Chapter 269 Attitude

The Sharpshooter was worried about the two mages, Lao Lei and Da Lei, and ignoring the agility stats that limited their speed in the game, he kept urging them to hurry, hurry, hurry. Lao Lei and Da Lei were also anxious; they were willing to make fearless sacrifices, but they definitely didn't want to be senseless ones.

As the Sharpshooter shouted, he looked back and saw that none of the opponents had moved. The Sharpshooter was a little incredulous, and subconsciously slowed down, practically inviting them to chase him, but no one paid him any attention.

The Sharpshooter was quite bewildered, but he couldn't be so cheap as to go back and die, right? So, he puzzledly led Lao Lei and Da Lei to transfer. Just as they were about to leave the street, they saw a person walking towards them, his shoulders and head drooping, walking weakly. He looked like he was about to collapse onto the ground at any moment.

For retired veterans like the Sharpshooter, who valued military appearance and posture, this person's boneless appearance was really off-putting, and they couldn't help but take a few more glances. As they got closer, the person had to lift his head every few steps to see the road. When that face came up, the Sharpshooter and his companions shuddered again, immediately standing at attention, wondering, "Why is this guy just getting here?"

The guy who made the Sharpshooter and his companions shudder was none other than Gu Xian, who had caused them so much trouble inside and outside the White Foam Tavern. Although Gu Xian hadn't put all his points into agility, his speed was definitely not slow. At level 40-plus, he had invested more in agility than Bai Shi Jing Lun. After the Sharpshooter and his group retreated towards the priest academy, although he couldn't go the long way around like Gu Fei to get ahead of them, it would have been quite easy for him to catch up.

But this guy was really lazy. His laziness wasn't about being afraid of getting tired. In the game, stamina was long-lasting; how easy was it to get tired? This guy's laziness was simply not wanting to move. If he hadn't been at a loss for what to do if he stayed at the tavern, it was a big question whether he would have moved a step. But now, although he had come, he had dawdled all the way, and by the time he got here, the fight was long over.

Lifting his head, he saw the Sharpshooter and his companions. His memory was pretty good; he still remembered them. He nodded in greeting and asked, "Only three of you left?"

The Sharpshooter and his companions were embarrassed! They really didn't want to answer that question.

Gu Xian didn't seem to care about the question anyway, and immediately moved on to the next one: "What about the priest? The one called Hong Chen Xiao Xiao."

"Hong Chen Yi Xiao," Da Lei couldn't help but correct him.

"Oh, Hong Chen Yi Xiao. Such a long name, isn't that tiring?" Gu Xian muttered before asking, "Where is he?"

The three didn't know how to answer, and just subconsciously glanced towards the priest academy. This was supposed to be their rescue target, but now the mission had failed...

"Why isn't he coming out of the respawn point?" Gu Xian understood the meaning in their eyes. He muttered to himself as he walked over, leaving the three of them standing on the street.

"We..." Lao Lei looked at the Sharpshooter and Da Lei.

"Let's go!" The Sharpshooter gritted his teeth. What else could they do but leave? No one was paying attention to them anymore.

"I'm here!" Gu Xian walked into the crowd and greeted Gu Fei.

"It's all over," Gu Fei said.

"Isn't the priest still there?" Gu Xian said as he headed towards the entrance of the priest academy. By this time, the PK was over, and the spectators were dispersing, leaving the priest academy and going their separate ways. Jian Gui and Hei Shui, who had been lurking at the entrance, couldn't hide in the crowd anymore and were bumped out of stealth. Ye Xiao Wu and Lao Wu Xiao Chen had been wondering if they could take advantage of the chaos to slip out, but when they saw the two glaring at them without blinking, and even the spectators noticed that they seemed to want to come out, they stopped and decided not to go out and die, and went back to the respawn point to rest.

The spectators left with regret. Gu Xian finally shuffled to the entrance of the priest academy, raised his arm, and leaned it on Jian Gui's shoulder, shouting at Ye Xiao Wu, "Why don't you come out?"

Jian Gui turned his head and was surprised to see that it was this guy leaning on his shoulder. They had only met once; how could they be so familiar? But the honest and kind Jian Gui wouldn't say anything, he just felt... damn, this weight on his shoulder was getting heavier and heavier. Was this guy treating him like a wall?

Ye Xiao Wu looked at the guy who looked just like Gu Fei and couldn't say a word. By this time, Gu Fei, Han Jia Gong Zi, Jian Nan You, and others had gathered outside the door, shouting at Ye Xiao Wu to come out and balance them. Ye Xiao Wu was about to vomit blood.

"Is everyone here?" Han Jia Gong Zi looked around.

"Yu Tian hasn't returned yet," You Ge said.

Everyone was silent. Han Jia Gong Zi looked around and asked, "Who's going to pick him up?"

"I'll go!" Jiao Shui volunteered; players of the same class tended to look out for each other.

"Okay," Han Jia Gong Zi nodded and asked Yu Tian Shen Ming, "Where are you?"

"Coming back soon," Yu Tian Shen Ming insisted.

"Give me the coordinates, and then don't move," Han Jia Gong Zi had no patience to waste time with him.

Yu Tian Shen Ming gave the coordinates and then said, "I'm almost there, right?"

"Go to hell," Han Jia Gong Zi cursed, and then told Jiao Shui the coordinates. Jiao Shui was also depressed. "How did he run over there?" After saying that, he ran to pick him up. Yu Tian Shen Ming's location was in a completely different direction from the priest academy. No one would have guessed that he had gotten lost on the way to the priest academy.

"What do we do next?" After everyone despised Ye Xiao Wu for a while, they lost interest and asked Han Jia Gong Zi about the next step. After this battle, Jian Nan You and his companions were also impressed by Han Jia Gong Zi. It was lucky that this guy wasn't their opponent. The Gong Zi Elite Team had two such freaks. No wonder they could win the mercenary group competition with six wins and one hundred losses. It was probably due to their strength, not luck. Although Jian Nan You and his seven companions were quite confident, they didn't have the confidence to fight one hundred people.

"Next..." Han Jia Gong Zi thought for a moment and asked Ye Xiao Wu and his companions, "Are you going offline?"

The three were depressed and didn't answer.

"If you don't go offline, your brothers will come to rescue you, and then we can set up another ambush. Ask them if they dare to come!" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"Intimidation tactics don't work on us," the logistics soldier said calmly.

"It's not intimidation tactics," Han Jia Gong Zi said disdainfully. "I'm just asking if you're coming or not. Some of us are in a hurry to go offline!"

"It's still early, I'm not in a hurry," Gu Fei said quickly.

Everyone looked at him. Only Gu Fei dared to interrupt Han Jia Gong Zi's speech. Then Bai Shi Jing Lun chimed in, "I have something to do today and I have to go offline early!"

"What a great comrade!" Han Jia Gong Zi said admiringly, and then looked at the three in the respawn point. "Are you coming or not? Someone's waiting!"

Who could be happy with this attitude? Of course, the members of the Elite Team on Han Jia Gong Zi's side and Jian Nan You and his companions were very happy, but the three in the circle were very depressed. How could they be so shameless as to pass this message on to Duan Shui Jian and his companions?

In fact, these verbal provocations and contempt from Han Jia Gong Zi were just his habits. In the team channel, everyone was seriously discussing what to do next. Would Duan Shui Jian and his companions come back? It was obvious that these people would never abandon their friends in the respawn point. If it were a team led by Han Jia Gong Zi, it was possible that they would be so ruthless, everyone firmly believed!

"I believe they have fully realized the disadvantages of not having a priest. Next time they come, they probably won't fight head-on again. I predict they will use the long-range attack advantage of the archers to harass us from afar," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"We're not afraid of that. Their attacks aren't very high." Because everyone present was a top player with excellent equipment, the Sharpshooter's attacks were judged as "not high." In fact, their attack power wasn't top-notch, but it wasn't so low as to be called "not high." The "not high" was just relative.

"Are we just going to drag this out?" Lin Mu Sen Sen couldn't help but say. He rarely spoke, but now he realized that this "not afraid" was based on the fact that they had priests to heal them. If they started to "not be afraid" like this, their three priests would definitely work very hard.

"That's right, this is too passive," Dao Xiang Mu said.

"Yeah!" Han Jia Gong Zi nodded.

The members of the Elite Team were shocked. When had Han Jia Gong Zi ever agreed to someone else's opinion so easily? Where was the contempt?

The contempt came soon. Han Jia Gong Zi looked at the shocked faces and said disdainfully, "I'm a priest too." Obviously, this guy didn't want everyone else to be relaxed while their priests worked so hard.

"But their archers move very fast... If we want to deal with them..." You Ge said a very realistic problem. When the opponent's archers moved, even Gu Fei would have a hard time, after all, they were agility-based classes. Yu Tian Shen Ming and others might be faster than them, but then there was a very cruel reality that Yu Tian Shen Ming and others didn't want to accept: they were not their opponents.

"Heh heh heh..." Han Jia Gong Zi chuckled a few times, looking at the helpless expressions on everyone's faces. The members of the Elite Team were silent; this guy obviously had a plan...

A small square dozens of coordinate areas outside the priest academy, Duan Shui Jian and his companions had gathered. This battle could be described as a complete annihilation. Only three of them remained... The three of them were very clear that the opponents hadn't made a move later. If that fighter had intercepted them in the street, and then the reinforcements had arrived, Lao Lei and Da Lei would definitely be dead, and the Sharpshooter's chances of escaping with his speed were fifty-fifty.

"Comrades! You have to face your opponents squarely. The game is not as simple as you think!" Duan Shui Jian said.

Everyone was silent and a little ashamed. In fact, Duan Shui Jian had reminded them as soon as these old comrades entered the game that the game had its own rules, and that they should not take ordinary players lightly just because they were proficient in the system's combat skills and had accumulated a lot of combat experience. Ordinary players also had their own systematic combat skills and their own game experience.

The veterans were not arrogant. They were still very modest about this online game, which they had hardly ever come into contact with. It was just that this game used holographic simulation, which made it easier for them to get started. Holographic simulation technology was being used in online games for the first time. But this technology had been around for a long time, and the military was the first to use it. At that time, Duan Shui Jian and his companions were still in service and had been exposed to combat demonstrations in holographic simulation environments, an experience that ordinary people could never have.

This innate advantage helped the veterans quickly integrate into the game, but everyone still took Duan Shui Jian's reminder to heart. At first, everyone paid close attention to how other players played the game and the methods they used. But after looking at it for a long time, they couldn't see what advantages these people had over them. Their combat skills were so crude that they could not possibly be a match for these battle-hardened veterans.

Gradually, the veterans began to take it less seriously. They felt that their skills were more than enough to cope with this game. Today, they finally suffered a great loss. In the morning, it could still be said that they lacked experience. After receiving Apple Cider Vinegar's emergency guidance, everyone had a sudden realization in many places, but the defeat in the evening was even worse than in the morning. They thought they had made sufficient progress, but who knew that their opponents had made even more use of their weaknesses? And some of the things they learned from Apple Cider Vinegar always seemed to be a few beats late when applied to actual combat. Although it was a game, life and death were instantaneous. A few beats of delay in reaction was enough to die many times over. The veterans had finally realized that experience in the game was also experience, especially combat experience. This was something that could not be taught at all and had to be accumulated in actual combat.

"Comrades, instead of forcing ourselves to find things we are good at in the game to adapt ourselves, we should find more effective weapons in the game to arm ourselves. Soldiers should adapt to the battlefield. How can we let the battlefield adapt to ourselves?" Duan Shui Jian continued. He had been playing the game the longest and had the most experience with these things.

The veterans were silent. Indeed, in the game, their combat awareness and combat habits had to be changed according to the rules of the game. If they didn't change, they would become loopholes for the opponent to attack, just like today.

The Sharpshooter's face was burning, and he felt that Duan Shui Jian's words were directed at him. Because he was the one who complained most frequently about the bows and crossbows in the game and what he could do if he had a gun. Duan Shui Jian was right. In this battlefield, they could only seek to maximize the power of bows and crossbows, instead of trying to find equipment comparable to a sniper rifle to cooperate with themselves.

Experience needed to be accumulated over a long period of time, and it was impossible to achieve overnight. Duan Shui Jian said these things just to correct his comrades' attitude towards the game and use the appropriate methods to fight their current battles. Some things, as long as there was an adjustment in awareness, there would be a big change. He still believed in the combat qualities of these old buddies.

"Alright, alright, Lao Duan, stop talking nonsense. Let's hurry up and discuss how to rescue Lao Wu and Xiao Chen!" This was a game, and everyone hadn't been soldiers for many years. There wasn't such a strict hierarchy. Now they were on an equal footing with ordinary player teams, without the absolute obedience between superiors and subordinates of the past.

"Cough, there's one more thing to say. I think unified command is still necessary in this battle. We are still a bit chaotic now. We listen to whoever has an opinion. Not that I'm saying anything, but even ordinary players don't do this. Did everyone see the other team? That priest who looks like a woman is their core commander. Other than him, have you seen anyone else issue any commands?" Duan Shui Jian said.

Duan Shui Jian and the Sharpshooter issued more commands during the battle, and everyone subconsciously followed the commands of others. In fact, the big leaders from their years in the military were not in this group of people, otherwise there wouldn't be this problem, and everyone would habitually continue to follow the instructions of the old leaders. Now that everyone was at the same level, it was hard to say who was leading whom.

Duan Shui Jian's words were once again approved by everyone. Unified command was very important, even though modern warfare emphasized soldiers' independent combat capabilities. But in online games, everyone had seen that the war in this game was actually not very modern, it had its own style, so a unified command was still necessary.

"There's nothing to say about this, Lao Duan, it's you!" Everyone said. Everyone's combat level was similar, but Duan Shui Jian was better at the game than them, so he was indeed the best candidate.

Duan Shui Jian didn't stand on ceremony and nodded. "That's what I think too."

"You're really not polite!" Everyone teased. The previous defeat didn't give them too deep of a shadow. Still, the comrades who sacrificed after the defeat were still resurrected and returned to their side, which gave them a sense of happiness.

"By the way, Lao Duan, what about that Apple brother? Ask him to come along too. He can give us some advice when we're confused," someone suggested.

"That guy! I can't command him. He likes to go it alone," Duan Shui Jian said.

"Oh, that's a bit like you!" Someone started teasing the Sharpshooter. This guy was famous for often acting on his own and disobeying orders. He had god-like marksmanship and outstanding achievements, but he didn't get any meritorious service medals because his merits and demerits were offset. If it weren't for that, this guy might not have appeared on the list of retirees.

Duan Shui Jian's military meeting didn't rush to formulate a combat plan or anything like that. Instead, he took advantage of the two defeats to give everyone a good shot in the arm. Even a thorn in the side like the Sharpshooter felt that Duan Shui Jian's words made sense, let alone the others. Everyone was carefully correcting their attitude, thinking about how to eliminate their shortcomings.

"Everyone put in some effort. Now let's discuss how to get Lao Wu and them out!" Duan Shui Jian said, reaching into his pocket and shaking out a map, which he spread directly on the ground.

"Yo, are we getting serious this time? You've even prepared a battle map?" Someone joked again, but this time there was no laughter. When this person looked over, he saw that a circle of comrades were already seriously observing the map. This person quickly restrained his expression and leaned in intently.

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Comrades, you must face the monthly tickets in your hands squarely. Monthly tickets are not as simple as you think. Hurry up and vote them in!