What's even more terrifying is that this hunting gang does not seek its victims completely randomly.
For example, the Berman couple who disappeared last time were targets they had chosen in advance.
It’s just that the Berman couple disappeared inexplicably during the hunting, and they didn’t know what happened.
From this, the FBI discovered a more serious problem: Were Luke and the other man randomly selected targets
Luke had a rough guess about this, and Thomas's words were not unexpected to him. He and Selina were also deliberately selected.
It is true!
No wonder the host said first that Luke and his family were welcome, and Bob's family were accidental intruders.
No wonder they knew that Luke and the other two were detectives from Houston.
No wonder Wolfkell's sheriff and deputy sheriff were there.
Because all of this is a pre-designed trap.
Luke had not confirmed this guess before because Selina was anesthetized and taken away first, and it was very likely that Gus and others found her police ID first, so it was not surprising that the players knew their identities.
When Bob was chatting in the hotel, he mentioned the police station where he worked, and the inn owner Gus was listening nearby.
Thomas said there was more to the situation.
These people have taken great pains to create a perfect playground.
The hotel looked ordinary, but it had been specially modified to deliver gas anesthetics into the rooms through the ventilation system of the guest rooms.
Secondly, they deliberately selected several locations and conducted several hunting games for experiments before finally choosing the location from last night.
There are no other residents within 20 kilometers of that location, and there are no telephones. Even the mobile phone base stations nearby have been deliberately destroyed by them many times, making the communication companies unwilling to waste money on that desolate place. After all, it is a place where few people have made calls for a long time, and the base stations often have problems and need maintenance. No one is willing to do this unprofitable business.
(Note: What a book friend said is right. If your cell phone has no signal, you can try to dial 112. Even if there is no such number in the local area, you will be transferred to the local emergency number. For example, if the signal strength of an ordinary number is 100, you can make calls at will. If the signal strength is lower than 30, the phone will display no signal, but you can still dial the emergency number at this time. But if there is no mobile phone base station nearby and it is a completely signal-free area, that is, the signal strength is 0, then even the emergency number cannot be dialed. This is a little survival common sense, very useful, you can remember it. This paragraph is not counted in the text)
The only thing these people got wrong was Luke's own information.
Apart from the earliest information about the Shackelford gunfight, the gunfight at the Houston Mexican gang warehouse and the Raccoon City incident were all classified as top secret by the SHIELD pretending to be the FBI. A scumbag team leader like Berrick had no right to know about it, which is why he was very dissatisfied with Luke and the others.
In the Houston Police Department, only Thomas, who is directly in contact with SHIELD on related cases, knows Luke's fighting ability.
These people didn't take the gunfight in Shackelford seriously.
If you have a gun, we will take it away from you. If you are in better physical condition, we will spray you with twice as much anesthetic. Unless this young policeman has the physique of an elephant, don't even think about jumping.
Therefore, Luke, whose physique is several times that of an ordinary person, is unable to control his body after waking up.
The problems of the two sheriffs were also exposed by the store owner Gus.
They didn't rush to the amusement park from Wolfkel at all, but had been nearby, ready to clean up the mess of these high-level players in their capacity as police officers.
In the past, there were occasional victims who managed to escape the encirclement by accident, but they were attracted by the patrol police cars, and after calling for help, they fell into the clutches of the devil again and disappeared from this world.
After Thomas finished speaking, he opened the briefcase in his hand and took out a few photos: "Look at this."
Luke took it and looked at it, and found that it was a picture of several people's body parts: "Is this... a tattoo? Um, is this a dog?"
Thomas shook his head. “We don’t know what this tattoo means. Some of the richest people have it, but not everyone.”
Luke hesitated for a moment and asked, "Does the host have it too?"
Thomas nodded: "Yes." There was a flash of hesitation in his eyes, but he didn't continue speaking in the end.
After explaining the case, Thomas stood up and said, "Okay, you guys can rest easy. The FBI will be here soon. We still need to sign a confidentiality agreement for that matter. This matter... you are familiar with it, right?"
At this point, he was a little speechless.
These two little guys are really unlucky.
Yes, it's bad luck, not trouble.
Looking back at the several cases they encountered in Houston that required them to sign confidentiality agreements, none of them were caused by themselves, they were all assigned to them by... Berrick
Thomas sneered in his heart.
This time, not only Berrick, but also his immediate superior, Siladi Page, will be investigated.
After all, it was Berrick who sent Luke and the other two to Wolfkel, and the call record of Sheriff Brown's office phone contained Berrick's number, which happened to be when Luke and the other two set out.
Although it is normal for the two police stations to communicate when coordinating investigations of a case, the timing and events are too coincidental.
Even the FBI doesn't believe that Berrick didn't do it on purpose.
What's even worse is that Faraday Page and the host Charlie Diaz have a very close personal relationship, and the two are well-known good friends.
Faraday Page often went on vacation to Wolfecker and hung out with the wealthy man.
The FBI has now included Director Faraday on the suspect list of the hunting club.
Even if he is not a player directly involved in the hunt, he is likely to provide a convenient umbrella of protection for these people.
However, the case is still kept secret, and Thomas is the only one in the Houston Police Department who knows the full story.
When Director Faraday will find out depends on how strong his own network of connections is.
Thomas was thinking a lot, and finally said, "You can take a vacation after the case is over. Selina can take a week off, and Luke you..."
Luke smiled and said, "Then I'll take a week too. At most I'll just let Selina do more work."
Thomas glanced at Luke who was standing in front of him, and Selina who was standing a little behind, and sighed in his heart: "Okay, but don't force yourself. Don't forget, I have Robert's phone number here."
Luke decisively admitted his mistake: "Chief, I promise to take care of myself. Don't worry about Robert anymore. I will call him and explain the situation."
Thomas nodded and walked out the door.
Selina: "Oh, it's another holiday. Thanks to... Well, forget it, I can't be happy about this kind of thing."
Luke chuckled: "It's okay, now it's your turn to take care of me anyway."
Selina: "Do you need me to feed you milk?"
Luke: "No, I suddenly found that I am a little lactose intolerant."
Not long after, FBI Team Leader Jack came over.
After signing the confidentiality agreement as usual, Luke smiled and said, "Thank you, Captain Jack."
Jack smiled and said no, and left quickly.
Looking at this person's performance, Luke said to Selina, "See? This is the attitude of a business person. No unnecessary words, no mention of the case."
Selena wasn't too interested: "What's for lunch today?"
Luke: "... If you pay, you can eat whatever you want."