Catherine poked her head out of the kitchen curiously: "Camping? Where?"
Luke: "I want to go to the mountains over there with my grandpa and be quiet."
Catherine said, "Okay, then you can bring dinner."
Luke often went camping when he was in middle school, but most of the time he went with Ximena. Now that Ximena has gone to college, it is a question of who Luke should go camping with.
But she could ask about this later and there was no need to disturb his vacation immediately. Catherine just reminded him to be careful.
Luke took the dinner from Catherine, hugged her goodbye, and went out to drive.
Catherine stood at the door and watched his car disappear down the road.
Just as she was about to go back to the house, a car drove up to the door and a head popped out from the driver's seat: "Hello, Catherine, is Luke there?"
Katherine smiled and shook her head: "Selina. He just said he was going out camping. He was heading that way."
Selina: "Thank you, Catherine." Without even getting out of the car, she accelerated and chased after him.
Catherine chuckled and said, "These two guys are just pretending. Are they afraid that we will be embarrassed if we find out?"
While driving, Luke switched the data to voice mode so as not to delay the journey.
Suddenly the phone rang. He took a look and picked it up: "What's wrong? Are you having fun?"
Selena's voice rang out on the phone: "Are you going camping?"
Luke was stunned: "You... went to my house?" He reacted instantly.
Selina: "If you ease off the accelerator just a little bit, I should catch up with you in a minute."
Luke looked up at the sky speechlessly and found an empty space on the side of the road to park the car.
Selina arrived immediately as expected.
As soon as she got out of the car, she said without Luke asking, "Palmer called me and wanted me to persuade you."
Luke smiled and said, "So, you're here to persuade me?"
Selina nodded. "Yes, I came here specifically to advise you that it's best not to get involved in such a troublesome matter. I'm afraid that you will be persuaded by the beautiful DEA agent and become soft-hearted."
Luke was stunned, then he laughed: "Then why are you chasing me?"
Selina rolled her eyes at him unhappily: "If I hadn't come, you would have gone camping in Mexico tonight, right?"
She was too lazy to find fault.
If Luke really wanted to go out and play, there was no way he would not ask her. The fact that he went out secretly was very telling.
Luke was also a little confused. He had no idea that Palmer actually asked Selina to do work for him.
Is this necessary
He just didn't want to go there with his public identity.
Beautiful women are really unreliable!
He sighed, complaining about Palmer. "Well, Martin is a colleague of ours in the serious crime squad after all. I want to go over and take a look. If there's nothing wrong, it's best if I don't do anything."
Selina didn't look surprised and nodded: "Okay, I want to go with you."
Luke: “…Isn’t that necessary?”
Selina: "I'm afraid that you'll hear the beautiful agent Palma's plea and get carried away and fight with hundreds of traffickers."
Luke smiled bitterly: "Am I that stupid?"
Selina glanced at him sideways: "I thought you wouldn't be that stupid before, but now... hehe."
Luke was in pain, struggling to death: "Isn't it your birthday..."
"Yesterday is over," Selina interrupted.
"You always want to rest..." Luke continued to make excuses.
"I've rested enough. Now my whole body is itchy." Selina pressed her knuckles until they made a crackling sound.
Luke nodded helplessly: "Okay, let's go together. But Sandra's car has to go back, and I have to go back and tell Catherine."
Selina nodded.
Ten minutes later, Luke returned home, picked up a big bag, and arrived at Selina's door.
Under Sandra's complicated gaze, the two announced that they would go camping in the mountains together.
Looking at the car going away, Sandra murmured: "I don't know if Selena brought any safety measures. I should ask her."
Then she laughed again: "Who cares? At her age, it's normal for me to be a grandmother."
Over there, Luke handed the information to Selina.
Selina closed her eyes and just listened to the information with her ears, memorizing it in her head.
"Tijuana's permanent population is over two million. How do you plan to find Martin?" she asked.
Luke: “What do you think?”
Selena: "Find Dito Flores. Martin is coming for him."
Luke hummed.
"Do you have Dito's address?"
Luke hummed again.
Most of the intelligence he collected was from gangs in Los Angeles, and a small part was from large gangs in Mexico.
This time when he returned to Texas, he had planned to go to Mexico to make some money.
At the beginning, the Carlos family was just a small gang, but they provided him with extremely generous experience points. Those large gangs were undoubtedly experience gift packages.
Even if he hadn't received Palmer's call, he would have set off early tomorrow morning.
Now, it’s just a matter of moving the trip forward a little.
In this way, after Martin's problem is solved, he might have time to do another job.
Selena is inconvenienced? That doesn't exist.
With the reason of helping Martin, it doesn't matter if he kills a lot in the past.
Anyway, it’s not like that... and Martin is still taking the blame!
The two of them headed southwest.
With Selina, Luke didn't have to bother listening to the information himself. He just had to listen to the key points she reminded him of.
Before midnight, Luke stopped the car and Selina immediately opened her eyes: "Where are we?"
She didn't sleep and kept listening to the information.
Luke smiled and got out of the car: "Let's go, we agreed to go camping."
Selina rolled her eyes. “You don’t have to drive seven hours to your grandpa’s ranch.”
Then she pushed the door and got out of the car. She looked around and asked, "What is this place?"
The surroundings were the silent and deserted wilderness, which seemed even more desolate at night, with not a single light within sight.
"Big Bend National Park." Luke answered and took the big backpack from the trunk: "Let's go, we still have a long way to go."
Selina followed his pace and couldn't help asking, "Are we...really here camping?"
Big Bend National Park is very desolate, but the scenery of desert, green land, canyon and river blends into it, making it a famous tourist destination.
However, tourist destinations with outstanding natural scenery like this will not be crowded even on holidays, as the population of the United States limits this.
Luke smiled and said, "Of course, we will camp here for a few days and enjoy the beautiful and magnificent natural scenery of our great motherland..."
Noticing Selina's contemptuous look, he stopped his habitual official rhetoric and said, "Well, in fact, we will secretly go to Mexico for a "tour" so that there will be no entry and exit records."