Theft of the Future

Chapter 35

With the fact that some of them were already unconscious, there was also no sign of going home and going out any time soon. They decided to spend the night in these sewers.

As per the advice and suggestions Laju mentioned, they sleep under a tickling electric shock and give a strange, but comfortable sensation to their bodies. Except for Aaron, who prefers to sink to the center of the channel below with an uncertain depth.

Initially, Aaron who was unconscious was indeed brought in close to the electric tree. Whether the interaction of what happened between the electric tree and Aaron as a race of aquatic creatures, it has not been 10 minutes Aaron interacted with the tree, he immediately screamed in pain.

There was a long debate, until in the end Aaron decided to plunge himself.

The pace only warmed both of his shoulders.

“Ya, alright.”

And that way, Laju and the others also spent the night under this tickling and piercing electric shock, hoping that their bodies could be treated, and return to their prime and fit condition.

Unfortunately, not everyone can get the benefits that Laju receives.

It doesn't seem like one can get instant healing received from this tree where hundreds of tiny needles pierce cells and repair tissue, most of the others feel nothing but sleep and rest in general.

There is no accelerated regeneration or natural healing.

Although Laju himself was confused about what was really happening to him and to other friends, he did not have time to discuss it to others.

Perhaps, when they could get out of this place and go home intact, Laju could go deeper into discussing it with Vignette who was an expert in this matter.

A few hours later, people began to wake up from their deep sleep.

Luckily, Iris uses a watch. So, they can still be aware of the movements of time and day that occur in the outside world, which they absolutely cannot get under these quite dark culverts.

Naturally, this place is completely closed.

In fact, Laju still did not find an answer to the reason that the electric tree could still grow without sunlight that he could see.

“So do we have to keep chasing those humans?” The morning conversation begins.

“Our goal here is to try to discuss with the humans to free the hostages. But, because of the changing day, has not that goal been in vain? Siapatahu the humans have escaped and killed the hostages for not caring.”

“With this trap we found, those humans must have done a lot with the hostages.”

“Not to complete the rescue mission, we are here even a lot to beat and finish the troublesome lizardmen.”

“...Well, whatever happens, I will try to stay to discuss. The hostage problem they did, I couldn't do anything about it,” Parker replied. “Basically, I keep trying to find out the motives of the humans, even though I came here more because I was carried away by the emotion of hearing the hostage sentence.”

“It was indeed a noble goal. But don't we think first how we get out of here?”

“Yes, I'm fed up with the foul scent of this aqueduct.”

“…”

There's no answer. No one tried to answer that statement, not even Parker. This means that even Parker himself has no definitive answer to the possibility of them coming out.

Parker was still pondering how to take responsibility for the five friends trapped underground.

Until he finally remembered that he was the chairman that everyone should be able to rely on, Parker should not display his weak side like this in public. He must be the sun that can give spirit to the surrounding.

“Quiet it!” Parker. “I will definitely take you guys out!”

“This is a waterway, right? What if we follow the waterways? In the end we will end up in the sea, or a beach like that, right?”

“No,” Aaron chimed. “That water line is not as easy as you think. The water channel below leads to another room. But, I myself don't even know how far it is. The most important thing is oxygen. The aqueduct was completely filled with water, nothing else. You guys can't possibly hold your breath for hours, right?”

“Can Parker protector do something about it?”

“Unfortunately no. You can still breathe a sigh of relief despite being overwhelmed by her protector, right?”

“So, when yesterday we were stranded in the hallway it included quite lucky, huh?”

“What about the origin of the water source? Must be connected to a building, a house, or even a river maybe?”

“No. The initial channel connected to the culvert consists only of small pipes. After all, we also do not know how far the small pipe is connected directly to the houses above.”

“This place has a beginning and an end, right? In the end we can definitely get out, right?”

“Of course. There are still many other avenues that we can use in addition to the inlet and exit channels of these culverts.”

“Are we just chili to smash the ceiling? This tree lives not without reason, right? Surely there is sunshine around here.”

“Wah, it could also be like.”

“But the possibility to fail is also quite large. We do not know what is above us. Is it land and land? What if the one above us is still hundreds of meters of stone? Or civilian buildings? Can those who are innocent even be victims.”

“...” Discussion stops again.

The problem still continues. Even with some solutions that were offered, the problem even branched out to cause other problems.

“Do we just have to try to find a way out through these dozens of aisles? Trying to hope that this is the correct passageway until we can penetrate into the river?”

“Go to the hallway, yes?”

“...Well, at least we are safe in the protection of this electric tree. Instead of having to deal with the lizardmen who I don't know how many more still live in these culverts.”

“Oh yes, Del! Do you have any future visions of this?”

Suddenly Laju began to turn to the orange-brown girl who from the beginning of the discussion could only shut up and nod, not giving an active response.

Anyway, what do you want to expect?

This girl can't talk.

And when Laju asked this girl to comment, she was just confused, glancing left and right, being unprepared for the attention she suddenly got. As usual, Delphia just gave her awkward smile in response to the question.

After that, there was nothing that could help Delphia's condition to understand, other than putting pressure on a request for answers. Because, others just remember that they have a girl who can see the future that can help them.

Delphia let out a cold sweat.

Delphia was completely confused as to what to do, other than to answer her friends' expectations to give her a glimpse of the future. Because, they hope that Delphia's ability can answer their problems about the way out of these culverts, to the top, to the house.

Delphia understands her own body. He could not control his ability to see the future.

But, he could not say that in the presence of his half-desperate friends. Except, Delphia was hoping that Nek Vignette would actually do something to her body, to her abilities.

Now, all Delphia could do was hope and do her best.

Swooshes!

Instantly after Delphia got up, her body immediately shone changed. Starting from her hair that was gradually white, as well as her eyes that turned into beautiful diamonds. But the change did not come there. The pace was astounded by the sudden appearance of white silk cloth present giving a gown to Delphia, as well as ice particles like stars or crystals revolving around the body of this girl.

What the hell's going on? This has never happened before.

Confident with his memory. She wants every Delphia to change, not to be this grand. But, all the grandeur and elegance Delphia offered when she changed really explains why everyone in Kannaris or Gloria calls her ‘lord puti’, she said, regardless of his background that Laju doesn't know at all.

One thing that could answer this oddity was the intervention of Nek Vignette who also changed her body to be lighter, stronger, and faster. Delphia should have benefited from her arrival to Vignette's old doctor in Gloria yesterday.

Turns out, not only the pace was stunned. The four friends who had been trying to wait for Delphia's answer were now just gaping open their mouths wide with wide eyes.

Maybe they are just confused as to what to comment.

Without further ado, Delphia who had already turned into a very graceful and beautiful – though still with many bruises all over her body, instantly leaped down from the floating tree foundation, to the ground floor.

At first, everyone was shocked by Delphia's sudden leap.

Should be, he's still fine.

Especially if the girl could swim, there was nothing to worry about.

But, their shock was not about Delphia jumping off the foundation alone. But about the law of gravity that seemed to be opposed by this ice princess. Should have been, in a matter of seconds Delphia jumped he would have fallen into a waterway. But, the ice particles surrounding it make the acceleration of the descent can be slowed, such as using a parachute.

Not to forget also that when Delphia managed to descend safely, the water surface at the center of the aqueduct below instantly froze instantly.

And that way, Delphia went straight through the many mouths of the hallway, touching the walls, glancing to and fro, walking around this entire room with a confused look.

“How?” Audy asked 15 minutes after the observation.

Honestly, what are they trying to achieve?

Delphia cannot speak normally like most people.

Why do they always try to start a conversation with a difficult question to this girl?

As a result, Delphia can only smile in confusion while trying to choose a suitable hand gesture to keep trying to communicate with others.

“Can we get out of these culverts?” The pace of understanding how to communicate with Delphia immediately changed the question into a simpler question that Delphia could answer.

“What is it? Me, we don't understand?” call Laju so Delphia gives an ambiguous answer in the form of a skirt as well as a nod from his head.

Instead of explaining it better, Delphia could only shrug her shoulders.

“We can, and cannot get out of these culverts, so?”

“It was very ambiguous. What does it mean?”

“After all is this still in Kannaris?”

“This tree is like coming from the interior of Mazishka it feels.”

“There may be certain conditions that allow us to get our way out of these culverts. That's what it means?”

Delphia nodded in approval to the final statement enthusiastically, while giving the gesture a number one.

“What, we can still get out? How to?”

Afterwards, Delphia went straight down to the ground floor inviting the others to go to one of the aqueduct hallways. Proudly, Delphia showed her way out at the end of this passageway.

“This aisle our way out?” Ask Iris.

Delphia agreed.

“But... This is the hallway where we entered earlier?” Iris confused.

Delphia simply gave another nod with enthusiasm, while turning her body back into a normal human, with her blue eyes and brown hair, without any ice crystal particles circling her in a magical manner.

“Delphia can see the future. He must know what he said,” Parker calms Iris, also invites others to calm down. “This hallway has a lot of intersections, right? Surely we are too busy fighting with the lizardmen to forget many possibilities.”

Parker tried to convince all his friends like a reliable chairman.

After all, what else could they do other than try to believe?

“I'm sure this can't be in vain. Although Iris, me and Laju have passed through this passageway, we were separated from Audy, Aaron, and Delpia, right? Just chill. We can definitely get out of these culverts!” Parker chanted, entering the hallway to believe in the prediction Delphia took.

Afterwards, they walked casually around the hallway of the culvert which was slowly re-encompassed and dominated by the lighting rays coming from the planting lamp, no longer by the purple crystal that stings, and emits electricity.

Lucky – I don't know what happened, they are no longer bothered by the presence of the lizardmen who tried to attack them just because of a mere misunderstanding

But, that luck was precisely questioned by Laju.

Because, after a few hours they walked through the hallway where Laju came, but Laju really did not remember everything they were going through. One of them was the dozens of lizardmen that Laju managed to defeat along this passageway. Where are the former fight and the body? Are the bruises and bruises they have found so far just hallucinations?

And even more puzzling was the attention that Laju found at the end of his vision. The pace felt like someone was watching him, following him, watching him. But, as quickly as she looked back at the source of the attention, there was nothing she could see but the walls of the culverts alone.

The pace of remembering this feeling.

He had once felt this kind of supervised feeling, when he was on a sneaking mission in one of the human camps in the depths of the forest.

This is the look from the red-eyed statue.

And sure enough, the more they circled the passageway with Delphia's direction, Laju noticed that this passage was really not the passage that Laju had just passed with Iris and Parker. It's a completely different hallway.

Not only the attention of the red-eyed statue alone that may be just a hallucination of Laju. But also because of the presence of a yellowish-red lighting that replaces the planting lamp at the bottom of the wall. This is a torch!

There are dozens of torches attached to each wall of the culvert that are interspersed with many statues either intact or half destroyed.

And what Laju noticed the most was a statue that emanated shiny red eyes that seemed to be calling out to him.

“Space!?” Aaron asked in surprise.

Hownot?

Aaron who was in the back row who was following the pace that should have followed the front row to follow Delphia, it must be cut by the movement of Laju who prefers to lurk close to the statue at the other end of the wall.

“Hng? Wh why? What's up with Speed?” Iris continued.

Before the others could respond and act a lot, Laju had already touched one of the half-human statues of red-eyed dragons that were across the culvert. In fact, before Delphia could act to block and stop what Laju did, there was first a sound of stones that seemed to be moving in a certain pattern.

Apparently, the voice is not a random sound. The sound of the stone is a sound that indicates that a mechanism has just occurred that makes everyone shocked because it causes a small earthquake in the hallway.

And after that, a room appeared with a stone door that opened in front of Laju. Without further ado, Laju immediately entered the room which was actually very mysterious and suspicious.

Before the door closed again and kept them separated, Parker decided to invite the others to follow Laju into the room. “Come everyone in!!” Parker Shouts.

And it turns out, the stone door with a thickness of more than 50 centimeters closes itself once everything is in the room.

It was indeed the right decision for them to follow the pace. Wait for. Did ya? Is the decision to follow the pace the right and wise thing?

Will they not be locked up forever?

What if this is another trap?

Can they still find a way out?

Before other questions can arise, they are first surprised by the fact that the room they visit is not just a room like a warehouse, bedroom, or something like that.

With a room that almost resembles the area of the passageway with a height and width of approximately five meters and a length of approximately 20 meters. The owner of the room decided to turn this room into a tomb.

“Personal record, yes?” Parker added.

“Whose personal tomb?”

“Ras naga.”

“NAGA!!?”

After they entered the tomb. The ones present filling the room were only a few chests made of stone, a more complex and intricate statue of an extremely majestic dragon behind him one to two meters tall, and some torches that can magically still burn. Is it like an immortal torch?

“... Well, it is well known that the dragon race is a race that is always in the highest social strata. In addition to having positions and wealth that are not small, they can always hold the highest position wherever they are.”

“But, dragons are those super-large creatures, right? Why is the coffin only as big as a beastman like you, Parker? Maybe these statues are like dragons. But, isn't that weird?”

“Maybe the one buried here is only his head? Just the treasure? I don't know. I don't know myself. I don't even know of any of these culverts under Kannaris.”

“But why hide the tomb under the culvert? Isn't that rude to the ancestors?”

“I don't really understand about their race. In fact, he said their race was an almost extinct race. Due to some of his selfish and superior nature, no one dared to get close to them. All I know is that I haven't seen them in my entire life with my own eyes, other than the stories of others. Perhaps, could it be that they were actually just a race that isolated themselves like humans? Could it be that in the future we will be colonized by dragons, as humans do now? I don't know.”

“Does it have anything to do with Speed? He seemed to be pulled in by being summoned by these statues? And where is he now?”

“These statues are indeed very eye-catching from the art of sculpture. But, perhaps Laju has a deeper connection with them? You remember for yourself his ability which is not at all similar to most humans.”

Parker was trying to answer what he could answer, as well as walking over and waking Laju who was hypnotized, was holding his hand on one of the statues, like he was prostrating to him.

“What if Speed is the dragon race itself? No one knows?”

“Huh!?” Surprise Like you just woke up from sleep.

He looked at Parker curiously as well as thanking her. Next, he stared again at the dragon statue that somehow always hypnotized him.

“This is like what happened in the forest,” calls Laju while matching the gesture of his hand on one of the dragon statues, hoping that there is another mechanism that occurs.

Unfortunately, nothing else happened.

“Just learn. His red eyes were stunning and made everyone come to him. Don't you know about the venus plant in attracting its prey Or about the pitcher?”

“Geh!” Chiming rate.

“It's time we came back,” take Parker to Laju, also to others.

But, as soon as they returned to the door where they had entered the tomb, there was another oddity that occurred. The door, which was originally an automatically closed stone door, now turned into a slightly weathered and withered wooden door.

Before they process the strangeness, their attention is diverted first.

“Kyaaaa!” there was a scream from behind the door, which they immediately recognized.

Parker and the others instantly stared at each other, realizing what they had heard behind this wooden door. The screams of the women were similar to the sounds they heard in the house yesterday.

Initially, they immediately rushed to open the door planning to save them. But, Parker immediately flicked it while giving a gesture not to be noisy. A second later they immediately understood not to move hastily.

Slowly, the door was opened by Parker. Followed by Iris and the others to enter the room behind the weathered wooden door, which turned out to be no longer a hallway from the culverts that had a foul aroma, but rather an abandoned hall with many pillars and rocks scattered.

Initially, they planned to settle down to find out what was really happening in a room that was no less large than where the electric tree had been. One thing they can celebrate is the sunlight and the exit they have been dreaming of.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the room was a very large entity that covered their exit.

“What's that ugly monster?” The first time I commented.