The smell of blood belonged to the man named Steve in the couple.

The smell of dog blood, if not surprising, should have belonged to the dog of the bear child in the town under the mountain.

Instead of entering the house, Luke sped through the woods, chasing Steve's smell of blood.

Mixed with Steve's smell of blood is the smell of his girlfriend Jenny, as well as Annie's.

The reason why Anne called Luke was probably because she received a call for help from the couple.

When talking to her, Luke said that he was a police officer by profession, working as a security instructor at the Thirty-Seven Middle School campground.

And if she calls the police directly, it is unknown when the police will come.

This is not a town, but a deep mountain forest at night, and the police are also people, and they are also afraid of driving along the mountain road at night and getting into a car accident.

Luke moved extremely quickly, quickly running a few hundred meters before finally coming to a halt in front of a dilapidated wooden house near a waterhole.

He approached the hut and whispered, "Anne, don't be silent, I'm Luke." ”

Inside, Anne still snorted slightly, but forced her to swallow in the middle of the call.

Luke pushed open the dilapidated door of the hut and stepped inside.

The situation inside was quite tragic.

Steve was covered in blood and lay on the ground, his eyes full of horror and despair.

Seeing Luke enter the door, he trembled after a moment, looking terrified.

Jenny hurriedly whispered in his ear, "It's Luke, it's the police." ”

Steve's eyes were a little more hopeful, and he looked over.

But he could no longer speak, his lips trembling slightly were pale, and he had obviously lost too much blood.

Anne and Jenny were also covered in blood, but they were not injured, only stained with Steve's blood.

Luke gestured to silence the two of them, then quickly lit a small flashlight to check on Steve's injuries.

After a while, he handed the small flashlight to Anne and asked her to help with the lighting, frowning and asking, "Who did it?" ”

Jenny said in a trembling voice, "It's those kids. ”

Luke: "The gang in the town down the hill?" Six people, all sixteen or seventeen years old, and one is a girl? With a dog? ”

Jenny nodded repeatedly: "That's them." ”

Luke had already removed the backpack behind him, pulled out some medical supplies, and brought himself a pair of rubber gloves to begin cutting through Steve's wounds.

He went on to ask, "Why did they do this?" ”

Steve's injuries weren't light, but they weren't the kind of serious injuries that could be inflicted with a sharp stab.

Bear children with hot heads are easy to slam their hands ruthlessly, commonly known as not serious, which is also the reason why many bear children make trouble.

But there are more than a dozen wounds on Steve's body, and the wounds are not smooth, and there are twists and overlaps.

This kind of incision shows that the opponent does not attack directly, but cuts relatively slowly, and there is likely to be a pause in the middle of the cut, and the knife is repeated many times.

To put it bluntly, this wound is more like an execution or sadism than a simple murder.

This situation is a bit frightening.

Jenny watched his rescue behavior, her heart ignited hope, and her mouth began to explain what happened before: "He, they stole our car, let's go find ...... Steve finds the place where they planted weeds and tries to get the car back. So they let the dog go, and Steve stabbed the dog...... And they rushed up and seized him...... Later, they tied up Steve and took turns cutting him with a knife......"

Luke just listened quietly and didn't interrupt her.

Jenny's words do not necessarily represent the facts, or they are not all the facts.

But in his keen sense of smell, Steve and Jenny really have a very small amount of fresh "weed" smell on them.

Anne added a few words to the side, such as Jenny helping the injured Steve to call for help, and when she called Luke, the group of children ran to look for them.

Jenny, reminded by Anne, temporarily stopped the bleeding on Steve's body with her clothes, and abandoned a piece of bloody clothing on another road.

The two women helped Steve to hide in the dilapidated cabin, and only then did they avoid the children who were being pursued.

The words of the two women, plus the various situations before, Luke can also make a rough judgment.

Maybe Steve and Jenny had a violent conflict with those kids, but it's not normal for a group of kids to do something to Steve like this.

After all, even if a normal child suffers a loss, he should find his parents or call the police, instead of arresting the other party and taking turns to use a knife to commit violence.

Normal children are not so cruel.

As he thought, Luke sped up the movement of his hands.

After giving Steve an anesthetic, he quickly cleaned his wound and then stuffed it with gauze.

This is only a temporary measure that will allow Steve's blood loss to be alleviated.

The good news is that Steve was stabbed so many times that he didn't hurt a large blood vessel, and when he was sent down the mountain, he could be saved.

When Jenny finished telling what happened, Luke asked Annie, "What about your uncle Stephen?" ”

The group of bear children chased and went to the campsite cabin, and Stephen, the shopkeeper, didn't come out to stop it, which is very abnormal.

Not to mention that Stephen was alone, there was an old-fashioned double-barreled shotgun in the cabin, which was only used to deter a few bear children.

Anne shook her head: "He said this afternoon to check the wires, it seems that the group of children broke another line, and after going out in the afternoon, they never came back." ”

Luke was speechless.

These bear children are so bad that they haven't done anything good.

"Is that pickup truck still in the campground? And car keys. He asked.

Annie: "Yes, the car keys are hanging on the wall next to the living room door. ”

Luke's hand quickened, and after dealing with Steve's injury, he said to him, "Bear with the pain, I'll help you through." ”

Steve could only nod slightly, indicating that he understood.

With only his left hand, Luke helped him up: "Go, come with me back to pick up the car and go down the mountain to take Steve to the hospital." ”

Jenny: "But the kids ......"

With a flick of his right hand, Luke pulled Glock out of his quick-draw holster, "If anyone dares to point a knife at me, then I'll be happy to shoot a few suspects who assaulted the police." ”

Jenny then reacted: "You ......"

Anne hurriedly explained: "He's a policeman. ”

Luke didn't bother to pull out the badge in the inner pocket of his clothes.

If Jenny was even suspicious of the person who helped save her boyfriend's life, then he didn't bother to deal with her.

Jenny was quick to respond, "Thank you, Luke." ”

Luke just nodded and said to Anne, "I'll keep an eye on you, don't panic, just follow me." ”

"Hmm." Anne nodded vigorously.

Four men pushed the door open.

At this moment, the sky was overcast, and there was a thunderclap, and there was a bang, but the rain began to fall.

He didn't hesitate, just said, "Go." ”