731 Chapter 731 - Place of Death (2/2)
”To think you would even kill the NPC. You're too cruel,” Gu Fei sent this message in the mercenary channel.
”Eh? What are you talking about?” The person replying was War Without Wounds.
”What are you busy with now?” Gu Fei tidied his clothing even as he prepared to receive a generous explosion of the Repeating Fireballs that will likely send him to his grave, chatting with War Without Wounds, the one person whom he had the least contact with during this City Wars event.
”Busy assaulting the city, of course! Let me tell you, I've also grabbed the mission to Honor-kill you, heh, so why don't you come over and sacrifice yourself a bit, and let me kill you this once?” War Without Wounds had seized this opportunity to shamelessly ask this favor.
”Honor kill? Oh d*mn, how could I have forgotten about that whole thing!?” Just as Gu Fei thought of this very feature, a wave of Repeating Fireballs had blasted into the cabin, exploding the room, causing dust to billow everywhere while sparks of fire flew upon impact. Gu Fei was still alive. The belt which the Werewolves had rewarded him provided him a little bit of HP regeneration, but in his current predicament, the amount he was regenerating was simply unable to keep up with the damage he was being dealt with, so the best it could do was help Gu Fei buy some time. Gu Fei darted to the side of the door and poked his head out to look: How peaceful! The reeds were swaying gentling in the breeze, and no one appeared to be outside. But he could just imagine that the very moment he took a step out, he was certain that he would be subjected to another array of spells and salvo of arrows from a concentrated pack of players.
Aside from digging himself an underground passage, there was essentially no way for him to get out. Wait a minute… Underground passage? Gu Fei's eyes glistened. He suddenly noticed how the log cabin's fireplace was connected with the chimney, and it led straight to the roof of the cabin. It was not particularly spacious inside, but it should at least be wide enough to hide someone in it. He would at least be able to take cover from the Repeating Fireballs if he were to hide inside. Perhaps, if he were to wait it out for a while, he might even find a chance to turn the tables!
While Gu Fei was pondering all this, the Repeating Fireballs were still being thrown into the cabin endlessly. Gu Fei saw his HP continue to drop, so he swiftly made his decision and crawled over on all fours before plunging into the fireplace.
”Hmm? There's a piece of paper here. Could it be a quest thread?” Gu Fei had suddenly discovered that a crumpled piece of paper had been tossed inside the fireplace, and it was much cleaner and complete than the one Sword Demon had found. In a glance, he could tell it was a far more outstanding clue, so Gu Fei bent over and picked it up. Uncrumpling the paper, Gu Fei took a look and read the one sentence: [Thousand Miles Drunk died in this chimney.]
”F*CK ME!!!” Gu Fei realized he was in trouble and he next heard something that sounded like the ear-splitting roar of a rocket launching. He lifted his head, and he had no idea just how many Repeating Fireballs were being sent down the chimney, flying toward him. Gu Fei hurriedly rolled out of the chimney, and the fireballs bombarded the fireplace, while the fireballs coming from the door and window whizzed in. This time, Gu Fei finally saw his HP deplete till it reached zero….
”Ahhhhhhhhh…..” A Mage from Colored Clouds was howling like an idiot all of a sudden. By the time the people around him cast a strange glance at him, the Mage excitedly blurted somewhat incoherently, ”I did it! My mission to Honor kill Thousand Miles Drunk was completed!!!”
”What? You killed him? Holy hell, did we really succeed?” The silence in Colored Clouds permeated for a good moment when cheers suddenly erupted. What Gu Fei had guessed was essentially correct; all the ambushes in place in Yunjiao Lakeside were all set up by Young Master Han, and he had handed the spyglass he possessed over to Gu Xiaoshang, who had positioned herself over by the western hill, in charge of commanding all the troops there.
They had been stationed there for quite a while, but Gu Fei had not shown himself for the longest time. The players from Colored Clouds were obviously somewhat annoyed during this time, but their guild leader was still as impassive as ever, so the comrades from Colored Clouds remained united, and they continued to patiently remain vigilant and hold their position. Now that their target had finally appeared after keeping watch for all this time, they had successfully killed him, and even managed to achieve an Honor kill to boot! It was well worth the effort. Waiting to spring their ambush this whole time had been absolutely worth it! Colored Clouds' guild channel was in a state of celebration, everyone reacting as happy as if they had just won the City Wars event itself. Gu Xiaoshang was also cheering in jubilation as well. The reward for the City Wars? The contribution score the system would assign to them? These were of course worthwhile, but there were many ways gamers could gain enjoyment from the game, and being rewarded by the system was not the only method. The system's regulation and setting were absolute, but how the game should be played depended entirely on the players themselves, and the rules of the game was no more than a reference. Perhaps the game had good rules, but that did not necessarily mean everyone liked them.
”Perfectly executed!” Gu Xiaoshang commended all the players who participated in this operation. Even though they had sacrificed a portion of their manpower, but to have been able to clash with Thousand Miles Drunk and only lose the handful of players could essentially be considered as a huge victory. Their fellow comrades that had been sacrificed were happily cheering over by the encampment as well, believing that their deaths had not been in vain.
An Honor kill on Thousand Miles Drunk! This news rapidly spread and became known by all. After all, plenty of players out there had picked up the mission to kill Thousand Miles Drunk as well, and the moment the deed was done, everyone was immediately informed of the kill, and the system had even informed everyone which guild and which player had been the one who completed the kill.
Colored Cloud, the guild who had not participated in the alliance of guild leader protection this time, had single-handedly slain Thousand Miles Drunk.
Furthermore, all the guild leaders who had gathered together in the Chinese cabbage patch out of fear toward Thousand Miles Drunk were all feeling somewhat embarrassed, none of the guild leaders relished the sensation, especially after seeing some in their own guild channel who praised Colored Clouds without any hint of scruples.
This was especially true for the four large guild leaders. They had been fighting this whole time, yet none of them were able to get any favorable results. Traversing Four Seas had stacked up the rocks under the city walls, piling them all up till they ended up causing an avalanche that buried countless players alive; Carouse had handed Gu Fei the opportunity to accomplish the feat of fighting back a thousand man army, even though that was hardly the actual truth of the situation. Meanwhile, Cloud Herder had been the first guild leader that had been Honor killed, and that earned a very striking reputation as well; The Black Hand Syndicate did not suffer any huge disaster, so Black Index Finger could be considered the luckiest survivor out of all the four large guilds gathered presently, and even that sounded like it was quite the insult.
The four guilds had managed to earn greater publicity during this City Wars event, though none of it was favorable. Conversely, Colored Clouds was in the limelight this time round, and even the love saint Oathless Sword felt his heart sour a little. His own guild was a lot stronger than Colored Clouds, so Oathless Sword could still demonstrate machismo in front of Gu Xiaoshang. But Colored Clouds could now use this opportunity to demonstrate how they had improved over time, becoming the number one guild out of every guild in Yunduan City in just one step, and that put him in quite the awkward position.
Oathless Sword's worry was a little exaggerated, but he could not help it; it was said that love is blind, after all.
The four men were seated down in a corner, all of them speechless, each of them brooding over concerns of their own. After some time, Foe-herder was the first to speak up, ”I would never have thought that Colored Clouds would actually succeed…”
”The array that they had set up was rather thorough, and they had even done us a favor,” Brave Surge was referring to the guild leader Skygazing Under the Tree. Taking down those men was nothing more than lifting a finger to help for Colored Clouds, but it was apparent that Carouse would be all the more dedicated toward their apprehension, which was why they had extended a friendly hand toward Brave Surge and gave him the tip off.
”There's something… Actually, I'm sure this is something everyone's already aware of, but have difficulty sharing out in the open,” Black Index Finger suddenly mentioned.
The other three guilds immediately took the hint. They knew what Black Index Finger was referring to, and so they quietly nodded their heads.
”What do you think those 300 men are ultimately trying to accomplish?” Black Index Finger asked.
The incident where 300 players from Colored Clouds ended up quitting the guild was logically something that only Colored Clouds and the people who had left the guild would be aware of, but the reason why these four guilds were also aware of this fact, was very obviously due to the fact that they had all planted their own spies inside Colored Clouds. This sort of information was held close to their hearts, given how difficult it would be to announce something like this. Even the four men gathered had no idea how many players each of them had planted as spies. Admitting that they had knowledge of this occurrence was essentially confessing that these guilds had done something like sending spies of their own. By this point, none of these guilds were hypocrites any longer as the four began to discuss what Colored Clouds could be planning.
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A swathe of jubilation and celebration could be witnessed outside Yunduan City, but sheer terror had gripped the players inside Yunduan City. There were far more players in Amethyst Rebirth than Extremely Heaven Defying, so the chances of them stumbling upon the infiltrators was naturally much higher. The ladies did not really have much experience when it came to PK-ing in any case, so they were all very easily beaten as a result. 8 ladies had already found themselves killed off, and going by the testimony given by these ladies who were killed, there were only three or two players who attacked them, yet they were significantly stronger, able to kill them off in just two moves or three. Even when there were NPC guards near the ladies when the attacks happened, not a single one of the NPCs even reacted to the assault.
The players from Colored Clouds were naturally clever in this aspect, careful to not reveal their full strength with the attacks. When they saw that they were up against some frail ladies, they casually sent just a few men to take them down. 8 ladies had already been killed in such a fashion, yet nobody had any idea that the enemy they were up against were working in 30-man teams. However, the fact that the NPC city guards did not react in the least helped illuminated many a question.
July very quickly related this matter to Sword Demon and discussed these incidents with him.
”They are not gunning for you and your friends. They should be targeting us, those who are on the city defender's forces,” Sword Demon concluded.