710 Chapter 710 - Waiting for you to get Online (2/2)
”This is the spot? Are you certain?” Brave Surge asked.
”Positive! I've found plenty of players to confirm it with me. This is the exact spot,” Sea Breeze said.
The three were huddled in a triangle, standing right in the middle of a patch of empty land, which happened to be part of the land where the no.3 encampment had been. This area that they were now on had still retained its function of allowing players to safely log in and out from here. It was also this space here between the three in that triangle that Thousand Miles Drunk had been standing on when he logged out, which was why Brave Surge was keeping his eye on it so closely.
Facing Thousand Miles Drunk head on? Not only was such an endeavor dangerous, the more important question they had to ask themselves was if they were able to locate Thousand Miles Drunk to face him head on. As such, while Thousand Miles Drunk was offline, Brave Surge had gotten a great chance: Wait at the spot where he had logged out and wait for him to come online so he can immediately spring an ambush on Gu Fei.
Usually, it was impossible to do something like this because, in normal circumstances, the designated log off points would also be a safe zone, where players were unable to even touch each other, much less ambush one another. But now, thanks to the special City Wars event, there was no such safe zone to deal with, and Brave Surge felt that this would be the chance for them to vanquish Thousand Miles Drunk once with the least amount of potential losses, and they simply could not miss it.
Of course, vanquishing Thousand Miles Drunk was not his main goal as Brave Surge was still doing this for his quest. Or to be precise, the quest that Beyond Thirty Miles had on him.
After everyone heard about the quest and discussed on the matter, all of them concurred that the content of the quest required them to kill Thousand Miles Drunk before they could obtain the next step of instructions from Guillermo, or perhaps killing Thousand Miles Drunk would result in the man dropping some sort of quest item. Brave Surge had thought of this particular solution In order to make this plan foolproof. Thousand Miles Drunk had been very conspicuous when he logged out hours ago. Back then, he had indeed been the focus of everyone's gaze, so Brave Surge had very easily found out where he was standing the moment he logged out. In the spirit of caution and further verified by many other individuals, they had cordoned off an area of space that was big enough for ten Thousand Miles Drunk to log out from.
Brave Surge was convinced there would be no more mistakes, which was why he had led all these players to this particular set of coordinates and completely surrounded the spot with his men.
”Set the Traps down, as much as you can. Align it such that he would step into one the moment he appears.” Folding Fan Invader instructed.
”Could he still Blink after getting snared by a Trap?” someone asked.
”I don't know…” None of these men had learned the skill Blink.
”The distance for Blink is about 6 meters,” Sea Breeze said. ”Let's form our encirclement up with this bit here at the core. Make sure you form the circle with a 6m radius. Our AoE spells should be enough to cover it entirely and insta-kill Thousand Miles Drunk.”
”Wait a minute. If we were to set the traps down, what are we going to do if other players get on and end up stepping on it?” Someone thought of this while he laid out his Trap.
”Hmmm…. Do we rather make a mistake and kill someone wrongly than let Thousand Miles Drunk have a chance go escape?” Folding Fan Invader asked Brave Surge.
”I've got Thousand Miles Drunk on my friends' list. The system would give me a prompt the moment he gets online. However, if I were to be careless, or be a little slow to give out the order, or if everyone were to react a tad bit slower…” With such a serious matter at hand, Brave Surge ultimately felt it was better to be a little cruel and nodded. ”Let's do it this way; we'll kill anyone who appears. I doubt it would be so coincidental. How many people could really log out here in this patch of land?”
”For those unlucky saps that appeared, I guess they will make nice practice targets for us,” Sea Breeze was a lot more merciless in his line of thinking.
”Archers and Mages would make the bulk of the attack. The other job classes will stand by and take action in case of emergencies,” Brave Surge gave this final order.
”I believe that there should not be any sudden emergencies. I doubt he would be able to escape seeing all the preparation we've made here,” Folding Fan Invader was very confident.
The next step was just to wait. Warriors, Thieves, Knights, and Priests were all rather relaxed as they waited, but the Mages and Archers were completely focused. None of them dared to imagine what the result would be if a moment of negligence on their part would give Thousand Miles Drunk the window to react. A contingency? What sort of contingency could they come up with? There's a total of 212 players here… The fate of our plan all depended on this one move! Everyone was very clear about this.
”What time did Thousand Miles Drunk log off last night?”
”Around 11, I think?”
”That's more than 8 hours of sleep, why isn't he up yet?”
”Maybe he's eating breakfast first?”
”He ought to be done by now!”
”Maybe that guy doesn't have a computer, and has to head to an internet cafe?”
”Is that seriously the case?”
”Why isn't he here yet?”
Soon, it was 10 a.m. in the morning. After passing the 7 and 8 a.m. lull of the morning rush, the game was slowly beginning to bustle from activity. Those with normal sleep patterns would essentially choose this time to get online, so logically speaking, Gu Fei should also appear around this time as well, yet he was still nowhere to be seen. However, no one had appeared online within that center of the encirclement either, though there were flashes fo white light from time to time within that 6m radius. There were people who were a part of the City Wars, and those who were not, but all of them immediately got the fright of their lives when they logged on and saw this formation waiting for them. These men from Carouse did not say much either, casually letting out a path for these people to walk out of. None of the players dared to ask further questions when they saw how these men looked brimming with the murderous look in their eyes.
At around 10.30, half an hour had passed. All of them were grumbling when a flash of white light appeared right in the center.
”Attention!!!” Brave Surge yelled to everyone, alerting them. All of them had been waiting for so long, and they immediately unleashed their firepower onto this light. Homing Projectiles and AoE spells all came blasting the spot. The metallic clank of the Trap springing was heard as well, and none of them even saw who was this player inside the white light because it had come and gone just as quickly. No one even caught a glimpse of the person's face before he disappeared. That was when Brave Surge gave a quick check on his friends' list and saw that Thousand Miles Drunk was not actually online.
”That's not him…” Brave Surge announced with a tinge of regret in his voice, yet he realized that everyone was not in the least bit despondent. Having been languishing in such inactivity for this whole while, being able to randomly kill someone like this allowed them to stretch their limbs! All of them were momentarily thrilled, before all of them got back to their places and got ready once more.
In a blink of an eye, another 30 minutes has passed. A white light appeared once more, and Brave Surge believed he seemed to hear the ring of the system prompt sounding at the same time. He suddenly felt this miraculously wonderful premonition overwhelm him, but he very somberly reminded everyone loudly, ”Attention!!”.
Just like the last time, Homing Projectiles and AoE spells blanketed the area, completely enveloping the white light that appeared with their attack. Who was it? None of them could make it out clearly. The player had already disappeared, but Brave Surge had quickly checked his system prompt and excitedly announced to everyone, ”That was Thousand Miles Drunk, without a doubt!!”
”F*CK YEAH!!!” Everyone was exhilarated. They had actually successfully killed Thousand Miles Drunk in a single instance, even though they did use an extremely shameless method in doing so.
”Ugh, that's really ruthless...” Gu Fei was feeling absolutely embarrassed having just experienced what it was like to be sent straight to the spawn point upon logging on. I've actually been hated to such an extent where someone would actually lay out an ambush and wait to kill me once I got on… I wonder who they are? Gu Fei had not even managed to sneak a glance at his assailant before he got sent to the spawn point back in the city.