288 Chapter 288 - Giving Face to Gu Fei (1/2)

The smile currently on Vast Lushness's face seemed to come from the heart, which made Gu Fei think that she was in a good mood.

This was ironic. To be capable of smiling sincerely in the face of such a relentless hunt that lasted for an entire day and night… Had she gone insane? Gu Fei had never seen Vast Lushness smile like this before. When they first met in Yueye City, her lips were curled in arrogance and tyranny, and when they met again in Yunduan City… Vast Lushness did not smile much beyond the few perfunctory smiles that were superficial at best and were obviously not heartfelt.

With Gu Fei's comment, Sakurazaka Moony and his lot also came to this realization, especially Sakurazaka Moony. He had stuck his neck out for Vast Lushness so much that he had managed to get in contact with her more often than Gu Fei had, fostering a deeper relationship that allowed him see that Vast Lushness's current smile was indeed far from the usual ones she showed. Furthermore, this smile of hers had appeared repeatedly throughout this day and night.

Sakurazaka Moony suddenly felt fuzzy inside. He could not help but ask, ”You've been smiling like that this whole time. What are you happy about?”

”Really? I'm smiling?” Vast Lushness smiled coquettishly.

Everyone was speechless.

”Forget it. Let's just get outta here!” Gu Fei said.

Now that Electric Wall had completely disappeared, the remaining enemies were clamoring to return to this alley from the left and right streets leading to it. The Ten Guild Alliance's men had not actually retreated fully and had just temporarily halted their assault due to the troublesome Gu Fei's appearance. Knowing that this was a dead-end alley, they decided to wait it out at the two entryways leading to the lane. These men perked up once their targets walked out of the alley. Simultaneously, one of them was spamming the guild channel with: ”27149! 27149 is back!”

That was the name that the Ten Guild Alliance had given to the player who had helped them win the guild war against the Past Deeds Guild. Eventually, Dusky Cloud and his brothers had amassed a large number of men to the point that even the highest level guild out there would be unable to contain them. These men were actually from different guilds to begin with, and it was only the existence of Past Deeds Guild during Parallel World's open beta that had forced them to band together.

Although they had since decimated Past Deeds, the brotherhood that they had found in one another did not end like that. They still considered one another as comrades and had even continued to lead their respective guilds together, eventually forming the current Ten Guild Alliance. Despite the system not having any way to guarantee their bond, they were still able to maintain the friendship that they had fostered all this while.

Still, the lack of an effective way to disseminate information to all the ten guilds in the alliance was truly a huge hassle. Just the ”27149! 27149 is back!” cry was broadcasted several times on the various guild channels and messily discussed by many members first before it reached the Ten Guild Alliance's figure heads.

Everyone was clear on who the target for this hunt was, so 27149's appearance created much hubbub.

Those men who had personally participated in the guild war back then clearly remembered that 27149 had been instrumental in the Past Deeds' demise. He was the hero that had ended Silver Moon, Vast Lushness, and company's tyrannical reign in Yueye City, so none of them could fathom why 27149 had a change of heart and was now standing on the enemy's side after just a month.

As the head honcho of the Ten Guild Alliance, Dusky Cloud did not have to participate in the hunt for the targets himself. However, he started paying attention to this matter once he learned that 27149 was intervening. With the Ten Guild Alliance's strength, there was essentially no need for it to provide preferential treatment to any player, but 27149 was the only exception. Even the game officials had delegated him as their unofficial spokesperson with that promotional video, which had created quite the buzz in and out of Parallel World, even making people wonder if such an indomitable existence was the result of an unspoken nepotism.

The lack of instructions from the upper echelons of the Ten Guild Alliance somewhat showed their indecision on how to proceed with the matter. As for the players who were currently in direct confrontation with 27149, they all stared open-mouthed at Gu Fei who was sprinting toward them while brandishing his sword.

This player right here was a legend! Even the banana peel he had just discarded seemed to be executed rather nobly. Those blocking the streets involuntarily took a step backward, as the player in charge of them hurriedly asked on the guild channel: ”Guild leader, what do we do now?!”

After a brief emergency discussion between the ten guild leaders, this instruction was finally passed down: ”Confirm the person's identity!”

”How do we do that?” the player asked.

”Ask him,” was the reply that the player received.

The leader of the hunting team quickly acted accordingly, ”Are you 27149? Thousand Miles Drunk?”

This name was probably listed in some unknown corner of the leaderboard, yet it was a name that was often mentioned by the entire player base.

Gu Fei had no reason to deny his identity, so he simply nodded his head in response.

Gu Fei's reply was swiftly reported to the top brasses, yet his sword was mere inches away from the team leader's throat by the time the discussion of the superiors was completed and an instruction was issued accordingly: ”Retreat.”

These men's rich experience PvPing under the Ten Guild Alliance's flag resulted into them developing a compliant personality to the upper echelons' will. As such, everyone turned to leave with just that one command from the top brasses.