The story continues from my previous render... Before Miho had parted with us and had gone to meet Kenta, she passed us 2 new devices and said one is for navigation and the other for communication. These were specialized devices that Miho had created specifically for this island after her first visit here when she had found out radio signals / compass / GPS, etc. didn't work... Also the view of the stars and sun was distorted here hence one could not use traditional method of navigation too. While on our way to the location Miho had programmed into the navigator we came across a clearing and saw a drilling rig and other vehicles. There were 4 men about and the machinery were humming. One of the men seem to be taking a nap, while the other 3 were basically talking and not doing much work. I could see they all had automatic weapons near them but none of them were actually carrying the weapons. Probably they thought they had enough time to grab their weapons if they saw anyone or anything come at them from the edge of the clearing. One of them had some weird gadget on his hand. It did not look like a weapon but then I was not at all sure. The wolf was growling and was ready to attack. I told the wolf to wait and called Miho over the comms and informed her about what I had found. She said she would be with us shortly... The men were talking : "What a godforsaken place we have landed on" "You can say that again" "I hate this place... we don't even know where we are" "Well the big boss said this place is mineral rich so we are going to make the best of it" "Look at him" one said, pointing to the guy who seem to be taking a nap in a chair with his feet up on some kind of hi-tech container - "he does nothing but take naps and we are supposed to obey him" "Keep you voice down, if he hears you, you will be in trouble. He has a mean streak." "Dam him to hell..." "Where are the other teams ?" "Who knows, we can't even communicate with them. Frankly I think they will be lost in no time. None of our navigation or communication gadgets work." "Well they said to stay here and do the drilling and that is what we are going to do" While this was going on, Miho and Kenta appeared next to us without having made any sound. The wolf had sensed them but I had not. I was startled at the sight of the orc. He was one ugly looking s.o.b and looked like could tear limb from limb with him bare hands. The orc just smiled, Miho had already told him about us. Miho quietly introduced the orc to me and the wolf. I pointed to the middle of the clearing. The orc said in a low voice something that I thought was some kind of cursing and started to move when Miho put her hand on his and stopped him. She said she will deal with them and in a flash ran out of our hiding place behind the treeline. One one of the men was looking in their general direction... they were still busy talking... "So how long are we supposed to stay in this hellhole ?" "Until our ship gets fixed and we are able to sail. That storm hit us bad. We will probably be here for another week or so" "That is freaking unfair. They don't pay us enough. Have you seen the horrible looking creatures that we had to kill ? I don't think we will last the night with them out there" "Well that is why we have the armored personnel carrier with us. We sleep inside at night." "I hate this place" "Ya you just said it" "W..... h.... " The one who was looking at our general direction saw Miho emerge from the tree line and run towards them at incredible speed. Before he could even finish saying "what...", Miho jump over his sleeping boss and kicked 2 of them and landed on the 3rd knocking them all out cold. When Miho had placed her hand on the sleeping guy's head, she had pressed a point in his head that had paralyzed him completely and made his mussels stiff and immobile. He had felt something on his head and had heard multiple thuds (of the 3 men falling to the ground) but he felt panic when we was unable to move or open his eyes to see what had made that sound. He did not know what was going on around him.... Miho signaled to us to come and join her and then went to inspect the equipment and machinery these guys were using...... The story will continue form the next render...

This scene was a pain to render. After adding the 3 guys into the scene my render time went from around 30 minutes to over 10 hours ! Not what I had expected and still it did not resolve of the noise. Also I could not use the Octane denoiser with it at all as the render crashed every time I had it enabled. So anyway decided to make do with what I managed to render. The scene is more interesting I think than my previous one (https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/intruders/2843680/?p&ca). The previous one was just a fun render with basically only Miho and the sleeping guy. But in the story I had mentioned other men were around so for this update I decided to add multiple men in different poses, doing some work but mostly chatting (hence a little bit change in the story for this render to describe the scene). The two of them completely clueless as to what is about to happen to them and the middle one with his head pointed towards Miho, stuck at saying "wha....".... Once again Miho looks lovely in this one I think with her long blonde hair. I am not too happy with the skin texture edits I have been doing for Miho but well will see how I can make them better.