Chapter 24 Many Dialogues

Liu Fengsan Tan quickly wiped his face, but his black face turned into a painted one. The others continued to hold back their laughter. Some, with amazing self-control, gritted their teeth and said without a smile, "Go wash up!"

"Quickly think of a way, we absolutely can't let them escape!!!" Liu Fengsan Tan roared hysterically and hurried away. The others looked at each other. In their eyes, their guild leader was always calm, composed, and collected. Who would have thought that such a trivial matter that was completely irrelevant to the overall situation could provoke his anger? The human heart is truly the most difficult thing to fathom.

With Liu Fengsan Tan temporarily gone, the group continued to gather around and study the locked firewood room.

After confirming that no one in the guild had the legendary lock-picking skill, they began to discuss the key issue. With such a large guild and so many people, there were bound to be some capable individuals. Someone quickly pointed out that when they had just arrived, Gu Fei and Jian Gui had left from a certain spot, and Gu Xian was lying right there. Coincidentally, there was a sleeping assassin NPC nearby. Could that be the key?

There was no need to guess if there was a key; the NPC was always sleeping there. All they had to do was take a look. Immediately, several people ran towards that spot. Gu Fei, who had thrown dust in Liu Fengsan Tan's face, was peeking out from the broken hole when he noticed this situation: "They're reacting quickly. They seem to have realized there's a problem with that assassin."

Jian Gui was also startled: "What do we do?"

"What else can we do? Pray that the key hasn't respawned, and they'll just think there's nothing unusual there!" Gu Fei said.

"This quest seems pretty complex. I believe the quest item won't respawn so quickly!" Jian Gui replied. As the facts increasingly matched Gu Fei's analysis, Jian Gui had also begun to firmly believe that this quest, though not listed, still existed. His nonchalance was somewhat different from Gu Fei's; after all, he was a seasoned game player and still cared somewhat.

"Yeah, let's hope so. What have you found?" Gu Fei asked.

"This is the last place." Jian Gui looked at what was in front of him. Every searchable spot in the small firewood room had already been searched. Now, Jian Gui was staring at the firewood piled high in the corner. Because it was a realistic game, these things could be moved. Searching such places was actually quite hard work. Unlike before, when you could just move the mouse arrow and click hard when the shape changed, now you had to do manual labor.

Everything outside the firewood room went as Gu Fei and Jian Gui had hoped. The players who checked the sleeping assassin found nothing. They could only continue racking their brains. Meanwhile, Gu Fei and Jian Gui inside the firewood room were sweating profusely as they engaged in physical labor. Finally, Jian Gui, who was tirelessly working on the front lines of moving firewood, made a discovery and shouted excitedly, "I found it!"

Gu Fei, on the other side, quickly dropped what he was doing and rushed over. He discovered that under the pile of firewood that Jian Gui had moved, there was a cellar. The two of them quickly cleared away the firewood above, and then they were stunned. It was a cellar, but it was a locked cellar.

Jian Gui squatted down and pulled at the lock. It was very secure. He then tried to use the key to the firewood room door, but it wasn't even the right size.

"Let's look around!" Gu Fei said, searching through the pile of firewood. They had already searched other places thoroughly. If there was a key, it could only be in this pile of firewood. Unfortunately, luck finally left the two of them. The pile of firewood was thoroughly searched, but the result was nothing.

"What do we do..." Gu Fei flipped through the diary, looking for clues. Jian Gui, exhausted, lay on the ground, panting heavily, and looked at the ceiling. Suddenly, he had an idea: "Could it also be on that sleeping assassin, but the respawn times for the two keys are different, so players picked them up and messed things up, so you can't get both keys at once."

"That's possible." Gu Fei nodded, then said, "But for a long time recently, no one but the Misty Flowers Guild players has come to this place. If there really is a key, it might be in their hands, unless the key's respawn time is many days, and it was picked up by someone else before their quest started..."

"Crap!" Jian Gui suddenly shouted, "The Misty Flowers Guild players didn't seem to find anything when they searched just now, but since they discovered this suspicious point, they should be discussing it guild-wide. With so many people in the guild, there must be someone who has found this NPC and happened to touch the key. Now, they're probably already on their way here with the key!"

"That's not necessarily true," Gu Fei said. "I've learned about the situation in this courtyard. Before the Misty Flowers Guild quest started, the only clear and transparent space in this Misty Flower City was their largest trading market, but the backyard space is limited, and you see these flowers, grass, and trees. Although the environment is good, it's not a plaza and it's far from the main entrance, so it's always been deserted. Even after the Misty Flowers Guild quest took over, no one was stationed here in the backyard until I entered from the backyard by climbing the wall. Only then did they start assigning people here."

"What you're saying only guarantees that not many people had the opportunity to touch this key. But in the past few days, after all, the Misty Flowers Guild people have been active here. I guarantee you that if they found such an NPC, there would definitely be quite a few players who would come up and touch it." Jian Gui said.

"So, it's really possible that someone from the Misty Flowers Guild has this key?" Gu Fei said.

"Very likely, and maybe they're already here. Unless he's not online right now."

"Wait, if he found this key, of course he would be thinking about how to use it. And then, this locked little firewood room is a pretty obvious target, right?" Gu Fei said.

Without waiting for Jian Gui to answer, Gu Fei had already begun to look around the little firewood room: "Although the system has always been shameless, isn't it a bit too much to hide a cellar so completely under a pile of firewood?"

Jian Gui turned his head. There was no need to discuss whether the system was shameless. He understood what Gu Fei meant: "You're saying that this guy found the key, realized it was used to open this firewood room, and also found this cellar. He suspects that there are good things inside, but he couldn't open it and get them at the time, so he used the firewood pile to hide it?"

Gu Fei nodded: "That's why he buried it without revealing any clues."

"Yeah! That's very possible." Jian Gui still understood the psychology of various players, "If that's the case, this guy definitely won't stand up at this time."

"Uh... I think that this kind of scheming person will definitely stand up at this time!"

"Why?"

"Because the longer we stay inside, the more likely we are to discover the cellar he hid, and he will be worried that we actually came for this cellar, so he's even more eager to catch us and clean us up, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Then isn't his action a little too slow?"

"So it's very likely that he's not online right now, like you said." Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui was silent for three seconds, then said: "So what conclusions have we drawn after analyzing so much?"

"We are temporarily safe, but we must leave as soon as possible. Now is the peak time for players to be online, and this person may come at any time." Gu Fei said.

"Leaving is a bit difficult..." Jian Gui glanced out of the broken hole again, the encirclement was heavy.

"Come, let's clean up here first." Gu Fei pointed to the cellar, "When that guy gets online and hears that someone has entered the firewood room, he will definitely come to check it out with suspicion. If he finds that the cellar has been touched, he will probably strengthen some defensive measures, which will be detrimental to us; if he finds that it hasn't been touched, the situation remains at the original point, which should be better."

Jian Gui said while moving the firewood: "What if he remembers the original shape he moved out?"

Gu Fei was speechless: "If he's really that careful, then I'm convinced..."

The two quickly piled up the firewood again, hid the cellar, and clapped their hands. At the moment, there was no hope of opening the cellar, and there was a crisis of someone opening the door and entering at any time, so there was no time to delay here, and leaving as soon as possible was necessary.

Both were busy. Gu Fei observed the other party's movements from the broken hole to see if there was a chance to take advantage. Jian Gui was telling Han Jia Gongzi about the situation in detail, to see if the periphery could bring some assistance.

"Wouldn't you come out if you died?" Han Jia Gongzi always had to ridicule him first.

Accustomed to this, Jian Gui calmly ignored it and continued to talk about business: "Now outside, I estimate there are about three hundred people." The number of people observed from the small hole was limited, Jian Gui estimated it based on the density of people's positions and the memory of the outside space.

"Let Qian Li kill them all!" Han Jia Gongzi continued to ridicule.

"Any ideas?" Jian Gui continued to ignore him.

"Not for the time being, you didn't explain the situation clearly... At least I have to observe the overall situation." Han Jia Gongzi said.

"There's no time." Jian Gui said, "The other party may come to look at the door with the key at any time."

"If it really doesn't work, force yourself offline first..."

"I think this method is feasible." Gu Fei interjected.

This was actually a sentence of ridicule from Han Jia Gongzi, who would have thought that Gu Fei would agree, Han Jia Gongzi and Jian Gui were both shocked. But Jian Gui would never consider the method of forcing himself offline.

"Why don't you do this, let Qian Li show his power and kill his way out to attract attention, and you take the opportunity to sneak out with stealth. It's better to die one than two." Han Jia Gongzi suggested again.

"This method is also possible." Gu Fei nodded again.

"Absolutely not!" If Jian Gui were to attract firepower to cover his escape, he would do it without hesitation. But he couldn't bring himself to let others sacrifice for him like this.

"Then just kill directly, kill as many as you can, if you can rush out, then rush, if you can't rush out, then hang." Gu Fei began to simplify complex problems.

"Agreed. Who said that the two of us must hang?" Jian Gui became enthusiastic.

"Hanging is certain, it depends on how many you can kill before hanging." Gu Fei was not interested in imagined miracles, he fully understood how far his strength could be exerted in this situation. Want to kill without hanging? Unless you have unlimited mana.

"Okay... you two just wait, there will be opportunities." Han Jia Gongzi suddenly threw out a sentence.