Chapter 77

"Tch!" Gu Fei was unimpressed. "Don't make it sound like you did it on purpose. If Xi Yao Wu hadn't had a teleportation scroll, we would have died in your magic formation long ago."

"Oh, is that so?" Han Jia Gongzi said slowly, with his usual irritating demeanor that made people want to beat him up.

If Gu Fei wasn't a physically weak mage, the wine glass in his hand would definitely have shattered.

Endure! Restrain yourself! Gu Fei reminded himself with the fighting spirit of Zhou Xingchi facing the raging sea in *King of Comedy*.

"Anyway, the current situation isn't bad." Han Jia Gongzi glanced at the time again. "Can Xi Yao Wu hold out for that long alone?"

"No problem!" Gu Fei nodded. "Did you think we didn't consider the time issue you mentioned? With Xi Yao Wu's skills, she can hold out even longer."

"Skills? Does a teleportation scroll count as a skill?"

Gu Fei was silent at first, but after a long pause, he said, "It's boring to sit around waiting for time to pass."

"If it were Yu Tian or Wu Shang, they definitely wouldn't find it boring," Han Jia Gongzi said.

Gu Fei thought for a moment and nodded, "I strongly agree."

After a moment of silence, Gu Fei finally couldn't help but ask, "Did you really intentionally design against Dui Jiu Dang Ge?"

"Not at first, but later I did," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Why not at first?" Gu Fei asked.

"Your guild, apart from you and Xi Yao Wu, everyone else is completely negligible. Although you two are very fast, Dui Jiu Dang Ge has a large number of people, and because there are so many people, the match takes a long time, giving them enough time to squeeze the map space so you two have nowhere to escape," Han Jia Gongzi said. "But after seeing that Xi Yao Wu had a teleportation scroll, I changed my mind and decided to help you win."

"Oh?"

"So I exaggerated the energy of you and Xi Yao Wu, and suggested that the guild adopt such a steady defensive approach. I was planning to tell you the solution in the last ten minutes. But you were ruthless enough to solve it violently half an hour early." Han Jia Gongzi was expressionless.

"You're making decisions on your own again! If we hadn't held out until the last ten minutes, wouldn't your plan have been wasted?" Gu Fei said.

"If you hadn't held out until the last ten minutes... is that my responsibility?" Han Jia Gongzi retorted.

Gu Fei was choked. "Couldn't you have told me in advance?"

"Didn't I tell you? This defense is perfect, so perfect that even I can't find a way to break it. Isn't that telling you: obediently squat on the side and don't make any attempts? Because this is the perfect solution I designed," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"I'm sorry! From some of your narcissistic words, I really have a hard time extracting deeper meanings," Gu Fei said.

Han Jia Gongzi shook his head repeatedly. "Look at the stupid method you used in the end. The fact that it succeeded only means you had really good luck."

Gu Fei could only smile wryly.

The two sat quietly in the tavern's private room, waiting for the match to end.

Half an hour later, Gu Fei's message prompt began to flash. He opened it and saw Xi Yao Wu: "Where are you, where are you, where are you? We won!! Wahahaha, I'm too strong."

Gu Fei smiled and replied, "Awesome!"

Han Jia Gongzi frowned, his eyes widened, obviously browsing messages as well. After a while, he waved his hand. "So noisy."

"Is anyone giving you trouble?" Gu Fei asked as he drank his wine, how much he hoped someone would rush in and beat up Han Jia Gongzi! Although he also had the ability to do so, they were so familiar that he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Han Jia Gongzi shook his head. "I don't know." He had already muted the guild channel.

Before long, there was suddenly a commotion outside the tavern's private room, and a female voice shouted, "All the drinks here today are on me!"

Cheers erupted, and Gu Fei and Han Jia Gongzi exchanged a glance. "Xiao Lei!" they both called out.

Xiao Lei hurriedly appeared before the two of them.

"Is someone outside treating?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.

Xiao Lei nodded.

"Bring two bottles of the most expensive wine first," Han Jia Gongzi said.

Xiao Lei smiled slightly and went out.

"I've had that wine before, it's really good!" Gu Fei was a little excited.

Han Jia Gongzi's face turned cold. "Do I need to remind you how you got to drink it?"

Gu Fei quickly stopped talking. Xiao Lei quickly brought the wine in. Because someone was treating, everyone in the tavern began to drink heartily. Xiao Lei was very busy at this time, and didn't have time to say much. She dropped off the wine and ran off.

"Ah!" Looking at the wine bottle, Han Jia Gongzi's eyes revealed a rare glimmer of joy. He quickly poured himself a cup. Although Gu Fei wasn't a big drinker, the wine that dared to be priced at 120 gold coins a bottle in the game was indeed a rare vintage. Gu Fei, in the spirit of not wasting good things, also poured himself a full cup.

The ones who rushed into the private room were naturally the girls from Chong Sheng Zijing (Rebirth Purple Crystal). The result of defeating Dui Jiu Dang Ge (Singing Aloud) , the second largest guild in Yunduan City, was truly unbelievable to the girls. At this moment, they excitedly abandoned their usual reserve and cheered outside. The other guests in the tavern curiously inquired and were naturally surprised to hear the result.

Xi Yao Wu, who had single-handedly dealt with more than six hundred people for the last half hour, could be said to have made the greatest contribution. She was currently outside recounting how she had evaded the rapid pursuit of more than six hundred people. After hearing this, Han Jia Gongzi quickly looked relieved and said to Gu Fei, "I understand why you didn't choose to attack at the last minute. So you deliberately left half an hour for Xi Yao Wu to shine, pushing the greatest credit to her, right?"

Gu Fei smiled and raised his glass. "Drink, drink."

Han Jia Gongzi drank it all in one gulp, sighing, "Drinking this wine doesn't feel like taking advantage at all, it's completely deserved."

Gu Fei smiled. At this moment, the originally noisy sounds outside suddenly gradually faded, and in an instant, it was completely quiet. After a moment, Gu Fei heard Qi Yue's voice, "So it's the members of Dui Jiu Dang Ge, what's the matter?"

Are they here to cause trouble? Gu Fei frowned and reached into his pocket, grabbing the hilt of his sword.

"Don't be nervous," Han Jia Gongzi smiled. "Ni Liu Er Shang (Upstream) isn't that kind of person."

Ni Liu Er Shang outside was also answering, "Where's that mage from your guild? I'm quite interested in him and would like to get to know him."

"He's not here," Qi Yue replied.

"Hmm..." Ni Liu Er Shang also had eyes. He scanned the tavern and indeed didn't find Gu Fei. "Can you tell me his contact information?"

"Well, I'll pass it on to him and let him decide for himself!" Qi Yue replied.

"Thanks!" Ni Liu Er Shang replied and left with the people from Dui Jiu Dang Ge.

The girls breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone thought that the people from Dui Jiu Dang Ge had lost and were psychologically unbalanced, wanting to regain face off the field.

"Judging from what Dui Jiu Dang Ge said, it seems like they're planning to poach people?" the girls began to whisper.

Everyone had discerning eyes. Everyone had seen how powerful Gu Fei was in the previous guild wars. Such an expert was naturally an object of contention for major guilds. He was different from Xi Yao Wu. Although Xi Yao Wu was also a first-class expert, her mentality was in line with the girls. She just wanted to have fun and didn't have any ambition to dominate, so she didn't feel strange being in a small guild. She also disbanded her mercenary group whenever she wanted.

As for Gu Fei... no one really knew what this guy was thinking. The girls weren't really familiar with him. Moreover, he had joined the guild by mistake, and he had said from the beginning that he would leave sooner or later.

The girls didn't have deep feelings for Gu Fei and didn't really care whether he was an expert or a noob. However, as time went on, the girls had become accustomed to having such an existence in the guild. Suddenly, one day, this habit was about to change, and they felt a little lost in their hearts.

The atmosphere in the tavern suddenly became less cheerful.

Han Jia Gongzi mocked, "I didn't realize you had a bit of status in these women's hearts."

Gu Fei smiled and didn't speak. Having a bit of status in other people's hearts wasn't a bad thing.

The third round of the competition ended. Yunduan City once again appeared in the headlines of various news outlets, with the content being the news of Chong Sheng Zijing's defeat of Dui Jiu Dang Ge.

This time, the exposé was different from the Mu Yun Mercenary Group incident. It wasn't revealed by one of the participating parties. The poster claimed that he had conducted in-depth interviews with both sides, but he hardly mentioned the mage Gu Fei in the post. Instead, he focused on describing the power of Xi Yao Wu, one of the Five Little Strong, and the existence of items like teleportation scrolls.

This news didn't have a big impact on players outside Yunduan City, but it stirred up another storm in Yunduan City. First, the Mu Yun Mercenary Group with about 70 people, and now Dui Jiu Dang Ge with more than 700 people. This self-destruction and time-delaying tactic was too terrifying.

All the major guilds and mercenary groups were taking it seriously, studying ways to crack this tactic.

"Hey, worthy of being Dui Jiu Dang Ge, this time the momentum is much stronger than when they defeated Yun Mu before," Han Jia Gongzi said, nodding with satisfaction.

"It's Mu Yun," You Ge said.

"It's a thing of the past, why mention him? I'm really looking forward to what tactics they'll use against our mercenary group today," Han Jia Gongzi said with a sneer.

The few of them each held the information that You Ge had prepared for today's opponent. Gu Fei smiled after glancing at it. "Today's opponent will definitely not be affected by your broken strategy."

"Oh? Could someone have seen through my intentions?" Han Jia Gongzi quickly grabbed the information compiled by You Ge as well.

The opponent for the fourth round of the Gongzi Elite Team: Zijing Mercenary Group, level 1 mercenary group, number of people 20. Members, except for Xi Yao Wu at level 41, no one else is above level 40.