Editor: Elanor
The mutant rat rushed over, moving as fast as lightning.
It swept past Bai Jingan’s heels, emitting a strong rancid smell, and a clear thought passed through Bai Jingan’s mind: It was no accident that it had found them.
The organizer liked this theme, liked the tracking and revenge. So they let it evolve rapidly, and led it here again.
This would be a thrilling story—the cunning rat looked for the human who had maimed it, tirelessly and continuously tracked him through the dark underground palace, and finally reappeared in the final showdown…
Xia Tian was a first-rate fighter but in the palace of the Evil God, he couldn’t even find a suitable sword.
The same old cliche horror film style, bloody, weird, and full of a sense of fatalism.
In particular, Xia Tian was still such a young man who had come from the prison in Zone N and had worked hard to get to the Upper City.
His hometown, which had experienced the biggest civilian riots and the largest massacres of this century, was a constant hot topic in the Upper City entertainment industry. To this day, it was still an area which was infested with mutant creatures, and there were even rumors that their intelligence was high enough to form a sewer kingdom and hunt down weak humans…
He finally managed to come to the Upper City, only to be trapped in the underground Palace in the third round and to meet an extremely intelligent mutant giant rat…
How dramatic, like a terrifying fate.
It was definitely tailor-made and worth a lot of bonus for the planning team.
Things happened very quickly. The moment the mutant rat leapt up, Xia Tian’s sword viciously plunged into its skull.
Almost two-thirds of the sword had penetrated inside this time, but the monster was so powerful that it didn’t stop even after this, instead, it hit him hard—
Xia Tian grasped the hilt of the sword and thrust it hard inward, pushing the sword further inside.
But in the next second, the sword in his hand broke.
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This battle was extremely bloody. It was a bare hand-to-hand fight that fully demonstrated the most primitive human desire to survive. It added up to less than ten seconds but that was enough for a five-star purchase rate.
After a series of build-ups, they ushered in the finale for him.
It was going to be a ratings victory. A deserving victory.
When all of this happened, Bai Jingan knew that he was too late to do anything about it; it was too fast, it had always been so fast.
He felt a pain in his head. It was probably still from the crash at the river, but now he was no longer dizzy. The pain that had been distant before really hounded him now, and it became a scream that swept over everything.
He looked at Xia Tian who was in a pool of blood and knew that this scene was very common. A person was about to die, the artery was torn, and with all the blood flowing out, it was just a matter of a few minutes… He had seen it countless times.
He seemed to have never left the bloody darkness, where his mind was always blank, his hands were full of blood, and people everywhere couldn’t be saved.
He raised his head, knowing that there were countless hidden cameras in the dark, filming them coldly. He couldn’t see deeper, but knew that there were countless eyes watching everything.
There was no past and no future, only fear and despair, which made him sink to depths where he could never see the sun again.
Bai Jingan walked towards Xia Tian. From the periphery of his vision, he saw the huge humanoid lizard flash violently, lunging towards him. He didn’t even look at it, his longsword went straight through its throat, piercing it right through.
Without stopping, he grabbed its head with one hand and sliced it down diagonally to the right, cutting off half of its neck. With a kind of skill that was inbuilt in his bones, he moved fiercely and efficiently, as if he was born knowing how to kill.
Bai Jingan dropped the corpse and walked forward, his footsteps not slowing down even for a moment. Passing through an area illuminated by moss, his dirty white clothes reflected a faint light. At that moment, it seemed that the light of the entire arena was converging on him.
He was like a sharp sword that had just been unsheathed, stained with blood, dust and countless lives, but the light was even sharper, making people unable to take their eyes off.
He walked up to Xia Tian who had fallen to the ground. His eyes had lost focus as if he was looking at something else… He wondered if it was also that same darkness. When he tried to remember the past and those he had loved, he couldn’t remember anything as if the darkness had engulfed everything.
The mutant rat was dead. He knelt down and pushed the dead body aside, before wrapping his arms around Xia Tian, as if it were all that was left in the darkness.
There was chaos all around him but he didn’t notice any of it at all. He just focused on applying pressure on Xia Tian’s neck as best as he could, but the blood still poured out like water from a spring. The man had lost his previous murderous and unyielding look. He looked at a loss and helpless, as if he wasn’t sure what had happened.
But he knew it. He was the kind of person who always knew.
He opened his lower lip and said to Bai Jingan, “Dee Dee… my sister…”
He spoke in a soft voice, which he rarely did. His weak and innocent appearance made Bai Jingan feel a pang of anger. He hadn’t been this angry in a long time. He didn’t know why he was angry.
“I won’t do anything,” he said fiercely, “You survive and pick her up by yourself!”
Xia Tian looked at the ceiling with two empty eyes. Although the moment he said it, Bai Jingan realized that Xia Tian had never thought he would ever ask him to do this. He didn’t think anyone would do so much for another person.
As he had once said, when something bad happened, “She would just have to fend for herself”. For him, to silently disappear in this darkness was probably more than normal.
Death, devastation, and despair were so commonplace that he wouldn’t even get surprised by them.
Bai Jingan’s whole body was trembling with anger—the anger deep in his heart, a weak ghost of the past that he thought he had already buried deep enough.
Xia Tian, whose face was covered in blood, smiled at him. In this situation, the smile looked extremely disturbing, yet it still looked innocent.
“Don’t have that expression… you’ll have other teammates,” he said.
Bai Jingan felt an unbearable headache.
This was a kind of pain that would never disappear, and the surroundings would always be pitch-black. It was a never-ending Asura field composed of dead bodies, killings, pain and cameras.
I just want to… save something, he thought, just… at least save something.
But he had never managed to save anyone, and nothing he tried to do would work. Xia Tian’s blood was still continuously flowing out from the gaps of his fingers. His life was fading. No matter how important he felt, no one cared. Death was a humble and common occurrence.
He used a lot of strength to hold his always-too-energetic teammate close, the body in his arms feeble and docile. He heard Xia Tian’s very soft voice say, “It’s cold…”
Then the man closed his eyes like many of his companions; he could finally rest.
At this moment, the light suddenly lit up.
The depressing ceiling disappeared, and it retreated layer by layer like sugar bricks, revealing a precisely calculated brightness and blue as the darkness receded. The color of the sky, the color of the end of everything.
Countless laser fireworks bloomed in the artificial sky, and Bai Jingan heard the host’s cheerful voice: “The third round of the 199th Killing Show Asaijin Team Competition of Floating Gold TV has officially ended. Your courage and wisdom have been tested—”
He was frozen to the spot, his hands still shaking, his blood boiling from the pain. He was unable to respond.
The host, who was wearing a medieval-style attire, continued: “Please stay where you are and don’t move. Our medical staff will treat the injured as quickly as possible—”
Bai Jingan froze for two seconds before trying to find Xia Tian’s pulse in panic. His hands were shaking so much that he couldn’t find it for a while. Finally after a while, he felt a faint beat, but it was too weak, like an illusion.
Then came the second beat.
Bai Jingan fumbled and hugged Xia Tian, burying his face in the sticky blood on his neck. He knew that his expression was very terrible right now, and he didn’t want to be seen by anyone.
Xia Tian would survive because no matter how bad the situation was, the medical department in the Upper City could pull people back from the brink of death, as long as they wanted to.
Opposite him, in the darkness and madness that was beyond his comprehension, he could feel the camera aimed at his face, watching all this coldly, capturing the tiniest of reactions and releasing them out to the public.
Every moment from now on would be captured on film, seen by all, played and discussed over and over, analyzed and ridiculed, accompanied by indifferent amusement.
He felt utterly miserable, extremely ashamed, and a cold anger.
But when hugging his comrade, thinking he would survive, he was still crying, unable to control the tears at all.
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Translator’s Note:
Due to my upcoming exams, I won’t be uploading for a while.
Good luck with your exams…
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
D* those organizers are good. I really want to send them a few knives.
Wow I was expecting Bai to be so emotional
Thanks for the chapter 🦑
Wish you all the best for your exam!!!!
Wahhhhhh who knew Bai Jingan had that kind of ruthlessness in him as well!! If i saw that clip id probably be his brain-dead fan lmfaooo these two… when will they get together???
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡
I hope they can get revenge and kill them all
After seeing all this, I really wonder what would be the end of the planning team as well as the organizers at the end of the novel, especially the organizers. After all, the planners are simply employees and they have no choice but to be cruel to the players.
And Bai Jingan was fucking cool and pitiful in this chapter. I love him even more now!Thanks for the chapter 💖
😢😢 Thanks for the chapter