588 Chapter 588 – Everyone Vomits Blood Together (1/2)
What to do?
Gu Fei was unable to answer this question, so he mercilessly kicked that ball into Glue's court. This naturally meant that they should make a statement, and if what they expressed was something he found to be agreeable, Gu Fei would consider letting them go.
But everyone already more or less knew why Gu Fei was constantly on their case all this time This was the legendary 'lending a hand upon seeing injustice along the road', except that he was exceptionally lucky; The man was still helping out despite doing it for so long and lending a hand every time he met Southern Lone Blade's team, this consequently pushed that lot past the point of tolerance. By Gu Fei's words, the plans of Southern Lone Blade and his men could only see constant disruption from Gu Fei unless they washed their hands off this type of business entirely.
”If that's the case, there's nothing for us to talk about.” Glue was helpless. They were really hoping to reach a concord with Gu Fei, but his demand was simply too much, since he wanted them to give up their career altogether.
”You guys are really dedicated,” Gu Fei remarked. He had already expected these men not to give up so easily; it was just a game, after all. Were this in real life, I would've maimed them for making such a choice! Gu Fei heartlessly thought to himself when this lot decided not to give up.
With negotiations failing before it began, Gu Fei was not in the least bit of a hurry. He regarded the three men with interest, wondering just what the three men were planning to do. Flame Singed Clothes, Verdant Timber, and Glue huddled together and began whispering with one another. Throwing a hateful glare at Gu Fei, they promptly spat, ”Since we can't afford to offend you, we'll just avoid you.”
With that, the three men did not even get up and just cleanly exited the game.
”He he…” Gu Fei chuckled as he chose to log out as well.
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Half an hour later, three white lights glowed within the Archer Range as the three players logged back into the game. The first thing they all did was to take in their surroundings, making sure that Gu Fei was nowhere to be found.
”Thousand Miles Drunk logged off the moment you guys went offline.” Southern Lone Blade sent this message to Glue.
Glue exhaled a heavy sigh before smiling at the two other men. ”He's gone.”
Flame Singed Clothes was immediately at ease as well, casually cursing, ”That b*st*rd.”
”Silver Moon's still online.” Glue checked his friends' list and reported. ”Let's continue!”
Flame Singed Clothes pulled out his deck of cards. Gu Fei had previously burned four of their cards, so he was now checking which they were. Flame Singed Clothes counted the cards in his mind even as he wondered aloud, ”Speaking of which, Silver Moon and Thousand Miles Drunk have quite the sordid past, yeah? Actually, if we just tell him that we are planning to ambush Silver Moon, he just might not create trouble for us.”
Flame Singed Clothes did not hear either of his comrades answer him when he was done speaking, so he lifted his head to look, only to find the two maintaining a look of catatonia as they stared right behind him.
”You guys… no way… is he…” Flame Singed Clothes slowly turned around and saw Gu Fei's beaming face, which filled him with hate at once, no more than half a meter away from them.
”You're missing the 4, 8, 9, and Q.” Gu Fei informed him.
”F*ck! Why are you back?!” Flame Singed Clothes moaned.
”I went offline to grab some supper and take a shower before logging back on. Who would've thought that you guys would coincidentally be back as well?” Gu Fei asked.
The three felt the true depths of despair right now.
”So, you guys are thinking of ambushing Silver Moon?” Flame Singed Clothes had no idea that Gu Fei had logged back on moments ago and that the latter had heard everything when the former wondered aloud.
”See; that's where I'm a little confused. Although I agree that Silver Moon deserves death, isn't he your employer for acquiring the Utopian Magic Staff?” Gu Fei asked.
The three were in tears. Why were they going around to attack Silver Moon? Plainly put, was it not because Gu Fei kept giving them trouble to the point that they had no other way to vent all their accumulated resentments? However, now that Gu Fei himself was asking them this question, just how were they supposed to answer that? Tell him that he had bullied them so much they decided to use Silver Moon as a punching bag? They obviously could not admit to anything like that right to his face. It was just like Flame Singed Clothes being scared of Gu Fei yet still putting up the farce that he was unafraid of the man when in front of Gu Fei.
Gu Fei gazed at the three in hopes of them providing him with an answer, yet the three remained adamantly mum, unwilling to tell him anything even if they were beaten to death.
”Broken Water Arrow and the others should still be with Silver Moon; doesn't that mean that you will have to pit yourselves up against them if you wanna take care of Silver Moon? Didn't they help you guys a few days back? How in the world did your relationship devolved into such a mess?” Gu Fei was a little confused at this point. He had seen with his two eyes how Broken Water Arrow had suddenly shown up and provided coverfire for Southern Lone Blade just when he was moments away from slaying Southern Lone Blade. Gu Fei thought that Silver Moon, Broken Water Arrow, and Southern Lone Blade were all acting together, yet now it seemed that that was not the case. Messy. It was just too messy.
”He's gonna be with Silver Moon? Didn't he say—” Flame Singed Clothes began to speak when he abruptly shut himself up.
”Didn't he say what?” Gu Fei asked.
No one bothered to answer him. Glue hurriedly contacted the other team and filled them in about their plan to ambush Silver Moon hitting an unexpected snag. From the start, Glue's plan was proposed on the grounds that they would meet Silver Moon to tell him that they were giving up on the assignment; they expected him to turn up all by himself as his deal with them was a complete secret. However, it was only upon seeing Southern Lone Blade's persistence that everyone could not bear to go through with it, which resulted in them changing their approach to that of an ambush by waiting for Silver Moon to serve himself up. This of course ended up mixing the two plans, and by how things stood, there was no guarantee that Silver Moon would be alone when he went to log off. If he was accompanied by the other three, there was no way that their three-man group would be capable of pulling off this ambush at all.
”In other words, we can only find out where Silver Moon logs off and ambush him when he next gets online,” Glue said.
”That seems to be our only option,” one of the other party's members, Paddy Scent Pastures, answered.
”So, leaving just one of us in each spawn point will do,” Glue said.
”Yes, get Verdant Timber to guard there; you and Flame Singed Clothes should head back to grind!”
”We can't leave…” Glue was exasperated.
”Why?”
”Thousand Miles Drunk's here!”
”Didn't he log off?”
”He got back online, too.”
”F*ck me. Just how based is that man?!” Paddy Scent Pastures commiserated with Glue and the others.
”Just what is going on with you guys?” Gu Fei asked.
The three men continued ignoring him. Gu Fei was looking a little lost now, and the three men enjoyed seeing him like this.
”Not gonna tell me, huh?” Gu Fei confirmed once more.
The three men beamed pleasantly at him, not opening their mouths at all.
”All right. No matter how you put it, taking care of Silver Moon is a very meaningful matter, so I'm not gonna bother you guys,” Gu Fei said as he turned to leave the safe zone. The three men were all astonished, chasing right after the man up to the entrance but not daring to take even half a step out the door. They watched Gu Fei wave his hand at them and disappear down the street.
”Just what sort of medicine is in that man's gourd?” The three men exchanged glances, relaying what had just happened to the others; each of them was equally nonplussed.