558 Chapter 558 - Three Forces (1/2)
”Where's Vast Lushness?” Silver Moon quickly sent a message to Southern Lone Blade.
”Eh? You're here?” Southern Lone Blade asked.
”Yup!”
”She's over here. You'd better come over now to see for yourself that Thousand Miles Drunk is really standing right next to her and pay up the additional deposit.” Southern Lone Blade sent a set of coordinates to Silver Moon, feeling a little snubbed. That rascal, Silver Moon, actually suspected him of trying to extort 1000 gold coins and specifically came over to verify his claim. He truly was scum.
”Oh, no. That's not what I meant!” Silver Moon rushed to explain. ”Didn't you say Thousand Miles Drunk is here? I'm just worried that you guys might have trouble dealing with him, so I brought a few of my friends along to help. Would I even use a Teleportation Scroll to get to this city if I cared for those 1000 gold coins? I'm no fool!”
Hearing this, Southern Lone Blade thought that it made sense. The guy did not really need to expend a Teleportation Scroll just for 1000 gold coins, so he asked, ”What are you helping with?”
”Taking care of Thousand Miles Drunk, of course!” Silver Moon replied.
”Who said we're gonna take care of him?” Southern Lone Blade retorted.
”Isn't he right beside Vast Lushness?” Silver Moon asked.
”That's why we'll just make our move once he's no longer around,” Southern Lone Blade replied. Honestly speaking, Southern Lone Blade was feeling a little ashamed for having to avoid such a person, but he truly had no way of dealing with Gu Fei, so even if he was reluctant to do this, he had to yield to the situation when he had to. While this might result in others to look down on his team, it was at least better than shouting his mouth off and bragging. His reputation would only worsen if someone attempted to hire them to take Thousand Miles Drunk's life, and they ended up being unable to perform the assignment.
”Seriously…” Silver Moon was stunned. He had not expected Southern Lone Blade and his team to do such a thing.
”Is there a problem?” Southern Lone Blade asked. Silver Moon had no idea what to say in that moment, but what made him feel worse was the situation he was now in. He had brought Ye Xiaowu and No Smile all the way here with a claim that there was an opportunity to exploit, only for it to turn out that these people here had no intentions of taking action against Thousand Miles Drunk. Silver Moon was feeling deep remorse inside him; why had he been so reckless?!
”Where's Thousand Miles Drunk?” Ye Xiaowu and No Smile were still asking this.
”Over in…” Silver Moon reported the coordinates he had just been given.
”Have they started?” Ye Xiaowu asked. Hearing Silver Moon's analysis from before, he was also rather worried that those people would lose their level at Gu Fei's hands. It was best if they could preserve as much of the firepower they had for this rectification objective.
”I don't think so.” Silver Moon wiped off his sweat. He truly had no idea how he could explain to Ye Xiaowu and the others everything later when they saw Southern Lone Blade's gang giving Gu Fei a wide berth.
”Then, we'd better get going!” No Smile, who was clueless about the situation, continued to urge everyone on, pissing Silver Moon off to the point that he was cursing the guy's ancestors in his heart. It was obvious that, as long as there was a chance, No Smile was desperate to kill off Gu Fei as well.
No Smile and Ye Xiaowu went sprinting toward the coordinates. Silver Moon had no choice but to follow the two even as he began to plan what he would say when they saw no one in action when they reached the place.
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Back on the main street of Baishi City, Gu Fei and his group of six players had been strolling for half an hour now, yet the enemies had not once shown themselves. Gu Fei enjoyed this sort of activity, so he did not seem in the least bit annoyed by this, continuing to patiently walk down the street. However, the others were not as unperturbed as him, and they all felt that strolling in a row like how they were doing was far too stupid.
”Eh. Why aren't you guys walking?” Gu Fei halted his steps when he realized that the others had all spontaneously fallen out of step.
The five of them looked at one another for a moment. Fireball straightened his back and stepped out. He was rather proud of himself for being able to speak to Gu Fei at times like this.
”Drunk bro, since we're waiting for them to show themselves, what's the point of us going round and round like this. Wouldn't it be the same for us to stay at one place and wait?” Fireball asked.
”Weren't we doing that because they might be unable to find us? That's why we're taking the fight to them,” Gu Fei said.
”But the city is so huge; won't it be harder to find us if we continue to stroll about like this?” Fireball continued.
”Look; the situation right now is that,” Gu Fei patiently explained, ”they are unable to find us. How anxious they must be! In their anxiety, they'll surely head to the streets to find out more, and that requires more people to see us before they can find any trace of us from others. That's why we need to keep walking around in this small area here. This will ensure that even more people see us, and because our movement is concentrated to one area, this will allow them to accurately locate us as soon as possible; get it?”
Fireball, as well as the other four, was stunned to silence.
”What? Is there a problem?” Gu Fei gazed at the five players, like how he would usually look at his students.
”Aren't you the one who's more anxious if they can't find us?” Svelte Dancer asked.
”Am I anxious?”
”Drunk bro, you're indeed rather tense…” Fireball had a deservedly well-meaning expression.
”Is that so… Then, let's just complete another round before picking a place at random to wait; how's that?” Gu Fei offered to the floor.
”Okay!” Everybody could only nod. Even though it was a little farcical, Gu Fei's explanation did make sense. It was truly one of the simpler and more effective methods to get unknown enemies to serve themselves up.