"I see... So basically you and your team are trying to figure out a way to leave this sinkhole? Hmm... I wonder does it mean that you know a lot about this sinkhole?" said Sky as he lifted up a glass of drink.
"Aye! Our Lady Lo had been researching about this sinkhole. Guess what? We found out that this sinkhole had been deepened every day! And it keeps 'sucking' outside people into it." said Tata.
"Yes, and the mist up there is so thick that it is not possible for anyone to see through it from above this sinkhole." said Lili.
"Uhm... Thanks for these pieces of information but... Don't you think it's something that we can find out by just a brief observation? I had pretty much figured out what you told me just now. Do you have any other information that might be more useful? For example, the reason for the formation of this sinkhole?" Sky asked, trying his best to not lose his patience towards the ladies.
"Uhm... It's just a natural occurrence? Isn't it?" said Tata, rather blunt.
"Uh-huh..." And Sky is speechless.
"Well... I don't know if there is anything to do with the reason that cause this sinkhole or not, but when I was a kid, I used to hear some legend from my grandparents." said Lili.
"Legend? Care to share about it?" Sky asked.
"It's a legend about an evil witch that was executed on this land before it turned into this no escaping sinkhole." said Lili.
"I am intrigued. Continue." said Sky...
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"The legend said that before this land sunken, there was a beautiful lady that practiced witchcraft and black magic in order to maintain her youth and beauty. People had planned to exterminate her several times as she had done some really suspicious things but the witch successfully deceived the people in town with her lies over and over again. However, no matter how good her lie was, the townspeople caught her spreading diseases over the town, thus leading to her execution. During the execution day, her eyes had been dug out as she deceived people with her beautiful eyes, her tongue was sliced off as she lied with that fluent and tricky tongue, her fingers had been chopped off as she did all the bad things with those fingers. When they put her on fire, her face melted down, which proved that her beauty and youth were the results of black magic and witchcraft. After she was executed, the disease had slowly stopped spreading and those infected were slowly recovering as well." said Lili, with an exaggerated storytelling tone.
"That sounds really harsh, did the execution of that witch somehow trigger the formation of this sinkhole?" Sky asked.
"Well, I am not very sure about that, but it is said that, the whole area of a diameter of twenty miles collapsed and sunken into a depth of a few hundred meters all of the sudden a few months after that execution." said Lili.
Sky nodded without saying anything as he tried to sort all the relevant information to the situation he is facing.
"Did anything come up to your mind?" Lili asked.
"Nope, not really." said Sky.
Lili nodded and looks a bit disappointed, while Tata is still doing her works without even actually paying attention to the conversation.
However, none of the ladies knows that Sky lied to them. In fact, there is actually something that Sky is concerned about after listening to the story told by Lili. He recall that translucent figure that pushed him off the plane, it has empty eye sockets, no tongue, broken fingers, and a deformed face that seems to be melted, he wondered if that's the witch in the legend, but he is definitely not trusting the ladies enough to let them know such a piece of important information. Suddenly, he saw a shiny cute tiny sprite floating into the building through the wall. Sky is surprised by the sudden arrival of the sprites but none of the two ladies seems to be noticing that sprite. Just as Sky wondered if there is anything special about that sprite, it started speaking... In Chris's voice.
"Hey... Sky... Can you hear me?" said the sprite.
"Uh..." Sky once again glimpsed at the ladies, and they don't seem to be hearing Chris's voice as well.
"Ah... I see. It is alright if you can't talk at this moment, just listen to whatever I am going to tell you. I believe you had pretty much figured out you are in some sort of mysterious sinkhole and might have found out some basic and important information on your own, so I will just skip those. Kenji had traced some really strong spiritual energy from the sinkhole, we believed that it is directly related to the sinkhole, so, in order to find a way to get you out of it, you need to find the source of that spiritual energy." said Chris through the sprite.
Hearing this, Sky has a feeling that Chris had once again given him some really hard tasks, after all, despite being a small town, the whole sinkhole has a diameter of more than twenty miles. It will be quite hard to find something without any clue...
"In case you don't know how to find that spiritual energy, Kenji had sent down one of his spirit helpers for you, it should be able to reach you soon... It will explain everything.... t... u..."
All of the sudden, Chris's sounds were muffled and the sprite disappeared without any warning...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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