"So fast!!!" This strike scared Shui Shen into a cold sweat, and he scrambled backward to dodge. Luckily, as one of the Five Little Strong, his speed and equipment weren't bad, and he barely managed to evade the blow. Looking back, the girl's figure had already vanished again.

Shui Shen was shocked. How could she have re-entered stealth mode so quickly after he'd just interrupted it?

"Lime powder!!" he shouted hastily. There were plenty of spectators, and Shui Shen's subordinates all carried white lime powder as standard equipment. They flung it out in handfuls, coating the entire street in white. But the vanished girl still didn't appear.

Having experienced many storms, Shui Shen immediately realized this might be some special skill or equipment. Not daring to be careless, and knowing the other party intended to target him, he darted away. No matter how enhanced stealth equipment or skills were, they couldn't possibly make stealth as fast as sprinting, right?

"Everyone scatter!" Shui Shen shouted, while he himself rapidly dashed several meters away. Then he stopped and turned around, watching his brothers disperse. He didn't want to engage in a deadly entanglement with these Cloud Piercer City guys. Just taking today as an example, while the Cloud Piercer players had suffered heavy losses, so had they.

In Shui Shen's initial plan, they would use traps to confine the Cloud Piercer players, making it impossible for them to move and forcing them to abandon the mission. This would keep both sides' casualties to a minimum. Who would have thought there was such a monstrous character in the opposing camp? He'd shown his face to negotiate, and he'd been captured alive from thirty meters away. That had inspired them to come up with the inhuman method of using players as human minesweepers.

"Damn!" Shui Shen couldn't help but touch his nose, the place where it had been pinched still throbbing faintly.

The Cloud Piercer City players seemed eager to fight the players from LinYin City at this point, but the latter didn't give them the chance. All of them were lurkers who had transitioned from archers, so their speed was considerable. They scattered in all directions with a whoosh, and everyone was unable to catch up with them.

Shui Shen smugly leaned against a wall with one hand, still rubbing his nose with the other. The girl he was interested in finally reappeared after those ten or so seconds, standing right in front of Shui Shen, the dagger only a centimeter away from him.

"Heh heh!" Shui Shen patted the wall he was leaning against, very calmly. "Safe zone," he said.

The girl gritted her teeth. "Either log off or run to the safe zone. You're all so useless."

"What's your name, miss?" Shui Shen asked.

"Xi Yao Wu." Xi Yao Wu said as she put away her dagger. You're clearly right beside me, but I can't kill you. The most painful thing in an online game is this. The farthest distance in an online game is the safe zone and the space right next to the safe zone.

"Oh!!" Hearing Xi Yao Wu's introduction, Shui Shen let out a long "Oh": "I've heard so much about you." Xi Yao Wu was a top celebrity. Someone like Shui Shen, as one of the most dazzling of the Five Little Strong in Parallel World, had never achieved such prominence in past games.

"Hmph!" Xi Yao Wu snorted, then turned and left with another girl. With the super gossip of the Rebirth Amethyst girls, they would never be willing to miss such a great show, but it required speed to keep up. In the end, only Xi Yao Wu and an archer girl with a focus on agility had chased all the way. The other girls, like the thief Liu Xia, had been left behind halfway.

"Don't do this again next time, okay? We're all supposed to be the legendary Five Little Strong!" Shui Shen shouted while still standing in the safe zone.

Xi Yao Wu glanced back at him and said calmly, "You're two levels below me!"

Shui Shen was depressed!

Leveling up in Parallel World was difficult, but dropping levels was easy. This time, Shui Shen had dropped a level with gusto. In theory, it was one level, but in reality, it was two, because he was about to reach level 42.

One of the key reasons why the Five Little Strong had been able to firmly hold onto their top-level experience was that none of them had ever dropped a level. He never expected that he would drop a level today, and so freely at that. Level 40... This was a common level after the competition. There were plenty of guys in his guild who had surpassed him and reached level 41.

"Sigh..." Shui Shen could only express his deep regret. He was about to step out of the safe zone when a sudden thought struck him. He immediately pulled back the foot he had extended and shouted, "Who's there?" A handful of white lime powder had already been scattered.

"Cough, cough!" Someone coughed loudly in the white lime powder. This person was slightly further away from him than Xi Yao Wu had been just now, giving Shui Shen room to swing his arm. So this handful of white lime powder was thrown over their head... Or rather, it was smashed.

"Oh, it's you!" Shui Shen clapped his hands. The person in front of him, whose face was covered in white lime powder, was Jian Gui.

Jian Gui was expressionless. He wiped his face with his sleeve and said, "You have anti-stealth skills?"

"Peering! A special skill for lurkers," Shui Shen said.

"You didn't have to do that!" Jian Gui wiped his face again and began to shake his clothes.

"I can only know that someone is in stealth, but I can't know their exact location. I can only do this. Hahaha!" Shui Shen laughed as he came over to help Jian Gui pat his clothes.

"You're cautious," Jian Gui said.

"This place is full of traps and lurking thieves everywhere. It's better to be careful." As soon as Shui Shen finished speaking, he immediately asked Jian Gui, "You came directly, why did you need to use stealth?"

"Because this place is full of traps and lurking thieves everywhere..." Jian Gui continued to be expressionless.

"Heh heh..." Shui Shen chuckled dryly. He finally walked out of the safe zone, put his arm around Jian Gui's shoulder, and the two of them left together. He asked, "Where's Jiu Gui?"

"Tavern."

"Tsk tsk tsk!" Shui Shen sighed.

"But he doesn't go by that name anymore," Jian Gui said.

"Oh? What's he called now?" Shui Shen asked.

Jian Gui was silent for a moment before saying, "Han Jia Gong Zi..."

Shui Shen was also silent for a while before saying, "What a flamboyant name, don't you think?"

"You should understand!" Jian Gui said calmly.

As they spoke, they arrived at the tavern. The tavern in LinYin City was also unique, resembling a witch's wooden laboratory in the forest. After pushing open the door, the interior was also all wooden, except for the glasses and bottles.

"How is it? Unique, right!" Shui Shen said. He had already found where Han Jia Gong Zi and the others were. He waved and walked over.

Jian Gui followed closely behind him. When he reached the table, he introduced the people sitting there one by one: "Yu Tian Shen Ming, Zhan Wu Shang, You Ge."

"Damn, damn, damn!" Shui Shen used three consecutive "damn"s to express his surprise. The expression on his face greatly satisfied the vanity of Yu Tian Shen Ming and the other two.

"The 'cloud' in Cloud Piercer City must stand for 'a cloud of experts'!" Shui Shen said.

"Not at all!" The three of them modestly replied with delight. Ever since they had been with Gu Fei, these veteran experts had grown accustomed to being overshadowed. No matter where they went, Gu Fei was always the most distinct, outstanding, and eye-catching one, although it was completely unintentional on his part.

The few of them sat down and poured each other wine. After a few polite words, Shui Shen asked, "Have you settled everything?"

"Don't try to dig up information from us," Han Jia Gong Zi said quietly.

"Heh heh..." A dry laugh, another dry laugh.

"Speaking of which..." Jian Gui changed the subject at the right time, "You didn't seem to be in LinYin City at the beginning!"

"Yeah, I came later," Shui Shen said.

"Why did you come here?" Jian Gui asked.

"Is there even a need to ask? Ke Ke must be here!" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

Yu Tian Shen Ming and the others didn't know the inside story and looked at the three of them in confusion.

"Uh? Your girlfriend?" You Ge, as someone who came from intelligence work, was the first to guess an answer.

Shui Shen nodded.

"Wow, brother, you're something else!!!" Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming had already jumped up. They loved this kind of gossip.

"Heh heh..." Shui Shen's smile was unexpectedly shy. His coy look made it clear that this relationship was genuine and not just the usual casual "husband, wife" banter between ordinary players.

"Where is she? Bring her out to meet us!" Yu Tian Shen Ming and Zhan Wu Shang shouted, craning their necks and looking around as if the person was already here but hidden by Shui Shen.

"She's offline, not here," Shui Shen replied.

"One, two, three, four, five, six..." Han Jia Gong Zi counted on his fingers, "This is the sixth online game you've played together, right!"

"Yeah!" Shui Shen nodded happily.

"Idol!!!" Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming continued to scream, as if the wife was theirs.

"If you play another one, you'll reach the seven-year itch," Han Jia Gong Zi also nodded.

"I curse your ancestors," Shui Shen cursed angrily.

"We must have a chance to meet her!" Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming were eager for knowledge. They wanted to know what kind of people these men and women who were so steadfast in online games were like, as it would be conducive to developing their own careers.

"Oh, when are you leaving?" Shui Shen asked.

"Cough..." Han Jia Gong Zi interrupted.

"You're still so annoying!" Shui Shen sighed.

"I'm proud of my consistency over the years," Han Jia Gong Zi said, drinking a cup of wine.

"Anyway, you're paying for your own drinks." Shui Shen rolled his eyes and turned to Jian Gui: "Have you heard? It seems that a pharmacist player has discovered tobacco plants in the game's flora. It is said that it is very likely to produce cigarettes."

"Really?" Jian Gui's eyes lit up.

"Is that so? How come I've never heard of it?" You Ge was extremely surprised. Whenever there was news he didn't know, he felt like he had been instantly killed by an unknown big move during a PK.

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Continuing to diligently ask for votes, although the update is a bit late~~