Hu Die Lan
Chapter 418 Who Is the Target After All?
"Huh?" Everyone looked at her.
"It's obvious. News of someone using resurrection at the Sand Bar Tavern has spread. These people have all come to seek advice," Mang Mang de Mang Mang said.
"Oh..." Mang Mang de Mang Mang put it delicately, but everyone quickly understood. Gu Fei gave her a thumbs up. "No wonder you're an experienced player." Aside from Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun, Ying Zuka Yue Zai and Huo Qiu were also old players, but they didn't react as quickly as Mang Mang de Mang Mang.
"What do you mean?" Mang Mang de Mang Mang glared at Gu Fei.
"Nothing, just respecting the facts!" Gu Fei said.
Mang Mang de Mang Mang was speechless because it was the truth. Back in Yue Ye City, during the days of the Qian Chen Guild, if she had discovered a priest with resurrection skills, she would have certainly led a group to "seek advice." It's just that when she was at her peak, the Qian Chen Guild was the only power, and no one dared to compete. It wouldn't be like Lin Shui City, where the guilds gathered outside the Priest Academy... Mang Mang de Mang Mang counted, but she couldn't get an exact number. There were at least six or seven.
This scene seemed a little familiar. Mang Mang de Mang Mang was slightly stunned, and then she found it a bit funny. Back when she was ambushing people for equipment, it wasn't like this free-for-all. But later, when she fell from grace and was hunted down, being cornered in the Priest Academy was exactly this kind of situation: several guilds with their flags planted outside the academy, vowing to kill Mang Mang de Mang Mang. At that time, she was just stubborn and defiant, not feeling wronged at all. Now she knew about Silver Moon's shameless behavior, and she couldn't help but feel a bit bitter.
"With so many people here, where's the priest?" Gu Fei muttered.
Mang Mang de Mang Mang snapped back to reality and replied, "They haven't found him yet. They're probably searching the whole city. As soon as they find him, they'll send him over."
Gu Fei thought for a moment and said, "The intention is so obvious now. Jian Nan You and the others can't not know. Would they still carry the staff themselves?"
"There are people at the warehouse too!" Mang Mang de Mang Mang replied. She had noticed all this, because she had directed these procedures before, and she was very familiar with them.
"The warehouse? Oh, that's not what I meant. I mean, now that everyone is squatting here at the Priest Academy, what if he gave the skill equipment to someone else?" Gu Fei said.
"Give it to someone else?" Everyone was stunned. Clearly, for veteran online gamers, this plan wasn't very appealing. Trust between players in online games is often fragile. Entrusting such valuable equipment to someone else for safekeeping could very well be a prelude to a falling out.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with doing that?" Gu Fei, who would lend two super-powerful pieces of equipment to Huo Qiu just so he could "show off," clearly didn't have the trust issues of ordinary players.
"Drunk Bro!" Huo Qiu's face was full of the pain of one misunderstood by the world. "Not everyone is as virtuous as I am, returning your superb equipment without hesitation after using it. If you changed it to someone else, like Yue Zai, he would definitely take the equipment and run!"
"Damn it, how could I!" Ying Zuka Yue Zai said indignantly. "It's not like it's a Subtlety Rogue's equipment!"
Everyone sneered at him.
"I think it's possible that they would do that," Gu Fei concluded seriously. His experience fighting Jian Nan You and the seven others made him think that their actions might be shameful, but their friendship wasn't fake. Moreover, they were a group of robbers, which could be considered a business organization. The resurrection spell might simply be collective property, and the priest just happened to be the one who could use it. Transferring it at this time would be perfectly normal.
After listening to Gu Fei's analysis, everyone felt it made sense. Mang Mang de Mang Mang further added, "And now there are even more people looking for them, but they've disappeared. I think they must have split up."
"So, who has the skill equipment?" Huo Qiu said.
"The thief, maybe?" Gu Fei guessed.
Everyone nodded. Thieves have stealth skills, making them undoubtedly the easiest to avoid pursuit. Putting something valuable on them would provide the highest level of security.
"A stealthed thief. This will be even harder to find!" Ying Zuka Yue Zai looked troubled. They wouldn't even recognize them if they weren't stealthed, let alone when they were invisible.
"We don't necessarily have to find them. If we can figure out what they'll do next..." Gu Fei said.
Mang Mang de Mang Mang glanced at the chaotic crowd outside the Priest Academy. "In this situation, they can't stay in Lin Shui City anymore. They definitely have to find a way to leave."
"But leaving Lin Shui City isn't as simple as just walking away. They have to take a boat. But they can't go to the docks to take a boat, because that's where all the major guilds have their people. So they can only get a boat themselves." After Gu Fei finished speaking, he looked at Mang Mang de Mang Mang. They had taken this kind of boat together before.
"That's right!" Mang Mang de Mang Mang said to Ying Zuka Yue Zai, "Tell the brothers to go out of the city and walk along the shore. Don't miss any sheds, haystacks, or hay piles, anything that can cover something. There's a good chance there's a small boat hidden underneath. When you find a boat, send the coordinates over."
"Okay, okay!" Ying Zuka Yue Zai nodded repeatedly.
"Tell everyone to be careful and watch out for lurking thieves!" Gu Fei said.
"Understood!" Ying Zuka Yue Zai had been listening attentively and understood the situation. He immediately sent a message to the brothers in the guild, telling everyone to go to the shore to find a boat.
"A place that can cover something?" The brothers from Hua Cong Zhong Yong Sheng began to unleash their perverted imaginations again. "If we lift it up, will we find a pair of lovebirds?"
"Wow, that's possible, exciting!!"
"Too exciting, let's go!" The morale immediately soared. Ying Zuka Yue Zai nodded with satisfaction and said, "The brothers have already gone."
At this time, Bai Shi Jing Lun, who hadn't spoken, nudged Gu Fei and said, "Hey, our target is Jian Nan You, not this resurrection skill equipment, right?"
Immediately, the gazes of the other three focused on Gu Fei, thinking that he was also getting greedy!
But Gu Fei looked calm. "Who said my target was the skill equipment? Jian Nan You has to take this escape route too! Finding the boat is the same as finding Jian Nan You."
"I see," Bai Shi Jing Lun nodded. "But that skill equipment sounds valuable. If it's convenient, just steal it!"
"Robbery? That doesn't sound right!" Gu Fei wiped his sweat.
"Robbing the robbery gang, isn't that the idea you gave me in the first place?" Bai Shi Jing Lun said.
"Did I?" Gu Fei recalled. It seemed that was the case. At first, he did suggest that Bai Shi Jing Lun rob the robbery gang, but later Brother You and the others analyzed that there wasn't much to gain from robbing the gang, so the proposal was abandoned. Looking at it now, Jian Nan You and his group did have some valuables!
"Uh, in that case, if it's convenient, then just snatch it!" Gu Fei decided.
"In that case, we need to leave someone at the Thieves' Guild!" Mang Mang de Mang Mang said.
"Why don't you go over there?" Gu Fei said to Bai Shi Jing Lun. The only ones who could stay at the Thieves' Guild were the two of them, because thieves can stealth, and only they could sense them with their auras.
"Sure!" Bai Shi Jing Lun nodded happily.
"Then let's go outside the city to find a boat too?" Gu Fei said to the other three.
Everyone nodded. Then Bai Shi Jing Lun went to ambush at the Thieves' Guild alone, and Gu Fei and Huo Qiu went outside Lin Shui City together. On the way, Gu Fei sent a message to the brothers in the mercenary group: "What are you all busy with?"
"Checking our work," Han Jia Gong Zi replied. The five of them were walking around the city at this time, and they saw small teams searching everywhere from time to time. They felt that their hard work hadn't been in vain and were very gratified. Their group action, however, attracted many suspicious glances, but no one dared to attack them rashly, because everyone determined that it wasn't these five people.
"Look, there are five people, the professions match! Could it be them?" The first to discover would always say that.
Then the second would take a closer look and conclude, "No, they should all be men. There shouldn't be any women."
"Oh..." Everyone looked at Han Jia Gong Zi with relief. Of course, these were all things that happened in the dark. The elite group of five didn't know. Walking and walking, they finally arrived at the Priest Academy. The number of people was even greater than when Gu Fei and the others had stayed there. Dan Qing Xia Ying, the guild leader of the Qingxia Guild, had also arrived and was nervously discussing with the other guild leaders who had arrived.
In their eyes, Jian Nan You and his party were already a dish of fatty meat placed on the table. It was inevitable and easy to eat them. The problem was, with so many pairs of chopsticks, who would be able to pick it up?
Just have a free-for-all, and whoever gets it gets it? This method couldn't be said to be unfair, but the problem was that if it were really done this way, the people who got close to the priest would be killed off before the priest died, which wasn't what everyone wanted to see. Fortunately, the people in charge were all here now, and everyone decided to discuss a harmonious and unified solution together.
Looking at these guys who wished that everyone else around them would die, but had to sit together and discuss the issue with a smile, Han Jia Gong Zi sneered twice.
"What's wrong?" Everyone asked quickly. Those who were familiar with Han Jia Gong Zi knew that although this guy was cunning, he wasn't the type to hide his emotions.
When he smiled relatively gently, it meant that you were going to be in trouble.
And when he sneered like this, it meant that you had made a mistake and he was laughing at your stupidity.
"Let's go!" Han Jia Gong Zi had no interest in staying at the Priest Academy for even a second longer and called for the others to leave.
"Where to?" Everyone asked.
"Let's go wander outside the city," Han Jia Gong Zi said.
"What's there to wander outside the city?" Everyone didn't understand.
"Lin Shui City is in such a mess. How can Jian Nan You and his party continue to stay here? They must be trying to find a way to leave!" Han Jia Gong Zi said.
"But can they even get out?" They had also strolled around the city gates and observed them. As the players who went out to level up returned, the guards at the city gates became more and more full.
"There's always one person who can get out," Han Jia Gong Zi said.
"Who?"
"The thief."
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