"Next, the big screen will randomly assign battlefields to the fifty groups."
Yu Jing and Senior Zhen Zhen were assigned to Venue Eight, whose referee was named Hai Xie.
The eighth person standing behind the Masked Man wore a pitch-black hard-shell mask, resembling the shell of some kind of beetle.
This referee seemed rather old, with a slightly frail body and aged, wrinkled skin.
A long black scorpion tail extended from his lumbar spine, its stinger at the end razor-sharp.
Among the Gene Academy disciples in Yu Jing's year, there was a girl with the genes of an Israeli killer scorpion. She somewhat resembled this referee.
"Beep, beep, beep!"
Suddenly, Yu Jing's phone vibrated with the sound of an incoming message.
When he took it out to look, he saw that the messages had come simultaneously from Dean Long and Special Commissioner Liang. Clearly, the two of them were not watching the matches together.
Dean Long's message was simple, consisting of only four words: Be careful of the referee.
As for Special Commissioner Liang, he sent a message that made Yu Jing's expression change. It read:
'If Dean Long also sent you a warning message, then it means my guess is correct. The person who is about to referee your match was once one of the candidates for the position of dean at our Gene Academy: Liao Hai, the director of the Institute of Entomology. However, due to certain details during the election, he narrowly lost to Dean Long. In terms of strength, he was no weaker than Dean Long back then.'
'At the time, Liao Hai had already taught at the Gene Academy for thirty years and made enormous contributions. In terms of contributions and management ability, he far surpassed Long Zonglin, who had only just reached the vice-dean