Gaju - One

Chapter 45 - The Trap

Gaju and his team move up the mountain. They decided to have lunch at the foot of the mountain.

After a few minutes, the four of them felt an oddity around them. No sounds of small animals were heard or wild beasts were coming at them. It was as if the Forest around them only contained flora without fauna.

Those who were taught the principle of survival from childhood, of course, realized there was something wrong with the silence that was now in front of them.

Silence in the wild means a sign of danger.

Everyone who learns the tricks of survival in the wild knows it.

"Ju, scout ahead," said Adel.

Aju nodded her head.

Even for a fighter like him, this unusual natural condition made his entire body scream to warn of danger. Therefore, he did not ask at all with Adel's orders.

Aju ran quickly and kept a distance of 20 meters in front of Adel and Tian.

Gaju also slowed his running pace and positioned himself behind. Acts as a back shield for two strategists who have weaknesses in close combat fighting compared to Gaju and Aju.

The four of them moved in that formation between the shade of the trees and the hiking dirt track.

Perdu and shrubs are no longer found on the slopes of this fairly steep mountain. Only shady trees blocked their path and view.

After moving for nearly half an hour, Aju who was scouting in front, raised her clenched hand, a sign for her comrades to stop moving.

Quickly, Tian and Adel climbed up a tree near them and stood on a branch.

Aju came back and approached the three of them.

"I saw clearing several tens of meters ahead. The smell of blood is strong. There's some broken branches there. I guess the former fight," Aju said with a serious face.

Lost is the daily character of Aju who looks perverted and irresponsible. He turned into a reliable fighter.

"I'll come closer and do some investigation. You wait here" said Aju.

But when Aju turned her body, Gaju darted first.

"You wait here and protect them both" Gaju said in a soft but firm voice.

Aju was glued to her place.

The three of them only saw a shadow of Gaju and before long his figure disappeared.

"Tian, are you sure you'll let Gaju do the scouting?" whispered Adel.

"Humphs. You don't know my Gaju" Tian replied slowly.

Aju and Adel only looked at the eyes and fell silent.

Gaju was already standing on top of a tree that was near clearing.

He circulated his gaze around the clearing and muttered inwardly, "This place meets the criteria for a permanent basecamp."

Gaju then checked the former fight that was down there.

Gaju slightly scrunched his forehead.

"Leaf Snake, Tree Tiger, Wind Wolf..."

Footprints on the ground, the remaining scales, feathers scattered, all of which provide clues for Gaju who can easily tell the identity of the wild animals involved in the fierce fight in this place.

Gaju's eyes then turned to the trail of blood that led to the cliff at the top.

"Hmm?"

"Goas? Hidden place?"

Gaju then intends to jump down and check where the trail of blood is headed. But all of a sudden, Gaju's body shook and he stopped doing so.

"Something's wrong" murmured Gaju.

Gaju then paid attention again to all the details and traces left from the fight that was down there.

Gaju forced his brain to work full. Gaju also uses all his photographic memory skills to analyze all the remaining clues.

"There's something wrong" Gaju muttered the same sentence over and over again.

Then suddenly, Gaju's body trembled violently.

"The animals did not attack each other. They're working together to fight an enemy."

Gaju meticulously went back to examining the remaining clues from the fight down there for some time.

After a few minutes, Gaju was surprised, and he found the traces of an animal that had not been preserved in his memory.

"Black Mane Lion?"

"No."

"If it were only a Black Mane Lion, there would be no way a Tree Tiger and Leaf Snake would come together against him."

"It was also different from the Lion."

"His footprints are light, much lighter."

"Agility?"

"A smaller body?"

"No."

"Four feet is further away than the Black Mane Lion."

"His body is the size of a Tree Tiger."

"Big body but the footprint is shallower than that of an animal of the same body size?"

"Style..."

"Use your brains!!"

Gaju began to sweat and continued to analyze everything inside his little head.

"Wings!!"

"This animal is winged and has the body of a lion!!"

It was then that cold sweat was felt coming out from Gaju's back.

"Damn!!"

"It's a trap!!"

Without thinking twice, Gaju darted out of his place and headed back to where his comrades were waiting.

There is only one name that now fills Gaju's head.

Creature Level 3, Griffin.

Aju, Adel, and Tian saw a shadow moving rapidly towards them.

They knew that it was Gaju. But they looked at Gaju with a strange look.

This kid, don't you know the principle of scouting?

Move quietly and give no warning to the enemy.

But, Gaju's movements now look frivolous and completely ignore the concept of stealth at all.

"Style, why are you..."

Tian asked Gaju but had not had time for Tian's sentence to finish, Gaju shouted with a tense face.

"Griffin's. It's trap!!"

The faces of Gaju's three comrades instantly changed instantly.

Without thinking for a long time, they also darted following Gaju and moved down the slopes of Mount.

Nun far up there, the sound of the cry of an eagle sounded deafening.

The eyes of Rajawali who had been watching the four prospective prey that moved down there showed the intelligence of an animal that exceeded the level of intelligence of ordinary animals.

As if, he was an intelligent being.

The Griffin, along with many other creatures that were genetically developed by the Island, has a tremendous sense of hatred for the creatures that now run fast down the Mountain.

The Griffin had powerful memories and exceeded ordinary ferocious beasts.

The creature down there is the same species as the one that locked him up and tortured him from childhood, imprisoning him in an iron cage and feeding him far from enough.

Griffin also has a memory of the creature underneath that uses objects like tree branches but has something that feels painful when it touches his body.

Griffin decided to trap the creatures and fly into space, so that his prey came to the clearing where he fought earlier, then he would finish him off one by one.

"Aaaaaahhhhkkk."

Again there was a loud screeching sound from the head of the Griffin Eagles. Then the creature swooped down very quickly, heading towards the four of his prey who were trying to escape.