Hank said, “We should warn the other teams not to fall for Fabian’s tricks.”

    Gerald shot Hank a calm nce, and Hank scratched his head and asked, “What’s wrong, Gerald?”

    Mike said. “We just need to keep Gerald safe and keep a watch for Fabian’s team. The infighting between the other teams works in our favor. No need to trouble ourselves to stop them.

    “Sooner orter, they’ll figure it out, and this fighting will stop.”

    Hank scratched his head and said, “Violence suits me better.”

    Weyne said, “Fabian, only two teams chose to team up with us. Is your n going to work?”

    Those two teams had already offered them an olive branch before thepetition started.

    But they were not sure what side they were really on.

    Fabian said, “Gerald definitely won’t fall for it. It all depends on whether the other teams join in. Don’t get your hopes up. Aside from the fighters, the rest of the State Security Bureau aren’t silly at all.”

    Weyne, the fighter, was left speechless.

    Weyne thought, ‘Is Fabian insulting me?’

    Right on cue, the announcer’s voice rang out. “All eight supply stations have been secured. Eliminated teams must evacuate immediately. Let the team round begin.]

    Cathy stood up, brushing the dust off her clothes. “William, grab the resource packs. Let’s go meet up with Aria and the others.”

    “Okay,” William replied.

    Once the two teams met up, Cathy ordered, “We’ll stick together today, then split up to search tomorrow. Besides gathering encrypted information, keep an eye out for any caves that would make good resting spots.

    “Caves are easy to defend and hard to attack. They’ll make perfect temporary bases for us.”

    The team round spanned a long period and involvedplex challenges. If they stayed together all the time, they would get nowhere. They needed a safe base.

    “Got it!” the team replied in unison.

    They set off toward the east,

    The restricted zone was massive and categorized into high, medium, and low-risk areas.

    The supply stations were all located in the low-risk area.

    They were making their way toward the medium-risk area.

    Not long after they arrived in the area, Cathy heard a noise, and they quickly went into hiding.

    They ran right into some gun-armed patrollers and Sean, who was swaggering along with a bit of grass in his mouth.

    Everyone was stunned.

    They wondered, ‘How did Sean end up here too?

    With so many people together, we’d be spotted in no time.

    Aria and Cathy exchanged knowing looks.

    Sean was after Aria. She was the best person to draw them away.

    Cathy handed themunicator to Aria.

    Aria kept low and moved silently in the opposite direction, and she stepped on a twig on purpose.

    Without a moment’s hesitation, a shot was fired at her.

    Aria dodged and bolted in a sh.

    “Chase her,” Sean barked.

    He chased after Asia with the patrollers.

    Sean shouted, “You little rascal, you can’t get away this time.”

    Sean chased after Asia, gritting his teeth in frustration, but Aria dodged the bullets, as if she knew where they were going to olli/li/ol

    Fuming, Sean shoved his gun away and did his best to chase her.

    “I must take revenge today,” he snarled.

    In the observation room, everyone was stunned, their jaws practically on the floor.

    “Sean gets quite excited whenever he runs into Aria,” someone said.

    “Yes, he does. Aria had been giving him a hard time,” another man said.

    After Aria snatched the crossbow from him, Sean immediately called in the other instructors and joined the patrols.

    With Aria in thepetition, this year’s Skills Evaluation became more challenging.

    Aria and Sean ran out of the surveince zone. In the end, only the mini surveince drones designed by the state Security Bureau were trying to keep up with them.

    Soon, even those drones couldn’t keep up with them anymore.

    Twenty minutester, six patrollers followed the footprints to a clearing and suddenly stopped, dumbfounded by what they

    saw,

    Sean was tied to a tree.