I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 87

The competition venue was set up on the soccer field. Not many people knew about this competition, so there were only a few scattered people sitting in the spectator stands. Su Wenwen and Luo Xi sat relatively high up, able to see the entire field clearly. Wang Kelin and Ji Qingshuang and others sat on the coaches’ bench to cheer on the trainees and the ability users.

The higher-ups all sat surrounding Old Master Luo. Ao Ge seemed a bit reluctant to sit next to Old Master Luo, casting his gaze over here from time to time, which made Su Wenwen feel very annoyed. She immediately glared, warning Ao Ge not to look this way.

Ao Ge clearly didn’t understand Su Wenwen’s meaning and instead looked over even more frequently, with a hint of provocation.

Su Wenwen pressed her lips together, extremely vexed. Although half the sun was out in the sky, it was still uncomfortably cold. She had just stuffed her hands into her coat pockets for warmth when another warm, soft hand suddenly squeezed into the pocket, intertwining with her fingertips.

Her gaze shifted to her side; it was Luo Xi’s calm face, looking like the snow on the ground, so cool and detached it seemed to have not a trace of emotion. If not for the hand in the pocket gently hooking Su Wenwen’s palm, Luo Xi would truly be no different from a fairy¹ devoid of worldly desires.

Su Wenwen impassively looked at the soccer field. Under the cover of the pocket, she hooked Luo Xi’s palm in the same way. Sensing Luo Xi’s hand flinch, she quickly interlocked their fingers to hold her firmly.

Luo Xi’s gaze swept over the delicate contours of Su Wenwen’s face and caught sight of Ao Ge’s almost-crying expression, as if his beloved candy had been snatched away. But as a man, he couldn’t cry; his eyes were red, and he could only swallow all his bitterness and tears back into his stomach.

Pathetic, yes, but he deserved it.

The rules of the competition were a melee. There were weapons all around the competition field. The weapons had been specially modified so as not to harm human life. Both teams were learning how to use the weapons on the spot.

In the center of the field, there were constructed fortresses, all placed irregularly. In the middle was an obstacle maze. On both sides of the field were three red and three blue flags respectively. If one side’s flags were all pulled out, they would lose.

The ability users were the Blue Team, and the trainees were the Red Team. The number of trainees was five times that of the ability users. This number was also decided after comprehensive consideration, because excluding the old, weak, sick, and disabled, the number of ordinary people was inherently greater than that of ability users.

The trainees’ expressions were clearly very nervous; they were all seriously studying how to use the weapons. The ability users were relatively much more relaxed. One of the long-legged men was doing warm-up exercises, seemingly not planning to use any weapons.

Once the study time was up, everyone put on their infrared sensor equipment and returned to their respective camp positions to guard. Weapons would then be randomly dropped into the field, depending on everyone’s ability to adapt on the fly.

The trainees gathered together, seemingly discussing something. Su Wenwen activated her five senses and heard the female captain say, “I’m afraid there are speed-types among these ability users. The three flags could be pulled out in the blink of an eye. We have to be on guard.”

“How do we guard?”

“We have more people; we have to make good use of this sole advantage. Send three small teams to surround the three flags respectively, and then set up traps around them.”

“The weapons are all randomly dropped into the field. It will also take time to collect tools, right? I’m afraid there won’t be enough time to set up traps.”

“On the contrary, only if we can’t get the tools will they let down their guard. There are ways to set up traps…”

After discussing the specific countermeasures, everyone began to move. Because there was an obstacle maze in the center of the field, neither side could see what the other was doing.

After listening to their countermeasures, Su Wenwen retracted her five senses. Seeing them so united and cooperative, as a former member of the team, she also felt exceptionally excited and subconsciously squeezed Luo Xi’s hand tighter.

“Hiss… Lighter, it hurts,” Luo Xi said in her ear.

Because of the system’s influence, Su Wenwen’s strength was indeed greater than that of an ordinary person. Just now, in her excitement, she hadn’t paid attention and must have really hurt Luo Xi. She quickly loosened her grip a little and said, “Sorry.”

Luo Xi gripped Su Wenwen’s hand in return and said, “I’ll hold you, then it’ll be fine.”

The cool and clear voice lingered by her ear. Su Wenwen felt her cheeks heat up. Sometimes she really felt that Luo Xi was a seasoned veteran in the field of love, always able to accurately capture her emotions and then tease her, making it impossible to guard against.

Luo Xi said, “The competition has started.”

The female team and the male team, each with their leaders, rushed into the obstacle maze. The ability users’ side hadn’t discussed and chosen a captain; they were all fighting for themselves, entering the obstacle maze scattered and disorganized. And there were only two people guarding the Blue Team’s flags, a stout man and the long-legged man.

The female team used the obstacles to hide several team members in the surroundings, while the main force attracted the ability users’ attention. The male team’s side was the first to encounter a strength-type ability user. Three of them directly locked onto the strength-type ability user, hanging on him like pendants.

But they were still easily shaken off by the strength-type ability user. The three of them rolled onto the ground one after another, and on the way, they grabbed the weapons on the ground, which turned into long staffs with a light twist. Then they forcefully struck at the ability user.

That ability user was also a tough person. The muscles all over his body swelled to an unbelievable degree, making his combat suit bulge. Being hit by the iron staffs on his body produced a “dong dong” sound like striking iron, yet not a single injury could be seen.

Luo Tianyang, sitting next to Ji Qingshuang, saw this and laughed, “See? The gap between ability users and ordinary people is too big. I really don’t understand why you insist on training ordinary people. It’s a pure waste of time.”

“You don’t understand.”

“What is there that I don’t understand? Why don’t you explain it to me.”

Ji Qingshuang couldn’t be bothered to explain to Luo Tianyang.

Ability users were indeed very strong, and this was also where she hesitated. Because ability users were too strong and ordinary people too weak, even if a potion was developed, if ordinary people one day couldn’t work in the base and couldn’t leave the base, the final result would only be them becoming livestock raised by the ability users.

If, through continuous training, ordinary people could also leave the base to do missions, they would at least have a way to live.

Of course, she could establish rules to restrict the ability users, but how long could such restrictions last? With ordinary people relying on ability users for a long time, one day, the ability users would erupt collectively, and the situation then would be even harder to control.

So, in making the decision to train ordinary people, Ji Qingshuang had also made a great resolution. If it succeeded, the Ao family could even develop new types of weapons for ordinary people to use in the future, and perhaps they could contend with the ability users.

Under the continuous beating of the three, they gradually became exhausted. The strength-type ability user saw his chance, quickly grabbed the long staff in one of their hands, and with a light pull, the trainee lost his balance and leaned towards the ability user. He was clamped by the neck with one hand by the ability user. Without using much strength, with a pinch, the trainee’s cheeks flushed red.

Seeing this, a nearby trainee quickly pulled out his smoke tube. Red smoke slowly billowed out, and only then did the ability user contemptuously let go.

That trainee knelt on the ground, coughing violently, then seemed to pound the snowy ground unwillingly. The competition was still continuing…

The long-legged man, who had been guarding the flags all this time, yawned out of boredom and said to the stout man beside him, “How about you guard the flags alone? I’ll go pull out all the flags on the opposite side.”

“What’s your hurry? Let them play a little longer.”

“I don’t want to either. It’s so cold outside, I want to go home and sleep, okay?” The long-legged man ignored the stout man, twisted his neck, and his figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Su Wenwen had been tracking the long-legged man’s direction. After activating her five senses, she could see the long-legged man arrive in front of the female team. He shamelessly touched the female team captain’s face, angering her into throwing a punch in return, but she didn’t hit him.

Next, the long-legged man went to the strength-type ability user’s side, scooped up the snow on the ground, and smeared it on his face, angering the ability user into roaring, “Fuck, whose side are you on?”

The long-legged man shrugged indifferently and cheekily arrived at the Red Team’s camp. Seeing the three flags surrounded by people with linked arms, he stood in place and was stunned for a moment.

The trainees spotted the long-legged man and quickly called for support on their walkie-talkies. Only then did the trainees hiding around the fortresses pop their heads out, opening their arms and slowly closing in on the long-legged man.

The long-legged man smiled, casually ran to one of them, and very easily pulled out the smoke tube. Red smoke rose, and another person was eliminated.

Then another person had their smoke tube pulled out.

More and more trainees were being eliminated.

And it was only a matter of time before the few people guarding the flags were eliminated. The long-legged man was in no hurry, running back and forth in the camp, eliminating the surrounding trainees one by one.

Only three people were left.

The long-legged man was a bit tired from running. He took several deep breaths, planning to eliminate the three in one go. He stepped back and suddenly exerted force, his whole body turning into a gust of wind. The snow on the ground was lifted up by it, and the snow flying all over the sky seemed to be stationary in his eyes. He reached out his hand, tracing continuous curves. That kind of scenery was a beauty that ordinary people couldn’t see, a beauty that belonged exclusively to him.

Just as the long-legged man was about to touch the smoke tube, his foot suddenly stepped on empty air. His leg twisted, and his whole body lost its center of gravity, flying into the air. He could feel his body out of control, and he could also see that the snowy ground under his feet where he had stepped on air had been dug out.

It turned out that the thick accumulation of snow had been used by the trainees to make a trap. In order to lure him into stepping into the trap, those trainees who had surrounded him had deliberately sacrificed themselves, forcing him to move little by little towards the trap.

The trainees cooperated with extreme tacit understanding, showing no fear, no nervousness, and not paying special attention to the trap’s location. They concealed all their expressions in front of him, acting naturally and deceiving him.

The long-legged man crashed like a cannonball into a pile of sandbags that the trainees had stacked up beforehand. His body was injured, but not very seriously. His smoke tube was also pulled out by the trainees.

The blue smoke rose, like a horn of victory. The trainees hidden in the obstacle maze secretly infiltrated the blue camp, and more than a dozen people surrounded the stout man.

That stout man was not anxious either. He pulled out two flags himself, leaving only the one flag behind him, which he held tightly in his hand. Then, sand and mud surged from the ground, covering his body and encasing him into an unmoving sculpture.

Everyone did not hesitate. More than ten people went to pull the flag, but the flag in the stout man’s hand was like a heavy boulder, impossible to move in the slightest. If it wasn’t pulled out in a short time, the Red Team’s hope of winning would get lower and lower.

The weapons were modified and couldn’t harm human life, so naturally, they couldn’t break the protection on the stout man’s body.

Xiao Luo cupped his fists at this time and laughed, “Heh, then let’s move the person and the flag together!”

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