Editor: Elanor
When the first kill at the opening banquet happened, several shareholders of Floating Gold TV Station were visiting the main office to test the new immersive sensor.
This thing was said to be able to directly stimulate the brain to accomplish things that couldn’t be done physically, such as inducing continuous orgasm, anti-gender sex, extreme pain, or something like that. Using it in the games would be fantastic.
The people who had arrived to test the sensor were all highly reputable in the circle. And the reason why Tian Xiaoluo knew they were reputable was because she was a relative of the chief director, Jakowski, and had some understanding of this circle. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have been able to recognize these well-known people.
The planning team was very busy, but Jakowski still took time to accompany them. Tian Xiaoluo could not slip away and was also in the reception team.
At this moment, she was lagging. Jakowski asked her to keep an eye on Xia Tian’s small planning team… Although it was not appropriate to call it a small team now, because it was a fairly large team.
Tian Xiaoluo had her hands full. Five people were talking at the same time in her headset, their voices sounding incessantly, making a lot of noise, and hadn’t stopped since she went online.
In the contact lens on her right eye, Xia Tian’s task pane was open—they privately called Xia Tian “Boss”, and the man was complaining about why Yang Shen, who was obviously a pervert, had gotten away from punishment instead. Eric then mockingly said it was probably because it was hard to kill him, and Xia Tian said, “I can kill.”
She heard Mo Xing exclaim in a priestly voice: “After the sacrifice was accepted, we received the Oracle again—”
“The Oracle said that someone was going to be unlucky!”
“The Oracle said that the slaughter of evil and unrighteous has begun!”
They had been speaking in this tone ever since the last PR direction of Xia Tian’s image was sent down to the team, and the more they spoke this way, the more proficient they became, and were simply unable to stop speaking this way.
To avoid hogging the channel, it was stipulated that only one person in the group could speak at a time, but now, the group of people were talking non-stop, their voices high-pitched with excitement, with no intention of stopping at all. Tian Xiaoluo had worked with many groups before but had never seen one that was so upbeat.
She was also inexplicably stirred because of the clamor going on her earphones… but it didn’t show on her face. She followed behind the group of the top predators of the Upper world without any expression. There was no room for any mistake in front of such people.
Tian Xiaoluo fell quite behind the group and was watching Xia Tian attacking Yang Shen with rapt attention. This was the first time in a long time that she wanted to see someone die in the Killing Show.
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Yang Shen was not worse than some other people she had seen—not because he was not bad, but because perverts were a dime a dozen in the Killing Show, so most of the players couldn’t be classified as the absolute worst.
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“Adjust the colour, make the red more prominent so that it can perfectly bring out—”
“The knife looks so beautiful in his hand!”
Tian Xiaoluo felt something that was infinitely close to the thrill of revenge, although it wasn’t exactly revenge. She reminded herself that this feeling was one of the countless marketing lies, but she still swallowed it whole—some feelings were just that easy to fall for. It was an addicting feeling.
She didn’t realize when the boy had come over.
He was in the crowd ahead before, but then fell behind with her.
The boy was only fourteen or fifteen years old, maybe even a little younger, with light-coloured hair scattered over his shoulders, that was casually pinned up with a grey and silver hairpin. She had quietly cast a sidelong glance at him previously. She reasoned that given his appearance and family background, his future was undoubtedly going to be bloody.
Tian Xiaoluo was intently looking at the real-time footage in the lens of her eye. At this moment, she heard a voice saying: “Are you Wang Xiaotian?”
When Tian Xiaoluo heard her former name that she hadn’t used for a long time out of the blue, she jerked her head to look in the direction of the voice, and she found that it was the boy who had spoken. He looked at her with interest and said, “You were working on the interactive virus with Tilan, Roan, Amber and the others in the Ministry of Defense, weren’t you?”
Tian Xiaolu’s mind went blank for a moment, and someone in her earphones shouted, “First kill!”
Very few people knew her old name. Even her brother was unaware of it. At the very least, it was impossible to call out the names of her entire team in one breath.
Then she thought that this kid must be the son of some powerful man to be able to come to this place at this age itself, so it was no wonder that he knew everything about the Ministry of Defense. They were the ones in charge of this world after all.
She didn’t know who he was, she didn’t care about this kind of thing, and she had no illusions about Prince Charming. In this world, romance movies were all dreams, and reality was a dark horror version.
“Yes,” she said dryly, having still not fully recovered from the rousing world inside her earphones.
“Why are you here?” The boy said, “You’re the best interactive virus expert in the world.”
“Not the best,” Tian Xiaoluo said.
The other person thought for a while before saying: “There is only one person who’s better than you, but your direction is different.”
Tian Xiaoluo stared at him. She wanted to turn around and leave. This was her go-to solution to end conversations. But perhaps her emotions had been roused too much and she couldn’t get it out, so she blurted out: “I have work to do, why don’t you go in and find your parents?”
The other party was taken aback and smiled at her. It was difficult to say whether the smile was brilliant or sharp. He said: “I think you are not bad.”
She glared at him, and he asked, “Do you want a new job?”
His smile turned brighter: “Guaranteed to be exciting.”
Xia Tian returned to the banquet hall and set the bloody dinner knife down on the table, and Bai Jingan smiled at him and handed over a glass of champagne.
Someone from the next table to him turned his head and saw the knife, but said nothing. It was normal for a blood-stained knife to appear at this kind of banquet.
Around them, word spread quickly that there was a dead body in the bathroom. Xia Tian heard the players whispering that the first dead person had appeared within ten minutes of the game rules being read out.
Of course, there were cameras everywhere, but the identity of the murderer was protected. Here, the murders were considered just and in accordance with the rules, encouraged by the wishes of the deceased Mr. Shi and his lawyer in charge.
The blood-stained knife was still placed on the snow-white table, and it complemented the exquisite tableware, drinks, and snacks. It expressed the theme of the arena and was definitely worth a close-up.
A certain guy in Yang Shen’s team got emotional and grabbed people around to ask who did it, but everyone had a personable appearance and refused to let him find fault.
Xia Tian could well understand the reason for that team’s panic and anger. Someone was chatting not far away from him, saying that no matter who did the deed, Yang Shen’s team that lacked a person now was a good team to prey upon. There should be a lot of people staring at the team, planning to desimmate it whole.
The now three-person team stood vigilantly not far away, their faces twisted in ugly expressions.
In the fourth round, the arena as well the number of players shrank. All of the remaining teams were troublesome, and one less would have a great impact.
Xia Tian picked up the blood-stained dinner knife and tapped on the champagne glass. He had to tap several times before the people in the hall stopped talking and turned their heads to find the direction of the sound.
“Sorry to interrupt, but I just heard someone asking who killed the one in the bathroom earlier,” he said, “I killed him. Hasn’t the game already started?”
He turned to look at the NPC Lawyer-in-charge, who nodded with a benevolent smile, indicating that the game had indeed begun.
Everyone stared in this direction, and Xia Tian continued, “For one thing, I have never really liked him. I think he had terrible taste in choosing bed partners. They were all too young and kept going to the hospital afterwards. Did you guys know he also has a boat?”
The people around looked at him with an unbearable expression. At this moment, another fighter in Yang Shen’s team rushed over from behind with a dinner knife.
When the man rushed past Bai Jingan, he suddenly fell to the ground and did not stand up even after a little while. Then everyone around him noticed that he was clutching his neck tightly, and blood was flowing out of his arteries.
Bai Jingan’s position had changed and now he was looking down at the fallen man, but no one had seen how and when he had moved.
The man struggled to get up, and people around him made a big circle to avoid getting blood splashed on their clothes. Bai Jingan stepped on the struggling man’s back and he fell to the ground again.
When Bai Jingan did these things, the wine in the glass he was holding did not shake even a little, and he looked expressionless and calm the whole time. The morbidity just rose to a whole new level when combined with the sophisticated style of his suit.
Another man was about to rush over, but before he could get the chance, Eric had grabbed him by his neck from behind. He struggled desperately. Eric stabbed a fork into his lower back and the guy immediately collapsed in his hands.
The last member of the team tried to escape. Xia Tian put down the champagne glass, grabbed a jug from the table and smashed it on his head. The man fell to the ground, and Xia Tian walked over quickly while continuing to say: “I also don’t like how complacent he was about the children’s version of the Killing Show. I know you were all involved, you were speaking up for him in the media. Those speeches of yours were not to my taste. They were too righteous as if the show was something grand and noble and the dead were very happy about dying.”
As he spoke, he grabbed the guy’s head and slammed it into the ground. When he hit the ground for the third time, the guy was dead with blood spilling everywhere.
Xia Tian stood up and sorted out his coat. He really liked this suit. It didn’t hinder him while fighting at all.
Around them, a circle of guys in suits and leather shoes watched them completely exterminate this small team, and someone whistled from a distance.
Translator’s Note:
Just look at this cute fanart!
Translator-nim, I’m having some trouble finding the fan art. Thanks for translating, though!
It probably got deleted already. I have changed the link and now it’s another fanart. Enjoy!
The fan arts are so cute！
But also, man our Xiao Bai is glowing up huh~
i can seriously imagine this scene so vividly………totally epic🤯
Ahhh the fanart is so cute!!! (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)