The dark cube chapter 3

all the tripwires were made of a metallic material, at least that's what it looked like from fifteen feet away, how the traps were able to shoot so fast was not able to be seen, a mechanism was operating from behind the walls, even if it were able to be seen, it would probably be too complicated for a human to comprehend, much less recreate into something portable to act as a weapon.

you kept throwing objects at the wires to avoid them, the traps got even more deadly the deeper you went into the wires, unfortunately the wires were sensitive to the touch, you had thought they were triggered upn impact with a heavy force but when you threw a piece of paper and it flew into a wire, fire shot out of the wall like a flamethrower.

you then notice the room is darker after the light from the fire burnt out, it appeared that the wires were also connected to the lights and when one gets detached the lights get dimmer, at some point, as soon as you triggered the next trap with a plant from the nside of a pot on the other coner of the room, the lights went out, the room was dark with only the light coming from the scroll being the only source of light in the room.

you were only able to see the wires because of the light barely showing their location, but the ones infront of the others were not visible, you randomly threw a object into the wires and set off a small explosion behind you, debris from the exploson cuts your leg and makes you stumble and fall, a piece of debris also touched a wire making a bunch of sticky sand land on your hand, justas you were about to try and get out, a another wire was triggered and a sword falls down next to your head cutting off a few hairs.

the sand gets stuck on your hand, you think of something that might be able to help but will be disastrous if it doesn't work, you try to put the your hand which had the sand stuck on it into one of the wires, and sure enough the flame that came out burnt off the sand but didn't burn your hand, your hand only felt lukewarm, you proceed further until only one wire is left, you can't jump over or crawl over the wire, the roof was too short to jump in and the wire was too low for an adult to crawl under, you kick the wire and immediately run backwards, then a pipe sticcks out and a green gas comes out of it, you know that anything green coming out from pipes is a bad sign and take a deep breath before running into the gas.

you pick up the scroll and rush out of the room through the tv screen and out of the camera, you then look inside the camera to see the green gas leaking out of it, you pick up the camera and put it on the floor facing the ground so as to not let the gas out, you sit down a release a sigh of relief after having beaten two challenges, you open the scroll and it says, "this time i'll tell you where you're going, im bringing you to africa, not going to specify where, but yeah africa, there is a challenge there awaiting you, as well as a hot plant."

you wonder what the god meant by "hot plant" and get teleported to a ruined town, the paths narrow, the air foul and the smell of burnt buildings everywhere, death and destruction had spread throughout the town many years ago, the source unknown, you walk around in search of the hot plant which you think can help you to beat the challenge.

you see a dark path made from fire scorching the ground, you follow it to see a dead end, you haer noises from behind the wall and attempt to climb over it, once over the wall, you drop down before anything else and see a hole leading underground in a place that looked like what used to be a where a church once stood, you see a modern piece of paper on the ground, it's the diary of a survivor that was in the church when things first happened and what happened after that, but most of the pages were burnt and some the words unreadable.

you open the only page that's perfectly preserved, it reads "Day 146, the flower has burned most of the town, it's approaching the city soon, probably by midnight, I won't be able to escape this devil from hell, this may be my last page so, if anyone finds this, please, please kill the flower."

"it seems like this happened quite a long time ago, long before I was here." you think to yourself, you look down the hole but see nothing, you look around for more clues ut only see the holes in buildings, the rubble from destruction, skeletons under debris, and black fire marks everywhere, "this must be the work of the hot plant, I think the more appropriate name would be fire flower, now, to try and go down the hole." you think the hole might have something to do with the flower and look around for a way to go down, you look for a rope and something to hang it on.

then you find a rope and a metal rod along with glue along with a message, "this is one of the only times I will help you directly since there would be no way to beat this challenge otherwise, but you have to do it yourself, - God." you thank god and get going on your way.

upon nearing the hole, you see a hint of orange rising from the darkness, you touch it and it burns your hand, you wonder how such a small particle could be so hot, espiecially for something on earth, it wasn't as hot as lava but hot enough to kill if exposed to too much of it, you find a rusty hammer in one of the surrounding stalls in the area and get ready to descend into hell.