Chapter 5

The strange world

After some time, V finally came back to his consciousness . His head was little dizzy but he didn't have any problems to open his eyes and scan his surroundings.

The first thing he noticed in his surroundings was a grey sky with no stars and moons or suns . He stood up and looked around him only to see that , the place looked like a shrine or temple but strange thing was that the temple looked like it's abandoned or more like a ruins .

The pillars were broken , dusted and felt very ancient to him . The structure had spider webs and there were present of cracks in them.

"Am I in hell?"

This was the first thought appeared in his mind but he ruled out the possibility of this in first case since this place looked nothing like hell , Not atleast the way he imagined in his mind.

He looked around to find someone but he didn't find any living persons until when he entered the shrine .

Something strange happened that made him shocked for the first time in his life .

A transperent pannel appeared in front of him and it made him see things that he wouldn't belive in his life .

[ Entering Abandoned Shrine of a fallen god ....]

Reading the words , be frowned and thought someone was pranking him but he didn't think that anyone would dare to do a prank with him.

"what the hell is this ?"

He frowned hardly and thought of various reasons but he couldn't find anything that matched what he is feeling now .

He hesitated whether he should go inside or not but his mind was telling him to enter inside .

He steeped inside and entered the shrine but it was too dark that he hardly can see the path.

But luckily he saw a lantern hanging not far away from him so he immediately went to take it .

The strange pannel appeared again when he grabbed the lantern.

[ Lantern : A normal lantern with nothing worth about it . ]

"Am I seeing things ? or am I hallucinating?"

He took the lantern and moved forward while his mind was filled with various questions that hard to get answers or its impossible to believe what's going on.

The shrine looked very old and it had long hallway with a rusted bells hanging upwards . He looked around slowly and saw some dried stains on the ground.

"Water stains?....No it's !"

At first he thought it was water stains but when he bent down and focused the lantern on the stains , he finally knew that he was wrong about it .

It was blood stains !

He was alarmed and immediately became cautious . He looked around and found there were similar stains which was obviously blood but he didn't knew whether it was animals or humans.

If it's from animal then that's okay but if it's latter then he must be careful . The temple was nothing like a peaceful and holy place but it now gave him a feeling of creepy.

He glanced back slightly and went inside without any hesitation .

After some steps he found two routes that connected to god knows where but he had to make choices now .

He looked left and found that hallway was very short and long while in right there was some light mist covered the hallway.

He went towards the left direction but this time he wasn't walking fast but he was walking slowly like he was examining every inch of this place .

He knew from his institute that he must have entered entered some kind of inside of the shrine but he didn't knew whether that's a good thing or bad thing .

He slowly walked forward and when he moved the lantern to the wall , he noticed that there were sketches of some weird drawings .

There were unrecognisable symbols and drawings but one of the thing that caught his attention was a word.

It looked like the words was written in Sanskrit and sadly he doesn't understand sankrit .

He remembered the strokes and words before moving forward silently . Suddenly something happened to him , he felt something brushed past him .

He immediately said while looking backwards .

"Who's there ?"

But he found no one and no response except his own echo .

"Did I imagine it ? or did someone really pass by me ?"

He looked again but he didn't find anyone so he could only move forward in silence . After moving some distance , he halted suddenly and his face became serious .

His heart started to race fast and in front of him was bones .... human bones and skulls.

"What the hell is this place ?"

In front of him , there were several skulls of humans and animals covered in dust and webs .

There weren't many but he was sure that there were more than 30 skulls of humans in here . His heart which didn't feel any fear for year's now for the first time he felt fear .

The unknown was always the scariest !

He knew that this place was strange and there must be something danger ahead by judging the skeletons , he knew there must be something fishy about this abandoned temple.

As he was thinking , suddenly he heard some noises behind him .

"There is someone coming "

He immediately covered the lantern lights and hid behind one of the pillars . He doesn't knew whether the person coming behind him was enemy or friend so he didn't want to face anything unexpected .

Hiding now was the best choice for him now.

The footsteps and mumbling sound could be heard clearly now . They were getting closer and from the sounds of footsteps he could clearly knew there were more than two people coming.

Their shadows could be seen on the wall and their voice was very loud now.

"Hurry up ! we haven't got all day !"

Three people appeared inside the shrine and his actions to hide was best decisions he made.

These people were holding long knifes and two of them held a person tightly . These people wore black dress and covered their faces in clothes , while only their eyes could be seen .

It looked like they were holding a hostage and that person head was covered in gunny bag .

When V looked closely , he knew that person was a women and her hands were tightly bound.

"These people..."

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