"Quick, hide !" Deathstalker hissed while pulling the still dumbstrucke Bruno toward the closest side of the room that,supposedly, couldn't be seen from above, and curled up into a ball. Soon, they could hear engine sound.
"They pick up the containers," Bruno whispered. Still curling, he tried to peek the situatuion.
"Can you see any.. human ? creature ?" Deathstalker asked. He was facing the wall, so he couldn't see anything.
"No creature. Only a pick up machine," Bruno answered.
Deathstalker slightly changed his direction so he could peek for himself.
Bruno was right. There was only a giant iron claw reaching down fron the opened ceiling. It picked the mots top container. One by one the iron claw was taking away all containers in the room.
"Quick! We need to climb on top of that container!" Deathstalker said to Bruno when the iron claw was picking up the second to last container.
Both of men ran tward the last container. When Bruno was climbing the container, Deathstalker cursed, "Shit! The suitcase!"
Deathstalker ran toward the suitcase. He picked the suitcase and carried it on his back. The suitcase's weight seemed like ten times heavier than it was on earth.
"Hurry, man !" Bruno hissed in panic when the claw started to pick the container he was on.
""Here, take it !" Deathstalker said while pushing the suitcase over his head. When Bruno finally able to pull it up, Deathstalker jumped to reach the handle of the container while the container was already few inches from the ground.
"Here, reach my hand," Bruno said while reaching put his hand. Deathstalker grabbed it, used the handle as a foothold, before pushed his body up to reach the upper edge of the container. His foot then reached put for the top of the container and once again he pushed his body to finally got on top of the container.
With both hands were holding on the edge of the container, both men lied down tried not to make much of a move that would attract someone's attention while the container was slowly beong moved out of the ship and finally put to the ground.
"Shit !!" Bruno cursed when he realized his grip on the edge of the container was slipped due to the jolt. Fortunately, Deathstalker quickly grabbed his hand and pulled him so he didn't fall.
"Thanks, man. That was close," Bruno hissed. Deathstalker nodded to response while his gaze intensively stared at below.
Around 500 feet from them, there were three man-like creatures, walking toward them. They were well built and stood more than six feet tall. They were wearing some kind of metal wardrobes and hat that looked like Roman soldier at first glance, especially with somekind of weapons on their hands.
These guards stopped at a container next to where Bruno and Deathstalker lied. It was the blue container. One of the guard put his palm hovered the handle of container then the sound of a machine movement was heard.
Around a second later, the container's door was opened and one of the guard entered the container. There were screams and cries heard once the guard entered the container. The noise only stopped when a masculine and harsh voice told them to be silent.
Several seconds later, someone came out of the containerm but it wasn't the guard. Instead, it was a little boy around eight years old. The little boy was followed by another boy, this time he was blonde and a little bit older than the first boy. After that, a little girl came out with tears on her face.
The three children were not the only one. One by one children came out from the containers. They were vary, wither in age, gender, and even from the color of their skins. There were around twenty children in total. All of them had chains both on their hands and their legs.
After the guard that entered the container came out, the other guard pushed the first boy to follow his steps.
"Gen ta kuai ! (Quick follow him!)" the guard behind ordered a child that hadn't moved by pushing him harshly. Didn't want to be treated that way, the other children quickly followed ac hild in front of them while being watched by the two guards who still left behind.
When all the children were leaving the place, the two guards were also about to leave, but suddenly one of them stopped.
"Zhen liao ? (What's wrong ?)" His friend asked.
"Ren wei wo wen dao (I sniffed human scent)," he answered, suspiciously wandered his gaze around.
""Ren dou shi tamen (They'are all human)<" His friend said, pointing at the children who had passed them behind.
"Bu tong xhe shi (This is different)," The guard insisted.
"Zhi xiangxiang de (Just your imagination)." His friend dismissed him then pulled him to leave the ground.
"Fiuuh..." Both Bruno and Deathstalker sighed in relieve when finally the guards had left. They were that closed to be caught when one of the guard actually could sniff their scent.
Once again, King Cobra's prediction was correct. She actually didn't predict it puctually. King only made prediction that it was likely that the creatures here adapted either Chinese, or Egyptian, or Greek language. Further more, because of the huge population of Chinese people and also a little bit of information about how this place was filled with Chinese people like creatures, King predicted that the chance they used Chinese-like language was higher. And she was right, as always. Those two guards spoke in a language similar to Chinese, al though there were few difference in grammars. But Bruno and Deathstalker, that had already quite fluent in Chinese, could understand their conversation.
"What should we do now ?" Bruno asked Deathstalker after sometimes in silence.
"I think we better wait til dark," Deathstalker hissed to answer.
Bruno looked at the sky. It was bright like daylight, but there were no sun nor cloud on it. "What if there will be no dark ?" He hissed again. "They don't have sun here," he continued.
To hear his words, Deathstalker also wandered around and understood what Bruno said.
"Let's just wait for couple hours first, and see what would happen," Deathstalker finally decided. Bruno nodded to agree.
Thus, both men just lied there merely made a move. Around an hour later, there were a buzzing sound fron the sky.
"What was that ?" Bruno asked.
"I don't..."
Deathstalker's answer was snapped but the sudden darkness. Somehow the source of light that once shone brightly on the sky was suddenly gone. It was pitch dark.
"Well... I guess, it is night now," Deathstalker hissed.
"Don't they have electricity ? I can't see anything," Bruno cursed.
"Then they can see us," Deathstalker recuked his idea. "Come on! You can just follow behind me."
After saying that, Deathstalker went down from the top of container. "Drop the suitcase!" He ordered Bruno.
"To where direction ?" Bruno asked back.
"A little bit to your left. A bit more... Okay, now drop it," Deathstalker guided Bruno. When the suitcase was being dropped by Bruno, he caught it right before it hit the ground.
"Now go down. I will catch you."
Bruno obeyed him. Slowly he threw his legs off the top of container and slid his body down. He could feel Beathstalker's hands were holding his legs and helped him to go down.
"Do you know where to go ?" Bruno asked once he was on the ground.
"I think we should go the same way the children went," Deathstalker said. "Come on..."
With hand was holding on Deathstalker's robe, Bruno walked behind Deathstalker who led them in the dark.
"There is light far a head of us," Deathstalker hissed.
"I still can't see anything," Bruno said when he failed to see the light Deathstalker talked about.
Still in the dark and with the led of Deathstalker they were continue walking. Around 1000 feet from where they were now, Deathstalker could see there were creatures, similiar to the guards he saw previously, standing and guarding some king of gate.
"There is a gate a head of us" Deathstalker informed Bruno.
"With no guard ?"
"There are guards... ten of them."
"Shit! What should we do ? They can smell our scent."
The plan they were told was to pass te gate in normal way, as if they were the ship passengers. That was what Madam told them. None of Madam known that the ship they rode on was cargo ship and what wprse was these creatures had the ability to smell human scent.
"Let's find another way out," Deathstalker finally made up his mind. Inquiet, he led Bruno to the oppsite direction, further themselves frome the gate.
"Ren lei !! (Human !!)"
All of the sudden thre was that loud shout. The shout then followed with a lot of footsteps noise that approached them. Soon, there were like half batalyon guards surrounded them.
When some of them were trying to catch him, Deathstaller tried to escape by fighting back. Unfortunately, it was for a vain. Beside the gravity that made his move became slower and heavier, those guards were definitely stronger than him.
He was, too, being captured by the guards. Along with Bruno, he then was dragged toward the gate. Both of them then were confronted by a guar who was the most burly among the other.
That guard sniffed them and talked to the other guard, one they saw on the daylight before, "Tamen weidao shi ni wen ? (Are they ones you smelled ?)"
"Shi (Right)," The guard conformed.
The boggest guard turned his head toward the two men. "Nimen lai de shangmian shi ? (Are you from above ?)" He asked with intimidated tone.
"Du... dui.. (Ri... right)," Deathstalker answered with stammered.
"Ni shei shi ? (Who are you ?)" He asked again.
"I... I am Ming Huo. I..."
"Fu qin !! (Father !!)" Suddenly a child cut Deathstalker's answer with an excited call from a far.