Chapter 331

"Qianli must also agree with this proposal, right?" Yu Tian Shen Ming started organizing a small group, but when he scanned the team, he went crazy. "Where's Qianli? Did he stay behind to duel them alone?"

"He just logged off with Hongchen Yixiao's group," said You Ge.

"Logged off together? Why did they log off together? Could Qianli be going to PK them in real life?" Yu Tian Shen Ming shouted.

Everyone looked at him, and You Ge slowly said, "Because it's past eleven o'clock, and that's when Qianli usually logs off."

Yu Tian Shen Ming was stunned for a moment, then muttered something under his breath. Han Jia Gongzi looked at everyone. When no one else spoke, he ignored it and continued to lead the team forward.

The seven members of Jian Nan You were observing this group with great interest. In the game, everyone became familiar quickly, and they could no longer be considered strangers. But Jian Nan You and the others felt more and more that this Gongzi Elite group was not a harmonious team. Simply put, these people had different goals. Especially Han Jia Gongzi. The plans he designed were brilliant, but not very pleasing. Plus, he himself was not very likable. Plus, he was the head of the mercenary group… The seven were sweating profusely. They thought this was a team that should have disbanded long ago.

Actually, Han Jia Gongzi's designs were more to the seven's liking. They felt it was a pity that this man didn't become a professional player. It was such a waste to use his talents on fighting and killing every day. Making money was the way to go! The seven all agreed on this.

The team walked forward silently. In the blink of an eye, a tavern appeared on the side of the street. Han Jia Gongzi was leading the team. Where else would they go? Everyone wasn't too surprised. One by one, they followed and entered the tavern, very impolitely asking the NPCs for wine. There was no fighting to be had, so drinking a couple of cups was also a way to vent. Yu Tian Shen Ming originally wanted to go back and fight, but Gu Fei wasn't there… Yu Tian Shen Ming wanted to have a good time, but without Gu Fei, he didn't think it would be fun. It would probably just be sending himself to his death, which he didn't want to do. Yu Tian Shen Ming just wanted to be impulsive, not stupid.

Twelve people squeezed around the largest table in the tavern, barely fitting. Yu Tian Shen Ming didn't usually drink much, but today he grabbed a bottle, and the most expensive one at 200 gold. Now he was rich and didn't care about numbers below a thousand. But the seven members of Jian Nan You were still as calm as ever, drinking the most common type of wine that players usually drank, and seven of them sharing one bottle.

Everyone opened their bottles, poured their wine, and drank. Still, no one spoke. The atmosphere was deathly silent. Huo Ran Yi looked around, took out his poker cards, slapped them on the table, and asked, "Anyone want to play?"

Everyone stared at him blankly, including his six brothers. Huo Ran Yi shrank his neck, put the cards back in his pocket, and picked up his cup. "Drink, drink."

Huo Ran Yi raised his glass in the air, and some people also raised their hands to signal him. With him stirring things up, the atmosphere seemed to have recovered a bit. But the Gongzi Elite group still didn't say anything. Jian Nan You looked left and right, helplessly. He had to open his mouth. "What do we do next?"

As soon as he said this, Jian Nan You was stunned, staring straight ahead. Everyone noticed his actions, and they twisted their heads, raised their heads, and turned their heads, all looking in that direction, immediately grabbing their weapons as if facing a great enemy.

"Don't do anything, brothers. I'm on your side now." The person hurriedly put his hands in front of his chest, gesturing that his hands were empty and stating his position.

"What?" Everyone frowned at the person. Bu Xiao. No one expected this guy to suddenly appear. The Gongzi Elite group had learned from Yun Zhong Mu that when Yin Yue was rescued by Ye Xiao Wu, Bu Xiao had also disappeared. Everyone guessed that they had gotten together. After Jian Nan You and the others joined, they confirmed this. But other than that, Jian Nan You and the others didn't know anything. When they suddenly encountered the veteran ambush in the morning, they realized that Ye Xiao Wu had so many strong players by his side. With such strong support, why did they have to spend a lot of money to buy them to help? Jian Nan You had been a little confused.

At this time, the table of twelve was already crowded. There was no room for anyone else, and no one had any intention of giving Bu Xiao a seat. Bu Xiao stood by the table. Some people looked up at him, but most had lowered their heads and pretended he didn't exist, showing him the back of their heads. Bu Xiao was very embarrassed, stuttering, "Um, I saw you fighting with Hongchen Yixiao's group earlier."

"Oh?" Most people ignored him. Those who acknowledged him only hummed through their noses.

"That guy is no good. All he thinks about is 'harmonizing' this and 'harmonizing' that," Bu Xiao said. (harmonizing = censoring/nerfing)

Everyone looked up at him. Han Jia Gongzi sneered, "Listening to you, are you one of his 'harmonization' targets?"

Bu Xiao looked ashamed. "I'm not worthy, of course, but Yin Yue's Sword of the King has been 'harmonized' by this guy."

"What!" Everyone was shocked. They had just learned about this.

"How was it 'harmonized'?" Everyone asked.

"That guy tricked us into going to a place, and then he sold our coordinates on the forum. A large number of players came to chase us. Yin Yue was forced to hide in the auction house. He wanted to buy a teleport scroll to leave, so he forcibly logged off to check his bank card number. As a result, the Sword of the King was lost due to the forced logout," Bu Xiao said.

Seeing the suspicious looks on everyone's faces, Bu Xiao continued, "Qianli Yizui was there at the time. Didn't he tell you about it?"

"No, when did this happen?" Everyone asked.

"I know, it was the day our studio opened," You Ge suddenly said.

Everyone looked at him. You Ge quickly said, "The reporter Duo Mu Mu Duo reported on that. There was also an interview with Qianli. Didn't you guys see it?"

"Qianli was interviewed by Duo Mu Mu Duo???" Yu Tian Shen Ming exclaimed.

"Yeah!" You Ge said.

"I've never been interviewed…" Yu Tian Shen Ming muttered. The people sitting there smiled without saying a word. They were all big names in the online gaming world and had all been interviewed. But Yu Tian Shen Ming didn't know what was going on. He was known as the number one mage, but no online game reporter had ever thought of interviewing him. This matter had always bothered Yu Tian Shen Ming. He didn't expect that even a rising star like Gu Fei had been interviewed by the big-name reporter Duo Mu Mu Duo. Yu Tian Shen Ming was depressed again.

"But the report didn't say that Yin Yue's Sword of the King was dropped. It only mentioned that he was trapped in the auction house and then forcibly logged off," You Ge said.

Bu Xiao nodded. "He told me about it later."

"So, where is Yin Yue now?" Everyone asked.

"He's not planning on playing anymore…" Bu Xiao said.

"Is that so…" Everyone suddenly felt a sense of loss upon hearing this news. Although Yin Yue was a noob, it was precisely because of such people that everyone could fearlessly defeat him. After defeating him, there was no psychological burden other than joy and relief. Now that they suddenly heard that such a person had quit the game, everyone immediately felt as if they had lost something.

"Then this is strange," You Ge said. "According to you, Hongchen Yixiao went to the trouble of getting you two out of Baishi City, and after so many days, he found a way to frame you? What is he doing? Did he use you to do anything?"

"No…" Bu Xiao said.

"He originally gathered you together to deal with Qianli Yizui, right?" You Ge asked.

"That's right." Bu Xiao said, glancing at the seven members of Jian Nan You at the table. They were originally accomplices too.

"But he didn't ask you to do anything. So the whole process was, he pulled you out, and then threw you into the fire… Can anyone explain this?" You Ge was confused, asking as he looked at Han Jia Gongzi.

Han Jia Gongzi was sipping the wine in his glass. Seeing that You Ge had finally asked enough, he spoke, "Why did Yin Yue have to hide in the auction house? Didn't he realize that if it was blocked, he wouldn't even be able to log off?"

"There was no other way," Bu Xiao said. "He doesn't have agility. If he didn't choose a nearby place to hide, he would definitely be killed. Going back to the knight camp would be like being blocked again, which would be no different from not being able to play the game."

"Was the auction house very close to you at the time?"

"Yes, just a short street away."

"So where did you run off to then?"

"I… uh… had other ways to escape." Bu Xiao was vague. He was too embarrassed to say that he had actually double-crossed Yin Yue as well, because he knew that Yin Yue was even more of a target than he was and could attract a lot of attention.

Han Jia Gongzi didn't press him to clarify. After listening to this, he deduced, "Listening to this, it really sounds like Hongchen Yixiao deliberately designed it. He had already assessed the terrain and determined that the only way to escape in that situation was to hide in the auction house."

"Was it necessary for him to go to so much trouble? It would have been very easy for him to kill Yin Yue, wouldn't it?" You Ge said. Everyone nodded. They all thought of the veterans. Yin Yue was now alone and helpless. If they really wanted to kill him, any one of those veterans would have been enough. There was no need to go to so much trouble.

Han Jia Gongzi shook his head. "But based on the results, his goal might not have been Yin Yue himself, but the Sword of the King in his hands."

"But hasn't the Sword of the King been taken away by the system?"

"Perhaps that was his goal?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

Everyone was stunned, thinking of that word that they had been hating recently: 'harmonization'.

"He deliberately designed it so that Yin Yue was forced to log off, and then the system confiscated the Sword of the King?" You Ge frowned. "How did he know that the Sword of the King would definitely be confiscated if he was forced to log off?"

"Regarding this question… As an insider, he might really know," Han Jia Gongzi said.

Everyone was confused. Could it be that there was an internal pattern to the losses from forced logouts?

"Don't forget, if his target was Yin Yue himself, then he wouldn't have needed to save him at all. Letting him squat in the Baishi City knight camp would have been miserable enough," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Um…" Bu Xiao suddenly interjected again, "After Yin Yue was brought out by him, because his level was low and the coefficient was insufficient, he couldn't activate the Sword of the King. He even went to great lengths to get Yin Yue a Ring of Leadership to activate the Sword of the King."

"This Ring of Leadership, did he give it to Yin Yue in the end?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

"Yes." Bu Xiao nodded. "On the day he framed us, he gave it to Yin Yue and taught Yin Yue how to use the skills of the Sword of the King to help kill Qianli Yizui."

"How to use the skills?" Everyone asked curiously.

"His battle formation skill can now be applied to a single designated target like a knight's ordinary blessing, but with a stronger effect!"

"What level was Yin Yue at the time?" Han Jia Gongzi suddenly asked another question.

"Just level 38," Bu Xiao said.

"Just leveled up?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

"Yeah!"

Han Jia Gongzi frowned, shaking the wine glass in his hand.

Everyone didn't dare to breathe, afraid of disturbing this guy's train of thought.

"Did Yin Yue have any money on him?" Han Jia Gongzi suddenly asked a strange question.

"No money." Bu Xiao answered this question very smoothly.

"Oh? You're very clear about that!" Han Jia Gongzi deliberately asked.

"Uh… both of our money was all deposited in the bank," Bu Xiao said.

"Afraid of being chased?" Everyone laughed.

"No…" Bu Xiao quickly said.

"Then?"

"Because our opponent was Qianli Yizui…"

Everyone wiped their sweat. Gu Fei's deterrence was evident from this. When you became his opponent, you didn't even dare to carry money on you.

"Yin Yue had no money, and he had just leveled up, which means he had no experience. So, if he was forced to log off, experience and money would be equivalent to not being able to drop. He could only drop equipment!" Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Can't he drop levels? And skills!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

You Ge spoke, "According to some bored people who have tested forced logouts, the most likely thing to drop during a forced logout is money, followed by experience, then equipment, and finally skill proficiency. As for directly dropping a level, players who have tested it say that has never happened. Right, he roughly calculated a ratio, which I have recorded." You Ge said, flipping through his pile of notebooks, one after another, finally finding it in the fourth book, "Here it is! I only recorded the results he calculated at the time. Dropped money accounted for 34% of the total number of times, dropped experience was 30%, dropped equipment was 28%, and dropped skill proficiency was 8%. Other than these four items, no other drops have been found."

"So Yin Yue's situation is that he had 0 money, so it won't drop; he just leveled up, so he has 0 experience, so it can't drop; only equipment and skill proficiency are left. The chance of dropping equipment is too high," You Ge said excitedly about this discovery.

"Even so, it's still a coincidence that the Sword of the King was there. He has a lot of stuff in his pockets and on his body!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"Um… when the two of us set off, we cleared out all of our pockets…" Bu Xiao said again.

"Why?"

"Because our opponent was Qianli Yizui…" Bu Xiao said.

"Do you two have any PK common sense! To prevent your best equipment from dropping, you should bring more trash!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"That's not right, right? To reduce the probability of dropping equipment, you should bring less stuff at this time," the seven members of Jian Nan You actually had different opinions at this time.

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My condition wasn't good today, so I only wrote four thousand… I'll make up for it tomorrow, sigh…