Hell Games
White Zone
White zone
“Bring him here!”
The order from Andrew was immediately responded by his men swiftly. They came while dragging Ef to the center of the stage. Arsy, the IT clerk tailed from behind.
“Everything is watching, what will happen to a human neck if this necklace explodes!”
Andrew turned to Arsy, “we're still live right?” whispered.
“Still, Sir.” Arsy seemed to want to convey something. But he's worried.
“What's up?” It seems Andrew understands Arsy's legacy.
“Audience from Indonesia threatened to cancel the bet if he was executed, the effect of which was snowballed. The audience considers Hell Game to be unfair. If Audience of Indonesia cancels the bet, it will affect the southeast Asian audience. Now many bets have been cancelled. Fund position to deposit back.”
“How many total bets have been canceled?” ask Andrew.
“31 million dollars, sir. Total from Southeast Asia!”
“How much is the total withdrawal potential, if southeast Asia cancels all?”
“Almost 300 million dollars!”
“Hmm...” seems Andrew is rethinking his plans. It was too great of a loss that he would experience just for the sake of a show. He returned to the center of the stage and faced the microphone.
“Connected this opening we show Live, I want to see how popular this person is. If the bet on his behalf reaches 1 million dollars. Then our execution cancel!”
The large screen displays the profiles of all participants, then the Ef profile enlarges. Currently the bet attached to him amounted to three hundred thousand dollars. It is still a long way to reach 1 million.
“We see, will you be saved by your people?” Andrew whispered to Ef.
The numbers on the screen change. Currently bets on behalf of Ef increased to 500 thousand dollars. Drastic increase within 1 minute.
“We give you thirty minutes. While waiting, I will explain the time frame in Hell game.”
“After opening, all participants are grouped by team and will be dispersed to all areas of the island. 3 Days to prepare and adapt. We call this phase the white zone.”
“The whole team will be at their respective base camp during the white zone. Please take advantage of that 3 days to set the strategy. At base camp you have all the survival needs available. Food, medicine, weapons and ammunition. If you feel the supply at base camp you are not enough. Please search to basecamp another team. I'm not suggesting there is a battle going on during the white zone, but if you force it, I don't forbid it either. Hahaha.” Andrew reached into his pants pocket and pulled out an object like a marble.
“This is a camera that has been installed in all corners of the area. From here the audience and the tower will monitor all events in the arena.” Andrew held up the camera in his hand, it was very small. Really like marbles. Shortly the screen on the left displays imagery from the camera that Andrew was holding. The tiny camera has 360-degree imaging capability.
“See, with this camera there is no unmonitored angle. Wow!!!” suddenly Andrew shouted.
“Betches for this person have increased to 780thousand dollars. There are 220 thousand more. Amazing upgrade!”
The screen returns to display the Ef profile. Hundreds of thousands of comments filled the column with multiple languages. EF seemed to be able to breathe a sigh of relief as there were so many comments with the language he was familiar with. The language of the tribes spread throughout the archipelago.
In just fifteen minutes, the number on the Ef profile changed to 1,989,021.5 Dollars. The bet placed on him was almost two million dollars.
“Execution in abort!”
***
After the opening ceremony was over, all the attendees in the sleigh returned to a ship. They will be sent to their base camp. Ef tried to remember every movement of the ship.
The ship moves every ten minutes, and takes down one team. Then move again for ten minutes and take down the other team. The average speed of a large ship is usually only 30-40 knots per hour. Meaning in 10 minutes they have traveled about 5-6 knots. Ef can conclude the distance between the basecampe participants about 10 to 12 kilometers.
“Tim fifteen down!” the guard shouted while opening the dock door. They were led to the beach.
“This is your map and chain lock!” a guard threw a map scroll and a key. Ef gave the key to Hamish to open their chains. Ef himself studied the parchment paper in his hand.
The map shows the island. There is not so much information available. Just a wind pointer, scale. There is also a basecampe position, and a check point position. From check point 1 to check point five.
“This map we must take care of. Now we're heading to base camp.” Ef takes command of the team. The three members followed the man's footsteps from behind.
The map is a scale of 1:100,000. The distance from the beach to basecampe 15 is approximately 1 centi. They have to walk from the beach into the forest to a distance of approximately 1 kilo meters.
Pounding the rugged terrain full of thickets was not something strange to Ef. But not for the other three team members. They seem very difficult. Moreover, the clothes the two women wore were not field clothes.
After traveling for thirty minutes, they arrived at a hut numbered 15. The hut was not large, only measuring twenty-five square meters. Ef told the other three teams to wait outside, and he checked the conditions first.
“Come in!”
The four of them were already inside the hut and observing their base camp. The walls of the hut were made of hardened clay, there was no furniture inside. There is only a wooden shelf, two large wooden crates measuring 1 by 2 meters.
Ef opened the chest, the first box containing clothes for four people. Clothing with dark grey synthetic rubber base with light blue list. There is an army watch with digital and analog timers. Shoes, hats, masks, backpacks and gloves. There are four each. Ef noticed the size of the shirt, 2 L size and two S size. It seemed like the Hell Game party was really preparing for the needs of the participants.
Ef then opened the second crate. The chest was filled with various biscuits, drugs, plaster, gauze and anti-septic, and various types of weapons. An M14 assault rifle, a shot gun, and four pistol units. There are also 4 similarly shaped daggers.4 5.56 caliber ammunition boxes, 4 12 caliber ammunition boxes for shotguns and 8 9 caliber ammunition boxes for pistols. There were also 20 hand grenades, 20 flashbangs and 20 smoke bombs.
“Are we really going to kill each other?” lin's voice shook. His face was pale as he looked at the pile of weapons.
Eph looked at all his members, their mimic was pale in similar fashion.
“We have three days to prepare ourselves.”
“Prepare yourself how? All my life I've never touched a real gun.” Although a man, Hamish also looked very upset.
“So do the other participants.” Ef chimed in to calm Hamish.
“Tim we benefited because there he was. He's a CIA agent.” Lin looked at Ef.
“We rely on you very much!” lin said expectantly.
*Island map Hell Game
“Now change your clothes!”