182 Katherine Strikes (1/2)
Wuxing eyes widened as he stared at her in question yet Katherine only smiled and looked across his shoulder.
”Does your girlfriend want to be next?” She asked casually as if the two didn't know each other well before adding out loud in the direction of the crowd, ”I will only have one more battle for now and then have a dinner break. I suggest you to queue up to another instructor if you want to claim some additional points.”
Naturally, many frowned and complained as they wasted their precious time staying in the queue.
”Some of us waited for more than thirty minutes. So unfair!”
”There is no queue at all. She just picks people randomly. You have to be lucky to be picked.”
Katherine didn't mind the protests and rather, they seemed to be fun to her as she kept smiling.
”If you have any complaints, you can report them to the Discipline Instructor,” Katherine advised before commenting, ”Woops, I forgot. I'm the Discipline Instructor.”
The crowd paled, not expecting such a twist. Some of them still didn't note down that instructors had the absolute power during the selection. If they wished to kick anyone out of the camp, it was as easy as flicking a finger.
”Does anyone have any complaints?” Katherine questioned, her expression changing to a poker face. ”I will make sure to judge them fairly.”
There wasn't anyone who dared complain again this time. With Katherine having a break, they had no choice but to quickly leave if they wanted to queue up for another challenge.
Katherine's eyes fell on her assistant right after and she ordered, ”Amber, you can go eat dinner first. I will handle this last battle on my own.”
”Yes, Miss,” the assistant accepted without question and left, leaving them all alone to themselves.
Katherine dropped the formalities when everyone was gone and asked friendly, ”Did you guys visit Anna already?”
”Oh, she also has the challenge?” Wuxing asked surprised, forgetting he wanted to question her about her last words. ”We found your challenge after we skipped the martial-arts one. We weren't that confident in beating it.”
”Yeah, that guy is insane. If I used my speed I might be able to win against him but its not worth it,” Katherine admitted. ”Anna has a small shooting range. I bet she has a lot of fun shooting to people.”
”Huh…? Shooting to people?” Wuxing got confused for a second but Katherine didn't care to explain, turning to Dongmei instead. ”Dongmei, shall we start? We will finish this quickly and go find Anna. I need to steal her for dinner.”
”Sure,” Dongmei didn't mind, knowing they had to pretend even a little bit to get their points.
Katherine blocked the queue on her card so that no more people would arrive and they finished their battle quickly before anyone could come. Katherine was the one who gave out points so it wasn't difficult to cheat.
They struggled for two hours to grind those points yet now they got the same amount in less than fifteen minutes which put a grin on Wuxing's face.
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Name: Chameleon
Current Ranking: 1
Number of Points: 10100
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He was immediately put on the first place in the ranking together with Dongmei who was the runner-up. If they claimed all challenges till their time was up, they would be able to secure first two spots with ease.
”Anna is the best sniper in the team so she was assigned to the shooting challenge,” Katherine finally explained as they walked towards the next challenge. ”One has to run through the course in less than thirty seconds while trying to avoid her bullets. They can only use props to hide themselves but if they wait too long, their time will run out.”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As they listened, they heard sounds of an automatic gun-shots. They noticed a lot of people waiting outside a narrow but long track with cardboard boxes placed randomly.
”Those shouldn't be normal bullets, right?” Wuxing questioned, realizing the sound was different.
”Those are rubber bullets and the sniper is quite weak else any participants would have a hole in their bodies once they get hit. Even with that, I doubt anyone won the challenge. It's still hard to dodge a bullet,” Katherine answered and led them through the crowd, entering the site through staff entrance.
A proper queue was set up and the challenge was enclosed with fence so that no one would get hurt by accident. A participant was in the middle of his challenge so they stopped to take a look.
The man dodged the first three bullets by faking his turns, running like a snake before using the boxes to hide, sliding from one box to another. He was doing pretty well until he reached the space without any boxes where he had to predict Anna's shots.
Bang!
One clean shot was needed and the man groaned, blasted to the ground. The hit looked really painful based on the man's face. He walked on his own feet yet he held his belly where he got him, grimacing.
”I brought two top ten members. They want to join the challenge,” Katherine commanded the assistant, helping them skip the queue.
”Yes, Miss,” the male assistant nodded obediently and asked, looking at them, ”Can I have your cards?”
Katherine was quick to act and suggested before they could even speak, ”How about Dongmei go first?”
Wuxing looked at Katherine suspiciously and glanced at Dongmei, proposing, ”I can go first too if you want.”
Dongmei gave him an assuring smile as she squeezed his hand and pulled out her card, passing it to the assistant. ”I can go first.”
She wore the protective mask and walked towards the start line, waiting for Anna's signal.
”Katherine, I see you.” Anna's voice left the walkie-talkie as she spotted them and waved. ”Is the next challenger Dongmei?”