darkest personality

Chapter 7 7. Companion
"Hey! Jimmy, wait for me, what are you in a hurry for?"

Rick Jones, who was tall and bearded and wore an army green vest, took out a leather-bound notepad from his backpack, and shouted to his companions who were eager to enter the tomb with the torch: "Let me make a record before going in."

"Idiot, only the first explorer to enter the tomb is eligible to be remembered by the world. You must not tamper with this fact in your expedition records."

Rick's partner, Jimmy, was small and thin, wearing a canvas jacket, pointed to himself and said, "The first explorer to enter the dwarf king's tomb is me, Jimmy Foxx!"

"Aha... no problem, all I'm interested in is the treasure in the tomb."

After placing the backpack casually on the side of the grave, Rick Jones waved his thick, furry arms and gave way generously.

And when Rick Jones finished recording and entered the tomb with a torch in his hand, his partner Jimmy had already entered the corpse pit deeper in the tomb.

"Huh? Why does the kerosene on these stone statues look like it was just added?"

Rick was curious about the beating green fire in the stone statue's eye sockets, so he went up to study it, and found something strange in it.

"Did anyone else find this place before we came?"

A sense of uneasiness immediately filled Rick Jones's heart like a fog.

But precisely at this time, a sharp scream suddenly came from the depths of the tomb.

what! ! !
"That's Jimmy calling, hey! How are you doing, old man?"

This scream confirmed the uneasiness in Rick Jones' heart.

He frowned thickly, turned around and ran towards the direction of the sound.

"Jimmy? Are you okay?"

He quickly ran to the edge of the corpse pit, and noticed that Jimmy's torch had been dropped on the ground, and Jimmy was lying on the ground lying motionless, as if he had passed out.

In the darkness where the light of the torch could not reach, some creature stretched out its long tentacles and grabbed Jimmy's leg, trying to drag him into the darkness.

"Damn it, let him go!"

Rick Jones quickly took off the double-barreled shotgun on his back, jumped down the steps with the gun, and rushed up in that direction.

But the tentacle was unmoved, and instead accelerated the speed of dragging Jimmy, and it was about to drag Jimmy into the darkness completely.

Rick quickly raised the shotgun in his hand, knelt on the ground on one knee, and shot at the part where the tentacles were hiding in the darkness.

There was a loud bang, and the sound of gunfire echoed in the empty pit.

The bullet hit the target, and the monster screamed in pain, and the long tentacles released Jimmy's ankle like an electric shock, and retreated into the darkness.

"Oh no."

Rick Jones rushed to his motionless partner on the ground.

But when he turned Jimmy's body over, he was startled by two shocking big holes in Jimmy's eyes.

This is the blood hole left after being forcibly poked into both eyes by some sharp and hard object. Not only did the eyeballs of both eyes shatter, but the bones around the eye sockets were also crushed.

The hard object squeezed into the inside of Jimmy's skull, crushing the brains inside.

No one can survive an injury like this...

"No!"

Seeing the tragic death of his companion, Rick cried out in grief.

……

After being hit by a shotgun, the monster didn't just leave.
It has been hiding in the dark waiting for an opportunity, with plans for Rick Jones.

It wriggled its tentacles and made a rustling sound in the dark.

"Bastard, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"

Rick Jones roared wildly, his eyes were bloodshot, and he raised his gun to shoot in the direction of the sound.

boom!
The shot missed the target.

"asshole!"

The double-barreled shotgun went blank, and Rick Jones cursed and reached into his pocket for ammo.

But the monster hiding in the dark is very smart and knows how to seize this gap. Before Rick can fill the shotgun with ammunition, it shoots out long tentacles from a distance, and slaps Rick fiercely.

Rick Jones had no choice but to withdraw and dodge first.

Next, the monster's tentacles lashed at Rick Jones continuously, forcing the opponent to dodge and unable to reload the shotgun.

The explorer had no choice but to leave the corpse of his partner first, and fled from the tomb in a panic under the attack of the monster.

……

The monster gave up the chase after Rick escaped from the tomb, and seemed eager to return to the tomb to feast on Jimmy's body.

Rick Jones fled all the way to the edge of the pool under the cliff before stopping. He gasped for breath for a moment, and suddenly his voice choked up.

"If I could have gotten in sooner, Jimmy wouldn't have been killed."

The burly man blamed himself for the sudden death of his companion, and he punched heavily on the muddy ground on the river bank in grief and indignation.

After resting for a while, he regained his strength and began to reload the shotgun in his hand, and put all the extra bullets in the convenient pocket on the vest.

"I will definitely avenge you!"

But when he returned to the dwarf king's tomb full of vengeful rage, in the corpse pit, the corpse of his partner Jimmy had been stripped of its skin, and it looked like a bloody corpse and was thrown aside indiscriminately.

The murderer disappeared without a trace...

Rick went crazy and searched for the murderous monster in the corpse pit, but he didn't even find the shadow of the monster.

During the search, he noticed the white sarcophagus in the center of the corpse pit.

He tried to open the sarcophagus, but the lid didn't move at all as if it weighed over a thousand catties, and even if he shot the sarcophagus with a shotgun, he couldn't leave a single bullet hole on its surface.

Rick Jones could only give up in the end, and first brought Jimmy's blood corpse back to the wooden house they built above the cliff.

The next day, Rick took his hounds and went to the tomb and the surrounding area again to search for the monster—he suspected that the monster was hiding in the woods.

But after searching around, there was still no result.

When it got dark, he could only return to the cliff hut in despair.

He first dug a hole not far from the hut, and when he was about to come back and drag his partner's body there for burial, his hound seemed to sense it and barked in the direction of the hut.

Rick was alert, but after checking the house, he found nothing unusual.

Suffering from the death of his companion, and continuing to search for monsters for the past two days, Rick felt physically and mentally exhausted and depressed. He just wanted to have a good rest. He fell asleep not long after lying on the bed.

But not long after he fell asleep, he was awakened by a burst of crazy dog ​​barking.

What seems to have happened to the hounds chained outside the house?
Rick got up quickly, lit the torch and went outside.

The hound straightened the leash tied to the door frame, and jumped in one direction with all its might.

And when he looked in that direction, he found a black figure that just disappeared in the jungle.

"Good guy, I was looking for you, but I called the door myself."

Thinking it was the monster that killed Jimmy, Rick broke his mouth in hatred and released the hound to track the target. He hurried back to the house to get his double-barreled shotgun.

The barking of the dog gave Rick the direction, and he followed the direction, and it didn't take long to catch up to the edge of the cliff.

He noticed that the figure of the intruder was standing far away on the edge of the cliff, and just as he was about to raise his shotgun to shoot, the guy leaned back from the edge of the cliff facing him.

"Oh no, my Bob!"

And Rick's hound, 'Big Bob', was lying dying on the edge of the cliff, looking at his master full of nostalgia for life.

The hound, who had been with Rick and Jimmy for nearly half a year, obviously couldn't survive.

"No!"

The hot-blooded Rick completely believes that the dog killer is the tomb monster. He solemnly swears on the cliff that he will never step out of this jungle until he avenges his companions.

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(End of this chapter)