Chapter 13 Cloud End City

After everyone vomited for a bit, Brother You began to introduce the information he had collected over the past few days regarding the various mercenary groups in Cloud End City.

"Black Hand Mercenary Group. This is currently the most famous mercenary group in Cloud End City. It's a level 5 group, with a full roster of 100 members. The mercenary团长 (tuán zhǎng, leader) is called Black Finger, a level 40 warrior. This mercenary group exists independently and is not affiliated with any guild in Cloud End City. Since its establishment, it has been steadily developing and has accumulated to its current achievements. It can be said that the leader is skilled in management." Brother You paused slightly at this point and glanced at Han Jia Gongzi with the others.

Han Jia Gongzi took a light sip of wine with an expressionless face and said, "The mercenary group is called Black Hand, and the leader is called Forefinger? Are there also Thumbs, Middle Fingers, and Little Fingers?"

Brother You shook his head. "There are no similar names among the mercenary group members."

Han Jia Gongzi shook his head and said, "Maybe the other members are in other main cities. Black Hand is their unified title. It seems that the names of mercenary groups in different main cities can be repeated."

Brother You nodded. "They can be repeated."

Gu Fei interjected at this time, "There is also a Black Hand Mercenary Group in Moonlit Night City."

"What's the leader called?"

"I don't know... but it's an insignificant little mercenary group," Gu Fei said.

"Let's not worry about it for now. Anyway, we have to face these one hundred people. Brother You, continue," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"The second largest mercenary group in Cloud End City is the Four Seas Mercenary Group. As the name suggests, it is a guild mercenary group formed by Zongheng Sihai. It's also level 5, with 100 people. The person in charge of the团长 (tuán zhǎng, leader) position is Daoying Nianhua, who we've dealt with before," Brother You said.

"Who is that?" Gu Fei asked.

"The one you tricked into the Wulong Mountain cave," Yu Tian Shenming reminded.

"Oh..." Gu Fei remembered. It wasn't that he didn't remember this person, it was that he didn't even know this person's name. He was different from Brother You and the other four. Those five had known the names of some IDs for a long time. It's just that in the past, there were not only many different online games, but each online game also had different servers, so many experts had only heard of each other but had never met. Now, with the emergence of Parallel World, all players are brought under one banner, which is a thorough gathering of experts, completely different from the past.

"The members of the Four Seas Mercenary Group are all from Zongheng Sihai. Frankly speaking, I think their strength might even be above the Black Hand Mercenary Group. However, I'm ranking them according to the usual way everyone evaluates mercenary groups, mainly referring to their mission completion rate, so I've listed them as second," Brother You said.

"Whether they're first or second, they're all opponents," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"In addition, there is also the Nilu Ershang de Shuihua Mercenary Group, level 4, with 80 people. It is currently the guild mercenary group of the second largest guild in Cloud End City, Dui Jiu Dang Ge. Gongzi, you are a member of this guild, right?" Brother You continued to introduce.

Han Jia Gongzi nodded. "I like the name of this guild."

"Then I don't need to introduce this one much. You should be more familiar with it," Brother You said.

"Nilu Ershang is our guild leader, and he also leads the guild's mercenary group. This mercenary group is not so much to cater to the interests of the members of the guild, but rather to gather the experts in the guild into an elite force. All the awesome people in Dui Jiu Dang Ge are members of the mercenary group, of course, except for me," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Then are they all people you know? What will you do then?" Yu Tian Shenming asked.

"Cover my face and pretend I don't know them. What else can I do!" Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Then are you going to participate in the guild competition too?" Brother You asked.

Han Jia Gongzi nodded.

Brother You looked at the others again. "Besides Gongzi, Qianli, Yutian, and Wushang, you three are also in guilds, and you'll be participating in the guild war, right?"

The three nodded. Zhan Wushang and Yu Tian Shenming looked enviously at Gu Fei. "Rebirth Purple Crystal?"

Gu Fei nodded, but turned to look at Jian Gui. "Jian Gui, you don't have a guild?"

"No," Jian Gui said. Gu Fei's heart clenched. Could it be that his fight with Jian Gui back then ruined his dream of establishing Nitian, so he's still disheartened about guilds?

"Let's not discuss guilds. Regarding mercenary groups, the most outstanding ones in Cloud End City are the three mentioned above. As long as the six of us can deal with these three, the rest are not worth worrying about," Brother You said.

The other five all revealed dismissive expressions. The atmosphere of experts in the entire private room was intense. If people knew that a small mercenary group of only six people actually regarded the three strongest mercenary groups in Cloud End City as opponents, they would inevitably laugh their heads off. But right now, these six people were indeed seriously discussing this issue.

"However, among these, there is another special opponent," Brother You looked at the few people. "Yinyue."

"Yinyue of the Qianchen Guild in Moonlit Night City?" Yu Tian Shenming was stunned.

Brother You nodded. "That's him. I don't know when he ran to Cloud End City and established a mercenary group called Yuexia Ye Xiangqu. Although it's only level 2 now, and the number of people is less than 40, everyone knows that Yinyue has a very perverted group battle skill, right? So we have to be wary of them too."

"Alright, give me the detailed information you've collected on the mercenary groups. I'll take a good look," Han Jia Gongzi said.

Brother You took out his data book and handed it to Han Jia Gongzi.

"That's all, right?" The other four asked together. In fact, they four didn't even need to come to meetings like this today. Although having fewer people can facilitate brainstorming, it should be known that the团长 (tuán zhǎng, leader) of the mercenary group is Han Jia Gongzi, a perverted master. He is already a cut above the others in terms of strategy and tactics. Don't even think about coming up with a suggestion that is better than his. Even if you do come up with one, it's questionable whether he would stubbornly refuse to adopt it with his narcissistic personality.

"There's nothing else. You guys should level up more and look for valuable scrolls and equipment!" Han Jia Gongzi really didn't agree with the saying "two heads are better than one," and waved away the four thugs.

After the four left the tavern, Yu Tian Shenming, after consulting Gu Fei, went to do his missions. Yu Tian Shenming's missions were going smoothly, and he only needed 31 more to reach 100 consecutive ones. His goal was to get the shoes before the competition started. The competition would start next week, which was exactly two days away from now, including the weekend. Gu Fei also promised that he would be online more often these two days to help him complete the missions smoothly.

As for Gu Fei himself, helping Yu Tian Shenming run errands these past few days had really taken up a lot of time. Otherwise, reaching level 40 would have been a sure thing, but it's not at all like that now, it's more like "I think it's doubtful."

After saying goodbye to the others, Gu Fei hurried towards Rebirth Purple Crystal. Just now, while they were holding a meeting in Xiao Lei's tavern, they had urgently called him over here. Gu Fei said he was busy and ignored them. He dragged it out until now and asked if they still needed him to go, and he actually got an affirmative answer.

He quickly arrived at Rebirth Purple Crystal, pushed the door open, and saw a room full of people. Just as he was about to say hello, he suddenly felt a piercing killing intent assault him.

There was no one to be seen beside him, obviously a thief in stealth. Gu Fei didn't have time to draw his sword, so he directly waved his hand to the side and steadily grabbed the other person's wrist. Before the other person's figure fully appeared, his left hand knocked away the dagger that was being stabbed over, and his right hand grabbed the other person's throat in a suohou (throat lock) move, while shouting to the girls, "Get out of the way!"

These silly girls, they actually let someone mix directly into the guild. While thinking, Gu Fei extended his leg to trip the other person, and his right hand exerted force to prepare to knock the other person to the ground. This person was still in a blurry, emerging stealth state, his legs were hooked by Gu Fei, his right hand was taken away by Gu Fei's left hand, and his throat was also grabbed by Gu Fei, leaving only his left hand flailing in the air.

Gu Fei saw that the hand was tearing towards him, and knew that this was a person's instinctive reaction when they were about to fall. He wanted to dodge, but he didn't expect that this claw's speed far exceeded Gu Fei's expectations, and it actually tore him squarely.

Gu Fei was greatly shocked. With his mage's poor physique, it wouldn't be difficult to use a clever trick to knock the person down, but now the other person had grabbed Gu Fei and was preparing to pull him down with them. Gu Fei couldn't resolve this momentum. The right hand that was originally preparing to let go of the suohou (throat lock) quickly tightened again, and his body and legs were bent, welcoming the direction the person was falling, and Gu Fei also squatted down.

Dust flew up. It seemed that the other person was cleanly knocked to the ground by Gu Fei, but Gu Fei was actually screaming in his heart at this time. This was just a game. His grab and push couldn't cause much damage at all. His original idea was to push the person over and then draw his sword to finish them off, but he didn't expect the other person to move so fast that they also grabbed Gu Fei, causing him to completely lose the space to draw his sword.

At this time, his left hand was holding the other person's right hand that was holding the dagger on the ground, and his right hand was desperately grabbing the other person's throat. Gu Fei really didn't have confidence in his strength, and didn't think that he could suppress the other person like this, so he quickly pressed his right knee to the side, pressing it directly on the other person's abdomen, while shouting, "Little Rain, come and help!"

Sixue de Yu, that full-strength warrior, one slap would be better than Gu Fei's hands and feet combined.

The surroundings were silent. Gu Fei felt that the atmosphere was a bit cold, and when he looked down again, the stealthed thief had completely appeared. A girl with a shapely figure was lying on her back, her right arm was held down by Gu Fei's left hand, and her abdomen was pressed down by Gu Fei's right knee.

As for what the girl looked like? He didn't know. Gu Fei's all-out suohou (throat lock) had choked the girl until her face was discolored and her features were distorted. If it weren't for her figure, it would have been impossible to tell if she was a man or a woman.

Gu Fei hesitated and slowly released his left hand, right knee, and right hand one after another. The girl's pressure was greatly reduced, and the hand that had been desperately grabbing Gu Fei also loosened, and she lay sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath.

"What's going on?" Gu Fei frowned. He didn't recognize this person. Although he couldn't recognize all 50 or so girls in Rebirth Purple Crystal at a glance, he would definitely have an impression of someone with such an outstanding appearance if he had seen them before.

Luo Luo walked out from the group of girls with a smile, stood at the top of the girl's head, and looked down at her corpse-like body. "Xiao Wu, you can't do it. You were pushed down by Qianli as soon as you came up."

"Too brutal!" The girl was still gasping for breath. "I was almost choked to death." As she said that, she reached out and touched her neck. Gu Fei's two fingerprints were gradually turning from red to blue. To others, it was shocking, but fortunately, she couldn't see it herself.

Gu Fei looked around blankly. The gazes around him were full of smiles, surprise, and disbelief, but in any case, it could be seen that this girl was not an enemy.

"What's going on?" Gu Fei asked.

"Let me introduce you. This is Xiyao Wu, who just joined our guild," Luo Luo said with a smile.

Xiyao Wu! The most powerful RMB warrior in history. The mercenary group just mentioned her, and he didn't expect to meet her so soon. Rich, and so beautiful, if Yu Tian Shenming and Zhan Wushang were to see her, he didn't know how crazy they would become. Gu Fei accidentally drifted off.

Xiyao Wu was still lying on the ground, not moving. Only her right hand was slightly raised and waved randomly, saying, "Hello."

"Hello..." Gu Fei responded.

"Stop playing dead and get up quickly," Luo Luo said to Xiyao Wu.

Xiyao Wu sat up and looked at her right wrist. Like her neck, two handprints were evolving.

"Don't mess around next time. It's dangerous to hide behind the door and scare people," Gu Fei said earnestly.

Xiyao Wu smiled and said, "Then I'll try again."

"What?" Gu Fei was stunned, and saw that Xiyao Wu had suddenly stood up, leaned forward, and stabbed over with a dagger in her arm.

So fast! Gu Fei was shocked. Xiyao Wu's movement speed and attack speed were obviously above his. From this point of view, it was no coincidence that she grabbed him earlier.

This was not difficult to understand. Xiyao Wu was known as the most powerful RMB warrior. Everything else could be lacking, but her equipment must be the most cutting-edge. With a set of top-quality items from head to toe, even the noobiest player could fly up the branches and become a phoenix. Xiyao Wu was originally a thief class with an agility advantage. With a set of top-quality items, it was not surprising that her speed exceeded Gu Fei's.

But facing Xiyao Wu's attack, Gu Fei didn't dodge or flash. Xiyao Wu stopped halfway and looked at him suspiciously. "Why don't you fight back?"