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Back at the Secret base in Country C
*Knock knock*
"Come in." a deep calming voice answered.
"Commander, ready to report today's mission report." a dark-skinned man entered as he reported.
"Good." the deep soothing voice said. After saluting to the Commander the dark-skinned left.
A young man wearing black pants and a black shirt entered the room and closed the door behind him.
"Sir, I received word from the other operatives that the demon has been identified."
"Good." the deep comforting voice replied again.
"I also got word from the leader of our resistance organization about your plan regarding the prisoners."
"Very well."
"Also, sir, I have received word from the other operatives that the enemy has infiltrated the facility and is currently in the basement."
"Excellent work."
"Thank you, Sir."
"Now go and prepare for the mission."
"Yes Sir."
After the black-clothed youth left the Commander said: "You can come now Li Han."
"Su Hoayu seems like the last time I saw you, you're skinny and shallow." Li Han said as he sat on the couch next to the door.
"Time does fly." Su Hoayu chuckled as he walked towards the table. "Mo Ran you can come in, you know I can see you."
With a sarcastic expression, Mo Ran said. "Oh, hi Su Hoayu." Dropping that remark Su Hoayu and Mo Ran glared at each other.
"Okay, no fighting. We caught the demon as you said, but you haven't explained to us why you need that demon." Li Han interrupted them as he asked.
"I'll explain, the demons are the only way to sa-"
**Alert, alert Subject 1006 has escaped, all close soldier units, report immediately**
"That's odd," Su Hoayu frowned.
"Wait isn't that not the room holding the demon." Li Han slowly said as he looked at Mo Ran and Su Hoayu with horror.
"Mo Ran, evacuate the ones that can't fight." Li Han command.
Mo Ran nodded with a grim expression as he ran out of the room.
"Attention, gather all trained units outside. Now!"
All the trained soldiers from the base moved towards January's direction. As Li Han geared up, suddenly a scream could be heard. Looking up he and Su Hoayu froze in absolute terror.
***
"Jaxon what the hell happened to you," Hayley asked as sat on the floor next to the lake. Following her actions June and the rest sat down as well.
"What do you mean?" Jaxon asked as he scratched his head. Looking at him, Sierra's eyes started twitching.
Sierra: "You almost killed us while you were unconscious, that's what we mean!!"
Frowning as he tried to remember what happened he then remembered everything. He then shook his head, "I really can't remember anything. The only thing I remember is that we fell underground and then everything went black."
"It seems like you did not even notice that there are scorched marks everywhere," Susan said as she pointed and spined her index finger around.
Looking around Jaxon paused in shock.
"I did this?!" He asked with surprise, but listening carefully you could hear joy. Hitting the back of his head June explained everything that happened.
Awkwardly rubbing his aching head he apologized.
"So what should we do now, I bet if we leave the cave we'll get torn apart by the zombies. And if we stay here we starve to death." Susan said as she got up.
She walked towards the entrance of where they fell from. Reaching down she picked up something shiny, turning it over in her hand, she showed it to the others who gathered around.
"Is this some kind of glow-in-the-dark crystal?" Jaxon asked with a raised eyebrow.
" I thought they'd be gone by now," Hayley said with suspicion in her voice.
"No it's not, it's a guide crystal I saw one in the center back at the base," Susan answered as she fiddled with it.
"Guide crystal, guide crystal," Susan muttered under her breath. Suddenly she threw the crystal on the ground and jumped out of the way as the crystal burst open. A purple aura shot up and circled Jaxon for a moment before fading away. Nobody noticed this.
"What the heck was that!" June exclaimed, pointing at where the purple haze disappeared.
"That is called an energy crystal, it's an ore which gives off energy, when touched its colour changes and radiates a purple glow. It's very unstable though and I didn't expect it to explode instead of shatter." Susan explained as she continued to examine the crystal. It looked normal except the crystal was covered with small scratches.
"That reminds me, we have to train our abilities more, I saw others in the base using these types of crystals to upgrade," Sierra said as she looked at the crystal with curiosity.
After looking at the stone, Susan looked at Sierra and said. "The crystal can provide enough energy for three people to use for a month or longer, it doesn't matter how strong they are."
"Well, then I guess we will just have to practice every day," Sierra quipped.
"I guess." Susan agreed, putting the crystal into her pocket, they began to walk towards the lake.