454 Chapter 454 - A Meaningful Mission? (2/2)

”Aren't you gonna come and watch?” Gu Fei asked.

Young Master Han admired the glass of liquor in his hand and looked at the refracted Gu Fei within. ”That is not my pastime.”

Gu Fei arched an eyebrow, picked up the diary, and got up.

”I reckon those guys won't join you, either,” Young Master Han added. ”You didn't even receive any quest prompt; they'll all think that this is a meaningless pursuit.”

”I know that.” Gu Fei nodded his head and left the premise.

Meaningless pursuit? Then what will be a meaningful pursuit?

Kung fu was his personal aspiration—something that he considered as the most meaningful pursuit—yet the real world made it seem like a meaningless existence. Just thinking of the fact that his personal mission was deemed by others as a meaningless pursuit made it really quite lugubrious.

Did he wish to continue Andrew Su's final mission so as to challenge an expert? That was actually not the main reason he had done so. To him, there was simply no way he would recognize this sort of AI that originated from the system as an expert. Contesting against a machine like this NPC was meaningless to him as it was no different from practicing his kung fu on a sandbag target. He had merely been somewhat affected by the content of Andrew Su's Diary. He even wondered to himself, With such a noteworthy story in this game environment, why does everyone prefer to spend all their time grinding monsters and collecting gear? This is a fully immersive world, after all; people can pretty much live another life here. Grinding monsters to level up… Why does everyone walk this same route?

Gu Fei was playing this game for the sake of being in an environment and world where he could use his kung fu freely. Level and equipment were unimportant to him. After reading through Andrew Su's diary, he suddenly felt as if he could also act a role in this world – a role that would allow him to demonstrate his kung fu. Doing something like this sounded a lot more interesting than grinding on monsters.

Pondering on this, Gu Fei tried to contact Brother Assist in hopes of troubling the man to inquire after this NPC Giordano, but upon pulling out and checking his friends list, he saw that the latter was apparently offline. As always, Brother Assist would have to go offline whenever he went hunting for information; he was able to have such a large pool of information precisely because he was active in various sites and places.

As such, the only option left for Gu Fei was to ask the people on the streets. Since it was unlikely for strangers he met on the street to patiently answer his queries, he decided to fire off a message to Slyris. ”Do you know a NPC that goes by the name of Giordano?”

”I don't know,” Slyris answered.

”What about Xiawu City's Vigilante Corps, then?”

”Vigilante Corps?” Slyris was still confused.

Gu Fei sighed. Truly, plenty of players out there only sought to finish their quests at hand in the fastest time possible and get their rewards, so how many of these people would actually take the time to carefully savor the remarkable backstory and setting of Parallel World? Someone like Slyris, whose name made it within the ranks of the Five Unyielding Experts, would be especially mindful of her efficiency, so why would she waste her time on such aspects of the game?

In that moment, Gu Fei suddenly missed June's Rain. If that lady had first spawned in Xiawu City, would the NPC Giordano have escaped her perceptive eyes once she carefully explored and researched through every quest available in the city? Even if she could not remember it, the quest notebook that she carried everywhere she went was equally as legendary as Royal God Call's book of coordinates or Brother Assist's information booklet.

”Then, sorry to trouble you with asking your friends to help me inquire about this matter!” Gu Fei had no choice but to implore Slyris's help, hoping that this lady would know a friend who was as talented as June's Rain.

”Okay!”

Gu Fei was just pondering on what he should do while he waited for news to get back to him when Slyris unexpectedly messaged him back: ”No need to inquire on others; my little sister knows.”

”Oh?” He was elated.

”Speak with her yourself!” Slyris said.

Gu Fei and Yan Xiaozhu had added each other as friends as well. This was a common practice in MMOs, which was similar to how people would exchange name cards in real life. It did not matter if they conversed with one another, since exchanging names to befriend one another was the courtesy practice in MMOs.

”I don't know what group you're talking about, but I seem to recall this NPC Giordano,” Yan Xiaozhu said.

”Let's hear it.”

”He's over by the Government City Hall,” informed Yan Xiaozhu.

”We can't enter that place, right?” Gu Fei asked. He knew of the Government City Hall as well; it was apparently the central administration of any city and was where the city mayor and other such NPC authorities resided. However, the Government City Hall was inaccessible to players at all, and there were far more guards protecting its entrance than anywhere else in the city.

According to the officials, players who wished to enter the Government City Hall must attain a certain status in the corresponding city first. There was no further information beyond this, and the players themselves would have to work it out for themselves. Naturally, this invited plenty of swearing from the players, and those who had really conducted a research, saw no result to their work. Gu Fei had no idea if anyone had ever achieved the condition to enter the Government City Hall, but he gave it a shot when he was bored some time ago. The guards had stepped forth to block him just as he was about to show his intention of stepping through the doors; any further and he and the guards would be at swords' points, which evidently showed he did not have permission to enter.

”Indeed, players aren't able to enter. I once helped a friend out with a quest, and our team received temporary pass to the place, so I got to enter it once. There, I noticed a NPC called Giordano.”

”Oh, what made you take note of him?” he asked.