Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 428

It took an entire day for Katherine to get rid of both Jae and Brian, but the two of them maintained stubborn looks as they reluctantly left.

She was helpless about it since she’d even beaten them up, but they still didn’t want to give up on her, apparently.

What could she do about it? It wasn’t like she was going to kill them for it. They weren’t enemies.

She had never faced something like this before, so she was more than a little confused.

Since then, it had been about a week, but the two of them still came by every day without fail, and they came together, giving her a headache.

Katherine was lying down on the sofa in her home when Le Xuan burst into her house.

“Kat!” she exclaimed, beaming. She was obviously excited about something, and she was practically dying to share it. She was running towards the Sin with her arms outstretched, as if she was going to pick her up and twirl her around.

“What is it,” Katherine said dryly. “I’m surprised you’re running in my house after my brother intimidated you so much.”

Le Xuan abruptly stopped before slowly walking over, cautiously looking around.

Katherine snorted. “Relax. He’s not here today. Don’t you see me lying down on the sofa without caring?”

“Oh, you’re right. You’re more scared of your brother than I am, anyway. Uh,” she said, seeing Katherine’s glare. She promptly pretended she didn’t see it. “Forget your horrifying brother. There’s big news!”

Katherine was disinterested. How big could this news of hers be? She was sure that her brother would have mentioned something to her if something world-shaking had happened.

Le Xuan put her hands on her h.i.p.s, smiling. “Hehe, I bet you won’t be so aloof after hearing what I’m about to say.”

Katherine truly marvelled about her friend’s inner and outside persona. It was so different. One was relatively gentle and reserved in public, but the other was loud and exuberant in private.

“Just how are you able to maintain another persona outside with this personality of yours?”

Le Xuan glared at her for bringing it up again. “Who said I can’t do it? My mother said that a woman has to be reserved and as gentle as jade to get a man.”

Katherine rolled her eyes. “This again. Didn’t I already get a boyfriend before you?”

The girl sputtered, unable to refute. She didn’t know what to say. It wasn’t that she hadn’t been pursued by other guys, but…

In the end, this prickly and arrogant friend of hers had been the one who managed to land a boyfriend first.

Even if she’d already broken up with him, but still!

She had still gotten a boyfriend before her, who always proclaimed that she would find true love. She may not have found true love, but she still didn’t have a single boyfriend. If this wasn’t a slap in the face, then what was?

‘Hmph, count yourself lucky to be my best friend,’ Le Xuan thought, ‘I’ll let you off this time! I’ll still tell you, but only because I want to. Hmph, hmph.’

“Forget it, forget it. I’ll be magnanimous. Anyway, there’s news that a ruin is going to open up soon. That’s opportunity to fight for treasures and techniques. And it’s forbidden for anyone above the Meister realm to enter!”

Katherine abruptly sat up. “What! Really?”

Le Xuan nodded rapidly. “Yes, yes! I’m not lying! There’s already been a few who tried. Who knew that they would all be severely injured or even directly die? How about it? It really made you sit up and take notice eh?” she said, gloating a little.

Katherine ignored her gloating. “Tell me more.”

“Where’s my ‘please’?” Le Xuan held out her hand.

The Sin glared at her.

Le Xuan pouted.

“Fine. Stingy. Anyway, there’s a lot of experts supposedly going over, so it’s not going to be easy fighting for treasures and techniques. Your clan should have heard about this as well, so they might be bringing a bunch of the ‘younger’ generation over.”

Katherine thought about it. What she said was reasonable.

Le Xuan came from a good sect, and she had a decent information network, which was why she was able to get a hold of this news first and tell her. Otherwise, Katherine could only find out from the clan’s channels, which would take longer.

There would be more people from the advanced rank going. There would be a good number of Meisters as well but compared to the amount of people who would flock to the place at the chance of breaking into the Meister rank, it was negligible.

Katherine’s eyes lit up. She had to tell Alec.

Her brother wouldn’t be able to go, so she could directly exclude him.

In that case, if she stuck around Alec, they would be able to fight for more things. It ultimately depended on luck in the end.

“Are you going to head there with your clan?” Le Xuan asked.

“I don’t think so. Going along with a big group might have pros, but ultimately there are more cons. You’re going too, right?”

“Of course! Why would I miss out this opportunity?”

“Then, faster pack. I have to go and inform my teacher.”

“Oh, oh,” Le Xuan said, nodding quickly. She hurried off after bidding Katherine goodbye. “Let’s meet in an hour!”

Katherine sped out as well. There was no time to lose.

It was a ruin that had never opened before, so they didn’t know what they would face, but there were already people going in. If they waited for too long, then there would be too many people, and a lot of the opportunities would have been snatched away.

“Teacher!”

Katherine stood outside Uncle Alec’s house and shouted up. She knew that he would be able to hear her without a problem. There was a part of her that was still awkward thinking about how he had seen her embarrassing circ.u.mstance previously, but she shamelessly pretended that nothing happened.

There was figure that appeared from the upstairs window and jumped down without a second thought. He landed on the ground without another sound.

“What’s wrong?”

Katherine lowered her voice to the point of it being a whisper. “I found out from my friend that there’s a ruin that’s been opened. We have to fight for opportunities. First come first served.”

Alec looked surprised, and his eyebrows lifted a little. “Okay.”

Alec jumped back up and grabbed Ye Sha, who was bewildered. The System was still holding a pack of ch.i.p.s in his hand, confused.

“Wha–? What’s going on?”

“We’re going on an adventure,” Alec said dryly.

“Oh,” Ye Sha said calmly, continuing to munch on said ch.i.p.s. “Okay.”

“Do you need to prepare?” Katherine asked.

Alec shook his head. “No need. I’ve got everything already.”

Katherine nodded. “I still want to get some things, so we’ll meet an hour later at my house.”

“Okay.”

Katherine sped off, and Alec turned his attention to Ye Sha.

“Do you know about the ruin opening?”

“Huh?” Ye Sha said, his hand pausing. “What ruin?”

He chucked the packet of ch.i.p.s to Alec and his fingers slid across the screen a few times. His brows furrowed.

“Hm.”

Alec raised a brow.

Ye Sha continued to rapidly type on the keyboard as vast amounts of information flowed into his mind.

“This isn’t a natural occurrence. As far as I can tell, the ruin wasn’t even here before. It just appeared, as if it was a mirage.”

Alec almost frowned hearing that. If Ye Sha said that it wasn’t natural, then it wasn’t. Could it have something to do with the ‘calamity’ that they were going to face?

Would this realm face it as well?

Ye Sha was likewise confused. “I don’t know. Something’s blocking me. I’ll have to continue searching for it.”

Alec nodded. His expression was unreadable.