Knee Deep Water Part 3

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The rusted pipes ran zig-zag, Overlapping each other and, Some were broken or undone or got rusted and broke off.

One could easily see the rusted parts from where the pipes had fallen off or rusted and got holes in them, Inside of which one could see the red eyes glowing of rat-like monsters.

Water dripped from some of them and, some were dry and had dirt inside of them.

The place looked like it had been abandon for a very long time.

I walked through the pathway between the maze of pipes that surrounded me, Making a wall on both sides of me.

Those walls of pipes on both sides of me went to the ceiling. I kept searching through them with my torch, accompanied by the sound of me moving through the knee-deep water surrounding me.

But from where the water was coming in? it was nowhere to be found.

The place echoed with the sound of water dripping.

It was impossible to find the source of the sound in that maze of pipes.

To find a high safe place to get away from the water that was slowly rising.

I continued along the path, Looking for a way to get out of this place.

I only encountered small insects and mouse-like things that we're afraid of light, As I continued. They mostly seemed harmless and, Did not seem like they posed any threat.

As I continued along the path, The water only got deeper and deeper, Also moving through the water became difficult.

At first, I did not know if there were anything in front of me underwater, and second, it started to smell really bad and suffocating. I continued along the path with an assault rifle on my shoulder and a torch in my hands.

The maze of pipes was at least a kilometer long, and the room was longer than that.

Where the maze of pipes ended, Right ahead, A giant water pipe came out from under the water and continued, Ahead along into a tunnel.

I stood at the entrance of that tunnel, Looking at the maze of pipes, looking at the room for one last time before heading into the tunnel.

My torch started to act up. It began to flicker before It turned on and off on its own as I tried to fix the torch.

While doing so, I noticed bright red dots throughout the maze in the dark. I looked up at the maze of pipes. There were at least a million? 2 million red eyes staring at me.

They were everywhere and all through the maze. The entire maze had turned into red dots in the dark, As they stared at me.

That awful smell only got worse.

An even more awful and even worse smell came out of the tunnel as I stood in the entrance of it, It was enough to make me gag, But I had to continue through it regardless.

Throwing in the old torch in the <<Item Box>> I took a Gas Mask and a replacement torch out of the <<Item Box>> and put the gas mask on.

Taking the things from the superstore has been a worthwhile deal.

I turned towards the tunnel turning on the torch.

I tried to see what was inside the tunnel, One last time. But unable to see anything other than the water Ahead inside the tunnel, I headed into it.

I followed along the giant pipe that headed into a tunnel.

In the beginning, the tunnel was just wet.

Water dripped from the ceiling and, on the walls, grew a green moss.

There was no water at the beginning, But as I continued, Along there was watery slurry.

As I continued through the slurry walking through it only got harder and harder as I continued through it, I needed to put extra effort into every step I took

The tunnel went straight, But at places, there were doors and pipes overhead from which light peaked into the tunnel,

I followed the giant pipe and kept walking through the slurry water inside the tunnel, Which came to my waist.

As I continued, The slurry only got deeper and deeper at its peak at places it was up to my neck and, The smell only got worse as I kept going.

Crunching sound came from in front of me, far of in the dark. Even pointing the torch, I could not see much far in the distance.

As I got closer, In the far distance. The source of the sound came into my sight.

And I found out the reason behind the awful smell in the tunnel as well, as the source of the slurry in the tunnel got clear to me.

A giant creature, the entire span of it was the size tunnel with an armored body and legs that spread wide. Huge fangs in front like a spider, it looked just like a house centipede, it was eating another corpse of its own kind much smaller in size than itself, that was the source of the crunching sound as its fangs dug into the armored skin as the slurry came out of its mouth as it chewed on its food.

The slurry in the tunnel was the waste of what resided in the tunnel, The monster that, Fed on its own kind, a cannibal.

But I could only get a glimpse of it.

As soon as it saw the light, It charged towards it. It charged towards me.

I was waist-deep in the slurry.

Forget firing a gun at it. My best course of action was to first get out of the tunnel before trying anything on it. Staying in the tunnel meant certain death and, I am not a fan of getting chewed by a giant insect.

Moving in the slurry was a hindrance. But it, That monster ran faster than anything imaginable, Way faster than the monster I had killed prior. As it charged towards me, I turned around, Not looking back, Activated the skill <<Speed>>

<<Skill Activated: [Speed]>>

And, Ran back towards the entrance to the tunnel, From where I came from, As it ran behind me, Chasing me.

Even with the <<Speed>> activated, I was not going much fast through the slurry as it dragged me down.