188 Game Master (2/2)

There was no way he could even leave Dongmei for a second, recalling what happened just earlier. He was immediately assaulted by Katherine which started this whole mess. He didn't have a habit of escaping from problems so even if Katherine liked him, he wouldn't just kick her out from his life.

”Then tonight after the challenge?” Ash asked to set up the date and everyone nodded, agreeing.

There was nothing else to do in the evening other than socializing anyway.

Just then, something on Ash started beeping and her smile disappeared. She reached out towards her pants and pulled out a walkie-talkie. Wuxing knew this beeping very well and it usually announced work or an emergency.

”What happened?” She asked swiftly and they heard General Clark's voice calling for her, ”Ash, there were some deaths already outside the base. Can you come to the entrance?”

”Someone battled?” Ash figured, letting out a sigh as if she already expected it.

”Yeah, a group of eight people from the top ten were stealing prey from other participants. At first many gave in, giving up one beast to be allowed to hunt but after a while others grouped up and wanted to fight. It seemed they thought they can win with a number advantage but they miscalculated. Now we have twenty deaths. The bodies can be left for beasts but we still need to list them down for later reports,” General Clark explained briefly.

”I will be there in a moment,” Ash answered and kept her walkie-talkie, standing up from the table. ”I guess I need to go back to work. Scarlet, can you stay with the rest till the challenge begins? It will take me some time to finish all the paperwork.”

”Don't worry, take care of your work,” Scarlet assured, waving at her cutely.

Ash glanced at the rest, giving them a smile and walked towards the stairs, keeping a longer eye contact with Wuxing.

”Watch out,” Wuxing suddenly called out, seeing a bunch of people walking up the stairs behind her.

She stopped, almost knocking into someone, but to her surprise, the person didn't see her as well, busy chatting and did it on her stead, walking into her.

”Hey! Where are yo— Miss Ash! How are you doing?” The man's attitude changed drastically when he saw who he knocked into, immediately apologizing, ”I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention.”

Although Wuxing didn't take a good look at them earlier, he could tell they were the group of eight from top ten.

The one bothering Ash was actually quite eye catching because of his beefy body and a black skull tattoo on the side of his trimmed hair.

”What's your name?” Ash asked sternly, pulling out her card with the rankings and he reported, ”I'm Black Skull, Miss.”

”Seems like you are first in the ranking,” Ash pointed out which made the man smile, bragging, ”Yes! Total twenty thousand points. We still have time till the challenge starts so we will grind more points for sure.”

”I didn't ask,” Ash said coldly and turned back to Scarlet, ”Sis, I forgot to give you points for our training. Can you pass me your card?”

”Sure,” Scarlet nodded, not really knowing Ash's hidden intentions but Wuxing already knew, familiar with that gaze.

When someone pissed Ash off, this was exactly how she looked.

Ash tapped on her card before nearing it next to Scarlet's, sending her points. Being done, she passed the card back to her and walked towards the stairs. When she reached the group, she stopped for a second and commented to Black Skull, ”I guess you are no longer top one now. At least one of you will drop from top ten. I wonder who that will be.”

Just as they were froze from confusion, Wuxing was also surprised, not expecting her to go all out on them. He quickly checked the ranking and just as she said, Black Skull wasn't top one anymore and instead it was Scarlet, having exactly fifty thousand points. No matter what they did, it would be impossible for them to beat her today.

”Miss Ash! I already apologi—” Black Skull called out after Ash but she didn't turn around, replying coldly as she slowly walked down instead.

”Being proud of cheating and killing is what I despise. Even if you win against other players, you can't win against a Game Master. Next time you cheat to get points, I will make your life here a living hell.”