Chapter 313 (1/2)
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Blackwater Bog was a bog located in the thick forests of Sky City. Its defining mob was crocodiles. According to the official database, Blackwater Bog had a boss called Ghost-eyed Crocodile, and there was a 25% chance that it would sp.a.w.n as a Level 1 mob.
The Ghost-eyed Crocodile had pretty good BN value and growth, and it was slightly better than even my Dark Wasp. Naturally, everyone wanted a piece of the pie, and they fought hard to take control of the map. Everyone was aware that a pet was critical in increasing one's power, and Candlelight Shadow himself had, despite losing, dared to 1v2 me and Lin Yixin because he had an insanely powerful Heaven-devouring Tiger. It further emphasized the importance of a high-tier pet.
……
While I was running toward Blackwater Bog, it was absolute chaos inside the party channel—
Gui Guzi: ”Xu Yang got surrounded, I need someone to charge the right wing with me and rescue Xu Yang! f.u.c.k, there's too many of them!”
Du Thirteen: ”They're all here, even those three traitors are here!”
Xu Yang: ”Pooh! That idiot Spring Mud thinks he can kill me? No dice!”
Gui Guzi: ”How can you even say that when your G.o.dd.a.m.n corpse is lying on the G.o.dd.a.m.n ground? Anyway, resurrect yourself quickly and come back to us! It doesn't look like Flower Room will stop unless they destroy everyone!”
Pure Love: ”Is Vice Leader Broken Halberd coming to help us?”
I replied immediately, ”I'll be there in 20 minutes! Hold on, everyone!”
Pure Love: ”Awesome! Beiming Xue, Leader From Water and Vice Leader Mingyue should come as well! We'll be much more confident if we know that all four of you are coming to help us!”
”Yeah!”
My heart sank a little when I heard that even Xu Yang had died at least once. It wasn't actually easy to kill the big man because at least half of his equipment were of the Dark Gold grade, meaning that the enemy's firepower wasn't to be underestimated. These days, even Flower Room was no longer the noobish guild they once were!
I paused for a second after seeing a couple of orange dots on my mini map. Then, I ran toward the edge of Sky Forest where an empty clearing was. They were none other than He Yi, Murong Mingyue and Beiming Xue.
”Lu Chen!”
”Let's go!”
”Mn!”
The three of them immediately started running toward Blackwater Bog when they saw me. Barring any complications, we should arrive at our destination in fifteen minutes at most. Blackwater Bog wasn't too far away from Sky City, and the conflict would only worsen as more and more players joined the battle. This was going to be a big one.
While we were running, I asked, ”What exactly happened, boss? How did our men suddenly clash against Flower Room?”
He Yi replied, ”Do you still remember Life of Luxury? He's one of Li Le's friends.”
”Yeah, I remember him. What about him?”
”Life of Luxury had a girlfriend called Xue Lu who was a barmaid at Qianbaidu Bar. Not long ago, when Du Thirteen took Xu Yang, Gui Guzi and Wolf Fang out for a drink at that bar, she caught his eye and one thing led to another…”
”What happened afterward?”
I kind of figured out what was going on the moment she mentioned a girl. I was well aware of Thirteen's vices; he was the kind of guy who would rather fail miserably than let a pretty face pa.s.s him by. He was used to it, I was used to it. Back when we were still in university, he once s.n.a.t.c.hed a handsome basketballer's girlfriend in the Chinese cla.s.s. As a result, I beat the s.h.i.+t out of the guy—and got the s.h.i.+t kicked out of me too—to defend Thirteen.
The corner of He Yi's lips turned up. ”Afterward? That's simple… Du Thirteen and Xue Lu went to a hotel, but Life of Luxury saw them and confronted them in their room. Du Thirteen had to kick his a.s.s real hard before he and Xue Lu managed to escape.”
My heart sank. ”Motherf.u.c.ker! Was Thirteen hurt?”
He Yi looked at me in surprise. ”Shouldn't you be more concerned that Du Thirteen was probably in the wrong here?”
I gripped my sword tightly before declaring, ”I don't care what Thirteen did, but he's my brother! I ain't letting anyone who hurts my brother get away scot-free!”
”Hehe…”
He Yi smiled. ”Well, Du Thirteen wasn't hurt, but Life of Luxury was furious. He brought this up to Li Le, and surprisingly Li Le was even more furious than he was. Apparently, that Xue Lu shared a strange relations.h.i.+p with Li Le as well. Anyway, long story short, that is why they attacked us at Blackwater Bog this afternoon. Almost all two thousand players of Flower Room were there, while ours numbered less than four hundred…”
Beiming Xue asked innocently, ”A strange relations.h.i.+p? What do you mean?”
He Yi smiled but didn't answer. In the end, it was Murong Mingyue who replied, ”What she meant was that they had an affair with each other…”
Beiming Xue turned red in the cheeks. ”OMG, this is so crazy. What kind of person is this Xue Lu?”
”Who knows?”
He Yi said calmly as we ran across the forest, ”Personally, I don't think Li Le and Life of Luxury had acted out of pa.s.sion—like the likes of them would care this much about one girl. Li Le is just using this as an excuse to taunt Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and score their first victory in Sky City!”
I nodded in agreement. ”Yeah, Li Le is a pretty ambitious man. To rise to power in Sky City, they must first make themselves known. The best way to improve their reputation is to challenge a reputable guild and win. Right now, Snowy Cathaya, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and Warsky Alliance are the most famous guilds in Sky City, and it doesn't take much thinking to know why they chose us…”