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A wall of dirt passes in front of my eyes as I fall.
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There, the image of the magic eye of future vision is triggered again.
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I take stock of my surroundings.
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Then, with a quick decision, I thrust the spear in my hand straight out in the air.
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It reached me!
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The tip of the spear touches the earthen wall.
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It is a hard feeling, like when you touch a tightly compacted mud wall. It is as hard as if a pit had been pressed down to keep it from collapsing.
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And since the spear tip bounces off the wall, as if it were being stabbed with only the strength of the arm in the absence of a foothold.
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This is to be expected!
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My body spins around as a reaction to the thrust.
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The trajectory of my fall also changes.
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The wall on the opposite side of the vertical hole I am falling into - a pale shadow is moving closer and closer to me as my trajectory changes.
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The glowing blue and white pillbugs that I had just seen on the ground are clinging to the wall.
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I aim my spear diagonally downwards and prepare to thrust it at the bug with the speed of fall.
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I feel the numbing impact in my hands.
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The bug is instantly torn away from the pierced part of the spear, and its blue bodily fluids are splattered.
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However, the bug that was just below it is pierced by the spear again.
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I continue to tear off the numerous wall-stick caterpillars with my spear, thus decreasing the speed of my fall.
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The end of the pit is in sight.
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Ahead of me is the hole through which the giant beetle has passed!
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The slanting hole with a considerable slope was momentarily visible in the faint light emitted by the spear, which was bathed in a myriad of bluish-white glowing liquid.
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The diameter of the hole seemed to be several times larger than the one I had just fallen into.
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Soon the slanted floor was closing in on me. I roll over and land on my feet, as if I were holding a spear in my arms.
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"Ggh!"
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I roll down the slanting floor, trying to kill the momentum of the fall as much as possible.
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Fortunately, the unnaturally smooth and steep sloping floor minimizes the damage to your entire body.
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Aaah! It won't stop. ......!
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In your rapidly spinning field of vision, you catch a glimpse of several intersecting holes.
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I wonder if the giant pillbug is ...... more than one. Or maybe they come and go again and again ......
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As my consciousness is thinking about this, my body finally stops spinning with a thud.
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My back slams into the floor.
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I involuntarily cough violently on the spot.
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The blood from my lungs is sticking to the spear that I am still holding.
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After a while of choking, something falls from my pocket to the ground. It is the bottle of potion that Rust had given me earlier.
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Most of the contents are still there.
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The woman who was covered and protected by Rust has recovered completely after a few drops of the potion.
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I stagger towards the bottle, which is barely visible in the faint light, and reach for it.
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