Chapter 10 Who is Number Three?

Gu Fei stepped forward, picked up the torn paper, and scanned it. Sure enough, it was a diagram for making clothing. These were frequently needed for life skills, using diagrams to learn how to craft equipment. This was fundamentally different from the raincoat crafted by Number Two with his own skills. Things made on one's own were merely imitations in form, while items crafted after learning from a diagram possessed in-game substance, namely, equipment attributes.

After sending the information about the item to Number Two for confirmation, it turned out to be exactly the item he needed for his task. Upon learning that Gu Fei had obtained it, Number Two cheered with elation, forgetting the pain of just losing a level, which also made Gu Fei feel quite gratified.

Stowing the diagram in his pocket, Gu Fei was ready to leave this junkyard. Turning to leave, he glanced out the broken window and couldn't help but chuckle.

Through the broken window, Gu Fei could see Number Seven, still in the backyard.

This fellow had already achieved his objective, and now only sought to preserve his life, but the backyard was in a state of alarm. Players from Within the Flowers in the Mist were deploying troops and generals, their figures rushing about everywhere. Number Seven was lying prone in the grass, not daring to move at all. Gu Fei looked down and found his disheveled appearance amusing. But at the same time, seeing players from Within the Flowers in the Mist walking past him every few meters, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat for him.

Just then, a string of burning fireballs streaked across the sky. With Gu Fei's sharp eyes, he knew where the fireballs were headed with a single glance – towards Number Seven. Greatly alarmed, he hastily extended his sword out the window and chanted a "Twin Fireball."

Gu Fei's original intention was to collide his own Twin Fireball with the opponent's, dissolving their attack. This was a highly technical feat, and Gu Fei wasn't entirely confident. Moreover, there was a delay when releasing his Twin Fireball, which Gu Fei, who rarely used this skill, didn't know the exact duration of, resulting in a deviation. The Twin Fireball that Gu Fei released grazed the tail of the string of fireballs, and the string of fireballs continued to hurtle towards Number Seven. Number Seven, lying on the ground, was completely unaware. Gu Fei couldn't warn him, and could only watch helplessly.

Who would have thought that just as the string of fireballs was about to hit Number Seven, it suddenly exploded in the air like fireworks. Gu Fei was delighted, knowing that the limit of the magic skill had been reached. Magic differed from an archer's arrows. After an arrow reached its range, it would land as a physical phenomenon, while magic would disappear upon reaching its range limit. Because the Twin Fireball had an explosive effect upon hitting a target, it would detonate itself when it could no longer fly.

Gu Fei didn't have time to be happy for Number Seven. Although the string of fireballs hadn't hit Number Seven, it had completely attracted the attention of the players from Within the Flowers in the Mist in the backyard. They all rushed over to investigate, and poor Number Seven was dragged out. This guy raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, seemingly wanting to explain something, but the players from Within the Flowers in the Mist didn't give him the chance. One after another, they unleashed skills, using him as a tool for venting their anger.

"Is this mage the one who killed Number Five?"

Thinking this, Gu Fei rushed out of the attic. Judging from the trajectory of the string of fireballs, Gu Fei estimated that it came from a floor two levels below the top. That guy must have been in a room with a window, discovered Number Seven's location in the backyard, and immediately made a move.

Such behavior didn't seem like an NPC, could it be Number Three? Gu Fei wondered, as he quickly rushed to the floor and room he had determined.

He was puzzled at this point: If this was really Number Three, then he had already successfully entered the political hall, and he only needed to do his mission, so why was he attacking these players who were originally his pawns? Wouldn't it be enough to let them fend for themselves?

It seemed that a reasonable explanation could only be obtained by finding this guy. Gu Fei rushed to the floor and saw a figure walking out of a certain room.

"Stop!" Gu Fei shouted, rushing over. The figure didn't stop at all, turning and running.

But being a player and a mage, there was no way he could be faster than Gu Fei. An agility-enhanced mage was truly a rarity in the game. If they were in the open wilderness, Gu Fei could catch up to him in no time, but they were currently inside a building, and absolute speed didn't provide much advantage. The guy obviously knew he couldn't compete with Gu Fei in speed, and quickly darted into another room.

"Isn't this courting death?" Just as Gu Fei was thinking this, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure flying up from below the circular staircase to attack him.

Gu Fei quickly dodged to the side, and looking back at this person, he was shocked: "Number Four!"

"You're quick to react!" Number Four held a dagger in his hand, his face bearing a smile, but like a snake sticking out its tongue, he made people feel disgusted.

"How did you get out?" Gu Fei was quite curious; he felt that his design had no flaws.

"Hehe!" Number Four laughed, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "If I didn't get out, how could I kill you?"

Gu Fei really wasn't in the mood to entangle with Number Four here. This person was certainly hateful, but his purpose was relatively simple: to PK and kill people. But Gu Fei couldn't quite figure out the purpose of the one who was suspected to be Number Three, and it was more worthwhile to investigate him at this time.

"Let's make this quick!" Gu Fei pointed his sword at Number Four.

"You've got guts." Number Four smiled, holding his dagger in front of his chest, continuing his snake-like expression, staring intently at Gu Fei as if he were prey.

"Twin Flame Slash!" Gu Fei didn't want to waste time at all. He took a step forward and struck directly at Number Four with his sword. Enveloped in sword light, Gu Fei had already exerted his full strength. For an ordinary person, using this move, which included follow-up tactics for dealing with any response from Gu Fei, was already a great favor.

However, Gu Fei still overlooked one thing. After all, his kung fu was honed in reality. When he delivered a move, the follow-up tactics he had prepared for any reaction were entirely based on reality. But at this time, he was in the game, and the skills in the game were beyond reality. The reactions to the skills might not be within the scope of Gu Fei's follow-up tactics.

This was the case with Number Four. Facing the sword strike from Gu Fei, his figure suddenly swayed, leaving only a series of afterimages in front of Gu Fei. The afterimages turned into countless figures, drawing an arc that went directly behind Gu Fei. The speed was comparable to teleportation. How could anyone in reality make such high-speed movements? So, this time, Gu Fei's follow-up tactics were completely ineffective.

The dagger was already striking towards the back of Gu Fei's heart. After such a high-speed movement, even if Gu Fei reacted, it would be too late. After all, human strength had its limits.

However, Number Four's attack ultimately missed because Gu Fei also possessed a skill that surpassed human power: Instant Transmission.

"So, it really is Instant Transmission?" Number Four's attack missed, and he looked at Gu Fei, who was standing five meters away and facing him.

"Shadow Footwork? The skills in this game are truly bizarre." Gu Fei was also speaking.

"How did you know?" Number Four was shocked.

"Your dagger skill, how could I not know?" Gu Fei smiled.

"Appraisal Technique? That's impossible..." Number Four was surprised. Everyone knew that the Appraisal Technique could read the opponent's equipment. But at the same time, people now knew that the Appraisal Technique level had a level relationship with the character and equipment level. The dagger that Number Four was holding was a higher-level equipment that exceeded the current level, so it shouldn't have been identified by the Appraisal Technique.

"Surprised? It seems you've done a lot of PK, but you haven't done many bounty missions, have you? Apple Cider!" Gu Fei spoke the other party's name.

"Even the name can be identified?" Number Four was indeed Apple Cider. Being called out by his name made him very surprised.

"Do more bounty missions and you'll understand." Gu Fei said. Apple Cider was his daily mission target, but he was still a bounty target. The third function of the bounty badge was also effective for him: 100% identification.

So, although Gu Fei's Appraisal Technique level wasn't very good, and Apple Cider's dagger was a higher-level equipment, it was still identified by Gu Fei in an instant.

Apple Cider's entire set of equipment was in Gu Fei's eyes, but he didn't have the ability to judge the power of this set of equipment. He only read the skill on Apple Cider's dagger.

Shadow Footwork, a skill that created afterimages and instantly flashed behind the enemy to deliver a fatal blow; an assassin's ultimate skill.

"It's a troublesome skill!" Gu Fei sighed. Skills that allowed one to make unconventional moves with the help of the system were relatively troublesome.

"One-minute cooldown," Gu Fei said. "It seems there's no time to waste, we need to hurry."

"I think so too." Apple Cider smiled. He didn't seem worried about the cooldown of such a powerful skill.

"Take this!" Gu Fei swung his sword, and a malicious smile appeared on Apple Cider's face. The afterimages once again drew an arc and flashed to Gu Fei's side.

"Hahahaha! Can you identify the skills on my skill tree, then, Great One?" Apple Cider's laughter rang out behind Gu Fei, and the snake-like dagger stabbed out again. It struck Gu Fei, but it was as if it had struck thin air.

Apple Cider was stunned, and saw that Gu Fei had already turned around. His hands moved alternately, and the raincoat that had slipped from his shoulder had been tied into a knot, firmly wrapping Apple Cider's right hand and his dagger.

"Talking too much isn't a good thing, because it's noisy." Gu Fei picked at his left ear with his finger on his left hand. In his right, the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword had already lit up again.

Apple Cider was still staring at his bound right hand, his face filled with disbelief.

"Why?" Apple Cider seemed to be talking to himself.

"You don't know?" Gu Fei said, "I bet you, you've never missed with this strike, right?"

"Because you've never missed, your response after missing is completely inadequate, so slow that I wanted to squat down and tie my shoelaces first."

"The first time you missed, you were slow to react; the second time you're still so slow, tsk tsk..." Gu Fei shook his head and sighed.

"I don't know what the punishment for this sword will be. Go see for yourself!" Gu Fei swung his sword down, and Twin Flame Slash caused Apple Cider to disappear in a flash of white light.

"So, I also talk a lot... I'm teaching others for no reason, it's a professional disease!" Gu Fei sighed.

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Number Three, Number Three, the great Number Three, only Number Three is left... Who is Number Three?