Chapter 1804 Searching For Survivors.
1804 Searching For Survivors.
Commander Bia knew that the tower had stood for eons and would not collapse on its own. But still, it was too hard to believe that someone was capable of bringing the tower down.
"I am freed...I am freed!"
Suddenly, Commander Bia was hit by the reality that she was freed from the grasp of the void she was trapped in.
The despair engulfing her eyes was washed up immediately with relief and exhilaration, feeling like she was given a new chance in life.
Her reaction was understandable; she was thrown into a different piece of void within the tower after getting pulled by the portal.
Unlike Felix, she was all alone and had absolutely no way of escaping the void on her own. In a place where time was meaningless and seconds felt like years, the only thing keeping her sanity intact was the knowledge of unigins residing within the tower too.
She knew that it was a farfetched fantasy to get saved by Felix or the others, but without that delusion, she would have ended it all.
Getting trapped in a void within the tower was a literal death sentence; Felix was the first one to escape it!
Whoosh!
"Commander Bia! You are alive!!"
Abruptly, Commander Bia woke up from her daze after hearing a familiar voice rushing at her from a distance. When she lifted her head, she spotted Dankin with a thrilled expression.
Thud!
He landed in front of her and fell on his knees, seemingly incapable of supporting himself anymore.
He looked terrible, indicating he likely experienced a worse fate than Commander Bia.
"What happened to you? Were you sent to a void?" Commander Bia asked with a solemn tone.
"Void? Hell no!"
Dankin felt chills course through his spine just by the thought of it. He continued, "I was trapped in the Chambers of Horror Floor. I couldn't clear the chamber and ended up stuck in my own worst horror over and over again."
While he was retelling his story, his expression kept turning for the worst like the memories alone were enough to scare him all over again.
"The Chambers of Horror, 49th floor. You had it tough indeed." Commander Bia knitted her eyebrows, "It's a miracle you managed to survive this long on your own."
She knew that the moment a person got trapped in a chamber, the only way to clear it was to defeat their worst horror. The map had no tips to achieve this, which meant, if someone could not defeat their fear, they would be stuck in a loop forever and ever.
"How about you?" Dankin asked as he gazed at the colorful nebula, "Also, do you have any idea what happened to the tower?"
'Just give me one signal, that's all...'
'Where are you...'
She kept murmuring in her mind as she scanned everything and everywhere with her frequency detection.
Suddenly, Commander Bia's senses picked up a recurring frequency that was trapped in a small area, unable to leave it.
When she tapped into the repeating frequency and tuned to its noise, a short voice memo resounded in her ears.
-SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS...-
'Our code! He is alive!'
The moment she heard it, Commander Bia's eyes lit up in joy and rushed swiftly toward the source.
Way earlier into her journey with Felix and Apollo, they designed a code between them in case they got separated and needed to find each other.
After all, this was the Echoing Tower, anything could happen.
The code was SOS, which meant, 'Save Our Souls', a popular phrase on Earth. Felix had chosen to make sure they separated each other from Uranus since he also could send signals.
The moment she arrived at the origin of the signal, she spotted that it originated from within a giant white brilliant cacoon.
'What the hell is this?'
Commander Bia got cautious, having no idea if this was dangerous. However, the signal was coming from within it, which put her at ease a bit.
Feeling somewhat bewildered, Commander Bia kept her distance and sent her signals inside the cacoon, desiring to establish a connection.
Alas, there was no reply from the other side.
'Can I peer through it.' Commander Bia narrowed her eyes in focus at the cacoon and used her vibrations to pierce through the cacoon and see what was inside.
This time, she succeeded!
When her eyes adjusted to the interior of the cacoon, her irises widened to the limit while her heart skipped a beat in utter shock and bafflement.
Her reaction was understandable when her eyes captured the sight of a humanoid featureless transparent white entity in a fetus position.
The most mysterious and shocking part was the appearence of seven hearts/cores within him, each more unique than the other.
"What...in...tarnation...is...that..." She mouthed a word by word, having completely no idea what her eyes were feeding her...