Chapter 138 Desperate Measures

Wherever Gu Fei was, unexpected things always happened to the players. At this moment, a streak of lightning and flames intertwined on the ground, as Gu Fei flew out diagonally. He first escaped the attack of the Fire Tree Thousand Flame Formation on the ground, and then was brushed by several descending Fire Wheels, but it wasn't enough to kill him.

The homing arrows from all directions turned and glided towards the sky, pointing directly at Gu Fei. Although Gu Fei wasn't killed by the Fire Wheels, his health was running low. He didn't dare to be careless. He drew both his sword and saber, first knocking down the first few homing arrows that were coming straight at him. The homing arrows behind him were a bit slower than Gu Fei's Palm Thunder propelled speed, and they couldn't catch up for the time being.

The players ambushing in the reeds all gaped, watching Gu Fei unbelievably jump out of the sea of fire. But Gu Fei used the reverse thrust of the Palm Thunder mainly to keep himself airborne for as long as possible, avoiding the Fire Tree Thousand Flame Formation on the ground. The knockback effect of this skill wasn't actually that fast. Now that Gu Fei was about to land, a circle of mages was ready, quickly setting the ground ablaze like a branding iron, vowing to burn Gu Fei into ashes as soon as he landed.

As a result, at the instant before Gu Fei landed, he used Instant Shift again. That row of mages was happily waving their staffs in the reeds when they suddenly felt a shadow in front of them. The figure that was six meters away suddenly appeared right in front of them. Gu Fei's legs were already kicking out, immediately knocking over two mages. Using them as stepping stones, he darted forward another two meters. At the same time, without turning his head, he used his saber and sword to knock down two more incoming homing arrows.

"Blast, keep blasting!!!" Someone shouted, and the mages unceremoniously continued their area-of-effect spells, including those very close to Gu Fei, completely disregarding their own safety, ready for a mutual destruction.

"As expected, it's that guy's method..." This unscrupulous behavior to achieve his goals was the signature of Young Master Han. Gu Fei had expected this, so the direction he was escaping wasn't towards Fine Waist Dance. On the contrary, Gu Fei's leap took him further into the center of the ambush: he was heading straight for that small wooden hut.

From the start, the Palm Thunder's reverse thrust sent him flying sideways, followed by Instant Shift, stomping on people to continue forward, all of this happened in just a few seconds. Many homing arrows couldn't keep up with Gu Fei's agility. Not only did they fail to close in, but they were also staggered. The speed of the homing arrows wasn't fast to begin with. As long as they were staggered, Gu Fei was confident that he could knock them all down. At this moment, he darted into the wooden hut, and at least spells couldn't attack him anymore.

Who would have thought that as soon as he stepped onto the floor, he felt a heat under his feet? Upon closer inspection, he found that several mages were already hiding in the hut.

"Damn!!" Gu Fei couldn't help but curse. Young Master Han might not know how Gu Fei would escape in this situation, but at least he didn't underestimate Gu Fei. He had even accounted for Gu Fei's escape from this desperate situation. He had predicted that once Gu Fei could escape, the small wooden hut would be the only place to temporarily take refuge, as other places couldn't block the spread of area-of-effect spells.

"Die!!!" The mages shouted in unison, waving their staffs frantically. As a result, they saw Gu Fei step on the wall, and he flew up. He stepped onto the table in the corner of the room, and then stepped on the wall again, leaping up once more. He rolled sideways and actually flipped onto the roof.

"Spiderman?" someone among the mages quipped, but someone immediately realized something was wrong and shouted, "Not good!!"

After "Not good," there was no chance to remedy the situation. The room was so small, and the mages' spells were enough to completely cover it. They were originally prepared to die together with Gu Fei. But Gu Fei jumped continuously, directly sticking to the ceiling. The comrade who reacted in time was stunned to discover that Gu Fei's position was even higher than the descending Fire Wheels.

It took a little time for the descending Fire Wheels to condense and form. If you touched the Fire Wheels during this time, would there be any damage? Some bored people had tested this question, and the conclusion was no. And Gu Fei, took advantage of the time before the Fire Wheels had condensed, passing through them to jump onto the ceiling.

Gu Fei wasn't Spiderman, he couldn't stick to the ceiling, but he timed it perfectly. Just as he passed through the Fire Wheels, they finished condensing and fell down, while Gu Fei's descent was slightly delayed. Perhaps it wasn't even a second, but at least he was faster than the Fire Wheels, so he didn't suffer any damage from them.

"At least there's still Fire Tree! He'll fall down eventually!" The mages knew they were definitely going to die, and only had this hope left before their deaths. As a result, when Gu Fei was about to fall, he stepped on the wall again, and with a whoosh, he flew to the top of the crowd. Using their shoulders, Gu Fei was airborne.

"Damn it!!" The player who was stepped on was unwilling to accept this, of course. He struggled, he wanted to shake off Gu Fei. But in fact, he didn't need to work so hard at all. All the spells activated, and he was instantly burned into white light. Just before he disappeared, he felt a force on his shoulder.

"Holy crap!!" The mage saw Gu Fei jump up again using his shoulder before he died...

The Fire Tree Thousand Flame Formation only lasted five seconds. Did this guy want to challenge gravity and stay airborne for more than five seconds? The mages wanted to know the answer, but unfortunately, he was already dead, along with his comrades. When everyone appeared at the resurrection point, they asked the same question in unison: "Is he dead?"

No! They couldn't get an answer for a while, but the answer was no.

Gu Fei used the mage's shoulder and jumped up again. The roof wasn't that spacious. In such a simple wooden hut, the beams were relatively exposed. This time, Gu Fei aimed accurately, grabbed onto a beam with one hand, and hung in the air. Then, his left and right feet flew out quickly, and the homing arrows that were chasing him were kicked down by Gu Fei in succession. Five seconds passed quickly, the flames on the ground had extinguished, and Gu Fei let go and fell. Using his hands and feet, dealing with the homing arrows was even easier.

Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. The wooden hut had only one entrance, and he felt that he should have the ability to hold the pass alone. Could these guys demolish the wooden hut? He didn't know if the system allowed that. Anyway, he was already here, so why not finish the quest first? Gu Fei thought, and was about to talk to Jilkinov, when he glanced back and saw Jilkinov lying in the corner, charred black from the fire and emitting smoke.

"Seriously? Hey, hey, are you dead?" Gu Fei shouted. Was this NPC also able to be attacked? He was burned like this, what a weak NPC!

"Not yet," the weak NPC replied weakly.

"It's good that you're not dead. The Guardian Squad sent me here," Gu Fei quickly proceeded with the quest. This NPC looked like he was ready to die at any moment.

As a result, before the NPC could speak, a string of fireballs suddenly appeared at the window. Gu Fei quickly twisted his body to dodge. It was a string of rapid-fire fireballs being shot into the hut. At the same time, several rapid-fire fireballs also entered from outside the door.

"Oh... this is the end..." Gu Fei tried his best to escape the sea of fire, jumped over the magic circle in the room, and knocked down all the homing arrows. But now, several rapid-fire fireballs were being thrown in, and Gu Fei suddenly recalled a long, long time ago.

That was when he had just joined Young Master's Elite Group, his first mission, assassinating the great thief Sotor. Gu Fei vaguely remembered that Young Master Han's plan at the time was to trap Sotor in a small hut, and then have mages throw rapid-fire fireballs into the hut to grind him to death. Because the rapid-fire fireballs had an explosion effect, they would have a slight area of effect damage. In such a small room, there was no way to dodge.

Gu Fei could knock down homing arrows; Gu Fei could extinguish fireballs, but now they were rapid-fire fireballs, and not just one rapid-fire fireball. Gu Fei was still a human after all, and humans had limits. Gu Fei knew very well that he could never extinguish all of these rapid-fire fireballs. This time, there was really no way out.

At least he could complete the quest? Gu Fei thought, and quickly moved towards Jilkinov. The explosion damage of the rapid-fire fireballs wasn't high after all. Gu Fei felt that he could still hold on for a while.

"Hey, hey, I'm from the Cloud City Guardian Squad." As the explosions of the first batch of fireballs rang out, Gu Fei shouted at Jilkinov, but the guy was lying on the ground without a sound. Gu Fei rushed over and pulled him up. Although NPCs were machines, they had breath, heartbeat, and heartbeat like humans, and sometimes they were more like humans than players. For example, when players died, they turned into white light and didn't have corpses, but NPCs often had corpses.

At this moment, what Gu Fei pulled up was a corpse. He had no breath and no heartbeat.

"Seriously, you died even faster than me?" Gu Fei was extremely depressed. Jilkinov was actually killed by the rapid-fire fireballs before him.

"You're too cruel to even kill an NPC," Gu Fei sent a message on the mercenary channel.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" The person who replied was Battle Without Wounds.

"What are you busy with?" Gu Fei tidied up his clothes, while preparing to face the rapid-fire fireballs and die generously. He was also chatting with Battle Without Wounds, who had the least contact since the city war started.

"Busy attacking the city! Let me tell you, I also took on the honor kill quest for you, hehe, why don't you sacrifice yourself and let me kill you once?" Battle Without Wounds seized the opportunity to be shameless.

"Honor kill? Oh, I forgot about that!" Gu Fei remembered this setting when another wave of rapid-fire fireballs hit the room, exploding sparks and dust everywhere. Gu Fei was still alive. The werewolf belt he received had a bit of automatic health regeneration, but in this situation, the regeneration could never be as fast as the damage. It just helped Gu Fei to survive a little longer. Gu Fei flashed to the door and poked his head out to take a look: How quiet! The reeds swayed gently in the wind, and there wasn't a single person in sight. But he could imagine that as soon as he stepped out, there would definitely be a magic circle and volley that condensed the strength of many people.

Apart from digging a tunnel, there seemed to be no other way out. Tunnel... eh? Gu Fei's eyes lit up. He suddenly noticed the fireplace in the small wooden hut. The fireplace was connected to the chimney, which led directly to the roof. Jian Gui had crawled through it. It couldn't be said to be spacious, but at least it could hide people. If he stayed there, he could avoid the rapid-fire fireballs. If he waited a little longer, maybe there would be a turning point?

While Gu Fei was thinking, rapid-fire fireballs were constantly flying into the room. Gu Fei saw his health dropping continuously, so he quickly made up his mind and dived into the fireplace.

"Eh, there's a piece of paper, a quest clue?" After Gu Fei entered the fireplace, he was surprised to find a piece of paper inside. Compared to the one Jian Gui had picked up, it was cleaner, more complete, and looked like a better clue. Gu Fei quickly picked it up, opened it, and saw a line of words on it: "Drunken Cloud Dies in This Chimney."

"Damn it!!" Gu Fei realized something was wrong, and then he heard a rocket-like sound. He looked up and saw an unknown number of rapid-fire fireballs flying straight up from the chimney. Gu Fei quickly rolled out of the fireplace. The fireballs exploded in the fireplace, along with those flying in from the window and door. This time, Gu Fei's health was finally exhausted...

"Ah... ah... ah..." A mage in Between the Clouds suddenly shouted like an idiot. When everyone looked at him with puzzled eyes, the mage said excitedly and incoherently: "I completed it!! I completed the honor kill of Drunken Cloud!!!"

"Ah? Killed him? Damn, did you really do it??" Between the Clouds was silent for a while, and then suddenly boiled over. Gu Fei's guesses were basically correct. All the ambushes by the lake outside Cloud City were arranged by Young Master Han. He had also given the binoculars to Gu Xiaoshang, who was responsible for the overall command on West Mountain Slope.

This arrangement had been in place for some time, but Gu Fei had never shown up. The players of Between the Clouds would of course be a little impatient, but the guild leader hadn't expressed his opinion, and the comrades of Between the Clouds were still very united, and continued to wait patiently here. And at this moment, the target they had been waiting for so long finally appeared, and was even successfully killed, and it was a glorious honor kill! It was worth it, so much waiting was really worth it. The Between the Clouds channel was filled with cheers, as happy as if they had won the city war. Gu Xiaoshang was also enjoying it. The rewards of the city war? The system's points? These were of course good, but there were many ways to find happiness. Taking the system's rewards wasn't the only way. The system's rules were ultimately dead, and how the game should be played was up to the people. The rules of the game were just a reference. Those might be very good, but not everyone liked them.

"Well done!!" Gu Xiaoshang praised all the players who participated in this battle. Although some people had sacrificed themselves, it could be said that it was a great victory to fight against Drunken Cloud and only die so few people. The sacrificed comrades were also laughing and joking in the camp, believing that they hadn't sacrificed in vain.

Drunken Cloud was honor killed! This news quickly became known to everyone. After all, most people had accepted the quest to kill Drunken Cloud. At the moment of completion, everyone received a notification, and the system announced which guild's hero had completed this feat.

Between the Clouds, Between the Clouds, which didn't participate in the Guild Leader Protection Alliance, independently killed Drunken Cloud.

And the guild leaders who were gathered in the cabbage field for fear of being honor killed by Drunken Cloud were now a little embarrassed. Especially when they saw some unbridled guys in some guild channels praising Between the Clouds for being mighty, they felt quite uncomfortable.

Especially the four major guild leaders. They fought back and forth, and they really made a name for themselves. Azure Sea stacked stones under the city, burying countless people alive; Song of Intoxication was completed by Gu Fei with a thousand kills, although it wasn't really the case at all; and Cloud Herder was the first guild leader to be honor killed, and was famous; Black Alliance didn't suffer any major disasters, so when the four guilds gathered, Black Index was nicknamed the Survivor, which sounded like mockery.

The names of the four guilds that came out of the city war were all negative, and Between the Clouds had really made a big splash this time. Even Heartless Swordsman, the lover, felt a little sour. His own guild was much stronger than Between the Clouds, so Heartless Swordsman could still show off his manhood in front of Gu Xiaoshang, but now Between the Clouds was taking this opportunity to improve and surpass all the guilds to become the number one guild in Cloud City, and he would be a little embarrassed.

Heartless Swordsman's worries were a bit exaggerated, but it couldn't be helped. It was said that people in love were blind.

The four of them were sitting together at this moment, silently, each with their own thoughts. After a long time, Cloud Herder spoke first: "I really didn't expect Between the Clouds to really do it..."

"Their arrangement was quite thorough, and they also gave us a favor," said Upstream, referring to the group under the tree. It would have been easy for Between the Clouds to take down these people, but Song of Intoxication obviously had a more persistent spirit towards them, so they friendly informed Upstream.

"There's something... I think everyone knows it, but it's not easy to say it," Black Index suddenly said.

The other three immediately understood what Black Index was talking about, so they all nodded silently.

"What do you think these three hundred people are trying to do?" Black Index asked.

The fact that three hundred people had withdrawn from the Between the Clouds guild was theoretically only known to the Between the Clouds guild and the people who withdrew. But the four major guilds all knew about this matter at this time. Obviously, they all had informants in Between the Clouds. This kind of thing was tacitly understood. Even among the four people present, they didn't know how many people each of them had planted. Admitting that they knew about this matter was basically equivalent to acknowledging that they would send informants. At this time, no guild leader was being hypocritical anymore, and the four of them discussed Between the Clouds' actions together.

Outside Cloud City was a scene of joy and excitement, but inside Cloud City was a scene of white terror. There were more girls in Rebirth Crystal than in Extremely Heaven Defying, so the probability of being bumped into was naturally greater. The girls didn't have any PK combat power, so they were easily taken down. Eight girls had been killed so far. According to the girls who were killed, the people who attacked them were only two or three, and they were quite powerful. They killed them in a few moves. Some girls had system guards by their sides, but the guards didn't react at all.

The people of Between the Clouds were naturally a bit clever. They didn't expose all their strength right away. Seeing that they were just some weak girls, they just sent two or three people to take them down. Eight girls had already been killed, but no one knew that the other party was a small team of thirty people. However, the fact that the guards didn't react could explain too much.

July quickly contacted Jian Gui to discuss this matter.

"They're not coming for you, they should be coming for us, for us, the players who are defending the city," said Jian Gui.