Chapter 242 The Train to Vicious Chaoyang

Few players shared the same mindset as Unsworn Sword. Most people became alert the moment they saw someone suspiciously loitering nearby, especially those mercenary players who had already sacrificed a level. There was no suspense about what this broken quest could reward; it was just the bounty Unsworn Sword was offering! Losing a level for that little bounty was already unpleasant, and losing another one now was absolutely intolerable.

Harboring these selfish thoughts, these players unexpectedly erupted with immense fighting spirit.

"Guild Leader Unsworn, should we make a move? We've been too passive all this time. Now that it's come to this, we should change from passive to active. Better to kill by mistake than to leave it uncertain. Whatever their purpose, let's just take them out!" a ruthless fellow suggested.

Unsworn Sword had never been a benevolent Xi Yang Yang (Pleasant Goat); he only prioritized his own interests. He was even happy for the mercenary guild players in his group to sacrifice themselves, let alone these random passersby. Hearing this brother's suggestion, which suited his own thoughts, he immediately issued an order in the guild.

Currently, these suspicious players were just keeping a certain distance and wandering around. There were about four groups of them, each with five or six people, all with excellent speed. Since there was distance, the best form of attack was naturally the Archers of All Directions' arrow formation. Although it had been halved in Linyin City, reducing its power, it was by no means negligible.

These marksmen always stayed together, ready to deploy their formation for an attack. When Unsworn Sword issued the order, they didn't ask questions. They immediately stopped, spread out, focused, turned around, and nocked their arrows.

A wave of feathered arrows soared into the sky.

The players who were following them seemed not to have anticipated that the other side would suddenly attack. The Archers of All Directions were well-trained, and from standing in position to firing their arrows was only a matter of a moment. By the time these people reacted, they were already under a rain of arrows.

White light erupted on the ground. Unsworn Sword didn't care about whether they lived or died, but asked the marksmen who had launched the attack: "Any PK value?"

"None!" All the marksmen checked their own stats and happily reported.

This said a lot. Killing people without increasing PK value clearly indicated a two-way task. The group around them was indeed up to no good.

Having secured the moral high ground, Unsworn Sword was even more high-spirited. He drew the longsword from his waist and pointed it at another small group.

"Fire!" Unsworn Sword shouted triumphantly, which seemed extremely lewd to others.

This group had been alarmed after the previous group was wiped out, and were preparing to scatter and flee. But as mentioned earlier, the Archers of All Directions' arrow formation was well-trained and extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, they had adjusted their positions. Another wave of arrows rained down, killing five of this group of six, leaving only one person limping away. A few marksmen fired another volley, eliminating him.

The remaining two groups no longer hesitated and scattered in all directions. The Archers of All Directions' arrow formation couldn't cover such a large area, so they had to choose targets for a volley. Most were killed by the arrows, and a few escaped the range, looking back at the Cloudrise City group in horror.

"Hahaha, these guys, I think they were too careless, right?" Unsworn Sword said to the people around him with a laugh. He waved his hand, signaling to continue forward, and said, "The opponents are too green. Could it be like in Linshui City, where a small guild picked up this big quest again?"

The players around Unsworn Sword smiled along, but in their hearts, they felt that Unsworn Sword's idea was not too optimistic. No matter which main city, the lower the guild level, the more there were. This was inevitable. If the quest didn't require a certain guild level or scale, then the chances of a small guild getting it were naturally much greater.

At this moment, the members of Young Master's elite group were also expressing their opinions.

"Brother You, did you manage to identify anyone when you went up?" Han Jia Gongzi (Young Master Han) first asked Brother You. The moment they opened fire, Brother You rushed out of the team like an arrow. Giving him a camera would really make him a typical paparazzi.

Ordinary players would be ashamed of their low level and poor equipment. Brother You wasn't. As a king of intelligence, he was pained that his Appraisal skill level wasn't outstanding. In Young Master's elite group, he was once inferior to Sword Demon. For this reason, he worked hard and has now reached the highest stage of his level, which was quite remarkable.

For these kinds of auxiliary skills, some experts could manage to appropriately balance them while leveling up, which was already rare; most people prioritized leveling up. This kind of thing, they would make up for later when they were at a higher level. This was the most mainstream thought. As for people like Brother You, who were determined to be at the forefront, there were very few.

At this time, he risked his life to rush forward, wanting to play a role. It wasn't considered a failure. When the Appraisal skill level was high, in addition to ensuring accuracy and success rate, the effective distance also increased. Brother You successfully rushed into his appraisal range, and then took two consecutive shots, quickly appraising two people. The speed was extremely fast. Brother You proudly thought this was his double-hit special skill.

However, when he turned back to return to the team, he saw another figure with similar actions to him. Brother You recognized it as Miss Liuxia of Resplendent Purple Crystal. It wasn't easy for Brother You to have a fan, so he wouldn't forget that this girl was also someone with this pursuit. Discovering that he wasn't alone, Brother You felt very gratified.

As soon as he returned to the team, Han Jia Gongzi had already asked. Brother You flipped through the previous consecutive shots, and was first stunned.

"Level 33, level 32... This, aren't they a bit too green?" Brother You said in surprise.

"Such a low level!" Everyone was even more surprised. Saying that this level was green was being polite. It was practically just starting out. Currently, players generally believed that the game only really began after level 30.

"I wonder what Liuxia saw." Brother You muttered.

"I'll ask!" Gu Fei also saw that Liuxia had rushed out like Brother You just now, and guessed that this girl had also gone to gather intelligence.

"The same, just this level." Gu Fei didn't say the numbers, just this concept.

The few people looked at each other.

"The final hurdle, did they really pick up a treasure again?" Brother You said.

"Then we won't make any money?" Zhan Wu Shang (War Without Injury) pretended to be melancholy.

"Yu Tian, did you see anything?" Han Jia Gongzi asked Yu Tian Shen Ming (Divine Cry of the Universe). This guy didn't go to the Archers of All Directions' arrow formation. When the attack was launched just now, the archer players from the other mercenary groups symbolically fired two arrows, but he didn't move at all, just stared blankly.

"Didn't see anything," Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"Really?" Han Jia Gongzi asked again.

"Is there some underlying meaning in your words?" Yu Tian Shen Ming shuddered.

"Didn't even see their guild badges?" Han Jia Gongzi pressed.

"Seems like, no," Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

"I didn't see them either." Brother You was much more confident. As expected of someone who gathered intelligence, even if he didn't pay attention at the time, he would temporarily remember a thought, so that he could read the file later. Although he didn't have Eagle Eye, he had gotten quite close just now. Recalling it now, he didn't find any guild badges on them.

"Do we need to confirm with Liuxia again?" Gu Fei also knew that this detail was a pretty major issue.

The guild badges in Parallel World were issued by the system, and players weren't forced to wear them. For example, some guild badges were relatively ugly, and players weren't happy to wear them, such as the ones from Archers of All Directions. However, once a large-scale guild war broke out, everyone would consciously wear their badges.

This was because the guilds in this game easily had hundreds of people. Even their own guild leader had a hard time recognizing everyone, and PK had no system protection for teammates or fellow guild members, so everyone relied entirely on this mark to distinguish identities.

"Put on your badges, charge!!" This was a very familiar slogan for the guild leaders of all the major guilds. If it was ranged bombardment, it was fine not to wear them. But once close combat started, anyone who didn't wear one was just asking for trouble.

"There are so few of them, they must have just come to check out the situation and didn't plan to fight us at all, right? So whether they wear badges or not doesn't seem to explain anything." Yu Tian Shen Ming's analysis was quite relevant.

"Look, no one from Archers of All Directions is wearing one." The little kid even learned to give examples.

"Indeed, it can't explain much, but we can't help but be wary," Han Jia Gongzi said, and went to find Unsworn Sword.

"Not wearing badges?" With Unsworn Sword's experience, he understood what this meant as soon as he heard it, but he quickly went down the same line of thought as Yu Tian Shen Ming: "The close combat hasn't started yet, it's not strange that they're not wearing them, right? Look, no one in our guild is wearing one."

"That's because yours are too ugly, so all of you have developed the habit of never wearing them unless absolutely necessary," Han Jia Gongzi pointed out mercilessly.

"Hehehe, I'm embarrassed," Unsworn Sword chuckled twice.

"I also admit that the other side might not be prepared to wear them yet, but since we've already discovered this, we should prepare to welcome another situation," Han Jia Gongzi said lightly.

"You mean, they're mercenary groups? A mercenary group is competing with us in a two-way task?" Unsworn Sword laughed.

"We can ignore this situation, there's no need to prepare at all," Han Jia Gongzi said frankly.

"Then what other situation is there?" Unsworn Sword was confused.

Han Jia Gongzi didn't speak, but looked at Black Finger, the leader of the Black Hand Mercenary Group, who was standing nearby.

Black Finger had been thinking deeply while listening to their conversation. When he saw Han Jia Gongzi looking at him, he nodded and said, "Brother Han is thinking about indiscriminate competition mercenary tasks?"

Han Jia Gongzi nodded.

"This..." Although Unsworn Sword mainly focused on the guild, and his mercenary business was handled by倒影年华 (Dao Ying Nian Hua), he hadn't even heard of the name of this kind of task. Judging from his expression, he clearly understood the terrible nature of this kind of task.

"In that case, it's troublesome," Unsworn Sword had already changed his tone.

"It's not too troublesome," Han Jia Gongzi smiled. "At least it's not an indiscriminate competition guild task."

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Rushed out a chapter in the middle of the night. I have to catch a train during the day today, a train to vicious Chaoyang...