Chapter 1088 Hoofprints
As Matilda's eyes moved in the sky, he suddenly took a breath of cold air. The whole person or the whole group of horses were stunned, as if they had seen all the horror contained in the starry sky. Matilda's four feet were like nails. He seemed to be frozen, unable to move at all. He lowered his head and shook his head vigorously. The familiar environment he called home and the plants blooming in summer seemed to be poison in his eyes. He raised his head again without giving up.
A pile of fear enveloped him - the stars in the sky were not at all where they should be.
A feeling of falling hit him, and he heard the scream of a familiar yet unfamiliar voice in his ears. Matilda woke up. He felt that his face was wet. When he opened his eyes, he realized that he had fainted at some point. He lay on the ground in the muddy water, and the strange starry sky and the rotten smell in the air that he had just witnessed in his memory filled the heart of the centaur chief with vigilance and uneasiness.
Matilda quickly turned over and stood up with her hands and four horse hooves together. He looked up at the sky again but found that it was covered with thick fog and could not see anything. Being unable to observe the stars made the centaur feel as if a part of his life had been cut off. In desperation, he could only focus on his eyes. Only then did he feel the stiffness of his limbs, but his attention was already gone. placed on the surrounding environment.
Unlike before, Matilda realized something was wrong at the eerily silent centaur tribe gathering place not far away. There were also drag marks caused by horse hooves on the ground beside his tent. Judging from the marks, it seemed that the centaurs were directly dragged in by something. He walked into the Star Lake next to him and took a few steps towards the lake, but the sense of danger made him stop immediately.
The uneasy Matilda lifted up the door cloth of her tent and got in, only to find that the things in his room had been overturned on the ground. Matilda ignored the treasures on the ground and various centaurs' beliefs. Instead of the gods' statues and emblems, he directly took out the bows, arrows and spears that he had not used for a long time since he became the chief.
With the courage brought by the weapon, Matilda began to try to call her tribe and walked towards Star Lake, but did not receive any response or discovery. He could only start to walk towards his tribe's gathering place, but as his horse hoofed, Not long after the sound rang out, he was trembling and speechless - the centaur tribe that he had spent countless efforts to manage and was proud of had turned into a ruins revealing corruption, with only the desolation coming towards him. Earth and gray mist. The originally green grasslands all withered and turned into a charred land, and a dim gray mist wandered in this withered and dead jungle.
Holding back her grief, Matilda called out the name of her tribe in vain. Suddenly, the clicking sound under her hoofs gave him a pause. His eyes rested on a mirror that he had trampled on. This mirror was the largest in the tribe. The popular filly 'Pretty Black' is the beloved baby. This is a gift given to her after she secretly made friends with the little Hufflepuff witch who strayed into the Forbidden Forest - even the centaur Old Angry Green Bei Eun Ye turned a blind eye to this and did not say anything to her.
Matilda picked up the mirror that had been trampled on by him, but she saw something on her face in the mirror. Matilda subconsciously took the mirror closer to herself and took a closer look. Checking it, he was shocked to find that there seemed to be a sutured scar on his face. It was black and reptile-like, lying on his left cheek.
He was touching the scars to examine them carefully, and suddenly he found that thin black lines began to appear one after another on his chin and forehead, even on the back of his hands. These thin lines were spreading rapidly, and Matilda was so frightened that she turned the mirror. He took a few steps back, feeling his scalp numb.
Matilda, who was in a state of confusion, was brought back to her senses by the itching scars. The itching pain made her mane stand up, and she suddenly found that there seemed to be some movement underneath the scars on her hands. . He stretched out his right hand and tremblingly approached the scar on his left arm.
But at this moment, the scar cracked open, revealing what was inside. What was inside was not flesh and blood, but an eyeball. The deathly pale eyeball was even turning and staring in the turbid whites. Matilda, and the other scars starting to crack, let him know it was still happening.
The tide of madness and pain enveloped Matilda, and she jumped away from the mirror on the ground. Cold sweat fell into her eyes, and the stinging feeling instantly occupied her nerves. Her uneasy heart beat faster and faster. ——But everything disappeared in an instant, including his scar and the eyes in the scar.
These nightmare-like scenes corroded Matilda's thinking, and his brain gradually became chaotic to the point where he felt like he was losing his mind and going crazy. But in the end, these emotions turned into despair and he unconsciously wandered in this once extremely familiar tribe. Wandering.
The sky above him had completely darkened, and shadows surrounded him, as if the light around them was slowly being sucked away. As the light dimmed, the summer air became particularly cold under the influence of thick fog.
I don't know how long it took, but Matilda saw the figure of a centaur vaguely revealed in the gray mist. It was like seeing an oasis in the desert. Matilda, full of expectations, immediately stepped towards the centaur. Jump over with open hooves.
But before she could get close, Matilda froze in place in horror, her words for help choked in her throat and her heart ached unbearably. It was Ronan who had been with him for many years, and his face was already rotten and emitting a foul odor. Tilda could only identify him from his hanging ornaments and the remaining hair.
Later, he tried to walk towards Hogwarts to ask for help, but he found that no matter how he turned, he could not get out of the Forbidden Forest, even if the Hogwarts Castle was not far away, even if he was at the nearest At that time, he even heard the Auror's conversation, but he just couldn't walk past, couldn't reach the place where his eyes could see, and vague, unspeakable fear enveloped Matilda.
And as he walked, when he repeatedly walked in the place he had just walked, he found that there were more corpses of his people on the ground. He realized that he was trapped here, trapped in this completely dead world. , a desolate world covered in ashes, littered with ruins and dead bodies.
Later, Matilda kicked off her hooves and started running towards Star Lake. He wanted to rely on the power of Star Lake for divination to figure out what happened - he had subconsciously ignored the fact that nothing could be seen in the sky now. Star facts.
But Matilda ran to the Star Lake next to her tent, and was horrified to find that in the lake that was still sparkling when he first left, now only a dry river bed was left, and the entire body of water disappeared without a trace. On the dry river bed, there were only many fish of different sizes that had originally lived in it, spread out on it. Just like the centaur chief at this time, these fish kept gasping desperately and swung their tails desperately trying to escape. The immediate dilemma.
Suddenly, a fish on the river bed flew up into the sky. As soon as Matilda looked up, more fish fell towards the sky.
The reason why it is said to be falling is that it is as if the world has been turned upside down. The sky, which was originally the favorite place for the centaurs to divine the stars, is now occupied by a body of water. Judging from the color of the lake, this body of water has clearly disappeared without a trace. Star Lake.
Just when Mathil faced the terrifying spectacle that could not belong to this world at all, and began to tremble mentally and physically, the torrents raging in the sky began to press down overwhelmingly.
Sweeping and swallowing the entire centaur tribe, Matilda was also photographed in the water. The water pressure was not as strong as he originally expected, but the pain that came from his body from time to time still made him use his hands to cover his face in vain to prevent it. The debris rushed out from the surrounding area hit his head.
When the current calmed down a bit, he had already choked on some water and was rushed to the bottom of the Star Lake. He rowed his six limbs desperately, trying to reach the surface of the water. Finally emerging from the lake, Matilda lay on the shore of the lake and panted violently for several seconds before she had enough energy to observe the situation. UU Kanshu www.uukｎshu.net The scenery above the lake was different from what she had imagined. She was still the same person she had just been. The desolate and decayed centaurs tribe I saw when I woke up.
Not far from Matilda's tent, a living horseman appeared on the ground with stiff limbs and seemed to be in a coma.
Matilda judged that the man was still alive from the heaving belly. He struggled to get up from the mud on the shore of the lake and approached the horseman, but as he approached, the familiar yet unfamiliar aura on the other man made her feel uncomfortable. He became more and more uneasy and frightened, and finally these fears turned into reality - the person who fell to the ground and passed out in front of him was himself.
Just when Matilda recognized himself, the scars that appeared on him when he looked in the mirror cracked open out of thin air, and they all opened involuntarily, and the pupils in his eyes all turned to stare at Matilda. Da.
Then there was a loud noise from behind, and a huge black mass of seemingly uncontrollable surging material rushed out of the Star Lake, with patches of red light roaring in it.
"Muran? Ah!!!"
Matilda, who had just recognized what it was, had just finished speaking when his voice turned into a scream. He was instantly caught in the tentacles of the thing in front of him that were transformed into black mist, and began to drag him towards the lake. .
The black substance quickly wrapped around his entire body. Matilda dug her hoofs into the soil weakly and tried to resist the struggle, but then she realized that the hoofprints left by the horseman she had seen being dragged into the black lake were He left it by himself. The huge shock caused by this made him lose his mind and forget to resist. In the end, he was quickly swallowed by the water of the Star Lake under the drag of this black substance. The agitated water splashed everywhere and captured the scene. The face of Matilda who collapsed on the shore...