Chapter 1 The Rewards of the Righteous

Gu Fei’s faction now seemed to belong to the City Government’s Guard, making him essentially a civil servant, and the Wanted License was his proof of identity. Now, the faction was rewarding him by making changes to the Wanted License, which was a disappointment to Gu Fei. While it wasn’t that he was ungrateful, he just felt that some new equipment or a new skill would be more exciting.

Taking out the Wanted License from his pocket, he saw that it had been upgraded by two levels, and the quality was indeed different, at least it felt heavier in his hand. Upon closer inspection, the original hardcover book was now made entirely of metal, and the fonts and patterns on each page were so embossed and well-formed. The front and back covers were polished as smooth as mirrors, reflecting light when held up to the sun.

“This wouldn’t already be part of the reward, would it?” Gu Fei sweated. The Wanted License had changed a lot in appearance, and if this was considered an upgrade reward, then the system would be outrageously shameless.

Fortunately, the system still had some face to save. The change in appearance was merely an adjunct to the upgrade of the Wanted License. The real upgrade rewards were: first, the search function. This was something Gu Fei had dreamed of when he was chasing down Jiannan You’s seven-man squad, but for ordinary wanted missions… Well, ordinary wanted missions weren't bad either, since he could now directly search for the experts on the list if they committed PK crimes. Thinking of this, Gu Fei nodded, quite satisfied with this reward.

The second reward was that within the town, showing the Wanted License to the guards would allow him to temporarily requisition two ordinary guards to assist in the wanted mission.

Gu Fei despised this function. He was always afraid of people stealing his kills, and now the reward was giving him helpers? How redundant! He left the Guard Team office with a belly full of complaints about this reward.

Outside the City Hall, Jian Gui and his group were still standing there, eagerly waiting! And at this time, it wasn't just them. Others who came later to collect rewards, such as Jiannan You and others, as well as some siege warfare guild leaders who had been "magnanimously" forgiven by the City Lord, had heard that Qianli Zui had gone inside to receive an even more awesome reward, and they all stayed to watch. Each and every one of them had an anxious expression, like parents outside a college entrance examination hall.

Gu Fei finally came out. Everyone widened their eyes, examining Gu Fei from head to toe.

Failed. Many who tried to use Appraisal on Gu Fei failed. Gu Fei was now level 43, surpassing the mainstream levels of 41 and 42. The poor Cloud Piercer City siege players didn't get enough experience to complete such a high-level leap.

"What reward did you get? Hurry up and show it!!" Xiyao Wu was also one of the outsiders, and one of those who had used Appraisal, and one of those who couldn't get any info. She was still level 42. Although the winning side's experience reward was higher than the losing siege side, it was still a world apart compared to Gu Fei and Jian Gui. In fact, just comparing Gu Fei and Jian Gui was a world apart, but Gu Fei's level was originally a grade below the top experts, so this time the experience reward brought him level with those top experts. However, Jian Gui, who also received the experience reward, was still above Gu Fei. You Ge, who was constantly running around at times like these, sometimes in the game, sometimes on the forums, had just brought news that as players received their city war rewards, the game's Top Five and Top Ten Idle experts had undergone earth-shattering changes. Currently, Jian Gui and Gu Fei were ranked first and second on the Parallel World level rankings, while the rankings behind them were still being fiercely updated.

"Players who completed advantageous missions received high rewards in this city war," You Ge said. For example, on the Moonlit Night City side, the player from the Ten Guild Alliance who completed the werewolf mission had already surpassed Yun Zhong Mu, the big boss of the Ten Guild Alliance who was originally one of the Top Five.

In fact, the guild leaders were mostly in the role of central command during the city war, and commanding didn't get evaluated by the system, so the guild leaders' rewards weren't outstanding. However, the guild's territory rewards and reputation rewards were essentially for the guild leaders, so the guild leaders didn't care about these things at all.

"Besides Jian Gui and Qianli, who are the other three new Top Five?" Someone asked You Ge.

"Not sure yet, it's constantly changing! It'll probably be settled when all the rewards are collected. I'm going to collect my reward first." You Ge replied, suspending his tracking report and running off to collect his reward.

Gu Fei came out of the City Hall and saw so many people staring at him, and Xiyao Wu was even yelling at him, and he immediately understood. He glanced at the experts in front of him, and was very pleased. He raised his Wanted License and announced, "Experts, be careful! From now on, I can search names directly for wanted missions, experts first!"

"What?" The guild leaders didn't react for a moment.

So Gu Fei patiently explained the functions of his Wanted License again. Everyone's face turned green, and Xiyao Wu huffed on the side, "You dare to arrest me?"

Gu Fei was stunned and didn't have time to think when Xiyao Wu came over and pinched him, "You even dare to hesitate?"

"Won't search you, won't search you." Gu Fei smiled wryly.

"That's more like it." Xiyao Wu nodded in satisfaction. Her fierce temper meant that accumulating PK value was commonplace. If she was targeted by this guy, half of her gaming life would be spent in jail.

After Xiyao Wu succeeded, Yu Tian Shen Ming and the others also said, "Qianli, you're not the type to value women over friends, right?"

In fact, everyone felt that even if Gu Fei loved wanted missions, he wouldn't be unreasonable enough to not give face to his familiar friends. But at this time, these people still came to confirm, which made Gu Fei very puzzled. Was he really that unsympathetic? But as they spoke, he suddenly understood from the expressions of these guys. These guys weren't confirming, but flaunting, showing off to those guild leader experts who were already pale with fright.

Look, if you guys get PKed, you'll be chased by Qianli Zui. But we're Qianli Zui's bros, so we're fine.

Yu Tian Shen Ming and a group of old friends were all thinking this way, except for Jian Gui, who was honest and upright and didn't join in the fun. Gu Fei was depressed, but the other guild leaders couldn't miss this opportunity. Taking advantage of Qianli Zui being right in front of them, they suddenly erupted and rushed forward with extreme enthusiasm.

"Brother Qianli, about this…" Ni Liu Er Shang felt that he had some friendship with Gu Fei, so he should be able to say something and not have Gu Fei search for the words "Ni Liu Er Shang," but he only said six words when a violent guy next to him pushed Ni Liu Er Shang aside.

Ni Liu Er Shang was furious, but when he turned around, there was a large group of muscular men around him, and he didn't know who did it. He saw this group of warrior guild leaders taking advantage of their strength to get to Gu Fei first, constantly yelling, "Boss Qianli, I'm XXX from the XX guild, give me some face, don't search my name, okay? Name your conditions."

Most of them didn't know Gu Fei and had no friendship with him, so they could only introduce themselves in a hurry and offer heavy rewards. At first, most of them were like this guy, opening a check and letting Gu Fei fill it out as he pleased, but later, with so many people like this, the checks became suspected of being empty checks, so some people started to shout out specific rewards, and later, there were even people waving money bags, ready to give cash immediately and make promises. Moreover, many guild leaders were now not only considering for themselves. Just now, there was a guy waving a large piece of paper, claiming that the names listed on it wanted Qianli Zui to give them all face, and they could buy them all out.

Ni Liu Er Shang originally thought that he was the most likely to be pardoned by Gu Fei, but he never thought it would turn out like this. Now, everyone who could get close to Gu Fei was a member of the power faction. Ni Liu Er Shang, a mage, was lucky not to be trampled into a carpet. Looking around, he saw that all the guild leaders who weren't from the power faction had been brushed out of the circle. They now had to guess where Qianli Zui was. Ni Liu Er Shang was furious and quickly sent a message to gather the most powerful guys in his guild to squeeze out a bloody path for him.

It wasn't just Ni Liu Er Shang who was calling for people. In addition to the news that spread after word of mouth, more and more players rushed to request amnesty. The warrior guild leaders in the front row certainly didn't dare to offend Gu Fei at this time. At first, they desperately leaned against the back as a human wall, but the pushing force became stronger and stronger, and they really couldn't hold on. They quickly shouted at Gu Fei, "Boss Qianli, we can't hold on anymore, run!"

Gu Fei saw that the scene was completely out of control. He didn't know where his friends had been squeezed to. There were people everywhere, and where could he run? Kill his way out? These people weren't here to cause trouble, but to curry favor with him, and he really couldn't bring himself to kill them. Only teleportation was the answer. Gu Fei thought as he prepared to take out a teleportation scroll when a message suddenly arrived. He opened it and saw that it was from Piaoliu: "Go inside the building, idiot!"

Gu Fei suddenly realized and quickly turned around and pushed open the door of the City Hall behind him. At that moment, the row of warrior guild leader bodyguards who seemed to be protecting Gu Fei finally couldn't hold on. With a crash, three people saw Gu Fei slip away and relaxed too much. After suddenly releasing their resistance, they were directly knocked down, and then the crowd surged up, trampling… Three strong warrior guild leaders were actually trampled to death like that.

Gu Fei didn't know about this. He pushed the door open and quickly slipped in, and the door then closed automatically. Gu Fei opened the door with a casual push, but the players behind him were pushed against the door like pancakes, and the door didn't budge. Several guys were squeezed like this and trampled on the ground, and it wasn't much different from being squeezed and trampled. They all yelled, "Don't squeeze, we're going to be squeezed to death!!"

This was useless, and the squeezing continued. Fortunately, someone was smart and shouted, "Qianli Zui is gone, don't squeeze!"

Although the players might not believe it, they would always take a look. When they looked, the figure of the black-robed mage was indeed gone from in front of the building door. Slowly, the crowd began to calm down, and the guild leaders were activating their intelligence networks, wanting to contact Qianli Zui no matter what to negotiate.

The calm hadn't lasted a minute when someone suddenly pointed, "Qianli Zui is there?"

Everyone turned around and saw Gu Fei's figure appearing behind a window in the City Hall, and he had even opened a window.

"I said, can't you just be quiet?" Piaoliu sighed and sent a message to Gu Fei, quickly flashing to the side. Then the crowd quickly squeezed to that small window. Even the ticket windows during the Spring Festival travel season would be ashamed compared to this scene.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, you can't get in through the window." The tragedy quickly began to repeat itself, and the players in the front row were yelling again.

However, this time Gu Fei was hiding inside the window, and the players couldn't reach him. He had a stable opportunity to speak, and he shouted, "Quiet, quiet, listen to me for a few words."

"Quiet, all of you shut the fuck up, Boss Qianli wants to speak, did you hear that!!" The players in the front row who heard Gu Fei speak immediately ingratiated themselves and conveyed the message for Gu Fei. All the pretense of being a guild leader was gone, and they were all obedient with just one word from Gu Fei.

The crowd calmed down again. Gu Fei saw that it was quiet enough and stuck his head out the window and shouted, "Everyone, listen to me."

Everyone was excited. As long as Qianli Zui was willing to speak, any conditions could be negotiated.

"You see, there are actually only so many players who can be called experts. Everyone wants me to make an exception. Brothers, who do you want me to arrest?" Gu Fei shouted.

"Arrest anyone you want, as long as you don't arrest me, Boss Qianli, this is our guild's list." A guild leader in front of the window had already been squeezed into a pancake. After hearing Gu Fei's shout, he struggled to stuff the list in. As a result, a guy next to him was also quick and tore his list over and threw it away. Moreover, this was a selfish guy who was just desperately sticking his head toward the window, "Boss Qianli, I don't have his deep intentions. Just recognize me and don't arrest me, my name is…"

"Call your mom, get lost!" A third person pounced up and squeezed the previous one aside, and then struggled toward the window himself.

"There's actually a way to avoid being arrested if you really don't want to be," Gu Fei said.

This time Gu Fei didn't shout, but miraculously everyone seemed to hear it. The scene suddenly quieted down. Those who didn't hear clearly only dared to ask in a low voice, "What did he just say? There's a way, right? He said there's a way, right?"

"Yes, there's a way, he said it!" The players who heard it clearly were excited again.

"The way is to stop when you've made your point," Gu Fei said.

"Stop when you've made your point?" Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then someone laughed and said, "Boss Qianli, is there any need for that? We all admit that we're no match for you at all. You've cut down 1,000 Drunken Songs, how would we dare to challenge you! We've all stopped when you've made your point, we've all lost."

"Yes, yes! We've all lost." Everyone said. Only the Drunken Song players who were cited were angry and really wanted to jump out and explain that they hadn't been cut down by 1,000 people.

"Everyone has misunderstood," Gu Fei said quickly, "What I mean is, everyone should stop when you've made your point when you're PKing each other. Only in this way will you not accumulate PK value. If you don't accumulate PK value, of course I won't arrest you, right?"

Many players wanted to curse, but they all managed to hold back. What kind of ghost method was this? Stop when you've made your point when PKing? Would that still be considered PK? Like some online games in the past, you could plant a flag for a duel? But the problem was that Parallel World didn't provide this function! Even if there was this function, if our two guilds were going to fight, we couldn't just plant a flag one-on-one, right? How else could we use more people to bully fewer people?

Gu Fei's method was obviously not acceptable. As guild players, PK in their minds was never a one-on-one duel, but a group fight against a group. How could there be stopping when you've made your point in a group fight? Never heard of it…

"That's it, everyone, take care of yourselves!" Gu Fei threw out the last sentence and slammed the window shut. The players hadn't even recovered when they saw Qianli Zui leave, and they immediately started howling again.

But this time Gu Fei never showed his face again, just sent a message to Piaoliu: "What's the use of going inside the building, I still have to rely on teleportation."

The players blocked the City Hall like they were petitioning, and they refused to leave for a long time. Gu Fei finally used a teleportation scroll to leave. Fortunately, there were still scrolls left over after the city war, or it would have been really difficult to deal with.

Even veterans like Jian Gui didn't expect this to happen. This was absolutely unprecedented, because no online game had ever had such a heaven-defying expert.

You Ge kept exclaiming in the channel, "No way, could it be that because of Qianli Zui's named arrests, our Cloud Piercer City will be purified into a city that only has PVE?"

"It's possible that it will be purified into a ghost town, right? If you really can't PK, the game will lose so much fun. Just this point alone will probably force many players to leave, right? Our Cloud Piercer City will be empty…" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"Force them to leave? Force them to go where?" Gu Fei asked.

"Other main cities!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"My Wanted License can only be used in Cloud Piercer City," Gu Fei said.

"…"

"Are you serious or joking?" Yu Tian Shen Ming asked.

"Joking? What joke? It really can be used anywhere. I dealt with Huo Ran Yi in Misty Haze City, did you forget?" Gu Fei said.

"Cough, this time, although it feels quite ridiculous, as an expert who often gets PK value, I'm really under a lot of pressure. I just want to say one thing," Zhan Wushang said.

"What?"

"Qianli, it's really great to have met you so early," Zhan Wushang said.

"You're disgusting!!!" Everyone in the channel threw up.

"Is there something wrong with what I did?" Gu Fei asked.

"There's nothing wrong," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"You're saying that because you never accumulate PK value, right?" Everyone scorned.

"Putting ourselves in their shoes, if we didn't know Qianli and were arrested by him with a license, it would be quite painful," Jian Gui said.

"Brother Qianli, I've finally found you!!!" Just as the few of them were discussing, Gu Fei was suddenly blocked by a row of people. He looked up and saw Wu Shi Zhi Jian and Ni Liu Er Shang. These two old brothers were together again.

"Hello," Gu Fei greeted the two of them.

"That, about the arrest thing, we want to find Brother Qianli to have a good chat again. How about we find a place to sit down?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian suggested. Originally, they had both added Gu Fei as friends, but Gu Fei was very foresighted. After teleporting away from the hall, he turned off private chat. Wu Shi Zhi Jian couldn't contact him, so he could only search the city randomly. Who knew that he would be lucky this time and find him so quickly. Of course, it wasn't without flaws. For example, Ni Liu Er Shang suddenly appeared as well.

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