55 Quest Part 4 (2/2)

After having lunch Quinn and his friends separated and ran towards different directions while recording their journey; it was rather an uneventful trip, nothing note-worthy happened during their second trip.

Not even a single crab peeped from any of the holes; it was like a dead zone devoid of any sort of life forms.

By evening everyone gathered near the lake since it was their second time they were more familiar with the cave thus this time everyone covered a greater distance.

Elgar was processing all the videos to form a map; though they none of them reached the end of this endless rock cave it was still a sizable data. Elgar used both the videos and the knowledge he gained through PI to form a rough map of the perimeter in consideration.

Then Elgar marked many places in the maps, he calculated the most probable places for nest hole using numerous complex estimations and info he got from the Unigux-Net. Though these markings weren't accurate, it still squared the area reducing a lot of efforts spent in blind searching.

Quinn analyzed Elgar's map and surprisingly found that the concentration of nest holes was increasing as they moved away from the lake. He couldn't even find a single nest-hole in the map in the peripherals of the lake.

[It's really strange, normally the Crabs will build their nest holes near the water bodies, but here it's just the opposite. Either the lake must inhabit something terrific enough to scare away the army of crabs, creating a seemingly safe zone or your school must have placed some special formation to artificially arrange a hideout for their students.]

Even Elgar didn't know what exactly was going on but the later theory seemed after; no school would dare to risk their students by sending them to the jaws of a terrifying beast hiding below the lake and its even more impossible for the school bigwigs to be ignorant about a sleepy monster under their bed.

'At least it should be fairly safe near the lake'

Quinn shook his and thru the issue to a corner of his mind.

'It's already 6:00 pm and hunting the crab with amateurs will be really time to consume. Let's see there is totally 5 crab nest within a mile from the lake,3 of them are too close to each other.

If these kids somehow screw up, then it will be absolute reversal 'the hunter will be hunted'. This leaves us with the nearest one and the farthest one' *mmm*

Quinn was weighing the pros and cons, but Elgar suddenly interfered his thought process.

[Boss, don't put too much effort into choosing the nest hole; we only need to check out single Crab nest and after analyzing it I'll get enough data on them to exactly locate Crab nests.

In fact, I can even formulate a rough equation for identifying Crab nest with pearls. It's just that the Unigux-Net protects as a secret so I only formed a general understanding about the principals about the working. If I've full access to Unigux-Net then it would have been long done.]

Quinn was astounded learning Elgar's wondrous abilities from preparing a map from literally nothing to the info about the Dark Star Caves.

'Okay then let's take on the nearest one.'

Then Quinn decided to hunt the nearest nest hole, he quickly marked the location in his school ring and passed it on to his friends. They all accepted the proposal without hesitation, yes it was a proposal and not an order or command.

Quinn really treated them as his brothers; he never decided anything on their behalf. Despite the age factor, Quinn treated them as his equals and not as followers or subordinates.