299 Chapter 299 - The Weakness of Werewolves (1/2)

The wolf's ear a Werewolf possessed really gave it a keen sense of hearing as it heard Gu Fei's call from over a hundred meters away. Given how loud it could be as well, the ferocious-looking Werewolf's guttural growl caused several figures to appear in the horizon. Standing on hind legs, these Werewolves bounded toward Brother Assist and Gu Fei.

Pale-faced, Brother Assist trembled as he asked, ”Are… Are you sure it's safe?”

Gu Fei also felt slightly intimidated by the Werewolves' behavior despite Fleeting Smile's indubitable information and his certainty of the Yeguang Village's Werewolves recognizing him. This was because the Werewolves recognizing him did not guarantee that they would not attack him. Correlation did not mean causation, after all. For instance, Gu Fei knew Silver Moon, yet he would not hesitate to slay the latter from where he stood.

Although these Werewolves owed him a favor, it was hard to say if they would honor it!

This thought caused Gu Fei to involuntarily retreat, which made Brother Assist's already pale face turn ghastly, ”You're not thinking of fleeing are you?!”

While Gu Fei could still escape given his current distance from the Werewolves, Brother Assist would certainly be unable to do so. Gu Fei did not wish to be labeled as a disloyal person, so he could only say, ”No way. We'll die together if we have to.”

Brother Assist did not expect for Gu Fei to easily speak about dying, and he felt disappointed because of this.

The Werewolves' movement speed was definitely far beyond what the players could currently achieve, and this allowed them to surround the two men in the blink of an eye. Gu Fei kept his gaze trained on the hulking Werewolf, but he felt unsure inside if this was truly the Werewolf headsman Wally. Gu Fei only knew of Wally's human form, and now that the latter was in his Werewolf form, any of these similar-looking Werewolves gathered around them could be him.

Gu Fei tightened his grip on the sword as the hulking Werewolf stepped closer to him. He noticed how the Werewolf shrank and changed with its every step, so by the time it reached Gu Fei's front, the Werewolf had already transformed into his human form. The human NPC before Gu Fei was stout and had the exact same look of the Werewolf headsman Wally.

Gu Fei sighed in relief. Wally would not revert in his human form if these Werewolves were hostile toward him and Brother Assist; this was something he could tell despite these entities being NPCs.

Indeed, Wally looked at Gu Fei with no hostility in his eyes and even greeted him quite fondly, ”Hero.”

”What are you guys doing here?” Gu Fei asked.

While the question was something friends would usually ask one another when they met, it was actually an important command that could generate quests when asked toward NPCs. According to unofficial statistics, two questions were considered important when interacting with NPCs. The first one was ”What are you doing?” and the second one, which was a follow-up question, was ”How can I help you?”

NPCs would usually begin to narrate the quest plot when they heard the first question. In Gu Fei's case, once the surrounding Werewolves heard his question, they started transforming to their human forms and told their current predicament with sadness-filled eyes.

Indeed, these Werewolves were in this location to ambush Traversing Four Seas that was escorting a prisoner, but they had all been coerced into doing this. Their only wish was to peacefully coexist with the humans, but that had somehow become their Achilles' heel. Someone had once more learned of their secret and used it to blackmail them into stopping the escort team; if they did not do so, the blackmailer threatened to expose their secret to the public.

Although they were not the violent sort, they were still Werewolves through and through and naturally possessed the exceptional combat skills of their kind. Unfortunately, their secret had made it easy for others to exploit them.

Gu Fei sighed and then asked the second question that would trigger a quest, ”How can I help you?”

Wally was dumbfounded. ”Everything can be easily resolved if we know our blackmailer's identity.”

Gu Fei was curious and asked, ”Have you guys not seen the person?”

”All we received is this letter.” Wally handed over a note to Gu Fei.

Taking it in his hand, Gu Fei scanned through the document. It said: 'Eliminate Todd. If you don't, you and your fellow tribesmen will be in trouble.' The blackmailer had even enclosed a small picture of a group of humans surrounding a Werewolf in the event that the underlying message in his letter was not clear enough. The surrounding Werewolves showed utter fear at the sight of the picture from the note.

Gu Fei was honestly uninterested with the image, but he still asked, ”Who is Todd?”

Brother Assist beside him hurriedly replied, ”That's the prisoner Traversing Four Seas got out of Yueye City's prison.”

”They are trying to silence him!” Gu Fei gasped. Others might not know about Todd's background story of being a corrupt official, but the men of Young Master's Elite were well aware of this since they had Royal God Call, who was a member of Traversing Four Seas. When Oathless Sword retrieved Todd from the city prison, every Traversing Four Seas member received the guild quest prompt, and once Royal God Call got this, he immediately divulged it to the other five men on their mercenary channel.

Gu Fei waved the note in the air as he said to Wally, ”Don't worry about this matter; I'll help you solve this!”

Wally felt extremely happy upon hearing this. ”That's wonderful!”

Wally and the other Werewolves had had misgivings regarding Gu Fei before, but his success with the chain quest had earned him their confidence.

A thought flashed through Gu Fei's mind: If he got Moonlit Nightfalls for completing that quest before, would resolving this matter grant him a similarly amazing reward?

”Probably not,” Brother Assist analyzed, explaining, ”It's not the same quest, after all. Even if the NPCs involved are the same, the reward itself won't be.”

”Oh. Come to think of it, my quest log doesn't even show anything,” Gu Fei shared.