Predator Trials (3)

Two big and small figures were busy hollowing the insides of large branches.

Xiao Ning stared angrily at Noah as he passed yet another rough branch to her:

"Just pass and watch me! You don't have to do anything!"

She said while trimming the insides of the branch aggressively.

Noah's eyes were entirely filled with the meaning of 'I am a child' as he took yet another branch bowl from Xiao Ning, counting a total of five bowls.

He laughed happily: "Sister Robin, why don't you ask Brother Max for help when he comes back since you're staring at the entrance from the moment he left~."

Xiao Ning: "..."

If she hadn't killed her maids, stepbrother, husband and mother on her previous mission of course she would have asked Doctor Wei, you stupid dumb shit.

 Xiao Ning looked at her hands that were pierced with splinters, karma hits harder than death!

Feeling the gloomy energy rise from Xiao Ning's head, Noah soothed the red-faced woman in front of him timely:

"Sister Robin, without you how could our team be formed? Your so good at doing- uh making bowls and..spears! Come on, cheer up!'

Xiao Ning sighed and gave Noah a three-star review on comforting people, flattery does work. Okay?

The slightly better mood of Xiao Ning became better after seeing the loot Shu Wei had brought.

Herbs, three dead frogs, mushrooms and huge leaves! Xiao Ning couldn't help but muah her doctor three times in her heart, this isn't a doctor but a goddess! 

As long as they don't encounter those aboriginal and fellow humans they should be like fish in water here!

While Noah was playing with the corpse of the frog very 'cheerfully', a voice spoke in their ears which made both Xiao Ning and Noah stiff:

[Trialists 661 is at first place with 13 points!]

[Trialists 729 is at second place with 8 points!]

[Trialits 839 is at third place with 3 points..]

Noah suddenly trembled, quickly walking behind Xiao Ning's side holding her hand tightly:

"Sister Robin...Brother Max is number 661…"

Seeing Xiao Ning's dubious look, Noah explained:

"Everyone's number is written on the back of their necks, mine is 829, yours is 624 and Brother Max's is..661."

Shu Wei looked at the now two big and small idiots hiding behind the thick root again:

 "Are you both two little goody-shoes? This place is filled with murderers and psychopaths should I think of you both as adorable virgins?"

Hearing such snarky remarks from Doctor Wei, Xiao Ning reluctantly stepped out from the back of the root bending down to pick the bowls and handing them to Noah:

"Come on little guy, we need to roast these frogs!"  

Noah timidly followed behind Xiao Ning as if a child waiting for his mother to feed him.

Xiao Ning: it's all an act to lower Doctor Wei's suspicion, don't fall for Noah's act, sigh.

Shu Wei looked at the timid boy with a smirk saying nothing.

No one here could be said to be a good person or a person who follows 'human laws'.

Here, everyone is just a 'person' neither good nor bad. Shu Wei smiled, it all depend on being useful or useless.

Seeing Doctor Wei smirk, Xiao Ning knew this woman was thinking something terrible. Are they going to be killed!?

Feeling uneasy, Xiao Ning quickly pulled Noah to the side: "Oi Noah, do you think he will kill us?" 

With a flattering expression on his face, Noah unexpectedly said loudly:

"Of course not! I need to still scout and who will watch the hole when Brother Max sleeps!"

Xiao Ning's lips twitched, what a fucking smart kid. Made her look like a skepticial person and himself as useful both at the same time in front of Doctor Wei:

"Noah, if you talk so loudly~ I don't think we need to invite the human hunters by going out, they might as well knock at our door."

"I did not mean to..-" 

Before Noah could reply, Shu Wei interrupted him: "Do not blindly trust me, we are a temporary team made from benefits."

Seeing the speechless face of Noah, Xiao Ning kindly passed him one of the roasted frogs from the bonfire:

"Psst...Noah, Max is in a bad mood, you eat up!"

In an unfamiliar and dangerous place, even your next-door prison mate is a friend, choosing between being nice to a strange kid and the woman whose family you murdered.

Of course, she chose the kid. 

Noah nodded solemnly with an understanding face: "Thank you sister Robin, you treat me like my dear aunt...I miss her so much!"

Xiao Ning's whole face twitched now: Kid, didn't you say you killed your aunt..?

Maybe, she should have chosen Doctor Wei after all.

Shu Wei who was in a drama-watching mode while eating her roasted frog: Drama's over, time to sleep.

...

Destiny? There are always mishaps in life but even worlds now?

How can she a merely skinny janitor monkey kill Doctor Wei now? If there was chloroform with her, she could faint and stab her or should she snatch her gun and shoot her to death?

Xiao Ning thought hard while laying on the large leaves beside the sleeping Noah.

Doctor Wei isn't an acquaintance or friend to her, she's 90% sure that the person who killed the protagonists in that world was Doctor Wei.

Anyway now was not the time or possessing the strength to eliminate Doctor Wei. This person was a danger not only in this world but in every world for her.

Why? man, should I repeat again or what! Here you go, I killed her parents...sigh, and she probably is on a hunt for her, who knows?

Before Xiao Ning knew it, the red sun had somehow risen glowing inside the hole by some cracks on top of her.

She suddenly noticed that her breathing wasn't smooth anymore with a slight feeling of suffocation after the daylight rose.

Even the temperature had risen, the air gradually becoming sticky and oppressive causing the hole's entrance made of mud to slowly melt.

Xiao Ning carefully headed outside, her clothes already sticking to her body in sweat within five minutes of contact with the air outside the hole.

She raised her head to look at the sky, causing her eyes to widen in horror.

The oxygen-providing white halo which hovered right on top of them yesterday had shifted away from their location!