Chapter 74 Qian Li Yizui is Here!!

"Qian Li Yizui is here!!" Someone suddenly shouted, and everyone turned around, only to see a flash of fire. That player was instantly killed by Qian Li Yizui, and the torch in his hand immediately went out. A large patch of darkness instantly engulfed Qian Li Yizui.

The players rushed over, but couldn't find Qian Li Yizui anywhere. Just as they were cursing, another person shouted "Damn it!" on the other side. This time, they only saw a residual image of deathly white light; they didn't even see Qian Li Yizui's figure.

"Damn, that guy is specifically targeting those with torches." Duan Shui Jian noticed the clue, but this shout panicked all the players holding torches. Putting it in a pocket was ineffective, and holding it in their hand made them Qian Li Yizui's target. Players who had been fighting to hold the torches were now very polite, offering the torches to others. Wu Shi Zhi Jian was the most shameless. He didn't have a torch to begin with, but he had forcefully taken one from someone else when descending the stairs. Seeing that the situation was bad, he immediately called over one of his subordinates, "Bei Zhi, come, take the torch and scout over there."

The player called Bei Zhi wasn't stupid. He didn't take the torch and calmly said to Wu Shi Zhi Jian, "Guild Leader, just extinguish it..."

Wu Shi Zhi Jian respected his subordinate's opinion this time and immediately extinguished the torch.

The other players didn't have the guild leader's boldness. Holding the torches felt like holding hot potatoes; they couldn't throw them away, but they couldn't keep holding them either. In the blink of an eye, two more players were killed, and the light in the space seemed to dim a lot.

"Everyone, don't panic, those with torches gather together first," Duan Shui Jian shouted.

Everyone quickly gathered towards the center, huddling together next to the central device. This way, at least they had something to lean on behind them, defending against Qian Li Yizui's attacks from three sides.

"I say, this place is huge!" one player exclaimed. The advance speed squad, plus the later short-legged army, numbered two hundred people, but they didn't seem crowded at all in this space, moving their hands and feet freely. And the fact that the torchlight was so small in here showed how big this place really was.

"Old Duan, shouldn't we hurry up and finish the mission? The situation is very unfavorable to us now." Han Jia Gongzi suddenly drifted to Duan Shui Jian's side at some point and said this out of the blue, startling Duan Shui Jian.

"Uh, this is my first time here too, I have to look for it! It's too dark," Duan Shui Jian said, ignoring Han Jia Gongzi and quickly commanding, "Mages! Cast spells around to light it up."

The mages obeyed and threw spells in all directions, some using large-area spells, others using small fireballs. The large-area spells illuminated a wide area, while the small fireballs floated around, guiding the way.

Under the firelight, everyone saw Qian Li Yizui's figure again, immersed in the darkness, blurry and unclear. All they could vaguely see was that the sword in his hand seemed to be raised towards them...

"Not good!!" Duan Shui Jian reacted the quickest, but just as he finished shouting, everyone felt a heat under their feet and a sun above their heads.

"Damn it!!!" The most vicious curses the players could think of were already pouring out. If this resentment was useful, the traces of the entire Gu Fei family's existence in the universe would probably be erased.

Fire wheels fell from the sky, and flames rose like a thousand trees. Gu Fei secretly cast two more spells to attack the players. The players scattered and ran, some dodging, some not, some surviving steadfastly, and some dying on the spot...

"Hey, hurry up and find the mission, this situation is very unfavorable to us!" Han Jia Gongzi drifted to Duan Shui Jian's side like a ghost again.

Duan Shui Jian was stunned. This guy, is he paying attention to my actions? He might have seen through my intentions... If it was him, this situation might not be without a solution, but he's deliberately not saying it, wanting to force me to reveal the mission quickly. Duan Shui Jian looked at Han Jia Gongzi, whose expression was also blurry in the dim light, and felt very uncomfortable. Is it going to be like this again, with the initiative of the mission being forced out once more?

"Form combat squads, each squad keeping a torch and maintaining distance from each other." At this time, the guild leaders personally took command, reorganizing the players into groups to stop this chaos.

"How many people per squad?" someone asked.

This question shouldn't have been asked. Under normal circumstances, a combat squad was based on seven people, with one of each class. Then, based on this, classes were appropriately added based on the members' abilities, adjustable to more than ten people, generally not exceeding 15. However, the guild leaders were stumped by this question. Because in front of Qian Li Yizui, were ten-odd people considered a combat squad? That guy could solve ten-odd people with a casual move, right?

"Twenty people per squad!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was the first to make a decision. He felt that twenty people could at least support them long enough for other squads to rescue them. So the other guild leaders also distributed the players in this way. Nearly two hundred players quickly divided into ten squads, each with at least one torch. As a result, before the ten squads could arrange their positions, the ground beneath the feet of one squad erupted in flames again, and the players scattered in a flurry, dodging and running. Some died, some dodged, and no one knew where Gu Fei had attacked from this time.

"This is hard! The torch's illumination range isn't thirty meters. Qian Li Yizui isn't playing melee this time; he's staying in the darkness and using spells for ranged attacks. Our torches have become his attack indicators." Wu Shi Zhi Jian urgently consulted with the other guild leaders.

"Extinguish the torches?" Hei Se Shi Zhi said casually.

"Wouldn't that still be in his favor? In the darkness, we still have to identify whether the target is him, but he's fine, he's just one person, he can chop anyone he wants," Wu Shi Zhi Jian said.

"Maintain spell control over his movements?" Gu Xiao Shang looked at Ni Liu Er Shang, who was the expert in this area.

"That's impossible," Ni Liu Er Shang shook his head. "First, we don't have enough mages, and second, completely blindly bombarding without seeing the opponent's movements won't do any good."

"At least we can increase the illuminated area, let's just do that for now!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian nodded, not knowing if he really thought this was feasible or if he was just unconditionally supporting Gu Xiao Shang's suggestion. In any case, after the order was issued, all the mages became laborers, constantly throwing spells in all directions. Even the priests' Holy Light Orbs and the archers' Homing Arrows, which had light, became flares, densely launching everywhere.

"He's here!" As soon as the light appeared, Qian Li Yizui's figure could always be found.

"He's gone..." But the light didn't last, and Qian Li Yizui disappeared again.

The only good thing was that Qian Li Yizui hadn't attacked again during this time. However, how could this method last? Mana would eventually run out. The four major guild leaders had already begun to arrange rotations so that this artificial lighting wouldn't stop.

"Shouldn't we hurry up and complete the mission? Are we just going to keep wasting time like this?" Han Jia Gongzi wasn't just talking to Duan Shui Jian this time, but speaking to everyone in the crowd.

Many people woke up. They had been messed up by Qian Li Yizui and had forgotten what they came here to do. Everyone looked at the mission-giving NPC, Yu Yi, from Cai Yun Jian, "Hurry up and do the mission!"

Yu Yi looked at Duan Shui Jian, "Have you found where the mission is?" He was honest and trusted what Duan Shui Jian said.

Duan Shui Jian had actually noticed the location of the mission's final step that Ye Xiao Wu had described to him, but his inner conflict still existed. Ni Liu Er Shang was even more opportunely sending Duan Shui Jian another message, "Our people are almost here, eliminating Qian Li Yizui is no problem. Dui Jiu Dang Ge's magic formation is enough to completely envelop this space."

Regardless of how much of Ni Liu Er Shang's words were false, Duan Shui Jian at least believed that this guy didn't want other guilds to snatch this mission. With both sides betting, Duan Shui Jian was more willing to bet on Ni Liu Er Shang, who didn't require him to reveal the mission. Or perhaps there was another reason, which was that he was very annoyed by Han Jia Gongzi's constant pressure.

"Okay!" Duan Shui Jian nodded at this time and said, "This mission is like this. This place is the hub and transformation project for Cloud End City's water system. As you all know, we are in a world with magic. A large number of mages, priests, alchemists, etc., live in the clouds. And these professions, living and working, will produce a lot of wastewater that ordinary people can't imagine. And this wastewater is definitely harmful to people's lives and cannot be discharged together with ordinary domestic wastewater. So, they have a special discharge channel."

"And here," Duan Shui Jian patted the pile of pipes behind him, "is actually a magical purification device that converts this wastewater into normal water. All kinds of wastewater from Cloud End City will flow through the sewers to here for purification treatment. And what we have to do now is to destroy this device, stop its purification and discharge functions, so that a large amount of wastewater will be accumulated until it flows back into Cloud End City. Then, the soldiers of Cloud End City will experience various negative magical states due to the spread of this large amount of wastewater. Seize this opportunity, and the city war can be won in one fell swoop!"

The players were dumbfounded. After a long while, Wu Shi Zhi Jian said, "Are you telling us the mission's storyline?"

"This is at least what you should know. Completing this mission is not a one-time thing. You still have to seize the time to fight. The appearance of negative states also has a time limit. The defending side won't just let the wastewater flow back without solving the problem, right?" Duan Shui Jian said.

"But you seem to be talking a bit too much. Who has time to listen to your long speech now? Just quickly tell us what to do now!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian said impatiently.

Duan Shui Jian turned back and said to Yu Yi, "Take out the item you need to use."

Yu Yi quickly took out the item. Everyone looked at it, and it was no different from before, just another test tube, but two sizes larger. Yu Yi was waiting for Duan Shui Jian to point out where to put it, but Duan Shui Jian suddenly turned around and said, "Everyone, come and take a look. It's just such a big groove, and then... let's all look for it together!"

"Damn it! You don't know where it is?" Everyone spat blood.

Duan Shui Jian spread his hands helplessly, "You should know about the randomness of parallel world missions, right?"

When everyone heard this, they didn't say anything, only cursing the system for being shameless. But at this time, the hungry wolf Qian Li Yizui was waiting by the side to hunt. The players were all gathered in the middle and didn't dare to go far, so they had to burn incense and pray that this thing was in the middle of this pile of pipes... But speaking of which, this pile of pipes just looked like water pipes. The device was probably somewhere else, right? The players were apprehensive, searching the upper, middle, and lower sections of the pipes. Some even lay directly on the ground.

Ni Liu Er Shang didn't say a word. He secretly glanced at Duan Shui Jian's expression and determined that this guy was already doing what he wanted. So he didn't ask any more questions and continued his great work of lighting as a mage.

"Nothing!"

"Nothing!"

"Nothing!"

The players who searched everywhere had only two answers: there's nothing here, and there's nothing there. Everyone felt cold. Like this, they had to expand the search range. Where was Qian Li Yizui?

After entering the rotation of lighting work, the illuminated range shrunk a little again. Qian Li Yizui's figure could be seen sometimes, and sometimes it couldn't. The only thing that could be determined was that this guy was still here and very calm, like a wolf eyeing its prey, not hurried, wandering around, patiently waiting for the opportunity, and then pouncing to bite...

"I think, should we maintain this formation and move as a whole?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian suggested.

"Yeah, let's do that!" Everyone nodded in agreement. So a group of players, like a moving lighthouse, began to move. Every time they moved to a new spot, they would lie on the ground to study if there was a groove to put the test tube in. Someone asked Duan Shui Jian if this thing might be on the ground. Duan Shui Jian emphasized the randomness of the mission to everyone again, so everyone had to curse while continuing to lie on the ground.

"Why isn't Qian Li Yizui making a move? Even so, if he wanted to, it shouldn't be that he doesn't have any opportunities, that he can't launch a single attack, right? What is he waiting for?" After a long time, Duan Shui Jian suddenly felt that Qian Li Yizui's actions were also a bit intriguing. What was he waiting for?

Wait! Duan Shui Jian suddenly realized a problem. Qian Li Yizui was here for the mission, but now the players were almost only defending against him, and no one was actively provoking or stopping him. Under these circumstances, why didn't he proceed with his mission? Why was he fighting so hard with the siege players here? Could it be that this guy's mission story wasn't completely finished? So, although he arrived at this place, he didn't know the specific story, so he didn't know what to do?

Did he lack some information in his mission journey along the way? Duan Shui Jian couldn't answer this question. He needed Ye Xiao Wu to analyze it. But at this time, he couldn't contact Ye Xiao Wu. It was obvious that this water system, which completed an important part of the siege defense storyline, was classified as a city war zone. Ye Xiao Wu in District 15 couldn't contact the players in this area at this time.

"So, this guy is secretly observing, actually watching us do the mission? He wants to find clues from the process of our mission to know how his mission should proceed?" Duan Shui Jian couldn't get intelligence support from Ye Xiao Wu, so he could only analyze it himself. The more he analyzed, the more he felt it was right. That's right! This guy's mission couldn't continue, and he also needed intelligence.

Just as he was thinking this, there was suddenly a commotion around him, and he heard the players shouting "Qian Li Yizui." Duan Shui Jian turned around and saw that Qian Li Yizui was less than three meters away from him, but his target wasn't himself. That warrior player holding the torch was approached by Qian Li Yizui using Instant Movement, then turned around and used Double Flame Flash, Palm Lightning, and added a Lightning Spell. Under the painful combo of several spells, he died on the spot. The other players were about to rush up to surround him, but Qian Li Yizui threw out a Wall of Lightning to block everyone and ran back into the darkness.

"This guy..." Duan Shui Jian found that he was wrong, and very wrong. Qian Li Yizui's goal was always combat! He was aiming to eliminate all the siege players here. At this time, under the players' reasonable formation and spell illumination, Qian Li Yizui's two superimposed area spells could only cause some harassment and couldn't directly kill, which was obviously making him dissatisfied.

So he was waiting. What he wanted wasn't just an opportunity to throw two spells and cause chaos among the players; he wanted to directly kill his opponents. And his goal was very clear. He prioritized killing the players who had torches in their hands. He wanted to completely plunge this place into darkness and then kill everyone cleanly.

This guy... Did he forget that he was here for the mission? Duan Shui Jian found that cold sweat was seeping out of his forehead. Even when he participated in real battles back then, he had never been so nervous. The pressure was too great. This opponent was simply a madman, fighting only for the sake of fighting?

"He seems to want to kill all of us who are holding torches!" The players had also noticed Qian Li Yizui's intention at this time and were making rapid adjustments. Duan Shui Jian felt that the situation was terrible and proactively sent a message to Ni Liu Er Shang, "How long before your people arrive? Do you have enough torch equipment?"

"Don't worry!" Ni Liu Er Shang was full of confidence. His only worry was whether he could live to see his brothers arrive.

"He's here again!!" Just a minute later, Qian Li Yizui reappeared, accompanied by a lightning bolt. This time, he started with Lightning Spell, and the target was indeed a player holding a torch.

"Pocket formation!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian shouted. This was a coordinated formation often used by player groups to surround monsters. Almost no coordination was needed, and strangers could instantly form a rough pocket. But who knew that Gu Fei's figure flashed and disappeared with Instant Movement, and the pocket formation was empty.

"Where is he?" a player asked nervously.

"Behind you..." The other players looking at this person wanted to cry but had no tears. Double Flame Flash, Palm Lightning, instant death... The players wanted to chase, but suddenly their feet were hot and their heads were shining. Qian Li Yizui had actually set up area spells long ago.

He was using the flaw in his spellcasting's waiting time as a trap with a time difference, and the previous Lightning Spell was even a bait to guide everyone's attention. His real target for this attack wasn't the one who was struck by lightning at the beginning. Killing this person was also a precise arrangement.

"At this rate... we'll be killed by him sooner or later!!!" The players looked at each other.

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Will the many but lonely players in the darkness be swallowed up one by one? Please listen to the next chapter.