41 Alpha Part-1 (1/2)
The group moved through the forest, well more like others moved while Long Yu was skipping through the forest, with his teddy themed backpack on his back humming a lullaby while sucking on a lollypop. The others sweat dropped at it, they had a near death experience yet Long Yu is moving as if he is in his home's backyard, sometimes it is good to be a child.
Ruth who was leading them stopped suddenly, ”There is no use for hiding I know you are out there.”
Suddenly few people appeared all of a sudden, Long Yu frowned when he saw those people looking at them he could see that they were injured and looked worse for wear.
Ruth: ”Looking at you it seems you all went through a grinder, so I do not think you lot can attack us and win. This will be the last warning leave before we decide to kill you lot.”
It was tense standoff, a single misstep will cause slaughter, Long Yu gulped at that.
A black haired man came forward, his left arm was on a sling, indicating it was broken, he raised his remaining good arm in order to surrender, ”We surrender fellow cultivator, we do not wish to attack you, but we would request an audience, please we know that it is too much to ask but please it is for the survival of all the participants currently alive in this forest biome.”
The team Shadow Wolves was startled to hear the word 'survival', Ruth glanced at his team leader who nodded at him.
Ruth:” Everyone except you take ten steps back and stand in a group where we can see you all and lower your weapons even the one still hiding”, he commanded as he smirked at the person still hidden on a tree branch.” The person who was speaking only him will step forward and speak where others do not try anything funny.
Long Yu was watching everything with his eyes sparkling, it was like the scene from one of the picture book his mommy read to him a couple of months ago.
The people followed Ruth's command and the one the broken armed man stepped forward spoke with a smile, ”Thank You friend for listening to my request.”, but Ruth wasn't one for any pleasantries, ”Enough start speaking.”
The man rose his hand again in a placating manner, ”Yes Yes, my friend, I hope you know that the auto teleportation array is already broken, so we have to use manual teleportation from the nearest teleportation tower which is at the center of this biome, and please call me Mingke.”
Ruth: ”Yeah we know so what of it. Mingke”
Mingke: ”Well the Scorpion-Spider led by their leader, 6th rank Wanxiang Adept 'The Spider Empress Magkri', has taken over the tower, it is now their nest, and also she has been attacking the other Emperors and Empresses of the forest, many tribes have fallen, she is taking mostly live hostages and you can guess why.”, The Shadow Wolves grimaced as they could guess the why.”So what do you propose?”
Mingke with a smile on his face replied, ”I hope you can see how injured some of us are”, he indicated his people with his remaining intact hand.” Well my team as well some others, made our way towards the tower only to fall into that harlots trap, many died and those unlucky ere captured alive.” Long Yu could see the loss, anger and self loathing in his eyes, he truly pitied Mingke now, ”While trying to escape we were rescued by the 3rd rank Wanxiang Adept current Ape Prince, his father the Emperor of the Apes was captured in a sudden invasion, only he and his little sister are left of the royal family as others were captured or slain, same for all the others, thus under his leadership we formed an alliance, we are searching for survivors like you all, we request to join us, I know you people are very strong but I also believe it will be foolish to attack or survive the Spider Empress alone. So I beg of you please come with us to the alliance head quarters.”
Bashista mulled over his options, the man seemed to speak the truth there is no deception in him, thus accepting it, ”Very well we will follow you but if we see that you are duping us none shall leave.”
Mingke beckoned a thin man with several bandages on him towards him, ”This man his name is Zico, he will escort you all, while we patrol this area looking out for other survivors. Well good bye then.”
Long Yu suddenly chirped in, ”Wait do you have any way to contact the base if you spot the enemy.”
Mengke shook his head sadly, ”No kid we do not have, if we are attacked we try to hold and buy time for our runner who would inform our base.”
Long Yu pondered before taking off his backpack, then he rummaged his backpack before finding a few pieces of paper, ”Here take this talisman, it has communication array on it, just put it on your forehead then put some ki in it it will deliver your message to us, it has only ten uses so use carefully.”
Mengke took the talisman the kid gave to him, ”Thank You kid but something like this is precious in such an environment, and you should use such thing for your teams only.”
Long Yu: ”I know brother Mingke, my team mates have their own, it was just a surplus so keep it as a thank you for helping us.”
Mingke:”Thank you, and I humbly accept your gift.”
The Shadow Wolves moved from that position following Zico who was taking them, towards the base. Suddenly an urgent telepathic message came to him from Jack using the communication array given to his team by him a couple of hours ago, ”Kid why did you give your enemy that talisman, they...”