Inside a mansion in L.A., Luo was sleeping soundly in a bed covered in bandages. He was still groggy as he slept for a long time. He tried to move his body around only to be assaulted by a wave of pain all over forcing him to lay back in bed.
'What happened? Where am I? I'm sure I was knocked out by that masked man. Didn't he finish me off?'
All of a sudden, the sound of footsteps was heard outside his room as he hurriedly pretended to sleep.
"Did you contact those people? Tell them we have something to sell"
"Yes, ma'am I've already informed them their agent shall pass through today to pick him up"
"Good, and what about our client's request? Did you find anything in that man's house?"
"Sadly, that old man didn't leave behind any data of his research anywhere in his house. We probably were too hasty in killing him"
Sigh
"That is fine, remember our client request was to kill him, it was just an added bonus if we could've gotten our hands on that data"
"That aside, did you find the background of this boy Emily?"
"No ma'am, all I could find was that he was brought to Charles's home six months ago and has been living there since then" (Emily)
"Doesn't matter at the end of the day he is just merchandise we are going to sell to make up for our losses"
Suddenly two women walked into the room and started discussing their affairs without paying any attention to Luo.
'So, they were the ones behind Charles' death, and they are not planning on killing me rather they want to sell me but to whom?'
His thoughts were cut off as the woman who seemed like the boss suddenly extended her hand to touch his third leg. This startled him though he still maintained his composure.
'What the? Is she crazy?'
"He packs quite the tool here, and he's pretty handsome as well. He also plays music."
She got close to his face and licked his mouth while commenting
"He's just my type"
"Please restrain yourself ma'am, don't forget that he managed to kill one of our trained forces. He is dangerous" (Emily)
Said the woman accompanying her, which made her boss stop
"Tsk, I would've loved to play with him for a couple months though"
Suddenly Emily's phone rang as she answered
"Got it, wait for a second"
"Ma'am, that group's agent is here to check him out. Shall I let him in?"
"Tell him to come up here"
After informing them, not long after the sound of a door knocking was heard as a man wearing a crow mask walked and spoke.
"It is an honor to meet you, Miss Garcia"
"Cut the crap, we don't have much time. Check your product and give a price"
"Hohoho, as impatient as always, well that's fine too, excuse me"
The crow-masked man checked Luo up and took a couple of photos afterwards.
"What a superb quality, he will make fine piece, how about two million dollars, Miss?"
"Oh, higher than usual you must've liked him, deal, make sure I get the money today, you can take him with you whenever you want"
"Glad to do business with you miss, I shall take him now if you excuse me"
Clap
The man clapped his hands as two men wearing suits walked in quickly putting hand and leg cuffs on Luo, then one took him on his shoulder. They followed the Crow man who went ahead leaving both women in the room.
'I'll probably get killed the moment I try to resist, but at least I'll at their face to remember them'.
Luo opened his eyes as he stared at the backs of the two women. One had short red hair reaching her neck, and a tattoo o fa snake on her left arm, the other wore long blond hair with their back facing him that's all he could see before turning.
'I'll remember you, just wait I'll make sure to shove nails up your as#es"
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Inside a black land cruiser, the crow man alongside his assistants were driving on the national road while Luo was put thrown inside the trunk with cuffs over his hands and legs.
'They are quite cautious. I'm sure nobody noticed that I was awake, though they still cuffed me.
After a long three hours' drive the car came to a halt, and the three got off seemingly waiting for somebody.
'Are they waiting for someone?'
Not long after the sound of another car was heard approaching before it stopped followed by somebody getting off
"Welcome sir, how have you been?"
One of the men who walked out of the newly arrived car saluted the crow-masked man.
"No need for pleasantries, I've got a new rat he's in the trunk take care of him and make sure he arrives to the camp safely with no harm"
"Roger, sir"
After saying this, the two-man walked to the trunk of the other extending their hand to open it when
"Wait!"
They were stopped by the crow-masked man.
"Inject this first to make sure he stays asleep without causing any trouble along the way"
He handed a syringe to them as he instructed. One of the men took the syringe as the other resumed opening the trunk
'They are quite cautious. I guess I can only give up retaliating at the moment as I'm sure they are also armed.'
Luo was previously hesitating on whether to blow his cover and retaliate or not. However, after these two men joined in and seeing how used they are to these operations he knew they were well prepared and facing them barehanded would be just asking for death. As he was thinking the man opened the trunk and without wasting a single second, he injected the tranquilizer into Luo's arm. They waited a couple minutes to make sure the potion took effect then proceeded to lift him up.
'Wow, it is quite powerful'
As he was slowly falling unconscious the men threw him in the back seat and got in the car as they drove away.
Luo couldn't handle it any longer as he blacked out.
Several hours later, a loud shout was heard prompting Luo's eyes to snap open
"GET THE FUCK UP YOU MIGGETS HOW LONG DO YOU INTEND TO KEEP DOZING OFF FOR"
Luo got up and looked around only to find himself inside what seemed a white room, the size of a football stadium with transparent glass at the top from which sunlight seeped through. Around him were a bunch of kids ranging from 12-20 years old all wearing the same black tight suit and were groggily getting up clearly, they were also drugged here.
"HEY, YOU STUPID SH#TS, STAND UP STRAIGHT AND LOOK TO THE FRONT"
All unconsciously followed the instruction and looked to the front only to find a screen that wasn't there before appearing after the walls automatically moved. This screen showed one bald black man on it, wearing military clothes. It was horrifying to see him, half of his face was covered in cut marks and the other half of his face was covered in burnt skin up to his neck.
'Wow, he looks gross AF, the type of person you wouldn't want to be with in a room'
Luo thought while surveying his surroundings and body
"LISTEN, YOU SONS OF B*TCHES FROM TODAY'S YOU NO LONGER ARE HUMANS"
"YOU ARE TOOLS WITH NO NAMES NO PAST NO LIFE ONLY A CODENAME AND COMMANDS TO FOLLOW"
"What the fuck is he talking about?"
"Tools, what the fuck do you mean you bald ass NI**A"
"Stop playing and let us go"
Some people started cursing and shouting at the screen nonstop only to be shut down by thunderous voice
"SHUT THE F*CK UP"
"DO YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT YOU OR WHAT YOU THINK? LISTEN YOU SNOTTY NOSED BRATS-"
He paused for a couple seconds then said with a sinister smile on his face and a lower tone that made a shiver run through everybody.
"You either follow or DIE"
Silence filled the room for a while only to be broken by a robust kid around 19 years old who seemed to be from the UK based on his accent
"Hah, how hilarious, kill me you f*cker, I dare you"
The man on screen only kept staring at him with no reaction for a couple minutes
"See, I knew you were only blu-"
BOOM
Before the kid could even finish his sentence, an explosion happened where he stood dragging along five people who were close to him scattering blood, and all types of matter inside the human body around some even landed on the others scaring them out of their witsIn the aftermath of the smoke dispersing, their bloodied and disfigured bodies could be seen on the ground, causing most people who saw it to throw up, while some females fell unconscious as soon as they saw them.
The instructor's eyes glistered with madness as a chilling smile stretched across his face as he said
"Well, here is my answer. We leave you the liberty of choosing"
He waited for a couple seconds seeing that everybody quieted down then he continued
"It seems you guys are finally awake well then welcome to HELL"
After that, the group became more obedient as they started their hellish training, it goes like this; they wake up at 5 AM train for 2 hours then they get to go back to their compartment which opens in the wall following everybody's numbers which they found tattooed on their chest, after entering they would find their meal inside alongside some pills, the room consisted of a bed, bathroom and table they were ordered to finish their meal every time and also the pills, of course some people didn't listen but they never got back out of their room after entering it, they get 15 minutes to eat then directly go back to train for 2 hours and the cycle kept repeating like this, their training mainly consisted of increasing their stamina, getting them in shape.
After three months of monotonous training like machines where if they slack off, they will never get back out of their room, some people couldn't handle it and just resigned to their fate while others straight out died from the constant increasing intensity leading to the group original number quickly dwindling from hundreds of people to only 20 persons, with six females and fourteen males.
'It's about time they made their move'
He thought to himself as he awaited some change. During his stay Luo was probably the best performer as he kept up with the training while also keeping his mind sane, but his physique was significantly different from three months prior even though he was in a good shape before right now he was more buffed up and he looked like some Greek god, although he was not the only one as every survivor had significant changes to their body but I can't say their minds are stable as most of them are on the verge of turning insane.
SHHHHH
Suddenly,on the same wall which had the big screen, below opened a huge hole with a bunch of armed people clad in black coming out of it. The kids were alarmed by the sudden appearance as they stood their ground with their eyes darting around looking for a route to escape, but their thoughts were cut off as they heard a familiar laughter coming from behind these armed people.
"AHHAHAHAHHA, Good, good twenty people actually survived in this batch not bad"
The armed man opened the way, as the bald man with scars on one side of his face with the other side burnt, walked between them to stand in front of the children who were grouped up.
'Dang, he looks uglier than he was on the screen' Luo mocked in his mind while keeping attention to the movements of the man.
"Congratulations, you've upgraded from rats."
"Well then let me formally introduce myself, I'm the commander here you can call me Bruce, I welcome you once again so_"
He paused as he looked at them with a chilling smile then continued
"LET'S GET THE REAL PARTY STARTED"