602 Chapter 602 - Suspiciously Similar to Hacking (1/2)
That was when Xi Xiaotian realized that Gu Fei still intended to check and see if she had truly mastered the efficient monster grinding method and if she was really capable of teaching it to other players. The only reason he had covered for her earlier was to give her a chance to prove herself. If she failed, she would suffer a similar fate to being tossed out onto the angry mob before. Death was all that awaited her, except it would be Gu Fei himself doing the deed.
”Pass me the sword, then!” Xi Xiaotian extended her hand to receive the lousy sword Gu Fei was throwing her way.
The monster, which had easily clambered on the outcrop, received a blow to the head at once. The Campfire Patroller did not have much threat gained this time around, so a few more slashes was enough for her to leash its aggro. Taking two steps back, she turned to gaze at Gu Fei. ” Watch carefully now; I won't be making any mistakes here.” With that, the lady turned around and began assaulting the monster. She was using precisely the same no-Agility, long-weapon routine Eternal Dominion had developed. Furthermore, it was obvious that her character had plenty of Agility allocated to it, just like him, but for the purpose of effectively demonstrating her grasp of this fighting routine, she had limited her attack speed.
Gu Fei's hand was already grasping his sword at this point, for he had thought that, even if she had grasped the routine, there was no way that she could show a control her attack speed like how he could. It was easy to exert full strength, but reserving a huge portion of one's power required a certain level of skill and practice. He had never expected her to achieve this, but by the looks of things, she had indeed done her homework. Just like how she had selected a bunch of players whose levels were below her, it appeared that she had similarly done plenty of practice with this particular fighting routine in order not to make any mistakes.
Despite being so detestable, Gu Fei could deny that the lady was very conscientious when it came to swindling people. However, it was this diligence of hers that made Gu Fei at a loss when it came to dealing with her, and it was all because of how her dedication to swindling was similar to his dedication to kung fu; Sometimes, Gu Fei could not help but resonate very strongly with her. Take this instance as an example; Gu Fei no longer cared how Xi Xiaotian fought the monster as there was no reason she would have any problems executing the fighting routine since she had the capability to control her speed thusly. By the time she defeated the monster, his hand had already retracted from the sword.
”This should be enough to teach those guys, right?” Xi Xiaotian asked.
”It's enough.” Gu Fei could not help but admit this, even though he the expression he showed looked no better than before.
”However, since you're here…” Her words hung in the air as she pulled out several bags of coins and lifted them to Gu Fei.
Gu Fei could tell at a glance that these were three bags with ten thousand gold coins each inside and four bags with thousand gold coins each inside.
”All here?” Gu Fei asked.
”Three hundred forty-two players, each paying 99 gold coins,” Xi Xiaotian answered.
”The beautiful lady here is far too courteous. Actually, you've worked hard.” Young Master Han suddenly interjected from below the rocky outcrop, quite surprised to find her taking the initiative to hand over such a lump sum. It was over 30,000 gold coins! Most people would rather die once than hand over all that money!
She revealed a helpless expression. ”I'm afraid that I won't be able to leave alive if I don't hand it over!”
”Yes, I approve of this. This guy is really a total blockhead sometimes and completely ruthless,” Young Master Han commented.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
”I don't usually see you talk so much.” Gu Fei leaped right next to Young Master Han.
”That's because if I were in her shoes, I might perhaps be willing to die once for over 30,000 gold coins.”
”That's just you exploiting the loophole of MMOs.” Xi Xiaotian also leaped off the rocky outcrop.
Young Master Han was of course aware she was referring to the respawn mechanic in-game, causing the man to shake his head repeatedly. ”Here I was admiring you at the start, but who would've thought that, not only do you refuse to utilize this rule, you even gave yourself a limitation regarding the use of that rule. How utterly boring.”
”It's only interesting when playing a game with rules!” Xi Xiaotian declared.
”Isn't respawning a rule of MMOs?”
”It's merely the rule of MMOs. In my game rules, protecting my life is priority number one,” she answered.
Young Master Han shrugged and gave his usual condescending look, not even sparing her an ounce of courtesy for her beauty.
”I may leave now, right?” Xi Xiaotian turned to regard Gu Fei.
”If you're looking to earn money, perhaps you can join us,” Gu Fei suddenly offered.
”No thanks. What you're doing isn't my cup of tea,” Xi Xiaotian nonchalantly replied.
”Will you die if you don't swindle people?” Gu Fei wrinkled his brows.
”I won't, but it will probably be similar to you not using kung fu,” Xi Xiaotian replied.
Gu Fei was despondent. He hated how this was precisely the one thing he could be deemed as Xi Xiaotian's kindred spirit.
”Bye.” Xi Xiaotian waved as she walked off.
”That woman's insane,” Young Master Han concluded.
”Evidently.” Gu Fei was in full agreement.
”You're the same, too.” Young Master Han of course did not let the man off.
”It seems that you don't want a cut of this money, huh?” Gu Fei lifted the sacks of coins amounting to over 30,000 right in front of Young Master Han's eyes.
Young Master Han waved his hand dismissively, harrumphing coldly. ”Do you think such a pithy sum is all it takes to corrode this young master?”
With the money kept into Gu Fei's dimensional pocket, a sword, glistening in its dark purplish tint, appeared right before Young Master Han's eyes.
”Alright. Time to go.” Young Master Han nodded.
”Where else are we going?” Gu Fei asked.
”We're off to see if those rascals are seriously at work,” Young Master Han said.
None of those 'rascals', as Young Master Han referred to them, was skiving off on the job. After all, they were all very enthusiastic toward the prospect of making money, so aside from the issue Royal God Call had with discerning the route to his location, and the slightly lowered efficiency they provided, the other three men had already begun investigating the various maps that they had been tasked with.
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It was late in the afternoon when Eternal Dominion finally popped online. He had stayed up all night with Brother Assist yesterday, so while the latter could hardly wait to get back online earlier today, the former managed to get a proper sleep. Just like Gu Fei, he placed huge importance to taking care of his body.
”DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE MADE LAST NIGHT?!” Eternal Dominion sent a private message to Gu Fei once he appeared online.
”I heard about it,” Gu Fei answered.
”There were 1841 players! With each of them paying 99 gold coins, tell me how much that was in total!” Excitement radiated from his words.
”Are you sick?” Gu Fei asked.
”That's 182,259 gold coins! So how is it? Don't you really like seeing that number? Very frightening, isn't it? Did you get a fright?” These questions came from Eternal Dominion in rapid fire.
Gu Fei took a deep breath. Even though Eternal Dominion was acting a little like a maniac, the number was indeed a little hair-raising. Even that extremely OP beyond OP sword of his, Moonlit Nightfalls, had stunned the crowd to silence when Svelte Dancer belted out that sky-high bid of 20,000 gold coins. A huge sum of 180,000 coins was probably unheard of to the current players.
”Is all that money with you?” Gu Fei asked.
”Yeah. Brother Assist let me hold on to it all for now. He's such a good guy.” The tone of satisfaction lingered in Eternal Dominion's words.
Gu Fei chuckled bitterly for a bit. Brother Assist was of course not a bad person, but that did not necessarily mean that he was that much of a good person; he was simply aware of the important roles Eternal Dominion and Gu Fei played in this venture. There was no doubt that the two of them were at the very core of this fighting routine, and nothing would be remotely possible without the two of them there, which meant that it was necessary to give them the sweetest slice of the proverbial pie. Gu Fei did not wish to analyze his friends to this degree, but he simply could not help it. When everything solely hinged on profits, there was no choice but to do it like such.
”Ahem. So has he told you about his plan of working together with a few others?” Gu Fei asked.
”Yup!”
”There's a little change to our business strategy.” Gu Fei imparted the tyrannical strategy Young Master Han had improved on to Eternal Dominion.
”AWESOME!” Eternal Dominion was in absolute awe with the new plan, all the more experiencing just how crude that first 'promotion' attempt he had executed was.
”So what are we gonna do now?” Eternal Dominion was in high spirits right now, eager to dig straight into work.
”Head over to the Wilderness Camp and earn as much we can earn from here,” Gu Fei replied.
”Got it. I'm on my way.”
Gu Fei and Young Master Han found themselves back in the Wilderness Camp after they finished their visit to all the other grinding maps, now standing atop the 9527 rocky outcrop no one else dared to occupy. The impact these bootleggers had was indeed vicious, and countless self-proclaimed masters had already sprung up all over the Wilderness Camp, fighting for survival in the cutthroat market as they competed against one another with great intensity. Meanwhile, Gu Fei's group continued to stick to their 99-gold-coin price tag – a tall tree that was standing shoulders above the rest. Nine out of ten players that came merely did so to check out the legendary Thousand Miles Drunk, while those that came to ask about the price hesitantly left when they saw how empty the venue was.