Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Three

When the digging sound suddenly stopped, Avran.Duvaly was picking up cans, worried about the growing wind.Now he stood up straight and felt a chill. His first thought was: the boy is dead.The trees of the hypothetical intelligent beings stopped digging because the boy died.For one long, heartbeating moment, it seemed more than just a thought, it was a stark fact.Then it occurred to him: Or they've found him. He dropped what was in his hand and ran towards the digging site. In his haste he almost ran into the hedge of eyed roses.One of the tallest flowers turned and looked at him indifferently with its single black pearl-like eye.He ignored it.

He was taken aback by the fruits dug out of these trees before him.The scraper-like flat tree roots moved slowly, but after all the groping and digging, a complete wall had already appeared.And behind the wall leading inside was an opening in the rubble. He pushed away the fleshy stalks of the eyed rose and moved forward.Somewhere in that looming darkness, Isaac must be alive, not only alive, but talking to some power.Since these forces surrounded the Earth and stole it from time, Duvali fell in love with the hypothetical intelligent beings. The roots of the hypothetical sapient beings have withdrawn from the excavation, entangled into a ball, and spread motionless at the entrance of the buried room.Duvali hesitated at the entrance of the cave.The hole was just big enough for him to pass through, and he knew it was not wise to go any further, tons of rubble and debris would have to weigh heavily on what remained of the ceiling, unsupported but a few joists and moaning logs .However, he knew he couldn't help himself.

The picking wind began to howl with urgent siren calls, blowing over the ruins. He took another step into the shadows, wrinkling his nose at the frightening smell.Yes, something died here.His heart sank.Isaac!he shouted.The dim light around him made him unable to see anything until his eyes adjusted, and a figure appeared. That is Su Lian, the woman from Mars.Moai.is she deadNo.She looked up at him from the floor of this half-collapsed room with a frightened expression, and the sudden skylight might have dazzled her eyes for a while.The situation inside must have been horrible.Duval thought.She crawled toward the opening on hands and knees, and he wanted to help her, but his thoughts were still on Isaac.He wished he had a lamp, a flashlight, anything.

The wind howled like a wounded dog.A shower of plaster fell from the ceiling.Duvali entered the room, which was a mixture of smell and filth. The second body he encountered was Diane.Dupre.The fourth-year woman from the coast was dead, and he'd left her as soon as he was sure of it.The ceiling is low, and he walks stooped.In the darker place he finally saw Isaac.Excitingly, Isaac is still alive!He knelt before Anna.Rebuka's prone body. Isaac backed away a little as Duvaly approached.The boy's eyes were bright, and the golden spots in the irises were clearly shining.Even the skin seemed to be glowing slightly.He doesn't look human.He wasn't human in the first place, Duvaly reminded himself.

Anna.Rebka still didn't move.He asked: Is she dead? No.Isaac said. ☆ leave her!Su Lian.Moai called from outside the entrance to the buried storeroom.It was getting dark.Isaac, leave her.Come out, it's not safe there! But her throat was dry, and the order sounded like a feeble plea. ☆ Duval put his finger on Anna's throat, trying to find a pulse, but as soon as he touched her, he knew it was impossible.Isaac was wrong, or else he was denying the obvious.No, Isaac, he said softly, she's dead. That's just her body.Isaac said. What does it mean? Hesitating, and to Duvali's surprise, the boy began to explain.

☆ This gust of wind will kill us sooner or later.Su Lian.Moy thought. She saw Turk and Lise running toward her through the piled-up alien growth.These growths were like a kind of forest, buried in storage for hours without seeing anything, and she couldn't bear the sight at first, with a canopy of eerie glowing orbs above it, and these Should it be called a tree?There was also a bush of eyed roses nearby, some of which were still turning their unconscious glances on her. The world has been changed beyond recognition. And this gust of wind.Where did it come from?The intensity increases almost every second.Pulling hard on the ruins behind her, blowing cracked drystone walls and tar paper high like kites, whirling among the alien trees.

She yelled over her shoulder and heard it more clearly this time.Isaac! It's the boy that matters, not that stupid Avran.Duvally. Isaac!come out! At this time, the crumbling rubble began to vibrate and rumble. ☆ Duvaly immediately understood what the boy was telling him.It was pretty much what he had imagined for so long: Isaac had become a conduit for supposedly intelligent beings.But there was one striking difference: Isaac was able to play on Anna.Get Rebuka's memories before she dies!She lived in him, just like the Martian boy Ash. He said softly: Anna? As if he could summon her from the boy, like a spirit summons a ghost.The boy's eyes changed somehow, and the corners of his mouth turned down, as if in disgust, and this was the expression Anna had seen on him recently.

Then Duvaly said something he hadn't expected to say, although it was like the last step on a long road, so logical and inevitable. Take me away.He said. The boy stepped back, shaking his head. Take me away, Isaac.Wherever you are, wherever you're going, take me there. The wood creaked, as if bearing the reset of the world.There was a sound like a gunshot as the wood snapped. don't want.the boy said calmly and firmly. It was really pissing off, because he was so close.so close!Also because the voice that turned him down sounded too much like Anna.