A vast building with very wide rooms and spacious corridors with high ceilings; it appears as a massive place constructed by giants. The walls, columns, and ceilings are sand-colored. The floor has large tiles, some black with white spots and others white with black spots, which added to its beauty.
The walls are sandy, leaning towards yellow, covered with layers of dust and a black tint indicating they haven't been cleaned for a while. Many electric lamps appear turned off; some still emit a faint light, making the lighting of the place dim.
Due to the vastness of the place, it seems like a maze, but it is larger than that.
A place resembling medical baths and luxury spas (SPA) but it is semi-public; despite that, it is devoid of any foul odor!
After the young man finished relieving himself, he suddenly hears a terrifying sound like the sound of a crocodile. A terrible apprehension crept into his heart, for he is alone in a place that does not inspire tranquility. He exits the area, and the feeling of fear and insecurity increases. He goes hurrying to leave this place where a terrible silence prevails, even though it is usually crowded, or at least not empty of humans!
. . . .
He gets lost inside the vast building. Now he is in darkness where all directions are dark, so he turns on his phone light to see. He walks in the blackness quickly, trying not to run so as not to make a noise in case a predator is present.
Suddenly, in a very spacious dark corridor, exceeding all other corridors and rooms in size and height, he sees people above glued and others hanging from the ceiling by a viscous, pitch-black substance. It appears there are dead among them from their appearance.
Connected to a number of them and to the ceiling is something massive made of flesh, dark black in color, resembling a trunk or intestines, and it is connected to a huge piece of meat larger than it in size. Above, there are people stuck to that viscous substance, and in the void, parts of flesh resembling giant intestines pierced through people, who were hung by them like a needle is hung in a thread. The viscous substance is stuck to everything like spider webs preventing them from falling.
Those fleshy parts are connected to that massive piece on the ceiling, and this piece and those parts are connected to each other and to the walls. The scene looks like a strange, terrifying web of blackness carrying the prey of something.
And no foul odor emanates from the dead, as if they haven't decomposed yet or something is preventing them from decomposing.
A man hanging at a height of three meters, stuck to one of the fleshy threads, says in a faint, intermittent voice: "Help me," and extends his hand toward the young man, indicating that he needs help.
Suddenly, the same sound of the predator was emitted loudly, and the sound of giant things moving is heard. The young man flees and hides behind a massive column on the right side of the wall and watches.
Many giant, sharp, and thin white teeth appear in the darkness; they resemble needles and look very sharp, emerging from the darkness itself as if it had acquired giant teeth!
That darkness turns out to be a swarthy worm, giant and very long with many legs; it appears extremely black like a pitch-dark night with huge teeth like a predatory beast.
The young man froze in his place, his mouth agape, his eyes wide and staring at the monster. He hears the beats of his heart, which almost stops from what he sees.
The monster bites a person, separating his feet from his legs, making all its prey scream. The man's heart beats quickly and strongly, and his pulse rate increases; he hopes the monster does not see him.
The front part of the giant worm moves on the wall then on the ceiling and bites a man, splitting him into two parts. It swallows the upper part it ate while the rest of the body falls to the ground. It dangles, coils its dangling part, eats the lower part of the victim, and swallows it. It sees the one hiding behind the column and the light emanating from his phone!
It moves toward him, and immediately the young man flees running at maximum speed. His hands hit one of the walls forcefully while running, so a part of the bottom of his phone broke from the impact, and he continues escaping as fast as possible. .
The sounds of the giant worm's legs moving as it chases him create vibrations. A terrifying, loud, and very strong roar comes from behind, more frightening than the roar of lions. He wants to cover his ears so as not to hear that sound which is painful to the ear and terrifying to the soul, but the priority is to escape as fast as possible. .
He exits the corridor running into the right corridor; he runs and runs from one corridor to another. . . He runs, entering the wrong room; it looks like a dirty luxury bathroom, so he exits immediately with the monster behind him running on the ceiling, sometimes on a wall, sometimes on the floor, and from wall to wall. The boy continues running inside the corridor and sees two corridors beside him and continues forward. The monster approaches and approaches; a few meters between them. The monster roars like an ill-omened pride of lions while he sees two corridors beside him, so he leans toward the left one, running and entering it. . .
A light appears emanating from the outside.
The man exits the gate running into the forest, and while running, he wonders why the monster is not chasing him and asks himself: "Does it hate the light or the outdoors?"
He did not notice that the creature stopped chasing him for some reason, and that it moved in another direction inside the building.
Then he stops, placing his hand on a huge tree trunk to see the sky, whose color suggests the approach of sunset. He watches the city from the height he is at now.
. .
He goes to the street adjacent to the forest and notices a car coming, so he signals to those inside; the car stops, its window opens slightly, and the driver looks at him.
The young man says to the driver: "Can I get a ride?"
The driver answers: "Which direction is your path?"
"From the opposite direction."
The driver looks at him with a frown: "Sorry, I can't."
"I will pay you, don't worry."
"No, I am in a hurry, I will continue straight."
"Wait. ."
And he closes his car window. He gets angry at the driver, saying angrily: "Wait, this path of yours. ." The car leaves before the young man finishes his words. He walks and then says while walking:
"I wish he meets that monster. I seek forgiveness from Allah, praise be to Allah, at least I got out safely, praise be to Allah."
Then he wonders within himself: "Strange? I don't know how I wasn't deafened by its sound, when did the pain in my ears disappear?"
Then he says in an audible voice: "I must run, not walk, what if it comes?"
So the man runs and hastens. . . After a while he gets tired, so he continues the path walking, and while walking, a taxi passes.
He waves his hand to the driver, who stops, and he gets in with him, saying to the driver:
"To the opposite, we will go in the opposite direction, to my house, I will guide you to it."
. . . .
He returned home and lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, placing his hand on his forehead, and saying with annoyance:
"Aaah, damn it, how will I tell them what happened? They will say I am crazy."
. .
Later, he opened his phone and saw a news report about terrifying creatures resembling the giant worm. He turned on the television to the news to watch the nightly bulletin.
The News:
The news anchor says: "The matter seems insane, but tonight terrifying creatures appeared in several places, and these are their pictures."
Massive creatures like elephants and larger appear, resembling what he saw in that place, so he says:
"This resembles what I saw today; small compared to that one, despite this, their size is giant for a worm or an insect."
The anchor: "Obtaining these photos cost the lives of photographers, newsmen, police, and army personnel. The matter required blowing up the monsters with Apache helicopters to kill them. Most frightening is that they are not affected by bullets and have high durability.
In a moment, we will show the clips that were filmed; if it weren't for the necessity, we would not show the scenes that will appear shortly, as they are painful, bloody, and terrifying. Despite attempts to cover them as much as possible, they remain difficult to watch."
:
The First Clip:
Six photographers and four anchors appear in front of a spacious barn gate.
One of the anchors says:
"Here in this large barn west of the capital, we are here to film the clash of police and army men with terrifying giant creatures that resemble worms. Now we will enter near the danger zone to film from up close."
Then they appear inside the soil of the barn and the anchor speaks:
"Here we are."
A terrifying roar is heard, more terrifying than the roar of lions and the sounds of crocodiles and hyenas, making those present unable to speak or move for a moment. Then the policemen appear withdrawing by running. Huge creatures appear on the screen resembling worms, swarthy like the pitch-black night, having many legs and large, sharp white teeth, like that giant worm, but they are small compared to it.
The monsters are peppered with bullets from the army and police; despite this, the worm-like monsters advance towards them with increasing speed. One of them bites off a policeman's head along with his shoulders, and another rips off a soldier's head along with his arm and half of his ribcage.
Suddenly, from the right of the photographers, one of those monsters comes out and swallows a photographer in front of the cameras! One of them leaves his camera and flees, along with the rest. . . Then suddenly, another monster jumps, biting the head of that photographer and tearing his flesh. The photographers and anchors start fleeing toward the street which the cameras are filming as they run, so nothing appears on the screen except distorted sounds.
On a shaking screen, three men appear being eaten and screaming intensely. Then a creature comes from the front and preys on one of the anchors. While the rest flee, the worm swallowed the anchor, and suddenly something enters its mouth and its head explodes.
It is an RPG rocket fired by one of the soldiers!
The Second Clip:
The creatures appear on the thermal aiming screen of Apache helicopters, and are showered with a barrage of rockets, followed by successive thunderous explosions.
The Third Clip:
An anchor describes the scene while filming:
"Here in a magnificent scene, the Apache helicopters are moving and showering the creatures with rockets and blowing them up completely." He comments with enthusiasm: "And there the monsters are falling amidst the explosions." Then the Supreme Commander of the Air Force appears in the clip, announcing the death of all the monsters.
The third clip ended, and the anchor appeared addressing the viewers:
"Dear viewers, these monsters have been named:
Horos / HOROS, and this is the plural; as for the singular, it is: Horo / HORO.
The reason is that the naming is English, taken from the word HORROR.
Attention everyone, those creatures have begun to spread in many places, and the operations to eliminate the Horos are not over yet. So take caution and do not go out tonight.
I hope you are well, and, goodbye."
(End of Chapter)