552 Chapter 552 - Ruthless (2/2)
Silver Moon's friends list was originally thriving, but ever since his despicable past had been unearthed, a majority of his friends had deleted him. Nine out of ten names in this list would result in the system prompt: [The player is not accepting messages from anyone not in his/her friends list.]
Still, there were a number of far more unique players that did not really care for a person's character. Silver Moon was contacting someone precisely like this.
Checking his friends list, he saw that this person was online. Silver Moon hurriedly fired off a message. ”Big South, are you there?!”
”Yes.” Impressively, the person Silver Moon wanted to contact was actually Southern Lone Blade.
”How have you been recently? I heard you've hit a rough spot!” While Silver Moon was not often online recently, he still spent much of his time browsing the web. Southern Lone Blade's speedy disappearance from the leaderboards was a hot topic for a time, but because of how low-profile the man acted by only contacting people he wanted to reach out, there was just not much the general public could discuss when it came to that man. Most players did not even know what Southern Lone Blade was actually doing in the game. In Silver Moon's case, he was among Southern Lone Blade's list of clients.
”I heard you've managed to escape.” Southern Lone Blade ignored Silver Moon's previous comment.
”You're rather well-informed!” Silver Moon exclaimed.
”I wonder who's the deity that managed to pull you out,” Southern Lone Blade remarked.
”He he. Can't tell you that,” Silver Moon said. When he was still trapped in Baishi City's Knight's Barracks, Silver Moon had once tried reaching out to Southern Lone Blade for help, but Southern Lone Blade had picked up a bigger deal involving Gu Fei at that time, so he was unable to accept Silver Moon's proposal. In the end, the outcome of his struggle with Gu Fei had him suffering major setbacks. Southern Lone Blade even occasionally wondered if the outcome would not have been so tragic had he accepted Silver Moon's request to perform an extraction mission for him in Baishi City instead of becoming entangled with Gu Fei.
”So, why are you reaching out to me this time?” Southern Lone Blade went straight to the point.
”You still taking assignments?” Silver Moon queried.
”That depends on the job itself,” Southern Lone Blade clarified.
”He he. Oh, dear. Has your confidence dropped after losing those levels? You've never once made an attempt to clarify,” Silver Moon said.
Southern Lone Blade was helpless! He truly had no wish to antagonize Gu Fei right now, and he was privy to the hostilities between Silver Moon and Gu Fei. What if the man's purpose for approaching him was to request taking revenge for him against Gu Fei? Southern Lone Blade did not wish to accept such an assignment – at least, not at the moment.
”Help me loot a piece of equipment from someone,” Silver Moon requested.
”What is it?” Southern Lone Blade decided that, if the other said 'Moonlit Nightfalls', he would quickly pretend to be dead.
”Utopian Magic Staff,” Silver Moon said.
Southern Lone Blade was stunned, pausing for a moment before replying, ”You're pretty ruthless.” That staff was in the possession of Vast Lushness. While Ye Xiaowu did not know of this, Southern Lone Blade certainly did. It was their job to know this sort of thing, so they would often pay great attention to such information and data. Across the forums, in the game, and even the players' chatter – as long as anyone came into possession of any special equipment, Southern Lone Blade's gang would record it in a notebook so thick, it would put Brother Assist to shame if he ever caught sight of it. That was the speciality professionals offered.
”Are you accepting it or not?” Silver Moon asked.
”1500 gold coins as deposit and 1500 gold upon delivery,” Southern Lone Blade replied.
”No problem.” Silver Moon was no stranger to making deals with Southern Lone Blade, so he knew that the latter would execute the assignment upon payment of the deposit. If he was unable to acquire the requested equipment, he would do a full refund on top of the deposit; if he managed to loot it, but the buyer changed his or her mind about it, then the deposit would be kept. There was no issue of trust with Southern Lone Blade, so Silver Moon was completely reassured. Southern Lone Blade, of course, had his precautions when taking into account Silver Moon's character, so while he would usually quote a 500- to 1000-gold-coin deposit for other players at most, Silver Moon had to pay 1500 gold coins upfront.
”How many days do you think it'll take?” Silver Moon asked.
”Can you confirm her current location?” Southern Lone Blade asked.
”Nope.”
”Theoretically speaking, she should be back in Yunduan City…” Thanks to Traversing Four Seas' damnable guild quest, a whole host of players had forged their way out of their home city, and not many of them were in a hurry to make their way back – just like vagabonds. This ended up causing quite a lot of trouble for Southern Lone Blade and his other colleagues that were in this line of business.
”That's a problem you'll need to handle!” said Silver Moon.
”If it's Yunduan City, I'll have you add another 1000,” said Southern Lone Blade.
”Why?” Silver Moon was flustered.
”It's too risky,” Southern Lone Blade replied.
Silver Moon was confused. Yunduan City is risky? Thinking about this, Southern Lone Blade was most likely referring to that lunatic Gu Fei. It seemed that Southern Lone Blade had also run into that headache, which left him so miserable! Silver Moon suddenly felt a wave of schadenfreude come at him. He wished he could just gather everyone in Parallel World who had been on the receiving end of Gu Fei's sword and rally them to seek vengeance.
”If you're worried about Thousand Miles Drunk, fret not. He's now in Linyin City,” Silver Moon assured.