Destiny [YiZhan FF]

Chapter 3 - Suspicious

A/N: Everything in italics are Yibo's thoughts.

This cave passage is about two meters wide and three meters high. The walls look like there are smaller sharp-edged rocks. Not much room to maneuver if I want to target the men. Also, this cave passage seems to be infinitely long as well. And I don't know if the other 4 have noticed, but it looks like the passage is going down. Only very slightly, but we are moving down deeper.

If this passage continues like this, it will be hard to kill the men one by one. Since there are so few of us, if there's one less, it's immediately noticeable. And there's nothing here to hide the bodies. Damn! Maybe there'll be a chance when we're asleep. I could offer to stand guard and then get rid of them all at once!

Somehow I have doubts that we are in a cave passage that once belonged to the castle. Even though I don't know much about caves. But I can see how primitive the passages here were created. No lord of the castle would use such a passage if he planned to escape. Besides, we are moving downwards and not upwards!

I also doubt that any of the other four cave passages were used to escape from the castle. After all, if there had ever been escape tunnels in the castle, they would have been found much earlier.

"Sir?" Asked one of the men.

"Yes? What is it?" Replied Mao Wan.

"Do you realize we've been going deeper and deeper all this time? And what is the commander really hoping to find here?" Mhhh, at least one of the four doesn't seem completely ignorant. That's interesting.

"Our task has been clearly explained. If there are survivors, we are to help them. And if we find any artifacts, documents or anything else, we mark them with a tracker. That's all. And yes, I've noticed we're going deeper and deeper."

"Sorry. But I hardly think we're here for a rescue mission or for any ancient relics. These cave passages have nothing to do with the castle. I'm sure of that." The man replied. Mao Wan didn't answer and just shrugged his shoulders.

Mhhh, no answer what? Well, don't worry. I'll figure out what you're trying to hide. Either I'll hear it from you, or I'll find out on my own. After I kill you! I guess I'd better keep an eye on this one man. He doesn't seem like an easy soldier. And he's not shy about pissing off a supervisor's leg.

As they walked silently down the passageway, Yibo noticed the man, who Yibo thought he remembered was called Rin, eyeing the others closely. Yibo wondered if this Rin might also be an assassin? There are not many of them left in this country. But those that do exist usually don't know each other. So he could be an assassin. Or maybe he just has a good intuition.

Apparently Rin had noticed that Yibo was staring at him. Because the latter turned to Yibo and asked in a whisper, "Do you want to know why I doubt our mission?"

"Sure." Replied Yibo.

"First, hikers disappear here. Then armed policemen with their sniffer dogs. Only one dog managed to get back to the exit. But he died because he was badly injured. Who injured him and why? Why didn't the policemen defend themselves with their weapons and flee in case they were attacked? Why didn't they send robots into the cave passages if there was danger here? And why do they think five men per passage would be enough? They know far more than they're admitting!"

"I see. Well, I guess you're right."

"Of course I'm right. It annoys me that we're being sent in here without knowing what to expect."

"I suppose we'll know if we find what they're really looking for."

"My friend, I don't think they intend to let us leave here alive."