Chapter 173 - Exploration - V (2/2)
”The collar on the alpha is human made. These are staying guard over something,” said Balthazar as he moved towards Robert.
”What? Is it some forbidden area of the Price family? Should I try to call over to them?” asked Robert.
”No. If it was a forbidden area. They would have better security and wouldn't offer us to use this planet for us to use. They probably already knew of this. It is probably a cache from some renegades and decided to let us do some grunt work before they make their preparations,” said Balthazar.
”How can you be so sure?”
”Cause if it was mine, I wouldn't let someone like Lucius to roam around freely. Forget Lucius, I wouldn't even allow you or me to move freely without personal supervision from my men.”
”The judges of the trial...”
”Aren't supervision of the Price family,” said Balthazar ending Roberts sentence.
”Ok. So, what should we do? There are bound to be more defences.”
”I am expecting the same. The valley is bound to be their cache. I have experience with circ.u.mventing security. Just follow me and we will go through it easy,” said Balthazar.
”You have experience circ.u.mventing security?” asked Robert surprised. His cousin become more and more intriguing every other day. He had certain expectations of his cousin due to his service in the armed forces, but his knowledge and skills are a bit out of what he would expect, especially since his cousin's service was for only a period less than five years.
”I had to check security features of my base and office. Didn't believe in the concept of paranoia. Always, thought that it is best to be prepared. Else, I wouldn't be alive today,” said Balthazar.
”What is the plan for the pack?”
”Need to lure them away.”
”Really?! That is quite easy right?” said Robert sarcastically before a frightening thought came in his mind. ”I am not going to do it,” he immediately spat out before his cousin could even elaborate.
”Ya. I don't plan on doing that. That is a waste of personnel. What we need is meat. Meat enough to entice the majority of them away, so that we can sneak past them,” said Balthazar.
”That will take quite some time. Apart from the Boredrevers, there only critters and the like here. It would be hard to kill them in large numbers. It is time consuming. So, I got an alternate option which we can try,” said Robert.
”Please explain.”
”Poison.”
”What poison? I thought that we have sent the poisonous items we had on the drone.”
”No. Listen to me. We have ammo for flares, right?”
”Ok. A flare can distract them, but I doubt it will be very effective,” said Balthazar.
”It actually won't be much effective, but the powder of the flares is poisonous. We could use that. The same is true in case of the blasting powder in the bullets.”
”Let us use the ammo of the flares, for now. How many do we need to use for this pack? We also need a way to make them eat it. Can in it be aerosolized?”
”No. You need to go on a killing spree again. A few of those ferrets roaming around.”
”How does that work? Won't the Boredrevers smell out the poison if we smear it on the bodies of the bait? How potent is it?”
”It will take about ten minutes for them to get dizzy and they will be down for a few minutes, but that is enough for us. We need to smear the powder inside their dead bodies for the Boredrevers to not notice and leave the part of spreading poison in the bait to the surgeon,” said Robert as he started to make preparations.
Balthazar ran away from the valley and began to hunt for bait. Though there were no large beasts, there were a bunch of smaller lizards and critters seen. With his crossbow, he took about twenty minutes to get a decent amount of them back to Robert.
Robert quickly made a few incisions in the bodies of the bait to spread the powder inside them and they took the bodies and started to fling them towards the group of beasts. Balthazar took charge of it and he threw them one after the other.