Chapter 8: Dirty Competition

Just as Xiao Fen was facing the new problem, about four kilometers away from this block, an angry roar suddenly echoed across the river bank.

If this hadn’t been a desolate river beach, just this roar might have attracted the attention and interrogation of Scotland Yard detectives.

“Damn it! Really damn it! Who is it? Who completed the hidden quest Traces of Lux?”

No one answered this question.

“From the time we entered this Trial World three days ago, I kept suppressing the quest progress and didn’t engage in the final battle, just to see if the Suffield bunch could complete Traces of Lux. I wanted to get a 100% completion rate for this quest and get a Brilliant Gem to upgrade the level of my clothes. And what happened? Traces of Lux showed some clues, but then some bastard got it first. Tell me, who exactly did this?”

The person speaking in such a rude tone slowly walked up the river embankment.

Under the illumination of the Carriage lamp, a face so handsome it could be described as beautiful was still twisted with anger. However, even so, it could not hide the natural charm of his face.

This handsome young man was tall, with an almost golden 8-head body ratio. A well-tailored, crisp single-breasted grey suit and the woolen coat outside further highlighted the perfection of this young man’s appearance.

Apart from the constant stream of profanity just now, one could say this young man was most suitable to be a true favored son of heaven.

It’s just that, right now, he couldn’t care about being refined. In front of him, several subordinates were standing timidly on one side, daring not to speak.

After about a minute, the subordinate standing closest to the river beach estimated that the young man had vented some of his anger. He finally raised his head and said, “Young Master, please calm down. This accident was our negligence. But you don’t need to be so angry. It’s just Traces of Lux, it won’t affect Young Master’s grand plan.”

The young man suddenly smiled slightly. This transition was extremely rapid. Just now his face was full of anger, but in the blink of an eye, it became as warm as a spring breeze.

He slowly walked up to the subordinate who spoke and said in a low voice, “Not bad, well said. Continue, continue talking, I’m listening.”

The more he smiled like this, the more the subordinate who spoke out of turn felt a chill run down his spine. He stammered, “Th-that, Young Master, I don’t know much, I was just talking nonsense, please don’t mind, please don’t mind.”

The young man’s face turned serious, and he slapped the subordinate with a backhand. The slap was so loud that the subordinate couldn’t stand steadily and knelt directly on the ground.

Even so, the young man did not let him off. He said, “You don’t know much yet you dare to speak recklessly. If you knew more, wouldn’t you turn the world upside down? If we weren’t in the Trial World and I still had use for you, do you believe I would enforce family discipline on you right here?”

That subordinate knelt on the ground covering his face, nodding repeatedly, daring not to say another word.

The young man stared at this subordinate, snorted, and then continued, “What do you know? The hidden quest Traces of Lux was triggered long ago, but until now, no one has been able to complete it.”

“Understand? No one knows how many Trialists have come to this Trial World, but for over a hundred years, no one has been able to complete this quest. That is why the difficulty of Traces of Lux was raised to A-rank.”

“Moreover, Traces of Lux is just a beginning. After completing this quest, several consecutive quests will appear. If you don’t complete Traces of Lux, those consecutive quests won’t trigger at all, understand?”

“Because this Trial World has always lacked this link, no matter who it is, they cannot get a 100% quest completion rate in this Trial World. Before I came in, an insider said that the Suffield group might have some clues, so I rushed to enter this world with them. And now, this quest has been completed by someone else. Do you think this is still a small matter?”

That subordinate knelt on the ground nodding repeatedly, then shaking his head repeatedly. For a moment, he didn’t know what to do.

The young man seemed to have vented some of his anger with that slap just now, and he had calmed down a lot. He took a handkerchief from his suit pocket, wiped the hand he had used to hit the person, turned his head to look at a subordinate standing in the shadow beside the Carriage, and asked, “Speaking of the Suffield group, seems like there hasn’t been any news from them for a long time.”

That subordinate seemed to sneer in the shadows and replied, “Young Master, many people walk without looking, and some people are naturally prone to attracting troublesome things. It just so happens that Suffield’s small team doesn’t lack either of these two types of people. It’s quite normal for them to accidentally fall into the mouth of the Web.”

The young man nodded slightly and asked, “Confirmed?”

“Yes, Young Master. At least four people, including Suffield, were captured by those spider webs floating in the sky, just last night. As for the result of being caught by those webs, Young Master, you are also very clear. Even with Suffield’s current strength, there is absolutely only one path: death. There was another member of their team who escaped the siege of the webs at the time, but was seriously injured. I believe even if he ran, he couldn’t have gone far.”

The young man gently rubbed his eyebrows and asked, “You didn’t continue to track him at that time?”

The subordinate in the shadows paused for a moment and said in a low voice, “The webs were already very dense at that time. Even if I went out, I would definitely be targeted. Moreover, I saw with my own eyes that the member was seriously injured. I believed he couldn’t run far, so I didn’t follow up.”

The young man looked up at this subordinate and said calmly, “Because you didn’t follow up out of your own self-righteousness, someone has now completed Traces of Lux. How do you explain all this? Tell me, is everything just a coincidence?”

The subordinate in the shadows immediately fell silent. For a moment, like the man kneeling on the ground, his body trembled slightly, sweating profusely.

The young man shook his head and said, “Forget it. It’s pointless to pursue these questions now. Find that lucky survivor. I don’t want a rat dropping to ruin a whole pot of soup. Go to work.”

At the same time, Xiao Fen, whom the young man wanted to find, was standing in front of the window, quietly looking at the street ahead.

The fog was too heavy. Even at a distance of only ten-some meters, he still couldn’t see anything. Only those strange movement sounds were slowly becoming louder, sounding closer and closer to him.

Xiao Fen shook his head. Let alone the fact that he had already run out of strength and had no energy to fight even if he wanted to, even if he hadn’t run out of strength, just listening to those huge movement sounds was enough to dispel any confidence he had in confronting his opponent head-on.