632 Chapter 632 - Hiding Here and There (1/2)

Broken Water Arrow and the others were still stuck in the tavern and had no idea what they should do. It appeared as if somebody had placed their sights on Ye Xiaowu, since he would be killed the moment he stepped out of the Priest Academy. They were not going to worry about the identity of this person first; the important thing now was that he would surely be unable to send the money they needed over.

”Let's go!” Broken Water Arrow gritted his teeth and led everyone out of the tavern.

”Eh? Can all of you leave even if you don't pay for damages? Are you sure?” Gu Fei was chattering endlessly behind them, almost annoying these ex-soldiers to death.

Sure enough, the proprietor of the tavern did not make any attempts to stop them from leaving and only watched all these ex-soldiers leave while loudly telling them that not paying for their drinks and the damage done to this establishment would be penalized accordingly. Gu Fei listened to this quite closely, for he felt that this was a rule he might need to know.

It was unknown if the NPC guards were teleported over or otherwise, but Broken Water Arrow's squad was blocked by the troops that had appeared. Gu Fei also turned into an onlooker at this point, squeezing with the others in the crowd as they came together to watch the commotion. Unlike Gu Fei who had seen this before when Traversing Four Seas' guild members were being displaced off their feet by a similar group of guards in Yeguang Village, the average players had never seen such a large group of guards gathered like this. Although these ex-soldiers might be powerful, he reckoned that there was no way they could hold off such a large troop of city guards.

Everyone was pointing and watching, but who would have thought that these city guards would have no intention of striking? Broken Water Arrow's lot was calm as well, with none of them taking their weapons out. They had already been briefed about the rule by Ye Xiaowu. They would only need to pay for their lives if they took a life! All they had was bad debt at this point, and that did not require them to pay for with their lives. The city guards being mobilized was also a symbolic gesture because their boss thought that it would be too unrealistic to just have the players suddenly find their pockets bereft of coins.

The guards declared the tavern rules again, letting all the players have an even deeper understanding of it. Afterward, they began to exact the levy on to these offenders, with the guards coming over to directly insert their hands into the players' dimensional pockets in a show of realism. None of the ex-soldiers resisted, for Ye Xiaowu had already told them that they would only stand to lose something if they resisted. This was all for the sake of realism, and everyone should just cooperate accordingly. In any case, the system was not going to casually make off with any other items they had in their dimensional pockets.

These men all had their pockets rifled through once before these guards announced how many coins they managed to collect, as well as how much more these ex-soldiers still owed. They also elaborated on how they would be collecting the rest, giving everyone an eye-opening experience.

This entire ordeal lasted almost half an hour, and it was only when these guards left once the deed was done that these ex-soldiers were finally considered free; all of them hurried over to the Priest Academy. Gu Fei quickly stepped out to block them, shaking his head. ”Since you guys know that this was how things would go down, why didn't you guys all just do all this sooner instead of wasting so much time? And here I was thinking that you would all be forced to stay in that tavern if you couldn't pay!”

”We'll continue sparring the next time we have the time. We're now in a hurry to save someone.” Broken Water Arrow was seething with contained rage as he said this.

Gu Fei did not know whether to laugh or cry. ”Are you guys confuddled in all your anxiety? Saying we'd be sparring is just talk; aren't we enemies?”

These ex-soldiers exchanged looks when they heard this. They originally thought that their numerical advantage would provide great strength – that they were the ones holding the initiative to this fight or ability to retreat as they willed. Just how did the tables turn? The opposing party merely had just the two men; Not only did they dare to challenge these ex-soldiers so openly, the two men were even refusing to let them off?

”Forget about me, even the crowd won't willingly let you guys go just like this,” Gu Fei said.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

”Well said!” Applause sounded. These spectators' hands were nearly red from this clapping, and their favorability toward Gu Fei surged when they saw how he cared for how they felt.

”Thank you; thank you!” Gu Fei balled his fists into a salute as he accepted their gratitude.

Broken Water Arrow and the others were the straightforward sort, so they did not say anything more in the face of this situation.

”Cover fire and disperse.” This one order was all it took for these ex-soldiers to temper that feeling of exasperation they had for Gu Fei and Gu Xian and quickly adjust themselves to engage in combat. They split themselves into two teams, with the highly mobile Thieves and Archers pulling away and the rest staying to deal with the two.

Alas, Gu Fei had already seen through their intention and created an Electric Wall with a quick wave of his sword. This was to prevent these men from withdrawing as he darted toward them.

These ex-soldiers were depressed! It was yet another surreal contrivance – something that they were getting more and more annoyed with.

”Can we break through it?” These ex-soldiers had not seen an Electric Wall before and wanted to give it a shot.

”Impossible; you'll be paralyzed,” Broken Water Arrow quickly warned. He had been hanging with Ye Xiaowu for quite some time, after all, so he had quite a good understanding of all the tricks Gu Fei could pull. ”This is his Electric Wall spell.”

All the ex-soldiers had been briefed about what Gu Fei could do and knew that he had something called Electric Wall in his arsenal, but because they had never seen it used, no one had any idea what it looked like. These uncles had zero gaming knowledge and could not even imagine something as simple as a Fireball spell if they had not encountered it first hand, which made them far more of a noob than Gu Fei had been when he first started out.

”Go around it.” Sniper God gave this command as he made his way to the wall, with both his hands placed before him. The others quickly understood what he was trying to do, and they came running over to step on his palms. Sniper God raised his hands and that other man used the momentum from that to leap, scaling the wall after he managed to slump his arms over the edge. It took no more than two seconds to complete this entire sequence, and this was followed by the second person, the third...

”Wow! Professionals, indeed!” Gu Fei commended with a sigh. The enemies comprised of five Archers and Two Thieves; four men had already made it up the wall by the time Gu Fei dashed over. The fifth man was having a little trouble; the beer gut that came with a blissful middle-age got in the way as this person tried to climb up like the others. The elasticity of this belly almost caused the man to bounce off, but Broken Water Arrow and the others were luckily ready to receive him from above, and they scrambled to tug him up to safety.

This man was feeling utterly embarrassed, even as the others lamented, ”It's not good to gorge on the government's dime!”

”Ah. It's all the entertaining I have to do every day.” This person sighed. Sniper God and the other below no longer had the time to get themselves up, so he waved his hand off dismissively. ”You guys go ahead!”

Giving that last instruction, Sniper God ran. He had his crossbow pointed at Gu Fei to fire, though honestly, he was in no mood to use it at all due to how slow its projectiles traveled in the air. Still, he did not have any other choice; what else would be more like a firearm aside from this crossbow in Parallel World?

The four men with Broken Water Arrow did not hesitate and immediately ran off along the rooftops. Gu Fei was not too bothered about losing those five men; he was only hung up over the fact that he had only managed to retain two players with his Electric Wall in the end, as that one spell used up almost 50% of his total mana.

Gu Xian was a little at a loss on what to do as well. He was still waiting for people to come rush toward him to fight, but all of them split off in every direction and began engaging in a ranged 'gunfight', instead.

”What's the meaning of this? We were the ones hiding all over the tavern before, so now it's their turn to do the same? These guys sure know how to harbor bitter resentment – so petty!” Gu Xian complained to Gu Fei.

The two cousins were not too near each other, so Gu Xian was shouting all of that out. When the ex-soldiers heard this, all of them of course felt as if they were hit critically! This was a very professionally executed street fight tactic, how did it become a petty move? Who was even harboring bitter resentment?!

This moment of annoyance caused everyone to concentrate their fire onto Gu Xian, and a whole mess of arrows and bolts went flying his way.