339 Chapter 339 - An Unsatisfying Conclusion (2/2)

In the end, Gu Fei's infallible Twin Incineration, which had not yet failed to connect to a target, broke its pristine record today.

The captain brought up his shield by raising his right arm and easily blocked Gu Fei's strike. Twin Incineration left a flaming streak as it scratched insignificantly past the shield's surface.

His opponent's actions were quick and were entirely mechanical. Just from this exchange alone, Gu Fei could tell that he would have a difficult time defeating this guard captain.

Gu Fei had two ways to deal with NPCs like this. The first was to move faster than his opponent. In that way, even if it had the intention to dodge or block Gu Fei's strikes, it would be unable to do so. The second was to grasp the opponent's attack patterns and come up with counter moves.

The first option was impossible in his current situation. While Gu Fei did not know whether the captain was a Knight or a Warrior, the fact that the NPC had a shield meant that he must have a high defense. Gu Fei figured it would be highly improbable to attempt cutting the opponent as the NPC clearly possessed a flawless and inhuman reaction time.

As for the second way… He was currently pressed for time so now was not the time to employ that. With the captain taking the lead to engage with Gu Fei, the other guards also began making their way up the roof using the same Earthsplitter skill.

It was evident that Gu Fei would lose his life here if he were to take even the slightest impact from these NPCs' AOE attacks. Fearing that running might be too late, Gu Fei hurriedly used Blink to distance himself by five meters from the guards.

The captain of the guards once again took the lead in attacking and used Charge to chase after Gu Fei. He somersaulted to his right, leaped from the roof down to the street, sprinting away once he landed.

Looking backward as he fled, he saw some guards leap off the roof to continue their chase of him while the others replace their weapons with bows to fire off arrows at him.

”WHAT THE F*CK?!” All the players were once more riled up. Apparently, these guards were not just Warriors or Knights, they were g*dd*mn Archers as well!

After Gu Fei fluidly evaded an incoming arrow, he began to stick close to the wall as he ran onward. This caused the guards who had been firing arrows at him to lose sight of their target. Meanwhile, the guards that were hot on his heels did not give up their chase. With movement speed that did not seem to be any lower than Gu Fei's, they relentlessly pursued him. These NPCs had speed, Strength and skills from almost every job class. The average webnovels would usually have their protagonist demonstrating such almighty mastery, but, unexpectedly, the game designers were shameless enough to program Parallel World's guards with such level of invincibility before players themselves could attain it.

Gu Fei occasionally looked backward as he fled and saw the guards effortlessly chasing after him uniformly. Gu Fei found this to be quite a waste. If there were perhaps only one or two guards chasing after him, he would probably consider stopping to patiently exchange a few blows or spar with them. Unfortunately, there were many guards pursuing him right now… At the end of the day, this squad's main target was Gu Fei. Although the fleeing Mages with over 20 PK points led one or two of them away, Gu Fei would be very foolish to expect the same treatment.

The players' nosy mentality had also surfaced at this moment, and quite a lot of them actually followed to watch the show. Deep Waters and quite a few guildmates, Svelte Dancer, Royal God Call, and other players with high movement speed all made the effort to follow the action.

Having witnessed these guards unceremoniously trample the traps before, Gu Fei did not bother to cast Electric Wall to stall his pursuers. Instead, he saved that bit of mana to use Blink twice later to increase the distance between him and the guards.

As the chase continued, Svelte Dancer, Royal God Call and many other acquaintances of Gu Fei even had the mind to send Gu Fei a message asking what sort of plan he had in mind. Gu Fei did not reply to any of them as he was busy running on the streets. Eventually, the sight of a compound loomed before him. The sign by the wall of this compound showed a bow and an arrow, identifying it as Linyin City's Archery Range. Without a second thought, Gu Fei dove head-first into this safe zone.

”I'm gonna log off first; I'll see you all tomorrow.” Gu Fei managed to squeeze this message before he disappeared in a white light as he logged off.

”D*MM*T!” The players, who had been following him thus far, felt miserable at witnessing such an abrupt conclusion to the matter. The hunt for the world's first player with PK value of over 30 points had actually ended in such an unsavory manner. It was just like a movie that had no ending that left the viewers infuriated.

The city guards instantly formed up and left when Gu Fei logged out. Players that were loitering about berated Gu Fei's disgraceful action. Suddenly, everyone exclaimed and immediately split back into two groups, each standing on a side of the street.

Minutes ago, all these players were fighting against one another with their lives on the line. At this moment, they had gathered together as to watch Gu Fei's escape. It was truly unsightly.

”Everyone, calm down!” Deep Waters suddenly spoke, ”We're merely doing our quest. Since our target isn't here, there's no need for us to fight.”

He then whipped his hand out and scattered a handful of Whitestone Dust. Instantly, a Thief, who had been edging closer to Deep Waters, appeared in the middle of the street!

”Please, fair lady, what's the point of doing all this?” Deep Waters laughed.

”Enough talk! Go to hell already!” The lady tightly gripped her dagger as she sped up toward him.