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Chapter 29 - "Entering the Land Of The Dead"

About Blayne who reached there before Cleyn, he wasn't confronted by Fletcher.

He slowly started searching around for a place to stay in the ghost town.

The fog was slowly rising around him, with shadows appearing to both sides.

He looked around looking for a home to stay but there were no lights flashing nor a single sound of a human presence.

He stood there at every door, knocking some of them but none of them gave a response.

After looking around for two hours, he reached quite towards one end of the town.

He saw a light bulb in sight, flickering perhaps in its last breaths.

He felt that there might be a human presence there.

The bulb that was weakly guarding the house was the same house where Mr Belton and his family had recently shifted.

Blayne approached closer to the door of the house and started knocking slowly.

After quite a few knocks, he didn't expect someone to open the door like the others but on his way to retreat the door slowly opened.

"Who are you?" A female voice approached the ears of Blayne.

He quickly turned around just to see none other than Mrs Belton.

"Hello miss. I am a passenger. I am just searching for a guest house in this town." Blayne said with a smile.

The door got opened completely with a creaking sound.

Her face was extremely pale with dead expressions.

"You won't find any guest house at this hour but if you want, you can stay in the extra room in our house." Mrs Belton said in a very slow voice.

"Thats really sweet of you, ma'am. Do you live here alone if you don't mind sharing?" Blayne asked with hands crossed.

"No no I live here with my lovely husband and my two kids." Miss Belton responded with a pale smile.

"Ohh. Alright. Thankyou ma'am for the generosity." Blayne said with a smile.

Miss Belton went inside the house, followed by Blayne.

Blayne saw that the house was quite messy like not being cleaned in years.

He felt like it wasn't opened in years.

He didn't even hear the voices of any kids playing around nor any lazy husband watching tv or sitting on the couch having his tea.

While thinking all this, he thought that maybe others were asleep.

The broken TV gave him quite a lot of answers.

"Would you like to eat something or just rest directly?" Miss Belton asked in a peaceful tone.

"Thanks. I would just get some sleep." Blayne said with a smile.

Miss Belton led Blayne towards the room next to where Milo & Mino used to sleep.

Around that time, Milo used to sleep there alone.

That night, he was wide awake thinking about the sudden change in his father's behaviour.

He was thinking of something worse about to hit him.

He looked around guessing what was going on.

He heard the footsteps of a person approaching him.

He looked closely at the door to see a huge dark shadow.

Milo thought that it might be his father but it was Blayne in a black suit.

After seeing him from afar, he got scared thinking that it was Fletcher who scared him that other day.

He hid himself in the bedsheet in order to escape Blayne from seeing him.

Blayne on the other hand also didn't pay much attention and quickely entered the guest room and slept due to being extremely tired.

That night Milo didn't sleep well because he got flashbacks of that horrific face of Fletcher, thinking that the scary figure had approached him even closer.

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Quilia looked around and after seeing Fletcher, she was shocked to see someone standing there in that posture.

Fletcher was standing there holding a cane, with legs crossed and a creepy smile covering his face.

His cheeks were getting more and more red in colour as if heavily blushing.

It was just the happiness of getting a fresh victim.

"Hey lady. Mind helping me out?" Fletcher said in a friendly voice.

"I don't know you. Get your shit together yourself. I am struck here." Quilia said, sounding not bothered.

Fletcher was quite not happy at this odd behaviour but he didn't change his tone.

"Searching for a friend huh? Driver huh?" Fletcher said, scratching his nose.

This shook Quilia for a moment.

She turned around just to see Fletcher smiling weirdly.

"What happened to him? You better stop playing around." Quilia said, trying to pick the gun.

"I don't play around. I am too old for that." Fletcher responded hitting the cane hard on the ground.

"Where is Antokio?" Quilia asked, picking the gun and hiding it behind her back with left hand.

"I have no clue where he might be but he sure is in a better place." Fletcher said, his face turning into a sneaky grin.

"Wdym? Don't you dare hurting him." Quilia said, loading her gun.

"Keep that toy inside. No need to be wasted on me. Keep those bullets inside you might need them in the future." Fletcher said with a faint smile.

This got Quilia more puzzled here as she was confused about how Fletcher knew that she was carrying a gun.

"Tell me where Antokio is please." Quilia asked, still holding the gun.

"Alright alright lady. Calm down a bit." Fletcher said with a smile.

A sudden fog appeared around with Fletcher disappearing in between.

Quilia started looking around to her left and right but couldn't find anyone in sight.

Suddenly a hard hand hit her on the neck making her fall down on the floor and resulting in a flake out.

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