Chapter 60: Arrival.
It was sunrise. Or sunset. Lee had no idea. But the first thing he saw after a brief dizziness was the dimly shining sun. And then there were moons, several of them.
'This will be good!' Lee sarcastically said to himself, 'Maybe the bitch was right and this is THE Netherworld!'
After the wagon with children was pushed in the dark-purple hole, they instantly appeared on the other side of it as if stepping through a door. But the world they arrived at was nothing Lee had seen in his lives.
It was a bright afternoon a moment ago, but now it was twilight even though there was a sun sitting above the horizon. And it was chilly, but there was no wind. And the air felt ... empty?
"Fffff ..." One of the scourge soldiers took off his helmet and deeply inhaled, enjoying the fresh breath of air, but the children in Lee's wagon that were scared stiff a moment ago began to scream in panic. The guy had a slightly greenish skin and a single eye in the middle of his face.
And then the rest of the soldiers began to take off their helmets and the loud panic transformed into a silent horror. The faces around were ... terrifying, at least to the children.
While the scourge were more or less similarly built, although few were really short while others were buffed as if they had lived on steroids, the faces and hands were anything but normal. Some had only three fingers, but really fat ones, some had hands that resembled claws, some faces were covered in bird feathers while others had inadequate numbers of eyes – like one or three, or even more.
The upside was – they all kind of looked humanoid.
The children were horrified, but Lee quickly guessed that these people most likely were abducted from their home worlds similar to him and the rest of the kids in the wagon. But he couldn't care less about the looks of his abductors or their origins – he stood up and tried to locate Victoria's group.