“Where were you? We have come here as a group and we must stay together the same! Next time if I find you nowhere, I'm gonna straight away complain! You don’t even have other friends, respect us who are at least trying to give you a chance!”, Alicia said to Shallow when he came half an hour after they reached the tent. She was very furious but more than that she was fearful. She was afraid of all his actions and the illusions of the previous two nights. Shallow said, “I am really sorry, I had a very urgent call and you know I am kinda shy! Next time I’ll try to be more open.” “You have a girlfriend? Damn how unlucky of her!”, Ally asked. “Ally, I have been single since forever”,Shallow said. “Well no doubt about that!”,Ally replied. Everyone had a small laugh and they started chilling.
After half an hour they departed to reach the “Main Gate” as the tasks were supposed to be assigned to each group. After they reached there, a bowl of chits was presented to them and one of the team members had to pick up a chit and whatever task came up was assigned to them. Ally was chosen after playing the “Stone-Paper-Shoot” game as she won. She went and picked a chit and what came out was that they needed to explore the “Diamond Puff” area. They will have to find a volunteer there who will give them the problem statement to solve and analyse. Without wasting any time they reached the “Diamond Puff” area. They found two volunteers standing there. They had to randomly pick one and if they got it wrong i.e. they choose the volunteer that was not assigned to them then one of the members of the group has to keep their mouth shut till the end of the task. The destiny wasn’t in luck for them and their selection came out to be wrong. Shallow immediately said, “Girls! It’s fine. Give me a chance to redeem myself. I’ll go ahead with the mouth shut challenge, it’s a matter of just a few hours!.” “Few hours though is a lot of Shallow! You sure?”,Alicia asked. Ally said,”Ohh please he deserves this! Let him do that, let’s go ahead.” To which Shallow pleaded with Alicia and she then agreed. He has to continuously wear a microphone which will help the volunteer to know if he is following the rule.
They read the problem statement given to them. It said that they have to find the only tree in the diamond puff that has a pinkish brown trunk. They will have to dig the place near it to find a book that has the importance of the “Diamond Puff”. Whoever will solve the clue written on the last page of the book will win. Two groups were assigned the same task to eliminate one out two at stage 1. With no delay they started searching for the tree. After searching for around half an hour, Shallow found the tree surrounded by dense green trees. He then gave a call to meet at a chosen location so that he can guide them to the location. Once they met, Ally pushed thereby ordering him to hurry and to guide them to the location. They ran and reached there. They started identifying the clue given in the chit that would help them to identify the place where the book was dug. It said, “Where the offspring of the birds might lie dead.” Everyone started to ponder around and started observing as to what might be related to it. Alicia found a nest on the tree and she thought that if a bird had an early born, it could fall down and might die so the location has to be straight below it on the ground. They quickly dug that area and to their lo and behold they found the book.
The name of the book was “Dear Diary”. Alicia started reading it to find out that it had the list of all the accidents that happened in and out of the Last Lake. “Diamond Puff” has a graveyard of the people whose families were never found hence the importance of the same. Shallow became a little upset but no one found out about it. Ally quickly asked her to look at the last page where the clue resides. She turned to the last page and the clue read, “The Smith’s Blood”. Alicia quickly read the index of the accidents to find a name in the entry as “2004 : The Brandy Smith Wolf Case”. She quickly browsed through the case and found out that Smith was attacked in the Wolf Bite forest as it was renamed after Smith’s death. Shallow remembered that someone told that the Ignite forest was formerly named as the “Wolf Bite”. He snatched their attention and wrote on the ground to head towards the Ignite Forest. They in no time followed him. Ally said, “I hope you aren’t a werewolf! Might bite us haha!”. Ally started laughing loud. They ran and ran and reached the Ignite Forest. Shallow wrote on a paper that the Ignite forest was earlier known as wolf bite and is the solution to our final clue. Ally went close to the gate and told the volunteers that the “Wolf Bite” is our answer. To which volunteers asked for their group number. As soon as she announced the group number, volunteers declared them the winner of the exploration task as the other group was still struggling to solve the clue. They were very happy and started screaming. The night was just about to fall. Everyone was ordered to move to the Deep Forest where their tents reside. They were asked to read the book and to write a report tomorrow about the same which was supposed to be presented on the last day of the visit. They reached the tent to find out that Shallow was missing once again.