Chapter 8 Killing Spree (Part 2)
When Hull walked back to the building, not only the audience watching the live broadcast on the dark web, but also the "Supreme" wearing beast masks were shocked.
Until now, the "Killing Carnival" has never been held, and there has never been a precedent for "the prey will return after escaping a certain area"; the guy who was chasing Hull with a chainsaw had taken it as if it were a matter of course to go to other locations through the secret passage behind the building a few minutes ago.
Now, Hull made a time difference and came to a place where there was no ambush.
After Hull ran back to the first floor of the building, he walked against the ground with his soles of his feet, waded through the triangle nails remaining on the ground, and quickly passed through a corridor.
Due to the layout of the building, those rooms on the second floor and east facing east cannot shine at this time, but there are several rooms on the first floor that can be seen; those rooms where Hull went.
Abandoned buildings like this are mostly patronized by homeless people or addicts and used as residences by them, and these people usually choose to live on the first floor.
One of the reasons is that many of them have a certain degree of disability, and those who are not disabled are in poor physical condition, so climbing stairs can naturally be avoided.
The second reason... People who have been wandering outside all year round know that no place is "safe" for homeless people. They are all people abandoned by society, people who "will not attract any attention even if they disappear suddenly"... Unconscious drunks, bad-hearted gangsters, perverted murderers, federal police officers, peers, etc., there are too many things that can bring them danger. If you are not lucky, you may be beaten, robbed, caught, or even abused or killed while lying... Therefore, choosing to live on the first floor is at least more convenient for escaping when you encounter some kind of accident.
At this moment, Hull's purpose of returning was to go to the first floor to find some items left by the homeless.
There is no doubt that homeless people also have a "legacy". Before they die of hunger, disease, or other causes of death that only God knows, they will more or less stock up on some "useful things" where they live. Of course... what they think is useful may be garbage to us.
Empty bottles, old clothes, tattered sofas, cracked mirrors, expired shampoos, unused paper pumps...
What Hull wants now is something similar. He must use everything he can to survive this extremely unfair escape crime; and the probability of finding useful things in this building is obviously higher than the woods outside.
Five minutes later, Hull completed the search and used the moonlight to find a small folding knife, an iron pipe more than one meter long, a clean plastic water bottle with a lid, a dirty and worn-out waist bag, and half a roll of unused tape.
After finding these things, Hull immediately left and ran into the woods again; although he generally guessed that the person who was chasing him just now might not have thought that he would come back to search, he was not sure whether the other party had left, nor could he know whether the other party would turn back again.
The only thing Hull can be sure of is that in this show, he must be monitored by cameras in the dark in most cases, so the wisest thing to do is not to stay anywhere for too long.
After running into the woods, Hull walked for another time and came to a place he hadn't been to before. He stopped and used the tape he had just found to treat his wound.
At this moment, he didn't have time to consider the hygiene and breathability issues. In short, just block the scars first to prevent the wound from tearing again during the action. Considering that the injection given by the judge had helped him stop most of the wounds' blood and avoid the risk of infection, it should not be a big problem to deal with this in a short period of time.
After dealing with this imminent injury problem, Hull set out again.
The moonlight is still beautiful tonight, and the moonlight shines through the shade, illuminating a hazy road ahead.
While moving forward, Hull was also paying attention to whether there were any clues left by the "Supreme" around him; what was a little unexpected was that... there were, and there were many.
As mentioned above, in terms of layout and production rigor, "killing carnival" is far less than the "judgment show". If the judge's team is a group of RTS e-sports players who can control the situation accurately to the second, then those guys who call themselves "the supreme" are ordinary players who play Krypton gold mobile games.
When conditions are not equal, it is not difficult for ordinary people to deal with ordinary people: one side has comprehensive monitoring of the camera, is very familiar with the environment, has the advantage of the number of people, equipment, and psychological advantages... the other side is in a dark and unfamiliar environment, psychologically being chased and helpless panic.
Such a killing duel must be the unilateral "carnival" of the former.
But today, an alien appeared in the show... With the help of the judge, Hull's heart was separated from the category of "ordinary people". He not only suppressed his fear, but also did not blind his reason by anger. When he observed and thought with a relatively calm attitude... he easily found many flawed footprints, indentations of heavy objects, tire marks of off-road motorcycles, pits that mount ladder legs, etc. When these things appeared in sight, it would be natural to find the camera position and the specific location of various traps.
To be honest, the traps set by the "Supreme" are indeed worthy of praise... The large traps, pits full of steel nails, and foot cords made of barbed wire... are all quite vicious things, and they are hidden well. It is not difficult to guess that there are professionals in setting traps among them; however, near each hidden trap, there are several poorly hidden cameras, and the traces left when a large number of these cameras are arranged. Although it is understandable that they want to shoot "the target is damaged by the trap" from multiple angles, this approach is indeed too amateur.
In this way, Hull avoided one trap after another and walked for a long time without any obstacles.
This... undoubtedly caught the "Supreme" off guard.
You should know that while Hull was efficiently escaping, the other "prey" caught were all traps, injured, wailed, and cried... and then they were then played and killed by one or more "Supreme" wearing masks and holding weapons as toys, and two of them were already dead.
At present, although Hull is the last "prey" tonight to "wake up" and set off, he has become the person on the edge of the "hunting area", which must be what the "Supreme" don't want to see.
You should know that there has never been an example of a successful escape of a "real prey" since its inception... not one.
Although they say in each issue that "those who escape successfully can get a large bonus", this is just a matter of saying that the "Supreme" never thought of letting go of "prey", let alone giving money to "prey".
Every time they see someone running away, they will temporarily change their odds and start a crazy pursuit of them to earn more gambling online.
Of course, they will be seen through when doing this, so they once asked someone to "act" several times, that is, a mercenary who had colluded with them pretended to be "prey" and fled according to the prompts and routes they gave in advance. They pretended to start a crazy pursuit before the target was about to escape, but in the end they still let him escape thrillingly.
Afterwards, they would publish their certificates for transferring money to the "survivor" on the website and publicize how good life the other party has lived after getting the money... In this way, the audience (at least part of it) will believe that someone has really escaped from the "killing carnival" and received the bonus.
But in fact... those "fake preys" just took commissions to act.
In addition, the rule "only one person can get money by escaping" is also for the convenience of them controlling the results; because in the early stage of the program, there were many "preys" who joined forces to escape after meeting, which brought certain obstacles to the "Supreme" killing prey. After all, if there are too many people, they will become more courageous and will be more difficult to deal with... But after adding this rule, the "preys" have to be wary of each other and always pay attention to whether they will be stabbed in the back, especially when they are about to escape, the greed in human nature will inevitably change the mind. As long as you give a scoop to your companion before escaping, even if you don't kill the other party, just knock him out and wait for death, you have a high chance of getting a huge bonus. Compared to being chased and abused for a night in vain and then returning to the originally dark life... This temptation is really too great. When the matter is about to come, few people will not think about it.
But Hull is acting alone tonight, and he doesn't have to think about those things, he just needs to escape by himself.
As the "Supreme", there are two choices at this moment: first, give up chasing Hull, and simply release another "prey", so that they can say "because they escaped, neither of them will get the bonus"; but this situation... has never happened in the past.
If it happened, the "killing carnival" might not have been able to continue.
The reason is simple... If someone really escapes without getting the bonus, they will definitely call the police afterwards, and their "hunting area" will be exposed the next day.
Besides, at this moment, another "prey" far away from Hull was already scarred and dying. Even if he didn't care about him, he might not be able to survive until he escaped... If the "Supreme" start paddling now and let Hull run away, the other person didn't run away for a long time while they were paddling, the audience would definitely see that they deliberately slacked off and chased after they didn't want to give the bonus.
To sum up, they only have the "second option" to chase them to the end.
After making a decision, the twelve "Supreme Ones" took action. They left three people to monitor, command and support in the headquarters. The remaining nine people divided into two groups, six people went to chase Hull, and the three people killed the guy who was almost dying. At the same time, the people who stayed in the headquarters quickly changed the real-time odds of various bets to attract more viewers to bet.
They said they went to chase the six Hulls... They were in groups, riding off-road motorcycles, leaning on night vision devices, and each rushed towards Hulls through a route without traps.
When the "Supreme" kills people with their own hands, one person usually takes the weapon and the other person takes the camera from the first perspective. However, sometimes there are cases where they can be handled separately, because many of their slaughter props come with their own cameras.
The reaction of the "prey" when it is killed is the biggest highlight of the "killing carnival". The real blood and death that cannot be presented by any ult film or exploitation film, as well as the reaction of a person when it is killed, the tragic situation... is difficult to describe and is enough to change the mental state of the viewer.
"Hey guys, things seem to be a little bit wrong."
Just as the six "Supreme" approached Hull's location, their accomplices in their headquarters suddenly spoke to them through the communication channel.
“What’s the situation?”
"That guy is gone."
"What do you mean? What does it mean to disappear?"
"It just disappeared. He was under the surveillance of the t012 probe just now, and then he found t012 and destroyed it. Then several nearby probes also lost the signals one by one. Now the images in that area are completely black, and I don't know where that guy is."
"Damn it! He won't have run away, right?"
"No, the cameras on the border are all running normally, and I didn't see him running out."
"That is, he didn't continue running out?"
"It's impossible. I've arrived in the t0 area and I can basically see the road in the distance. I can't get lost there."
"Did... he deliberately not run out... stay there to ambush us?"
"Even for money, it's not going to be that way, right? This guy's ID shows that he is an ordinary office worker and not a special forces soldier. What do he think he can do?"
"If you ask me who I ask, in short, you can only rely on your own night vision device next, be careful about everything."
"Don't worry, the location of the trap is marked on the electronic map, just like him..."
Click
At this moment, the communication dialogue suddenly stopped.
A strange noise came from the communicator of the man who had said half a sentence, followed by a loud tumbling sound and the sound of the motorcycle engine gradually stopping.
"Hey! What's wrong? Rhino? Lion? Please answer when you hear it!"
The person at the headquarters called the code name of the speaker and the code name of the companion who was riding on the same motorcycle with him, but he shouted several times, but no one responded.
"What's going on? What's wrong with them?"
"Damn it! Reply quickly, this joke is not funny at all!"
The two cars were also very nervous. The motorcycles of them and the "Rhino Lion" were wrapped in trident towards that area. The distance was not too far, but it would probably take two or three minutes to drive through the woods to support them.
Chapter completed!