Chapter 16 A Show of Force

The broadsword swung down. Gu Xian, seeing that he was about to be cleaved in two if he remained lying down, reluctantly got up.

This rising was far swifter than anyone present had anticipated. The guy who had been plastered to the ground like mud the previous second suddenly sprang up like a coil, instantly flying into the air.

The player wielding the sword was startled. The slash he had unleashed was now below the other guy's body. Before he could adjust, he saw only darkness as a foot slammed squarely into his forehead.

He tried to retaliate, but his opponent's pursuit was even faster. A second foot immediately followed, landing on his forehead again.

More than the person involved, the others genuinely felt this was a spectacular performance. The martial artist who had sprung into the air had, in the blink of an eye, unleashed several kicks at the sword-wielding warrior, and as his body descended, he followed up with a series of punches.

The martial artist players who witnessed this were even more captivated... So, you could use "Heavy Punch," "Hook Punch," and "Spring Kick" in the air like that? Uh, wait... you can even use "Embrace Throw" like that?

The pitiful warrior, after suffering a flurry of punches and kicks, was seized by the shoulders by Gu Xian at the last moment before landing. Gu Xian used the momentum to easily pull him down, using the force to stay airborne a little longer while the warrior was quickly and neatly slammed face-first into the ground.

"Was that Embrace Throw? Was that Embrace Throw?" Amidst the surrounding players' discussion, the warrior who had been slammed down painfully gave the group of brothers who had already forgotten about him the middle finger and turned into white light.

"Ah!!!" The crowd finally woke up, realizing this was a battlefield, not an official martial artist combat demonstration. One of their comrades had been taken care of by the other side using an unprecedented combo.

Gu Xian then slowly landed, and the crowd, as if waking from a dream, quickly surrounded him.

"This is troublesome!" Gu Xian raised his head to look at the sun in the sky, somewhat regretfully, and then a flash of white light, and he disappeared.

"Uh? Who did that?" The core figure leading the team was a considerable expert, yet he hadn't noticed who had killed him and was very bewildered.

Everyone was bewildered, looking at each other. "I didn't do it," voices rose and fell.

Finally, someone reacted and pointed to the center of the field, exclaiming in surprise, "Could it be, could it be, could it be..."

"Could it be what?" Everyone looked at him.

"Could it be a forced logout?" The man finally finished his sentence.

The crowd erupted, the masses boiled over.

They finally realized this expert possessed an aura they couldn't match.

"Isn't dying and losing a level better than a forced logout?" The core leader looked at the brothers with some bewilderment.

Everyone nodded. Compared to the unknown terror of a forced logout, losing a level wasn't much. This was the consensus among the players. The higher the level, the more afraid they were of forced logouts. What if a rare skill was rolled back? What if a top-tier piece of equipment was rolled back? This kind of thing had happened before. In such a vast player base, tragedies like these had occurred, and people had cried about it, so everyone was becoming more and more cautious. Every day before playing the game, they would check if they owed electricity bills, whether the internet fee had been paid on time, and if there were any sudden fire hazards in the house... Otherwise, if a forced logout caused a loss due to these objective reasons, it would be a great pity!

But now, right before their eyes, a member of the top ten martial artists, without the slightest hesitation, forcibly logged out in the middle of an encirclement. What kind of spirit was this?

"It must be an accident..." The crowd discussed, not daring to believe anyone possessed this kind of spirit.

"It should be!" The core leader stated very maturely, "Everyone, wait."

Everyone nodded. If it was an accidental disconnection, then after ruling out the accident, the other party would definitely rush into the game as soon as possible to check his status. The result...

A few minutes later, the few people looked at each other awkwardly, "He probably won't be coming back, right?"

"Probably..."

"Still waiting?"

...

On the other side, Jian Gui, while running away with Gu Fei, looked back and saw the entire scene. Gu Xian's dashing rise, combo, and instant kill of the warrior once again confirmed to Jian Gui that he absolutely could not be this person's opponent in a head-on fight... After that, the calm and composed forced logout after being surrounded made Jian Gui even more certain: this person was definitely not a serious online gamer...

As the two rushed to the small woodshed, the group of people who were originally closer to them were surrounding the place where Gu Xian had forcibly logged out to camp his corpse, while a team of people emerging from the other side of the administrative building was now closer.

The door of the small woodshed was dilapidated. Gu Fei felt he could smash it with a palm, but a casual push made the door shake but did not open. Gu Fei had noticed the rusty keyhole on the door long ago. This push was just a test.

"Key!" Gu Fei shouted. Jian Gui stepped forward, and the key smoothly went in, turned, and pushed. The door opened with a "creak," and the two hurriedly flashed in, closing the door behind them.

The entire woodshed was as dilapidated as the door. The few broken holes in the walls and roof created some dim light in the room. Both of them quickly scanned the interior and walked towards a hole that could be used to observe the outside, and then stopped in unison.

"Uh, they shouldn't be able to get in, right?" Gu Fei said.

"They should be," Jian Gui said.

Since the door had a lock, then according to normal game common sense, even though the door looked broken, without a key, they absolutely couldn't get in. It was with this assumption that Gu Fei fearlessly led Jian Gui into the small woodshed. In that situation, using the grappling hook to flip over the wall was already urgent, and Gu Fei didn't have much confidence, let alone Jian Gui, who was far less skilled in this area. So Gu Fei decided to hide in the woodshed first, as for how to escape later, they could only figure it out later.

"I'll keep an eye on this. You search this room!" Jian Gui continued to walk towards the hole. Although he assumed the door couldn't be opened, he was still a little uneasy, after all, this game was a bit different.

Gu Fei began to carefully examine the room, and soon he heard the sound of knocking on the door. The knocking quickly turned into forceful impact. The entire woodshed seemed to be shaking, and dust was constantly falling down. However, the dilapidated wooden door remained standing. Gu Fei and Jian Gui finally felt completely relieved: the system's own things were awesome!

Jian Gui no longer kept an eye on the outside. Outside, there were more and more people, and they were all at a loss in front of a small broken door. Jian Gui turned around and checked the room with Gu Fei, saying, "Do you think they will search that sleeping assassin?"

"And find the key?" Gu Fei said.

"Uh, that assassin shouldn't have been here for just one day, right? And players must have come here before, right? If they had come, I think everyone would have searched such an NPC. But we can still find the key today, maybe the key is a refreshed item, not unique," Jian Gui was worthy of being a veteran gamer, understanding the psychology of ordinary players very well.

"What you said makes sense, but the key didn't say it was for this room, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Indeed not, but they can't get in, and we can. They will naturally deduce that we have a key. If they have such an inexplicable key in their hands, they will definitely come and try it," Jian Gui said.

"But no one has come to try it yet, so they probably don't have it yet," Gu Fei said.

"Hopefully!"

"Never mind, let's hurry up and search. Anyway, once we're in here, we can't get out for a while," Gu Fei said.

Outside the small woodshed, Liu Feng San Tan, the guild leader of Misty Flowers, had also personally arrived. Originally, he had led the main force to prepare a solid defensive line in the front yard to resist a large-scale guild invasion, but after quickly clarifying that it seemed to be a misunderstanding, he immediately dismissed the troops and returned to their original positions.

The two teams that came from the left and right of the administrative building were actually just returning to their positions. Since Gu Fei and the others had broken through from the backyard that day, this was an area with heavy defenses. They just saw Gu Fei and Jian Gui, two suspicious individuals, as soon as they arrived, which was really unexpected.

Originally, they thought there were several people stationed here, including Feng Xian, who seemed confident and volunteered. Everyone thought that even if Gu Fei and Jian Gui came in, they couldn't stop them, but they would send a message. Who knew they would run into this Feng Xian, who was silent and let the opponents go, and even killed one of their own.

After Liu Feng San Tan arrived, the core captain first scolded Feng Xian.

"Relatives?" Liu Feng San Tan was a little confused listening to the relationship between the two, and then looked at Piao Liu on the side.

Piao Liu smiled bitterly, "I'm not familiar enough with him to know his relatives." Piao Liu wasn't very familiar with Gu Fei. He had only met him a few times. For example, Jian Gui could tell that Gu Xian resembled Gu Fei, but Piao Liu didn't have that awareness.

"They are inside now?" Liu Feng San Tan felt there was no point in discussing the blood relationship between those two guys.

Everyone nodded.

Liu Feng San Tan looked at the keyhole on the door that couldn't be destroyed, "Do they have a key?"

"Or, the legendary thief's lockpicking skill?" Someone guessed.

"That skill seems to be for master thieves, right?" Someone said.

"Jian Gui is an assassin, right?" Liu Feng San Tan asked Piao Liu.

Piao Liu nodded.

"Where did they get the key?" Liu Feng San Tan was surprised.

"Perhaps infiltrating the administrative hall the other day was to get the key," Someone made a wrong judgment.

"Makes sense." The wrong judgment was actually agreed upon.

"His mission is to assassinate Giordano, what is he doing in this small broken room?" Liu Feng San Tan muttered, walking around the room, and also saw the hole. He quickly approached and wanted to look inside.

Gu Fei had been paying attention to the hole after Jian Gui left. When he noticed the light being blocked, he immediately knew what was going on, grabbed a handful of things, and threw them over.

"Damn it!!" Liu Feng San Tan shouted loudly and retreated a few steps. The surrounding players looked at him and deeply lowered their heads, burying their smiles. The leader of the largest guild in Xiawu City had a big black face from a handful of black ash.