The Heroes of the Order in this year’s Gulder Ultimate Search (GUS V) reality TV show, yesterday, embarked on their first major task of unraveling the misery behind the ‘Lost Chronicle’. This was barely 24 hours of their arrival at Awgu Hills and jungle.

During the show on popular national and cable network television across Africa and beyond, last night, The heroes found the treasure chest tucked under a small tree, surrounded by shrubs, deep inside Mmako Hills. Legends traced the treasure to the Pirates ship Captain, Kush. He was believed to have kept it way by the river bank at Snake Island about 300 years ago. It was earlier located by Ezeugo, who emerged the Ultimate Man of GUS 1, in 2004. How the treasure found its way back to Awgu hills remains a big puzzle. But Bob-Manuel Udokwu, presenter of GUS V, has ordered a round the clock security watch over the treasure by the team ‘B’ Order of the Heroes. They finished last in the day’s task that produced the Treasure. Now, the contestants have come face to face with the reality of the GUS. “It is never a tea party” disclosed the presenter.

The Searchers were busy having their breakfast of dry garri and palm oil when Bob appeared to summon them to an open space in the jungle. “Did it rain here last night?” he asked on arrival. “We slept on water beds”. They chorused jokingly, while some claimed: “we slept on the roof top”. What an irony? They actually slept in the rains, the previous night. They failed to erect their camp on arrival at the jungle.

The day’s task:
The instruction was for them to meet the presenter “on the hour” and to be “well prepared”. They were reprimanded for late coming and later granted state pardon on the assurance that it will not repeat itself again. They were later instructed to split into two groups-team “A” and team “B” for what Bob described as little warming up exercise to put them in the mood for the search and banish some of the cold. “Mistakes could be very costly in the GUS and not obeying instructions also, can earn you quick exit and your dream in the search will die before you start”. He told them.

He thereafter instructed the teams to run and pick a bamboo stick containing a riddle from two different locations and asked one member from each team to memorise the riddle contained there in and then stay some distance from his or her other team mates to describe in whatever form, what he had memorized for them to solve and produce the right answer.

The contestant giving the lead must not utter a word in the process. He instructed. It was fun watching the comic acts. Team “A” was first to get their first three answers correctly viz: “Lion the king of the jungle”, “A golden fish has no hiding place”, He who fails to plan, plans to fail and was instructed to move into the next round of collectively proffering solution to another riddle. Team “B” came far behind with their answers: “When two elephants fight, the ground suffer”, “Diamonds are forever” and “what an old man sees while sitting, a Youngman sees while standing”. But it was team “B” who came round to finish first in the second round to win. They got the clue that led them to the hidden treasure chest, deep inside Mmaku hills.
At the place of Talking Drum, the individual performance of the contestants in their teams were assessed and marks were awarded accordingly.

Score sheet: Team “A”: Linda (2), Frank (1), Mike (3), JJ (3) Abigail; Team ‘B’: Brain (3), Phyna (2), Fred (5), Rita (2), Biola (5).