok, yes," said the haughty Isabelle and then laughed cynically.
"Tell me, where the man was," he added in a creepy tone.
"He's gone, you won't find him again" said one of them.
"Aghh!! Just watch out ..." murmured Isabelle then began to recite mantras with incomprehensible language.
The two strong-bodied men could only look at him. They were eager to beat him up, but what was their power. As bad as the woman, she is still a woman, especially her age is not young who may be close to the age of their mother.
Bruk!!
***
Eleanor began to do as Baylor had instructed, but it was not easy to lift a large ladder with a very heavy wooden base, and they could not even use her palms. They just use the force of the patch inside their elbow to lift.
"Huftt .. huftt .... Can't! Just push, Lor," suggested Eleanor who suddenly stopped lifting her ladder until it almost caused Baylor to fall when it expended all her strength.
Hm .... That's useful!
Eventually Baylor agreed with his advice and began pushing the ladder with their backs. Initially, the stairs were opened first so as not to fall when pushed them.
"Huftttt .... Finally."
The stairs and a pair of people trapped in the game finally reached the place they wanted to go, which is the closest clue to the staircase area.
