Hu Die Lan
Chapter 559 I Know Who They Are
Knights, especially dark knights… these words made Yin Yue's heart flutter. His profession was undoubtedly a knight, and he was currently under level 40. After reaching level 40, he would re-specialize. If he advanced to a dark knight and got his hands on Drunken Swordsman's Nightglow Sword, the profession would be a perfect match, and he would possess even more terrifying strength, right?
While Yin Yue was lost in thought, Bu Xiao also didn't want to fall behind. As a thief, he was naturally fantasizing about the dagger "Dance Wind" that Xi Yao Wu possessed. He didn't know Xi Yao Wu personally, but he had heard many rumors about this woman. Beautiful, rich, and high attack power were the three main themes. It turned out she benefited from this dagger. If he could get his hands on it...
The two consecutively swallowed, attracting Ye Xiaowu's strange gaze. They immediately realized they had lost their composure and quickly calmed down.
"Where are the people you said we were going to deal with Drunken Swordsman?" Ye Xiaowu asked Yin Yue.
Yin Yue looked around, pretending to search, "I don't know! I don't recognize these people. Could they have already been taken down by Drunken Swordsman?"
Ye Xiaowu frowned. Bu Xiao was even more direct, sending a message to Yin Yue: "What the hell are you up to?" Ever since arriving in White Stone City, Bu Xiao had increasingly felt that Yin Yue was acting unnaturally.
"Damn it, it's a long story, I'll tell you later," Yin Yue replied.
"What do we do now?" Yin Yue passed the buck to Ye Xiaowu.
"Let's wait and see!" Ye Xiaowu didn't say much more. Bu Xiao could see Yin Yue's unnatural behavior, and so could he. This guy had been strongly encouraging everyone to come and deal with Drunken Swordsman, but now this was the situation. And this situation showed that Yin Yue was also unwilling, which made Ye Xiaowu even more unable to guess what Yin Yue was planning. He also knew that asking directly would get him nowhere, so he could only choose to wait and see. In the end, they were just a group of people using each other to deal with Gu Fei. With Yin Yue's character, Ye Xiaowu also disdained to become friends with him.
Gu Fei and the others had already finished the last lap he had mentioned and had chosen a relatively open area to wait for their opponents to appear. Besides Gu Fei, the others were showing signs of impatience.
"Are these sons-of-bitches too scared to come now?" Lan Yi said, feeling that the way he had brought a group of brothers with him should have been enough to scare off the average petty thief, making them give up any thoughts of plundering the wilderness.
"If they're robbers, they won't give up so easily," Gu Fei said.
"You talk like you know them well?" Lan Yi glanced at Gu Fei. Although he no longer considered Gu Fei his mortal enemy, he wasn't about to consider him a brother so quickly.
"I've dealt with these kinds of people a few times," Gu Fei nodded.
"Oh, then in your opinion, why haven't they made a move yet?" Lan Yi was deliberately trying to see Gu Fei make a fool of himself.
"It's been so long. If they were looking for us, there's no reason they wouldn't have found us by now," Gu Fei frowned. "So, they must be watching us from somewhere."
The other five immediately looked around, regarding anyone they made eye contact with as suspicious.
"The reason they haven't made a move yet must be because they're waiting," Gu Fei said.
"Waiting for what?" Lan Yi asked.
"Waiting for someone to be alone… It seems they no longer want a direct confrontation. They want to wait for Mang Mang De Mang Mang to be alone before making their move," Gu Fei said.
"They're not weak," Mang Mang De Mang Mang said. "A standard six-person team with good job distribution, excellent skills, and good coordination. We originally had the upper hand in numbers, but we were no match for them. If Lan Yi and the others hadn't arrived in time, things could have been bad."
"After that, we had even more people on our side, but those six managed to retreat unscathed, they're really strong," Yingzuka Moon hastily added. They had been rescued by Lan Yi after being defeated, which made him feel quite embarrassed, so he had to point this out, firstly to prove that the other party was indeed very strong, and secondly to highlight that Lan Yi and the others weren't that great either. With so many people, they still couldn't stop six, so the result would have been just as bad without them.
"Damn, didn't you see? The mage used a skill that blocked off the whole street, and two of our brothers who were chasing them got killed. If it weren't for that skill, would they have been able to escape?" Lan Yi heard the subtext in Yingzuka Moon's words.
"Tch, it just shows your tactical deployment wasn't in place. Why didn't you cut off their retreat from the start?" Yingzuka Moon said.
"Damn, how was I supposed to know which way they'd retreat!" Lan Yi said.
"That's why I said, you're not up to par, not up to par," Yingzuka Moon said, not knowing what he was so proud of.
"Alright, stop arguing for now," Gu Fei interrupted quickly, seeing that Lan Yi was about to shout. "You said the mage used a skill to block off the street, what kind of skill?"
"A wall of fire," Yingzuka Moon said.
"Two walls," Lan Yi saw more clearly.
"Actually, it was a sea of fire," Yingzuka Moon retorted.
"Damn, you little brat!!!" Lan Yi couldn't take it anymore and raised his hand, wanting to cast a lightning spell on Yingzuka Moon. As an electric mage himself, how could Gu Fei not be familiar with this action? He quickly reached out and stopped his arm.
"I know who they are," Gu Fei said, saying something enough to divert their attention.
"Who?" Sure enough, even Lan Yi and Yingzuka Moon immediately forgot their argument and turned to ask.
"Jian Nan You," Gu Fei said.
Everyone was stunned. This name undoubtedly didn't need much introduction.
"How do you know?" Lan Yi asked.
"That fire wall skill is called 'Beacon Fires Connect the Cities'. It's the signature skill of Huo Ranyi, the mage in Jian Nan You's team. I've fought them many times and seen it often. They're a professional robbery gang. But as far as I know, they only do business when they take a job. I wonder what equipment of yours someone has taken a fancy to?" Gu Fei said.
"Staff?" Ever since Mang Mang De Mang Mang had come to Cloud City, he had been the most plainly dressed ordinary player. Apart from this staff of ideals from back then, there was nothing else worth hiring a professional robbery gang to steal.
"Let's not worry about that for now!" Gu Fei said. "If it's them, I think I know why they haven't shown up yet."
"Why?" Lan Yi asked again.
"Because of me," Gu Fei said.
"What do you mean?"
"How should I put it…" Gu Fei was considering whether he should be modest, but Mang Mang De Mang Mang and the others already understood. Back in Linshui City, they had helped Gu Fei track down Jian Nan You and his group. Later, Gu Fei and the others found Jian Nan You's group and continued to pursue them, while Mang Mang De Mang Mang and the others reorganized in Linshui City and continued their business. That time, Fireball carried a pile of PK points and shivered in the Linshui City beach tavern for more than ten hours, which became a joke within their mercenary group.
"They saw you and didn't dare to make a move, right!" Mang Mang De Mang Mang laughed.
"I think that's probably the case," Gu Fei nodded.
"Brother Drunken, you're so awesome!" Fireball admired Gu Fei from head to toe.
"If it's them, what we did before was meaningless. They'll only make a move if I leave," Gu Fei said.
"Then what are you waiting for? Leave quickly," Xi Yao Wu urged Gu Fei.
"They're not easy to deal with," Gu Fei said with a serious expression. The elites from the Young Master's team often discussed this group, and their evaluation was quite high. To be recognized by these top experts showed that Jian Nan You's group of seven was indeed not simple.
"What are you babbling about? You can deal with them, so can I, hurry up and disappear," Xi Yao Wu said.
"Alright, be careful…" Gu Fei could only agree, waved his hand, and left.
"Drunken Swordsman is gone!!!!!!" Almost at the same time, Jian Nan You's group and Ye Xiaowu's group were conveying this good news.
"Follow him!!" Both groups issued this instruction at the same time. The difference was that Jian Nan You only assigned Jiao Shui to follow, while Ye Xiaowu and his group of three walked in the direction Gu Fei had left.
"We can't be careless. This guy might just be deliberately walking away to lure us into making a move," Jian Nan You said.
"How would he know we're wary of him?" Huo Ranyi said.
"If he knows who we are," Jian Nan You said.
"How could he possibly know?"
"You used 'Beacon Fires Connect the Cities' when we retreated earlier. If they talked about that, Drunken Swordsman would immediately know it's us," Jian Nan You said.
"In other words, if he knows it's us, Drunken Swordsman will also guess our style. He knows we're avoiding him, so his departure is still to make us show ourselves. If that's the case, he might be feigning departure and could return at any time; or, he believes that the five people left behind are capable enough to fight our six," Jian Nan You analyzed.
"These five people?" Hei Shui and the others, although not yet level 40, still thought this was a joke.
"Mang Mang De Mang Mang is a dark priest, his recovery effect is weakened, and the characteristics of the dark priest haven't even been reflected yet, a crippled profession. That archer is a lurker, what use are traps in a city? Also crippled. Not to mention that little mage, just an ordinary character. The later mage looks decent, but they just had more people at the time. Now that he's alone, can he be as strong as Drunken Swordsman? And then there's that female thief…" Dao Xiang Mu, the priest in the group of seven, was analyzing the remaining five one by one.
"That female thief came with Drunken Swordsman," Jiao Shui said.
"Red-clothed female thief…" Jian Nan You thought of the most famous female thief in Parallel World.
"Could it be Xi Yao Wu?" Huo Ranyi announced the correct answer.
"Hmph, then Drunken Swordsman is underestimating us too much. If we become cautious just because of any expert, we really won't be able to survive in the future," Jian Nan You said. But in fact, he was quite wary of Xi Yao Wu as well, but he knew that his brothers' confidence had reached the verge of collapse after being continuously hit by Drunken Swordsman. Encountering Drunken Swordsman again on this mission today was actually adding fuel to the fire.
Avoiding Drunken Swordsman was a helpless move, because everyone clearly knew they were no match. But if they also chose to avoid Xi Yao Wu, an opponent they had never fought, avoidance would eventually become a habit. By then, the team's confidence would be difficult to regain.
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