GAMBLE: Rule of Cards

A DAY OF FREEDOM

“We are not treating you two as outcasts in our team. It is just that, the more we are who will go to the infirmary, the more obvious it will be that we have a hidden agenda inside that room,” Denton explained but Sandra was not listening. “Okay, fine. For you to believe that we are not treating the two of you as an outcast, come with us, okay? Since we are four to come there, let us be not obvious and let us be more careful.”

Sandra looked at her right and left to see whether someone is still looking at them. “Let’s go now,” she said. She walked and was then followed by the three other members inside the team. “I am already looking around the area while we are talking and I told you all to follow me after seeing that no one is already there and that, it is safe to stroll around already,” Sandra muttered. “I do not know if you already checked but we also checked if there are guards around that particular area but there are none, so we are safe to go there.”

“Yeah, I saw that too,” Paul muttered. They continued on carefully strolling around the area, looking left and right, like they are doing something illegal. “Ever wonder why they did not put a guard to guard the area around the infirmary?” Paul asked which stopped the three others. “I mean, they may not be suspecting that there’s a whole in there, whether that was made by us or not. I just think it is weird to not have someone to guard around that area.”

“Maybe they still haven’t realized that there is a hole in there?” Denton muttered before entering the infirmary. “For now, let us just explore the area more. Come inside already,” Denton muttered as he opened the door to let the other three go inside the room. When the other three successfully went inside the room, he immediately shut the door and locked it. “Let us do this quickly. You should do the job, Paul.”

Paul raised his brows. “Why me? I mean… why not you?”

“You have better body strength than me. The last time I did try entering that, my body ached a lot… or is it because I was just beaten up that time. However, I really think that you could do better than me. Continue on spying on the holes you said that you have seen,” Denton remarked. Paul just nodded on his leader’s remark. “Make sure to be safe and not be seen by anyone, even the guards. If you can, see the hole farthest from you. We might, as well, see the game head’s office if we continue this.”

Paul started getting inside the hole, as what his leader wanted him to do. Jannah and Sandra, together with Denton stayed inside the infirmary, like guarding the room for possible people to come. They can hear a lot of noise from the outside, thinking that they must be the players who are strolling around the not-so-forbidden area during their free time. Denton was peeking on the little space the door made and saw that there are really no guards that are guarding the area. “Those are just players who are enjoying their temporary freedom,” he muttered to Sandra and Jannah who was worried that those might be guards who are strolling around the area, checking the players. “Do not worry.”

Paul, on the other side, continued on pushing himself upward. After finishing the stairs, he fit himself in the narrow way of the ventilator. “Damn, why is this way so narrow,” he complained as he continued on crawling down on the ventilator. Despite his complaint, he continued on crawling on the narrow way like his life depends on it. He reached the first hole. He saw nothing in there, same to what he saw the last time he came crawling inside the way. He then decided to go to the second hole but as he was on the process to, somebody came inside the room where the first hole was placed. “f**k,” he muttered as he panicked but still managed to hide his body in somewhere not really visible to the person’s view. “That was close.”

He muttered as he continued on crawling to the second hole. He stopped as he heard some strange sounds inside the second hole. He placed his head near the hole, in a place where he can still see what the hell is happening inside the room. “Hmm…” the guard moaned as he was beating his member. Paul moved back to see what the guard was watching on his cellphone. “Ugh…” The guard was beating his member but was still wearing his mask.

Paul was stunned to see what the guard was watching. “This bastard, really…” he muttered to himself as he looks on the phone the guard was watching the video from. It was a clip from the inside of the girl player’s comfort room, where the players are naked and showering. He knew it was from the girl player’s comfort room since he saw a lot of familiar players on the video.

As the guard came, he immediately closed his phone and placed it under his pillow. He then came out of the room, as if he did nothing inside the room. Paul, however, continued on crawling inside the narrow way of the ventilator. He gave no attention to all the other rooms after seeing that they were just ordinary guard’s room until he reached the last hole on the edge of the ventilator. “This is different,” he muttered to himself. Paul saw an unfamiliar person talking to someone on the phone. Since the person was wearing a mask and is talking on a deep voice, some words were not audible in his point-of-view. “Is he by any chance the…” he stopped talking as the person wearing a unique mask turned around and looked at the side where the hole of the ventilator in his room is. The person, however, finished his call and went outside of the room. “Is he the game head?”

Paul immediately crawled back and went outside of the hole. “Why are you being so sudden?” Denton asked Paul who was busy bringing back the air he missed. “Did someone see you in there?”

“No, I am safe, as far as I know,” Paul replied. She looked at the three of them with a serious gaze which happened to worry both Sandra and Denton. “I think I saw the game head, accidentally,” Paul replied. “He was wearing a unique kind of mask, which I think symbolizes his authority. He has deep voice and I can assure you that he is a guy. I am not quite sure but his room is kind of grandiose that I fell to think that he is the game head.”

“Really?” Denton asked which made Paul respond to him with a nod. “For now, let us go back to the arena first and talk about that there. Some people might notice how the four of us are never inside the arena all the time…”

Meanwhile, on the arena, there was Hector who was having a massage given to him by one of his lowly apostles. “Has anyone here saw that goddamn Denton and his team?” he asked his team who were all inside his lane. “Has anyone heard my question or are you acting like you cannot hear me? I am asking whether someone has seen Denton and his team, so you must answer.”

Almost all of them said no but someone muttered a different thing. “I think I saw the two girls of their team waiting outside the men’s comfort room. Most probably, they are waiting for the other two guys to finish their bath and then, go somewhere else. The rest of the happenings in their team, I do not know, actually. I immediately went to the arena after I took a bath.”

Hector stood up and smiled. “That is how you answer me, idiots. Do not leave me not responded,” he mumbled before he walked out of the arena with both his hands in his pocket. He was even whistling like he was off to hunt an endangered species in a jungle. He continued on walking to the places where there are no guards guarding the area. When he was about to take left, something on the right grabbed his attention. “Oh, there is Denton and his disciples… coming out from the infirmary.” Instead of following the four going on a different direction, he directly entered the infirmary which in first-look was neat and was not damaged at all. “What the hell did they do in here? Did they just make this room a f*****g room?”

He looked from left to right to see if something is weird. He examined the shelves if there was something odd in it. He then saw the trashcan and saw the bloody bandages in it, he immediately remembered that both Denton and Paul were injured, and so, those must be theirs. He saw some open bandages in there and knew that they came from them to dress the two guys’ wounds. “However, I am not convinced that they kept on coming back here for that only reason,” he muttered to himself. Hector thought that, because the four of them kept on coming back here was because they are hiding something. The cabinet on the left caught his attention because of its wheels. He thought that the reason why that cabinet has wheels on it is for it to be moved, and so he was intrigued and moved it. What greeted him was a great surprise to him. He looked at the door, remembering how the four inside Denton’s team just left the room before he entered. “I knew they were hiding something…”