Hu Die Lan
Chapter 748 Gilkino's Assistant
"Why did he trick you?" The four guild leaders were quite interested in Ye Xiaowu. They felt that this guy must have something special, otherwise an ordinary character would have been despised into a wall by Young Master Han in two sentences. Being tricked could be considered a high-level treatment.
"And you are?" Ye Xiaowu was not a remarkable character in the game after all. He might have gathered information and known the names of the four guild leaders, but he didn't recognize them.
After the four introduced themselves one by one, Ye Xiaowu nodded and said, "It's not convenient here, gentlemen. How about we talk somewhere else?"
The four guild leaders exchanged glances. This trashy little priest seemed to have a calm and confident demeanor. Whether he was the real deal or just bluffing, they really wanted to see.
"Disperse, disperse, there are no GMs here!!" Under the urging of the four guild leaders, the crowd gradually dispersed. The four stared at Ye Xiaowu, wanting to hear what "inconvenient" things this kid had to say.
Gu Fei, Yutian Shenming, Xi Xiaotian, and Xi Yao Wu used scrolls to easily reach the outskirts of the city. This was the secluded place where Gu Fei and Ling Gufeng traded scrolls. It was a bit far from the city battle, but it wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
Xi Yao Wu checked the current coordinates and then looked at the location marked on Gu Fei's mission note. She was furious, "Are you an idiot! How far apart are these two? What did you fly here for?"
Xi Xiaotian came over for a glance and also revealed a look of contempt.
"Hmph!" Yutian Shenming came over for a glance and also scoffed.
"What are you 'hmphing' about? What are you 'hmphing' about? Do you even know which direction this coordinate on the note is?" Gu Fei was furious. It was fine if others laughed, but Yutian Shenming was just blindly following along, not knowing his own weight.
Yutian Shenming was stubborn and refused to admit his mistake. He took Gu Fei's little piece of paper to study it. Gu Fei explained to the two understanding people, "There's no way. I wasn't out sightseeing when I left the city. The coordinates are wherever I was. How would I know the mission would be issued over there?"
"Are you an idiot? Couldn't you have bought scrolls with pre-set coordinates?" Xi Yao Wu said.
"Are there such things?" Gu Fei asked.
"Ask if there are!" Xi Yao Wu said.
"Next time, next time!" Gu Fei quickly said.
At this moment, Yutian Shenming had made some progress and laughed loudly, "Who said I didn't know? Isn't it over there?"
"Get lost!" Gu Fei snatched back the note, "You looked at it for two minutes and still got it wrong." After speaking, he headed in the opposite direction from where Yutian Shenming had pointed.
Yutian Shenming felt extremely wronged and quickly chased after Gu Fei, "Boss, you know I'm not good at this. Save me some face!"
"Who started it?" Gu Fei asked.
"I was wrong, okay?" Yutian Shenming turned his head and saw the two beauties outside whispering and laughing like crazy. He guessed they were mocking him and felt so depressed he wanted to die.
Gu Fei and the others teleported to the northeast of Cloudrise City, while the coordinates of the target given by the Guard Captain were in the southwest. A magnificent diagonal. The four had to go around in a big circle. Gu Fei saw that Jian Gui and the others were very attentive to this mission and couldn't bear to disappoint them, so he also had a very proper attitude on this trip, heading straight for the target location with the thought of ‘the less trouble, the better.’ But Xi Yao Wu didn't have this sense of responsibility. On the way, she repeatedly pointed at the battles on the battlefield, encouraging the three to take a shortcut with her and kill their way through the battlefield.
Xi Xiaotian smiled without saying a word, Gu Fei rolled his eyes, Yutian Shenming wanted to curry favor, but under Gu Fei's stern gaze, he had no choice but to shut up. Xi Yao Wu was bored and depressed, kicking stones all the way. Every now and then she would "accidentally" kick Gu Fei twice. Gu Fei endured and didn't send this girl back to the main city. At least he was clear that Xi Yao Wu was often a bit temperamental when unhappy, but at least she wouldn't mess things up at critical moments.
"If there's no battle when we get there, I'll kill you," Xi Yao Wu threatened Gu Fei more than once on the way.
Gu Fei finally couldn't help but sigh, "You think I don't want that?"
"What?"
"I hope there's a battle, I hope to kill you," Gu Fei said.
"You're looking for death!" Xi Yao Wu kicked Gu Fei three times.
"We're almost there, don't make trouble," Xi Xiaotian advised Xi Yao Wu. Yutian Shenming also came over, expressing his envy of Gu Fei and Xi Yao Wu's "getting along so well." Gu Fei rolled his eyes wildly.
"It's over there." At this time, Xi Xiaotian glanced at the note in Gu Fei's hand and pointed ahead.
"No one's here!" Gu Fei quickly walked in that direction. This area was called the Cloudrise Mine, a place for leveling, with level 40-45 miner NPCs. It was also a place often frequented by players on siege missions. There were many repeatable labor tasks available for players to receive in the mine.
Gu Fei took a few steps and stood within the coordinate area marked on the note. Apart from a miner carrying an iron shovel, there was nothing in front of him.
"This location is the entrance to the mine. It seems the person we're looking for is in the mine," Xi Xiaotian said.
"Looks like it," Gu Fei said helplessly.
Fortunately, the Cloudrise Mine wasn't a very large area. It wouldn't take long to walk around it. The four approached each other and saw some players leveling up in the mine, as well as some players busily shoveling slag and pushing small minecarts, obviously characters on siege missions.
"Let's disguise ourselves a bit!" Xi Xiaotian suggested.
"Mm." Gu Fei nodded and instantly changed back into the rogue cloak he had used before, covering his face.
"Where did you get this tattered clothing? It's so ugly." Xi Yao Wu laughed, casually changed her outfit. It was also of high quality, flattering her figure, with a good style and decent stats. Xi Xiaotian also changed into a tattered rogue cloak and covered his face. Yutian Shenming didn't prepare these things and didn't know what to do. Gu Fei glanced at him and said, "Forget it, probably no one will recognize you."
Yutian Shenming was depressed. But that was the truth. Parallel World didn't have a name floating over your head. No matter how famous Yutian Shenming was, there were hundreds of thousands of people in the city. How many would recognize him? He wasn't a celebrity who had been on TV. Even for Gu Fei and Xi Yao Wu, it was mainly because their outfits were too deeply ingrained in people's minds. Thinking of outfits, Yutian Shenming's never-say-die heart started beating again. He tugged at the three bows slung across his back and said, "Aren't these too conspicuous? People will know it's me at a glance. What should I do?"
Gu Fei glanced at him and said, "Put them in your pocket."
Yutian Shenming was heartbroken, accidentally showing off his IQ again. The two beauties were laughing again.
The four went down into the mine and started wandering around while pretending to fight monsters.
"You're a rogue now. Don't use magic," Xi Yao Wu reminded Gu Fei.
"I know," Gu Fei said.
"Hehe!" Xi Yao Wu's smile was meaningful.
"I can still kill you without magic," Gu Fei revealed the truth.
"You're so ungracious. Would it kill you to let me win sometimes?" Xi Yao Wu cursed.
"Gracious? When has he ever had that?" Xi Xiaotian said.
Yutian Shenming nodded lightly in agreement.
Gu Fei ignored the three and focused on business. The four cleared the way, walking around the mine, but found nothing but ordinary monsters.
"There are only those NPCs left. Could it be one of them?" Xi Xiaotian pointed to the other side. There were some non-combat NPCs giving out tasks to siege players.
"Let's go take a look." Gu Fei led the team to kill monsters in that direction. Logically, there were plenty of monsters in the mine. There were players busy here. Although small monsters would occasionally respawn, they were inconvenient and no one would kill the monsters here. But Gu Fei and the others didn't care if they were suspicious or not at this time. They hacked their way over and brought the monsters close to the NPCs.
"Gilkino is dead." Gu Fei didn't know how to test, and only thought of this line. Since it was said to be Gilkino's assistant, they should have some reaction upon hearing this. So Gu Fei contacted them one by one like he was saying a password.
No reaction, no reaction. The NPCs had no reaction at all. The surrounding quest players began to look at these four strangely. These four guys were killing monsters and leveling up, but they were circling around the quest NPCs, which was a bit strange.
The four couldn't care so much. It looked like they were about to ask all the NPCs, and they were getting a little anxious. Just then, after Gu Fei threw out "Gilkino is dead" once again, the person they were looking for didn't react, but a sloppy miner squatting on the ground sifting through the ore suddenly turned his head and said, "He's dead?"
The four were shocked. Was this an NPC? They hadn't noticed, and thought it was a quest player squatting on the ground shoveling ore.
"That's right, he's dead." Gu Fei quickly followed up.
The young man's expression was initially confused and surprised, but after receiving Gu Fei's confirmation, it instantly changed to one of delight. He wiped his face with his sleeve and said, "That old thing is really dead? Then my plan can finally be implemented, hahahaha!"
The four were shocked. They didn't know what madness this NPC was spouting. They saw him, who had been squatting on the ground, bounce up like a spring. He went up a small slope several meters high as soon as he said he would, and immediately darted up.
"Hey, he's still a master!" Gu Fei was pleasantly surprised. Without saying a word, he used Instantaneous Movement to chase after him.
"Thousand Miles Drunk!!!" The quest players who had been paying attention to these four all shouted. All the siege players had received recognition training from the guild. They were familiar with the major characteristics of Thousand Miles Drunk: black mage robes, dark sword, Instantaneous Movement, and electric magic. The leader of the Mu Yun Guild, Yun Zhong Mu Di, later added a fifth characteristic, saying that Thousand Miles Drunk had a pile of feces on his head. Rational people believed that Yun Zhong Mu Di had lost his mind after being killed by Thousand Miles Drunk and was slandering the other party to vent his anger, so this newly added characteristic was not spread.
Among these four characteristics, Instantaneous Movement was the most absolute. In Cloudrise City, no one but Thousand Miles Drunk could use this. So when Gu Fei teleported up the slope, all the quest players exclaimed. After exclaiming, they panicked and reported the situation to their guilds.
How could Gu Fei care about them? He went up the slope and saw that Gilkino's assistant was still running for his life. Gu Fei shouted to stop and ran after him. Xi Yao Wu and the other two weren't as carefree. They had to climb up on foot and had already fallen a few steps behind. The three were also chasing madly behind. Yutian Shenming had already drawn his bow and shouted loudly, "Should I shoot?"
"Shoot!" Gu Fei shouted.
"Don't mess around!!" Xi Xiaotian quickly stopped him.
"Is my mission your mission!!" Gu Fei was angry.
"The guild's mission," Xi Xiaotian reminded him.
"I have a mission prompt!!!" Gu Fei roared. He wasn't that useless. This new NPC ran as soon as he appeared. While chasing, Gu Fei opened the mission bar to check. The usually concise Parallel World mission prompt gave a sentence this time. The Guard Captain's "find" order was gone, replaced by a "stop" order.
"Here it comes!" Yutian Shenming responded and released an arrow. The arrow howled and hit the miner's back. The miner suddenly turned around, his expression ferocious, and roared at the four, "No one can stop me."
After saying that, he took a flying step and slapped Gu Fei, who was the first to rush in front of him.
"Good!" Gu Fei took a step to the side to avoid the palm and swung his sword to counterattack. But the palm suddenly twisted back and chased after him, hitting Gu Fei's head. The force was surprisingly strong. Gu Fei couldn't resolve it at all, and he was slapped to the ground with a "bang."
Xi Yao Wu and the other three stopped in surprise. They were shocked to find that the miner's arm that slapped Gu Fei down had an incredible twist in the joint. This was simply bent backward. For a human, an arm bent like this could only be broken.
"What the hell is this thing?" Gu Fei, who was lying on the ground, was also looking up at the miner's arm and strongly protesting. He hadn't expected this guy to make a movement that violated human anatomy.
"Crack!" With a crisp sound, the miner actually used his other hand to bend the bent arm back. He also raised his leg and kicked it toward Gu Fei on the ground.
Gu Fei quickly rolled away. The miner chased up and continued to attack. Gu Fei rolled left and right, unable to get up at all. He raised his eyes and looked at the three standing there blankly watching. Gu Fei was depressed, "Do you three want to come over and kick me a few times too?"
The three woke up as if from a dream. Yutian Shenming quickly drew his bow again and released an arrow. This time, it hit the miner's forehead. The miner screamed strangely, waved his hand to pull out the arrow, and threw it directly at Yutian Shenming. The arrow flew no slower than Yutian Shenming's own shot. It was just that the accuracy was a bit off. Yutian Shenming shrank his head and dodged, breaking out in a cold sweat. The miner had already rushed toward him with his teeth and claws.
Yutian Shenming turned his head and wanted to run. But this time, the miner's spring jump was activated again. But this time, he didn't squat. Everyone saw clearly that the miner bent his legs into an unknown number of folds. Xi Xiaotian and Xi Yao Wu almost threw up. Then, with a shake, the miner bounced over like a cannonball. Yutian Shenming screamed, but couldn't react in time and was knocked to the ground by the miner.
Looking back, he saw the miner grinning with his big mouth right above his head, as if he wanted to eat his head. Yutian Shenming "ah ah ah ah" was already so scared that he couldn't speak.
"Double Flame Flash!!" Gu Fei arrived in time, slashing at the miner with his sword. The miner was injured and roared with his neck stretched out. A large drop of saliva finally甩了出来(flicked out), and Yutian Shenming was pressed down by the miner, unable to move at all. He tried hard to shake his head to one side, but his face was still cool, and the saliva finally fell on his face.
"Ugh..." The two girls on the other side had pale faces and were gagging together. Yutian Shenming was also gnashing his teeth, but after paying a little attention, he exclaimed, "Damn, this still has damage."
"What?" Gu Fei asked.
"Saliva," Yutian Shenming shouted.
"Then be careful, it's going down again," Gu Fei said.
"What?" Yutian Shenming turned his head and saw a ball of saliva coming toward him, blurring his eyes.
"Help me..." Yutian Shenming couldn't even cry. His eyes were full of saliva.
"You two come and help!!" Gu Fei turned his head and roared at the two girls. Yutian Shenming was sprayed with another mouthful, exacerbating their symptoms. Hearing Gu Fei's call, they reluctantly took their weapons and rushed over, "ugh-ing" all the way.
"Stop ugh-ing! You're ugh-ing even more disgusting than it is!!!" Gu Fei roared.
"What did you say!!!" Xi Yao Wu was furious and rushed up and gave the miner a fierce stab. "Say it again!!"
"Good job, keep going," Gu Fei praised.
But the miner wasn't just taking the beating without fighting back. He swung an arm, Gu Fei lowered his head, and Xi Yao Wu also lowered her head. As a result, the forearm suddenly dropped downward, another movement that humans couldn't make. But this time, Gu Fei was prepared and rolled backward to avoid it. As a result, the lowered forearm was like a swing,甩(flicked) to the side. With a "smack," it slapped Xi Yao Wu across the face.
"I'm fighting you to the death!!" Xi Yao Wu jumped up and waved her daggers wildly. She gave the miner two more stabs, while also taking another hit herself. Yutian Shenming took this opportunity to roll and crawl away, flashing to Xi Xiaotian's side, not forgetting to curry favor with the beauty: "Sister Xiaotian, be careful."
Xi Xiaotian looked at him and threw a cloth to him, "Wipe your face."
Yutian Shenming quickly wiped his face, while shouting at Xi Yao Wu, "Sister Xi, be careful of the saliva."
"Saliva your head!" Xi Yao Wu stabbed her dagger directly at the miner's mouth. Who knew that the miner would suddenly open his mouth and bite the dagger. Then, he stretched out his arms and was about to give her a hug.
If Xi Yao Wu wanted to dodge, she would have to let go of the dagger. She couldn't bear to do that. Fortunately, Gu Fei arrived in time again, splitting the miner's throat with his sword. Following up with a Palm Thunder on his forehead, the miner was repelled. But his bite force was amazing, and he bit Xi Yao Wu's dagger and dragged her backward with him.
"Let go!!!" Xi Yao Wu's sturdy energy was also stimulated. She switched the dagger to her off-hand, and pulled another dagger out of her pocket with her main hand, and directly inserted it into the miner's left eye.
With a "poof" sound, the knife actually went straight into the eye socket, and a stream of green blood spurted out. The miner was in pain, and began to howl wildly. Xi Yao Wu took the opportunity to pull back the dagger, but was also frightened by this hideous face, and quickly retreated.
"What is this thing?" Xi Yao Wu asked with some fear.
"It's not human!!" Xi Xiaotian said.
"Yeah, I hate these the most." Gu Fei frowned. Parallel World was mainly humanoid creatures. Besides this, there were also some animals and bizarre fantasy monsters. Gu Fei had to spend more effort to clean up these monsters. And the miner in front of him, although he had a human form, was obviously a non-human alien creature.