It had actually been three days on Earth since the first Government mission by various teams.
During these days Frank had travelled to Amarkale and had a wonderful adventure.
The rest of his team comprising of Joe, Linda and Claire had not gone on any out of the ordinary adventure.
But the last one of their team member, Muro had his share of a story to tell.
Only him had known what transpired back at the BlockFarm Forest when they were completing their mission.
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As the rest of his AAA5 team members made haste returning to the clear place for them to head back to the mission center, Muro walked slowly, behind everyone else. He was feeling resentful against his teammates.
"How have they improved so greatly than me and yet we are on the same team?" he scornfully asked.
"Even this weakling Claire claims she has reached 40 points of attributes!"
"How?"
But the thing that pained him more was his rival, Frank, who seems to have become the favorite of the girls.
He was at 60!
Muro couldn't stomach this!
But there was nothing he could do.
He didn't realize that it was by his own doing that he lagged behind the rest. His teammates had actively killed the monsters at the BlockFarm Forest while he held back his sword.
Just then as he walked and spat sideways, a sight caught his attention.
Muro saw a kind of a bat descending behind a tree not far from the walkway they were all using. But immediately the bat landed, on that same spot, an extremely beautiful woman emerged.
A woman!
Muro lost all his senses just staring at her. His eyes and mouth all unconsciously enlarged in their sizes. His heart started palpitating!
"If only I could…wait is she calling me?"
Muro widened his eyes even more and gasped. The woman was signaling for him to follow her. Muro turned and looked at the disappearing members of his team.
"Damn the team!" he resolved and walked forward to the woman. She just stood there as Muro got nearer to her.
She then smiled and placed her right hand on his shoulders.
"Good boy!" she said sweetly.
Muro was stupefied and remained silent for some seconds. Then he opened his mouth to say something. But before he could find his voice the woman placed her finger on his lips to shush him.
At that very moment he lost his focus and started seeing blurry things.
He then eventually passed out. He didn't know for how long he had fallen unconscious.
He woke up to find himself in a cave, lying on the woman's thighs.
His senses came back and he sprung up in alarm.
"You!"
"What did you do to me? Where am I?" he asked looking around.
"I didn't do anything sweetie, I think my beauty shocked you so much that you fainted!" she said moving closer to him.
He stepped back and stumbled almost falling down.
"Careful, don't break those eggs!" she said, "Please give them to me, they are of no use to you!"
Muro looked at the eggs and back at this strange woman. He hesitated.
"I can't, they are for the mission," he began explaining, though with reluctance, "they are for our team!"
At this the lady burst out laughing.
"Which team?
"You call them your team? The ones who don't like a single bit about you? Those morons who have advanced further than you could ever reach! Come on!" the woman spoke so disdainfully that Muro felt all her words piercing right through his heart.
He knew she was right by everything she said.
"Look, that boy who is younger than you has not only beaten you over the girls but in attributes too! And he will go ahead to be elected the representative leader and start commanding you around! Would you bear that?" the woman spoke.
"You mean Frank?" he asked thoughtfully.
Muro pictured the humiliation.
He wouldn't allow it to happen. No! Frank should not rise any further, he thought angrily within himself.
If only he knew how!
"All that can change if you do me a very simple favor!" the woman continued.
"What do you want me to do?" Muro ran to grasp that opportunity. He could feel his anger boiling over and wanted to do anything at that very instant to change things as they were.
"First I will have those eggs, then I will make you strong enough to go and kill that boy for me. Kill him and I will make you the leader you so much want to be!"
The woman so tactfully and sweetly spoke to Muro as she played her fingers on his chest.
He felt himself hardening downwards.
But his brain rushed back to the opportunity at hand.
He thought over her words very fast and he could certainly feel the ecstasy of the whole thing.
"What do I stand to lose?"
He pictured at the gains and saw that he would be the one reaping quite a fortune.
He decided to agree.
But just before he responded, an eagle suddenly flew into the cave and powerfully swooped down toward him.
Another bird attack!
Muro tried to hide from this crazy predator. Before he realized it he was in air, tightly held by the claws of the eagle. He got extremely terrified as he thought that the huge bird wanted to make a meal out of him.
Then the bird made a somersault in the air and threw him up on its back. Muro was sitting as if riding the eagle.
After he regained his breath he realized that the eagle was saving him.
They were already out in the open air. Instinctively he looked back at the cave. To his surprise he did not see any woman but a ferocious serpent- like creature spitting dark green arrows towards them. Luckily the eagle was too fast for any arrows to reach them.
They flew rapidly over the forests and after a few minutes Muro was delivered at the center amidst startled members of other teams and even his AAA5 team. On arrival, he began feeling proud seeing them looking at him with open mouths although inwardly he was still shaken from the cave incident.
As he walked past Frank to enter the chambers, he could not help but wonder,
"Who is this frank that someone so powerful wants him dead?"
Outwardly, however, he passed as if sneering at Frank, his head held high in pride.
Then the analysis of AAA5 Team was carried out on the four team members inside the chamber two.
Muro was the only one left who had not been analysed. As he was about to step into the booth just like what the rest did, the hologram stopped him.
"That won't be necessary for you. We already know you have been in contact with unwanted foreign matter."
Muro gaped at the man as he spoke with his machine voice. It was a relief the speaker was merely a hologram, he would otherwise be fidgeting.
"What the hell is this unwanted foreign matter? Muro wondered.
"We know you have met the agent of the dark Lord, you must know that is a very serious crime." The representative leader said.
Muro thus understood.
"I didn't choose to meet her. I have committed no crime," he decided to be on the defense.
"That will be upon us to decide but it all depends with your cooperation with us in giving us what we want" the RL said.
"What do you want?"
"Tell us everything the dark agent told you," the computer hologram spoke to him as a man with his mate.
Muro thought about it and wanted to speak out.
"If this could let me off their crazy interrogation, so be it. After all I don't have to tell everything, he thought.
"She…" Muro began speaking but stopped abruptly.
It was involuntarily done.
He tried to speak again but found out he couldn't. His power of speech suddenly gone!
The machine beeped and a three line message was displayed on the inner screen inside the control room. The same message was relayed to the hologram which ended the questioning right at that moment. But no one else could see the message, not even Muro himself.
This was an ability only for representative leaders and those higher up the NURO system.
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{ALERT: Malware Forces Detected}
[Subject under Control of Malware Forces][Malware Forces inhibiting Subject's system of Communication]
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That was when Muro was cleared to meet up with his team to submit their task.
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Later that night in his house, just as he entered, Muro was startled to see someone sitting on his couch. He was about to ask who the person was then stopped. It was the same woman he had met at the caves. She was still as beautiful as he could recall.
But he also remembered her attacks when he had suddenly left on an eagle - a Government rescue vehicle!
"You!" Muro began.
"Shut up and listen good!" the crispy voice of the woman hit back at him.
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