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Chapter 46 - Jungle - C

"It's really dark in here I can't see anything, Bunny did you bring a flashlight with you?" Adam asked as he stopped and looked towards Bunny who was behind him.

"Yes give me a second," Bunny said as she puts down her bag on the ground in front of her and quickly opened it. After rummaging for a couple of minutes Bunny took out a large black flashlight from her bag and pressed a black rubber button that was on the back of the flashlight.

"Ow! My eyes! Don't point them towards me!" Bull shouted while covering his eyes with both of his hands. Bunny laughed out loud as she pointed the flashlight towards the ground.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry Bull I forgot that you were standing right beside me, here Lion take this." Bunny laughed and gave Adam the flashlight while she stands up and grabbed her bag.

"Look there's a staircase going downwards be careful there could be some traps there." Adam pointed towards a staircase that was made out of stone that has moss and vines growing on it while looking towards Bull and Bunny who nodded. The three of them walked towards the staircase and slowly walked through the long and dark staircase.

Adam pointed his bright flashlight towards the end of the staircase and suddenly stopped as he saw a woman's body who was laying down on the ground covered in her own blood while her back was covered with arrows "There's a dead contestant at the end of the staircase."

Adam, Bull, and Bunny slowly walk down the staircase while looking towards their surroundings and walked past the woman's body who has a cat mask on. Bunny looked towards the body and noticed that the tips of arrows were laced with thick dark blue liquid "Just like you said there are traps in here, plus those arrows are laced with poison."

They walked through a large and dark stone hallway that have a couple of traps that were in form of clear strings that were on the ground and the chest level "Oh man there's a lot of traps here."

Ten minutes after walking through the long hallway Adam saw a large stone double door that was at the end of the hallway that has a couple of holes right in the middle of it "Look that's the end of the hallway and be careful there's a string trap right behind me."

The three of them stopped right in front of the door and Adam shined his flashlight towards the middle of the doors. Adam walked closer to the door and took a closer look towards one of the holes that were in the middle of the door that was in a diamond shape "What are these holes for?"

"Probably just some decorations for the door. Move Lion I'm going to push the door." Bull cracked all of his fingers as he walked towards Adam who quickly moved towards his right side.

"AAARGH! This thing is very heavy!" Bull shouted as he pushed the doors with both of his hands as hard as he can, a couple of minutes passed by as Bull puts both of his hands down with a heavy breath and quickly wiped the sweat that was covering his face.

"Oh, man! I can't open that! It's either that thing weighs like a couple of tons or it's locked." Bull explained as he bends his back and puts his hands on top of his knees while trying to catch his breath.

"Here drink this we can't have you tired right now." Bunny gave Bull a large blue water bottle that she took out from her bag. Bull quickly grabbed the water bottle and drank the entire bottle within a couple of seconds.

"Wow thank you so much, Bunny, just what I need a bottle of cold water." Bull smiled towards Bunny as he gave Bunny back the water bottle.

"Hmmm, these holes should mean something we can't just ignore," Adam said while he pointed towards the holes that were on the door while staring at each of them.

"There are twenty-four holes and all of them are in a shape of a diamond, what could they mean?" Bunny asked while looking towards Adam who slowly stroke his chin.

Adam stroked his chin a couple of times and quickly looked towards Bull "Bull! Can you give me the scroll that we got at the beginning of the game I think this could be connected to that?"

Bull reached to his jeans pocket and took out the clear tube that has the scroll inside of it. Adam grabbed the tube and puts the flashlight to his right shoulder as he opened the tube which he quickly holds with the side of his chin.

Adam rolled out the scroll and reads it while pointing the flashlight that was on his shoulder towards the scroll "Twenty-four pillars that were made for one purpose."

"There are twenty-four holes in the door which means that there are twenty-four ruins around the game arena and each of them has a gem inside of them that we will need to open this door and that means that this door is the secret game! We found the secret game by mistake!" Adam excitedly explained as he looked towers Bull and Bunny.

"We found the secret game that's very good! So do we look for all twenty-four ruins and search for the gems now?" Bunny asked as she picked up her bag and puts it on her shoulders.

"No we can't do that, it's dark outside, and we're in a jungle. The night is our enemy when it comes to a jungle." Bull explained while looking toward Bunny.

"So are you suggesting us to stay here? Are we going to camp here?" Bunny excitedly asked while looking toward Bull who nodded.

"OH! YES! Lucky for you guys I packed a lot of things in my bag and one of the things that I have is a camping pack for three-person! Wait a minute I'll take it out right now!" Bunny quickly puts down her bag to the ground and instantly rummages through it.

Bunny took out three small black tube-shaped bags that have a picture of a small orange tent on the side of them and threw two of them towards Adam and Bull. Both of them caught each of the bags and looked towards Bunny who was smiling towards them "There's a sleeping bag inside of that bag that you can use, I put a couple of other necessities that you need for a camp in there."

"Oh wow, you are prepared for everything, great job Bunny," Adam said as he puts down the bag right beside his leg while Bull quickly opened his bag and rolled out a large black sleeping bag.

Bunny took out a large round metal lamp from her bag and puts it down in the middle of the three of them. She pressed a red button on the side of the lamp and a bright orange fire suddenly ignited in the middle of the lamp lighting up the dark hallway that they were in "So what should we do tomorrow? Are we going to run around the game stage and look for the gems?"

"I don't think that would be very efficient of us, my suggestion is that I will be the one who runs around the game stage and look for those gems while you guys wait here for me," Adam explained as he sat down on top of his sleeping bag and looked towards Bull and Bunny,

"What? No! That's way too dangerous we should go together." Bull said while sitting down on top of his sleeping bag and looked towards Adam.

"It's okay Bull, I'm very very fast now, I don't think anyone can catch up to me or kill me," Adam explained.

"What about The Rat Pack? They could definitely kill you." Bunny looked towards Adam while putting both of her hands inside her sweatshirt.

"They already have an artifact and I'm sure they must have already got their target so it would be safe to assume that they already left the arena," Adam explained while looking towards Bull and Bunny.

"It will be fine guys I will run around and come back here with all the gems trust me." Adam smiled as he looked towards Bull and Bunny who quickly sighed.

"Okay but remember Lion you have to be very careful. Instantly run away from things if it's too dangerous okay?" Bull asked as he looked towards Adam who quickly nodded.

"Fine but take a new syringe that I made especially for you." Bunny reached into her bag and took out a yellow syringe, she threw it to Adam and he quickly caught it.

"Thank you, Bunny." Adam smiled.