The Fat God System

Chapter 173: Decipher

Miser and Darren were taken hostage in a particular room in the Shark Loan company. However, the company made sure that they did not look like they were being imprisoned.

The room was deflated with normal furniture and amenities. It would have looked like a normal hotel room if not for the fact that they could not leave this room.

Miser was walking back and forth as he bit his finger in worry. He could not help but think about his daughter, and how she could be in danger.

"Miser, you have got to relax," Darren said as he tapped his foot continuously on the ground.

Miser stopped walking and tried to peek in the windows. However, it was bolted shut by a metal piece that could not be broken away.

"She's okay, right? They promised not to hurt her, right?" Miser said as he could not help but overthink.

Darren nodded. Even though it looked like he was trying to convince Miser, it looked more like he was trying to convince himself.

"Yes. They do not need to hurt her," Darren said. "Unless Mia is forced to do something she doesn't,"

In the middle of Darren!:' sentence, he realized his mistake. He quickly shut off his mouth and tried to salvage the situation.

"But Mia's a smart child. She can take care of herself," Darren quickly said.

However, the damage had already been done. Miser was picking up pace in his walk. Darren could see the beads of sweat forming in his forehead and the wrinkles on his face getting longer.

"Miser, Miser!" Darren shouted as he walked over to him. He put his hands on Miser's shoulder and forced him to stop. "You have to believe in her."

Once Miser stopped, he was forced to breathe deeply and compose himself. He had to believe that Mia was fine and that she can survive all by herself.

"If only we could get out of here, we could search for her ourselves," Darren said as he smashed the table in front of him.

"Where are Hugh and the others?" Miser asked.

"What is this place?" Jane uttered as she looked all around her.

Jane and Aric were sedated from Hugh and Serena. While Hugh and Serena were busy trying to survive from the horde of monsters, Aric and Jane were trying to decipher the room they were in.

"I don't know," Aric answered.

There were hieroglyphs all around them and none of it were familiar to any of them. It was as if they were looking at an alien language that they could not perceive.

"We're trapped here," Jane said as she looked at the pile of boulders near the entrance where they came from.

Soon after they chose this room, an earthquake occurred and closed off their only way out. This meant that Aric and Jane were stuck in here for the time being.

"How do we get out?" Jane uttered as she tried to push the debris away.

"I don't know," Aric answered.

Jane frowned at Aric's response.

"Do you think Hugh and Serena are safe?" Jane asked once again. This time, she looked at Aric deep in the eyes.

"I don't know." Once again, Aric answered with no definite answer.

This time, Jane could no longer hold her anger.

"If you don't know anything, then what do you know?!" Jane shouted. She seemed to be particularly annoyed.

Aric frowned at the sudden outburst. He did not know where it came from, but he was sure that he did not do anything to receive this kind of anger.

"I. Don't. Know." Aric answered, especially pronouncing his words.

The two of them squared off and stared at each other, but nothing came of it. They both realized that they were both mad, but this was not the time to do so.

They both backed off and focused their attention on the hieroglyphs in the wall.

Jane made mental notes of any symbols that repeated in the walls. From there, she tried to guess which world it would mean in the English language.

She used the context clues and the very nature of the symbols themselves to try and figure out the mystery.

Aric, on the other hand, could not bother trying to understand something that was out of his hands.

He went towards the entrance that was blocked off and tried to dig his way out. Of course, it was a long way to go.

Jane heard the sounds of boulders falling and breaking, and it disturbed her focus. Once again, she was being irritated by Aric's actions.

"Don't waste your time with that. There must be another way out of here," Jane said with a bit of superiority in her face.

Aric frowned as he heard Jane's words. It did not seem to make sense since actively trying to remove the blockage would benefit them greatly.

"No. Don't waste your time with those pictures. Instead, why don't you do something useful and help me remove these rocks," Aric said with an insincere smile on his face.

Both of them once again stared at each other neither of them backing off. It was only after seconds later that they stopped and continued their respective missions.

Minutes and hours passed, but they were still ways away from completing their goals.

Jane had guessed some of the words in the room, but the sentences did not make sense.

Aric had also dug a lot of the debris away, but more debris woods come down from the hole in the ceiling. Both of them were in a rut.

"F**k!" Aric shouted. "This is useless!" He said as he kicked the pile of debris.

Jane chuckled at Aric's misfortune. However, Aric heard her laugh.

"Did you laugh?" Aric asked.

"So? So what?"

"Is see that you're not doing any better," Aric said with a bit of a smile on his face.

Jane frowned at Aric's words. "Unlike you, I have made some progress."

Aric tilted his head. "Then, do you know what this means?"

Aric pointed at a strange symbol on the wall. This symbol was not a representation of any animal, but a combination of curves and lines.

Serena frowned as she looked at the symbol. This was one of the many symbols that she had yet deciphered. It was her unluckiness that Aric chose this one.

Seeing Jane's silent face, Aric knew that he had won.

"You don't know this one?" Aric said with an obnoxious smile on his face.

Jane was silent as she turned her head away from Aric.

"Then, let me tell you," Aric said. "This one is"

As Aric looked at the symbol, he had all intentions to say any kind of guess. He was trying to mislead Jane by saying a random word.

"Revenge," Aric whispered as he could not take his eyes off the symbol.

For some reason, that word came to his mind. He was not planning to say this word, but it came to his mind anyway.

It spoke to him and lured him in some kind of way. Before he knew it, he was walking closer to the symbol to try and touch it.

Jane realized Aric's weird behavior and she frowned. She was confused and bewildered as to why Aric was acting so differently.

Aric raised his hand and touched the symbol. Jane did not think much of Aric's actions. She had touched these symbols before, and it did not disturb the markings.

Aric touched the symbol. Then, the symbol lit up a bright white light. Then, the light started to spread all around the wall and devour the other markings.

"What's happening?!" Jane said as she backed off from the wall.

For some reason, Aric's touch had set off some kind of mystical mechanism that activated the light. She did not know what it was that made Aric special, but there must be some kind of reason.

Jane saw Aric still standing close to the wall, so she grabbed him to try and pull him away from the light.

Jane touched Aric's clothes and hung on to them.

At the same time, Aric felt his whole body become weightless. In a second, he could feel his arms becoming more and more invisible.

Then, Aric's whole body was transported out of the room.

When Aric opened his eyes, he saw a completely different world. He was currently outside with the wide sky above him.

This world seemed to be devoid of any life as there were rotten plants and trees all over the place.

Even the sky had turned orangish-red. It was menacing scenery, but Aric did not know why he was transported here.

"Where are we?"

Suddenly, Aric heard a voice behind him. He flinched.

When he looked behind him, he saw Jane holding on to his shoulders. She had a tight grip on his clothes as if she did not want to be left alone in this weird world.

Aric frowned. For some reason, he did not want to be touched, not by Jane, not by anyone.

He slapped Jane's hand away and distanced himself from her.

"Leave me alone."