The Beaten Jim

"Are you questioning my ability?", Max asked angrily.

"It's not like that. I mean –" someone tried to explain.

"Wasn't like that? Or do you think he is more of a threat than Lance and Bryan?", Max roared. Seeing Max angry, everyone started to panic as deep fear could be seen in their eyes.

After all, they knew how ruthless Max was. There was even one time, that Max almost beat a normal person to death just because he questioned his decision.

Even by doing that, he was able to walk away freely. This was because behind Max was the second strongest person in the Banks family. Yes, Max's father is the vice head of the Banks family. That was why even though Duane was stronger than him, he didn't dare to go against him.

"Sigh~~", Max breathes in a huge amount of air to calm his nerves before turning his head back to the direction of the crowd.

"I am sorry, I lost myself earlier. I hope you forgive me", Max said with an amiable smile on his face.

"We will be able to take care of him. Don't worry. I hope you believe me because, compared to Bryan and Lance, Martin is less of a threat.", Max said to the crowd with a reassuring smile on his face.

Seeing the smile on his face, the crowd nodded their heads silently. Max then turned around and started walking away. What he was going to do was pretty obvious. He was going to contact Martin and ask for help. However, he suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Duane,

"Duane, please contact all the people who are weaker than Martin and tell them not to act rashly. Try to talk to them first. If they decide to be stubborn, you can attack them. But remember to give a warning first", max said to Duane who nodded his head silently.

Max, with his hand in his left pocket walked away. Seeing him walk away, the crowd finally breathe out a sigh of relief. Soon, they began to voice their discontentment towards Max's behaviour.

Just from a glance, you could tell that they were people who would bully the weak and fear the strong. They were nothing, more than Trash.

However, if they knew what would really happen next, they wouldn't be letting out a breath of relief just yet...

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Present time,

Presently, if one was to view one of the buildings near the death ravine park, one could see a person standing there with a shocked face. As for the person who this was, it was naturally, Travis.

Merely, presently he had a look of astonishment on his face as he stared forward blankly in front without blinking his eyes. When he heard the story about what Martin did to them was even crazier.

It was simply unbelievable. Even Travis was shocked by Martin's cunningness. It must be said that Travis was very calm whenever doing something. However, this is the first time he had heard of someone as cunning as Martin.

"So you are telling me that, Martin had already noticed you guys but he had hid himself to spy on you guys?"

"Yes, moreover, after he came back with Max, he gave us some pills and told us that it will let us gain the amount of power which is enough to control the formation as our power wasn't enough. Never, did we think that he will harm us? Moreover, Max even took some and then forced us to take ours"

"After taking the medicine, Martin told us that the tablets he gave us were poisons. And if he activated it, we will all explode and be eliminated from the game. He even tried that on Malvin!!", At this moment, Duane's voice grew hoarse.

"I see. Okay, I will help you, but I won't ask you anything again.", Travis said. 'That guy is really dangerous. As for someone who could kill his friends with poison, he was only shameless and dangerous.

"Em, oka, okay", Duane said as Travis began to help him gather new students.

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1 hour later…..

It has been some time now and Travis and Duane have been working together for some time now. They managed to gather many people together.

Many people came especially in the last forty minutes. Most of them decided to stay and join the group. Others too refused. As for those people, Just like Travis expected, they were immediately attacked and eliminated. This means he wouldn't be part of these people if he didn't decide to join them. He was truly lucky.

Currently, Travis was still standing on the tall building whilst busily searching for new people who entered the park. Travis really did well with his job because many people believed him since he used a mental technique. They all thought that he was someone from at least the top five families.

However, if they found out that Travis was the person who was sending them messages who knew what they might do?

As Travis continued to search people, he suddenly sensed the presence of two powerful auras at the same time. They were so powerful that even someone like Travis even thought that their power was simply immeasurable.

Sensing their aura, Travis knew that both Lance and Bryan had appeared at the same time. This meant disaster for them. But since they had already started their plan, it meant that they were no way that they could stop it now.

"I am sure that you can sense that Bryan and Lance have arrived. But Martin said we shouldn't attack now. Please pass this, message to the others so that they don't attack," Duane's voice suddenly sounded in Travis' ears.

"Okay,"

Even though he was slightly confused with Martin's plan, he obeyed Duane and sent the message to others. Luckily they were fast so no one attacked.

Even with everywhere being quiet, Travis actually felt nervous. This was because he noticed that Jim hadn't arrived at the centre even though it was about two hours when they entered the last trail. Was Jim captured and eliminated? Never! Travis had some kind of reassurance that Jim wouldn't be eliminated easily. He didn't know why but he had a strong feeling that his best friend was alive. Even though he had no method to verify this, he was very sure that It was true.

At this moment, Travis noticed both Bryan and Lance walking toward the centre of the park. Surprisingly, they were coming from opposite directions which made it look like they were enemies. However, when Lance reached about 20 metres to the pole, he nodded to Bryan who also nodded back.

They seemed to agree to something. Then all of a sudden, Lance turned around. Facing the buildings surrounding the park, he raised his hand a huge bag appeared in his hand.

Seeing the bag, Travis had a very bad feeling. Then he threw the sac to the ground when a little boy started crawling out of the bag. The boy was simply beaten to almost a dead state.

What was once a t-shirt is now a nasty mess of holes, muck and dirty stains, hanging from one of his shoulders like a discarded old towel. But what creeped Travis out was that the person was also covered in blood.

At this moment, the young person raised his head and looked exactly in the direction of Travis. The person had an extremely pained expression on his face. But he wasn't even crying. One could tell that the person was extremely determined not to cry.

However, the moment Travis saw who the person was, He immediately burst out in anger. That was because the person who Lance took from the bag was very important to Travis. That person was JIM!!!