american horror story

Arkham was a very rare protagonist in horror movies – resourceful and courageous, with the only major flaw being his soft-heartedness.

But it was precisely this soft-heartedness that led to him being captured by the Collector in the first *Collector* movie. He could have escaped, but he stayed to save a little girl who was about the same age as his own daughter.

In the second movie, he was also morally blackmailed by that arrogant Peters into helping them find the Collector.

It's hard to imagine how someone with such high moral standards ended up as a thief.

"Ready?"

Peters, that guy, was indeed resourceful. He managed to get an armored van and assembled a small team of five people.

The man in black who was knocked out by Roy that day was also there, glaring at him.

The five-person team carried various weapons, including submachine guns and shotguns, a pretty good setup, all police-issue weapons.

Roy suspected these guys might actually be SWAT team members, active duty, taking on a side job.

"Ready!"

The four subordinates checked their firearms and then looked at Roy, who had nothing in his hands.

"What are you looking at me for? I brought a gun!"

With that, Roy pulled out his Smith & Wesson M625 and showed it off.

"You only brought a revolver?"

Actually, Roy also had a Remington 870 in his inventory, but there was no need to mention it. It might change the tide of battle at a crucial moment.

"A revolver is enough. I've looked up some information. The Collector doesn't like using firearms. Your firepower is so strong, be careful not to hurt your own people."

Roy remembered that in the movie, these guys did seem to accidentally injure their own team members.

Peters chuckled, completely disregarding Roy's warning.

"We are trained professionals! You, on the other hand, if there's danger later, no one will take care of you. If you want to back out, do it now."

Peters still didn't want to share the money with Roy, so he gave him one last piece of advice before leaving.

"Hehe, you guys should take care of yourselves first!"

Peters and his five men, plus Roy and Arkham, a total of seven people, got into the armored van.

The reason why Arkham, the protagonist of this horror movie, was considered resourceful and courageous was that even after being locked in a wooden box by the Collector, he didn't panic.

Instead, he recorded the turns and distances by making marks on his arm. This way, he could roughly deduce the location of the Collector's lair.

But first, they had to go to the place where Arkham was captured by the Collector that day.

After several hours of driving and searching, Roy and the others finally found a rather suspicious building, a large abandoned motel located on the outskirts of Austin.

"It should be here. I remember the Collector's lair being very large, and this motel is the most suitable building in this area."

Peters observed the motel from a distance, its exterior walls almost completely stripped of cement.

"Very good, let's go in."

With that, Peters took the lead and got out of the car.

"Wait a minute, are you just planning to barge in like this?"

Roy looked at Peters speechlessly.

"Of course not. Mr. Arkham, could you help us pick a lock?"

Roy slapped his forehead. What was the difference between this and barging in?

Peters and his group were just too confident, which was why they would later be wiped out by the Collector.

"Mr. Peters, we agreed that I only needed to lead you to the Collector, and then I could leave!"

"Hehe, we haven't seen the Collector yet, have we? We need to confirm that we've found the Collector and Elena before we can let you go."

What he said wasn't wrong, but Roy knew this was just the beginning of Peters morally blackmailing Arkham.

Arkham was clearly hesitant and didn't want to get close to the Collector's lair.

"Let me do it."

Roy had previously obtained a special ability called "Master Thief" from Penny's Conquest Treasure Chest, which automatically granted him lock-picking skills, and he hadn't had a chance to practice it yet.

The large iron gate of the abandoned motel used an old mechanical lock. Roy took out a piece of wire and inserted it into the keyhole.

"You can pick locks? Be careful not to alert..."

*Click!* Before Peters could finish his sentence, Roy had already opened the lock.

"What did you just say?"

Peters opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment, while Arkham on the side looked very shocked.

"Do Texas high schools even teach lock picking? Even for me, it would take several minutes to open this kind of old iron lock!"

Is this "Master Thief" ability really that powerful?

Roy remembered that Arkham's thieving skills were quite good, considered above average among thieves.

It seemed that the "Master Thief" ability he got was indeed valuable.

"I learned it in Hawaii."

"Hawaii even teaches that?"

Arkham was very surprised.

Hawaii also teaches how to fly helicopters!

Peters heard that Roy was joking and rolled his eyes before pushing Arkham.

"Alright, let's go in. Mr. Arkham, you lead the way!"

Arkham resisted, but he wasn't as strong as Peters.

"Why? I can wait for you at the door! Don't worry, I definitely won't run away before I get the money!"

"Haven't you figured out who's in charge here?"

Arkham was helpless and could only walk into the motel.

This motel seemed to have undergone special renovations, and its internal structure looked more complex than an ordinary motel.

They hadn't walked far when one of Peters' subordinates accidentally stepped on some kind of trigger, and the motel door instantly locked shut.

"Damn it! I'm afraid we've been discovered!"

Arkham's expression became very ugly. He knew the Collector's terror well, and the trap just now must have alerted him.

"Is that so? Then let's just openly take down that rat who only knows how to hide!"

Peters was still so confident. In his eyes, the Collector was like a rat that could be easily crushed to death.

Arkham was much more cautious.

"My suggestion is to leave a few people outside. If things go wrong, we can call for backup."

"No need! The five of us are enough!"

Peters didn't want to share the bounty with more people and forced Arkham to continue leading the way.

At this moment, the only female member of the team noticed something was wrong.

"Strange, where did that boy go?"

Hearing this, Peters looked around and indeed found that Roy was gone.

"Didn't he come in?"

One of the team members raised his hand to answer Peters.

"That guy came in before me."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

Arkham immediately thought of a possibility.

"Could that kid have accidentally triggered some mechanism and fallen into some trap?"

The silent disappearance of one person made Peters' team a bit nervous.

"Forget about him! I said earlier that this kind of thing is not something a kid can handle. Let's keep moving!"

Peters forcibly brought the team's attention back, but Arkham had a different opinion.

"Wait a minute, are you just going to leave that kid?"

"Mr. Arkham, we need to find the Collector first to rescue everyone in this motel, do you understand? Lead the way!"

Roy, of course, didn't accidentally trigger any mechanism and fall into a trap. Instead, he put on the Ghostface mask in his inventory and slipped into the shadows.

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Peters and his group were a completely makeshift team. Following them would only lead to being screwed over. It was better to let them attract the Collector's attention while he took the opportunity to rescue Elena and get the bounty first.

While lurking in the shadows, Roy noticed cameras everywhere in the motel.

However, the Collector couldn't be watching in the surveillance room all the time. He definitely had to take action. Roy just needed to wait patiently for the opportunity.

On the other side, in a room in the motel that looked like an operating room, the short-haired girl Elena was trying to save herself.

After some effort, Elena successfully used the hook on her bra strap to go through the hole in the wooden box and open the latch, escaping from the large red wooden box.

Temporarily free, Elena cautiously observed her surroundings and soon found another large wooden box. She tried to open it.

A man's corpse rolled out of the wooden box. It had been dead for an unknown amount of time and emitted a strong stench of decay.

Elena covered her nose and controlled her breathing, then observed the surrounding situation. Immediately after, she saw an operating table.

There was a bloody person on the operating table. Looking closely, one could see that the guy's muscles were still twitching slightly, clearly still alive.

Elena cautiously walked to the side of the operating table and checked the person, only to find that the Collector had injected him with a large amount of psychotropic drugs, and he had clearly lost consciousness.

And beside the operating table, there was also a digital video camera mounted on a tripod.

It seemed that the Collector was performing live dissections while recording everything with the digital camera.

Thinking of this, Elena felt extremely disgusted, and a wave of nausea almost made her throw up on the spot.

At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly opened from the outside.

Hearing the noise, Elena quickly crawled under a nearby table to hide.

Elena heard heavy footsteps enter the room and pause in front of the large red wooden box she had just escaped from.

This made Elena feel uneasy. After crawling out of the box, she had forgotten to close it.

Elena couldn't be blamed for this. After all, she was just a pampered high school student, and being able to escape from the large red wooden box on her own was already an extraordinary feat.

Now, the Collector must already know that she had escaped, and Elena couldn't help but start to panic.

The Collector, like many perverted killers, really enjoyed slowly tormenting the prey's spirit. So, he didn't search for Elena everywhere but instead opened a glass jar and released his favorite spiders to find her.

The large, furry spiders quickly found Elena and began to crawl all over her. Some even crawled into the crevices.

Well, because she was going to Niddy's birthday party, Elena was wearing relatively simple clothes with little fabric on her chest.

Girls might like small, furry things, but definitely not these furry spiders with eight legs.

Just as Elena felt like she was about to collapse, a loud alarm suddenly sounded outside. Someone had triggered the Collector's trap.

The Collector didn't think much of it and immediately left the room to check. He didn't forget to lock the door behind him.

Having escaped death, Elena quickly brushed off the spiders on her body, then let out a heavy breath. She almost screamed just now.

Observing the room, the main door was locked by the Collector, so she definitely couldn't get out that way.

However, Elena noticed a vent in the room. She used a surgical tool as a screwdriver to open the vent and crawled inside.

This ventilation duct was quite narrow. An average adult male probably couldn't fit through it. Luckily, Elena usually paid attention to her figure, so she could barely pass through the ventilation duct.

Even so, some parts of Elena were rubbed particularly painfully, so she immediately crawled out when she found an exit.

There was also a large wooden box here. Elena noticed some movement inside the box.

Could there be someone else locked inside?

It has to be said that Elena really liked opening boxes. She wanted to open any box she saw, and this time was no exception.

A blonde girl about the same age as Elena crawled out of the wooden box. Her face was painted with comical makeup, and she had some injuries on her body, but they weren't serious.

"Were you also captured by the Collector?"

The blonde girl nodded timidly, tears streaming down her face as she wiped off her makeup.

"Mr. Collector locked me in a wooden box and even put makeup on me."

"Then do you know how to get out of here?"

The blonde girl shook her head in fear.

"We can't run around. Mr. Collector will be angry!"

Elena felt that the blonde girl's tone was strange and suspected that she might have been tortured by the Collector, leading to some mental confusion.

A trace of sympathy rose in her heart, so she prepared to leave with her.

"It's okay, the Collector won't find us."

Elena led the blonde girl to find a way out inside the motel. This place had been改造 (transformed/renovated) into a maze, and the two of them wandered around for a long time without finding a way out.

Fortunately, the blonde girl seemed to know the Collector's trap style quite well and pointed out some traps for Elena, allowing Elena to remain safe.

However, during this process, Elena's hearing aid malfunctioned, causing the blonde girl to discover that she was hearing impaired.

This discovery made the blonde girl's emotions become agitated.

"So your hearing is impaired? How could you possibly not be discovered by the Collector?"

Elena quickly explained.

"With my hearing aid on, I'm just like a normal person! You don't have to worry about that!"

But the blonde girl obviously didn't believe Elena. She slapped Elena and started yelling things that Elena couldn't understand.

"This must be a test Mr. Collector gave me. He must love me. You can't escape!"

The blonde girl's shouting eventually attracted the Collector, who was wearing a leather hood. She rushed to the Collector's side and wagged her tail like a pet seeing its owner.

"It's her, she's the one who brought me here!"

Elena finally understood that the blonde girl had mental problems, most likely Stockholm Syndrome, and had developed feelings for her abuser. So, she hurriedly turned around and ran away.

The Collector coldly pushed the blonde girl away and followed unhurriedly.

Elena ran wildly down the hallway. Fortunately, she was quite familiar with this section of the motel. After avoiding various traps, she climbed onto the high pipes when she reached a corner.

The Collector passed under the pipes, looking around in confusion for any sign of his prey.

Perhaps because she was too nervous, Elena still accidentally made some noise, which the Collector heard.

Just as Elena was falling into despair, she suddenly heard a whistle from not far away.

"Hey, you must be the Collector, right?"

Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick)