Hence, they moved in the direction of the horde, cutting down their search area to 300 ters. Along the way, they managed to find more sensors and hidden caras in the area, but most of them were broken due to the stampede.
"Well, this is surprising!"
Ruby exclaid looking at the path they had been following until now.
Right in front of them, the path left by the horde of Kraalox. The straight path had just taken a huge turn to the left.
"What do we do, should we follow or continue our straight path?"
She asked Kieran and Jake.
"I already made my choice earlier, but I'd go with whatever Kieran says."
Jake said, not wishing to push any further.
With this, they all turned again to Kieran waiting for him to give his opinion.
Looking at the two shaless beings who had dropped all the responsibility on him, he felt like his headache was going to co back.
SIGH!
"Fine, I'm also curious. Besides we found a lot of sensors along the way."
He said after giving it a bit of thought.
They had indeed co across an abnormal number of military devices, most of them broken by the stampede; but so looked like they were specifically targeted by sothing and Kieran had an inkling that the beasts in this area were too dumb to do that.
The high intelligence beasts didn't reside in areas like this and even if they did, most of them were too lazy to go around destroying hundreds of sensors as long as they didn't cause them any issues.
The only ones who might actually do sothing like that were those at the top of the chain like the Girith, but the military never bothered to put sensors in the territories of beasts like that.
Right now; based on the training he had received so far, finding out the cause of those deliberate attacks on the equipnt, and Kieran had a gut feeling it had everything to do with the cause of the stampede.
"I like you more, Kieran. You have the courage of a man! Now, let's go slay so beasts."
Jake exclaid in excitent, placing his sheathed blade on his shoulder, taking the forefront once more.
Turning to Ruby with a raised eyebrow.
"What? It's not that bad..."
She comnted on Jake's carefree and rather daring attitude
SIGH!!
Sighing for the second ti in the span of a few minutes, Kieran shook his head and followed behind Jake; the day was going to end soon.
........
"That was uneventful."
Jake said, his shoulder drooped in disappointnt.
They didn't co across any beast, even after going so deep into the forest. This was a blow to Jake who had been wanting to fight soone or sothing for a while now, they had already entered beast territory!
Kieran had already inford him of the possibility of sothing like this happening; the beasts being scared away by the stampede, but he didn't seem to have listened, hence his disappointnt.
"What do we do now?"
Ruby asked, addressing the bigger issue at hand.
The extrely glaring trail they had been following until now had sohow, mysteriously disappeared and they were now stuck, unable to co to a decision.
"I say we rest for now and wait till tomorrow and start investigating. Everything about this seems suspicious, but can't do anything now that it's dark."
Kieran said, gaining the agreent of both Ruby and Jake.
They had no better suggestion and Jake was currently too demotivated to the lack of an opponent so far.
This ti, they didn't bother searching for materials to make a fire. They had already made the mistake of wondering blindly into the beast territory, they would be considered foolish to do sothing that could attract them like lighting a fire.
So, they sat in silence; watching as they sky grew dark and blinded the forest.
"Take rounds? I'll go first."
Jake said standing from his position the mont Ruby fell asleep.
She had been really active during the day, she was the one carrying their team on the main objective; majority of the sensors and other equipnt they found were because of her, she had an exceptional scouting ability, being able to guess places where the camp might install such sensors.
"Three hours."
Kieran replied, stating the length of each interval.
PAT! PAT!!
Kieran opened his eyes feeling, Jake's hand on his shoulder. Three hours had passed already and it was his turn to watch guard.
"Find anything?"
He asked.
"No, but sothing feels off. It might just be the cold, but be careful."
Jake replied, looking the trees around them.
Visibility had decreased to a few ters and there was a light fog at the forest floor slowly creeping around.
"Alright."
Kieran replied.
He had also noticed these points, but for now, he wanted to pin them as sothing that occurred naturally in the forest. He didn't bother looking out for small details like this when making his research, the ti given to them was short after all.
Taking the level 2 B3 handheld railgun strapped to his back in his hands, Kieran moved forward in the direction opposite from where Jake had just scouted while making sure he didn't wander too far from their location.
.....
Kieran had been walking slowly in different directions for the past hour and half making sure he maintained a distance of 400 ters between them.
So far, he hadn't encountered anything, which just put him on high alert.
The forest was dead silent, for a place so deep that was supposed to be filled with different beasts; that wasn't normal.
SNAP! CLUCK!!
The mont his ears heard the snap sound, he tightened his hold on the rail gun and aid in the direction of the sound, ready to fire at a mont's notice.
Thanks to his enhanced eye sight, his could see farther than Jake could, but the mist still obstructed his view.
All he could see in that direction was a small bush. Straining his eyes further, he made out a small humanoid shape moving away from his position.
"A humanoid beast? What the hell is happening here."
Kieran muttered to himself in utter confusion, he was starting to doubt the information he had gotten from the library in the underground carve.
Everything he had seen so far was absent in the Information, the stampede, the type of beasts here, the mist and now a humanoid beast??
Kieran knew that this was a result of sothing that might have happened in the forest.
The humanoid beast races were few on the planet, majority of them having been wiped out by the humans when they landed on the planet. The beasts weren't that smart so it was easy to drive them to near extinction.
The few tribes that had managed to survive being killed by the soldiers were those that ran into the two extre points of the planet.
To the camp, they were dead the mont they stepped into those two forbidden regions.
From their docunted research, even the top beast avoided those regions, if they sohow got into one of those forbidden regions they would only survive for a few hours or days at most before succumbing to the extrely violent conditions.
In the instance that they managed to survive, the camp set stations at the boundaries of the regions, constantly trying to figure a way to get into them without sending their soldiers to certain death; if any creature managed to co out of there alive, those stations would be the first to notice.
Silently tailing the already fading figure of the short humanoid beast, he sent a ssage to Jake to wake Ruby from her sleep and to remain alert.
After chasing behind the beast that in his opinion was too fast for its size, he arrived at an area void of trees. Looking out from his high position, his brows furrowed into confusion.
'How?'
He thought.
The beast had just walked in confidently into a military outpost. His watch started beeping lightly, indicating the presence of military equipnt around and when he looked closer he noticed the broken walls of the outpost, clear signs of a fight.
The outpost was occupied my small humanoid creatures the size of a four-year-old.
The looked like the goblins he had seen in the picture books he read as a kid.
'Hmmm, with all these interplanetary stuffs. They might actually exist.'
The thought flashed through his mind.
Unlike what he had read about those goblins, the creatures in front of him, whatever they were called, had blue skin and horns on their head.
Although most of them were the size of four-year olds, he spotted so that were the size of normal man.
The outpost was too big for their small numbers, so, they based themselves around the command unit building a small wall around it. Well, it looked more like a shabby demarcation than a wall.
It was just a couple of sticks with beast skulls on them placed in a rough circle around the station.
There was a large space in the "wall" where two of those big looking creatures stood with clubs in their hands looking around carefully. Kieran assud that was the entrance they had made.
After studying the place for a mont, Kieran slowly retreated, making his way back to Jake and Ruby.
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