183 Chapter 183 - He that Runs Fastest Gets the Ring (2/2)

Gu Fei was about to pull out his sword from his dimensional pocket when he heard the surrounding players say, ”You're a swindler!” Pausing, he eased his grip on the sword hilt inside his dimensional pocket.

”Who swindled whom?!” Xi Xiaotian tried to defend herself from the accusation, but the group of men was clearly not here to listen to her explanation, and they proceeded to bombard her with their attacks.

Xi Xiaotian tried to slip through a gap among them, yet she was hurtled back into the encirclement by a Warrior's Cyclone. With only a sliver of HP, the two Mages' spells promptly turned Xi Xiaotian into a beam of white light.

”Let's head to the Archer Range next!” some men shouted as they moved to run toward the said direction. Gu Fei spotted a few familiar faces among them and exclaimed, ”Are you guys from Cloud Herder?”

The men regarded Gu Fei with suspicion as one of them nodded his head, ”Yup!”

”How did that woman just now swindle you guys?” Gu Fei asked.

”Who are you?” The men suspiciously asked Gu Fei as they exchanged glances with one another.

”I've also been cheated by her before.” This statement of Gu Fei held some truth.

”We actually don't know how, but our guild leader said that she had swindled us,” someone among the men replied. The rest disregarded Gu Fei and rushed toward the Archer Range.

Waiting for a bit, he also headed to the Archer Range using a different path.

Along the way, he saw quite a few players making their way toward the same direction. Quite a few familiar faces that he had seen during yesterday's match clued him to the fact that they were all members of Cloud Herder Guild.

Gu Fei was faster than the average players, yet quite a few players were already gathered at the Archer Range when he arrived.

The place he and Xi Xiaotian had just been was not far from the Archer Range. Nonetheless, only one thing would explain why Gu Fei with his fast movement speed arrived later than so many others: this was a premeditated hunt.

This ambush of theirs is ridiculous! Who would be foolish enough to leave the safe zone if they're openly blocking the entrance like that?! The experienced fighter Gu Fei muttered to himself as he looked at the sight in front of the Archer Range and eavesdropped on the Cloud Herder men's conversation.

”Where is she?” someone shouted.

”I don't know. I haven't seen her at all,” someone answered, clearly at a loss himself.

Many entered the safe zone and searched the place, yet they saw no traces of her.

”She must have logged off!” someone guessed.

Gu Fei opened up his friends list and glanced at it. Indeed, Xi Xiaotian's name was darkened on the display. It seemed that she knew how to deal with people trying to take revenge on her and promptly logged off after getting killed once. This caused the ambushers outside to doubt if she had been sent here in the first place.

It was truly disappointing to discover that their target had logged off despite making many preparations to hunt her. Whoever experienced this would only feel helpless inside, as this was not a problem that could be resolved in-game.

The Cloud Herder's players were about to leave the area dispiritedly when someone shouted, ”Guild Leader is here!”

Everyone turned toward a certain direction. Gu Fei, who was wedged among them, stretched his neck out to have a look toward that direction as well. Indeed, Foe-herder and several other guildmates were striding over. ”Where is she?” Foe-herder immediately asked once he was close enough to his men at the Archer Range.

”She logged off,” everyone reported to him regrettably.

Foe-herder checked his friends list and saw that this was really the case. ”F*ck!” he cursed.

”Guild Leader, what exactly happened?” some of them were clueless as to what had prompted their guild leader to order this manhunt.

”That woman colluded with another Mage to pose as the man we are looking for!” Foe-herder replied.

”I'm sure some of you have seen that fake Mage before. It's that Mage of Young Master's Elite, the one whom we've fought in the mercenary PvP tournament!” Foe-herder explained further.

Gu Fei quickly lowered his head in the crowd. Only a few members of Cloud Herder could actually identify him, as not many of them had fought with him directly. They might even have an easier time recognizing the back of Gu Fei instead of his face since his back was what they could see when they were chasing after him during their PvP match.

Each of them immediately condemned the swindling duo openly. Gu Fei could not stand being accused like that and promptly squeezed his way out of the crowd, saying, ”Excuse me. Isn't this just a misunderstanding?”