The sound of people talking could be heard faintly all around; none of them were too loud, but their numbers and directions were scattered everywhere.
Luke calculated silently, and was shocked: How many people are involved? There must be dozens of them.
Soon, the truck door was opened, and Luke and Selina were lifted down and placed on the ground.
The two of them were still leaning against each other, and these people had no intention of separating them.
The noises around indicated that the family had also been taken off the bus.
After a moment, a man's voice sounded: "Wake them up, I'm going to tell them the rules of the game."
A cool feeling came over him, and Luke felt refreshed.
This was cool, clear water, and it made him feel extremely comfortable when sprinkled on his face.
But he did not move, but paid attention to the reactions of several fellow refugees around him.
It wasn't until Selina began to stir dazedly that he began to react in a similar way.
Selina woke up, but it was obvious that she was not fully awake because the anesthetic was not light.
She asked vaguely, "What's going on?"
The man just now continued: "Welcome to our playground! Detective Selina! Detective Luke! Oh, you also have four unexpected teammates, Detective Bob and his three family members. You are very lucky, someone is playing this game with you. It was supposed to be just the two of you, but Detective Bob suddenly broke in. Congratulations."
Seeing a group of people wearing various masks and hoods in front of her, Selina was still dizzy: "What are you talking about?"
Bob also sobered up a little: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
"Haha, the answer is very simple. Now that you have joined our game, do you want to know what this game is?" The man's tone was fanatical and teasing.
Bob: "What game? What you are doing is illegal, you know!"
The man laughed. "Yes, we broke the law. But... who knows? Is it your Cleveland Police Department? Or is it the Houston Police Department of these two young detectives?"
After a pause, he continued, "Okay, no more nonsense. Congratulations on becoming a participant in the real-life hunting game, and your role is... the prey."
For a moment, Selina and Bob were silent, and Luke was just pretending to be dead.
He is a young policeman who just graduated from high school, he should act a little weak.
"Oh, how boring." The man sighed, "I'll tell you straight away. The game will begin in five minutes, and you are the prey in this game. Do you understand? Just like a wild boar or an elk, if you don't try hard to escape, you will be killed!"
Luke already knew in his heart that these guys were just a group of perverts who were making fun of real people.
Killing is not the point; the point is to enjoy the process of killing people like prey.
During this period of time, he had roughly determined the vehicles and number of people within his sight.
All seven of them were off-road vehicles, including pickup trucks, SUVs, and professional off-road vehicles, and judging from the noise behind him, there were at least four or five more vehicles.
That adds up to more than ten vehicles, not including the three pickup trucks that transported them here.
There were at least two people in each car, and some even had four. So, with this calculation, there were at least thirty people in the more than ten cars, and possibly as many as fifty.
What the hell... Where did this group of psychopaths come from? How come no one noticed them doing this
But as soon as the thought came to his mind, Luke knew that there was a real possibility that no one would discover it.
In Texas, a sparsely populated country, as long as it is confirmed that they were murdered and evidence is not found, what does the disappearance of a few foreign tourists matter
Let alone tourists, just look at Matt from the Houston Police Department who never returned after visiting his relatives. What’s the use
Besides, they are not local police, they are just civilians here.
It is impossible to count how many people go missing while traveling in the United States every year.
In sparsely populated areas, don't be surprised if you occasionally find corpses of unknown people from decades ago. Such incidents happen too often, so many that the police are unable to investigate.
Luke was still thinking in his heart, and Selina beside him wanted to speak.
He cursed in his heart, "Silly girl, there are dozens of people gathered here, what you say is of no use."
Pretending to be weak, Luke leaned towards Selina and buried his face in her fruitful chest. He put one hand on her butt and pinched her quickly with his fingertips.
Selina was stunned for a moment, looking at Luke who had his face pressed against her chest with a confused look on his face. She seemed to suddenly understand something and swallowed back the curse that she was about to say.
How much has Luke's physique changed? Selina is probably the person in the world who knows best.
She could even speak, so how could this guy still look like he was addicted to drugs and couldn't extricate himself
In addition, the pinch on her butt cleared her dizzy head and she immediately realized that he was asking her to shut up.
Bob's family was making much more noise over there.
Bob was cursing, while his wife, daughter and son were shouting and crying in confusion, as if they didn't understand the situation.
Perhaps it was not that they were confused about the situation, but that they vaguely understood what they would encounter next, and their spirits had begun to collapse.
"Okay, we're leaving now. You have five minutes to hide. Then, the hunting game officially begins! Remember, only the winner can survive." After the man finished speaking, he whistled, and all the cars surrounding the six people started and drove away.
Luke waited until it was dark again before he quickly looked around.
This is still a wasteland with many woods.
But those woods were not densely packed, nor were they large, so even if a person hid among them, they could be seen from outside at a glance.
The weapons in the hands of those people just now were not the same, but there were basically only two types, bows and crossbows.
Among them are the most common pulley bows and military crossbows in modern times, but there are also some more bizarre bows and crossbows. The only hot weapons are pistols in some people's holsters, but not in their hands.
It was obvious that these people really treated this as a complete game rather than a battle.
Luke's hands began to move quickly. He took off his T-shirt, pulled it open and wrapped Selina's feet, while he himself was barefoot.
With a physique nearly five times that of an average person, the soles of his feet are much harder than those of ordinary people.
The feeling of walking barefoot on the ground was uncomfortable, but not unbearable.
For Selena, forget it. If she were to walk barefoot on the ground, she would surely kneel down in pain if she took a few steps.
The ground here is covered with pebbles and wood, and running on it is almost like walking on glass.
As for why Selena didn't take off her clothes
Well, she just wore a sports bra and sports shorts, which covered only the key parts and had no extra fabric.
While doing all this, Luke pulled Selina's head down and quickly said in her ear: "Don't believe anything they say. There will be no survivors in this game. If you don't escape, you will die."