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Twenty minutes later, they teamed up with someone.
The significant thing about this incident for Xia Tian was that he finally found someone he could blackmail to replace his weapon with a better one.
At that time, Xia Tian and Bai Jingan were walking down the stone steps and all the pathways seemed to be converging in the same direction. There were two men—they were masters—lying in ambush behind the shadow of a stone wall. Xia Tian simply hadn’t detected anyone there beforehand.
He just suddenly stopped and looked at Bai Jingan to say something—he wasn’t sure, he just felt a vague “something is wrong”. The scent of death wasn’t actually always distinct.
Just then, a sword came at him.
It was very swift and silent.
Xia Tian raised his hand to hold the blade of the sword. This was the intuition honed between life and death in the Lower City, otherwise survival was basically impossible.
Xia Tian and his opponent exchanged a couple of moves. Bai Jingan, in the back, quickly took a bow and arrow, pointed at another person hiding in the darkness, and fell into a confrontation.
The man who attacked Xia Tian was in a soldier’s uniform, his sword blade cutting diagonally through his arm, while Xia Tian’s sword hilt struck his chest and left a bloody mark on his neck, if the cut was a tiny bit deeper, the fight would have been over. But, it was alright, next time, he would grasp the opportunity.
At this moment, the other man suddenly took a step back and shouted, “Wait a minute!”
Xia Tian didn’t stop, and he slashed a sword over. The opponent quickly and firmly blocked the blow, then said, “How about teaming up? We are only two people—”
Xia Tian continued to attack, while he continued to shout: “The easter egg is a plot game. Forming a team won’t deduct points!”
Xia Tian reluctantly stopped, the tip of his sword pointed at the other guy’s throat, just a little bit more forward would be enough to finish him off. But at this point he also realized that they did need to team up so they had a better chance of winning. Bai Jingan must have been thinking the same.
That was when he realized that he had seen this guy before. This guy’s name was Doug, the captain who had captured them on the grasslands at the beginning of the plot game. He was tall and handsome, a typical look that the Killing Show was fond of.
He had looked like he was a wandering soul the whole way, but it was the Killing Show, and clearly no one could stay out of it the whole time. Not even if you looked handsome.
One of his swords was shiny, without any rust, and only those who drew the soldier’s card had such a benefit.
“Up ahead is the underground gladiatorial arena, you’ll need someone who knows the way,” he added.
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Xia Tian looked at him for a moment and said, “I like your sword.”
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“So,” Xia Tian checked his new sword, “you guys who drew NPC lots are joining the party too?”
“No one can say no to a party,” Doug said, “Doug.”
Xia Tian reached out and shook his hand, “Xia Tian. This is Bai Jingan.”
They made a quick self-introduction; Doug was a fighter, and his companion, named Feng Shan, was a fellow fighter who said he had a bit of a voice problem and didn’t like to talk much.
Then Xia Tian said, “My teammate needs a sword too.”
“What does a tactical planner need a sword that good for?” Doug said.
“He just wants it.”
Doug glared at him, took Feng Shan’s sword as soon as he could, and handed it over. Feng Shan opened his lips, but finally acquiesced to the distribution and took the rusty sword that was handed back.
They walked all the way towards the location where the Evil God had awakened.
Xia Tian asked Doug if he had anything to eat, and Doug said he didn’t. Then Xia Tian complained that the sword he had given was just a little bit better than the mass-produced cheap sword in the zombie’s hand. Doug, in turn, asked him to understand the phenomenon of the senior officers embezzling part of what should be issued to the lower rank soldiers.
Doug was disgusted with the rusty sword and said that he would be able to find a few sharper ones later. He had almost a hundred “colleagues” down there, and the swords would be more than enough.
His tone was nonchalant when he said that he was a veteran in the Killing Show and had already survived two sessions, hoping to survive the third—Xia Tian suspected that in addition to being clever, mainly because he was handsome and able to decorate the arena, that he was able to barely escape with his life up until now.
These days, if you weren’t handsome, then you shouldn’t commit crimes, otherwise you wouldn’t even be qualified to be a fighter in the Killing Show.
That fellow Feng Shan hadn’t spoken all along. With a sullen expression, he was walking on the periphery of everyone.
According to Doug, the Archduke Tianqian was once a young and promising archduke, but was poisoned during an assassination attempt for power, and although he was rescued, he could only linger on his sickbed for years, and because of the toxins, the insides of his body began to rot. In addition, the face he was immensely proud of, was also affected. Wei Ling was so handsome, how could this point not be mentioned?
At the most desperate moment, he heard the call of the Evil God and found this forgotten underground building, which was awakened by the pain and thirst for blood… that was the story anyway.
The Archduke, fascinated by the strength of the Evil God and by eternal life, power and influence, sacrificed his wife and three children, as well as the inhabitants of the entire land. At the same time, something wicked infiltrated his consciousness and body.
He often called up mercenary regiments to come to his territory, saying that it was to kill monsters, but it was actually to offer sacrifices.
Soon after Xia Tian and the others arrived in the tunnel, the Archduke announced that he was going to start summoning the Evil God.
“The plot is too simple and crude,” Xia Tian commented.
“It’s a reality show, the plot is meant to be simple and crude,” Doug said, “Also, no one really wants to see our brilliant acting.”
He added, “Anyway, three hours ago, the time of the awakening of the Evil God arrived. It is said that it will resurrect itself on the Archduke’s body and rule the world from then on. I don’t want to know its wonderful genetic makeup at all.”
“The Archduke drove everyone underground, saying it was to kill the mercenaries who had fled to this place, but in fact it was a mass sacrifice.”
“… So the exits are all sealed off,” Xia Tian said.
“Yes, no one can get out until the organizers are satisfied with the slaughter,” Doug said.
They bumped into another four-man squad on the way, and both sides immediately got into action.
Four against four, the distribution was very easy. Bai Jingan, with an arrow in his hand, killed the other squad’s sniper at once. Xia Tian stepped forward and engaged the front-running fighter. Doug held up another sword that was thrust at him and led the guy away. The two new accomplices were both pretty good at their craft.
Feng Shan was responsible for the last guy. At one glance, Xia Tian knew that the guy was in the Lower City gladiatorial arena, his fighting style was too familiar.
The one Xia Tian bumped into wasn’t much of an expert, his swordsmanship was not bad, but one look was enough to know that he had learnt it from the teaching software. He didn’t seem to know how to see the overall situation and consider the geography for the best way to attack and ambush.
Xia Tian leaned sideways behind the statue and the opponent stabbed him with a sword. The sword went through the arm of the stone statue. Xia Tian stabbed it obliquely at an accurate angle, jamming his sword.
The other party looked at Xia Tian ferociously, as if preparing for a prolonged battle, but the next second, Bai Jingan’s arrow pierced his head. He was so carefree that he even forgot that his opponent had a sniper.
Xia Tian happily withdrew his sword and turned his head to look at the battle.
Doug’s side had already entered the end. Feng Shan had just finished off the other party and had suffered a shoulder injury, but in exchange, he stabbed his sword into the heart of the other side. Such people always fought like this.
But as Feng Shan was about to withdraw his sword and step back, another sword suddenly stabbed from behind the stone wall.
The man had apparently been lying in wait, and seeing the situation wasn’t good, he thought of a sneak attack. Feng Shan’s sword couldn’t be withdrawn for a while, so he grabbed the incoming sword’s blade and hit the attacker’s lower body with a kick.
The kick was so hard that the other man bent over, screaming. Feng Shan kicked him again towards the jaw, and he fell to the ground. The whole time Feng Shan held onto the sword blade as if he felt no pain.
If you wanted to generalize his style, Feng Shan definitely belonged to the “fighting without caring about his well-being” type. Xia Tian wanted to… but then again, those mixed in the Killing Show, not one of them were mentally stable types.
At this moment, maybe his movement might have been too quick, or he just choked on something, but Feng Shan suddenly bent down and started to cough violently.
Xia Tian took a glance and knew that it was an old injury. At present, medical science was advanced, but if there was no money, lifelong disability was still a lifelong disability, and wouldn’t change just because human technology had advanced.
Xia Tian’s right knee would flare up as soon as the weather gets cloudy. He hoped to make some money this round to treat it again.
Just like this, for a good while, Feng Shan used the sword to prop himself up, kneeled on the ground, and coughed heartbreakingly. The blood was still dripping down from the sword nonstop, and the body at his feet slowly went cold.
Doug looked at him coldly. He had already finished off his opponent, but had no intention of helping Feng Shan at all.
“I bet it hurts, like a million worms crawling in your throat,” he said to Feng Shan.
Feng Shan still coughed incessantly and couldn’t stand up straight at all, but still gave him a gloomy look.
“That was a dull sword, otherwise I wouldn’t have to continue staying with you,” Doug said.
Xia Tian looked at him, and then at the other man. As the only two remaining in the team, they worked well together, but the atmosphere was obviously not quite right.
Feng Shan finally stopped coughing and said in a hoarse, broken voice: “I would rather have a sharp sword than stay with you.”
Then they stopped paying attention to each other and both went to check the spoils. Xia Tian looked at them both for a while and asked, “Did you guys used to… know each other well?”
Doug didn’t say anything, but Feng Shan did. He pointed to his throat: “He left this.”
“We ran into each other last round,” Doug said.
The two men fell silent, and even though they didn’t say anything, what had happened was quite easy to imagine.
They continued to move forward in a depressing atmosphere. There was an air of unfathomable hostility between Doug and Feng Shan but they were both professionals, knew what was more important, and they didn’t want to seem to suddenly fight with each other.
Indeed, they soon ran into another team again, and once again, the four worked together to finish the fight within three minutes.
They still didn’t find many good swords, but harvested another good bow, and Xia Tian directly gave it to Bai Jingan.
Professionals know that life is more important than pride
Thank you very much for the translation
I wonder are the new guys deliberately displaying their hostility to gain viewers or have they been thrown together by the producers. Either way they’ll probably have to fight to the death.
Wait, but what happened between Feng Shan and Doug?? I`m like…. ?????????!!!!!
Do you want me to explain?
Senior!! Enlighten me please!!
Oh, I just remembered that it is explained in the next chapter.
Thanks for the chapter 🦑
Lol, Xia Tian never leaves Bai Jingan when he gets good things, and always shares them with him. So cute!
Thank you for the chapter!
Sorry for the accidental reply!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️❤️