Chapter 35 No Popularity

The answer to that question was, of course, no. Not just in Cloud City, but nowhere in the entire parallel world was there a place where bounty missions were popular. As for people keen on them, at least in Cloud City, Gu Fei had never seen a second.

After Gu Fei gave his negative answer, Piaoliu asked in confusion, "Then why do you do these missions every day?"

"How did you know?" Gu Fei was taken aback.

Piaoliu looked around the tavern. "Heard it said..."

"Oh..." Gu Fei was relieved. Players in the parallel world most often appeared in three places: leveling areas, trading streets, and taverns. Gu Fei did these missions every day, entering and leaving the tavern, and had killed quite a few people inside. And the tavern was a place that always had regulars, like Han Jia Gongzi. Gu Fei's reputation as a bounty mission maniac had spread from this group of people.

Piaoliu continued from the side, "Originally, I was hoping to see the famous 27149, but I came to Cloud City only to find out that this person has disappeared for a long time. Later, I heard in the tavern that there was another player who loved bounty missions, and I was very curious, but I didn't expect to meet you so quickly."

"Heh heh..." Gu Fei chuckled dryly. This thing with the daily bounty missions! He had gained a bit of fame, but it wasn't the kind that 27149 had, the kind that people admired. Most people were puzzled, bewildered, or even ridiculed him. Even some people who admired and feared Gu Fei's PK skills couldn't help but wonder in the end: Doing bounty missions every day, is this guy sick?

"Qian Li, why are you so enthusiastic about bounty missions?" Piaoliu brought up the question.

Say it's a hobby? It was bound to be misunderstood in many ways, and most people probably wouldn't believe it. Gu Fei simply started from the perspective of an online game player, took off his boots, and placed them on the table. "Look, this is the reward for bounty missions."

The tavern players cast Appraisal on the Boots of Pursuit one after another. After a moment, the sound of swallowing saliva rose and fell. Right Hand Writes Handsome, who was closest and an archer, almost had his eyeballs pop out.

"Completing 100 bounty missions in a row will get you these Boots of Pursuit," Gu Fei said as he put the boots back on his feet.

Piaoliu frowned slightly. These boots were indeed rare and top-quality at the moment, but the price of completing 100 bounty missions in a row was too high. Moreover, the system simply explained the word "continuous," but it was really not easy to complete, requiring the right timing, location, and people, and not a single one could be missing.

Piaoliu finally understood why Gu Fei was dropping so quickly on the level experience chart. In his opinion, this was a case of picking up sesame seeds and losing a watermelon. If Gu Fei was an archer or some other class, he could understand, but the problem was that he was a mage. Having such a pair of top-quality shoes would indeed make him much stronger, but Piaoliu felt it wasn't worth it to exchange so much time and experience for it. Rather than that, Piaoliu would rather throw money at it. Because the official had specifically promised that there would be no "soulbound, untradeable" items in the parallel world, so these boots would naturally be no exception.

With that thought, Piaoliu was already asking, "Are you planning to sell these shoes?"

"Sell? Never thought about it..." Gu Fei was even stunned when he heard the word "sell." He simply didn't have the concept of doing business in the game. The odds and ends he got from leveling had already piled up in a warehouse, and he had never taken the time to sell them. He had once had the experience of taking a few items to the auction house to consign them.

But to do a good job of selling things, you had to spend time understanding the market. Gu Fei had never studied it, just looked at the prices of similar items from other people, and then marked his own the same way. Whether it was because the references happened to be the goods of black-hearted merchants, in short, none of Gu Fei's consigned items went out, and the consignment fee consumed n gold coins in a few days. This consignment fee was collected by the system, directly and overbearingly deducted from your pocket every day, without any room for negotiation. Gu Fei wanted to cry but had no tears, and from then on dispelled the idea of auctioning.

At this time, Piaoliu suddenly wanted to talk business with Gu Fei, and Gu Fei felt a bit at a loss. He thought to himself, it would be more pleasant if you just gave me a knife, why are we talking about business!

Seeing that Gu Fei had no intention of selling, Piaoliu began to think of other ideas. He reached into his pocket, fumbled around, and took out a staff. "Qian Li, take a look at this."

The staff was placed on the table, and Gu Fei used Appraisal on it.

"Not bad!" Gu Fei exclaimed. It was a Gold-lettered Yew Staff. Magic coefficient requirement 110, in addition, magic enhancement 35%, magic damage +15%, Intelligence +10, Spirit +10.

The Yew Staff was a level 40 staff, and among the staffs that mages could currently have, it was the most high-end. The concept of coefficient began to appear in this batch of high-end equipment. And this Yew Staff actually had 35% magic enhancement.

The meaning of magic enhancement: for example, if the magic attack of an ordinary staff is 80-100, then if it has the attribute of 35% magic enhancement, the final displayed magic attack attribute is 108-135.

Similarly, other equipment often has attributes such as swordsmanship enhancement, archery enhancement, and defense enhancement.

In short, Piaoliu's Yew Staff had 35% higher magic attack than an ordinary Yew Staff, and also increased magic damage by 15%, Intelligence and Spirit by 10 points. It was a top-quality staff with considerable output.

"Trade for your Boots of Pursuit, how about it?" Piaoliu said. Piaoliu had seen Gu Fei's Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, but after using Appraisal on it several times, the sword had not been identified. But since it was being held by a mage, could it be a magic sword?

Ordinary players didn't know about the existence of magic swords, but Piaoliu had seen one in the hands of an NPC during a mission. Magic swords had dual attributes, that is, they had both magic attack power and physical attack power. It sounded very impressive at first, but in fact, dual-attribute equipment also meant that the values of these two attributes would not be high.

The magic sword that Piaoliu had seen had physical attack lower than a single-handed sword of the same level, and magic attack lower than a staff of the same level. Apart from the styling being more handsome, Piaoliu really didn't think that magic swords had any meaning of existence.

Gu Fei's one looked like it had a more outstanding design, but if it was a magic sword, it probably couldn't escape this setting. That's why Piaoliu took out this Gold-lettered Yew Staff and wanted to exchange it with Gu Fei.

Weapons were always the most valued by players. In Piaoliu's opinion, he felt that this staff should be more important to Gu Fei than those shoes. If it were him, he would definitely not refuse.

Unfortunately, Gu Fei was not him. After hearing Piaoliu's suggestion, he paused slightly and quickly replied, "No need."

This Yew Staff was indeed extremely tempting, but unfortunately it had met the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword and Gu Fei.

From the weapon's point of view, the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword conformed to all of Piaoliu's speculations, but unfortunately, the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword was a level 70 equipment. Although it would be lower than the same level equipment, the Yew Staff, which had just entered the level 40 threshold, was still completely inadequate in front of it.

From Gu Fei's point of view, his love for swordsmanship far exceeded his love for staff techniques, and he would never exchange a sword for a staff.

That's right, in Gu Fei's eyes, that wasn't a staff, it was a stick, and it had almost no physical damage. Trash! That was the voice from Gu Fei's heart, a voice that was enough to make Piaoliu feel heartbroken.

But it seemed that Piaoliu was also prepared for Gu Fei's refusal. He didn't show too much surprise, said "What a pity," and then put the Yew Staff away.

The few of them exchanged a few more casual greetings, and Right Hand Writes Handsome asked Gu Fei in detail about the bounty missions. Obviously, as an archer, he was just as interested in these Boots of Pursuit as Yu Tian Shen Ming.

At this time, Gu Fei received a message, and originally thought it was Yu Tian Shen Ming coming to "heLp" again, but when he opened it, it was Luo Luo: "Great Swordsman, let's go leveling!"

"So early?" Gu Fei was surprised, the time was an hour earlier than yesterday.

"The little ladies can't wait to admire the Great Swordsman's heroic posture," Luo Luo said.

"Coming right away," Gu Fei replied, got up and said goodbye to Piaoliu and the other two.

"Going leveling?" Piaoliu raised his eyebrows. "Together?"

"Ah? I already have a team!" Gu Fei said.

"It's nothing to add the three of us, right?" Piaoliu asked.

So Gu Fei sent a message to ask Luo Luo.

"Handsome?" Luo Luo asked.

"Uh, okay," Gu Fei glanced at Piaoliu. Clothes make the man, and Piaoliu's outfit was still very handsome, especially the staff in his hand, which looked like a burning flame, and looked very cool.

"There are two more," Gu Fei introduced, and it happened that Left Hand Writes Love and Right Hand Writes Handsome were whispering to each other, and after a burst of chills, he couldn't help but gossip, "It really looks like a broken back!" (T/N: slang for gay relationship)

"Ah? Really?" Luo Luo asked.

"I think so..." Gu Fei said.

"Come, tell them to come right away," Luo Luo's message revealed a sense of determination.

Gu Fei was at a loss for a moment, and then greeted the three of them to set off.

On the road, Piaoliu walked side by side with Gu Fei. As fellow mages, it was inevitable to exchange some experiences between mages. For example, Piaoliu asked, "Seeing you fighting with those people in the tavern just now, you seem to have added Agility, right?"

Gu Fei nodded: "Yeah, all Agility."

"What?" Piaoliu thought he heard wrong.

"All Agility."

Piaoliu spat out a mouthful of blood, and after a long while said, "It seems that you must be a die-hard fan of kiting tactics." Apart from that, Piaoliu really couldn't think of what it meant for a mage to add all Agility.

But Gu Fei said, "Don't know how to play, just randomly added."

Piaoliu spat out another mouthful of blood, and comforted Gu Fei like the girls from Rebirth Amethyst said, "It'll be better when you reach level 40, you can wash it and add it again."

Gu Fei smiled and remained noncommittal.

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Ah, there are several more monthly tickets, I'll post another chapter too~ Speaking of which, the 12,000 urging votes are back again? It's too torturous. .