Alex was standing in the street by the orphanage, waiting to get the mission success notification from the system. However, half an hour had passed and there was no sign of the system.
He was completely confused and did not know why?
"I mean, what happened, why didn't any message come?!"
Alex did not know what to do at this moment. He had rescued the cursed doll according to the mission and escaped from that hell, so why was there no news?
Abandoned and sitting alone on that street in the dark of the night, Alex decided to leave that place.
The orphanage was 20 kilometers away from the city, although the road was long and far, but it was better then sitting there.
It might attract the attention of the creature inside the orphanage.
He didn't know much about the creature's abilities, even though the creature was not following him, but maybe it's limitation has a certain timing and it can get out of the orphanage at a certain time.
If such an event happened, Alex would certainly be in a dangerous situation. So he should have been careful and stayed away from that place, he had already wasted a lot of time. So Alex walked away from that place.
Almost twenty minutes had passed, Alex looked behind him, all he could see was darkness and darkness. In that darkness, the orphanage was no longer visible. As if there had never been an orphanage.
A narrow street whose end was indistinct in the darkness, and on both sides of the street many trees had grown and made a forest of towering trees.
Alex remembered this path very well, although there were many trees in this place, but there had never been such a mass of trees, like a large forest.
A seed of doubt was growing in Alex's heart and wanted to burst out of his heart. He thought to himself, did he make the right decision?
The ambiguity and hesitation at this moment made Alex restless. So he took a step back and wanted to go back. But when he looked at the path he had left behind, he was confused; As if the world is spinning around his head.
There was a black spiral behind him, in such a way, you felt that the black spiral swallowed the path he passed and he can't go back; And the only way forward was left for him. And if he turned back, he would be eaten by that black spiral.
So Alex had no other choice and had to move forward.
He entered that forest path.
The tall trees that reached the sky and their branches were intertwined and made a roof, so that the moonlight was no longer reflected in that path and you could only see lines of darkness.
A gentle breeze was blowing and passing through the leaves of those black trees and it echoed like the sound of a girl crying. a cry of fear and despair accompanied by a muffled and painful scream; It is as if that girl is being tortured.
And the lifeless dry leaves that were thrown on the ground with every step he took, the rustling sound of those leaves in the middle of the girl's crying became a scary sound that felt like someone was reciting an evil spell that is for him.
Alex felt that the oxygen in the air was reduced, his lungs were tight and he was breathing hard. ''Huff, hufff..."
And he felt a strange pressure behind him. as if a creature is behind him and pushes him forward. But there was nothing except the darkness and those stout trees, however, that tense feeling boiled in him and made him more anxious.
Alex tried to pick up his pace and move faster, even though it still hurt, but he had to. He did not know what was lurking in this forest.
But after a while, Alex noticed the movement of the tree branches, at first he thought it was an illusion and saw it wrong, but now he could clearly see it.
As if this forest no longer wanted to hide and wanted to show its true existence to Alex.
Alex was worried and at that moment he was cursing the system that had brought him to this hell.
"Help my ass. Damn system, why are there no notifications?! What am I supposed to do?!"
Although more than an hour had passed since the end of his mission, no message had come from the system. And without the system, he could not leave there.
This world was completely strange for Alex, although he had only seen the orphanage and this forest, but none of them were normal.
Alex was confused and did not know what to say. A lively and lively place had now turned into a dark hell and alien creatures lived in it. So he was alone in this world and had only one thing with him, and that was the wicker doll. But he did not know anything about the capabilities of that doll.
Lost in his thoughts, Alex suddenly felt suffocated. And when he came to himself, he saw the branches of those trees, like grape vines, circling around him and trying to trap him.
One of those branches cruelly grabbed Alex's hair and pulled it, Alex writhed in pain and his face darkened. Those cruel branches revealed their sharp blades and plunged them into Alex's weak body.
Alex wanted to scream in pain, but those cruel branches had locked his mouth tightly and did not let his scream echo in that wild forest.
He smelled death, again a sudden and unfair death. Indeed, the world was incompatible with Alex and was trying to swallow him up at every moment.
The branches wrapped tighter around Alex like a python that is preparing its prey and by squeezing it wants to break its bones so that it can easily swallow it.
In that deadly moment, the sound of the forest roar doubled. It was as if they were chanting a spell to trap the boy's soul.
Those cruel trees wanted not only his body but also his soul.
Alex wanted to cover his ears so he wouldn't hear that cursed song. But he was tied so tightly that he could not make any movement.
He suddenly remembered the moment he left the orphanage. That creature inside the orphanage when Alex ran away. He was staring at her with a bloodthirsty expression and laughed madly, "Kehkehkehkeh." And an unintelligible voice echoed in Alex's mind.
It was as if the creature was talking to him.
Now that voice echoed in his mind again, but now he could understand those incomprehensible words. The words that were wildly and frighteningly whispered in his mind. And he wanted to hypnotize him and drag his mind to the abyss of destruction.
"Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die."
Words that were aligned with a lot of will power; And because of the singing of those words, the branches of the trees retreated and Alex's helpless body fell to the ground.
Alex was standing on his knees and his pupils were dilated and his eyes lost their color and completely covered their whiteness. The blood vessels on his body protruded and turned black.
He had lost consciousness and was in a trance. At the same time, Alex's hands went to his throat and tried to choke himself.
The hands that held his throat tightly and were squeezing it.
Meanwhile, the wild trees of the forest stood up and began to move, and with their movements, their roots shot out of the ground, plowing the path in front of them, moving towards Alex.
And their branches joined together, as if they were chanting a spell.
A little later, those trees circled around Alex, as if they were about to perform a ritual.
The branches of those trees twisted together and turned into spears. A black spear that sank into Alex's body and absorbed his blood, causing red streaks to appear on the spear.
The ten big trees that surrounded Alex suddenly started to sing.
{🎵In the name of profoundness, who made immortality from us.
🎵And conquered the world for us, and opened the gates.
🎵We bless the abandoned child with the power of the deep.
🎵We, the children of profoundness, will offer a gift to our creator.
🎵May he please our profoundness .}
After singing that song, a black pit appeared under Alex's feet, And black liquid was boiling under Alex's feet; That black liquid went up from Alex's body and covered his whole body and wanted to drag him into that black pit.
When the pit appeared, the trees moved away from Alex and bowed in respect, so that the branches on their crowns touched the ground.
Alex was still in the ecstasy world without knowing what was happening.