Hu Die Lan
Chapter 814 Rank Improvement
Yaoxiaosuangen, Yunteng, and Wu Ye retrieved the teleport scrolls from the mailbox and arrived at Cloudrise City in the blink of an eye. As three bosses of a studio who were on a business trip to discuss such a big deal, they weren't so stingy as to begrudge a scroll. It was Ling Gu Feng who provided the coordinates and sent the scrolls. Upon learning that the three bosses were coming to Cloudrise City in person, he was a little suspicious, wondering if it had something to do with introducing Han Jia Gongzi.
After Ling Gu Feng sent the scrolls, he returned to the coordinates to await the arrival of the three bosses. Before long, the three teleported over. Ling Gu Feng asked about their intentions, and when he learned they were going to the prison, he was taken aback but didn't ask any further questions. He simply led the way. This was the first time any of the three had come to Cloudrise City.
Outside the Cloudrise City dungeon, Blackfinger and Yunzhong Mudi led the players from various guilds, still firmly stationed there. But the expression on everyone's face could only be described as listless. After being repeatedly defeated by Qian Li Zui, there wasn't a single person among the tens of thousands who still had high morale. Everyone was numbly carrying out the guild leader's orders, just hoping this matter would end soon.
The dungeon wasn't a place that no one ever came to. Taking on wanted missions to wash off PK points was a high-risk activity, and most players wouldn't choose that method. Those with more courage would do whatever they wanted and wait for the PK value to disappear naturally. Those with less courage would come to the dungeon to surrender and grind off their PK value.
The crowd didn't recognize the four people and couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them, allowing them to enter and exit as they pleased. The four passed through the crowd, arrived at the dungeon entrance, paid the visitation fee, and went inside.
"Bashi Jinglun, do you recognize him?" Yaoxiaosuangen asked Ling Gu Feng.
"I should be able to recognize him if I see him," Ling Gu Feng said. He had seen Bashi Jinglun at the Against the Heavens campfire party. He naturally had to take a few more looks at such a top-tier player, and Ling Gu Feng was confident that he could still recognize him.
The dungeon was really lively. Gu Fei was taking on quest after quest to wash off his PK value, filling cell after cell. The players in the cells were also numb. There was no need to ask about the situation; everyone who came in was thrown in by Qian Li Zui, all of them fellow wanted outlaws.
With so many people, it was naturally lively. The players found their own entertainment, some chatting, some playing cards, some gambling, some singing, and some even creating art. As the four walked along, they saw many players graffitiing on the cell walls, writing slogans like "May Qian Li Zui die a horrible death" or drawing satirical caricatures.
Ling Gu Feng's scalp was tingling. He didn't expect so many people in the dungeon. It would be a bit difficult to recognize the unfamiliar Bashi Jinglun with so many people, and the light in the dungeon wasn't very good.
Just as he was thinking of shouting, someone in the cell next to him called out, "Gu Feng, Gu Feng!"
Ling Gu Feng quickly turned his head and saw Brother You standing in the cell, stretching out his arm and calling to him!
"Brother You!" Ling Gu Feng went up quickly. Before he could say what he came for, Brother You spoke first, "Looking for Bashi, right? He's here!"
Bashi Jinglun was already waiting beside Brother You. When he saw the people coming, he also came up to greet them. Ling Gu Feng quickly beckoned the three bosses over and introduced them, "This is Bashi Jinglun."
"Long time no see!" The three bosses greeted quickly. Although they were separated by a fence, contact was prohibited in the dungeon, so shaking hands was out of the question. The two sides simply sat on the ground inside and outside the cell and began to negotiate. Brother You looked back and another person crawled over. Brother You introduced them, "Shuishen."
"Long time no see!" The three said the same thing again, but it was the truth; they were all famous people!
"Um, can I ask, who exactly is in charge of this efficient leveling method?" Yaoxiaosuangen said.
"Bashi, didn't Han Jia Gongzi tell you?" Brother You said.
"Ah, then what are you..." The three were puzzled. They were looking for Bashi, but now Bashi Jinglun was shrinking to the side, inconspicuous, while Brother You and Shuishen were sitting in front, very casually.
"I'm Bashi's agent!" Brother You said.
"I'm Bashi's assistant," Shuishen said.
The three looked at Bashi Jinglun in confusion. Bashi Jinglun also spoke quickly, "I am Bashi Jinglun."
"Ahem..." Brother You coughed. "Let's not waste time, shall we start now?" People who had dealt with Bashi Jinglun before knew that Bashi Jinglun was definitely not good at this kind of thing, so Brother You, who was familiar with all kinds of tricks in the game, and Shuishen, who was familiar with the studio, volunteered to help Bashi Jinglun negotiate. Bashi Jinglun was naturally very happy. The negotiation began in a somewhat strange atmosphere, in the midst of many puzzled looks.
Outside Cloudrise City, Gu Fei completed many more quests persistently. He didn't care if the quest target was from the Black Alliance or the Mu Yun Guild, as long as the location wasn't too close to the city. During this process, Yunzhong Mudi and Blackfinger sent out small teams to try to track Gu Fei, but Gu Fei wasn't polite. He would definitely kill those he could kill, and run away if he couldn't. The map was vast and allowed him to roam freely. He even led them into a level 60 leveling area and killed half of their team. Now, no matter what Blackfinger and Yunzhong Mudi said, the players refused to go after Gu Fei. Too many people couldn't catch him, and too few people were just sending themselves to their deaths. It was impossible to deal with him.
When Blackfinger and Yunzhong Mudi saw this situation, they simply ignored it. Qian Li Zui, do whatever you want! All players with PK value returned to the city, and everyone took turns guarding several areas in the city. Players leveling outside the city didn't wear guild badges, figuring Qian Li Zui probably wouldn't recognize them.
Gu Fei also saw the other side's deployment from the coordinates of the quest refresh. Some targets were moving towards the main city. Gu Fei ignored them. He had completed a lot of quests, but hadn't turned them in, so his PK value was still accumulating. It was now 468 points, meaning nearly a hundred more of the other side's players had died at Gu Fei's sword. As for how much PK value he had already eliminated, Gu Fei had been adding and subtracting all the time, but in the end he became confused and simply ignored it.
Drifting, who was sending Gu Fei names, had already sent until his hand was sore. He counted and felt that there were hundreds. He sent a message to Gu Fei, "Boss, is that enough? Your PK value is still rising while you're washing it. When will this end?"
"How many names have you sent me?" Gu Fei had a flash of inspiration. Wasn't it convenient to calculate here?
It was indeed convenient for Drifting. He had a systematic roster, with a fixed number of people on each page, so he could easily calculate it with multiplication. So he replied to Gu Fei, "More than five hundred."
"There are quite a few people with PK value in our Cloudrise City!" Gu Fei sighed. It was really different now than in the past. From this, it could be seen that the number of players in the game was rapidly expanding. In the beginning, Cloudrise City wouldn't have had hundreds of people with PK value.
"It's okay!" Drifting was already exhausted.
"Five hundred, I think that's enough. I'll go turn in the quests and see," Gu Fei said.
Although he had the Wind Chasing Emblem, Gu Fei didn't dare to be careless about what the wanted mission office in Cloudrise City was like right now. He didn't use the Wind Chasing Emblem, but used a teleport scroll to fly to the wanted mission office in Moonlit City.
Yunzhong Mu had guaranteed Moonlit City, saying he would definitely ensure safety there, and Gu Fei could come to turn in quests. Yunzhong Mu kept his word and directly occupied the wanted mission office in Moonlit City. Gu Fei teleported over with a scroll, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived at the mission office, skillfully handing in quests. The system notifications came one after another, and the rewards for each mission flashed quickly! But in this row of quickly flashing reward notifications, Gu Fei keenly caught the unusual font, but it flashed too quickly and he couldn't see clearly for a moment. After all the messages flashed, Gu Fei saw that his PK value had finally been washed clean. The efficiency made Gu Fei a little speechless. He thought that running around to perform wanted missions would have taken several hours to complete so many hundreds of quests, but now, it was so fast!
In that case, the experience he gained from doing wanted missions in the future would probably be faster than killing monsters! But killing monsters might be a little slower... Gu Fei shook his head and thought, treating the players accumulating PK value as monster grinding.
Afterwards, Gu Fei began to look for the unusual font he had seen before in the hundreds of rows of message prompts. These fonts weren't just one line, and Gu Fei also thought of what they were. These were special rewards. He had completed more than five hundred wanted missions in one go, and many reward conditions must have been triggered.
Gu Fei pulled the message log back to the beginning, and sure enough, he quickly found the unusual font. The first time it appeared was: Wanted mission completed four hundred times, the Wind Chasing Emblem's grade has been increased again.
Gu Fei quickly took out the Wind Chasing Emblem and looked at it, and was immediately overjoyed. Compared to the 100% identification given when the grade was last increased, this function was definitely a hundred times more practical! Teleportation, the new fourth function was still teleportation, but it was teleporting after the target. However, the system clearly prompted that the teleportation location was random, but it would at least be closer than the current distance. In addition, each target could only be teleported to once.
"Too awesome!!!" Gu Fei clenched his fist. The Wind Chasing Emblem was really a weapon for wanted missions, but to be able to upgrade to this level, the first time was a hundred times, the second time was two hundred times, and the third time was four hundred times, accumulating to seven hundred times. This was mostly Gu Fei's accumulation. He completed more than five hundred missions today, and the first reward was the first one to appear in the message, indicating that Gu Fei's more achievements today could be converted to the next reward. Judging from the increase in the numbers, the next reward might be eight hundred times. Now that he had a wanted license, plus the new target teleportation function, Gu Fei really wanted to brush to eight hundred immediately to see what a grade increase would be like.
Suppressing his excitement, Gu Fei continued to scroll down the rewards, and before long, he saw it. Consecutive wanted missions completed 200 times, the Wind Chasing Boots' grade has been increased.
A random teleportation function for the shoes? Gu Fei couldn't help but start fantasizing. He raised his foot and looked at it. The Wind Chasing Boots' grade had been increased, but no additional line of attributes had been added. Instead, the original attributes had been improved. The original +60 movement and 35% movement speed attributes had been updated to +80 movement and 40% movement speed...
"How much is this improved?" Gu Fei was a little confused. He wasn't good at calculating this, and compared to the Wind Chasing Emblem's reward, this reward didn't excite Gu Fei too much. This was the difference between Gu Fei and the average player. If it were anyone else, this reward would definitely be more exciting. The Wind Chasing Emblem, except for wanted missions, was at most a weapon for escape...
"There should be more!" Gu Fei remembered that there were more than just these two lines. He continued to scroll down and found it. Wanted player count 600, but because Gu Fei's wanted license had already been increased by two grades due to the city war rewards, this original reward for grade increase was converted into experience and money rewards.
Gu Fei only saw these three lines of rewards in his memory, but after calculating in his heart, he felt that there should be one more. The Wind Chasing Protection, this was also one of the wanted mission rewards, and the condition was to eliminate 400 PK value. The completion condition of this series of missions seemed to be doubled, so the condition for increasing the grade of the Wind Chasing Protection was to eliminate 800 PK value. With his previous accumulation, plus today's madness, Gu Fei felt that he should have reached 800 points. Just as he was wondering, he suddenly realized that the Wind Chasing Protection only counted eliminating PK value, and washing PK value wasn't included. Although he was crazy today, all the PK value he eliminated was washed, so it didn't count here.
"It's still okay!" Gu Fei was already very satisfied with the new function of the Wind Chasing Emblem's grade increase alone. Plus, his PK value had been completely washed clean, and he walked out of the wanted mission office with ease.
Moonlit City was chaotic at this time! The Ten Guild Alliance had attacked the two major guilds, and the two major guilds couldn't just take the beating without fighting back! These two guilds were the leaders in Moonlit City's resistance to the Ten Guild Alliance. At this time, they raised their arms and shouted, and many guilds followed. But the Ten Guild Alliance's power was still stronger. They weren't the former Qian Chen Guild, which everyone shouted to beat in Moonlit City. Yunzhong Mu had also made many friendly guilds outside, and at this time, they joined the battle one after another, naturally standing on the side of the Ten Guild Alliance.
As soon as Gu Fei came out of the wanted mission office, two people chased, shouted, and slashed past him. Looking around, the city was full of battlefields and white light. Gu Fei was excited! He quickly turned back and entered the mission office. He checked the missions and was happy! There were quite a few with PK value above ten. Gu Fei wanted to receive them, but suddenly remembered that now didn't seem to be the time for self-entertainment. A bunch of people in Cloudrise City were still trapped in prison waiting for him to rescue them!
Thinking about this, Gu Fei reluctantly left the mission office and contacted Drifting and the others.
"Finally washed clean!" At this time, Drifting saw Qian Li Zui, who had more than 400 PK value, disappear from the list, breathed a sigh of relief, and collapsed to the ground with Left Hand Writes Love Right Hand Writes Handsome. The players in the wanted mission offices were also in an uproar when they saw the PK value rising and falling. How did it all suddenly disappear! What means was this? A bug? The players who didn't know about Gu Fei's rewards naturally had such guesses.
Han Jia Gongzi was still sitting in the tavern, waiting for news from Yaoxiaosuangen and the others. Before they came, Gu Fei's message arrived first, asking him what the situation was now.
"Situation? The others are in prison, and the two of us are outside the prison. What else is there?"
"What vicious plan do you have next?" Gu Fei asked.
"Waiting for the negotiation in Cloudrise City. It's been two hours, and there's still no result," Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Negotiation? What negotiation?" Gu Fei thought the guilds were going to negotiate peace.
"The efficient leveling method. Looking for a cooperative studio, and then using this studio to give Yingqi a lesson," Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Oh? How's it going?"
"You'll know when the time comes," Han Jia Gongzi was too lazy to say.
"What's going on in Moonlit City?" Gu Fei felt that the lively killing in Moonlit City might have a reason.
"Yunzhong Mu wants to fight with Yingqi's people, targeting their guild. As they fought, all the guilds in the city started fighting. It's meaningless," Han Jia Gongzi said.
"What about the Rebirth Purple Crystal people? Yue Zai and the others? And Lan Yi and the others?" Gu Fei asked.
"I don't know. Can't you just ask them directly?" Han Jia Gongzi was impatient.
So Gu Fei first asked the girls. Many of the girls had never been to Moonlit City. They originally wanted to take a stroll, but they didn't expect the city to be full of smoke, and everyone seemed to be PK-ing. So the girls continued to travel, heading to the next main city. Of course, they weren't unaware of the situation of Gu Fei and his group, but they knew even better that their existence itself was a weakness. It was better to stay far away. In the end, only Xiyaowu, full of murderous intent, stayed behind. She was killing randomly with Yunzhong Mu! But killing these unrecognizable and meaningless people was boring. As soon as she received Gu Fei's message, she immediately got excited and clamored to go back to Cloudrise City with Gu Fei to kill people.
As for Yingzhong Yue Zai and Lan Yi's group, they didn't see Yunzhong Mu lacking manpower, and were also holed up in the tavern like Han Jia Gongzi! Gu Fei didn't have Lan Yi's friend, but as soon as he messaged Yingzhong Yue Zai, Lan Yi also received it.
"Damn it, what are you dawdling about? Let's go back to Cloudrise City and do it!" Lan Yi shouted.
"Okay, I'll go back and see the situation first. You guys get on the road!" Gu Fei said.
"Together!" Yingzhong Yue Zai said.
"I'm flying," Gu Fei said.
Yingzhong Yue Zai cursed, led a group of brothers, and called Lan Yi back to Cloudrise City with a bad attitude. On the way, they met Yunzhong Mu. Although he disliked Lan Yi and had a general impression of the wretched playboys, he still asked them where they were going.
When he learned that they were preparing to return to Cloudrise City, Yunzhong Mu patted his chest, "You guys go first, and I'll rush over to help Brother Qian Li after I clean up the trash here."
Gu Fei had been drifting in the wild for a long time, and he had a lot of feelings when he returned to Cloudrise City. He turned around on the street for a while, wanting to find a resurrection point to see what the opponents were doing, when he suddenly received a message. He opened it and saw it was Nilushang, "Hehe, Brother Qian Li washes PK value so fast!"
"Where, where," Gu Fei said modestly.
"How's the situation? Do you need help?" Nilushang said.
Gu Fei was stunned, and relayed the situation to Han Jia Gongzi. Han Jia Gongzi sneered, "Has the fence-sitter finally started to move? It seems that it's about time for us to counterattack."
"Oh?"
"Nilushang has already seen the situation clearly, and Wushi Zhi Jian is probably the same. Let them actively stick to us, that's what I'm waiting for. Can you really kill all their guilds by yourself?" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"That's not necessarily true," Gu Fei disagreed.
"If you insist on killing them for a few days or weeks, then that's really not necessarily true. But the guys in prison can't wait, right? In half a day, you've killed Nilushang and these old foxes to our side. You've already succeeded," Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Then what? Cooperate with them?"
"Let's listen to their conditions first, arrange a place, and I'll come back," Han Jia Gongzi said.
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