Perplexed by the scene before his eyes, Newman fell to his knees as he used all his intellect and logic to try to explain what it was.
Newman had come out of the cave, but to his surprise he had come across not that old ocher desert that was so accustomed, the sandstone ravines gave way to a green, lush forest that stretched below as far as the eye could see. The damp wind carried that typical fragrance, found only in the woods. 'Did the cave have some hallucinogen gas?' He thought incredulously. No, there was a reasonable draft, I can not be poisoned. I died? Did my pressure medicine give me any side effects? He would ask himself these questions and seek logical answers in order to try to clarify even a little what was before his eyes.
"Well, a scientific curiosity has never killed anyone, kneeling here will not give me an answer. "Tyler said in a wavering voice as he started down the mountainside, she was soft and wide like the one on the other side on Earth. He went down into the forest, the temperature was warm, he was supposed to be in his thirties, a forest like this is in an equatorial region, Tyler's mind was running a thousand trying to unravel his probable location, he looked up at the sky some clue, but nothing!
Roar !!!
A fierce roar echoed through the trees, a roar was not quite the right word, it was such a brutal and animalistic sound that he could not distinguish which animal it belonged to. His first instinct was to go in the opposite direction, yet then cries echoed to him, they were desperate and sharp cries. A child? A roar and another cry, any fool could have guessed what occasion was unfolding nearby.
Tyler ran at full speed that his old body can give him, he always exercised and practiced sports, especially martial fights, but nothing could take all his years in the back that were already seventy, his black hair was now white, his body a now he was lean and crooked, only one thing had not changed, his eyes still had the same bright blue vivid, a color that flowed from his own soul, in his mind Tyler had never aged a single day!
The roars and screams were getting louder and louder and their frequency was increasing, showing that the beast was almost reaching its victim.
Strolling boldly through the woods, Tyler arrived in a clearing, a few moments later a child emerged from the tree line, she ran like lightning as if her life depended on it and indeed depended!
The child caught sight of Tyler and ran to him out of pure instinct, seeking a tablet of salvation, whatever it was. When he reached him he went straight to her back seeking protection. Tyler, who had already pulled out his gun, pointed to the direction from which the child came, he wore his trusty Magnum 44 chrome, the Magnum is a different revolver from the others, his barrel is longer, his projectile is much heavier , although when fired the bullet travels at a speed well below that of a 9mm revolver for example, but its power of destruction neither compares! A watermelon literally explodes with just one shot and manages to drill the engine of a car! That was why he wore it was a bear, a wolf, a lynx, quick he solved the question. The trees in the woods began to sway, the ground beneath their feet trembled, Tyler could not stand all that suspense and shot the beast, Pow !! Pow !! Pow !! Three shots were given, the second and third seem to have hit because a horrible sound was issued in response! Excited he unloaded the whole drum!
Tyler lowered the gun and waited a few moments, as nothing came out of the forest line he turned the gun forcing the barrel out and reloaded it, waited a little longer and entered the forest.
Two shots could be seen on the nearby trunks, but the others did not, the marks of blood and weeds underfoot gave a fresh and clear trail to him. Carefully he followed step after step, the saved child would hold on to his jacket and tremble in amazement, yet he dared not come out of it or utter any sound. The blood became more abundant and the path more and more open, soon he found the beast that was fallen and breathed rancidly. Tyler did not recognize the animal, it was huge and could weigh more than a ton, had a body between a bear and a tiger, its white hair, but there was a large bluish stain on the top of the back. Fangs of more than 15 cm protruded from the mouth."What the hell is that?" He wondered, the more he looked, the less he recognized the beast.
The beast looked at Tyler and tried to stand up to attack him, yet such a chance was not given, two shots between the eyes were given completely killing that. Tyler circled the beast, he soon identified three entrance holes, one in the front paw near where the animal's shoulder would be and the other two followed in the side picking up the ribs and belly. Must have pierced some internal organ, it was very lucky! He thought to himself and laughed excitedly.
The screams of a man took Tyler out of his state of contemplation, the child screamed in response, another thing he realized was that he did not understand anything the two of them talked about, a few seconds later a man came out of the woods, he and The child hugged, the child cried and sobbed as he searched for wounds in her, that simple gesture of concern said that the boy was his relative, probably his son.
Tyler began to examine the scene, the man had a bow in his hand, and dressed in poorly stitched rawhide robes as well as the child's. He must be a hunter ...
The man now realizing Tyler, spoke to the child and she in turn pointed to Tyler and to beast and then to the weapon, extravagant gestures and onomatopoeias were used by the young man who tried to explain, the man began to speak things and he knelt in thanks. Then he began to point to the beast and to him in offering.
'He wants to give me? It must be very important or valuable to kill such a bug here. 'He thought.
Tyler grinned and pointed to the beast and the man trying to show that he did not want to and was giving it. The man was very grateful but did not dare to be slow, he assessed the body of the beast and began to remove the leather, put a dagger in the beginning of the belly and ran to the base of the neck, the sound emitted by the leather was extremely high looking like a fabric being torn.
'How thick is that skin?' Tyler went close to him and began to move him too, grabbed one of his paws and squeezed it, claws jutting out. A feline? Then it went to the face, had a well pronounced muzzle and large prominent prey.Muzzle long? And without mustache? What genre is this? She had no tail, and her bluish coat was much thicker and sturdier than the rest. The biologist inside Tyler was living a mixture of euphoria, joy, and unbelief. He simply could not place this animal in any known species or race, or in those that had been extinct or at a possible intersection.
The hunter was very quick and skillful separating without great problems the meat of the skin and then when it arrived at the head it dismembered of the body, later it stayed for another time looking at the base of the neck and at last found what it looked for, was a small purple pebble of the size of a pinky fingernail.
He took it cleaned in his robes and delivered with great ceremony, Tyler tried to refuse, however in this matter the man was resolute and to create no further situation he received pretending great commotion.
'What the hell is this?' That question had been asked almost a hundred times since he had left the cave, to the point of giving up trying to understand something and paying attention to the situation. The hunter had finished his work and rolled the skin over itself to carry it.
"Noeru! Noeru!" The man was beating his chest and talking, then pointed at his son and spoke. "Noern! Noern!"
"Noeru!" Tyler pointed at the boy and repeated the name he had heard, then tapped his chest and said. "Tyler ... My name is Tyler ... Ty ... read ..." Noeru smiled and repeated showing that he had understood.
The man put that roll of skin over his shoulders and walked away, motioned for Tyler to follow him, and so he did.
Walking for a few hundred yards, they arrived in a cart drawn by an old horse. Noeru threw the skin up and up, the front had accent for only two people, but the man again pointed to Tyler always showing great reverence.
In a short time the man left the forest and entered a road, following in it for a few hours, slowly on the horizon a small town was appearing, when he saw it clearly was amazed at what he saw, a high wall and men with shields and swords in the top watching.
A fortified city? Swords? Shields? Where I am? The questions whirled around him every time. An uneasy question has arisen, in what year am I? Am I on earth? Hypotheses came flooding through his mind.
Tyler closed his eyes and thought. 'Well I'm not in Asia, because these people have no Asian traits, did not Africa have these kinds of strength and again the racial characteristics do not beat, neither from the Americas or Oceania, Europe? How this climate and the vegetation of that forest do not hit anywhere I know. '
Paying more attention to the people he saw some aspects that he found interesting, their clothes were very coarse cloth and the colors were erased little varied, a blue, a green or yellow, in general they were almost all with that characteristic cream of the cotton crude.
Many people were looking at Tyler with a curious expression, which did not bother him at all, in fact he had not even realized once that he was abobly seeing every detail of every corner he passed.
Noeru guided the wagon to a large building or what looked like a cluster of small buildings, the first impression Tyler had was that it was some kind of shopping arcade or something.
The man tied the horse then removed the skin from the cart, when he entered the building itself was as thought a gallery of trade! Tyler saw several gun shops, clothes, some with several jars and dried plants. Turning to a larger one the hunter met an old man, Tyler knew that the man was younger than he, but he did not look the other way.
The man looked Tyler up and down and turned to the hunter, the two began to talk and Noeru hour pointed to Tyler, time for the animal and time also tucked the fingers in the hole made by the bullets. The robed lord looked puzzled, put his fingers in the bullet hole and looked at Tyler. He was a little disturbed with all that attention, he turned around and went to explore the place, he was in what he imagined to be a store, had several weapons, swords, bows, spears, shields, clothes (both more luxurious and simpler) shelves with papers, pens, paints, and other things devoted to writing in the center of it all featured a prominent place with a leather parchment containing a complex spelling in silver ink.
Not knowing why he was hypnotized by that parchment, he looked, and it moved with his brain giving him a kind of itch in the mind, the more he looked, the stronger the sensation became and then almost as an insight he understood and the parchment instantly It burned itself up!