Chapter 450 This Time It's Really... Long!!!

The game developers watching Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun toy with the berserk Misty Shadow Assassin on screen were all dumbfounded.

"Their teamwork is amazing!" someone couldn't help but exclaim. On the screen, one attacked, and the other defended, cleverly splitting the workload of facing the Misty Shadow Assassin in half. As a result, the Misty Shadow Assassin's greatest advantage, its speed, became less terrifying. The attacker didn't need to waste time defending, and the defender didn't need to reserve time to prepare for an attack.

Ye Xiao Wu's face was even paler. He had seen that once the Misty Shadow Assassin went berserk and powered up, Gu Fei would definitely be unable to cope, but he had failed to see Bai Shi Jing Lun's skill. It was only now that he realized that this Fighter seemed to be on the same level as that Mage; he also possessed formidable skills that ordinary people didn't have.

"How could this happen..." Ye Xiao Wu muttered to himself.

A colleague next to him saw that his face looked awful, but unaware of the inside story, thought he felt guilty because of a problem in the design. Someone even came to comfort him, "President Ye, don't worry, we can fix it soon, but it will still be hard work for you to figure out how to revise it."

What could Ye Xiao Wu say at this point? He could only bury his head and force a smile. Revise it? Would he even have a chance to revise it? Ye Xiao Wu had a bad feeling in his heart.

Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun naturally didn't know how many pairs of eyes were watching them closely from behind. The two of them wholeheartedly dealt with the Misty Shadow Assassin, doing their best to deliver powerful counterattacks with each wave. Finally, after the Misty Shadow Assassin was once again thrown into the air by Bai Shi Jing Lun's grappling throw, Gu Fei soared past, sword light and firelight streaking across the Misty Shadow Assassin's body like a bolt of silk. Its body was instantly set ablaze and it rolled around on the ground in agony.

Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. It was over. It was finally over. The two of them had finally succeeded in killing this Boss.

"I wonder what will drop. If it's top-quality gear, selling it will be a good income," Gu Fei said to Bai Shi Jing Lun.

"Money..." Bai Shi Jing Lun's eyes sparkled. "I never thought making money in the game would be so easy."

The Misty Shadow Assassin had already started dropping things. As it rolled on the ground, gold coins scattered out with a clatter. Bai Shi Jing Lun excitedly rushed forward to pick them up, but was stopped by Gu Fei, "Wait, be careful of a trick."

"What trick?" Bai Shi Jing Lun asked, puzzled.

Gu Fei was just thinking about past experiences where he had been ambushed by a Boss pretending to be defeated, so he didn't dare to be careless. It wasn't until the Misty Shadow Assassin had stopped moving completely, and the ground where it had rolled was littered with things, that he believed it was truly dead.

"Looks like it's really dead," Gu Fei said.

Bai Shi Jing Lun had already dashed out like a shot, quickly gathering the gold coins on the ground, as if each coin might burrow into the earth and never be found again.

"Short-sighted!!!" Gu Fei looked down on him. "Didn't I tell you, the really valuable stuff is top-quality equipment!!!" As Gu Fei spoke, he stepped forward and picked up a dagger, taking a look. "Damn it, a white item!" No one said that Bosses would always drop top-quality gear. Sometimes they would also include some mediocre products. Gu Fei already had a dagger, so he wasn't planning on collecting another one, so he threw it away casually.

"You can still get some money selling it to a merchant," Bai Shi Jing Lun quickly went over and picked up the dagger that Gu Fei had thrown away. The merchants he was talking about were the various shopkeepers in the system. You could sell things to them, but the prices the system offered were ridiculously low.

"Look, this is the really valuable stuff!!!" Gu Fei said, waving the second item he had picked up.

Skill Scroll: Misty Shadow Strike, Assassin skill, suddenly appearing to launch a high-speed assault with extremely strong impact.

"How much can it sell for?" Bai Shi Jing Lun asked, taking it.

"We'll talk about that later," Gu Fei said, not admitting that he actually didn't know either.

Then he picked up the third item, a small notebook. Gu Fei flipped it open and saw: Andrew Su's Diary.

"Andrew Su? Is that this guy's name?" Gu Fei muttered to himself. Then he casually flipped through a few pages, seeing some descriptions of Andrew Su getting lost in the thick fog. Gu Fei naturally wasn't in the mood to read in detail at this time, so he casually put the diary in his pocket, and then picked up the remaining two pieces of equipment.

"Damn! Damn!" Gu Fei cursed twice in a row and threw them away one by one. They were both white items. In that case, this Boss had only dropped a skill scroll and a strange diary. No top-quality equipment had appeared.

Bai Shi Jing Lun didn't care about any of this. He was already very happy just picking up money. He carefully picked up every single one of the gold coins that Andrew Su had dropped while rolling around, counting them as he went. In the end, there were as many as 241 gold coins. Adding the 200 gold coins' worth of wine that the Han Family Heir had given him earlier, he had made a total of 441 gold coins in a short period of time. Bai Shi Jing Lun was extremely excited. The most money he had ever seen at once in the game was 200 gold coins, which a large group of people had helped him collect when he changed jobs. Naturally, that money was quickly handed over. Since then, his wallet had never exceeded three digits.

"See if there's anything left on his body," Bai Shi Jing Lun muttered, and went to rummage through the Misty Shadow Assassin's corpse. This was the fate of every Boss: even in death, they wouldn't be spared.

Gu Fei, on the other hand, was contacting the elite team: "Where are you all?"

"What's wrong, what's wrong? What happened?" It was Yu Tian Shen Ming who responded.

"Oh, we just killed the Boss. Where are you?" Gu Fei replied.

"Killed it? What did it drop?" Yu Tian Shen Ming asked quickly.

"Nothing much, an Assassin skill scroll, and some kind of diary. I don't know what it is," Gu Fei said.

"Where are the others?" Yu Tian Shen Ming asked.

"I don't know, why aren't they saying anything??" Gu Fei called out a couple more times, but the other four people didn't respond at all. Gu Fei tried to message them privately as well, but there was no response either.

"What the hell?" Gu Fei was bewildered. Yu Tian Shen Ming was also shouting, "Come pick me up at the revival point..."

Gu Fei was speechless. He couldn't imagine what kind of inhumane life Yu Tian Shen Ming would have had if he had been randomly teleported to Xiawu City at the beginning, and he didn't have any friends yet?

"Let's go," Gu Fei called out to Bai Shi Jing Lun, and the two of them walked back together. They had encountered Zhan Wu Shang, who had been knocked away by the Misty Shadow Assassin, over there earlier. Gu Fei was going to go back and check on him.

As a result, when they returned to the original spot, Zhan Wu Shang was indeed still there. What was even more bizarre was that this guy was actually still in the same pose as when Gu Fei had left, without moving at all. Gu Fei stepped forward in surprise: "What the hell are you doing?"

Zhan Wu Shang was also depressed: "I don't know, I can't move. My health is zero, and I can't revive no matter what?"

"Why didn't any of you reply to my messages?" Gu Fei said, while reaching out to help Zhan Wu Shang.

"You sent messages?" Zhan Wu Shang was surprised. Whether it was the private chat window or the mercenary channel, everything was quiet.

Gu Fei was also extremely surprised at this time, because his hand couldn't even touch Zhan Wu Shang. This was a setting that only existed in the absolute safe zone in the game, a restriction that only the system could impose. How could it have happened here?

"What's going on?" The two of them were both bewildered.

Compared to these two, Brother You and the Han Family Heir analyzed the situation and came to a rough judgment: perhaps the game company had realized that this Boss was out of line, so they were going to take some measures.

"They didn't let us die, and froze us in this place. Are they planning to revive us on the spot?" Brother You speculated.

"Very likely," the Han Family Heir agreed with this judgment. And the place where these two had fallen wasn't as lonely as Zhan Wu Shang's. There were many other players around them acting as corpses. Everyone's bodies were immobile, and they couldn't send messages. They could only actively participate in the discussion together. Some people were already daydreaming, not content with just being revived on the spot. They imagined that the game company would compensate them with some peerless top-quality item, and they would replace Gu Fei as the protagonist of this book...

The Misty Shadow Assassin was killed by Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun under the watchful eyes of a large group of people from the game company. Afterwards, this actually led to a bit of a disagreement. One side believed that since the Boss was ultimately defeated by the players, it showed that this Boss wasn't an irresistible threat to the players. Therefore, the losses they had suffered before shouldn't be compensated anymore. The other side continued to believe that the Boss's berserk state was obviously a design flaw, a Bug. Since it was discovered in time at this juncture, it should be dealt with, and the players who had suffered losses should be compensated. Under these conditions, there was no reason to make the players bear the losses caused by the game's design flaws.

The dispute delayed things for some time. Later, someone reminded them that there were still countless players who were frozen on the ground like corpses! So, the leader finally made a decision to provide compensation.

The background data department also provided feedback at this time: there were no problems with restoring the data of the players who were currently locked in place on the ground as corpses. And there were also no problems with those who had died but hadn't been locked in place, but had been tracked down at the revival point. However, a portion of the players who had died at the very beginning before they had taken action, and had already left the revival point, were difficult to track down their specific information, and it was feared that they could no longer be compensated.

"See!" a supporter of the first argument said: "Now it's impossible to give everyone compensation. If those who have been tracked down are restored, wouldn't it be very unfair to this small group who haven't been tracked down?"

As a result, he immediately received a glare from the leader: "If we don't compensate, no one will get fairness. If we compensate, at least we can return fairness to some people. Isn't it obvious what we should do?"

So data restoration began immediately. The bodies of players who had died after the Misty Shadow Assassin went berserk suddenly began to move, their health instantly replenished. Players who had dropped items after dying found that the items they had watched disappear were back on the ground, and they quickly picked them up.

Everyone got up in confusion and continued to discuss.

"As expected," Brother You and the Han Family Heir, who had expected this, smiled at each other.

The most surprised person was Yu Tian Shen Ming. He was squatting obediently at the revival point when suddenly the screen flashed, and he was thrown into a fog. He rubbed his eyes hard, but couldn't figure out what had happened.