Lazily Yours.

The fact that Lyca's people were climbing trees again was not that surprising. In fact, the other companies already expected this and even created some plans to counter this.

One of the people who created a plan against them was called Crow. He was tall — one of the tallest people in Dal Valley, and his crow-like eyes, earned him the name. He and his team of four people were tasked to target a few people from Shen Security.

Their strategy goes like this, Dal Valley is aware that fighting on the first night could cause extreme losses on their side. However, they are not willing to suffer alone. So, they created a plan to slowly and surely target Shen Security while they were sleeping at night.

The team already knew that Shen Security is cowardly. They already anticipated that they would not compromise and would choose to hide, especially on the first night. Of course, their hiding spot should be the trees that surrounded the area.

The plan was simple. Create a fire below the trees and wait for the person to go down. Then they would end them. Yes, the instruction is not to break some bones but to kill them cleanly. Who would dare complain if they claimed that they accidentally killed them because they were too strong?

Dal Valley's people were tall and robust, they were obviously stronger and more experienced. If they say that they didn't control their strength, who would dare say that they were lying? They were too strong and Shen Security's people are too weak. That would be the conclusion at the end of the first night.

Tonight they dispatched a total of eight people. Two groups with four people in each group. One group was led by Crow and the other was led by another tall and slim man called Shadow. Known for being fast and deadly, Shadow is not only considered one of the fastest but also considered one of the deadliest people in the Dal Valley.

"They were wearing that weird black armor. So it's going to be harder to spot them in the dark. But they should be sleeping in the trees. What we need to do use the smoke bomb first. I am sure that not many people could withstand the smoke bomb mixed with that chemical with a foul smell. Since we can't see them, just target all the trees." Since all of them followed Shen Security's People when they run to the east, they were confident that they are just around the area.

"Crow, I saw someone in that area. I think he was climbing one of the trees." Shadow uttered.

"Then… let's go ahead and use our modified smoke bombs. Prepare your mask and night visions. We are going to see where are they going to run." Someone from the group said. After a few more minutes, their meeting finally concluded and everyone agreed to use the modified smoke bomb to reveal the enemies.

After throwing about ten modified smoke bombs, they immediately hid themselves and waited for the smoke to suffocate those people.

Time passed.

They waited and waited but didn't see any movements in the area.

"Hey, is it possible that they didn't choose the trees around here?" Someone whispered.

"Impossible. I told you, I saw someone climb that tree earlier."

"Then… why aren't they moving?"

"Maybe that weird armor can also become a mask?"

Crow's face darkened. The armor that those people were wearing looked impressive, but they didn't see it have any visors. Is it possible that they hid the helmet somewhere? No, he remembered that those people were just bringing ropes. They weren't even bringing any bags that could hide a mask or a helmet.

"Maybe we got it wrong?"

For the first time, Shadow started doubting what he saw earlier. Is it possible that he didn't see anyone climbing trees? But… how could it be?

"Alright, someone checked the tree that Shadow was talking about." Crows instructed one of his men to slowly approached the tree. Actually, the tree was not that tall. It was bout twenty feet, but it had a lot of leaves. "You — slowly approached that area. Be careful."

When it comes to fighting, he was confident that his people could easily take down one of those weak people from Shen Security. So, he didn't instruct anyone to follow the person that he asked to check the tree. If worse comes to worst and someone was indeed in that tree, the person that he sent could just kill the person on the tree.

Everyone's gazes were alert as they watched the person slowly approached the tree. The thick silence blanketed the group as the person that they sent slowly neared the tree. Five more steps… Three more steps… Two… one…

Everyone held their breath as the man examined the tree. Since he was wearing a night vision, he didn't need to use a flashlight anymore.

"Someone— " Before Shadow could finish his words, he saw a shadow suddenly lodge itself into the person that they sent. Yes, using the night vision, the person looked like a shadow. This made everyone confused. "Fuck! That is a person!" Shadow exclaimed! "The night vision is not working! Remove it! Remove it!" He said. But it was too late, the person near the tree was already on the floor. They didn't know if he was still breathing, and the figure that attacked him used a really bright LED flashlight and focused it on their eyes. Usually, this should not be enough to hurt their eyes but for some reason, the light seemed to pierced through their pupils.

The sudden light made everyone who wasn't quick enough to remove their goggles experienced flash blindness. Most of them groan, some of them cursed.

"Shadow! Follow that person! We can't use night vision this time!" Crow said. Earlier, he wasn't able to remove his goggles, so he too experienced the temporary loss of vision caused by the flashlight. "F*ck! Run after them! Everyone who can see… follow that man!"

"And someone checked Gaspar! See if he was still alive!" Crow shouted. He wanted to know if that person killed the man that he sent to investigate.