Editor: Elanor
Bai Jingan didn’t see Xia Tian when he got up.
Xia Tian was on the last lookout shift and had probably gone out into the yard. Bai Jingan poured himself a glass of juice, walked to the window, and immediately saw Xia Tian at a glance.
The morning sun was just rising over the horizon, and he was standing on the path at the courtyard’s entrance, talking to a girl with shoulder-length black hair. He was beaming and gesticulating to her about something.
Bai Jingan was quite familiar with the way he flirted with others. It would seem like the sun was specifically shining down on him, making it difficult to take one’s gaze away from him. He must have never lacked attention since he was a child, but attention from certain people was fatal.
He took a sip of the juice and watched this pleasing scene. Xia Tian seemed to be making a gesture of an explosion to the girl. She laughed and gazed at him intently. The sunlight reflected in her eyes and shone slightly.
A large bush of ginger bloomed next to the path, shining in the sun. Everything was beautiful, like a scene in a movie. Bai Jingan thought, it’s a pity it’s not a romance story, but a horror movie.
Noticing that he was watching, Xia Tian waved his hand at him, and Bai Jingan raised his glass to return the greeting. The girl also smiled at him and waved her hand, said something to Xia Tian, and ran her fingers over his arm before leaving.
If you wanted the scenes of the Killing Show arena to be realistic, you couldn’t just let only men gather together.
A free-for-all fight was still fine, but the further the pay-to-view competition went, the more detailed and sophisticated the plot would be. In some scenes, if only a single gender appeared, it would look very fake and unrealistic. For example, in this case, so many of them lived in a luxurious garden, but if there was not even a single woman there, it would only make this group of people look like a bunch of perverts and there would be no credibility to speak of.
For this reason, the organizers came up with various methods and scenarios. In addition to guest appearances, there were a large number of NPCs of the opposite sex.
Among them, some had signed the contracts on their own initiative, some had their contracts in the hands of TV stations, and some were newcomers who wanted to be familiar with the entertainment industry. Participating in the Killing Show was certainly fraught with great risk, but in the Upper City, risk was never an issue. Those who signed up to enter didn’t care, and those who had to enter didn’t really have a choice.
Some people thought that these NPCs would be very willing to have sex with the players, not to mention, sell their bodies. They would choose who they wanted to have sex with, and there were even those who didn’t make a move on anyone and just wanted to get the job done.
But no matter what they thought, in the eyes of the audience, these people were there to add colour to the event. Their choice could highlight the personal charm of the players. That was all that was worth.
Xia Tian walked back to the room. Bai Jingan heard Eric say from behind: “You know if you sleep here with someone, they can see the whole thing, right?”
“I don’t want to sleep with her. She gave me her number and said I could call her when the game was over,” Xia Tian said, “She works at the botanical garden in Qicheng of Floating Gold. She knows the names of all the wildflowers.”
“I wouldn’t have thought you were still a pure-hearted type.”
“We are just going out for a meal!” Xia Tian said, “She’s not a bad person. The botanical garden exercised her Killing Show contract. She came over to take care of the gardens, not to sleep with the contestants. I didn’t know that those working in the botanical gardens would also have their contracts taken by the Killing Show.”
“There are such contracts everywhere,” Bai Jingan said.
“I will go out alive and call her,” Xia Tian said.
Let’s hope so, thought Bai Jingan. When Xia Tian first arrived in the Upper City, he was expecting to get lucky, but instead, he experienced a nightmare. He was the type that attracted the bees and butterflies in the Lower City, but he didn’t dare to ask anyone out in the Upper City. But there were still a lot of perverted eyes staring at him. It was a bloody and nasty world.
The girl seemed nice. With luck, maybe everything would go well and the house would be more lively… He would be happy and find a home…
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Bai Jingan was confident that the treasures themselves wouldn’t be too difficult to find. After all, the Killing Show wasn’t meant to test people’s intelligence but rather to watch people kill each other.
The best way, then, was to get a whole bunch of pieces of the treasure map. There would be one for everyone. And if one wanted to get the complete one, they could only rob it from someone else.
Xia Tian’s team had planned to find a treasure map, and then lure people to rob them, but the result was that before they had even started making plans, someone came to their door themselves.
At that time, Eric spotted a bush with red fruits and walked over to study it. Like many fighters from the Lower City, he was curious about strange plants.
Wei Xi studied it for a while and told him what kind of plant it was. It was the first time Xia Tian had heard him talk so much.
Xia Tian also listened curiously. The sun was shining in the garden, and the berries were bright red like blazing flames. Eric leaned down and picked a bunch. Wei Xi said that it was actually too sour to eat, and it was purely for ornamental purposes.
Xia Tian tasted one and nodded silently.
Those people who came to rob them should be an impromptu team. There were seven in total, a combination of two broken teams.
They gathered around silently, their movements utterly professional.
Xia Tian threw away the remaining berries in his hand. He cocked his head sideways and swept his eyes around, and found that these people had surrounded every route of escape and appeared to be skilled killers.
He turned to look at Bai Jingan. The man, who was standing in the sun, suddenly smiled at him. Bai Jingan had always been the gentle type. But at this moment, his smile was filled with murderous aura and it was dizzying.
Xia Tian also smiled at him unconsciously and then turned to look at the people surrounding him.
The guy in the lead had a rough but sophisticated beard. Killers these days had to rely on their faces to eat. Realizing that Xia Tian had discovered them, he immediately said, “Don’t be impulsive—”
He shook the dagger in his hand and the blade reflected a sharp light in the sunlight.
In the initial stage when everyone’s weapons were still composed of table knives, paper cutter, fruit knives, kitchen knives, boning knives and ice picks, this was quite an achievement.
“We don’t want any trouble, we just want the first-kill reward,” he said looking towards Xia Tian, his stare was deadly. But he tightened his hold on the dagger hilt uneasily and said, “Just throw it over.”
Xia Tian and Bai Jingan exchanged glances. The man obviously sensed something dangerous in those eyes and quickly shouted, “Think clearly! The ‘Doomsday Beast’ now only has a cold weapon function, and there are seven of us!”
The “Doomsday Beast” flowed into Xia Tian’s palm. It’s solid weight was heavy in his hand and felt like touching death. His right pupil flashed with the icon of the world’s top combat weapon, and every cell in his body tightened up, ready to meet the killing and death.
In this flashy hell, he could be considered a character standing at the very top of the battlefield.
“Listen, the hot weapon function will be released soon, and you guys definitely don’t want each other to be injured—” the bearded man continued, then suddenly stopped and stared at Wei Xi, who was standing behind a bush, trying to pretend he didn’t exist.
Xia Tian could clearly feel his shock, although he had no idea why the man was surprised. At this stage of the game, why would only he and Bai Jingan stay in the woods waiting for someone to attack them?
At that moment, the already extremely tense atmosphere was like a bowstring whose tension had been released.
Eric started first.
When these people gathered around, he didn’t show up; instead, he crept up behind one of the sneak attackers and stuck the opponent’s neck at this moment.
The opponent was also a battle-hardened veteran and reacted extremely quickly. He realized the crisis the moment it occurred, and grabbed Eric’s arm. But Eric had taken the lead. He quickly threw the knife into his other hand and stabbed it.
The knife stabbed in noiselessly. The other party reached out to block it, and the blade directly pierced the palm of his hand.
He let out a muffled grunt as Eric pulled the knife out with one hand—
The moment Eric made his move, Xia Tian moved too.
His movements were also without warning, abrupt, and swift. He turned sideways and threw the “Doomsday Beast” out.
No one expected this action. It pierced the sneak attacker on his left, went through the blocking palm, pierced through the muscles and bones, and finally penetrated the throat.
At the same time, Xia Tian had already rushed to this person. Before the corpse fell, he drew the short sword out and struck it backhandedly.
The second man who lunged at him took a long knife and held Xia Tian’s arm swiftly. His blade was just a few centimetres away from Xia Tian’s long hair, but it could no longer move forward.
This fight only lasted a few seconds.
Xia Tian coldly withdrew the weapon which had grown into a four-foot-long sword and slashed the attacker’s head. With his action, blood and brain matters spattered in a bloody arc.
The “Doomsday Beast” was a high-end weapon, and was not easy to use, but Xia Tian was born with an ability to fight and kill with anything, whether it was a piece of iron wire or a nano-combination of smart materials.
He turned his head and looked at the third person who came at him.
The man’s desire to fight had already waned and the knife was swung out of order. Xia Tian caught his neck and cut his throat.
He released his hand, and the corpse fell at his feet. The first-kill reward had apparently blinded a lot of people yesterday, and they didn’t even want to live. Seriously, since hot weapons were about to be introduced, the slight advantage they provided at this stage of the competition was simply not worth the risk.
What a consumerism-obsessed society, Xia Tian lamented. This was only the second day, and their team had killed more than ten people. The “throne” given by the organizers was really not easy to sit on.
Bai Jingan yanked out his dagger—or rather the fruit knife—out of the bearded guy’s temple, and the man fell to the ground and breathed his last soon.
The man had seen before that Wei Xi and Eric were also there, and he was mostly confused, and actually tried to kidnap them, which was simply sending himself to the door to be killed.
Bai Jingan had just pulled the fruit knife out when he side-dodged another bread knife attack, and the knife in his hand passed through the assailant’s abdomen. The other party bent over in pain, and at that moment, he stuck the knife between the opponent’s eyes.
The second man fell. Bai Jingan scanned the battlefield and found that the bearded guy was not completely dead, so he walked over and slashed again.
Xia Tian turned his head to scan the battlefield after killing three assailants. When he caught sight of the last one trying to escape, he threw the sword in his hand as fast as he could.
Eric had resolved his fight, and the whole fight was over when he turned his head to see. The battle lasted less than a minute from the beginning to the end.
He saw Xia Tian walking through the springy grass and wildflowers to the corpse, stepping on the man’s back, and pulling out his sword.
He acted briskly but full of power. He had killed four people in a blink of an eye. There was blood under his feet, but his movements were spry as a child playing.
The sun shone on him, highlighting his handsomeness. But anyone familiar with killing and death could only see the darkness, as well as the irrevocable killing intent and anger in him.
An abyss was hidden under the handsome face, reflecting a bright and gorgeous, but cold and deadly light under the sun of the Upper World studio.
Wei Xi stood by the bush, his posture was still that of explaining the berries to Eric, feeling that the killing was over before it even started.
Not far away from him, Xia Tian tossed his first-kill reward; the action was light but murderous. The “Doomsday Beast” disappeared, turned into a beam of darkness, and climbed into his sleeves like a fantasy creature.
There was a little blood on his hand, and Xia nonchalantly wiped it on his clothes. Anyway, the organizer would send new sets to him.
He walked back and said: “What I don’t understand is their confidence that seven people are enough to handle us.”
“Because they thought there were only two of us,” Bai Jingan said.
“Why would only two people stay behind at this stage of the event?” Xia Tian said, “Who would not believe that it was a trap if I was pretending to be alone here?”
“They think we deliberately left others to stay in the woods,” Bai Jingan said.
A few people paused for a moment, and Eric gave a meaningful “Oh”.
“What do you mean?” Xia Tian asked.
“They think you and Bai Jingan were having fun here,” Eric said.
Xia Tian looked at him, then at Bai Jingan, and burst out laughing. He slapped Bai Jingan’s shoulder hard and for a while, he couldn’t even say anything because he was laughing too hard, and the latter swatted his hand away.
“I suddenly remembered,” said Xia Tian, “Once something had happened, and I was thinking that if someone asked me for an alibi, I would say I had gone out with Lil’ Bai to have fun. I thought you would definitely help me with my alibi. But then I thought it would be too fake, you see, Bai Jingan!”
He held the person next to him by the shoulders, looked at him with a heavy expression, and said, “But, this alibi will finally work in the future!”
He even leaned in and kissed his hair. Bai Jingan struggled a bit but did not avoid it. Xia Tian hugged him and dragged him to walk with him, saying, “We have to make persistent efforts!”
Bai Jingan struggled twice again but failed. With an expression of hopelessness, he let the other party take the lead. Listening to him looking forward to various plans to lure the enemy, he thought to himself that most of them were still quite feasible.
“We are going to hold hands and stroll through the woods!” Xia Tian said.
“We have to go to the main residential area first,” said Bai Jingan, “It’s useless to just hold hands with no one watching.”
Xia Tian agreed, and the two of them spent the whole way back talking about how to handle a lovers’ relationship. Eric asked Wei Xi, “So our job is to follow behind them and watch the two of them show-off their love?”
How fast do y’all think that their love is either going to turn real, or crash and burn?
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