I calmed myself down a little. If not, my really messy brain would not function normally. It is going to lag. And I’m finding my brain become messier.

‘Okay, calm down buddy. Calm down. You need to keep calm if you want to overcome the situation. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.’ I was speaking to myself and trying to calm myself down.

Lucky me. Brick and Rey didn’t disturb me. Even then, it took me about five minutes to cool my brain off.

“Okay, according to you guys, can I assume that Larry was following us?” I asked.

“I think so too.” Answered Rey.

“Do you think the silhouette Brick saw every night was her?” I continued asking.

“That’s one possibility to think. I didn’t think that possibility before. What I thought is that she has already been captured by the riders.” Rey answered again.

“Whatever the actual reason is, one thing is sure. We won’t get her help now since she is out of the village. So, what do we do?” he continued.

“I don’t know. But let me think. We still don’t know the motive behind the riders’ behavior. If their sole purpose was giant crow-mok, they wouldn’t have done it. But wait. Does their current behavior relate to their traditional ceremony?” I thought out aloud.

“Possible. But not 100%. They might have something other motives, for example, they want something valuable from Black? Or HighJump village?” Rey said.

“Whatever their motive is, isn’t our goal to save Black?” Brick joined the discussion.

That reminds me of our primary purpose. The discussion’s main purpose is to figure out how to save Black. Now that we can also assume that Larry would be an uncertainty.

Before I finished my line of thought, Brick continued, “Besides, they might change their camp location. It’s good that they lose track of us. But what if we lose track of them? We are new to this world. We won’t be able to do much if we are late.

Da Fak. That’s right. We can’t afford to lose their track. One thing is : it is not sure when they would kill Black and the other is : we need to know their where about.

“Should we immediately go back?” asked Rey with a frown. His frown is so intense that I can see uneasiness on his face.

“No, I have ideas on what to do to get better efficiency to reach our goal. But we need to know their location. So, Rey would you go back and track them down without being caught. We will follow you after I’ve arranged what is necessary. For safety’s sake, let’s meet at the cave where we hunted the green monkey mok. If nothing troublesome happens, we would meet you by tomorrow. We will wait there a whole day in case you find it difficult to make it back.” I requested him.

“Okay, I’ll do my best” he answered and stood up. He was ready to leave again.

“Keep in mind that you must keep yourself alive and don’t get captured. This time, our mission won’t be successful without you. Place your safety before everything. We will figure out the others later.” I told him.

“Rest assured” he said and left.

When Rey gets out of our sight, “What’s your plan?” Brick asked me after Rey left.

“I don’t know. I don’t have a plan for now. Let’s figure it out as soon as possible.” I answered with a long face.

Brick stared at me. Then look in the direction Rey left. And he said nothing more.

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It’s midnight. In the animal kingdom on earth, night is scarier than day. It looks like the same goes here, in the soul world. ‘But it can’t be helped. I have to carry out the mission that Cank entrusts me. Firstly, I have to check the place we camped the whole week. What if they kill Black before I arrive? What if they moved out before I arrive?’

Immersing in my own thoughts, I was heading to where we camped.

“Whooh” a very fast animal jumped out of the bush just after I passed it. That mok is trying to jump over me. Fast. The mok is fast. Since the moonlight is covered by the thick leaves, I can’t see what it is clearly. I immediately use soul fusion.

I immediately fuel the capsule where yellow monkey mok is in with the liquid in the pool. (The capsule and the pool of liquid is in the small room-in the new organ-in the heart). Yellow light cocoon appears surrounding me and I can feel a capillary shot out from the capsule to the spinal cord. Something from the capsule was flowing through it. That something reaches the brain. Then, my body parts started to change. My hands and feets started to change into Yellow monkey mok’s.

I tried to fuel the bat-mok’s capsule at the same time. But some force was rejecting me. That rejecting force reduces only after the yellow monkey-mok soul fusion finished. I fuel the bat mok’s capsule again. This time, it works. The yellow cocoon turns into purple cocoon. When I let out a cry which is different from my original voice, I can feel the waves returning to me. My ears can hear those waves and somehow, my brain can figure out what is surrounding me.

It didn’t take long to perform soul fusion. When I have finished two soul fusion, according to the ultrasonic waves I received, the mok that jumped over me is not that big. And it is in the shape of a cat, a big cat the size of a 4 year old child.

“Kheee….” the mok roared and it tries to bite me in my neck. The mok is acting like a tiger. But even tigers on earth are bigger than this mok. Besides, the mok’s jaw is not that strong as well as its strength. But because I was caught off guard, its two fangs has already sunk into my neck. But not too deep. Suddenly, I started to feel sleepy. Damn it. The cat-like mok has injected some kind of strong diphenhydramine (sleeping aid).

I was alarmed. If this goes on, I would fall asleep during the battle. I would become its food for sure. I’ve got to do something. I remembered the pointed bone Cank made for me yesterday. I take out the pointed bone tied to my waist (with a small vine).

Although my strength is stronger, I find it difficult to shake the cat-like mok off of my neck. It has firmly held on my neck. The pain is not that overbearing. What is overbearing is the sleepiness. It has become stronger and stronger. My eyelids are becoming heavier with passing seconds.