~bzzt-bzzt~
Every screen on the city platform goes switched off once the video transmission settled down. Aldo Meridic left them by an unanswered query that makes them attuned in discomfort. John Straverman glances upon his wife to find a cue of response, yet the blonde-haired woman has no following rejoinder to let out towards her man. Gads Gilmore took another trip for observing their hunting trophy that lies adjacent on the street. It is reclined still regardless of how long they have been diverted by the unwanted footage from the small drones nearby.
Of course, the bearded man wanted to avert his attention towards Natasha Gastano and her slanted nose instead, but her voracious attitude has brought his entire bravery to be ceased out in a whole. Gads Gilmore eventually directed his observation towards their leader that was somewhat grown in endless thoughts after the announcement from WIC company owner earlier,” Stop contemplating too much of an issue there, sis. We made a news for some reason, and I think it’s quite a rewarding achievement for us.” He laid out a breather and rested one of his hands onto her shoulder,” It’s okay, sis, you’re strong and we’re backing-“
“Don’t be silly, Gads. Our war is not over.”
Shanice rejected his hand and sets them aside. Her look indicates a new form of stressful pondering that occured within the brain. Against her laid-back older brother, the curly-haired woman brings forth a glimpse of discomfort and curled her neck slightly to ease off the tension over her shoulder.
~c***k-c***k~
The bubble in-between her spine popped out and given a sense of pressure release upon its crackling sounds that were produced. It is one shortcut for someone to take care of their never-ending duress. They were chased down by one of the fearsome creature, capable of fleeing away, but somewhat turns out to be the first and foremost challenger to appease the threat in the end.
“Ugh, that’s relaxing.”
John Straverman applies her method onto his neck. Bursting sounds of air escapade has created an umaginable relief across his upper body and brought the black-haired man to do the similar onto his fingers,”Yes, yes, I’ve never let out this kind of therapy in these rough three days.” Moaned him amidst the popping joints that emerges within his folded fingers down upon.
“You know what I was thinking, Gads?”
Shanice laid out a blatant stare towards her brother. The bearded man, on the other hand, faced her eye-to-eye against the seriousness that implied and having himself taken a mild grin for expression over the face,”Yes, something that I have overlooked. Please, just tell me what is it and I’ll do the hardware for you based on it.”
“If they have highlighted us as a worthy contender, I highly assured that Aldo Meridic would be plotting a new form of challenge with ourselves on its tip.” Her eyes beamed in depth towards the bearded man. Before such density that She had inferred throughout their exchange, He sensed a mild impression of fear embedded into her stern face,” What’s that then, sister? Mind to tell me an example?”
“A king of the hill challenge. Let’s go back to the store, now, I’m famished.”
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Shanice decided to conclude their discussion for a quick roundabout to the convenience store. She refused to elaborate further They have most of the time for feast after finishing their latest campaign against the brown-colored beast of WIC company. Gads Gilmore found no trace of the white ones across the whole land of Brathe. During their advance against the brown beast, his device noted merely one of them has presented on the battlefield to oppose.
And now, they have fulfilled their humanely desire. To eat a warm food without having to create a firepit for such reason. The independent electricity production of their current destination has brought the risk into somewhere worth-taking. Shanice munches her favorite taste of instant noodles and drinks the broth in a messy attitude. Elisa and Natasha devour a bunch of chocolates and candies without thinking of its consequences to their body. John and Gads opened a lot of snacks and heated up the frozen meat, combined them all into one delicious mixture of delicacy at once.
“You sure, Shanice? If you mention about king of the hill, then...”
John Straverman waved his bits of bread towards the leader. She was keen on slurping the broth on her second bowl, but hindered by the sudden call from her teammates up front,”Yes, what makes your interest dragged in? You do have those kind of training back in the days of being a beast-tamer, don’t you?”
The black-haired man started to ponder about once his fellow former employees of WIC company referred to such objective in the past. There was a contest held amongst the early members of their company for getting the grasp of their hunting regiment. They have had to capture unique beasts as much as they can. However, if someone has too much of in-cage creature, the other contestants will have the freedom to kill one of his precious and makes the contest even once more. The company gives them around a minute to search and their target will also have his leeways to defend himself by any means necessary.
Which also includes eliminated his human competitor in the process.
“Yeah, It’s gruesome contest where someone’s battle skills will be tested. I’ve been lucky not to become the highest scored tamer, back then.” John reminisced,” What’s the point of your statement, Shanice?”
Against his innocent query, Shanice chose to gulp her meal than to answer them immediately. She laid down a gentle smirk in-between. None of them were visible for the eyes of the black-haired man, which eventually takes her drift and gotten annoyed against it,”What’s so funny? I’m asking this out of my interest. I’m serious, too.” He complained.
Towards the mild protest that was addressed on her, Shanice replied,” What if you spread over those logic into our good contest and joined those up in reverse? Use the contest rules for size.”
Elisa also takes heed to contemplate ahead of their constant remarks. She is quite resourceful in regards to the malevolent adventure that her husband has had procured some time ago. John would never let himself wordless against every odds that were provided. Indeed, A talkative personality can never suppress his magnanimous imagination and let it slip for mere seconds of his life, so the blonde-haired woman has accrued many informations derived off every single combat that her man has taken,”If you say to relate my husband’s adventure to that ‘king of the hill’, I suppose it would be the least murderer that will be targeted instead of the most.” She suggested.
“Correct. Your wife is actually far brighter than you, John, I’ll have to admit.”
Shanice laid a wink towards Elisa, then reverted her glance back towards her man afterwards,” We have three persons in our group who are a virgin in terms of killing. Our small unit would become part of the challenge due to so many awareness that madman has brought in for us a moment ago, so I’ll make your life more interesting in that regard.”
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Five hours of leisure has elapsed. They intended to leave the vicinity of Brathe before the sunrise. John slept for one hour longer than the rest of their group. He needs the most stamina to concentrate on the road, so the black-haired man took an earlier slumber than the other personnel of their small squad to reap the most rewards on the following day after.
“Now, we’ll have to travel away from these protective walls. As I have stressed out yesterday, I’ll hope the three of you would get baptised on our way to Darte, Natasha, Elisa, and Gads.”
Shanice opened their planning session in slightly-shuttered eyes. She maintained lesser sleeping time than her teammates thus far. Elisa has addressed her worrisome feelings towards their leader last night, yet gotten refused in advance by the stubbornness living within her thoughts. The curly-haired woman was weighing up options for their future travel with Gads Gilmore’s landscape projection amidst the snoring, hence her sleeping period in merely three hours less that night.
~zuu~
Gads Gilmore has deployed the three-dimensional mapping holograms of the highway to arrive for Darte. It appears that Shanice has drawn several highlighted areas and circled a pair of them with red ‘x’ symbol. Flooded in flourishing green-colored region, the highway appeared curving up around a hilltop area at the center. Their leader also shades a good number of territories with red-colored markers, much supplanted with no reason in whatsoever form.
“I will explain thoroughly. This is, after all, gonna be the longest trip we’ve ever done.”
Shanice selected the reddened areas for the kickstarters of her rationale,”First of all, why do I have marked this up? It’s because of the environment presented around these regions. It is mostly tall-structured strees formed by thick and large leaves. If you know the legendary redwood tree, then It will spare a whole lot of conversation that I’ll have to reason about. Because of that, these areas are the perfect location for Caedes to hide and healing itself when injured.”
She paused for a little bit, then continues,”I thought Aldo Meridic would spawn another sort of creature to entertain his audience. It is lame when you have only Caedes in your disposal, I think. Why do that man employs beast-tamer before?”
“For treating his zoo, perhaps?”
John Straverman tried to humor their discussion forward, but shamelessly went down in vain. Shanice ignores his trivial attempt and making a headway to the next picture on the line. It is the crimson-colored ‘x’ that the curly-haired woman painted on top of the hill and next to the adjacent regions of the small mountain,” Now, the main reason for my cross here is that there’s possibility of a landslide occurred in this particular region. We don’t know what caused it, yet, but I think it’s something about the regular tremor happened in the afternoon if you asked me.”
Then, she directed their observation across the highways. There are two other lanes that drives directly into the tunnel located on the bowel of the hill. Rather than selected them for their primary pathways, the curly-haired woman marks the meandering road across the northern side of the wide-array peak instead,” We can’t drive ourselves inside the tunnel. What if we met an unknown monster that appeared inside? Yes, I suggest to take an alternative route beyond the shortcut that has been present.”
~beep-beep~
Gads Gilmore pressed on the hill’s landscape. It immediately displayed information regarding the measurements of the mound for them to deduce,”Well, it is four kilometers in diameter, so we’d have to expect six hours of travel in the meantime. That is why we have to supply our car with food as much as we can.”
Amidst his abrupting advance, the bearded man pokes into his own backpack. In serene expression and sparkling eyes, anyone could estimate his forthcoming demonstration of an invention that has been yet to be presented before them,” I think I’ve had them all somewhere..... Ah!”
~fusss~
Gads Gilmore shows a small sphere on his left palm. It has one kind of a button at the center area of the sphere and an array of triangle-shaped design that goes encircled,” This is my portable pods! I can deploy three of these bad boys for us to rest when we needed a nice camp in the jungle.” He boasted,” We can also reverted it back into the ball by pressing another button that I have prepared inside the room that is expected to be deployed.”
“Ooh, interesting! How much it costs you to make one of these?”
Gads Gilmore briefly replied,”It’s around half a year’s profit for one, so please be careful with it, will ya?”
John Straverman spells his own interest in jubilant fashion. He perceived the oval-shaped demeanor of the gadget, even smells it for a keen experience of its cutting edge technology in a whole. A man’s tool is another man’s pride. He was observant and a bit of a geek when treating against a novel contraption on the run, so the black-haired man appeared in obsession whenever it could occur.
Once he laid a finger in close-knitted fashion onto the button, Gads Gilmore goes flabbergasted and quickly slapped his back hand instantly,” Don’t touch that one, I warn you. It’s difficult to make it ball-shaped in here.”
Shanice complemented,” He’s so much like a manchild when it comes to cool stuff, huh, Elisa? I wonder how reliable that person is at home.” Said the curly-haired woman against his absurd notion. Before the query, Elisa could only heaved a sigh in silence.