Chapter 386 - 386. Meeting him again

Kendra sprawled again on turtles back and heavily breathed. ''The dark energy that is emanating from those pipes is draining your life energy out of you. The more I think about it, the more I understand why they are doing it. I understand indeed, but that doesn't mean they have to so ruthless. It is just too ruthless even to their own people.''

The turtle stopped and nodded. ''Their lifespan halved and they become old very fast. Kendra, it took me a bunch of energy to bring you to this world. Now since you know about this, what is your plan?''

Kendra barely opened her eyes and sighed. ''If I even help dark ones why would I not help these. Not all of them are bad. There are always people that are bad, but sometimes so-calling bad is only because they took the wrong turn or took the wrong approach to deal with their problems.''

''Can you hold a little bit longer. We are almost there...'' The old turtle slowed down and started walking completely white path and towards mid of a big garden. 

''Slow down, your strength is flailing as well. What is this place?'' Suddenly Kendra became awake completely.

Young boy holding a young man's hand jumped around with a big smile and looked at surrounding humans that started arriving with despise. ''Brother, why do we still feed the humans the energy?''

They stood aside and none of the humans dared to approach them like they were dangerous animals.

''We need humans for future generations. Or do you want to get married to a bug, or snake or maybe a sleazy slug?'' The young man poked his head while he jokingly teased him.

The young boy nodded but then his face became sad. ''Too bad that world will die out. That human woman is so pretty. I wish we could have saved her and brought her here. If she is cultivator she could have waited for me for a couple more years and I would have married her.''

His brother suddenly hit his head. ''You fool. Do you think those that lived freely and unrestricted would be able to adapt to our world? To live from bits and pieces we left for them? No, the free-living ones wouldn't accept to live in a world like this. We are rearing humans to have future generations of warriors. Our family is luckily powerful enough to let us make our own choices.''

He turned his head and looked at the two turtles that weakly stood there, gasping for air. He went down and poked little turtle that tried to bite him. ''I wanted to give you some of the life energy so you can live longer, but I guess I will not.''

His malicious voice was heard by the little boy and he saw his brother rising hand to hit the turtle and stopped him. ''Brother, too many eyes watching. Let it go. Thye will die anyway.''

The young man turned his head and saw the whole crowd of people watching at him with angry eyes and he stopped in movement. ''How bothersome. Why did we leave these few animals alive anyway?''

The young boy sighed. ''Grand Elder made that choice to give the humans some sort of feeling of the living hood. After all, plants died and the world seas turned poisonous, we already thought we all will die. But since we found how to use the crack of space, our lives became slightly better. Let those few animals alive. If you really harm them, Grand Elder will take your powers away. You know what he did to Uncle.''

Young man's face became icy. ''I need to grow my powers more and become Grand Elder one day.''

The boy looked at his brother and sighed while barely whispering. ''You still wouldn't be able to win against that woman. She is this worlds last hope. Let's hope Grand Elder finds her on time. We need her help, no matter what kind of creature she is. As long she saves our world...''

The two were about to leave, when a young boy looked at the tiny turtle, that looked straight at him. He went back and looked at it. ''Strange, why do I feel same waves from you that seems similar to that woman? If you meet her in the other world, tell her to save us, please.''

Then he jumped up and rushed behind his brother, that was already quite far away. 

''What was that about?'' The old turtle started walking but asked Kendra curiously.

''That? It seems this child has strong soul searching waves. My soul is now in this tiny body so he could feel a similar pattern in soul waves. Interesting. Such a cute creature. But what is this world? Why are they living here? Couldn't they just have gone to another world that had no humans and just made the new world just for them? After all, they know now how to open doors in space.'' Kendra was truly surprised that no one got such an idea so far.

''Because only those that have enough power to pass through the crack in space, can travel to other worlds. Thes humans here do indeed have stronger energy contained in their bodies, but they use it wrong. Soon even humans here wills tart dying. Without their own power source and with added energy that was not cultivated, the humans will have less and less offspring and soon, they will be extinct. Only the dozen or so that have powers will survive. Its natural selection, as they killed their own world.''

The turtle neared one building and saw what energy feeding was meant. Humans stood in rows and waited for something like energy shower. As soon they got new energy their complexions became better and they became livelier.

Kendra shook her head. ''Now I understand why the boy was talking about saving them. If they continue this way, they will start imploding and turning into... wait, the sea... Don't tell me...?''