Chapter 177
Game weather wasn't always static; it often threw in a few changes. Even the combat maps followed this realistic approach. Suddenly, a small breeze kicked up for no reason. Gu Fei, at the highest point of the map, felt refreshed by the wind. Han Jia Gongzi, down in the depression, was also in good spirits and even joked with Gu Fei, "You look so stupid standing on the mountaintop, catching the breeze!"

The brothers of the Black Hand Mercenary Group were feeling agitated, the kind of annoyance that no wind could blow away.

If they still couldn't figure out they'd been tricked at this point, then Black Hand Finger's brain was truly waterlogged. Being tricked was one thing, but the main issue was that Black Hand Finger had been so confident before, making it difficult to save face now. It was embarrassing in front of so many brothers, leaving him unsure of what to say.

Fortunately, the Black Hand brothers were considerate. Even if they were laughing inwardly, they at least showed a united front, each one acting like they wanted to devour the Young Master Elite Group alive. The Black Hand Mercenary Group's morale actually received a boost from this.

"Old Hei, what do we do now? Give us the word!"

In online games, leaders were far more common than top-tier equipment. If you stood on the street and shouted "Leader," seven or eight people would turn around. If you met a confused one, he might even mistake you for his little brother on the spot. To avoid such awkward situations, everyone gave their leader a unique title, which was both familiar and easy to distinguish from other random leaders.

Black Hand Finger stared intently at the distant peak and said, "These guys are indeed not simple. It's no accident they were able to fight their way here." This praise wasn't without reason. Black Hand Finger had just suffered a significant loss of prestige after being tricked. Praising his opponents would make him appear magnanimous and also serve as an explanation for his mistake: the opponents were strong, so suffering a loss was normal. A leader always had to be this shrewd.

"Now that they have points, will they start flying around the map with the big kites?" someone asked anxiously. The terror of the big kites had already influenced a generation of players in Cloud City.

"If they use the big kites, that's fine. Our encirclement training won't be for nothing," Black Hand Finger said. "What I'm afraid of is them hiding. This damn map doesn't seem as simple as we thought. There are still many unknown hiding places. We really didn't pay much attention to it before."

Black Hand Finger's words revealed that Han Jia Gongzi's strategy was truly based on intelligence, with thorough preparations. From the very first mercenary battle, he had been paying attention to the map's type, changes, and format...

Combined with his research in guild wars, Han Jia Gongzi had been focusing on maps for over a dozen matches. Black Hand Finger only now realized that maps also had a lot of content, a lot of inside information, and a lot of depth. Trying to start researching now would only lead to frustration. He shouldn't even think about the depth anymore.

Therefore, Black Hand Finger didn't organize his subordinates to start researching the map. He continued to stare at the peak, analyzing the enemy's and his own situation: "The opponent has a total of six people, only six people! They won't confront us head-on. They can only adopt this roundabout tactic! But in doing so, the other three in their group, namely the warrior, knight, and priest, won't be able to keep up with the mobility."

"Like now, the thief and archer are luring us over here in the forest, and the mage is on the mountaintop eliminating the eyes. So where are those three? Where exactly are they hiding?"

Everyone stared blankly at Black Hand Finger, feeling that their leader was a bit obsessed. Hadn't the main mission of this final battle, "find the opponents," been decided three days before the battle? Now that they were on the scene, why was he still yelling about it?

"Those three also went up the mountain before, then came down. With them three, the speed can't be too fast, so they couldn't have gone far after coming down the mountain. Our eyes have been watching all the time, and no one has been seen moving, but... the thief and archer have come to this forest..." Black Hand Finger muttered, suddenly realizing something. He called out to the people beside him: "Search everything around this forest that could block the view from the mountaintop."

"Why don't we dare to split up? Because we're afraid of the opponent's group-killing ability from the mage, because we don't know how much power those experts have together. But now they're actually acting separately, so why are we still afraid? Everyone, split into groups of ten," Black Hand Finger said, feeling that he had discovered another major issue.

"Old Hei!" someone called out to Black Hand Finger. It was Moonlight Soliloquy: "That mage isn't just good at casting spells. With his skill and strength, a team of ten might not be able to deal with him!"

"Good!" Black Hand Finger had to respect Moonlight Soliloquy's opinion, as he had experience fighting Gu Fei. "Then twenty people. It should be no problem to deal with him alone, right?"

"This... should be no problem!" Moonlight Soliloquy really didn't dare to draw a conclusion lightly. That day, he had gathered people to ambush Gu Fei, and there were about this many people too, but unfortunately, he didn't succeed.

"You lead twenty people and try to take care of him on the mountaintop," Black Hand Finger said.

"Uh... okay!" If he were to say that he was afraid of just one person with twenty people, Moonlight Soliloquy would really lose face, so he immediately led twenty people away. However, now that Gu Fei occupied the mountaintop and had become an eye, these people didn't know any stealthy routes. Charging up the mountain like this might scare him away, but taking care of him would be difficult.

"You, you, you!" Moonlight Soliloquy pulled three people from his team. "You go around to the back of the mountain and draw his attention over there. We'll seize the time to charge up from the front." Moonlight Soliloquy could only think of this method.

The three left the forest and headed straight for the back of the mountain. According to Moonlight Soliloquy's idea, if Gu Fei was acting as an eye on the mountaintop, he would definitely be watching the movements of these three, and if he chased after them, he naturally wouldn't be able to take care of this direction. After all, the mountaintop wasn't a pointy tip of a pyramid. If he squatted on the tip and twisted his neck, he could survey the whole area. Otherwise, why would an eye need three or four people?

The three left, and the squads searching around the forest also made several discoveries. After Black Hand Finger's screening, two ditches and the wall that the Young Master Elite Group had climbed stood out.

"They used these covers to get around to this forest. Send a squad to each path. Follow the paths, and you'll find something. Perhaps it's where those three guys are hiding. Be careful to be stealthy. Hehe, the opponent definitely won't expect that the roads they used to escape from our eyes on the mountaintop have now become the road to the Yellow Springs for them!" Black Hand Finger couldn't help but feel a little smug.

Nearly 80 people were divided into 8 groups. Two teams followed Moonlight Soliloquy to encircle Gu Fei, three teams went along the so-called Yellow Springs Road, and Black Hand Finger still had three teams at hand, so he immediately sent out two more teams.

"You, go in this direction. This is the direction the thief and archer ran away in. Try to expand the search range as much as possible. Once Moonlight takes the peak, he'll give you instructions."

The two teams took their orders and left. At this time, there weren't many people left beside Black Hand Finger. After all, there weren't exactly 80 people at this time. He had sent a few people to search the forest before, Little Shadow had been sacrificed, and a few others hadn't returned yet. Black Hand Finger looked to his left and right and left one person in the forest: "It seems they like this little forest very much. You hide here. If you find any of their people, report immediately, but absolutely do not expose yourself, understand?"

After making this arrangement, he felt that guarding the tree to wait for the rabbit was also a good method, so he immediately sent the same instructions to the members wandering in other forests: stay in the forest, hide yourself, and report if you find anything.

With all the arrangements completed, Black Hand Finger found that he and the three guys beside him didn't seem to have anything to do. After a brief moment of hesitation, he left the forest with the three of them and chased after Moonlight Soliloquy's group.

The three people sent by Moonlight Soliloquy had already completed the detour to the back of the mountain, but they couldn't be sure if the eye on the mountain had chased after them. In any case, Moonlight Soliloquy had already set off with his troops. Twenty people to kill this mage shouldn't be a big problem this time.

The small breeze continued to blow. In the combat map, the people of the Black Hand Mercenary Group were each doing their own thing, moving quietly.

One of the teams climbing the ditch had already reached the end of the ditch in a short while. The other team, however, crossed the small ditch and came to a large ditch. At this T-junction, they didn't know whether to go left or right. After a moment of confusion, they flipped a gold coin and finally decided to go right. As they walked further and further away, they looked back remotely, and even the highest peak was blurred... Old Hei meant that the opponent should be not far from the foot of the mountain, and walking this way was obviously wrong. The team leader thought. Damn it, this broken gold coin. "Turn around, go left!" he shouted.

The third team, like the Young Master Elite Group, sometimes bent over, sometimes squatted, sometimes rolled, and sometimes crawled behind the wall, until they reached the end of the wall and found themselves in the depression. These people were smarter and didn't foolishly use a gold coin to decide left or right. After looking up, they headed in the direction closer to the peak.

The fastest group, however, was Moonlight Soliloquy's two teams. The three who detoured to the back of the mountain slowed down, pretending to climb the mountain, while the seventeen of them had already begun to charge up the mountain eagerly.

The higher the mountain, the stronger the wind.

The parallel world hadn't ignored this little rule. As soon as he rushed to the top, Moonlight Soliloquy immediately saw a black figure. Gu Fei stood in the middle of the mountaintop, his black mage robe flapping in the wind like a cool trench coat.

He was holding the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword and drawing circles on the ground, but when he heard voices, he looked up, looked at Moonlight Soliloquy, and smiled, "It's you, why did you take so long!"

When Han Jia Gongzi mocked Gu Fei for looking stupid standing on the mountainside catching the wind, he had retreated back to the middle. Acting as an eye? Han Jia Gongzi didn't mention this, but instead asked him a serious question: "Qian Li, be honest, how many people can you take on alone?"

"Ten shouldn't be a problem," Gu Fei said confidently.

"The limit?" Han Jia Gongzi said.

"The limit is such a vague concept; it's hard to say..." Gu Fei said with difficulty.

"Oh, then don't come down from the mountain."

"What for?"

"To challenge your limit," Han Jia Gongzi said.