Chapter 48 (2/2)

Similarly, the longer a candidate remained in the foothills, the more their physical strength would be exhausted, even to the point where they might end up bearing severe injuries. If anyone were to get injured and then travel 500 kilometers, only to end up stumbling into Xia Fei’s ambush, even a strong candidate would be half their peak form at most, and that was precisely the chance that Xia Fei was waiting for.

Without feeling sufficiently confident to make the kill, Xia Fei would most definitely not underestimate an opponent, as he would rather miss out on the chance than put himself in a dangerous situation.

“I intend to get Xiao Yu to coordinate with me tomorrow. Best to let her sleep tonight; a child’s development would be affected if they don’t get enough sleep,” Xia Fei said to himself.

…

Xiao Haili sat in his own office, glaring at the screen in front of him with much animosity. It had already been four days since the assessment started, yet Xia Fei was still alive and well. This fact made him feel awful in his heart. He had developed a deep hatred toward Xia Fei ever since he saw Xia Fei and Ye Xiaohan’s exciting performance that night.

He wished he could just kill him as soon as possible!

But he was well aware deep down that he couldn’t do such a thing. The Adjudicator Union’s assessment had strict monitoring systems in place, so he would only end up attracting endless trouble to himself if he were to do the deed by his own hands. More importantly, it would negatively affect his career progress in the Union.

Seeing Xia Fei still alive and kicking on the screen only made Xiao Haili develop more and more hatred toward him. He gritted his teeth and took out a wireless communicator and quickly dialed with his fingers.

This old-fashioned communicator transmitted through encrypted radio waves. The monitoring system within the assessment venue could monitor most communication equipment. However, they simply couldn’t do anything about the old-fashioned wireless communicators, and it was only natural for the chief examiner Xiao Haili to know about it.

The other end of the communicator was also someone that Xiao Haili hated very much, but this person was not as hateful in comparison to the detestable Xia Fei.

“There’s a Tiger to the North.”

There was plenty of information in those 6 words, as Xiao Haili had hesitated for a good while before finally deciding to send this message.

Standing up, Xiao Haili quietly made his way to the garbage disposal area in the ship, and since it was night, the workers in charge of sorting through the rubbish were all resting.

Opening the incinerator and tossing the communicator in, the 10,000 degrees heat quickly burnt the old-fashioned communicator until not even its ashes remained.

Seeing the fiery glow within the incinerator, Xiao Haili revealed a very vicious smile as he said to himself, “Ye Xiaohan is mine, and she can only be mine.”

…

In the foothills to the east.

Just as Xia Fei had expected, the entire battlefield was littered with blood and corpses of the candidates. In these four days, countless fights and battles had happened here, and as many as 20,000 dead candidates were lying around!

Without a doubt, as the deadline for the first round of this assessment drew near, the seemingly endless bloody storm of violence would continue. As the candidates who had not managed to get hold of the tokens yet continued to fight it out over the next 3 days!

A band of men was hiding in a narrow valley, numbering around seven to eight candidates, and each and everyone one of them was bearing scars from the fighting in varying degrees of severity.

There was a young man in his early twenties in this band, and he was wearing a set of expensive yet somewhat fancy combat suit. It was presently covered in dirt and mud, though he was the only one in the entire band without any injury. His face was slightly stained, evidently having gone through some agonizing hardship.

He and Xiao Haili were both from the Lombard Empire’s Xiao Shi familial clan, and if it came up, he still had to call Xiao Haili his elder cousin.

But the difference was that Xiao Haili was the most outstanding representative out of all the young men in their clan, while he was considered one of the many typical losers in the clan.

Xiao Yong was a name that people associated with a fierce general who was great at war, but Xiao Yong was far from a fierce general in any respect. In fact, he did not even have a bit of bravery in him, usually spending his days chasing girls and gambling away, and the only ability he had was tricking his doting mother out of her money.

He had an old-fashioned communicator that he had carefully pinned to his waist that was even fitted with a solid triple titanium alloy casing, afraid that it would receive even a bit of damage.

From the very start of the assessment, Xiao Yong had long been waiting for this communicator to buzz, but as time went by, Xiao Yong’s heart sank down to the bottom of the ocean.

All of a sudden, that old fashioned communicator vibrated. Xiao Yong was abruptly startled by this as he swiftly pulled out the communicator, cradling it by his ear like it was a precious gem.

“There’s a tiger to the north?” Xiao Yong muttered under his breath once as his face immediately lit up with ecstasy.