The pale hand touched the ground and started to push it's body upward as if wanting to come out from the ground.
Soon, the soil behind the hand bulged out and formed a heap. The heap kept growing in size and finally it shattered into pieces.
A figure emerged from within the heap. A figure with tattered clothes, whose flesh from the buccal cavity was gone and it's teeth were clearly visible, not white but red, coated with blood. It's one eye was hanging from it's eye socket with a thin lump of flesh. While the other one was bright red. This walking dead figure was a zombie.
Zombies started emerging from the ground all around Sammy. Soon, he realised that he was surrounded by eleveen zombies, gradually moving towards him.
Louisa took out her dagger and held it near her chest in a way as if she was ready to attack any moment.
Sammy and Andrew were frozen from the scene as something mysteries was again happening in front of their eyes.
Soon, Sammy snapped back to reality and prepared himself for a run. Then he realised that these zombies were not doing anything to him. They just kept staring at him. After a while, the zombies started to move again, not towards Sammy, but in the directions they came from.
They returned to the spots they emerged from and once again assimilated with the soil.
"Ah okay! What did just happen here? Did actual zombies just came out from the ground took a good look at mister's handsome face and went back to their sleep?" Andrew asked as he eyes still could not believe what had been shown to his eyes.
Sammy looked at Louisa with eyes full of questions. Louisa also looked at him and could clearly see clouds of doubts covering his eyes.
"I think these zombies are here to make sure that the message residing inside the Everstiff rock is not delivered to the wrong person. That is why they looked at you and just went back inside the ground." Louisa explained, having some doubts on her own theory.
"Does that mean that the message will be delivered to anyone who touches the rock?" Sammy asked genuinely.
"That is not the case normally. If the person who has left the message here for you even had an ounce of your spirit force and fed it to this rock, then this rock will recognise the spirit force and only deliver the message to the person who has the same spirit force."
"And the person didn't have my spirit force, so he deployed these zombies here to confirm that the message is delivered only to me." Sammy spoke completing Louisa's
sentence.
Louisa nooded.
"Are there any routes that give you control over dead creatures?" Sammy asked.
"I don't know about such routes but normaly these kind of creatures can be controlled by higher existences from the underworld."
The Underworld? Is someone from the underworld helping me out. Is he the one who stored the so called message in this rock? But I don't know anyone from the underworld. And a higher existence on top of that is out of question. Well, the key to all my answers is this rock. So I should just check it out.
Sammy put his right leg forward and started walking towards the rock. When he reached the rock, he looked at Louisa and asked, "I just have to touch it right?"
Louisa nooded slightly.
Sammy started to make his hand approach the rock. As soon as he touched the rock, the various symbols on the rock started glowing and emitting a golden yellow light. Soon a layer of spirit force was formed around the rock. The layer slowly surrounded Sammy's entire body. It was like he was wearing a cloak of energy.
After a few seconds, Sammy felt something happen with his mind. He felt like a lot of information was being transferred to his mind. He saw a lot of glimpes of different places and people. But he could not recognise them. He started feeling a little pain. The pain soon started to increase. It increased to the point that Sammy could not handle it anymore. Sammy let out a loud scream for a long time and then deattached his body from the rock with a sudden jerk and fell to the ground.
Andrew and Louisa were watching all this happen with a look of worry in their eyes.
"Are you okay mister?" Andrew went towards him and held him.
" Ah! My head hurts. I feel like a lot of information was transferred to my brain. But I can't remember anything." Sammy tried to remember all the things he had seen but could not remember any.
"May be the information you received was a lot for your brain. It cannot process it instantly and may take some time. You might eventually remember everything you have seen." Louisa tried to give an explanation for Sammy's condition.
Sammy thought about it for a moment and finally came to an agreement with her.
"So, are you gonna help me now or not? Even if the you are unable to access the information you received now, I can still tell you who made your village turn to dust." Louisa looked at Sammy waiting for his answer.
"Though I still don't like the idea of helping you kill someone, even if he is a bad guy, I think I have to pay you for your help. So I am going to help you."
"But first, you have to tell me about your and Jin's powers. Also tell me what kind of person he is. We can't attack him like mad man. We need a plan." Sammy said.
...
Raoultsbridge street, inside Jin scottman's house.
Jin was sitting beside the window of his living room, admiring the beauty of the flowers outside in his garden. He was reading a newspaper while enjoying his tea.
A servent came running towards him.
"Sir we have received a letter for you." He stretched his hand containing the letter towards Jin. Jin looked at his servent and the letter. He took the letter from his servent's hand and read it.
'I am challanging you for a duel, if you are not a coward, then come and face me on the Bendict harbour two days from now at seven in the evening.' Jin was not surprised to see the content of the letter. He was surprised to see the symbol at the end of the letter. The symbol that no one would dare to use. The symbol of the Null Unit.