Chapter 148 East, West, and Third Streets

East, West, and Third Streets.

This was a common way to mark the location of towns on Glory's external electronic map. Clearly, the system couldn't be so detailed as to name every street and alley.

This naming method was more intuitive than using coordinates in terms of direction and distance. Experienced Glory players, hearing such a name, would have a basic idea of the general direction, and combined with the coordinates, they could easily find a point in an instant.

At this moment, in a narrow north-south alley on East, West, and Third Streets in the wilderness, a team of players from Zhongcaotang had just retracted their heads.

This was a complete team of ten, and the captain's name was Liedang. This was a name related to Chinese herbal medicine, a common type of name within Zhongcaotang, usually given to older members. Now that Zhongcaotang had grown so strong, recruiting supporters of the Tiny Herb team, they couldn't reject people simply because of a name. Many Zhongcaotang players were named after herbs, but not all of them.

Liedang had just sent a message to Tian Nanxing and let out a breath, signaling his teammates to retreat a little.

"Aren't we attacking, Captain?" someone in the team asked.

"The guild leader wants us to wait a bit, until they go in a little further, then we'll surround them in one fell swoop," Liedang said.

"Oh." The team had no objections. They were ten against seven, but even though they had more people, the other side had experts like Jun Mo Xiao and Deception whose quality was completely different, so the outcome was another matter. They were all veterans, well aware of this, so no one was arrogant enough to say they would go out and take them down directly. Waiting for more people to surround them was a good idea. Online games emphasized balance, and even with professional players and their superior skills and equipment, numbers were still the most reliable advantage in the game.

The ten of them squatted in the narrow alley, silent for a while.

"Captain, do you think..."

Someone had just opened his mouth to say half a sentence when he suddenly felt the light above his head dim. Everyone looked up and saw two people standing outside the narrow alley, their bodies casting shadows on the ground, blocking the sunlight shining into the alley.

"See, I told you there was a team here!" said the person on the left, with the ID Jun Mo Xiao above his head.

"If this were a piece of equipment, I would have seen it!" the person on the right said, his tone very unconvinced, with the ID Deception above his head.

"Equipment can be seen on the ground, but it's not equipment when it's worn on the body. What kind of quality is that?" Jun Mo Xiao said, raising a hand.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Deception said, drawing his blade.

A grenade rolled in, and a Fiery Sword light came down head-on.

Grenade!

Fiery Sword!

The team that had just rushed past the street was now making a surprise attack. The team quietly squatting in the alley was completely unprepared. Ye Xiu and Deception were quick to talk, but even quicker to act, immediately filling the alley entrance with explosions and fire. Captain Liedang, squatting right at the entrance, suffered the most severe damage.

Collapsing Mountain Strike!

Jun Mo Xiao and Deception suddenly crouched, and a Berserker wielding a heavy sword flew over them, the force of splitting mountains and breaking rocks cleaving down at this arrow.

Ice Wall!

With a few cracking sounds, several ice walls were erected in the narrow alley. The alley was so narrow that two people standing side by side were a bit cramped, and one ice wall was enough to block the alley. But now four were erected. Unfortunately, this wasn't a domino effect; it wasn't that pushing down one would cause them all to fall. Each one had to be shattered individually, which would take a lot of time.

And these seven people! They blocked the alley entrance, not squeezing in, throwing any skill with a large area of effect into it. In such a small space, attacked by area-of-effect skills, where could they dodge? They couldn't dodge at all.

Liedang's team was like a pile of stuck monsters, struggling but unable to break free. They tried to squeeze out, but Jun Mo Xiao, standing at the entrance, used a Falling Flower Palm, directly knocking down a group of them. They didn't even know where the Elementalist was standing who was wildly bombarding them with spells.

After a while, three of the ice walls shattered, but ten corpses were left in the alley.

Whether they waited to be resurrected or returned to the city to be resurrected, Ye Xiu and his team didn't care. They casually picked up the equipment and gold coins dropped upon death, and the team of seven drilled into the narrow alley, rushing north.

"What, what did you say? Why didn't you hide better?" Tian Nanxing received the message, frustrated.

Liedang was also aggrieved. Hide? He hadn't been given that instruction at the beginning. He was only told to rush to find Jun Mo Xiao. It was after he discovered Jun Mo Xiao and sent back the information that the new instruction not to act rashly and to wait for them to go deeper was issued.

"Which direction are they heading now?" Tian Nanxing asked.

"North, coordinates xxx, xxx," Liedang replied. This narrow alley was so small that the external map hadn't even marked its name.

"Pay attention to the area north of coordinates xxx, xxx. If you encounter Jun Mo Xiao and his party, lure them in deeper!" Tian Nanxing instructed, while communicating the situation to Chun Yi Lao and Chen Yehui.

While the guild teams were still studying the coordinates on the map, Ye Xiu and his seven had already run through the tiny narrow alley. They came out and looked around, but no one was there.

"This way." Ye Xiu's Jun Mo Xiao ran at the front, with the others closely following behind.

After running a few steps to the left, a small alley leading north appeared. Jun Mo Xiao went in, and the six followed closely.

The alley was still narrow, but as soon as they rushed out, they immediately saw a team of ten, with the name of the guild Blue Brook Guild above their heads.

Did anyone care about the guild name?

Obviously not. The seven rushed up and started fighting directly. These ten were studying the new instructions to lure the enemy in deeper, never expecting that this glorious mission would fall to them. Before they could figure out how to fight and retreat, Jun Mo Xiao used a Dark Night Phantom, tying up four of them, and they were immediately smashed to the ground.

"Damn it!!"

The team screamed. So fierce, what was the point of pretending to be defeated? When you encountered them, you turned around and ran. That was the best way to lure the enemy in deeper. Who would dare say they were pretending? They were definitely genuinely weak and running away.

It was a pity that they weren't escaping now, but rather unable to escape. The six wanted to flash to the inner circle, but they were quickly caught up with and killed on the spot.

Ye Xiu looked at the direction the six had escaped in, but he was confident. He led the six, turned around, and ran in the opposite direction, exploring the route to the north, continuing to circle around.

"I've wiped out a team here too!" Chun Yi Lao received the bad news and shared it with everyone.

"Which way did they go?" Tian Nanxing asked anxiously.

Hearing the result and looking at the electronic map, the three were silent. Looking at their direction, it was contrary to the core of their encirclement. Combining it with their previous direction of going north through the alley, it seemed that they were sweeping their territory outside their encirclement, defeating them one by one!

"Quick, quickly shrink the encirclement! Attack them from both sides." Tian Nanxing shouted as he went to call his subordinates.

Chun Yi Lao said in a deep voice, "Weren't these two teams wiped out a little too quickly?"

Tian Nanxing then realized that he had overlooked such a serious problem.

A whole team, ten people, from discovering the target to total annihilation, only took such a short amount of time?

"Who exactly are these five new people who came running over?" Tian Nanxing and Chun Yi Lao, after each having a team wiped out, finally reached the stage where they understood as much as Chen Yehui. They knew that the five new people were definitely not just fillers.

"No guild, don't recognize the names..." The twenty people who had just been wiped out also couldn't say exactly what was going on.

"What classes?" Chun Yi Lao continued to ask.

Limiting the range of classes and then finding an expert among them would be easier. The intelligence networks of the major guilds were very powerful. They had lists of the well-known figures in the Heavenly Domain.

Chen Yehui didn't ask this question, because he felt he already knew the other party's identity. As for their class, was that important? With professional-level skills, even if they casually played a class, they would be far stronger than ordinary players. Professional players couldn't only be familiar with their own class. Matches required knowing yourself and your opponent. How could you fight if you didn't understand your opponent's class at all?

"Berserker, Priest, Elementalist, Battle Mage, Grappler..." Muttering the five classes asked for, Tian Nanxing and Chun Yi Lao immediately sent their men to investigate. They narrowed the scope and circled the possible origins of this class combination.

As a result, information returned quickly: the five experts in Yi Zhan Tianxia were these five classes.

"Yi Zhan Tianxia!" Chun Yi Lao received this message first.

"Ah? You found something on your end?" Tian Nanxing said.

"Yi Zhan Tianxia??" Chen Yehui was pretending, but when he heard this answer, he was greatly shocked.

"Aren't those guys from Yi Zhan Tianxia supposed to be going to play in the professional league?" Chun Yi Lao said.

"I've dealt with those people before, and their level is indeed extraordinary. I tried to win them over at the time, but didn't succeed. Now I know he had this plan," Tian Nanxing said.

"But how strong they are now, I haven't experienced in a long time," Chun Yi Lao directly continued from Tian Nanxing's words. Obviously, he had done the same thing that Tian Nanxing mentioned.

"Dare to sign up for the professional league, they can't be that bad, right?" Chen Yehui said, while his mind was racing. He was trying to connect the people from Yi Zhan Tianxia with the hidden experts in the internet cafe across the street.

"Yi Zhan Tianxia actually made the first move against us," Tian Nanxing said.

"Yi Zhan Tianxia? Do you have evidence? You heard the information. They came in with wild accounts," Chun Yi Lao said.

The people were silent. The significance of wild accounts was that sometimes you knew who was tripping you, but you had to swallow your anger. Otherwise, why would the major guilds raise so many wild accounts?

"With such a team, our team of ten isn't enough! Quickly gather everyone," Tian Nanxing said anxiously.

"Already doing it," Chun Yi Lao said.

On the street, a group of seven were speeding along.

"What do we do now?" The Berserker ran next to Jun Mo Xiao, and his tone of voice when speaking to Jun Mo Xiao was much more humble than Deception's.

"They were originally in an encirclement here. Now we seize the time to fight along the circle, defeating them one by one. Attack points, not the entire surface, so that their numerical advantage can't be brought into play."