Chapter 57 Is It Necessary to Meet?

"The news says it's troublesome. Do you want to meet and discuss it?" Yan Xiaozhu asked.

Gu Fei also felt that Yan Xiaozhu seemed to know more about the situation, and he was just about to ask her if she had time to meet and talk. As a result, she took the initiative to offer, so he naturally couldn't ask for more.

Since the matter he was inquiring about was related to the Administrative Hall, the two agreed to meet outside the gate of the Administrative Hall for easy explanation on the spot.

This gate only referred to the gate of the Administrative Hall's courtyard. There were guards stationed on the left and right sides of the gate, and the courtyard didn't prevent players from entering and exiting freely. The place that required permission to enter and exit was only the Administrative Building inside the courtyard. Gu Fei arrived at the entrance of the courtyard first, turned around to make sure Yan Xiaozhu hadn't arrived yet, and then stood in the center of the gate, waiting quietly.

He didn't see the person first, but heard the person's voice first, but this voice wasn't made by Yan Xiaozhu herself. Gu Fei suddenly heard a series of subtle, light clattering sounds coming from the fog. Just as he was wondering what the sound was, he saw Yan Xiaozhu walking out of the fog, focused on kicking a small stone. The sound was the stone rolling and colliding on the ground.

Yan Xiaozhu continued her focus, already approaching the entrance of the courtyard, but still didn't raise her head, continuing to "dribble" her stone, until the stone rolled under someone's feet and was stepped on. Only then did Yan Xiaozhu look up and see Gu Fei.

"Oh, you're here already!" Yan Xiaozhu said.

Gu Fei nodded. *She's a talent!* he thought to himself. This was from a professional point of view. Just looking at Yan Xiaozhu "dribbling" the stone for thirty meters, he felt that this girl's lower body coordination was excellent, and she was a good seed for martial arts. Of course, it was just a thought. Gu Fei looked at people with this kind of professional eye, and he had seen countless "good seeds" in his life.

"Tell me what you know!" Gu Fei went straight to the point.

"Come and see." Yan Xiaozhu led Gu Fei into the courtyard and pointed to a group of players in the southeast corner of the courtyard, "See those people?"

"I see them." Gu Fei nodded. A group of people who looked very bored. During the good times in the game, instead of leveling up, doing quests, making money, or farming equipment, these people were squatting in the corner, listless, with expressions on their faces telling everyone: I'm very bored.

"They are from the Misty Flowers Guild," Yan Xiaozhu said.

Gu Fei knew this guild. Brother Right had introduced it when he first came to Xiayu City. It was the largest guild in Xiayu City. He forgot the guild leader's name. It seemed to be a warrior. Gu Fei nodded, thinking about this information.

"What's their relationship with Giordano?" Gu Fei asked.

"It's like this," Yan Xiaozhu said, "This was originally a reward quest that the Misty Flowers Guild received after winning the championship in the last competition. The quest asked them to find an NPC named Giordano in the Administrative Hall. Because battles could happen at any time in the game's quests, although the quest prompt didn't explicitly state it at the time, they were still worried that Giordano would transform into a combat Boss after a few words. So, they gathered a group of people from the beginning and asked many high-level players in the city to help. I was just one of them at the time," Yan Xiaozhu said.

"Oh, and then what happened?"

"Then? Then we all met Giordano and heard the quest he gave to the Misty Flowers Guild. He said that the Administrative Hall was short of manpower recently and hoped that the Misty Flowers Guild could contribute and help them take on some of their work. After saying this, he left," Yan Xiaozhu said.

"What kind of quest is that?" Gu Fei asked, while thinking about whether this had anything to do with his plan to assassinate Giordano. Because from what happened in Moon Night City, this Parallel World couldn't be simply said to be just a game. In some ways, it was also a world with progress. The werewolf incident in Gu Fei and Moon Night Village was a good example. Gu Fei's solo quest chain was actually related to the Across the World Guild's quest, which had nothing to do with him. This seemed to have already explained some problems.

"I'm not too clear about the specifics, because those of us who were invited left at that time. Since then, the Misty Flowers people have been completing it themselves. I heard that the quest seems to have some progress, and then they do some things every day, and the progress will increase. At the beginning, even cleaning the courtyard and pulling weeds would increase the progress, but after that, there were fewer and fewer things to find. Repeating things like pulling weeds was useless. They couldn't find anything to do, so they haven't reached 100% yet, and they're still stuck there!" Yan Xiaozhu said, pointing at that group of people.

"There's such a thing!" Gu Fei wiped his sweat. He thought the Across the World Guild's quest was troublesome enough, but he only realized that there were even more inhumane things here. The Across the World Guild's quest at least had a clear goal to work towards, but this quest in Xiayu City was good. It had some kind of completion rate, and there were no specific prompts for what to do. Looking at the expressions of those people, they were all bored to death. Gu Fei said, "So, they're just squatting there to do something?"

"That's not it! I heard that originally their quest was expected to reach 100%, but one day, a newbie player came along. He had just entered the game and didn't know anything. He was wandering around everywhere and even wanted to break into the Administrative Hall. As a result, he was executed on the spot by the guards. At that time, the Misty Flowers players who were busy in the courtyard were still watching the excitement. As a result, when Giordano came out to announce the quest progress that day, he accused them of failing to protect the area, and the progress was deducted by 10%, which made them half-dead with anger," Yan Xiaozhu recounted the course of events.

"I see." Thinking about this, Gu Fei swept his eyes over those guys in the corner again. Suddenly, he discovered a major problem and said in surprise, "Wait, how come there's no fog in this Administrative Hall courtyard??"

As Gu Fei spoke, he looked back and observed. Outside the gate of the Administrative Hall courtyard, there was still a thick fog, but everything inside the courtyard was so clear, completely lacking the special style of Xiayu City.

Yan Xiaozhu nodded. It was said that realizing this problem only after being here for half a day would be despised, but Yan Xiaozhu wasn't. Because she had made this mistake the first time she came here. For a native who had leveled up outside the city, such a clear world was a very common thing, so she often didn't realize it until after a while.

"There's also a saying about this," Yan Xiaozhu said, "Haven't you noticed that the fog in Xiayu City is lighter than outside the city? It's said that this city has special equipment to dilute the fog, and this equipment is in the Administrative Hall courtyard, so the fog is almost completely gone in this core location."

"What kind of equipment is it?" Gu Fei had never heard of equipment that dispelled fog. This question was purely out of curiosity.

"Who knows? Maybe it's four old wizards driving a huge energy crystal?" Yan Xiaozhu said.

Gu Fei quickly dispelled his curiosity and continued with the key question, "You just said that Giordano announces their quest progress to them every day, which means he comes out of the Administrative Hall every day?"

"Yes," Yan Xiaozhu nodded, "What quest are you looking for him for?"

Gu Fei didn't speak. Frankly speaking, he didn't even know if this counted as a quest, because it wasn't displayed in the quest list at all. Moreover, he wasn't very familiar with Yan Xiaozhu, so he didn't plan to reveal his secrets.

But this girl, Yan Xiaozhu, was obviously still young and hadn't yet developed the ability to observe people's expressions like a social person. Seeing that Gu Fei didn't say anything, she thought he hadn't heard her and asked loudly again, "What quest are you doing?"

"Uh, I'm just looking for him. The quest hasn't been decided yet," Gu Fei said.

"Oh, you're looking for him to issue a quest, right? Then just say hello to the Misty Flowers people and talk to him when he comes out," Yan Xiaozhu said.

"Do I still have to say hello to them?" Gu Fei asked in surprise. He thought NPCs were a kind of public property.

"Isn't it all because of what I just said? After that matter spread, some of the Misty Flowers' rival guilds immediately started causing trouble. They would deliberately find people to break into the Administrative Hall or something. The Misty Flowers didn't dare to be careless anymore, so they were keeping a close eye on any players who entered this courtyard again. Haven't you noticed that after we came in, those guys in the corner, although they still look like that, their eyes have been on us?" Yan Xiaozhu said.

"Yeah, and there are lurking thieves outside the courtyard gate. Now..." Gu Fei looked around, "It seems like there are also archers aiming at us all the time."

"This place was originally the largest player trading market in Xiayu City, but because of the Misty Flowers' quest, look, there are no players at all now!" Women always like to go shopping. Now that Xiayu City didn't have its original shopping street, Yan Xiaozhu's tone was full of complaints.

"Yeah!" Gu Fei responded casually. He didn't care about these things. He just realized that if he wanted to assassinate Giordano, there were still quite a few obstacles. Not to mention the Misty Flowers players in the courtyard who were keeping a close watch, even without their presence, there were quite a few NPC guards in the courtyard. If he wanted to attack Giordano here, he would have to have the style of Brother Ma spraying with two guns, which definitely had nothing to do with assassination.

If it was just players, Gu Fei could have that style. But ordinary players didn't know, so how could he not know the strength of the system guards? Gu Fei had to restrain himself in front of these guys. This matter still had to be considered carefully.

"Alright, let's go first!" Gu Fei felt that he had learned a lot and that this trip wasn't in vain.

"Uh, I can help you find out what time Giordano comes out," Yan Xiaozhu said.

"Then thank you!" Gu Fei said.

As the two turned around and prepared to leave the courtyard, they saw another group of people walking out of the fog outside the courtyard gate. Yan Xiaozhu immediately pouted, "Look, that's the Misty Flowers Guild leader, Liu Feng San Tan. It would be best if you could just say hello to him directly."

"Huh!!" Just after speaking, Yan Xiaozhu cried out in surprise again, "Isn't that Brother Piaoliu?"

Gu Fei had also already seen that the person walking into the courtyard with Liu Feng San Tan was none other than Piaoliu, the number one great mage in Parallel World. Of course, this was under the circumstance that Gu Fei didn't consider himself a mage.

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Another week has passed, and it's on the main recommendation of the game channel again, so that big-breasted woman in red has appeared again. I admire her!