Chapter 1 The Beginning

Outside Cloud City, Gu Fei had been wandering for an hour. After some recollection, Gu Fei calculated that his PK value should be 15 points. According to Brother You, he needed to be online for 30 hours to wash it clean.

During these 30 hours, he couldn't be caught by players who had accepted the bounty, or he would have to return to prison and squat for another 15 hours. It should be emphasized that these would be 15 completely idle hours. Since this was a fully immersive virtual reality game, players couldn't just hang up and watch a movie, so Gu Fei insisted on wandering in the wilderness.

Gu Fei harvested monsters along the way, and because he kept moving, he hadn't encountered any danger so far. Only once did he hear voices in the distance, but for some reason, those people seemed to be fighting. Probably two groups of enemies ran into each other, so they forgot about Gu Fei and donated themselves to the wanted list.

But as time went on, Gu Fei gradually felt the pressure. Previously, a considerable number of players thought that Gu Fei would definitely surrender himself, so they stayed in the bounty mission hall to wait for him. So there weren't many players chasing Gu Fei yet. But after more than an hour, 27149 was still at the top of the list, and many people began to take new actions.

A large number of guilds and mercenary groups began to formally invest in the hunt for Gu Fei, and a large number of players flocked to the same coordinates. Among them, the most powerful was still the number one guild in Cloud City, Zongheng Sihai (Galloping Across the Four Seas).

Wu Shi Zhi Jian (Sword of No Oath), Feng Xing (Wind Walker), and Daoying Nianhua (Inverted Reflection of Time), three core members, came outside the city with a large number of people. A few minutes ago, Gu Fei had just disappeared from this coordinate. The surrounding area was full of players, all searching in a certain direction according to their own ideas.

"Too many people are annoying. Even if you can leave some traces, they are completely destroyed," Daoying Nianhua said with disgust, glancing at the busy players around him.

"How do we start?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian asked.

"Assuming he is a full-agility build, a level 30 mage, his agility should be 30 points plus 30 times 5, a total of 180 points. In addition, according to his equipment displayed on the forum, he has Eddie's Emblem, which adds 6 points of agility, for a total of 186 points. Mages have no agility growth bonus or reduction, so his fastest movement speed is 6.2 meters per second. Plus his pair of light boots that can increase movement speed by 5%, his final speed is 6.51 meters per second. If he sprints straight to the next coordinate, then the next coordinate should be 1953 meters away from here. The distance at which the human eye can distinguish a person is about 2000 meters, so as long as the line of sight is unobstructed, we can basically see him," Daoying Nianhua said.

"So what about now?"

"Now? It's been 3 minutes and 47 seconds since the coordinates were refreshed. He is at most 1477.77 meters away from here. Everyone look in the direction where the line of sight is not obstructed. Does anyone see a running figure?" Daoying Nianhua said with a smile.

Everyone immediately began to look around.

"No one, right... So the only routes he could have chosen are the Cloud Mist Forest or the Wulong Mountains," Daoying Nianhua said, pointing to the two areas in front of him.

"Then what do we do?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian asked.

"You can disband," Daoying Nianhua said.

"What?"

"Actually, he doesn't have to run at all. At his speed, most people can see him but can't catch him. Next, anyone with a full-agility build, follow me!" Daoying Nianhua said.

A few people stood out from the crowd, sparsely, mostly thieves and archers.

"Oh, I forgot to say, it must be level 30," Daoying Nianhua said.

Two people immediately retreated.

"Archers with agility above 150 are also welcome," Daoying Nianhua shouted.

One person raised his hand and joined the queue.

Daoying Nianhua looked at the three archers and two thieves in front of him one by one, nodded and said, "If anyone can catch this masked killer, it can only be our team. Let's go!"

"Damn, so we're out of the picture?" Feng Xing stared blankly as the six people ran quickly towards the Wulong Mountains.

"Daoying is right, if that mage just keeps running, we're helpless," Wu Shi Zhi Jian rubbed his heavy armor.

"No, I can't swallow this. I'll go take a look, maybe I'll get lucky and step on him!" Feng Xing clenched his fists and ran off alone.

"Everyone else, don't scatter," Wu Shi Zhi Jian turned around and said to the other guild members, "Anyway, we've already accepted the task. Form groups of five and find a place to level up! If you see 27149, don't expose yourselves, just pretend you don't know, call for backup, and try to trap him secretly if you can, understand?"

Everyone nodded and dispersed.

Daoying Nianhua led the five people and ran quickly towards the mountainside. Halfway there, the coordinates were refreshed again, and they were indeed located in the Wulong Mountains.

"We have a faster speed than him. As long as we don't get the direction wrong, we can catch up with him soon," Daoying Nianhua said.

The others nodded. And the archer with 150 agility was now a few meters behind the five people in front.

"Is it necessary to bring him?" The four full-agility people in front discussed.

Daoying Nianhua smiled and said, "More people means more strength. Although he's a little slower than us, he can still compete with that mage." After saying that, he turned his head and waved to the archer, "Keep up!" The archer nodded.

The group quickly arrived at the newly refreshed coordinates. This place was a fork in the mountain road. Turning left led to the Wulong Cave, and continuing straight would follow the Wulong Mountains all the way forward. Where it would eventually lead was currently unknown.

"Which way?"

"If he goes straight, that would be good, a straight line, we'll catch up with him sooner or later... I don't think he'll choose this kind of path lacking change. He should have gone to the Wulong Cave. Let's go to the Wulong Cave first, and if the coordinates are wrong later, we'll turn around and chase. Anyway, there are only these two paths," Daoying Nianhua said.

"What if he goes back the way he came?" one person said.

"Then he'll run right into the other people chasing the coordinates. He wouldn't be that stupid, would he? The coordinates refresh every five minutes, and he dares to go back the way he came?" Daoying Nianhua laughed, "Let's go! Hurry up."

The group turned left and rushed onto the road leading to the Wulong Cave. They chased all the way to the entrance of the cave, but still couldn't see Gu Fei's踪迹. Daoying Nianhua glanced at the time and said faintly, "If we didn't go the wrong way, then he can only be inside the cave."

"The terrain of Wulong Cave is complicated. Choosing here to hide and play cat and mouse with the pursuers is indeed a good idea. He can also level up by killing monsters at the same time. But he still underestimated the number of players chasing him. Now there are enough players chasing him to easily bloodbath the entire Wulong Cave. Isn't he just walking to his death by going inside?" Daoying Nianhua said, but his face was worried, "But in this case, our team's speed advantage is useless."

"Then what do we do? Wait for the main force?" someone asked.

"Of course not, we finally gained such a big lead, let's go into the cave," Daoying Nianhua waved his hand, and the group drilled into the cave. After advancing for a while, the new coordinates were refreshed again. Daoying Nianhua took a look and suddenly laughed, "Amazing! I only understand this guy's intention now."

"What is it?" the person next to him asked.

"If we hadn't entered the Wulong Cave one step ahead of time, but had chased after the coordinates he left behind, I'm afraid we would never have found this guy," Daoying Nianhua said.

"Why?"

"The game's inside and outside the cave belong to two different maps, each with its own coordinates, but there is no annotation when the coordinates are displayed, which should be considered a flaw. Now the guys who are still outside the cave, seeing these coordinates, will search all over the Wulong Mountains, I guarantee they won't find anything," Daoying Nianhua laughed.

"This guy must have lowered his guard now. Everyone, hurry up," Daoying Nianhua said.

The six began to walk towards the depths of the cave according to the newly refreshed coordinates. They further discovered that the monsters along the way had been cleared by Gu Fei by eighty or ninety percent. Daoying Nianhua was even more delighted, "He really is acting like nothing happened and started killing monsters to level up. We'll catch up to him soon. Everyone, be ready for battle at any time. Heh, clearing the monsters so cleanly is like pointing out the way for us?"

The six chased after the coordinates that Gu Fei had left behind, and continued to advance along the direction of the cleared monsters. At this time, the coordinates were refreshed again, but Daoying Nianhua was stunned after seeing them.

"What's wrong? Hurry up and keep going!"

"These coordinates are wrong!" Daoying Nianhua said.

"What?"

"The distance between these coordinates and the previous ones is too far. There are still traces of him killing monsters along the way. How could he have walked so far while killing monsters?" Daoying Nianhua said.

"Then what's going on?"

"There's another level in the Wulong Cave!" Daoying Nianhua said.

"Really? How do we get there?" the others asked. These guys had never leveled up here before.

"I don't know, I've never heard of it," Daoying Nianhua frowned.

"Let's follow the road first, his traces of killing monsters can't be wrong, right?" someone suggested. The corpses of the monsters lying on the ground undoubtedly pointed out the direction Gu Fei was advancing.

"That's the only way," Daoying Nianhua led the group to continue forward until they completely lost the traces.

"Could it be that the passage to the other level is nearby? Everyone, look around," Daoying Nianhua said.

The group scattered, and one person quickly made a discovery, excitedly shouting, "There's a secret passage here!"

"What?" Daoying Nianhua, who was searching in another direction, immediately rushed over upon hearing the sound.

A lifted iron plate, underneath was a passage that was one person high.

"Thief, sneak down and take a look," Daoying Nianhua instructed.

A thief sneaked down the passage and sent a message a moment later: "That's right!! It's the previous coordinates, it's here, this guy went this way."

"Quick, chase!" Daoying Nianhua jumped down the passage, followed by the others one after another.

"Ah!!!" When it was the last person's turn, there was a sudden scream.

"What's wrong?" The people in the tunnel were shocked. What answered them was the heavy sound of the iron plate being slammed shut.

"Not good!" The five people in the cave were shocked and rushed towards the entrance. Sure enough, the exit had been re-covered and they could feel it being locked when they pushed it hard.

"We've been tricked!" Daoying Nianhua was dumbfounded.