48 THE SINISTER TREE 10

Some minutes late, Crown Prince Lam regain his consciousness amid a desperate scream of a man, after few seconds he realized a mesh of small roots are tying him to their giant main root, next to the Crown Prince is his father Emperor Tu, he is completed unconscious, with a badly bleeding wound on his head. Looking around, Crown Prince Lam find other survived Brocade Cloak Guards amid the rubble of the common house, also tied into the same giant root like him and his father. The scream he heard earlier is from a Brocade Cloak Guard tied into the far end of the gian root, surrounding that poor man are Prince Toa, the villagers and some of the convoy members, the guard body is violently convulsing, eyes rolled up into his skull, mouth moaning "make it stop". Couple minutes late, he died, seeing he is dead the crowd turn to the guard tied next to that ill fate man. They forced his mouth open and pouring some of that grey liquid into his mouth, ignoring his plead for mercy. The guard anxious, breathing heavily, bracing for the awful fate about to befell him, sweat pouring down into small stream swept away the thick dust on his face, and turned it into some odd impressionist painting. Not long after, the guard starting to convulsing, screaming nonstop "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP." His eyes rolling up, face up to the sky and turned all pale, he creaking his teeth and wimpling for a moment then turn silence. The Brocade Cloak Guard sitting still like a statue, his face turned dull-witted and no long respond to anything. Knowing another ill fate soul had join their rank, the crazy crowd grin freakishly.