Like Wolverine
Her limbs were long, with joints different from ours, slender and seemingly more suitable for flying or hunting in the air. Moreover, judging from the claws that could pierce through my seat, their fingers were long, and their nails were razor-sharp, almost like Wolverine!
"Prepare for impact, prepare for impact, brace for the collision!"
"Thud!" Airbags around me suddenly inflated. However, those airbags were instantly punctured by the monster's claws, and air hissed out.
It's over, it's over!After narrowly escaping death multiple times, I was now about to die together with this monster!
"Splash! Splash!" She was also struggling to fly with her remaining wing.
I quickly pressed random buttons on the armrest; I had to do something. I couldn't just sit here waiting to die!
"Click! Click! Click!" I pressed the buttons haphazardly, and suddenly, two large wings appeared on either side of my seat.
"Manual landing activated." With the mechanical female voice, a joystick appeared on the armrest, and the monster in front of me stopped flapping her wing. I understood – she wasn't trying to grab me; she knew this thing could fly. So, after her wing was broken by my capsule, she clung to it, hoping I could save her.
I immediately grabbed the joystick, watching the ground getting closer. Pulling the joystick, the seat began to ascend, slowing down the fall. It worked!
My seat started to glide like a small aircraft, descending steadily. In front of me was still flat ground; it should be a smooth landing. Suddenly, I saw a line at the edge of the earth. What was that line? Could it be...
As I worried, I also saw that line. It wasn't a line; it was a canyon! The earth cracked in front of me, forming a deep gorge. My small aircraft descended into it!
The pitch-black night made the environment in the canyon dimly visible, impossible to see clearly. I felt like the taut string in my mind was about to snap. The narrow canyon was filled with bizarre rock formations – some resembling howling beasts, others forming natural arches, and some looking like unsheathed swords.
A protruding rock suddenly appeared in my path. I quickly maneuvered the joystick to dodge it. The monster in front of me also closed her eyes and pressed against my shield, blocking most of my view. I urgently shouted at her, "Quick, move away! I can't see! We're going to die together!"
I didn't know if she understood. She opened her eyes, and I waved at her, signaling her to move away. Seemingly understanding, she unplugged her hand from the side of my seat and climbed upward!
"Ka!" "Ka!" She punctured holes in my seat, and the rushing wind entered through those holes. She finally moved away from my sight, revealing her chest, her belly, and her... lower body. She was wearing pants! Though tattered and made of what seemed like animal hide, it covered her lower body. Wait, she even had a long tail!
"By the way, she is a pilot, and her tail must be used to maintain balance.
In front of me, only her tail remains, tightly coiled around my seat. My vision finally clears, and we continue descending, maneuvering the joystick to dodge the protruding rocks on both sides of the canyon. Downward we go, getting closer and closer until, finally, we see the ground. Suddenly, the monster leaps off my aircraft, completely detaching, and my aircraft plunges towards the ground.
"Thud!" I hear the sound of wings breaking. The entire seat begins to roll, and my head hits the protective barrier in front of me. In the chaotic view, I only see the rolling sky and ground and the monster also tumbling.
Finally, the whole world stops. In my ears, there is only a buzzing sound. If my airbag hadn't been pierced by her, I wouldn't have crashed so miserably. In my dizzy sight, I see the monster trying to get up but falling again with severe injuries.
"Smack!" The seatbelt leaves my body, "whoosh!" the protective cover in front opens, and I fall forward straight to the sticky ground. "Thud," I fall again on the gooey surface, lying down, and in my blurred vision, I see the struggling monster.
My nose starts to tingle, tears slowly slide from the corners of my eyes, further blurring this world.
"Thud, thud, thud, thud." In the quiet world, the monster rises again and again, only to fall once more. "Thud!" She falls again, not far from me, her face facing me. She breathes heavily on the muddy ground: "hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo." Tears also fall from her white eyes, reminding me of the tearful eyes of the big white goose at my grandfather's house, wet with tears before being slaughtered. Grandpa couldn't bear to kill it, and that time, I understood that animals also have emotions and spirituality.
We lie facing each other on the ground. I look at her, she looks at me, she blinks, wipes away the tears from her eyes, and tries to stand up again. Yes, she is trying so hard to survive, how can I lie on the ground and cry? Yvette Washington, now is not the time for you to cry, wait until you survive, then cry as much as you want.
"Woo——"
I faintly hear a buzzing sound, at the end of the dizzy, blurry world, a glimmer of starlight appears, that glimmer of starlight is coming towards me.
"Thud." The monster falls again, unable to stand up.
In the darkness, a shabby motorcycle flies over. They hastily stop, and two people jump off the motorcycle, running towards us. My head starts to feel heavy, and I begin to feel scared. I'm afraid it's the people from Eclipse City that Campbell Russell mentioned, or even more, someone threatening my life.
Someone runs up to me and squats down, but I'm already starting to lose consciousness, and my eyes involuntarily begin to close.
"Dad! They are from Silvermoon City! Look! It's the escape pod from their spaceship." A blurry face enters my dizzy line of sight. His face is also covered with a cloth, and above the cloth, a pair of amber eyes shimmer in the moonlight."This is a male voice, with a slightly husky tone, as if going through the voice-changing period. His tone sounds clean, not excited, not evil, not greedy or excited, just the surprise of an onlooker seeing an escape pod.
"Strange, why is the injury so severe? Silvermoon City's escape pods should be very safe..." I hear him muttering, "Oh~~ It turns out it was damaged by the flying corpse, no wonder..."
"Silvermoon City? Then bring that mother flying corpse with you." Suddenly, a middle-aged man's voice comes in, carrying the magnetic and crisp tone of a mature man.
"What about him? He looks seriously injured."
"People from Silvermoon City will naturally come to the rescue. There's a signal device on the escape pod, the spaceship will come to rescue him. Leave him some water; I believe people from Silvermoon City will arrive soon. I don't want to provoke them." The middle-aged man's tone suggests that dealing with Silvermoon City is a headache for him, and he doesn't want to cross paths with them.
Leave me... some water...
Some water...
"Hey, are you okay? Can you hear me? Here, have some water." He gently lifts me, letting me lean on his shoulder, and cool water is fed into my mouth. My intuition tells me that they are not bad people.
When I saw Edmond and Campbell Russell, my intuition also told me to be cautious even with people locked together, but despite believing in my intuition, I couldn't resist their care and sincere smiles.
I muster all my strength to grab his arm; he pauses, and I, in a daze, lift my face to look at him, trying not to fall into unconsciousness at this moment: "Save... save me... I... I escaped... I don't want... don't want to go back to Silvermoon City..." I completely collapse on his arm, and as darkness approaches, I hear the words of that middle-aged man: "Oh! Interesting, someone escaped from Silvermoon City. Emery Griffin, save him."
"Got it!" He immediately lifts me up.
"And also, dismantle the signal device of the escape pod. Edmund Myers will be excited to see this! It's Silvermoon City's technology!"
"Okay!" I feel like being lifted and placed back into the escape pod, then my body is secured with a seatbelt, followed by his gentle voice, "Sit tight, we'll take you home..."
Home...