" Conan, Over here." A fat boy shouted, he was wearing a camping uniform. He jumped and shouted to call out to his friend. " Come on, come quick"
" You don't have to jump that hard I noticed you, Ben, so what is it that you called me for?" Conan asked. Conan was a boy around 16 years old, with black hair and red eyes.
" Hey, have you not heard. There have been sightings of a spirit beast in the forest. Let's go, let's try to see what they look like in real life." Ben said with a tone of excitement.
" Huh! I am not going, I thought you called me to play games, besides I don't even have these adventure clothes you are wearing. If I go to the forest, my clothes will become a mess."
" Oh come on, I told you to come dressed properly," Ben complained.
" You have to tell me other details, if it's a spirit beast why would the guards of the city will let a normal citizen enter the forest."
" Park, your bike there. We are going to use my dad's old car. I have everything we need for camping outside." Ben gestured toward a car that had a truck bed. " I will explain everything on the way."
Ben quickly got into his car and didn't answer anything else that Conan asked. Nowadays it was hard to find a car like what Ben had, it was a very old model. Conan parked his bike near Ben's garage and also got in the car.
" I have gathered all the information here, we will go into the forest from gate number fourteen. They still haven't put any guards there but they will surely have it covered as well within a day." There were 16 gates from which one can enter and exit the city. The entire city was covered by a Dome that was made to protect the city from various dangers that occur these days on earth, however, people have to travel from one city to another so they have to leave the domes.
Ben was driving too fast and Conan was not so sure if he made the right decision. He tightened his seat belt and closed his eyes whenever he felt that they will crash. On the way, ben hit many things but fortunately avoided accidents. They reached the highway area the road, where there was less traffic.
" Aren't we going the wrong way? This is not the road towards the fourteenth gate." Conan asked.
" Hey look at this, this will show you everything why we are going this way." Ben handed the goggles similar to what he was wearing.
After wearing he could see a map with several dots and markings. " What is this?"
" I hacked into the system of the local guards of the city, they are sharing their locations with their superiors. As you can see they are also on their way to sealing the fourteenth gate, we just need to reach there before them."
" When was the Spirit beast found?" Conan asked, noticing that Ben knows too much information he was feeling a little safe from being caught.
" It was reported by some explorers, around five hours before today. Nobody in the city apart from the guards and I know about this."
" I underestimate you, Ben, you are a full-fledged criminal." Conan grinned looking at Ben.
" You are one to talk, where did you get that bike from."
" Well, from, someone with a rich dad."
" So what are we going to do with the spirit beast," Conan asked.
" Hey, if it's something cute, let's sell it to some kind of pet lover and if it's dangerous then let's sell it to someone who can use it dead," Ben said and then took out a gun that looked more like a potato gun. " We will use this baby."
" It's a toy, how is this going to work against a spirit beast?"
" They are just animals with a little firepower, you just see what I can do and if I am not able to do anything, I have you to deal with it." Ben sped up his car as he said that.
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" Yelena, you have to make sure that we capture this beast alive. It's a special case, the beast was being transported somewhere and using its ability it got away. This file contains every detail about the beast, make sure you catch it alive." A higher rank officer ordered the captain of the city guard, Yelena, he mailed her a file on her device.
Yelena was a twenty-year-old woman, who has just recently joined her duty as a guard captain after being recommended by an important person in the military. She was not expecting such an important assignment would be given to her.
" May I ask sir? If it's an important mission why are you giving it to me?" Yelena suspected that this assignment might not be a good thing for her.
" Ahem! You are more capable than I am for this, this is just to test the skills that your mentor always boasts so much about." Yelena felt a little suspicious of her superior but she still took the mission as she can not deny it, no matter what the reason is.
She looked at the file, ' This will be a lot harder than what I had expected.' She sighed after reading the file and now completely understood why her superior has given her this mission. ' Let's just hope I get it done without the beast dying.'
She closed the file and took out her amulet and contacted her team.
" Looks like the captain got duped once again, Ahahaha." One of the guards commented when he received the details of the mission on his device and read it.
" Silent or I will punish you for insubordination."
" Oh, I am sorry, captain. pfft!" It was clear that even her subordinates didn't take her seriously. If this mission fails she would be the only one taking the fall for it however Yelena always felt competitive in these times and was ready to take up the challenge given to her.
' Let the hunt begin.' She thought in her mind.