Act 24 : Another Kind of Terror
1040 Words
~tap-tap-tap~
Shanice was the first person to approach, followed by her brother and the rest of their small crew in short time after. Elisa strides dead last as the blonde-haired woman was reluctant to come near an unidentified figure behind the bush. Gads Gilmore expression earlier has brought the rest of them in hesitation on roving forward and checking on the beat of whatever was lurking ahead. John was also struck into the foot-dragging consideration, as well, minding his own path and observing their surroundings for anything that would jump straight at them this time around,”Can you two talk? We don’t know if it’s dangerous or not, yet we were obliged to follow the two of you without asking why.” Complained the black-haired man ahead of the siblings up front.
Gads Gilmore pretends to overlook and maintained his own pace forward. Shanice flies in faster motion to reach their purpose and meddling no words in regards of such protest. Despite their unwillingness, they have no better ideas otherwise, so they have to roam oblivious and dealing against their own doubt instead.
~swoosh~
The bearded man swung his heavy machete for squashing the wild stems that were intertwined. In three sweeping moves, Gads Gilmore cleared the way forward with ease. He formed a cross motion and lifted them upwards to maul the sturdy ones by the momentum that were accumulated beforehand.
“Definitely a dead body.” Gads Gilmore professed,” It’s either because of accident or something else close-by.”
A half-eaten remains of a human was leaning on the muddy ground of the forest. He lost the lower limbs and a quarter of his waist. Looking across the face, one could estimate of how terrified the man was in his final moment of living. Both eyes were gazing forward and almost fell off from its socket. His mouth was gaping and stuck on its current fashion, probably due to the blistering speed of death he had encountered.
Shanice kneels one-legged and facing the head straight away. She tried to close both eyes of the human corpse before them, but unable to do so because of the stiffness that happened all across the body,”It’s been dead from more than a day before, I think. It’s merely a basic conjecture, though, your device can do the rest for me, Gads.”
“Will do. Please move aside.”
Shanice tip-toes to the left and making some rooms for their technology-based specialist and his gadgets to come forth. Gads was never a doctor to begin with, indeed, yet his technology could muster bountiful information regarding body state and fabricating ailments for various kinds of injuries in seconds. The bearded man was once dealing a project alongside the association of Neatol doctor that eventually invented an all-purpose software in his gadget afterwards.
~plug~
Gads Gilmore inserted two transparent tubes into the veins. It siphons any available fluid within its body and examined the speck of it in subsequent manner. He needs nothing but a press on the button for the next process that extracts a good amount of liquid it could garner from the veins,” Okay, I think it’s good enough. I’ll be running the analysis now.” He muttered for letting others knowing of its current process.
~beep-beep~
‘Yep, it is dead. Here is your table, you nerd.’
The screen abruptly spelt out an incorrigible mockery to its surroundings. Gads Gilmore scratches his hair in front of such embarrasing moment and look around to lay off his apologetic expression afterwards,” Sorry. I’m usually wearing an earphone to listen to this silly jokes.” He said, then continues to flick on the button right after. An augmented details enveloped the remains and fabricated one impressive projection of the whole body before it was severed. It provides a number of choices to represent each limbs of the body for exhaustive prediction and analysis that are accessible in one click of a finger.
Shanice knows the function of the stuff already, so the leader flicks on the augmented button located over the head,”We’ll have to know how he thinks. It could work that way, right, Gads?” She asked. The bearded man answers them by a thumb, keeping his utmost consideration towards the other parts of his body rather than prying on trivial matters at hand,”I guess something has pulled the bottom limbs and ripped them off, or it was devoured bit by bit.” His thoughts flared out loud.
John Straverman, on the other way around, has himself away from malevolent judgements and working on the available options across the right. He was gotten intrigued by the newfound cutting-edge technology that Gads Gilmore presented and fallen into the mobs in a flash. By now, the black-haired man directed his attention towards the virtual legs that appeared beneath.
”I suppose that the beast should be eating him slowly rather than tearing him into two, Gads. You can see that this unfortunate man has suffered a few untidy bites across the waist.” He aimed his forefinger towards the bottom side of the torso,” If it’s been ripped away from the top, It should be clean cut despite them being ragged. Yet, it’s all small-sized munching down there.”
Gads Gilmore wrinkled his forehead,”But, if it’s like that, then we’re not facing a Caedes victim. It’s more like natural cause of a predator in this forest than a direct encounter against that artificial beast.” He assumed,” Who’s gonna be the cause of small bites, in addition? We can’t-“
~beep-beep~
Elisa has her phone ringing once more. She unfolds them at once to find out which person calls them up in the middle of the forest. In one way or another, Elisa seemingly predicted of someone familiar inside, so the blonde-haired woman projected the screen for anyone to see.
‘Back again with me, personal secretary of Aldo Meridic! I’ll be quick about this message, though. My boss has summoned a good number of beast in the forest, special for you guys! Good luck.’
~bzzt-bzzt~
The transmission goes dimmed up in seconds after the chant of their fortune.
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