Chapter 158 A Profitable Task

Yun Zhong Mudi’s steps were steady, but an outrageous thought crept into his mind.

It wasn’t about the girl in front of him, but about the task she was doing. There were tasks here? Yun Zhong Mudi had never heard of that. Since they were both warriors, perhaps this could be a very helpful task for him? Yun Zhong Mudi thought, feeling he should first find out what this task was. After all, finding out Gu Fei’s information was to strengthen the guild; obtaining a task would strengthen himself.

Faced with the choice of making the guild stand out or making himself stand out, Yun Zhong Mudi chose the latter without the slightest hesitation.

"Ahem!" Yun Zhong Mudi coughed to get the girl's attention.

"What is this beauty doing here?" Yun Zhong Mudi asked casually.

"A task," the girl replied. It was common for girls to be hit on, especially in games where everyone was a bit bolder. The girls were used to it.

"Oh, what kind of task?" Yun Zhong Mudi continued to ask nonchalantly.

"Wheat in the Mud," the girl replied.

Every task had a name, and Yun Zhong Mudi had never heard of the task the girl mentioned. Although the name sounded very simple, it was obviously idiotic to judge the content of a task by its name. It was like a person's name didn't necessarily reflect how much knowledge they had.

Yun Zhong Mudi, with an excited heart, asked cautiously, "How do you get it?"

"Talk to the people here," the girl said, as she knocked on the door.

An old man with a hunched back opened the door. The light in his eyes, tempered by experience, made Yun Zhong Mudi's heart surge. Old people in their twilight years often liked to leave behind a rich legacy, a concept that many game designers agreed with, frequently creating mysterious old men who issued mysterious tasks. Looking at this one in front of him, hidden in a quiet neighborhood, who would have thought there was a task here if someone hadn't accidentally knocked on the door?

"Young lady, help me with a favor. I have some wheat scattered in the market. Can you help me find it? Remember, you must find it within five minutes, or someone else might pick it up," the old man issued the task to the girl.

The girl quickly turned and left. Yun Zhong Mudi hurriedly wanted to step forward, but the old man ignored him and closed the door.

Yun Zhong Mudi hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door, really worried that the task would not be issued to him because the girl had already taken it.

The door opened, and the old man reappeared. Looking at Yun Zhong Mudi, he repeated what he had said to the girl. Yun Zhong Mudi agreed without thinking, and the task "Wheat in the Mud" appeared in his taskbar.

The task description didn't seem to have anything special about it. Yun Zhong Mudi, puzzled, headed towards the market.

The market mentioned by the NPC was naturally not the trading street formed by the players themselves, but a place where some system merchants concentrated on selling system goods. It wasn't as lively as the trading street, but there were still many players coming and going. Yun Zhong Mudi searched around the market but couldn't find the wheat.

Could it be that the girl had already picked up the wheat, so he couldn't find it? Yun Zhong Mudi arrived at the market just in time to see the girl leaving.

Yun Zhong Mudi quickly wandered around for more than five minutes, and a system prompt notified him that the task was labeled "Failed."

"It's difficult!" Yun Zhong Mudi was moved. Just then, he saw the girl appear in the market again.

Seeing Yun Zhong Mudi, the girl smiled, "You got the task?"

Yun Zhong Mudi nodded.

"Did you find the wheat?"

Yun Zhong Mudi shook his head.

"Hehe!" A strange smile appeared on the girl's face. She calmly said to Yun Zhong Mudi, "Use your brain!"

Yun Zhong Mudi carefully chewed on the meaning of the girl's words, but still couldn't understand it.

A minute later, the girl asked him, "Did you figure it out?"

Yun Zhong Mudi shook his head blankly.

"Hehe, what's the name of this task?" the girl asked.

"Wheat in the Mud," Yun Zhong Mudi replied.

"Correct!" the girl applauded for him.

Yun Zhong Mudi continued to be blank.

"So, you should look for the wheat in the mud!" the girl said.

"Uh?" Yun Zhong Mudi was stunned.

"Look!" the girl said, as she walked to a corner of the wall, grabbed a piece of tattered cloth sticking out of the ground, and pulled it hard. A small cloth bag was in her hand.

"This is the wheat in the mud!" the girl happily said to Yun Zhong Mudi.

"Good luck!" the girl said and turned to leave.

Yun Zhong Mudi was dumbfounded. He realized that he had complicated the simple problem from the beginning. This task seemed to be just a very basic "find something" task, which had always been criticized by players because the system randomly hid the task items. However, this girl seemed to be repeatedly doing this task. Why would she do this if it was just such a simple task?

Yun Zhong Mudi felt that there must be something mysterious about it, so after giving up the task that had already failed, he returned to the old man and took it again.

This time, he knew the target, but how easy was it to find a small piece of cloth hidden in the soil? As a result, he failed again due to exceeding the time limit. After going back and forth like this until the seventh time, Yun Zhong Mudi, who knew every inch of the market like the back of his hand, finally managed to grab the tattered cloth within five minutes.

Yun Zhong Mudi let out an excited roar and hurried back to where he had accepted the task, handing the half-bag of wheat back to the old man with great excitement.

"Thank you, young man, you have helped me a lot!" the old man said, handing over the reward. Yun Zhong Mudi took it and looked, ten silver coins.

"How could this be…" Yun Zhong Mudi muttered to himself. Was this all the reward? Yun Zhong Mudi was unwilling. If this was all the reward, why would the girl repeatedly do it? Thinking about this question, Yun Zhong Mudi looked around and realized that the girl was gone. He quickly sent a message to the guild members in charge of keeping an eye on her. As a result, the members were even more confused than him: "Boss, didn't you go to contact her?"

"Uh… this…" Yun Zhong Mudi really couldn't say that he had temporarily abandoned the grand ideal of strengthening the guild because of his own selfish desire to strengthen himself.

The third attack ended with the disappearance of the target. At the same time, it left Yun Zhong Mudi with deep doubts.

"Why would she repeatedly take such a simple task so many times?"

This question lingered in Yun Zhong Mudi's mind. Unfortunately, his two guild members were no longer watching here at this time, otherwise they could have told him: Guild Leader, you also went back and forth seven times…

However, he still had to continue with the business at hand. Yun Zhong Mudi continued to receive reports from his subordinates. Someone said that they saw a girl with Rebirth Purple Crystal strolling in the auction house, and there weren't many people in the auction house at this time. Yun Zhong Mudi rushed over quickly, but came out of the auction house just five seconds after rushing in.

The two guild members guarding the door were puzzled.

Yun Zhong Mudi was very annoyed: "Use money to buy Xi Yao Wu? Do you two have brains!"

Failure… Yun Zhong Mudi's financial offensive ultimately ended in failure, and it was a failure of trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice used as bait.

"Hmph, just wanting to know a name, it's not a big deal, and you even want to buy it with money. Who do you think we are!" a girl Yun Zhong Mudi had approached said, leaving behind these words.

Yun Zhong Mudi was heartbroken! If he had found this girl from the beginning, he probably wouldn't have even had to spend money to find out. But now, because the second girl he contacted exposed him, it aroused the other party's extreme dissatisfaction, completely unwilling to tell Gu Fei's name. And they showed the deepest contempt for Yun Zhong Mudi and his guild.

What made him even more miserable was that he didn't know.

Gu Fei had quietly gone online in the afternoon. Looking at the small advertisements still flying all over the city, Gu Fei felt that they had really worked hard all day. He originally wanted to take the initiative to contact them. As a result, because of this incident, the girls unanimously persuaded Gu Fei.

"Hmph, is it great to have money?" These words, spoken from the mouth of Xi Yao Wu, the number one gold farming warrior in the game, sounded particularly sonorous. Even Xi Yao Wu had this attitude, so Yun Zhong Mudi seemed extremely wretched.

"Money is not everything." The girls shouted in unison, taking the topic further and further away with their usual warped thinking.

"What are you talking about!" Gu Fei, who was dragged into the guild channel to participate in the discussion as soon as he went online, felt confused for a while.

July, representing the official position, briefly described the situation.

"Uh, many guilds want to recruit you now. If you want to leave, remember to say hello," July finally said. Standing on the guild's position, July always had this business-like face. Even if she also recognized Gu Fei in her heart and didn't want him to leave, the attitude she showed was to respect his choice.

For every member of the guild to be happy, this was July's greatest wish. If someone felt they had a better choice, July wouldn't stop them. She had already reluctantly asked Gu Fei to stay once because the guild would dissolve if Gu Fei left, plus the matter of solving Bu Xiao in the middle. Unknowingly, the guild had received many benefits from Gu Fei.

"I hope he won't leave…" This was what July thought in her heart.