Chapter 728: Chapter 485: New Discoveries
Apart from the unlucky one, as Zachary had thought, some of the hiders had transformed into the likeness of pursuers in the game, but it was unknown if these transformed hiders also had the ability to kill pursuers as in the game.
Furthermore, Zachary did not believe that the few hiders he had just captured outside were all of the hiders who had become pursuers—there were certainly others who had followed different people into the manor.
Unlike the imbalance in the number of volunteers in the previous selection, this time, because it was randomly distributed, the number of pursuers and hiders should not differ greatly.
However, when the pursuers first entered the competition field, nobody counted the exact number of pursuers, and after everyone had entered, nobody verified the total number of pursuers again.
At this moment, Zachary hadn’t thought too much about it; after all, the competition had just begun, and he had already caught eight evaders. Even if he didn’t catch any more evaders later on, he believed he would not be the one eliminated at the end if there were eliminations.
As for whether there would be eliminations at the end of the competition, that was just Zachary’s speculation, after all, the numbers had been balanced for this match.
If, after this match ended, there was a significant discrepancy in numbers between the two sides, it was uncertain whether there would be last-place eliminations for the pursuers with the higher remaining numbers in the name of maintaining balance.
Or perhaps not, after all, if the roles were swapped in the next round as per the previous round’s rules, then having a slightly higher number of hiders might not make much of a difference.
Zachary looked at the two large stone lions squatting at the entrance and directly punched one, with the result matching his expectations—the stone lion was unscathed, but because of the excessive force, his fingers were now swollen and red.
After this test, Zachary confirmed that not just his cultivation level, but even his physical strength was suppressed in this competition.
After completing the testing of the required equipment, Zachary then re-entered through the manor’s main gate.
As soon as Zachary’s entire body was inside the manor, he felt a weight on his back, and reaching back with his hand, he discovered that upon entering the manor, a backpack had suddenly appeared on his back.
After moving the backpack from his back to the ground, Zachary opened it to see what was inside.
After taking out each item from the backpack one by one, Zachary realized that this competition might not be as simple as he had perceived.
The contents of the backpack were not complicated: a fully automatic rifle, with one magazine installed in the gun and five others in the backpack, each filled to its full capacity of thirty rounds, as counted by Zachary.
Beyond the fully automatic rifle, there was also a pistol, and apart from the magazine already in the gun, there were five full spare magazines in the backpack, although each magazine for the pistol only held ten rounds.
There was also a military multi-functional shovel with a sharpened edge; despite its appearance as just a foldable shovel, it had many features.
With the sharpened edge, the shovel could chop like an axe, and the serrated edge on the other side allowed the shovel to serve temporarily as a saw.
Within the hollow steel handle were stored screwdrivers of various sizes, and astonishingly, the end of the handle was even embedded with two pieces of flint; if someone truly ended up in the wilderness, the functionalities provided by this engineer shovel could satisfy most basic needs.
Apart from the three types of weapons, the backpack also contained nine packs of compressed biscuits and nine bottles of water, indicating that although there’s no set time limit for the pursuers to catch hiders, food restrictions seemed to impose a time limit.
Upon realizing this, an idea suddenly emerged in Zachary’s mind, and he subconsciously released his Divine Sense.
At the moment, Zachary had forgotten about his suppressed cultivation level upon entering the competition field, but as soon as he tried using Divine Sense, he immediately remembered.
What Zachary hadn’t expected was that while Divine Sense was also suppressed by the competition field, the effect was not too strong; his Divine Sense could still cover an area with a radius of about fifty meters, centered on himself.
If he were outside, a Divine Sense range this short would be utterly useless, as the direct line of sight could easily exceed fifty meters.
However, in this manor, while the grounds were very large, the building materials did not block Divine Sense.
With the help of Divine Sense, Zachary quickly found a map of the manor hanging in a corner by the entrance; noticing the wiped marks on it, he understood that there were other smart pursuers besides himself.
However, Zachary couldn’t understand why, having found the map, others left it behind and did not take it with them?
Zachary didn’t deny there might be good people among the pursuers, but he was certain they were few.
Regardless of what the others were thinking, Zachary directly took the hanging map down, removed it from its frame, and was about to carelessly drop the frame on the ground.
