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Chapter 44 - Jungle - A

"Ah! My eyes! This place is really bright! Can't they warn us about this first?!" Bunny shouted while covering her eyes with both of her hands with Adam and Bull right beside her covering their eyes as well.

Adam slowly opened his eyes and squinted his eyes as they adjusted to the light. He quickly looked around and saw that the three of them were surrounded by tall trees that were covered in vines. GRAAAAAA! He quickly turned around as he heard a loud roar from his back "We're in a jungle."

Bull and Bunny slowly opened their eyes and quickly looked around as they heard various animal noises that came from their surroundings "Yeah we're in a jungle this is insane! It felt like we're actually in a jungle, plus listen carefully there are animals inside this stage."

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Their watches rang and the three of them quickly looked towards their right hands "Objective: Find an artifact in the ruins and bring it to the temple."

"Ruins? Artifacts?" Bunny asked as she looked towards Bull and Adam who still staring towards their watches.

"We have to find a ruin, get an artifact from it, and find the temple." Bull said while looking towards Adam who quickly nodded.

"Yeah, stick close to each other, be aware of your surroundings, and don't forget about the formation," Adam explained while looking towards Bull and Bunny who quickly nodded.

"Let's go," Adam said as he looked ahead and quickly ran with Bull and Bunny right behind him, the three of them ran around the jungle in a straight line behind each other.

Jumping over a couple of large logs that were sitting on the ground and avoided a couple of large spider webs that stretched from one tree to another.

"I still can't believe that were underground right now, this actually feels like a real jungle." Bull said while looking toward Adam who nodded while running right in front of him.

"Yeah, but do they really have to add these spiderwebs everywhere? It's getting very annoying plus why a jungle? Why can't they make one of the games a beach?" Bunny complained as she jumped over a large log that was laying on the ground covered with vines.

"Hey guys slow down there's a river ahead of us." Adam raised his right arm and slowed down. The three of them stopped right in front of a wide river that has a higher ground on the other side of it.

"Wow this is insane, what should we do now Lion? Do we go across the river?" Bunny asked as she looked towards Adam who was staring towards the other side of the river with his hands slowly moving towards his back.

"I don't think going across the river is a good idea, what are you looking at Li-" Bull turned his head towards the other side of the river and saw five tall men who was standing right at the edge of the ground staring at them with their colorful eyes.

The five men were wearing a long black raincoat, tall leather boots, and a rat mask that have different colors. Red, Yellow, Green, Pink, and Purple from their right to their left. Each of them has their hands inside their large black raincoat while staring at Adam, Bull, and Bunny silently.

Bull suddenly swung his back to his left side and grabbed his shield with his left hand while reaching his sword with his left hand, Bunny reached to the right side of her bag grabbing her blowgun, and Adam reached to his back grabbed both of his daggers that was on his back.

"Green they're not our target we don't have to kill them, let's go somewhere else and look for our target we don't want the target to die from the weird stuff in here." One of the rat masked men who have a pair of yellow eyes whispered towards a rat masked man who has a pair of green eyes.

"Calm down the three of you put your weapons back, you're not our target we won't kill you. Just go away from here and enjoy your second game." The green-eyed rat masked man said while waving towards Adam, Bull, and Bunny.

"Okay, that's a good explanation leader let's go and look for the target I'm really hungry right now." The rat masked man who has a pair of red eyes said while looking towards the other rat masked man as all of them nodded.

"Yeah let's just find the target and get out from here we already got an artifact anyway I hate this arena so much, it's disgusting." The rat masked man who has a pair of purple eyes said while taking out a large golden monkey statue from his raincoat.

"Put that away! Idiot! Don't just take it out like that and let's go." The rat masked man who has a pair of pink eyes shouted as he turned around.

The rest of the rat masked man turned around and followed the rat masked man who has a pair of pink eyes who disappeared into the darkness of the jungle.

"What was that? We're not their target? What do they mean by that?" Adam asked as he looked towards Bull and Bunny who quickly shook their head while looking towards him.

"I don't know but just looking at them I got a feeling that they're very strong and if we were about to fight there we would lose just like what Owl told us." Bull said as he slowly puts his shield to his back.

"And they already got an artifact that was in a shape of a monkey we should find one for ourselves." Bunny slowly puts her blowgun to the right side of her bag.

"Yeah let's think about this some other time let's find a ruin, find ourselves a statue and get out from here as fast as we can." Adam looked towards Bull and Bunny who quickly nodded.

"Let's go back inside the jungle I don't think we can find a ruin by following this river." Adam turned around and ran back inside the jungle with Bull and Bunny right behind him.