a busy street full of vendors selling some questionable stuff.
"A living butt plug for sale!" A vendor shouted waving something long and vibrating, the vendor erotically caressed the tip of the item making Walker who is watching shudder.
The sunlight rained down at the shopping district of the city, Gold like sand beneath walker's feet he wonder.
The three brothers lived in a forest but after minutes of traveling and they arrived at this scorching hot desert.
There's a wall of dried roots rising, its thorn was sharp enough to cut right through the metal barrel they have, the thorn wall act like a boundary separating the desert and forest
It doesn't make much sense but walker suddenly remembered, that he is now in purgatory where the sun is a living eyeball and the trees have their own will.
"Where are we heading?" He asked Hans who was holding an old map, the paper looked like it was soaked in coffee, Walker caught a glimpse of its content and all he can see is blurred lines.
"Just trust me" Hans spoke his eyes focused on the map.
Johny approach a merchant and greeted the guy, he did it with all the vendors he passed by bringing a smile to their faces until they arrived in what seemed to be a slum.
The smell of a rotten corpse penetrated their nose, Hans took a step back and recheck the map, Johna put down the metal barrel on his back, and he said to Hans huffing for air.
"I ain't gonna carry this again it's heavy!"
"That doesn't look readable at all" Walker expressed his opinion
"Yeah but this is our only map, and we might get attacked if we ask someone for direction"
Hans stated
"We have a barrel full of herb blood just imagine how tempting it is"
Walker nodded, humans are greedy and he knows it.
While Hans was explaining things to Walker, Johny approached the man on the ground wearing tattered clothes that couldn't even cover the parts that should be.
Johna was sitting on the sand trying to recover from fatigue he carried two hundred kilograms worth of herb blood so of course, he need rest
that's why he couldn't see johny's action as well.
The man's body was malnourished he looked like he didn't eat anything for a couple of months, the man was mumbling some words as his dark shed eyes slowly looked up at Johny.
"Hey, can you tell us where we could sell herb blood?" Johny asked with an innocent smile.
The man smiled back at johny flashing his yellow set of teeth
"There, over there"
the man pointed his rotting finger deep through the slum.
"Thank you"
johny said to the man before going back to his brothers.
"Guys I know where it is!" Johny yelled with joy, he pointed in the direction the beggar pointed at earlier.
Walker took it as a joke cause he knew Johny didn't pay any attention to the old map in Hans hand, he looked at Hans and saw a somewhat worried expression.
'What's happening?" Walker couldn't help but think.
"What did you do?" Johna asked putting the metal barrel full of herb blood on his back ready to run.
His legs are trembling from the weight but he got no choice, it seems his naive brother did something that will make things harder....again
"I asked that guy" Johny pointed at the empty spot on the ground making Hans tremble.
Hans cursed, going towards Johny grasping his hands, and running out of the slums while Walker and Johna were left trying to identify the shadow coming deep from the slums.
Of the three brothers, Hans is the oldest and the tallest second to that is Johna and from how Johny acts it's already obvious that he's the youngest of the three.
"Run!" Hans yelled, a crowd of people appeared out of the darkness of the slum heading towards them.
All of those people were slow as turtles their movement was accompanied by the rattling of bones.
Walker bolted out of the slums, Johna right behind him sweating buckets
"Wait!, wait!, I can't carry this anymore"
Hearing the wailing from behind walker took a look and saw johna the horde of beggars just behind him slowly getting closer.
"Help!" Johna yelped both his arms losing their grip on the barrel.
"Let me carry it!" Walker shouted running back towards johna.
It would be easy to outrun the crowd if he just drop the barrel, which johna controlled himself to not do, as it will make things more complicated.
Walker and johna run at each other's pace until the barrel was put against walker's back.
"Uf..this is heavy" Walker mumbled running with all his might until they reach the place that is packed with vendors.
Walker's eyes sparkle and he said to johna right by his side
"We did it"
"What do you mean?" Johna asked confused before running to the opposite of the shopping district.
"Wait were we going?" Walker asked, feeling the exhaustion taking over his body
"To an uncrowded place" Johna responded heading towards a depressed looking alley.
"Were toast if any more people got to know this!" Johna shrieked, one of his feet sank to the sand he stumbled face first.
"Your kidding me!" Walker yelled dropping the heavy barrel and going over to johna.
Walker helped him stand up just to hear him say
"Your that mad that I fall?"
Walker didn't respond he was just gasping for air and turning johna's body to let him see the horror that is waiting behind them.
A crowd of people a hundred or so riding on each other exhausted body, the desperation on their eyes partnered with the burning red hands of the people that was turned into a living vehicle terrified the two.
The person that johny talked to appeared in front of walker and johna, he yelled showcasing his yellow teeth which are natural by the way.
"New beginning!!"
The group behind him roared and got closer to walker and johna at an incredibly fast pace making the two have only one option which is to fight as surrendering wouldn't usually work on this kind of people.
.....
Hans is walking left to right, uneasy with how much time Johna and Walker are taking just to get to the shopping district.
He couldn't see the two no matter how hard he look, they carry a huge barrel so it must be easy to spot them but he couldn't.
He looked at johny sitting on a bench trying not to take notice of his stare, he was already sixteen but he still act like this.
This isn't the first time something like this has happen, he is just so trusting, so innocent so childish.
Hans took a deep breath its clear that johny is guilty of what happened so he just hopes nothing happened to the two.
But if something did happen, just thinking of it terrify Hans.
Finally, he couldn't take it.
"Let's go find them"
He said to Johny as they head towards the slums searching for the two.