Chapter 104 Deep Water's Worries

The question of Water Deep's run-in with the studio's player stunned Brother You. He hadn't paid much attention to the people in the studio, perhaps because no one in the guild had. Most players didn't have a good impression of studios.

"I didn't notice him," Brother You frowned, thinking for a long time. "When we started dealing with those rabble, he definitely wasn't in your three speed teams, so he was probably mixed in with us... and then we were surrounded. Everyone was panicking at that time, and I completely forgot about him."

"I forgot too, damn it." Water Deep was frustrated. He felt that this shouldn't have happened to him. He had always hated studio players and couldn't believe he had forgotten to pay attention to the guy's existence.

"This time shouldn't be related to him, right? If it was him, he wouldn't have needed to come. That would only make him suspicious," Lu Ke said.

"Maybe he thought of that and deliberately came to clear his name?" Water Deep said.

"You're splitting hairs!" Lu Ke said.

"Don't argue, don't argue. The best thing is to find the guy in the guild first," Brother You said.

"What's your plan?" Water Deep asked.

"I don't know. Think about it," Brother You said.

"Think, think, there's plenty of time anyway," Water Deep sighed, shrinking into a corner. Brother You looked at the people in front of him, feeling troubled. He wasn't good at finding this kind of stuff! And there were only half the people here. Maybe the spy was in the other cell? Would anyone there notice that?

Brother You looked at the players in his cell, guessing who was in the other one.

Jiannan You. At least there was someone with a brain over there. He should be able to figure out a lot of things, right? As Brother You was thinking, he suddenly heard a commotion from the other cell. They were obviously using the limited props they had to start some entertainment to pass the time.

Brother You was speechless. Just then, Jian Gui's voice suddenly came from the other side, "Brother You, are you there?"

"I'm here!" Brother You quickly replied.

"Tally up everyone's jail time! I don't think the opponent will let us go so easily. We should choose a time to break out of the cells together. That might be better," Jian Gui said.

"Oh, understood," Brother You replied, then shouted to the other side, "Da Nan, did you hear that? You tally up the time for everyone in that cell."

"Got it," Jian Gui Nan You's voice came back. Brother You immediately took out paper and pen and got busy.

Outside Cloud City, the news of the massacre at the Priest Academy had already spread, and the guild leaders who participated in the operation were now feeling uneasy. The strongest, most terrifying, and sharpest opponent had completely escaped, and he even left a message before leaving, making it clear that he would take revenge. This was too scary.

"Don't worry, he doesn't know who we are," someone in the guild leaders' team channel reassured everyone.

"You idiot, so many of us were involved. The news will spread too easily. It won't be hard to find out," someone cursed.

"Damn, then why did we bother wearing masks and hiding our badges?" someone said.

"Damn it, we did what we could! We originally thought that this guy would definitely be taken care of by us. The insider gave us the information that the guy's PK value was 78 points! Think about it, with that PK value, he would drop nine levels if he was killed. Maybe he killed a few more people. Once it exceeded 80 points, it would be ten levels. He'd definitely drop some equipment. We wouldn't be afraid of him, right? But now the situation is different. This guy actually ran away unscathed. Damn it, how did he do that?"

"Why are you still thinking about that? Hurry up and find a way to deal with him!"

"That's right, we have no way out. This time, it's either he dies, or we're done for."

"Besides the Mage Academy, the manpower at the other resurrection points is temporarily useless. Everyone should gather towards the Priest Academy and make sure to track One Drunk Thousand Miles' every move. We should also hurry back. There are still people at the Priest Academy, right?"

"There are."

"Where did One Drunk Thousand Miles go?"

"He didn't go anywhere. He's chatting with Priest Young Master Han in the resurrection point."

"Chatting..." Everyone was silent. A powerful aura of disregard deeply hurt the pride of each of them. One Drunk Thousand Miles knew that they would definitely mobilize people to surround him, but he was still standing there chatting as if nothing was happening.

"That's right! Take on a wanted mission!" Suddenly, someone reacted. "He just killed a few more people, right? His PK value is so high, it's rare. Take on the mission, take on the highest one. It must be him. That way, we won't be afraid of him running away."

"Run? What are you talking about? Didn't you hear that he's chatting there?" someone said irritably.

"He's in the safe zone right now. I guess he'll leave once we surround him. Teleport scrolls are very convenient."

"So are we surrounding him or not?"

"Of course, we're surrounding him... wait, he's leaving!"

"Where did he go?"

"Who knows! He just left the resurrection point."

"Keep an eye on him, find someone to keep an eye on him."

"We know that!!"

After Gu Fei and Young Master Han discussed it briefly, they left the resurrection point together and headed directly towards the stall players outside the Priest Academy. They stopped in front of a certain guy, and Young Master Han shook his head repeatedly. "Your acting is too bad."

It would be too weird to set up a stall while wearing a mask, so this guy was plain-faced. He was already pale when he was noticed by Gu Fei and Young Master Han. Not knowing how his flaws were exposed, he could only pretend to be calm. "What do you two want?"

"Still pretending." Gu Fei drew his sword and stabbed it into the ground with a whoosh. The players on both sides were startled and ran far away to watch.

"Big brother, there are so many people here, but you're constantly looking at us two every now and then. Give me a good reason," Young Master Han said.

The man was speechless. He thought he was being secretive, only glancing and quickly looking away. How could he have been noticed?

"Which guild are you from?" Gu Fei asked, touching his sword.

The man didn't answer.

"Did you identify his class?" Gu Fei asked Young Master Han.

"Warrior."

"Give me a teleport scroll to the Warrior Camp," Gu Fei said, reaching out to Young Master Han.

So Young Master Han handed over a scroll.

"I'm going to start if you don't talk," Gu Fei said, pulling his sword out of the ground.

The man went through an intense ideological struggle. Should he betray the guild, or give up this level? After a moment of ideological struggle, the man finally realized and quickly sent information to the guild: "I've been discovered by One Drunk Thousand Miles. He will chase me down. I will sacrifice myself to lure him to the Warrior Camp. Get ready!!!"

At the same time, he looked up at Gu Fei: "Will you let me go if I tell you?"

"I can consider it," Gu Fei nodded.

"Just consider it?"

"I also suggest that you quit the guild after you tell me, because your guild will go bankrupt," Gu Fei said.

"Let me think about it," the man said.

"He's stalling for time," Gu Fei said to Young Master Han.

"It's obvious." Young Master Han nodded, lecturing him: "Everything you do is too obvious. You're stalling for time, and we can see it. How would we fall for any traps you set up? Like setting up an ambush at the Warrior Camp or something. Tell them to stop!"

"..." The man was speechless.

"Tell your guild leader to hide well, including his people, and his guild." After Gu Fei finished speaking, he slashed down with his sword, imbued with magic. The man didn't even have the thought of resisting, letting Gu Fei kill him.

"Can't scare them..." Gu Fei shook his head and sighed after killing the man. "This guy is level 41, right? Maybe level 40 would be better."

"It's just dropping one level, it's still not scary enough," Young Master Han also sighed.

"We still need to find out," Gu Fei said.

"Yeah."

"Then hurry up!"

"Wait, I'll buy this ring. How much is this ring?" There was a lot of Priest equipment at the entrance of the Priest Academy. While Gu Fei was busy killing people, Young Master Han took a fancy to a ring at a stall and made the transaction.

Gu Fei was helpless. He was sending messages to July and Eternal Blossom: "Are you guys okay?"

"We're fine," they both replied.

"That's good."

"How about you guys? What's your plan?" July and Eternal Blossom, two completely different people from two different worlds, had the exact same question. Because they had received the same message from Gu Fei: "Take the guild members away. We have another way to escape."

July and Eternal Blossom were both rational and not blindly headstrong at critical moments. Receiving Gu Fei's message, and hearing the same thing from the others, they took the people from the two guilds and left.

"They've all been sent to jail by me using wanted missions. Now it's just me and a Priest who hasn't PKed outside," Gu Fei told them.

"What are you going to do next?" Their questions were the same again.

"Of course, I can't let these guys go. Of course, they probably won't dare to relax their guard against me now, but it's not clear who the opponent is yet. I mean, help me find out!" Gu Fei said.

"That shouldn't be difficult. With so many people involved, there should be a lot of rumors in the city," July nodded, immediately mobilizing the girls to inquire about this matter. The girls were naturally duty-bound. Only Tiny Dancer, itching to fight, insisted on finding Gu Fei to go kill people together.

"No need, just kill them after they find out the target," Gu Fei was determined this time.

"I'm going to spend money to buy information!" Tiny Dancer was also furious.

Eternal Blossom, who had a lot of experience in fighting, gave Gu Fei advice: "The second encirclement was obviously different from the first. It was organized and planned, and they also set up manpower at each resurrection point. It was a thorough operation. This couldn't have been organized in a short period of time. Even if they started planning immediately after the city war, I don't think there would have been enough time. I think this group was likely formed during the city war. In addition, to organize such a large-scale operation, there must be a leader who can convince everyone. In Cloud City, only the five major guilds have such cohesion. It might be one, or maybe two of them."

"That makes sense," Gu Fei replied, telling Young Master Han's analysis. Young Master Han shook his head repeatedly: "I don't think this is an operation that can be organized by the guild alone."

"Why?" Gu Fei asked.

"I analyzed before that the opponent's goal is to dissolve our guild, then they might be eyeing our guild's current six city rewards. However, there are only six districts. No matter how the system reassigns these six districts after our demise, at most six guilds will be assigned districts. The first wave of encirclement could be cannon fodder that was tricked. Regardless, the second wave, plus the ambush at each resurrection point, I estimate there are no less than 20,000 people. How many guilds would that be? Even if they were all level-six guilds, there would be 20 guilds! But there are only six districts now. How would these busy guilds divide the benefits?" Young Master Han said.

"According to you, isn't it impossible to form such a large-scale team?" Gu Fei asked in confusion.

"Studios. Only studios can do it. Moreover, even if we are destroyed, will our guild's district rewards be redistributed? The system hasn't announced the relevant rules yet. But there must be rules, they just haven't been explained yet, but studios may have already grasped this inside information through their channels, so they are eager to attack our guild, which has weak districts and many districts." Young Master Han said.

"Wait, the goal is our rewarded districts. This has always been your deduction, right?" Gu Fei said, "Or maybe the other party just wants to attack us and retaliate for our victory in the city war?"

Young Master Han nodded: "Well, there are only three starting points I can think of for attacking us. First, it's for the district rewards; second, it's what you just said, holding grudges, so they gathered together to vent their anger on us; as for the third, it's seeing our guild's development potential, so they want to kill us while we're still weak. The first is for profit, the third is for competition in the game, and the second is for idiots. Only idiots would think of that."

"I think it's not enough for you to drop one level after you die," Gu Fei said with a dark face.

"Let me explain it more clearly. The first one is fighting for benefits, the third one is fighting for power, and the second one is for a moment of pleasure. Don't tell me that you firmly believe that such an organized and planned attack is just a dispute of emotions, just for pleasure. There shouldn't be so many childish people, right? There shouldn't be so many childish guild leaders. Sword Without Oath, Upward Against the Current, Cloud Herding the Enemy, Black Finger, Gu Xiaoshang! You think any of our five Cloud City level-six guild leaders would be emotional people?" Young Master Han said.

"Gu Xiaoshang," Gu Fei answered him.

"Uh..." Young Master Han was speechless for a moment, but then said: "She might, but if it were her, she would have directly led people to kill us, she wouldn't hide."

"Well, that's true."

"So you see, the second proposition is not valid, because the five major guilds that live in Cloud City would not make such emotional disputes. Without them, such a large team action could not be gathered." Young Master Han said.

"But you said before that the studio also has this ability."

"So we still return to the first proposition. Or are you saying that you think the studio will have this emotional dispute with us?" Young Master Han continued to talk to Gu Fei with a contemptuous attitude.

"Okay, okay, the second proposition is not valid, give it up. But the first and third don't need to be considered separately, or they are each making their own calculations, came together, and then get what they need." Gu Fei said.

"That's right, that's the biggest possibility. Studios always have to rely on the power of the five major guilds to make trouble, unless one of the five major guilds is directly controlled by them."

"Then hurry up and inquire, what are you talking about. We are being tracked all the time now, I tell you, we may be surrounded at any time." Gu Fei said.

"Kill them!" Young Master Han said, standing and talking without back pain.

"How can I catch up with the archers dozens of meters away?" Gu Fei said.

"How did you find them? Your messy killing intent doesn't seem to sense dozens of meters, right?"

"Do you think I'm blind? I can only rely on that feeling. I also have eyes, haven't you heard of looking in all directions?" Gu Fei said.

As a result, Young Master Han ignored him and suddenly waved and shouted ahead: "Hello, President Gu."

Standing at the street corner ahead was Gu Xiaoshang. Hearing someone calling, she turned her head, saw the two of them, smiled and greeted them, and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"It seems that President Gu doesn't know about our encounter tonight," Young Master Han said.

"What encounter?" Gu Xiaoshang looked like she really didn't know.

"We were ambushed. The enemy is very vicious. First, they sent a group of rookies to encircle and annihilate us. After we repelled them, we accumulated a lot of PK points, and their main force appeared at this time, intending to coerce us to disband our guild. Including the rabble at the beginning, there were three or four thousand people involved in this encirclement," Young Master Han said.

"There's such a thing, I haven't heard of it at all. You two look like you're okay?"

"This is a long story, I'll tell you later. I'm looking for you to trouble you to help us find out, because all the people who attacked us were masked and didn't wear badges. We still don't know where they came from," Young Master Han said.

"Oh, that, the activity of tens of thousands of people, a lot of people should have noticed it, right? I'll go ask everyone to help you." Gu Xiaoshang said.

"Okay, we'll contact you with the news. Actually, it doesn't necessarily have to be a meeting for this kind of thing!" Gu Xiaoshang said.

"Then we'll contact you with the news." Young Master Han waved goodbye to Gu Xiaoshang.

"Is this how you inquire?" Gu Fei said blankly.

"Mobilize all available resources," Young Master Han said.

"Then we might as well make an appointment with the other four together?" Gu Fei said.

"That's exactly what I wanted," Young Master Han nodded.

"Who are you going to make an appointment with next?"

"Upward Against the Current," Young Master Han said.

"That guy has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. I wouldn't be surprised if he participated in this," Gu Fei said.

"You're wrong, precisely because he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, he's very likely not to participate directly in this matter. But when it progresses to halfway, he suddenly pops out to take advantage of the situation. He definitely can't escape this kind of thing. In addition, I don't know how many players he sent out to other guilds. He may not have participated in this action tonight, but he definitely knows about it."

"So we should find him first, why find Gu Xiaoshang?"

"Because she's close."

"What?"

"I asked everyone's location. We were closest to Gu Xiaoshang at the time, so we saw Gu Xiaoshang first. What's the problem?"

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