Chapter 135 The Lost Soldiers

Gu Fei and Jian Gui met at the city gate, but there was no sign of the three soldiers. Gu Fei looked around, searching everywhere, but still couldn't find them.

"Where are the soldiers?" Gu Fei asked, puzzled.

"Did you get the wrong city gate?" Jian Gui suggested.

"How could I? I'm not Yu Tian."

Jian Gui accompanied Gu Fei on another search, but there was no trace of them. He recalled, "I didn't see the three of them on the way back!"

"Where did they go?" Gu Fei scratched his head and opened the quest panel, wanting to see if there were any hints. But when he looked, he was stunned. "Oops, my quest failed."

"Failed?" Jian Gui suddenly understood. "No wonder the soldiers are gone." If the quest failed, it was also a form of quest completion. The soldiers couldn't possibly keep following Gu Fei.

"How could it fail? Can't I die?" Gu Fei asked.

"Maybe. Check the quest description," Jian Gui said. Normally, quests wouldn't fail because the player died; if that was a condition, it would be noted in the quest description.

"It doesn't say!" Gu Fei said, looking at the description in the quest panel.

"Could it be a special setting for quests during the city war?" Jian Gui suggested.

"That's possible..." Gu Fei could only accept this guess. In the battle just now, apart from his death, Gu Fei couldn't find any other excuse for the quest's failure.

"Go back to the place where you accepted the quest and see if you can accept it again," Jian Gui said.

"Okay, I'll go take a look," Gu Fei replied and went to the Cloud Piercer City's Council Hall. The Council Hall was still the same. Gu Fei entered the Guard Corps this time with familiarity and saw the three soldiers who had fought alongside him. They had returned to their positions without a trace. Gu Fei greeted them, but the three soldiers didn't respond. It seemed that with the end of the quest, the three soldiers had returned to a state of non-relation with Gu Fei. Gu Fei searched carefully among the miscellaneous soldiers, but he didn't find the soldier who had sacrificed himself. Perhaps the system had refreshed a soldier with a new appearance to replace him. In the end, these soldiers were just a pile of data.

The captain of the Cloud Piercer Guard Corps didn't have the same enthusiasm when he saw Gu Fei this time. His expression was very serious. Gu Fei stepped forward to talk, but the NPC pulled a face and scolded him fiercely. This intelligent NPC actually brought up Gu Fei's quest failure. This was something that Gu Fei hadn't expected.

Gu Fei could only patiently wait for him to finish scolding. The NPC didn't mind Gu Fei's attitude at all. After completing the established "scolding" procedure, he began the next part. He gave Gu Fei a choice: to do the quest again or to receive a new quest.

Gu Fei chose to do it again without hesitation. But the system then announced that doing it again wasn't so cheap. This time, the difficulty would be increased.

Gu Fei was puzzled. This quest was a player-versus-player confrontation. Whether it was difficult or not, the system couldn't decide! Could the system control whether Against the Drunken Song sent experts or noobs to defend? But when the Guard Captain gave an order, Gu Fei understood. It turned out they were waiting for him here! The last time he did the quest, he was given four soldiers as helpers, but this time he was given three. With one less helper, his strength was naturally weaker, and the difficulty was subjectively increased a little.

But Gu Fei didn't take this increased difficulty seriously at all. He hadn't thought that the quest would fail with one death, and he was originally prepared to bring the three soldiers back for another try. Now that the quest had failed, he had to come back to receive it again. Giving him three soldiers was just a waste of time for Gu Fei. He had long thought that he was missing one soldier.

And the soldiers assigned each time were obviously random. Apart from their faces being different, the outfits of these soldiers were the same. Their skills and strength were definitely similar. Gu Fei wanted to bring the three soldiers he was already familiar with, so he asked the captain, but the captain ignored him. It seemed that there was no such setting, so Gu Fei had to lead three new companions out the door.

"I got the quest again, but this time they only gave me three soldiers. Looking at this design, if I fail again, they might give me two next time..." Gu Fei told Jian Gui about what happened.

After listening, Jian Gui said, "Since you can receive other quests, why don't you change to a different one? This quest... our strength is a bit weak, it's not easy to complete."

When Gu Fei heard what Jian Gui said, it was indeed the truth. Although he had blown up thirty or so of Against the Drunken Song's people before he died, they couldn't ignore the defense there. When Gu Fei went again, they would definitely have gathered their forces again. If it was just for the quest, it would be better to change to another one, maybe he could get an easier one. And when Gu Fei scanned the quest description again, he found that the increased difficulty wasn't just that he was given one less soldier. This quest was timed, and now that he was receiving it again, the timer wasn't starting over, but continuing from the time he had already spent. Gu Fei looked at his watch and saw that even the blank time after his quest failed was being counted. He had already used up an hour before, and now he only had one hour left. If he failed again this time, even if he was given a third chance, judging from this timing method, there was absolutely no possibility of completing it.

"But I have an idea," Jian Gui said again.

"What?" Gu Fei asked quickly.

"If the player dies, the quest is declared a failure. If we use this setting, as long as we kill the player from Against the Drunken Song who received this quest, we can destroy their quest, and then your quest will be considered a success," Jian Gui said.

"That makes sense," Gu Fei nodded. "But where can we find out about that!" Now, not only did he have no way to communicate with all the players on their side, but even if he did, Against the Drunken Song had probably already released this information.

Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui are enemies, working against players with NPCs.

This news had indeed been told to every guild that cooperated with Against the Drunken Song. Although everyone wanted to understand it more clearly, the president of Against the Drunken Song only insisted that they had been attacked by Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui, that these two were not part of the siege players, and that he knew nothing else.

This quest was accidentally received by an ordinary member of Against the Drunken Song. They had unintentionally found an NPC named Ji'er Jinuo, said to be a famous civil engineering master, one of the designers and builders of Cloud Piercer City. By digging up information from him, they could find a breakthrough in Cloud Piercer City.

Niliu Ershang realized that this quest had the temperament to greatly influence the final victory or defeat of the city war, and the points must be a lot, so he had been proceeding cautiously. Because he knew very well that due to a major setting of the parallel world, there were many things in this game where people would directly sabotage or secretly trip each other up during competition.

No damage immunity! It was this setting that made Niliu Ershang not dare to reveal this information at all. Otherwise, those opponents who were competing for points would definitely have this idea. If they couldn't snatch the quest or get any benefits, they would find a way to sabotage it.

After killing Gu Fei and Jian Gui, Niliu Ershang simply handed over the command here to Han Jia Gongzi. Han Jia Gongzi was indeed a friend of those two guys, but he didn't hold back at all during the battle just now, and commanded reasonably. Although Against the Drunken Song also paid a great sacrifice, they didn't let the quest fail in the end. Han Jia Gongzi's commanding ability was outstanding, and he also knew these two very well. Niliu Ershang felt that he was the most suitable candidate. Even if those two didn't come again, if they encountered harassment from other guilds, he felt quite relieved to leave it to Han Jia Gongzi.

Niliu Ershang didn't say too much about the encounter with Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui, because he was afraid that other guilds would notice this quest that they were secretly carrying out. However, he could hide it from others, but he couldn't hide it from Wu Shi Zhi Jian, who had long suspected that he must be secretly playing some tricks. Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui were enemies, so why did they have to trouble Against the Drunken Song? Could this really be a coincidence?

Wu Shi Zhi Jian's guess was considered clever. He quickly told Daoying Nianhua, who had been paying attention to Against the Drunken Song over there, about this guess.

Daoying Nianhua had been wandering around the West Gate with his men for a long time, like a blind cat looking for a dead mouse. Under his deliberate search, he actually found the hollow where Against the Drunken Song was stationed. Against the Drunken Song had stockpiled more than a hundred players here. Zongheng Sihai and Against the Drunken Song were old friends. When Daoying Nianhua looked at it, he could see that there were many experts in the other party's formation. Especially when he saw Han Jia Gongzi sitting on the outer edge of the pit, drinking wine, he panicked a little.

"Wu Shi, I found it!!" Daoying Nianhua didn't rush over. At this time, he led a few people around to a small forest nearby, observing stealthily.

"Oh? What's the situation?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian asked quickly.

"I don't know the specifics yet, but Against the Drunken Song has a lot of experts here, and I can see traces of battle. It's very likely that this is where Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui came to kill them. By the way, Han Jia Gongzi is also here," Daoying Nianhua said.

"Han Jia Gongzi is also there?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was shocked when he heard this. "Qian Li Zui, Jian Gui... Are they setting a trap to trick us?"

Daoying Nianhua was also stunned when he heard this. Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui were enemies. This news was released by Niliu Ershang, but he didn't provide any evidence at all. Each guild had inquired with Against the Drunken Song. After all, each player had their own circle of friends, and they might know a few friends from other guilds. But no one had obtained any news after asking... No, it should be said that only they, Zongheng Sihai, had not asked for any news. Even if other guilds asked, they would not share it with others, so everyone unanimously said they didn't know. Daoying Nianhua pondered.

"Why don't you keep an eye on it for a while? If Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui come again, then this matter seems to be true. We'll discuss it again later." Wu Shi Zhi Jian's guild quest chain last time, although the quest was completed, they had been extorted from the beginning, and they had suffered a lot along the way. In the end, thanks to the help of Gongzi Elite Group, they completed the quest, but they also saw their methods. Wu Shi Zhi Jian originally thought that Daoying Nianhua was quite resourceful, but now he understood what it meant to have someone even better! He was afraid. As soon as he got involved with the characters from Gongzi Elite Group, he wanted to defend himself from the bottom of his heart.

"Wu Shi... It's okay for me to wait, but think about it, Against the Drunken Song is doing a quest. If we wait, once their quest is completed... I can see their lineup here, the weight of this quest is not low. If we can't find a comparable quest, we'll fall behind from the start. After that, we'll compare killing enemies to earn points? Although our guild is strong, don't forget that Against the Drunken Song's strongest are mages. Pure grinding, we might really not be able to beat them," Daoying Nianhua said.

"This... then what do you say we should do?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian said.

"Let's do a borrowed knife to kill someone! I'll just stare here without moving. You can leak a little bit of this news to the other guilds," Daoying Nianhua said.

"Good idea!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian's spirits lifted. "Who should we reveal it to? Yun Zhong Mudi? This guy has been suspicious of Niliu Ershang for a long time, and he told me about it before!"

"Then we can't look for him." Daoying Nianhua said quickly, "Since this guy has already realized it, he seems to be quite shrewd. He might be doing something secretly, and we might not be able to hide this trick from him. If he's willing to put in the effort, he will definitely pull us into a life-and-death situation. We can't look for him."

"Then who else can we look for? Black Finger? I suspect that this guy has colluded with Niliu Ershang. He can't be trusted! Xiao Shang? What else, who else can we look for?" When it came to Gu Xiao Shang, Wu Shi Zhi Jian directly skipped the reason, wasn't there a reason? Wu Shi Zhi Jian was reluctant to let Gu Xiao Shang be the scapegoat, and he was even more afraid of offending Gu Xiao Shang because of this.

Daoying Nianhua sighed. In his heart, Gu Xiao Shang was a very good candidate, but why was she a girl, and Wu Shi Zhi Jian had taken a liking to her?

The big guilds were no good, so they could only make an idea from the other guilds. Daoying Nianhua had actually already thought of a candidate, and then sent a message to Wu Shi Zhi Jian: "Black Rose, how about that guy?"

"Oh, he..." Wu Shi Zhi Jian knew a limited number of ordinary players, but he had befriended many guild presidents. Although this Black Rose had been reduced to mincemeat and a laughingstock today, his guild "Long Spear and Rose" was also a level four guild, with some strength. Based on Wu Shi Zhi Jian's understanding of this person, and seeing his enthusiasm for grabbing points today, he was really a good candidate.

"Oh, he, he's not bad." Wu Shi Zhi Jian thought for a while and replied with a message.

"In addition, there's Bai Jia Hei, I think he's also not bad," Daoying Nianhua said.

"He? His guild is pretty good!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian said.

"That's right, and this guy, before the currency update, just spent a lot of money to change his equipment, just to change the color, but he was dumbfounded when the currency update came out. Now he has a stomach full of fire and nowhere to vent it!"

Wu Shi Zhi Jian understood Daoying Nianhua's meaning. He was referring to the fact that Bai Jia Hei was currently in a state of psychological problems, and he was more easily provoked. If these two guilds joined forces, although they couldn't compete with the entire Against the Drunken Song, it didn't seem difficult to sabotage a quest that Against the Drunken Song was simply dividing their forces to deploy. Even if there were any traps in this, their Zongheng Sihai could wait and see what happened, so as to reap the benefits.

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I can't finish writing today, I'll update more tomorrow to make up for it～～