Chapter 25 A Very Good Idea

As soon as the girls heard it, Brother You's idea really suited their fancy. How long could 250,000 last? The girls weren't considering the question from that angle; they were thinking: how many pretty pieces of equipment could 250,000 buy!

"That's a very good idea!" Luo Luo nodded, then asked, "Qian Li isn't here; won't he have any objections?"

"No, no," Brother You said quickly.

Luo Luo looked at Young Master Han suspiciously. Earlier, this guy had said they were employees, and Qian Li was the boss, so anything important had to be asked of Qian Li. Now that Qian Li wasn't here, they were directly deciding to recruit people. What was the deal with this?

Young Master Han was too lazy to explain and sat there drinking without saying a word. Yu Tian Shen Ming and Zhan Wu Shang began to fidget, and when they saw Brother You explaining the details of the work to the girls, they exchanged glances with flattering smiles and went over. "Brother You, we've decided we want to be long-term workers."

"Long-term workers?" Brother You was taken aback.

"Well... didn't we say we were temporary workers before?" The two smiled dryly. "Uh, now we suddenly feel it's better to be long-term."

Brother You understood, and putting two and two together, he knew that these two guys were seeing the girls joining and immediately wanted to stick to them like leeches. But this made Brother You a little embarrassed. Originally, it was because these guys were unwilling to be long-term workers that he hired outside help. Now that the two were going back on their word and wanting to return, it would mean more people, and everyone's share would be slightly less. He couldn't make a decision directly; he had to ask the others' opinions: did they want more people to save effort and get less money, or put in more effort and get more money?

Thinking of this, Brother You looked at Jian Nan You and the other seven, mainly needing their opinions. These people were truly in it for the money. Brother You had consulted them before seeking new recruits.

Jian Nan You and the others understood the two guys' intentions, and they didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Two more people wouldn't take away much money, and the seven weren't so petty. Of course, they had no objections. Jian Nan You sent Brother You a private message: "You decide; we have no objections."

With that, Brother You wouldn't reject the two guys' request, but he glared at them with contempt: "You're not allowed to quit casually this time!"

The two nodded repeatedly, and at the end, they turned around to instigate Sword Ghost: "Everyone's returning; why are you still a temporary worker? Forget it, let's do it together!"

Sword Ghost's belief was firm. He smiled without saying a word. It wasn't that he was pure and indifferent to women, but he wouldn't be as shameless as these two for the sake of girls.

The two couldn't persuade him, so they didn't say much more. The girls were still there, so how could they have the mind to chat endlessly with Sword Ghost? They immediately went over to chat and joke with the girls. Sword Ghost, having some free time, said to everyone, "Yun Zhong Mu said he's coming to White Stone City and wants to find time to gather tomorrow!"

"Just gather?" Young Master Han sneered.

"Uh, I didn't ask. Probably not." Sword Ghost was honest. When people contacted them at this time, nine out of ten wanted to talk about efficiency leveling methods. As the leader of the organization, Yun Zhong Mu definitely wanted to seize this opportunity to consolidate his strength.

"We have time now; call him over!" Young Master Han's tone was arrogant. The most powerful guild leader in Parallel World was like a delivery boy in his mouth, someone who would come over as soon as you called.

Sword Ghost ignored him and turned to continue asking others what time they were free tomorrow.

"We have plenty of time, but what about that Hong Chen Yi Xiao group? I don't know when they'll jump out to cause trouble again!" Brother You said worriedly.

"They have to be able to find us. If we hadn't been so conspicuous with our teaching at the White Mill yesterday, we wouldn't have run into them so coincidentally," said Jian Nan You and the others, who were extremely experienced in fighting.

"That's true." Brother You nodded, but then he thought, this meant that as soon as they started teaching, everyone would have to be exposed to public view, and those guys could easily find them. Thinking of this, Brother You felt like he had a lump in his throat again.

"To completely solve these guys, we first have to figure out their real purpose. To what extent do they want to mess with Qian Li?" Jian Nan You said.

"I don't know!" Everyone shook their heads.

"I forgot to ask Bu Xiao just now. Does anyone have him as a friend?" Brother You asked around.

"Forget it, don't think about it. Let Qian Li ask Hong Chen Yi Xiao himself tomorrow!" someone said.

Everyone was silent for a while. What was going on? It was a mess.

After that, the girls stayed in the tavern for a while before leaving. Some were going offline, and others were preparing to play the game for a while longer, taking away the souls of Yu Tian Shen Ming and Zhan Wu Shang. The two ran off after them, full of energy.

Jian Nan You and his crew of seven hadn't recovered from the staff incident last time, so they had to hurry up and level up. Dao Xiang Mu and Lin Mu Sen Sen admired Young Master Han's skills and strongly invited him to join them. As experts, they all knew that in Parallel World, Light Priests had no solo leveling ability at all. The higher the level, the more true this was. Even if they wanted to level up by doing quests, many monster-killing quests were troublesome, and this was a profession that completely depended on a team for survival.

No matter how heaven-defying a player's skills were, they couldn't defy the positioning of a profession. That's what the experts were thinking, and suddenly, tears streamed down their faces, because they couldn't help but think of Gu Fei for a moment. This man had really reversed the positioning of his profession with his skills! His mage... was completely unconventional, yet so unconventionally ferocious. So, there really was nothing absolute in this world.

Young Master Han wasn't that heaven-defying. He also relied on a team to level up. But compared to ordinary priests who liked to have a fixed team, he mostly mixed with random teams. In fact, with Young Master Han's skills, many people would be eager to have him, but this guy came when he wanted and didn't come when he didn't want to. One moment he'd be leveling up at eight o'clock, and another moment he'd still be nowhere to be seen at three in the morning. Which fixed team could stand such a demanding personality? But this guy didn't care and still went his own way. Anyway, when he wanted to level up, he'd just stand at the city gate and casually join a team and leave, never picky.

Ordinary players, as they played the game, would gradually form or join a fixed team while mixing with random teams. Someone like Young Master Han, who had been in random teams since the public beta, still existed... but these people were usually not priests, and they usually focused on solo grinding. A Light Priest like this was definitely rare.

Nowadays, in Cloud City, many people recognized this formidable king of random teams at the city gate where people formed teams. As long as you invited him, he would dare to join the team, and his skills were amazingly good. Many fixed teams didn't want to bring their own team's priest when they saw this person. Being able to add this priest to the team was something to brag about the next day. Many people wanted to summarize the rules of this guy's leveling in order to meet him every time they leveled up... but everyone failed. No rules was this person's rule.

At this time, Jian Nan You and the others invited Young Master Han to level up, and it happened that this person also wanted to level up, so he didn't refuse and went with them. Brother You and Sword Ghost saw that everyone was together and didn't want to be so lonely, so the seven of them plus three formed a ten-person team and went out to level up together.

The night passed just like that. The next day, Gu Fei went online again in the morning. The great battle with the veterans yesterday seemed to have no impact on him. Life went on as usual. After going online, he inspected the leveling progress of his students. Everyone was very skilled and no longer needed his guidance. Then he left to complete a few bounty quests. At this time, he recalled the excitement of fighting with the veterans yesterday, and fighting ordinary players was a bit boring.

Looking at his friends list, his brothers weren't online, and neither was Ye Xiao Wu. He aimlessly wandered around for a while and went offline.

When he came back online in the afternoon, his friends were all online. As soon as he logged in, he received a message from Sword Ghost. Gu Fei thought there was an enemy situation and excitedly opened it, only to see that it was telling him about Yun Zhong Mu's gathering.

The gathering could only be held in the tavern. Gu Fei lazily moved toward the tavern and arrived earlier than the agreed time. He casually found a table and waited. People arrived one by one. Gu Fei asked about the situation after he went offline last night and learned that he hadn't missed anything, which relieved him a little.

"Since you wanted to fight so much, why did you go offline so early!" Zhan Wu Shang didn't understand at all.

"You're already old, and I don't want to say anything to you, but this is just a game, and you have to be restrained!" Gu Fei criticized Zhan Wu Shang. Sword Ghost's face turned red. He was the craziest gamer; was the title of top player just for show?

But telling a hardcore gamer to be restrained was just asking for a scolding, right? Everyone despised him, and then the tavern door opened. Yun Zhong Mu made a very loud laugh, greeted everyone, and came over.

Yun Zhong Mu had too many brothers, and everyone couldn't figure out whether they had met the few people who came with him or not. Anyway, they just smiled and nodded as a greeting. The six members of the Young Master Elite Group all came, but Jian Nan You and his crew of seven didn't have much to do with Yun Zhong Mu and didn't plan to join in the fun. But then they thought that this person might want to talk about efficiency leveling methods, so they sent Jian Nan You as a representative again.

Jian Nan You was also a famous figure. When Yun Zhong Mu heard the introduction, he repeatedly said that he had admired him for a long time. At the same time, his eyes searched for Bai Shi Jing Lun and asked if he was present.

Bai Shi Jing Lun was online at this time, but like Jian Nan You and his crew of seven, he didn't know him and didn't want to know him, so he didn't come. Jian Nan You and Bai Shi Jing Lun were both names mentioned in the studio advertisement that Brother You had put out. Yun Zhong Mu was obviously too lazy to waste words and naturally introduced the topic of the studio through these two people. He hadn't even warmed his seat yet, and he hadn't even ordered wine yet, which showed how eager he was.

"So, brothers, where are you planning to develop the next leveling area?" Yun Zhong Mu asked very directly. This was the style of communication of his group. As long as they knew someone and felt that the person was good, they would become as close as brothers, not treating them like strangers at all. They didn't have any taboos when they spoke and said whatever they thought.

"We just finished a wave yesterday, and we haven't planned where to go next!" Brother You answered him.

"I also sent people to learn from yesterday's wave," Yun Zhong Mu said. "Tell me later, there were mountains and seas of people! How many people did you guys teach in one batch?"

"Forty thousand, probably!" Brother You didn't hide anything. It was more comfortable to communicate with such people, where everyone said what they thought.

"No wonder!" Yun Zhong Mu sighed repeatedly: "You guys are happy teaching, but it's hard for those of us who learned from you to level up."

Yun Zhong Mu's White Mill temporary joint guild leveled up fairly smoothly in the leveling area during the day yesterday, but as time went on, the number of people increased. By the evening peak, it was like a population explosion, and White Mill instantly became saturated to the point where it couldn't be more saturated. In this situation, the guild alliance couldn't control the situation at all. Players were directly squeezing into their leveling circle from the mountains and seas of people. What could you do to them?

The population density was really terrifying. The monsters were squeezed in the crowd, almost squeezed to death. What efficiency leveling method was there to speak of? There was no room to use any attacks at all. If a warrior casually used Whirlwind Slash, it would conservatively cause ten player kills.

The players complained, but they had nowhere to complain. Some people complained that the Qian Li Yi Zui Studio was teaching too many people, but some sensible people knew that not all the people squeezing in here were taught by the Qian Li Yi Zui Studio. How many people had established pirated classes for secondary income during this day alone? Everyone was to blame for the situation now.

But the source of the matter was still the efficiency leveling method. The players' mood was complicated! If they didn't learn this leveling method, they were afraid that their leveling wouldn't be as good as others. If they learned it, they were stuck here, which was worse than those players in other leveling areas. If they left, they were afraid that someone would take advantage of the vacated leveling area; if they didn't leave, well, everyone would continue to squeeze like this.

Complicated! Contradictory! The players now knew that the efficiency leveling method was really a double-edged sword in this situation. If they didn't learn it, they were afraid of falling behind; if they learned it, they would fall behind even more.

Yesterday, during the peak period, everyone was fighting the veterans. Later, they went to White Mill for a visit during the night, and it was still bustling at that time. This showed that what Yun Zhong Mu said at this time was probably not exaggerated. Seeing the complaining tone of this guy, everyone was holding back their laughter. Brother You put on a straight face, nodded, and said, "Is that so? It's like that!"

"Sigh, I'm not saying this, but you guys might not get anything good in the end! You may not know, but yesterday, tens of thousands of players were glaring at each other, scolding each other, and in the end, most of the curses landed on you. It's ridiculous to say, but many people complained that you came up with this efficiency leveling method, disrupting the order of the game."

Young Master Han and the others didn't move a muscle. Frankly speaking, they had guessed this long ago. They just didn't know how Gu Fei would react to this news. At this time, they borrowed Yun Zhong Mu's mouth to say it, and everyone looked at Gu Fei together, wanting to see his reaction. This guy was sometimes too upright, like the time with the Mist Shadow Assassin, when he wanted to eliminate harm for the people! How would he think about the chaos caused by what he came up with this time?

However, Gu Fei didn't have any extreme reaction at this time. He just listened to Yun Zhong Mu's narration as usual. Suddenly, he realized that no one was talking, and Young Master Han and the others were staring at him. He was puzzled and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

"Uh, you're the boss! What do we do next?" Brother You said.

"What boss? I'm only in charge of developing the leveling method. I won't go to copy and teach next time! I don't even need a share of the money," Gu Fei said.

"Uh, what are your thoughts on the chaos caused by this leveling method?" Brother You asked cautiously.

"Thoughts? What thoughts should I have?" Gu Fei asked back.

"Uh, you don't have any thoughts?" Brother You asked.

"Why are you beating around the bush? Are you looking for a fight?" Gu Fei said.

"No, no..." Brother You said with a bitter face. Who did I offend? He looked at the others, wondering if they had anything to say.

Then Young Master Han said very bluntly: "It's good that you don't have any thoughts. We were worried that you would feel very ashamed when you saw so much chaos caused by the efficiency leveling method you developed, so you wouldn't be willing to do this anymore."

"Nonsense," Gu Fei said. "There are too many people to hit the monsters, so you blame the efficiency leveling method? Why don't you blame the leveling area for not being big enough?"

Everyone's expression was strange: "Is it because of Hong Chen Yi Xiao that you have emotions about the game?"

"Why are you bringing him up again?" Gu Fei was even more puzzled.

There was no way to communicate! Everyone was troubled. Young Master Han was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Do you know about online game cheats?"

"I've heard of them."

"Simply put, it's a tool that gives players who use it a lot more advantages than those who don't. It's destructive to online games. Parallel World has never had this thing. Although the efficiency leveling method isn't a cheat, it has some of the properties of a cheat in a way."

"You just said that cheats destroy the game?" Gu Fei suddenly said.

"Yes, for example..." Brother You was about to give a vivid example, but Gu Fei was already very puzzled and said, "That's not right! Shouldn't the players who use cheats be the ones who destroy the game?"

"Uh?" Brother You was stunned when he heard this. Gu Fei's angle of thinking wasn't wrong. A cheat was just an inanimate object. If players were all conscientious and didn't use cheats, where would the destructiveness come from?

"Then what do you think of the creator of a cheat?" Young Master Han suddenly asked again.

Everyone glared at him wildly. They were originally worried that Gu Fei would suddenly become upright and tangled in this matter. It was rare for him to think about the problem from this angle. Young Master Han was deliberately trying to lead this guy to his death!

As a result, Gu Fei said with reverence: "He is a pure, noble person who has transcended base interests."

Everyone was dumbfounded. Wasn't this a bit too shameless? Who knew that Gu Fei would soon smile and say: "Just kidding. I know what you mean. I'm a cheat creator and I'm spreading cheats to destroy the game!"

Everyone looked at each other.

Gu Fei became serious again and said, "In fact, being a cheat creator is just my surface identity. My real identity is a martial artist who specializes in studying kung fu. I've said it so many times!"

"Damn it!" Everyone despised him.

Yun Zhong Mu, on the other hand, was getting more and more confused as he listened and scratched his head: "What are you talking about? How did you all start discussing cheats?"

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After a period of fighting and killing, there is a temporary transition period to prevent the students from being too excited at the end of the month. Low profile!