Chapter 1 The World is in Chaos

The city battle players of Quan Yun Duan City were all going crazy. The sixty-second countdown, one second at a time, pricked at their hearts like needles. Large guilds like Zong Heng Si Hai and Dui Jiu Dang Ge were powerless to help and were trying to understand the situation through effective channels. The news they heard was that they couldn't find the target.

The players were furious. Players used to traditional games couldn't tolerate this situation. The enemy had no red name indicator, no kill guide. Everything depended on the player's own eyes. Qian Li Yi Zui, Qian Li Yi Zui (A Thousand Miles Drunk) we've never even seen this person, how are we supposed to know if he's a man or a dog!

Countless people thought this in grief and indignation, but it was no use. The number of mages mistakenly killed because they were wearing black robes had reached seven. They were so depressed that they wanted to die. The players were grabbing at straws in their desperation.

"There are thirty seconds left, and no one is paying attention to me!" Jian Gui (Sword Devil) continued to be sad. In fact, he was also wearing a black robe. In fact, he didn't have a guild badge. In fact, he had been standing still the whole time. These were all suspicious characteristics. The problem was, he wasn't a mage. Under the halo of Qian Li Yi Zui, Jian Gui had to become invisible and was ignored by the players.

Just then, some insightful person finally remembered that in addition to Qian Li Yi Zui, there was also a Jian Gui among the players who were not on the attacking side.

Jian Gui, a thief. As soon as they thought of this profession, everyone shouted: "Where are the anti-stealth people? Anti-stealth people, come out, the target is likely to be in stealth!!!"

This was a classic example of being too clever for one's own good. Jian Gui was speechless as he watched these people busy themselves. He had the urge to introduce himself, but he resisted, feeling that it would be too cheap.

"Twenty seconds left," Jian Gui thought. "Now that things have come to this, I should deliberately act like I'm doing something, just to get through these twenty seconds."

So Jian Gui stopped standing there like an idiot target, and began to run around like a player looking for a target.

"Ten seconds left!" Jian Gui counted ten more seconds. While running around, he suddenly came face to face with a player. Jian Gui ignored him and tried to walk around him, but the man suddenly chased after him: "Wait, which guild are you from? Where is your badge?"

Jian Gui was excited!!! Had someone finally noticed him? With only ten seconds left, he could finally do something instead of standing and running around like an idiot to maintain his existence.

Jian Gui slowly turned around, his dagger clenching slightly in his hand.

Mist Shadow Assault him! Jian Gui was thinking this when he suddenly heard someone shout from the crowd: "Qian Li Yi Zui! He's over here!!!"

"What the fuck!!" The guy in front of Jian Gui jumped two meters high, turned around, and ran towards the direction of the shout like a madman. Jian Gui was still ignored. Tears streamed down Jian Gui's face.

With five seconds left on the countdown, Gu Fei was discovered at the edge of the resurrection camp.

With four seconds left on the countdown, the attacking players rushed to the scene.

With three seconds left on the countdown, the players attacked Gu Fei.

With two seconds left on the countdown, Gu Fei instantly teleported to dodge the attack.

With one second left on the countdown, someone noticed that Gu Fei's position was not inside the resurrection camp.

With zero seconds left on the countdown, someone cried out in frustration, "We've been tricked! It's a feint to the east and attack to the west." Gu Fei was confused: "Feint what east, attack what west? I just got here..."

The system issued a city-wide announcement: the No. 3 camp of the attacking rebel army has fallen, the camp has been abandoned. The area will maintain its offline archive function, but will no longer be used as a death resurrection area.

The once simple but impressive camp instantly refreshed its style after the announcement. Abandonment became its new theme. Although there were still so many players present, it could not change its desolate background. The flags became tattered, the tents became tilted, and the watchtowers and wooden fences were surrounded by weeds, some of which even had mushrooms growing on them.

This was the scene of the camp after it was captured. Both the victorious Gu Fei and Jian Gui, and the defeated attacking players, admired the mutated scene in surprise. Jian Gui did not continue to linger and quietly activated Stealth to prepare to evacuate. Gu Fei, on the other hand, smiled with joy after hearing the system prompt and suddenly took a few steps forward.

"What is he going to do!!" Many people were still paying attention to Gu Fei! The invasion was already successful, and the camp had already been abandoned, but this guy was still stepping forward. What was he trying to do?

A flash of white light.

"Did he commit suicide?" Someone exclaimed.

"Is it a master's loneliness?"

"Can't find an opponent? Did he end himself?"

"End your motherfucker, he went offline..." someone said angrily.

The abandoned camp was clearly no longer a camp belonging to the attacking side. The offline function it retained could be used by the attacking side, by free third parties, and by Gu Fei, who was on the defending side. Gu Fei had wanted to go offline for a long time. Now that there was a place to go offline in front of him, he was not going to miss it.

"Why did he go offline..." Jian Gui muttered to himself as he quietly moved away. He still wanted to discuss with Gu Fei what impact occupying the other side's camp would have on the city battle, but who would have thought that the first impact would be that Gu Fei had an area to go offline right under his nose, so he quickly took advantage of it.

"Damn it!!!" Han Jia Gong Zi (Young Master Han), who was far away on the shores of Yun Jiao Lake, also slammed his fist in anger.

"There's nothing we can do about it. There's no system assistance for identifying targets in the game. Just relying on the players' eyes, it's not that easy to find a specific target in five minutes, especially when the target is likely to be deliberately disguised," Gu Xiao Shang said.

Han Jia Gong Zi was expressionless: "I'm not talking about this."

"Then what is it?" Gu Xiao Shang asked, puzzled.

"Damn it, Qian Li Yi Zui actually went offline. Tell me, are there such game players? It's the weekend, and there's such a big thing as the city battle, but he still goes offline on time. What kind of quality is this? Huh?" Han Jia Gong Zi said angrily.

"This..." Gu Xiao Shang didn't quite understand either. In her Cai Yun Jian guild, there were thousands of people. About half of them were crazy about the game, and the other half were more restrained, treating the game as a pastime, not the center of their lives. Even these people said that they would persevere during this city battle. Everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and slept well before logging in to participate in the city battle.

"Maybe he just went offline to use the restroom..." Gu Xiao Shang said. If you were hungry, sleepy, or had to pee in real life, you would feel it in the game as well, so you had to go offline to take care of it. Parallel World teams were most afraid of people going to the bathroom. You couldn't forcibly disconnect, so if you had to go to the bathroom, you had to rush back to the main city resurrection point to disconnect. In fact, it wasn't just team activities, this problem was annoying even when playing solo. Players had used this as an excuse to appeal to the officials for the right to disconnect freely, but there was no way. It wasn't that the officials didn't want to allow free disconnection, it was just that they didn't have the technical ability to implement it yet, so everyone had to continue holding it in. The officials were also quite troubled by this problem and hadn't come up with a suitable solution yet. They couldn't very well tell everyone to drink less water for the sake of the game, could they? Everyone knew that drinking more water was good for your health, so the game company wouldn't dare to make that kind of publicity for the sake of the game. So the only solution they had come up with so far was to adjust the location of the offline resurrection points, trying to set them up all over the map instead of just in the main city.

The game company's planners secretly called this plan the public toilet construction plan. It was simply too apt.

Gu Xiao Shang's guess was not without its possibilities, but unfortunately, more than ten minutes passed, and Gu Fei was nowhere to be seen. Han Jia Gong Zi's careful arrangements on the shores of Yun Jiao Lake now looked like a complete joke.

"This guy is really something else, he still has a mission on him! He doesn't care about it, isn't he afraid that the other party will complete it and cause him to fail?" Gu Xiao Shang also complained.

"Yeah, he's not afraid, that's why I say this guy is a bastard." Han Jia Gong Zi had been holding this hatred for a long time, but Gu Fei's going offline caused him to lose his target of hatred, and he desperately needed to establish a new hatred.

The arrangements here had all become a joke. As a result, Wu Shi Zhi Jian (Sword of No Oath) and Ni Liu Er Shang (Upstream) were still leading their men to arrive with great fanfare. They both looked worried. The abandonment of the camp made them feel that this city battle was becoming more and more subtle. Could it be that this city battle would be messed up by Qian Li Yi Zui to the point where they, the attacking side, would fail in the end?

"Xiao Shang!!" Seeing Gu Xiao Shang, Wu Shi Zhi Jian put away his gloomy expression and released his charm.

"You're here," Gu Xiao Shang said.

"I'm here," Wu Shi Zhi Jian said, rubbing his hands together, admiring the beautiful romantic scenery of Yun Jiao Lake, feeling refreshed and happy.

"Qian Li Yi Zui went offline," Gu Xiao Shang said.

"Is that so? He went offline?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian said cheerfully. He was always happy no matter what Gu Xiao Shang said to him, but after he finished being happy, he reacted and jumped up and shouted, "What? He went offline?"

Wu Shi Zhi Jian also had Gu Fei as a friend, but the busy guild leader with a lot of messages didn't notice this inconspicuous system notification. Now that he looked, Qian Li Yi Zui's name was indeed black.

"Did he go to the bathroom?" Ni Liu Er Shang was also nearby at this time. Similarly, he had not noticed the news of Qian Li Yi Zui going offline. As a serious player, they did not believe that Qian Li Yi Zui would choose to leave the game at this moment.

"It shouldn't be, it's been more than ten minutes," Gu Xiao Shang announced.

"This... then why are we gathered here?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was dazed.

Gu Xiao Shang spread her hands helplessly: "Let's just disperse!"

This was truly coming in high spirits and leaving in low spirits. Wu Shi Zhi Jian really wanted to say that since they were already here, it would be a waste to just leave like this, why not sit in the bushes over there for a while. But he only dared to think about it, he really didn't dare to say it directly. He could only steal glances at Gu Xiao Shang, and when he saw that she was really packing up her guild to retreat, he could only sigh and reorganize his own guild to leave.

Zong Heng Si Hai had been very unmotivated and very energetic ever since they fought Gu Fei. Now, they suddenly cheered up a little, but the result was still like this. Many people were emotional, and the guild channel was full of complaints. But they couldn't find a specific direction to complain, so they just kept sighing that the city battle was not exciting and very boring.

Wu Shi Zhi Jian could only watch helplessly, not knowing what to say at this time. Should they go and storm the city again now? The city siege had never stopped until now, but basically the only result was that more and more players were dying, and there was no effective destruction at all. The players had all seen that the so-called missions in the city battle were not just decorative things. Relying solely on brute force and killing, the city could not be captured at all. It was likely that they had to complete some plot in some missions to exchange for victory in the city battle.

The problem was that there were no prompts for the missions, and everyone was just spinning around aimlessly, so naturally they became more and more bored.

However, at this time, the shores of Yun Jiao Lake actually harbored a big mission. San Shi Li Wai (Thirty Miles Away) was squatting in the small wooden house, and when he saw that the people from his Dui Jiu Dang Ge had all arrived, he really wanted to go out and reunite with them, but Han Jia Gong Zi was still in the house and didn't seem to want to go out, so he didn't know what to do. He had heard Gu Xiao Shang come to discuss the matter of Qian Li Yi Zui going offline, so he mustered up his courage and went up to Han Jia Gong Zi and asked, "Um, Qian Li Yi Zui went offline? What do we do then?"

"What else can we do? Disperse!" Han Jia Gong Zi finished the wine in his bottle, threw away the empty bottle, and went out.

"Just leave like this? What about me?" San Shi Li Wai was at a loss, cautiously looking around, and slowly left the small wooden house as well.

Han Jia Gong Zi had already gone far away and didn't pay attention to him at all. San Shi Li Wai was very puzzled. He still had a mission on him, wasn't he bait? Why did no one want him anymore?

The players who had been lying in ambush in the bushes were constantly crawling out and walking in a unified direction. San Shi Li Wai was searching for the figure of Jiang Jin Jiu (Bring in the Wine), his brother in hardship, but he didn't find Jiang Jin Jiu. Instead, Shan Zi Ling (Fan Ling) saw him.

"San Shi! Damn it, where did you run off to? Why didn't you reply to my messages?" Shan Zi Ling ran over and grabbed him.

"It's a long story!" San Shi Li Wai said.

"Where's Jiang Jin Jiu? Is he with you?" Shan Zi Ling asked.

"Yeah, I'm looking for him too!" San Shi Li Wai said.

"Did you two run away when the fighting started?" Shan Zi Ling asked with a dark face.

"Well, I heard that Qian Li Yi Zui went offline," San Shi Li Wai said, changing the subject.

"Don't bullshit, you two!" Shan Zi Ling said contemptuously.

"Let me tell you!" San Shi Li Wai mysteriously looked around, leaned close to Shan Zi Ling and said, "I have a mission now!"

"A mission? What's so strange about that? I have one too," Shan Zi Ling said.

"Tch, it's not that kind of brick-moving mission you have," San Shi Li Wai said.

"A large mission?" Shan Zi Ling's expression changed.

"It's the mission that Yin Feng and the others stole away before, I got it back," San Shi Li Wai said.

"You got it back?" Shan Zi Ling repeated.

"Uh, under a series of coincidences, I got it back." As San Shi Li Wai said this, he was still looking around, not seeing Han Jia Gong Zi, not seeing Gu Xiao Shang, not seeing anyone from Cai Yun Jian paying attention to him. San Shi Li Wai was finally certain that after Qian Li Yi Zui went offline, people no longer considered him to have any value and no one would pay attention to him anymore.

"If you have a mission, why don't you tell the guild leader and find a way to complete it!" Shan Zi Ling said.

"Don't worry, it's a long story. Where's Jiang Jin Jiu? Let's find that kid first!" San Shi Li Wai said as he sent a message to Jiang Jin Jiu.

Jiang Jin Jiu replied with his coordinates. The two of them searched for him and found him in the water-soaked bushes by the lake, where Jiang Jin Jiu was tied up like a dumpling. Shan Zi Ling was shocked and quickly went up to untie him. When he looked at his mouth, he saw that it was stuffed with a piece of rag.

"What happened?" Shan Zi Ling asked, not understanding.

"Han Jia Gong Zi, that bastard!" Jiang Jin Jiu cursed, then looked around and asked San Shi Li Wai, "Is he gone?"

"He's gone... that guy is really, he really does what he says!" San Shi Li Wai exclaimed, while also being glad that he had been doing as that person had told him, otherwise the outcome might have been very unpleasant.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!!" Jiang Jin Jiu spat out three mouthfuls of mud.

"What exactly is going on?" Shan Zi Ling couldn't understand at all.

The two of them told him what had happened.

"A blessing in disguise!" Shan Zi Ling was very happy after listening, not understanding the hardships that the two of them had gone through.

"Let's go find the guild leader." Shan Zi Ling was very loyal and immediately reported to Ni Liu Er Shang.

"Huh? There's such a thing?" Ni Liu Er Shang was also so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He had already made up his mind to deal with Qian Li Yi Zui, and now that he knew that the mission had miraculously fallen back into his hands, he was very happy and didn't pursue the issue of the two of them running away from the battle.

With this mission, Ni Liu Er Shang was even more concerned about Qian Li Yi Zui, and he quickly went to find Gu Xiao Shang: "Guild Leader Gu, Qian Li Yi Zui will definitely log in tomorrow, how should we deal with him?"

Wu Shi Zhi Jian was leading Zong Heng Si Hai, but his eyes were always searching for Gu Xiao Shang. When he saw Ni Liu Er Shang suddenly approaching Gu Xiao Shang, he was very surprised and confused, so he quickly approached them as quickly as possible.

Gu Xiao Shang was saying "We'll talk about it tomorrow" when Wu Shi Zhi Jian had already approached with a smile: "What are you talking about?"

Ni Liu Er Shang didn't say anything. Gu Xiao Shang undoubtedly knew about the mission, and it could even be said that she had no intention of getting involved in snatching the mission, which was why the mission had fallen into his hands. However, Wu Shi Zhi Jian was someone with a criminal record, and Ni Liu Er Shang really didn't want this kid to get involved as well. However, Ni Liu Er Shang was also very afraid that Gu Xiao Shang would not care about anything and tell the truth, which was something that this reckless woman would completely do. Ni Liu Er Shang was a little nervous at this time.

"We're talking about Qian Li Yi Zui, how to deal with him when he logs in tomorrow," Gu Xiao Shang said.

"Xiao Shang, you make the arrangements, we'll listen to you," Wu Shi Zhi Jian said, expressing his loyalty.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow!" Gu Xiao Shang still said this.

"Then what is your guild doing now?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian saw that Ni Liu Er Shang wasn't speaking and was very happy. It was enough for him to talk to Gu Xiao Shang alone, and told him to stay out of it! Wu Shi Zhi Jian thought, ignoring Ni Liu Er Shang and continuing to chat nonsense with Gu Xiao Shang.

Ni Liu Er Shang breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't wait for Wu Shi Zhi Jian to ignore him. So he left the two of them with a sentence of "Call me if you need anything" and quickly hid far away.

And there was another group of people who were hiding even further away than him. Shu Xia Wang Tian (Looking at the Sky Under the Tree) had been waiting here, hoping to reap the benefits, but he received the news that Qian Li Yi Zui had gone offline and all actions were canceled.

"Damn it! What kind of person is this, does he have any sense of responsibility!!!" Shu Xia Wang Tian wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone, but the knife was gone, how depressing.