Chapter 2: Chapter 2: What’s Up with This Island? (2)

The room had no source of light. Only after the door opened did things came into sight.

On the left side, there were camping equipment and digging tools. On the right were containers and stacks of paper.

The containers had various types of rock pieces stored, maybe as samples. Anom got closer and saw that the papers had patterns and designs, related to the ruins, drawn on them.

He look around the room and saw a door in the back wall.

The room was dim-lit, in addition to door being made of the same material as the wall, it was hard to notice.

Anom walked up to the door and pushed it open. It wasn't locked.

'How careless.'

Inside the room were three containers of different sizes. The boxes were locked but using his blade, Anom made short work of them.

He walked towards the left side, where the largest box was. It was around the height of his waist, and four feet on both sides. He opened the lid and explored the contents.

The box was filled with cleanly arranged tiles and pieces of broken walls, which contained various carvings and patterns, similar to the ones found on the island. The sheets must have be drawn using these as a reference.

Anom moved towards the second box on the right.

It was the second largest, with a height of two feet, and three feet on both sides. He opened it, inside of it were...

"Breasts!? What the...Oh.." Anom almost scolded the pervert who did this. Only after scanning the entire box did he realise that it was a broken statue. A broken statue of a woman, split into three pieces.

The first piece was the one which made Anom exclaim, it was the torso piece from above the waist and missing its head. A dress which looked more like it was worn by the statue, rather than sculpted, failed to hide the anomaly contained within them. The breasts on this thing were huge. Unusually huge, considering the size of it.

Second piece was the head, its features were not clear due to the damage. The hair carved on the head were flowing towards the back and were gathered at one spot, which was damaged at the end part. As the statue was missing beautiful, flowing hair carvings like many other statues of women, then there must have been a pony-tail at the back. It must have been damaged like the rest of the missing pieces.

'Who had the time to carve a pony-tail, what a pain it must have been.' Anom thought as he looked at the third piece.

The last piece was an arm, so beautifully carved that if it were not for being made out of white rock, it would've looked just like the real thing.

He moved towards the third container.

Last box was just a cube of six inches. As soon as he opened it, he exclaimed in his mind, 'Haha, mission accomplished. Now I can go back.'

He was feeling uneasy ever since he had stepped on this island. Now that the job was finished, he had think about how to escape.

He got up and got out of the room. He stopped after reaching the room outside and walked towards the side where the various tools were placed. He picked up one which looked like a scraper. It was the size of a finger and was quite sharp. He put it against the side of his neck and made a large, but shallow cut. It was enough for a lot of blood to leak out. Then he pressed the wound with his palm and let it heal by itself.

He walked towards the wall and crouched, put one hand on the wall and acted like he was struggling to stand up.

In a few moments, there was sound of footsteps coming closer.

Thud!

With a heavy step, a burly man entered the room.

Unlike the others guards, his face was not covered. His sharp eyes scanned the room until they fell on the opened back door.

Only then did his emotionless face changed slightly. He ran inside and checked the three boxes, only to find the smallest on empty.

He walked out of the room and asked in a harsh tone, "What happened here!?"

Anom who was 'struggling' to stand up, pointed in the direction of the camp and said, stammering, "He...the..thief...ther-" Before he finished, his body wobbled as he fell forward toward the man.

'Now catch me, put me down slowly and get lost, I have to get out of here.' Anom thought as he was falling.

Who knew? The man simply dodged and sprinted out of the room.

Thwadk!

'Bastard!' Anom cursed as he moaned silently while lying on the floor.

"What happened Vice-Leader?" Someone outside asked the man who got outside.

"I don't have time to waste. Jeno, hurry and take the one inside to the medic in the camp. And tell the others to not let anyone leave the camp area." The man ordered. He was actually their vice-leader.

"Yes, sir."

Seeing the vice-leader hurried towards the camp, the man named Jeno, walked inside the storage.

He saw one of his teammates lying on the floors. His neck was bleeding and he seemed to be unconscious.

'This poison is quite strong.' Jeno thought, as he walked towards Anom.

He carefully picked up his body and placed him on his shoulder. He started walking towards the camp while thinking how heavy his friend was.

Just as he was about the to exit the door, Anom, who was on his shoulder opened his eyes. His face got tensed as he remembered something. He made a mistake while fooling that vice leader.

Just as Jeno put his foot outside the room, Anom grabbed the side of the door and applied force.

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Jeno stumbled, as he was caught unprepared, he fell towards the back. Grabbing the chance, Anom slid of his shoulder and rolled on the floor before getting back up.

Jeno stabilized his balance, but before he could react, Anom shot toward him and grabbed neck in a lock with his right hand. At the same moment, his left hand, which was holding his blade, made its way towards the poor man's shoulder.

"AHH!" Jeno screamed, but due his neck being strangled, he couldn't force his voice out.

'I'm glad that you didn't hold me in a princess carry." Anom told him while maintaining his grip.

The struggle lasted a few moments before he stopped his movements and fainted.

Huff! Anom breathed in relief as he put down the guard on the floor.

He quickly got up and ran outside. He looked around and saw that the guard at door had already been carried away.

Not wasting anymore time, he ran towards the center of the camp.

Before, his plan was to get carried back to the camp and escaping from there. Most likely, that plan would not work anymore. He could only change the plan.

...

The Vice-Leader was running towards the camp. He was regretting not having made the security even tighter. Their team had accompanied the first batch of researchers here when there was not much known about this island. Their team leader was on the way back, bringing their elite squad here.

He was the one in charge in the leader's absence. So he would have to take the blame if something goes wrong.

' I want to see who has such guts to steal from us. ' He thought angrily as he moved even faster.

Just as he was about to reach the camp, he suddenly stopped. He thought back to what happened before and replayed in his mind.

He remembered how he saw the empty box. How he then saw him subordinate who fell unconscious after telling him about the thief. How he even ignored his junior, and ran outside in a hurry. How loud the sound of falling was, when his junior fell on the floor, unconscious. The sound was really... weird.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was not right about the sound.

Amidst the sound of the body hitting the ground, there were sounds of solid objects impacting with the floor. It may have been due to the gun or the flashlight that everyone carried in their pouch. But there was a sound that was different from all that.

It sounded as it something more solid, it was like a rock hitting the floor, a...

"...Stone! Damn it!" The vice leader exclaimed as he turned around and ran back towards the center.

......

Anom ran for a few minutes as he came before the guard post a few hundred feet away from the entrance to the ruins.

Two sentries were standing there looking at him. He stopped a few steps away from them, bending over, putting his hands on his knees, he started panting in an exaggerated manner.

One of the guard came forward, looked at him curiously and asked, "What happened back there? Did you guys blow something up for fun? You should have invited us."

Anom stared at the idiot in front of him who was treating his work as a game.

"No...hah...a theif broke into storage...hah...Vice-leader has ordered one of you to go and help him." Anom panted and talked at the same time.

"Well let's go. Let me see the theif who dared to steal under our noses." The guy in front quite excited to catch the thief as he started walking toward the camp.

Anom stepped aside and started to turn around as if to follow him back.

The guard in the back watched as they started to go out. He had just relaxed his guard, when Anom, turned back, sprinted in front of him, and before he could react, punched him in the face.

AAH! The guard walking in the front heard the scream and turned around, only to find his parnter holding his bleeding nose. The guy who came to ask for help was ruuning toward him with his arms raised in the air.

The guard reacted quickly and started pointing his gun forward. But before he could take any action, Anom was already in front of him. He grabbed his arm and pushed it sideways while also punching his nose with his other hand.

The guard lost his bearings due to the pain, dropping his gun. Anom grabbed the gun and moved to the back of the guard. With a swing, he smacked the back of the guard's head with the gun. Eyes opened wide, the guard gave a silent scream. But before he could fall on the ground, Anom pushed him hard, hurling him toward the other guard.

By the time all this happened, the guard at the back came to his senses. He pointed his gun and looked ahead. He shouted out loud as he saw the body of his partner falling towards him.

Thud! Not able to dodge on time, the head of his partner hit him hard on his face. The new pain with the old one combined made him shout again.

Anom didn't waste the chance, after getting behind the guard, he slashed with his blade. A wound was made at the back of the guards neck. Anom didn't stop and kicked the poor guard. The guard stumbled and fell over his friend, both unconscious.

Anom put his blade back and looked toward the camp. Then he turned around and started running towards the entrance to the ruins.

A few moments later, footsteps sounded as the vice leader came running. Along with him were another two guards who were alerted due to the commotion and came along.

They didn't stop and kept chasing.

...

Anom could see the entrance now. But instead of going faster, he slowed down a little. As thief who has been around the world, he has entered ruins before. The thing that made him wary was that such ruins were the proof of civilizations having reached their peak. Even the modern-day archaeologists and grave robbers had trouble dealing with the traps designed in ancient times.

He turned around and looked ahead. As path from here till the guard-post was almost straight, he could see three men charging towards him. One of them was that vice leader guy.

Anom took a deep breath and made up his mind. He turned towards the entrance, walking inside without looking back.

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