Jocelyne didn't know what else think, except that the hall she had just entered was extremely beautiful.
It was a huge room, made of gold and white marble, with beautiful chandeliers encrusted with diamonds and sapphires. All the people inside were dressed in sumptuous and magnificent clothes. She felt like she had just entered a fairy tale palace.
The only strange thing was that all the people inside the hall were masked. None of them had their faces uncovered. They were beautiful masks, of course, but it almost seemed that people wanted to hide their true identities. The women all wore the mask of a doll, some resembling porcelain dolls, some rags, some plastic, but all beautiful beyond measure. Men, on the contrary, had a mask that vaguely resembled an animal, while some even had one that even resembled a demon. Those with the demon mask, in particular, were the most beautiful of all and dressed in the most beautiful clothes.
The only exceptions were her and
When Sarah and Ian came out of their cabin they noticed that Roland's men were already in action: they were dragging numerous crates under the controls of their leader. Nick seemed to be in a nervous breakdown as he yelled at the hunter and Eddie tried in vain to mediate between the two."What happens?" Sarah asked the photographer.Nick gritted his teeth. “Isn't it obvious? The bastard wants to go catch that dinosaur""What? Did you go crazy by chance?" Ian exclaimed stepping forward. "You have seen with your own eyes that bullets do nothing to it!""Exactly. For this we will resort to a trick. It may be invulnerable from the outside, but inside it is made of flesh like all of us" replied Roland showing the contents of a crate. Looking inside, the four saw kilos and kilos of frozen meat.Nick was the first to understand. "Do you want to put the narcotic in the food""Exactly. After it has eaten it will go down like a stockfish. There
"Damn..." Eddie murmured. "That son of a bitch really caught it"Ian swallowed. Seen up close, the dinosaur's gigantic body looked even more huge. "It can't go out, right?" he asked in a whisper to one of the guards.The man laughed. "Unless it can cut reinforced steel, I highly doubt it" he said. “Anyway, now it's sedated. You can approach safely"Sarah obviously didn't think twice. In a few moments she was next to the dinosaur's body and was already touching the huge abdomen. "No feathers" she whispered to himself. "Except for a small group of quills on the neck and head. More evidence of probable evolution from an aquatic dinosaur..."Ian couldn't understand how his girlfriend could be so casual. He was literally shitting himself. The giant dinosaur scared him quite a bit. Maybe it was because of his past trauma at Mega Beast Park… but the professor Malcolm felt it wasn't the case. It was as if his one was an instinct. He had the impressio
That night wasn't very pleasant: around two o'clock of morning a deafening noise had woken the entire ship. The dinosaur had awakened and started fidgeting like a madman in its cage. Many attempts to calm it down had been unsuccessful and eventually Roland had drugged it again. That event clearly didn't help morale on board. Not only did Nick, Sarah, Ian and Eddie become even more hostile to the idea of taking the animal away, but Roland himself became worried: if he couldn't find a way to calm the dinosaur he couldn't feed it, which meant risking its death. For this he had accelerated operations to the maximum. The next day the camp was completely dismantled and the ship began its return voyage. The situation didn't improve in the following days: every time the dinosaur woke up it would shake like a madman and desperately try to break the cage. Roland had been forced to sedate it continuously. Fortunately, after three days, probably due to the constant narcotics and the absence o
Meanwhile, of course, Sobek was listening. He almost laughed when humans called him a baby; in fact he had been born just a year ago (or maybe a little more), but certainly Sarah, Ian and Eddie certainly weren't expecting it.The scientific explanation of its size had surprised him not a little; he had always assumed that its weight was only 14.5 tons because the System magically made it so. But deep down, he reflected, Eden was a world of science, not magic. Even if the System was something otherworldly, the changes that took place in Sobek's body still had to find a scientific reason for existing.In a certain sense, the System had made him aware of this fact: even if the descriptions of the abilities were rather approximate, Sobek remembered that for example for [Powerful bite] we were talking about modifications to the mandibular structure and the muscles of the mouth, and that [Rapid digestion] was referred to as gastric juices, all scientific explanations.
As Sarah and Ian re-entered their cabin, the woman threw herself on the bed and threw a fist on the pillow. "That bastard!" she screams."Yes, the definition is correct" Ian muttered leaning against the door jamb. He wanted to come forward to comfort his fiancée, but from his experience he had learned that it was best not to get too close while she was really upset. Or he would become her punching bag.Sarah continued to furiously punch the pillow. “Ugly son of a bitch! Damn capitalist asshole! How dare him? Naming an animal that I discovered! He's a piece of shit!"The last punch was so strong that the pillow opened at the sides, throwing out some feathers. Sarah deeply inspired and then threw herself on the mattress, sinking her head into what was her Punch Game Machine a few moments before.Seeing that his fiancée had finally vented her anger, Ian found the courage to step forward and sat down on the bed next to her. "I know he's an
It took the ship a short time to leave the forest by retracing the river in reverse. Once they arrived at the colony of Odaria they stocked up with provisions and then went out into the open sea via the river.For the first time, Sobek found himself crossing the ocean. Fortunately, since he was an aquatic dinosaur, he didn't feel seasick. Even during the storms he didn't feel the slightest discomfort.The only unpleasant part of that trip was boredom. The journey was rather monotonous. Sobek spent most of his time sleeping, although he had to force himself to do so as his brain didn't need to rest too frequently like normal living things. But the alternative was to stay awake and get bored.Eventually he had come to appreciate Sarah and Ian's conversations and even those of the guards. Even if they were mostly uninteresting talk, they were still better than absolute silence. Even the presence of Nick, who occasionally went down to the hold to see his friends, wa
"Escape?" Carnopo shook his head. "Don't dream. I don't know if you've noticed, but you're locked in a cage, like me""I could go out at any time. Look" Without getting noticed by the humans Sobek lowered one of his claws on one of the bars and cut it as if it were butter.The carnotaur gasped at that show of strength: cutting the reinforced steel like that was an unprecedented feat! "If you are so strong, why don't you escape right now?""Because now isn't the time. I didn't let them caught me just to leave here empty-handed"Carnopo clenched his teeth so hard that they screeched. "Did you let them caught you? Are you crazy by chance? I'd give my life to get out of this fence, and you...""... and I'm the answer to your hopes. I'm here because I want you to escape with me. You and all the others" Sobek interrupted him, emitting a smile when he saw the amazement make its way on the face of the carnotaur."Let us all escape?" The suspicion qu
After disembarking, Ian, Sarah, Eddie and Nick had immediately left Roland's group. None of them were eager to help him take the spinosaurus to the zoo, much less to meet that damned worm called Ludlow.Unfortunately, even the four of them hadn't been together for long. Eddie had left them almost immediately: as soon as he got off the ship he went to look for a means to return to his city, where his mother apparently was waiting for him. He also claimed to have experienced enough thrills during that time and on top of that the day before he landed he had a bizarre dream in which two tyrannosaurs smashed into his car and devoured him alive, so he had decided to 'stay away from any zoo or wildlife reserve for a while'. Strangely, in his dream, the tyrannosaurs had decidedly more monstrous features than the real ones, as they were devoid of feathers and with protruding teeth.Sarah, Ian and Nick reluctantly said goodbye to their friend, then rented a car and headed to Fla