"Why have they became quite? Has something bad happened to them?" Tristan asked. He turned behind and saw his other two friends and he was shocked but he didn't let it to show up. Behind him, he could see Rachel and Paul who were one of his good friends in school. Tristan couldn't imagine that on top of Benjamin and Ojo, he would find to see other people that he knew like Rachel and Paul. Just like the others, Paul was holding a machete in his hands as that was the weapon that he was given after he stepped through the teleportation device.
Kyyyawwwlll! Kyyyawwwlll!!! Kyyyawwwlll!!!
Everyone could hear the daunting snarling of the corrupted ones. It sounded like a cry of a child who was being strangled. This only gave everyone on this floor the chills as one could even see that the weapons held in their hands were shaking considerably. The corrupted ones had not even stepped on this floor but everyone was already jittery. What they were waiting right now was the struggle to stay alive.
"Will we die here?" Rachel who was behind Tristan asked him so suddenly, her voice reverberating in the silent room. This question made others to glare at her with hate as no one wanted noice because they were concentating on the door and the sounds made by the corrupted ones.
"I will protect you with my life. I will not allow you to die. Never!" Tristan assured Rachel adamantly before he stood in front of her to protect her from what was silently approaching.
"Guys! I think we should escape from this hole before it is ravaged by those so called corrupted ones. Don't you guys think so?" Benjamin suddenly suggested. He didn't like the notion of waiting for their ends here, it just made him too jittery at the thought of waiting to die.
"Don't be such a shitty chicken Benjamin! We haven't even seen those so called corrupted ones. Maybe it is just some stupid nightmares. We have to wait and see for ourselves what has been stored for us, most importantly, our future enemies." Ojo reprimanded Benjamin but behind his words one could easily detect the nervousness and helplessness in him. However, his curiosity had overshadowed his rationality just like the other waiting people on this floor.
Nonetheless, it was not that the people on this floor didn't want to escape, it was just that there seemed to be something watching them from behind the doors that led down the staircase. This made them not to dare move a step forward, worried that when they dare to escape, their backs would be ripped to shreds.
Bang!
The people on this floor didn't have to wait for a long time to see their nemesis as a chunk of the door was ripped off by a sharp glistening claw which just added to the horror in the hearts of the people on this floor. From the little groove that had been created by the claw, they could vaguely see something but they could not make out its shape because the groove was so small, not to mention that behind the doors, only darkness prevailed.
"I can't wait anymore!" Benjamin run towards the elevator without care. He would better do it now than later. He just wanted to use his friends as a meat shield for his escape.
"Such a stupid coward! This is the reason I don't like to hang around with ass thieves!" Ojo was fuming inside. He gritted his teeth and run, following behind Benjamin. He also knew that remaining here was only waiting fo their deaths. No one could fight the beings behind those claws.
One should know that everyone on this floor was not a dumbass. They had already knew what Benjamin and Ojo were up to and no one wanted to be used to halt the movement of the corrupted ones so that their fellows could escape.