The story continues from my previous render.... What the head of the base told us that got us really mad was that the creatures were being developed as weapons and they were actually going to carry put a live test against an remote island nation today. That island nation was serviced only once a week by ship and the latest service ship had made it to their port yesterday and had already departed that island. This had given the evil corporation a weeks time to see how the creatures killed people and could they control them in the way they thought they could. According to the head of the base, they had already dispatched such a ship filled with 10 such creatures and via remote control sailed it to that island nation. In fact it was supposed to make landing in the next 30 minutes. The thought of these creatures running around the island killing every man, woman, child and other animals and pets horrified us. Miho made a decision, she said she will take the hyper plane and deal with the creatures on that island and be back soon to help shutdown the base. In the meantime I and the wolf had to ensure we took backup of everything they had on the servers here and whatever we could get from the HQ link that was still active. Then she took off running. Miho got out of the subway tunnel and got into the parked vehicle we had come in and drove like mad to the hyper-plane. The time was ticking by very fast. She got to the hyper-plane and took off. It would take her 8 minutes to get to the island nation. While she flew I filled her in on how I had read that the creatures were being controlled by smell, hence the smell that we encountered in the tunnel triggered the creatures aggressiveness verses the different kind of smell we encountered inside the base that kept the creatures docile. And I also told her I had used their smell dispensing system to get the creature to the hall below where we had captured the head of the base. The head of the base interrupted me and said the creatures on the ship had been injected with a chemical compound that would make them permanently aggressive. Only way to get them to the docile state again was to inject them with another chemical compound. Miho stayed quite as she listen to the information. She finally said it would not matter as this time there was no option but to use her lethal weapons. and that she intended to use the de-atomizer. That thing disintegrated living things at the cellular level and basically turned them into a cloud of dust. That was extreme even for Miho and well I guessed she did not want to take any chance. Miho reached the island and immediately saw the ship coming at full steam towards the beach. People below were already running from the beach to save themselves. Miho set the hyper-plane into auto pilot mode and jumped off it. She had two de-atomizer on her shaped like pistols. She immediately went to the area when the ship had already beached. People were surprised to see a girl with weapons on her hand. They did not even have a police force here. Miho told everyone to get inside and stay inside. She told them they were in extreme danger. But as usual there were people around who did not listen and went to look at the beached ship, then the cargo door on the side of the ship opened and a creature jumped out with a thunderous roar and those people ran for their lives. Some ran towards Miho. Some hide behind pillars, others behind dumpster. Some had gone past Miho but they had stopped and turned around. Miho also turned towards them as there were kids in that group and Miho wanted to reassure the kids. She smiled at them. There was something about the calmness of Miho and the smile she had on that made them feel very safe. Miho calmly raised her weapon as the creature got nearer and without looking back took aim as 3 more managed to reach her. She let of a shot - What fired from her weapon was not bullets but nano machines that would disintegrate the creature into a cloud of dust in a mere nano second. The group got a shock, where there was the creature they only saw a cloud of dust. The change was instant. Miho continued to smile at them reassuringly. Then she moved her hand again without looking back and let off another shot at the creature just coming out of the ship. That one too disintegrate into a cloud of dust. Eight more times Miho squeezed the trigger and each time a creature turned into dust. According to the head of base there were only 10 and after no more can out, she put her hand down. People immediately surrounded Miho and started to thank her. Kids and women gave her hugs and men shook her hand. Miho smiled at them but in the back of her mind she knew she will need to wipe memory of everyone here... and she will have to remove that ship too... Everything needed to be as before with none of them wiser about the creatures they had seen... The evil corporation was having trouble contacting the base where I was. They were trying to coordinate the creature attack on the island but they were unsuccessful as Miho had cut the communication but kept sending the all clear signal at the regular interval to the evil corporation HQ and so the people at the HQ were still not aware of our attack on their base. The ship had just beached on the island and the person in-charge in the operational center in the evil corporation's HQ said never mind the base and activated the opening of the cargo door. He was extremely excited to see how the creatures performed. He had made a bet that within 15 minutes the creatures would kill everyone on the island nation. They had full hi-def satellite camera coverage of that island. They saw people running everywhere from the beached ship specially when the creature appeared. But curiously a bunch of people stopped running and turned towards the creature and the ship. And then the creature that had almost reached them vaporized. They could not believe what they were seeing in the computer monitor. One by one as the creatures emerged from the cargo hold and they disintegrated into a could of dust. They were dumbfounded. Their satellite scanner did not pick up any weapons being discharged. Then more curiously that bunch of people formed a circle and seem to be patting, hugging, shaking hands with someone who was not there. Their cameras showed there was no one there. Then it hit them, this must be the unknown adversary who had been hitting their bases. This was a total failure. Years of development and months of planning had gone into this test and this unknown adversary had shut it down in seconds. They could not figure out how the adversary had even reached that island as they had been monitoring the island for months and no one unknown had gotten off any of the supply / service ships. They did not understand how this adversary had found out about this plan. Then another thing hit home.... the base where they were creating the creature must have been under attack too. Immediately they triggered an alert to send in reinforcement. But it was way too late for that. Miho said to everyone that they should go indoor as it was still not safe and she needed to check the ship. They all agreed and hurried into the shops. Miho called her hyper-plane and it came and hovered next to her. Miho got into the hyper-plane. To the people in the shops at the window looking at Miho, it was a very strange sight. They saw the girl start to climb invisible steps and then she vanished into thin air... On everyone's mind was a single question - who was this girl who had just saved them. Miho sighed and pressed a button on the console. Immediately a beam shot out and covered the whole island wiping everyone's memory for the last 30 minutes and also putting them into a nap for the next 15 minutes. She didn't like doing this to these people but she needed to protect herself and also needed them to go back to their lives and not think about what other creatures might come next. She would set up protection for this island to make sure this did not happen again. She flew the hyper-plane over the ship and used another of her weapons to vaporize the ship too. The only sign of the event was the pile of sand where the ship had beached. People would find that mysterious... Well, she thought that was harmless enough. Then she flew straight back to the underground base. It was time to shut this one down too. As Miho left to deal with the creatures on the island I got the head of base to make a PA announcement for everyone to get to a certain hall within the underground base called X23. That was just a wall away from the basement of the building under which this base existed. I then put on hazard suit the head of base had been wearing and then one by one deposited the unconscious guards to X23. Again no one took notice of me. The Wolf kept the head of the base under guard. After taking care of the guards here I, the wolf and the head of the base then went to the server room to start taking backup of everything. Miho came to server room and smiled and said things had gone smoothly. I filled her in on the plan to get everyone into that hall accessible from the basement of building and then wiping their memory. I told Miho she could call the agent in the government agency she knew to came and pick them up. Miho gave a nod. Miho got into a hazard suit too and we both carried the people knocked out in the server room and put them in X23 hall. Miho then knocked out the head of the base and put him over her shoulder and took him to X23 hall. We did one final sweep of the location trackers and satisfied that everyone was in X23 hall, Miho asked me to release the memory loss inducing gas. The gas mask some of them were wearing would not protect them against what Miho had created. Once that was done, Miho said as we could not destroy this base with explosives she would release her super gummy compound which started to grow and cover every millimeter of the base. Miho instructed me to close all outside vents and open all doors to every room expect for the X23 hall and I issued the commands on the console. Now this compound could spread to the whole underground base and be contained to it. The super gummy compound would turn into a material harder than diamond in 15 minutes time. Miho, wolf and I made our way back to the tunnel and got to our vehicle, packed all the equipments in and drove to the hyper-plane. Another successful shutdown.... Miho was happy. She called the agent in the government agency she had dealt with before over phone and gave the details about building basement through which he would be able to get to people trapped there who belonged to the evil corporation. She told him she will send relevant details to him and not to bother trying to get into the rest of the base and hung up before the agent could ask the same question he always did to Miho - "Who are you ?"

This one also took time to created. For some reason as I ended the last chapter, I felt I needed to do a render with a ship in it. So I was thinking what scene to do and how to put a ship in it. So well the story above is what I came up with and the render too. Sometimes to me it is plain weird how things fall in place :). I used multiple sets again to create the street view. As this was supposed to be a small islands, I only placed scooters and cycle in the scene to show people commuted using these and it was a very laid back place. Then I had a problem as to how I was going to place the ship. One of the Jurassic Park movies came to mind where a ship smashes into the dock. So I thought I will make the ship look as though it got beached. I tilted the ship and placed it on the beach. So then I thought I had to create a pile of sand around its bow as it displaced sand as it ploughed into he beach. That I did in ZBrush. I then added many characters to the scene. Some running, some hiding from the creature. Then posed the creatures, one near Miho and one on the ship about to jump out. Now it came to how to pose Miho. At first I had positioned Miho looking at the creature and her back to the viewer. But then like always I wanted her to face the viewer, so well this cool pose emerged where she is looking at the viewer and at the same time taking perfect aim without even looking at the creatures. Btw. to get the asphalt details, I mixed the original texture of the road with a very detailed normal map of a high quality asphalt texture map. This way I got the details painted in of the original texture and also the unevenness of the high quality seamless asphalt texture map. Looks like a movie poster to me :)