Chapter 19 Camouflage

No one could say anything about Young Master Han anymore. The man's vile personality was truly a unique flower. Gu Fei had only made a bold assumption, but it turned out to be true. The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. However, no one wanted to ask Young Master Han for confirmation. So many days had passed, and everyone had only just realized it, which would only become a reason for him to despise them.

"Let's not bring up the past," Jian Gui said painfully.

Gu Fei nodded.

"Especially not to Shui Shen..." Lu Ke said.

Gu Fei and Jian Gui nodded together. The two couldn't help but think of the way Shui Shen gritted his teeth when Young Master Han was mentioned earlier. If he hated it this much already, adding fuel to the fire would probably drive the guy crazy!

"Do you guys think my idea is not feasible?" Gu Fei brought the topic back to the present.

"Do you think you can find anything by spying in secret?" Lu Ke said.

"It'll help a little, right, Jian Gui?" Gu Fei said.

"Huh? Right?" Jian Gui involuntarily replied, then realized he had already supported Gu Fei's idea without realizing it. It was a language trap. Gu Fei was also very cunning.

"Since that's the case, I'll support you guys. I don't want someone with serious character flaws in the guild," Lu Ke said.

"A guild has hundreds of people. Can you guarantee the character of everyone?" Gu Fei smiled. Of course, that was impossible. People's hearts were separated by their bellies, and that was always the hardest thing to see through in the world.

"This is just a game. Everything is very simple. Randomly killing people, randomly stealing monsters, randomly stealing equipment, that's bad character. At least our guild won't have anyone like that," Lu Ke said.

"Is that so? In that case, we'll test this Duanshui Jian comrade for you to see if he's a bad character who randomly kills people, randomly steals monsters, and randomly steals equipment!" Gu Fei said.

"Okay, come on, put on these clothes." Lu Ke casually pointed to a pile of clothes next to her, which were ten sets of camouflage uniforms that had just been made.

"I didn't think we'd have a chance to try this out." Gu Fei smiled at Jian Gui, but quickly encountered an awkward situation when he tried them on. Because these clothes were only made by players themselves and didn't follow the sewing recipe in the game, they didn't have any attributes. When players wore these clothes, they would put them over their equipment with attributes. An outer jacket and a pair of pants were originally simple, but they were troublesome for Gu Fei because his equipment was a mage robe that dragged to the ground like a windbreaker. Could a normal jacket wrap such a windbreaker inside?

Gu Fei was a little at a loss and looked blankly at Lu Ke. Lu Ke couldn't help but laugh at his embarrassment: "Wait a minute, mages have specially made ones." After saying that, she turned her head and instructed the players working there, "I want a mage robe style one, add one for me. Make it now!"

Only then did Gu Fei realize that he had been tricked by this girl. But at least he didn't have to use his brain to solve such a difficult problem. Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, tailors in the game wouldn't need as much time as in reality. A set of specially made robe camouflage uniforms was quickly made. Gu Fei took it and put it on. He and Jian Gui looked like two soldiers standing by the table, looking at each other, feeling a little unnatural.

"Then, there's this." Lu Ke took out a box from her pocket and opened it.

Gu Fei and Jian Gui leaned over to take a look. It was a box of dark-colored oily mud.

"Smear it on your faces!" Lu Ke said, looking at the two of them with a smile.

The two looked at each other.

"In a harmonious guild like ours, new faces are too easily recognized. But fortunately, we now have this special disguise. Even acquaintances may not be able to recognize you at a glance. You two can't do without smearing it!" Lu Ke said.

Gu Fei and Jian Gui remembered that Shui Shen and his guild players did have ghostly faces smeared with it. They didn't recognize Shui Shen at a glance when they first met. The magical effect Lu Ke said wasn't made up. Helpless, the two had no choice but to grab the green mud and smear it on their faces. While smearing it, Gu Fei asked, "What's this made of?"

"I can't say for sure. It was also custom-made from outside. I found that there are really many capable people in this game. As long as you can think of it, there's nothing they can't make. There really are raw materials in this game. Now, the major studios are very optimistic about this business and are stepping up the recruitment of talents in this area. This game is becoming more and more like a world," Lu Ke said.

"Oh, oh!" Gu Fei and Jian Gui responded while grabbing the stuff and smearing it on their faces randomly. After they finished, they looked at each other and asked, "How is it?"

"Let me see." Lu Ke greeted the two and admired them up and down, left and right, marveling and clicking her tongue for a while before saying, "To be honest, if you two ran in front of Duanshui Jian like this and he saw you, he'd definitely be suspicious."

"Why?" The two were surprised.

"Don't you two think that your smearing is different from Shui Shen's?" Lu Ke said.

The two recalled.

"Their faces are smeared more messily?" Gu Fei said.

"I don't think it's necessary to be so complicated. Simple is fine," Jian Gui said.

"Right, right, just a little is enough," Gu Fei said.

"Everyone in the guild smears it according to Duanshui Jian's requirements. Only you two are just doing it a little. Aren't you exposing yourselves?" Lu Ke said.

"Requirements? What requirements?" The two were puzzled.

"You thought you could just smear a few strokes and be done? Is this filming a movie? I don't know what the principle is, but according to Duanshui Jian, there's a specific way to smear it. At the very least, you don't just smear a few strokes. You have to smear it all over your face," Lu Ke said.

"This... what's the specific way to smear it?" The two asked.

"Wipe your faces clean. I'll do it," Lu Ke said.

The two continued to find cloth to wipe off the paint they had just applied to their faces. At the same time, they saw Lu Ke take out several more boxes from her pocket. When they opened them, they were different shades of other oily mud. Obviously, smearing the face didn't just use one color.

"Hey!" Gu Fei said unhappily. There were skills to smearing this stuff on the face, and ordinary people definitely wouldn't know it. This girl didn't say anything at first and let the two of them smear it wrong with one bottle. Only now did she take out all the paint to formally paint their faces. It was obviously another trick!

"Hey what hey! You guys made our guild so miserable last time. Shouldn't I get some revenge? This is light. Come sit down!" Lu Ke pointed to the stool opposite her.

Gu Fei helplessly sat down. Lu Ke grabbed a handful of mud and was about to throw it on Gu Fei's face. Gu Fei instinctively dodged: "Hey... this, I say, why don't you tell me how to smear it, and I'll do it myself..." Thinking about a girl touching his face with her hands, Gu Fei felt a little embarrassed.

"Oh, you're still quite feudal! Forget it, who knows how long it'll take to teach you two. Don't give me any trouble. Don't move!" Lu Ke said.

"Didn't you learn it from Duanshui Jian?" Gu Fei retorted.

"Of course women have more talent for this kind of thing than men. Do you put on makeup every day?" Lu Ke said.

Gu Fei was speechless. Lu Ke had already smeared a handful of mud on his face. Gu Fei still wanted to dodge, but after hearing Lu Ke say, "Don't move around, or I'll have to redo it," he finally didn't dare to resist anymore.

Lu Ke's technique was indeed skilled. She quickly finished Gu Fei and then went to smear Jian Gui. Gu Fei sat aside, his lips were even smeared, dry and astringent, very uncomfortable.

Jian Gui, who had been smeared, was obviously not feeling well either. The two stared at each other with wide eyes, not knowing what to say for a moment. Looking at each other's painted faces, they wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. Then they heard Lu Ke's satisfied voice: "Not bad, very good."

"Alright, you two sit here for a while. Later, just help me move the clothes to meet Shui Shen and the others," Lu Ke said, putting away the oily mud on the table and going back to supervise the players who were rushing to make clothes.

"Hey..." Gu Fei sent a message to Jian Gui.

"Why send a message?" Jian Gui replied.

"Don't you think you'll eat this stuff if you open your mouth?" Gu Fei replied.

"Not really, right?" Jian Gui replied.

"Then why aren't you talking either?" Gu Fei replied.

Silence. After a moment, Jian Gui finally opened his mouth: "It should be fine. Shui Shen and the others talk like this."

"Didn't eat any?" Gu Fei sent another message.

"No," Jian Gui said. He couldn't help but sigh that people were really wonderful. Gu Fei, who never hesitated in PK, killing, fighting, and chasing, was cautious about these little things.

"I'll try..." Gu Fei said three words and immediately let out a sigh of relief. He really didn't eat any.

"This girl..." Gu Fei sighed repeatedly. He had a feeling of being tricked, but this plan was originally proposed by him, and people were just acting according to the plan. This was indeed an indispensable part, and as a result, Gu Fei didn't have a temper.

"Hehe..." Jian Gui smiled. "I've known her for a long time. She's always been like this."

"A long time? How long?" Gu Fei had always been a little curious about the relationship between Jian Gui and this Lu Ke.

"Probably the longest partner I've known since I started playing games!" Jian Gui said.

"Longer than Young Master Han?" Gu Fei asked.

"Longer," Jian Gui said.

"What about Shui Shen?" Gu Fei asked again.

"Shui Shen? That was after I met Young Master Han, several games later," Jian Gui said.

"How many games have you guys played?" Gu Fei asked.

"How many games? Who remembers!" Jian Gui said.

"In that case, you guys grew up together in the game world," Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui nodded: "You can say that."

"Enviable," Gu Fei said.

"Oh?" Jian Gui looked at Gu Fei strangely, but Gu Fei didn't speak. He suddenly realized that these guys played games like he practiced kung fu. Each game was like practicing a set of punches. The only difference was that Jian Gui practiced one set after another, with partners who had been with him until now, and more and more; while Gu Fei had been alone from the beginning, from childhood to adulthood, and it seemed that he wouldn't have any in the future...

Gu Fei couldn't help but think of a very popular saying: What I practice is not kung fu, but loneliness...