Chapter 191

Chapter 191: I’m In a Hurry

“I’m in a hurry! Hurry up!!” Turning his head, Ye Xiu yelled towards his mic.
Everyone was startled, even Su Mucheng didn’t understand what “Just one second” and then an “I’m in a hurry” right after meant. The cautious Qiao Yifan didn’t dare ask and pondered over what type of strategy “Just one second” and “I’m in a hurry” was.
However, Tang Rou was able to realize what had happened after a short while. Steamed Bun Invasion, on the other hand, obviously didn’t understand. But he would ask what he didn’t know and immediately opened his mouth: “Senior, what do you mean?”
“Hurry up and finish this. I have business to do.” Ye Xiu said. He moved his hands quickly and the in-game Lord Grim began fighting more fiercely. Lunging left, rushing right. He even pulled the afterimage that was supposed to be One Inch Ash’s. Qiao Yifan was greatly startled and found that he wasn’t able to keep up with Lord Grim’s tempo.
But this didn’t make Qiao Yifan discouraged. He understood what was going on: God was going all out. There was still a gap between their skill levels, so he naturally couldn’t keep up. Perhaps the only person who could keep up with this tempo would be a top-tier Phantom Demon in the Alliance like Li Xuan.
“Yifan, set up the boundary.” Ye Xiu shouted.
Qiao Yifan heard this and immediately cast a Sword Boundary.
“Everyone, pull them over here to fight. Steamed Bun, Steamed Bun, pull it over here.” Ye Xiu yelled.
Tang Rou seized the opportunity to use a Falling Flower Palm and blasted the Illusion Swordmaster over. Su Mucheng’s Launcher didn’t have any strong Blow Away effect, so she used an Aerial Fire to come into the Sword Boundary, obtaining the attack buff.
Only Steamed Bun Invasion was left. His Brawler class didn’t have any convenient Blow Away skills, so he circled behind the Illusion Swordmaster and used a Knee Attack. However, the BOSS was quick. How could it be so easy to hit him? As a result, Steamed Bun Invasion leaped left and right sneakily.
Ye Xiu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “If you just ran over here, wouldn’t he follow you over?”
“Right!” Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly understood.
“It’s a bit of a mess, no?” After entering the Sword Boundary, Su Mucheng said to Ye Xiu. The five were all in the Sword Boundary facing against five nimble BOSSes. Guaranteeing that none of them would leave the Sword Boundary was a type of training only pro-teams could do. Their team was still far off from that!
“Shadow Steps has ended.” Just as Ye Xiu’s voice fell, the five afterimages of the Illusion Swordmaster blurred again. Instead of four of them disappearing, four of the afterimages swiftly moved towards a single one.
“That one, kill him!” Ye Xiu shouted. His Lord Grim rushed towards the merged Illusion Swordmaster. The instant Shadow Steps ended, the Illusion Swordmaster would show an extremely large opening. Besides taking a beating, he wouldn’t be able to do anything. However, this opening was only an instant, yet Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim as well as Tang Rou, Su Mucheng, and Qiao Yifan were able to seize the opportunity to burst him. Only Steamed Bun Invasion was still dashing towards the Sword Soul, but halfway there, he saw the Illusion Swordmaster behind him zoom past him.
“Oh no!” Steamed Bun Invasion cried. Unfortunately, there was still some distance between himself and the final target, so all he could contribute was a Brick.
“Retreat!” Ye Xiu yelled as Lord Grim moved back. After the Illusion Swordmaster merged into one, the red aura around him exploded out. The people surrounding him leaped back to avoid it. But under this Red Blood status, the Illusion Swordmaster was clearly faster than before. This time, Qiao Yifan was unexpectedly half a step slow and was hit by the red light and instantly shot out into somewhere farther away.
Su Mucheng’s Cleansing Mist had already stored a Laser Rifle. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t need Ye Xiu to say anything and rushed forward to attack. Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim rushed up as well. Just as he was about to attack, that annoying sound once again ran up from outside of his headphones.
This customer is really annoying…… Ye Xiu sighed. In the end, he turned his head, but discovered that the call had come from a different seat……
They’ve teamed up!
Ye Xiu thought as tears streamed down his cheeks. He controlled Lord Grim, while using his left hand to quickly answer the phone.
“What would you like?” Ye Xiu asked.
“What?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“He’s not talking to you, Steamed Bun.” Tang Rou explained for Ye Xiu.
“Then who is he talking to?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“With Internet Cafe customers!” Tang Rou said.
“Internet Cafe?” Steamed Bun Invasion was still puzzled. Ye Xiu was also extremely gloomy. This time, the customer didn’t directly order and instead slowly asked what brand of cigarettes the Internet Cafe had.
“Yellow Mountain, White Sand, Red Pagoda Mountain, Hibiscus, Nanjing, Red River, One Pen, Yellow Crane Tower, Five Leaves, which one?” Ye Xiu was very familiar with cigarettes! He quickly listed them out. In the end, the customer heard it and fell silent for a long time. He then killed Ye Xiu instantly with one word: “Ah?”
“What do you usually smoke?” Ye Xiu asked helplessly.
“Yellow Mountain.”
“We have it!” Ye Xiu said.
“What type?”
“Red.”
“How much money?”
“22.”
“So expensive.” The other side replied. Ye Xiu’s eyes began to tear up. In any case, there wasn’t any bargaining, so he directly asked: “Do you want it?”
But the customer carefreely brought the question back to his original point: “What else do you have?”
“We have everything. Which one do you want?” Ye Xiu asked. Ye Xiu reckoned that normal people couldn’t ask for anything too weird.
“How much for White Sand?” The customer asked.
“There’s a 6 RMB one, a 10 RMB one, a 13 RMB one.” Ye Xiu said.
“Which type is the 10 RMB one?”
“New Quality.” Ye Xiu said.
“Oh…..” The other side seemed to be pondering over it.
This time, Ye Xiu didn’t urge him and focused on the game.
“Careful! He’s about to split!! Pull him back to fight together.” Ye Xiu had been talking with the customer the entire time and the entire team was listening, when he suddenly gave out this warning.
The Illusion Swordmaster blurred and four other Illusion Swordmasters jumped out. But this time, they had planned on gathering together to fight, so the five characters didn’t scatter and directly faced them. The Sword Boundary buffed the team’s attributes and the Ice Boundary made the Illusion Swordmasters to slow down. On the other side, the customer calmly said: “If there’s so many White Sand types, then why’s there only one type for Yellow Mountain?”
Ye Xiu coughed blood: “The New Anhui and Chinese Wind are out.”
“How much for the New Quality?”
“They’re sold out!”
“No problem, I’m just asking.” The customer said.
“16……” Ye Xiu replied helplessly. The customer was the king.
“That’s more expensive than outside!” The customer lamented.
Ye Xiu didn’t reply and continued to play the game. Right now, it was a 5v5. Sword lights, lance blurs, gunshots, the battle was intense.
“Forget it. I don’t need them.” The greatest thing was that the customer had talked for so long, but didn’t buy anything.
Just as he hung up, another sound came. Ye Xiu was about to go mad. The other side asked: “Cola!”
“Just a moment! I’ll be there right away!!” Ye Xiu yelled.
Ye Xiu wasn’t an immortal. It was difficult for him to take care of so many things. This time, the customer had made him move a half a beat slower. The Illusion Swordmaster’s Back Slash unexpectedly hit him and his character was launched into the sky.
Ye Xiu immediately adjusted his camera, but the Illusion Swordmaster had already taken out his sneaky left-handed blade to attack. A Gore Cross followed closely behind the Back Slash and sliced Lord Grim. With an open wound, his life dropped rapidly. The Illusion Swordmaster sheathed his sword and began the animation for Sword Draw.
Ye Xiu immediately moved. The Illusion Swordmaster’s Sword Draw slashed out a cold light, which split Lord Grim into two halves. However, it had hit Lord Grim’s Shadow Clone.
The real body had already flashed to behind the Illusion Swordmaster. Just as he was about to attack, another cold light swooshed towards his body. Ye Xiu wasn’t able to block in time. The sword light sent him flying backwards.
He turned his camera to look. The sword light had come from the Illusion Swordmaster Tang Rou was fighting against. The Sword Draw from that one had flashed towards Ye Xiu.
“So unlucky……” Ye Xiu cursed. His camera was limited in midair, so he hadn’t seen it. The Illusion Swordmaster continued to chase him. Just as it seemed like he would be hit again, Su Mucheng’s Cleansing Mist suddenly sent an artillery shell in front of Lord Grim, blocking the attack.
“Oh! You’ve got skill!”
“And you need to say that?” Su Mucheng said.
Lord Grim fell to the ground and used Quick Recover. The time won back from the block was enough for Ye Xiu to get back into tempo. With a quick move, he immediately sent the two Illusion Swordmasters, which were targeting Su Mucheng and him, flying.
The battlefield returned back to normal. Everyone had seen Ye Xiu’s muddled performance. After a short moment of silence, Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly asked: “Senior you’re very busy. What do you do?”
“Cafe manager…….” Ye Xiu let out a long sigh.
“Oh, what a coincidence! I also work in an Internet Cafe.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Oh? You’re also a manager?” Ye Xiu said. It wouldn’t be surprising since Steamed Bun Invasion was able to play the game all-night. If he had a normal job, then playing all-night would be okay from time to time, but Steamed Bun Invasion was doing it everyday.
“No, I’m a security guard.” Steamed Bun Invasion said calmly.
The four others in the team began sweating. He was a Brawler in real life too…..
“Pay attention! It’s about to merge!” Lord Grim didn’t have much life left, but his spirit hadn’t been affected by the interruptions.
“Don’t be polite. Attack! Hurry! Hurry!” Ye Xiu yelled. If the customers continued to disturb himself, then he really might die.

Chapter 192: Items Lead to Thinking

The instant the Illusion Swordmaster merged into one, the team ferociously assaulted it. They all understood that Ye Xiu was in a difficult predicament and had a rough idea why he was in a hurry.
Under Ye Xiu’s lead, the battle tempo increased. There were often times where they traded blow for blow to deal more damage.
In the Internet Cafe, the customer, who wanted cigarettes, finally decided to buy the 10 RMB White Sand and continued to bother Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu had conquered a challenge and won a difficult battle. He gave the customer the usual reply “Just a second.” The Illusion Swordmaster split and merged until they finally took it down. The service calls began to ring repeatedly again. It was the Cola customer again. He was probably dying of thirst.
“I’m coming! I’m coming!” Ye Xiu gave the customer a reply. He grabbed the Cola and the cigarettes, while taking a quick glance at the items that dropped from the Illusion Swordmaster.
No sword…..
Ye Xiu was a bit disappointed.
He had an item he needed from the Illusion Swordmaster. Scarlet Illusion Blade. This was an Orange weapon for the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella’s Sword form.
But an Orange weapon was after all, an Orange weapon and wouldn’t drop so easily. Ye Xiu sighed as he delivered the Cola and cigarettes to the customers.
“Let’s see what it dropped!” In game, Steamed Bun Invasion excitedly inspected the items that had dropped. He was the most excited of the players there.
“Can’t use. Can’t use. Can’t use. Materials are for senior……” Steamed Bun Invasion looked at the equipment. He renounced them as he said what he was thinking aloud. The Illusion Swordmaster had dropped three Blue equipment and a few materials —– very normal drops.
“Hm? What’s this?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked. The other three all saw: Line Canyon Map Piece Three.
“Oh. It’s an item needed to open a hidden dungeon.” Qiao Yifan recognized it.
“Hidden dungeon? That sounds very hard.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Yeah, it’s harder than normal dungeons.” Su Mucheng commented.
“How many times can you run it every day?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“It’s not calculated like that. It requires certain items in order to enter. In theory, as long as you have the items, there’s no limit.” Su Mucheng said.
“Line Canyon Map Piece Three……does that mean we have to gather more of these?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“Yeah, I think it’s four or five.” Su Mucheng wasn’t really familiar with these low-leveled dungeons.
“Four.” Qiao Yifan said. He had done his homework.
At this moment, Ye Xiu had returned. He looked at the items that were waiting to be rolled.
“Oh, a hidden dungeon item!” Ye Xiu sat down and said, after putting on his headphones.
“It seems like it’s a hidden dungeon that hasn’t been run yet.” Su Mucheng checked the dungeon leaderboards.
“It is, but the items aren’t easy to gather! One, two, and three are okay, but the fourth piece is only dropped by the wild BOSS, which only spawns three times a week. It looks like it hasn’t dropped yet.” Ye Xiu said.
“For hidden dungeons are full of hidden BOSSes and wild BOSSes. The drop rate is pretty high too, so running it is quite worth it.” Su Mucheng said.
“Yeah……” How could Ye Xiu not know this? His requirements for this dungeon weren’t easy to get. For example, the Illusion Swordmaster’s Scarlet Illusion Blade or the wild BOSS only drop, Amber Crystal. The big guilds might have these rare materials, but they might not use them as a bargaining chip.
These were all necessary materials that the Clubs needed for researching self-made equipment. If they didn’t have enough of them, how could they just give them out to others? Ye Xiu tried by sending Tyrannical Ambition his materials list, but the other side hadn’t replied yet.
It wouldn’t be easy for them to steal a wild BOSS from the big guilds with their strength. The BOSSes in the hidden dungeons didn’t have anyone that could kill steal them, but in order to enter the hidden dungeon, they had to steal the Line Canyon Map Piece Four from the wild BOSS. No matter how they went about it, it was a dead end.
Ye Xiu pondered over this as everyone split the items. They all just randomly rolled for the equipment. The materials and the Line Canyon Map Piece Three went to Ye Xiu. Whether to sell it or keep it was something he hadn’t decided on yet.
The following dungeons were normal. After finishing their first run, no hidden BOSS appeared in the second and third runs. But on third run, they broke the Line Canyon dungeon record. 30:21:56, beating the former record by around 20 seconds.
The former record wasn’t at the limit because the big guilds were a bit dispirited towards the dungeon records and were mostly doing them for experience and Purple equipment. Set the highest record? With Lord Grim’s existence, they all felt a bit powerless.
Lord Grim crushing Arena experts and breaking dungeon records, the players were already used to these. It was only Full Moon Guild, who gave their congratulations to Lord Grim’s team, under Maple Tree’s lead. It seemed like they were showing off their close relationship with them. That night, the players from the big guilds seemed to have vanished. It was dead silent.
Before this, Tyrannical Ambition’s players still cared for this record, but once the record was broken, Ye Xiu didn’t receive any messages from them and suddenly felt that something wasn’t right. However, he didn’t go and ask them. Actually, Ye Xiu had an urgent need for materials, it was just that he just wasn’t as loud as the other big guilds were for their dungeon records.
After finishing Line Canyon, they went to Desolate Land. Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan took their leave first. The remaining three continued to level until they were tired and then went to take a break. Tang Rou liked to solo dungeons to practice her mechanics. Steamed Bun Invasion liked to go to the Arena to bully others. Ye Xiu tidied up the materials he had gathered and went to the marketplace. He paid attention to the prices in the tenth server. The prices in the tenth server were still independent. Once players were able to enter the Heavenly Domain, the prices would rapidly decline until they reached the prices of the old servers.
In the market, Ye Xiu was especially mindful of the hidden dungeon items. Sure enough, there were map pieces one, two, and three, but the fourth one wasn’t being sold.
Wild BOSS……
Ye Xiu sighed. Besides the wild BOSSes they could fight earlier than the others like the Fire Witch. They had no way of competing for the same-leveled ones. When the wild BOSSes respawned, the first ones to arrive would be the big guilds. For them, by the time they found out, the BOSS would have been killed already. The reason he was able to steal the Blood Gunner and the Goblin Merchant was because he had been invited by the big guilds. Afterwards, for Desolate Land and Line Canyon, Ye Xiu hadn’t even been able to see the wild BOSSes.
Ye Xiu turned around and went to his warehouse. Everything in there had practically all been earnings he had won from Team Tiny Herb. His warehouse was wealthy and prosperous. He might be able to trade uncommon materials from his warehouse for items he needed such as the Scarlet Stinger with Tyrannical Ambition. Right now, the wild BOSSes were his biggest concern. And as the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella continued to level, he would need more and more of these rare materials. It would be extremely difficult if he had to gather them all by himself!
If he couldn’t find a way to obtain these materials, then he had no other choice but to rely on the Clubs.
The Clubs understood this. They all had guilds supporting them in the game. The guild’s purpose was to help provide materials for the Club. The materials would then be developed into Silver equipment by the tech team and then turned into strength for achievements. The achievements would bring in media, fan support and better players……
Under this cycle, the big Clubs would grow bigger and bigger. It was difficult for small Clubs to develop.
Club Excellent Era was trying to rise up again and had requirements for their guild Excellent Dynasty as well. However, their development in the old servers had already turned into a standstill. Their prospects at making a breakthrough weren’t large, which was why when the new server opened, the guild leader Chen Yehui had put in large amounts of manpower into it. He himself had personally come to the new server to lead. He had even troubled Liu Hao, a pro-player, to come set the record for a low-leveled dungeon. It was because of his huge burden that he know that things wouldn’t be easy to.
If everything had gone smoothly in the tenth server, the other guilds would have no way of contesting with Excellent Dynasty, who was going all out. However, a Ye Qiu had appeared.
Liu Hao had lost to Ye Qiu.
He had brought his many comrades to fight, but they still lost to Ye Qiu.
However, he had still found a chance amidst Ye Qiu’s dominance in the tenth server. He had to overthrow this mountain because this was where he was going to gamble everything he had. He couldn’t lose.

Chapter 193: Idiot’s Guide

To outsiders, Ye Xiu was still just as carefree as ever. Even after staying up all night, he never looked tired and nothing ever seemed to irritate him.

To outsiders, they couldn’t tell that he was someone who had encountered difficulties. Even more so, they definitely wouldn’t know whether he had already figured out a solution to this problem.
He made it look like nothing had happened.
Tang Rou didn’t know that Ye Xiu was pondering deeply over this. All she knew was that it was her turn to buy breakfast.
When she returned with breakfast, Ye Xiu had already given his seat to the early-shift employees and was leisurely holding a cigarette in his mouth, waiting for his food to arrive.
After eating breakfast, the two went to their respective rooms to sleep.
At three in the afternoon, they woke up. One went to the front desk to work while the other went looking for an empty computer station to sit at.
Since it was a Saturday, the Internet Cafe’s business was doing exceptionally well. There were, unexpectedly, no open seats in the smoking area. Ye Xiu circled around the Internet Cafe, and in the end, just stood there staring blankly into space for a long time.
“Business is doing well today……” Ye Xiu helplessly returned to the front desk and told his sorrows to Tang Rou.
“As an Internet Cafe employee, you should be happy about that.” Boss Chen walked over.
“Business is doing well today. I’m very happy.” Ye Xiu said with a blank face.
Chen Guo had trained herself. Her ability to restrain herself had gone up. If this had happened a few weeks before, she’d already be shouting and grinding her teeth.
“What are you doing?” Ye Xiu asked Tang Rou.
“I’m looking at guides.” Tang Rou said.
“Aren’t you always looking at guides?” Ye Xiu asked, while taking a glance at her screen.
“Oh? A dungeon guide?” Ye Xiu was surprised. Tang Rou practically never looked at these. The way they ran the dungeons were usually directed by Ye Xiu.
“Yeah…… I’m just skimming over it.” Tang Rou said. Ye Xiu looked more carefully. This girl was currently looking at the introductions to Line Canyon’s three hidden BOSSes as well as the wild BOSS. Clearly, after getting badly beaten by the Illusion Swordmaster yesterday, Tang Rou realized that facing a never-before-seen BOSS was troublesome for her.
“Okay. Looking at the BOSSes is fine, but don’t look at anything else.” Ye Xiu said.
“Hm?”
“Our play style is very different from what is written in the guides.” Ye Xiu said.
“Why is it different?” Chen Guo entered the discussion.
“All DPS, no MT, no healer.” Ye Xiu said.
An all DPS team was a very common matter for Ye Xiu and his squad, but to normal players, especially in the new server, this was something that was rarely seen. Even for the big guilds, when they formed an all DPS team, they often needed experts to substitute for them.
An all DPS team relied on the players’ mechanical skill. Without strong mechanics, a guide wouldn’t help.
“Boss, what level are you on for the whack-a-mole game?” Ye Xiu suddenly asked.
“I only play it for fun. At my age, what’s the point in practicing?” Chen Guo said.
“You could at least improve a bit! If not, then when we get to the Heavenly Domain and look to party up with you, you’ll only be dead weight!” Ye Xiu said.
“……” Chen Guo was speechless. Besides killing him, she had no other thoughts.
“Oh? Who wrote this guide?” Ye Xiu’s attention suddenly snapped back to Tang Rou’s screen. Tang Rou’s newly opened guide was a guide for the Line Canyon hidden BOSS Sandworm.
“Who wrote it?” Tang Rou wasn’t sure. She went to the top of the page and saw the name of the poster: Concealed Light.
“Do you recognize him?” Tang Rou turned her head to ask Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu shook his head. He didn’t recognize the ID.
“What’s so special about this guide?” Chen Guo had also been drawn in and pressed near to look.
“The guide’s very detailed.” Ye Xiu said.
“Oh?”
“He’s included the probability of every possible scenario. The process is very detailed. He’s written down every single detail on how to kill the BOSS.” Ye Xiu said.
“No wonder it’s so long…..” Tang Rou said. This guide was several pages long. When she opened it, she jumped up with fright. She hadn’t even looked at the content yet!
“Woah, you’re right…….” Chen Guo looked at it and then immediately discovered that this guide chose five classes, instructed what equipment to use, how to initiate, what moves to use in specific places…….
“It’s practically a video.” Chen Guo thought aloud as she looked.
The three read the entire seven pages, which was probably around twenty thousand words long.
4 minutes 56 seconds.
After thoroughly scouring through the guide, the author had even informed the reader how much time it would take to kill the BOSS, down to the second.
“Is this for real?” Chen Guo didn’t want to believe it. In actuality, she had already begun feeling dizzy after the first page. After that, she stopped reading carefully.
“Not a single mistake…….” Ye Xiu said on the side.
“This……. if it doesn’t allow for any deviation, then doesn’t that mean it doesn’t allow for any mistakes? If there’s a mistake, won’t it all be over?” Chen Guo said.
“That’s right.” Ye Xiu nodded his head, “But if this were for setting the record, there can’t be any mistakes anyways.”
“Are you saying that his strategy is very good for setting a record?”
“That’s not true…… His strategy is very safe, but it isn’t very efficient. However, this might only be because he’s researching a hidden BOSS. For a hidden BOSS, safety is number one. Who cares about efficiency?” Ye Xiu said.
“That’s true.” Chen Guo nodded her head.
“This person has other guides too.” Tang Rou saw the other guides from the author.
Here, Ye Xiu saw the name that the author gave to his guides: Idiot Series.
“It really is an idiot’s guide……” Ye Xiu said. This step by step guide, which provided instructions for everything, down to the small details, didn’t need the people using the guide to use their brain in any way. If they followed the steps, then they’d succeed.
“But it looks like the rating isn’t too good!” Tang Rou looked at the rating and comments.
“It’s probably because of the problem the boss talked about.” Ye Xiu guessed.
“Yeah.” Tang Rou nodded her head.
The comments were mostly mocking him. Just as expected, they were talking about Chen Guo’s problem: No one could ensure that they would be able to follow this type of extremely detailed step by step guide from beginning to end. As a result, everyone saw it as a fraud, as a theory. Since this wasn’t the author’s first guide, below there were comments such as “Another fake.” “Another fantasy fiction.” Practically no one supported the author.
“The guide isn’t wrong…… but the limitations are a bit too much.” Ye Xiu sighed.
“Should we look at his other guides?” Tang Rou moved her mouse around, stopping on different links. Every move stopped on a desired spot. This sister was actually practicing her mechanics even here.
“Let’s look at one!” Ye Xiu said.
Tang Rou opened up another one. This guide was on the other hidden BOSS in Line Canyon, the Scarlet Scorpion Assassin, Sting. The style was the same. From the very begining, the guide chose what classes to use, how to initiate, from beginning to end for several pages.
“Oh? He changed classes?” Ye Xiu was curious. Compared to the previous guide, four of the five classes were different. It was a completely different party set-up. To be able to do such a detailed guide, Ye Xiu had thought that the author had a set five-player team.
When Tang Rou heard Ye Xiu’s surprise, she opened up another guide. At the very start, he chose another completely different team set-up. This guide was for a different hidden BOSS in Desolate Land.
“When were these guides made?” Ye Xiu suddenly asked.
Tang Rou looked at the post time and found that they were all made recently.
“Could he be a player from the new server?’ Ye Xiu felt unsure.
Tang Rou clicked on the author’s name. While taking a looking at his list of works, the Idiot Series, the guides stopped at Line Canyon. This really was the current tenth server pace.
“Log into the game and search for him.” Ye Xiu proposed.
Tang Rou logged into the game. After Soft Mist went online, she looked up the name.
Concealed Light, Male, Level 32, Summoner.
“He really is from the new server.” Tang Rou said.
“But new server doesn’t mean new player, no?” Chen Guo said.
“If he’s not a new player, why would he put so much effort into researching these low-leveled BOSSes?” Ye Xiu said.
“Uh…..” Chen Guo thought, but couldn’t come up with anything.
“Look at this!” Tang Rou suddenly said.
Ye Xiu looked.
The title: The Mystery of the Boneyard 16 Minutes and 24 Second Record!
This record was the one Ye Xiu and his team had set in the tenth server. Hung high up on the leaderboards, the team set-up could be seen.
Battle Mage, Blade Master, Brawler, Launcher, Unspecialized.
Concealed Light had analyzed from these five classes how this record had been made.
From the beginning, he had already analyzed that it couldn’t be done with the usual strategy and that it had to be done by a new strategy.
Then what was this new strategy?
Concealed Light’s analysis wasn’t completely correct, but he was very close.
There was one point that he was wrong about though. Concealed Light clearly didn’t know of Lord Grim’s Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, so his analysis of the unspecialized character’s role was completely off.
In the end, with the strategy he had designed, he wasn’t able to create the 16 minutes and 24 second record. As a result, he gave Lord Grim and the five characters a set of Orange equipment and confidently said that this was how they did it……
It wasn’t that Concealed Light didn’t know how difficult it was to obtain Orange equipment in the new server at Level 25, but rather, it was that this brother was extremely confident in his analysis and strategy, so by working backwards…… he believed that, although having these five sets of equipment was ridiculous, it wasn’t impossible. But without these equipment, it definitely wasn’t possible to create such a record. As a result, he made such a claim.
The comments below weren’t hard to imagine. They were all practically saying how there was something wrong with the author’s brain.
Towards these comments, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou expressed their approval.

Chapter 194: A Not So Simple New Player

“This piece of writing makes it sound as if he’s always right.” Ye Xiu concluded.
“Well, he is correct in a few places.” Tang Rou said.
“Actually, if you put in time to do research, it’s not that difficult to come up with such a strategy. It’s just a matter of how much time you are willing to put in.” Ye Xiu said.
“Then do we still need to look at his guides?” Tang Rou asked.
“Let’s look at another BOSS one!” Ye Xiu said.
Tang Rou clicked on the previous Scarlet Scorpion Assassin guide, and just like that, Ye Xiu lied down on his stomach, over the receptionist desk like an idiot, and looked at the idiot’s guide. Tang Rou also looked on, but with her experience, she wasn’t able to read as fast as Ye Xiu. For this type of extremely detailed, step-by-step guide, Tang Rou had a hard time following it. Not long after, she felt like a next page clicking robot.
Chen Guo was actually a bit better in this area. However, she too couldn’t read it any further after a short while. For this type of low-leveled BOSS, even though it was a hidden one, it still wasn’t that difficult. Creating such a complicated guide was a bit excessive.
“What’s there to look at…….” Chen Guo mumbled.
“There isn’t much to look at for the guide.” Ye Xiu affirmed that there wasn’t any value in the guide, “But I wanted to see if he made any mistakes.”
“You’re playing find the fault?” Chen Guo was speechless.
“He he.” Ye Xiu chuckled and then continued to read.
Page after page, the guide totaled around 20,000 words long. Tang Rou and Chen Guo decided to stop reading along and just stared at Ye Xiu, waiting for him to find a mistake.
“There aren’t any mistakes.” Ye Xiu said after reading it.
“You’re still playing?” Chen Guo asked.
“Read another one?” Ye Xiu asked, to which Tang Rou responded by clicking on another link.
“You guys can keep playing!” Chen Guo stretched. She had lost all interest in playing this game.
“Wow!” Just as she turned her head, she heard Ye Xiu cry out in amazement. Chen Guo immediately turned back: “What? What?”
“Different classes.” Ye Xiu said.
“How many times do you need to act amazed?” Chen Guo rolled her eyes. The guide had switched classes before. They had already been amazed once.
“But this time, he doesn’t even include a Summoner. Isn’t he a Summoner?” Ye Xiu said.
“Yeah.” Tang Rou nodded her head. They had verified it earlier: Concealed Light, Level 32 Summoner.
“Does he have multiple accounts?” Chen Guo guessed.
Ye Xiu couldn’t deny such a possibility, so he silently read the guide.
After annihilating the excessive 20,000 word wall of text, Ye Xiu still couldn’t find any mistakes. Even though there were a few places where efficiency wasn’t maximized, they were completely possible, and didn’t contain any mistakes.
During this time, a customer in the smoking area left. Usually, when business is doing so well, the customers had the priority to use the computers, but seeing Ye Xiu’s pitiful appearance, Chen Guo’s heart softened as she waved her hand. Ye Xiu immediately understood her intent and quickly snatched the computer station.
Chen Guo and Tang Rou continued to stare at the walls of text on the computer screen.
Five minutes later……
“Is it interesting?” Chen Guo asked.
“No…….” Tang Rou calmly said. She was tired of reading it.
“Go find two videos to watch!” Chen Guo liked to watch brilliant match videos the most.
“Sure!” Tang Rou agreed. She didn’t feel as if this guide helped her at all. All she wanted to know was each of the BOSS’s features, so she could avoid predicaments, like when she fought against the Illusion Swordmaster. As long as she knew the BOSS’s patterns, Tang Rou believed that she could deal with them relying on her mechanics.
As a result, she closed the Idiot’s Guides and began to find a video to watch, but she suddenly discovered that her screen in Glory had turned entirely grey.
After searching for Concealed Light, she had forgotten to logout. Right now, Soft Mist was lying on the ground. A system notification had popped up asking her if she wanted to revive her character.
“How’d I die?” Tang Rou stared blankly at Chen Guo.
“Were you in the wild?” Chen Guo asked.
“Yeah……”
“You’re too careless.” Chen Guo said. Dying in the wild, whether it be by a random monster or a vicious PKer, was very common.
“Go revive and see what you’ve dropped.” Chen Guo said.
Tang Rou clicked confirm to revive. Her character returned to Congee City in a Critically Ill State. When she opened up her equipment and items, she shook her head: “I didn’t drop anything. Only some money and experience.”
“Those always drop. Check the system log.” Chen Guo said.
“Uh?” Tang Rou unexpectedly didn’t know what that was.
“Here!” Chen Guo took the mouse and clicked it for Tang Rou. The system log recorded her death. She wasn’t killed by a monster, but rather by a player called Breaking Zero.
“Breaking Zero…….” Chen Guo muttered. She opened up the search function and put in the name.
The character was online. A Level 33, male Spellblade.
“Level 33! He’s definitely leveling in Line Canyon. Go and take revenge!” Chen Guo gave the mouse and keyboard back to Tang Rou and commanded her like a general.
“Now?” Tang Rou was unsure.
“Obviously!” Chen Guo nodded her head.
Tang Rou pointed to the side. Chen Guo turned her head and saw a bunch of customers leaning against the front desk, watching the two beauties play the game.
“I’ll go! You take revenge.” Chen Guo went to deal with the customers.
“It’s fine! Who knows if I’ll be able to find him. It’ll be the same if I do it later.” Tang Rou didn’t really care and logged out of the game to take care of the customers.
In the smoking area, Ye Xiu continued to read Concealed Light’s Idiot’s Guides. With the current pace of the new server, there were a total of four dungeons; each one had three hidden BOSSes for a total of twelve. Every one of Concealed Light’s hidden BOSS guides were extremely detailed step-by-step guides that were over 20,000 words long. Even though Ye Xiu read very fast, he still had to read each word one by one. When Chen Guo called for him to eat, he had only finished six of them.
“You’re still reading! I’ll eat first.” Chen Guo was already used to Ye Xiu’s obsession over the game.
“Okay…..”
“Have you found any mistakes?’ Chen Guo asked.
“No.” Ye Xiu shook his head.
“Are you planning on reading them all?” Chen Guo knew that playing find the fault wasn’t a very fun game. It was actually quite tiring.
“We’ll see!” Ye Xiu said.
“Little Tang was killed by someone in the afternoon!” At the dining table, Chen Guo suddenly remembered.
“What happened?” Ye Xiu asked.
“She forgot to logout of the game. Her character was standing in the wild and someone killed her.” The person involved was calmer than Chen Guo.
“The killer was someone called Breaking Zero, a Level 33 Spellblade. If you see him, take note.” However, Chen Guo remembered better than Tang Rou and told him who the murderer was.
“Got it.” Ye Xiu laughed, “If I see him, I’ll definitely kill him.”
“Good.” Tang Rou nodded her head and then asked, “Did you figure out anything from these guides?”
“This person might not have multiple accounts. With how long the new server has been online, I don’t think there’s enough time to understand the details of every single hidden BOSS to such a degree. Right now, I’m doubting whether this author has even killed these hidden BOSSes. He used previous guides and videos as sources to create such an idiot’s guide.” Ye Xiu said.
“No way.” Chen Guo was astonished.
“If what you’re saying is true, then this person is an extremely amazing new player!” Ye Xiu said.
“He used his imagination to write these guides, yet there aren’t any mistakes?” Chen Guo said.
“That’s why I said he’s amazing.” Ye Xiu said.
“I don’t believe it.”
“After I finish eating, there’s still another six I need to look at!” Ye Xiu quickly ate his meal, got up and ran to continue reading the guides.
Guide after guide, Ye Xiu read them without missing a word. The more he read the more he was sure of his judgement. From these guides, he was able to see several not-so-optimal places, which told Ye Xiu that the author had limited in-game experience. These twelve guides were actually just his imaginations after grasping the theory. However, the logic, rationality, and possibilities of these imaginations weren’t simple.
After reading the last guide, Ye Xiu didn’t have any doubts. These twelve guides didn’t have any mistakes in them, however the weaknesses of the author were completely exposed by some of the details. Ye Xiu had already figured out what type of player this Concealed Light was to some extent. He was very interested in this person.
Looking at the time, it was already almost 11 o’clock. It was almost time to change shifts, so Ye Xiu turned off his computer and went to the front desk. During the weekends, there were quite a lot of all-night customers, so the front desk was extremely busy. After Ye Xiu finished, it was 11:30.
Tang Rou went to her usual spot and the two logged into the game. Ye Xiu went online and searched up Concealed Light’s name, but the character wasn’t online. Ye Xiu sent a friend request, but didn’t receive an answer. When he looked at his friends list, Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan still weren’t online, but Steamed Bun Invasion was. As a result, he sent Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion a message, telling them to gather in front of the dungeon entrance.
“Okay.”
“Got it.”
The two replied. Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim immediately left Congee City and headed to Line Canyon.
“Lord Grim has come online! He’s left the city and is now heading towards Line Canyon!”
“Soft Mist has come online! She’s heading towards Line Canyon. Her character is still Critically Ill!”
“Steamed Bun Invasion has left the Arena. He’s now heading out of the city.”
The three didn’t know that their whereabouts were being tracked by others.
11:41
“Desolate Land, coordinates: 1256, 1475. Cleansing Mist has come online.”
11:44
“Desolate Land, coordinates: 1256, 1466. One Inch Ash has come online.”
New information continued to be transmitted.

Chapter 195: Pursuit From Every Direction

11:50.
Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim was on his way towards Line Canyon. The world was bustling with excitement as the time approached midnight. Quite a few players, like Ye Xiu, were impatiently waiting for the dungeon entries to refresh, and many of them were hurrying along the same road as well.
Ye Xiu had already contacted Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan. The two had both gone offline at Desolate Land. As soon as they got on, they headed towards Line Canyon and would arrive before those coming from Congee City.
Outside of Congee City was a vast expanse of barren land. Although there were a few Level 30 monsters scattered here and there, it couldn’t be counted as a leveling area. The spawn rate and the concentration of monsters just wasn’t enough to satisfy a player’s leveling needs. Aside from killing them for quests, no player trained here.
After this, the road split into two. The left path led to Desolate Land, while the right led to Line Canyon. When the players reached this point, their levels were obvious at a glance. Those who went left were all Level 30 and under and those who went right were all Level 30 and above. These were the players who were considered high-leveled on the new server.
When Lord Grim reached the fork in the road, he went to the right. Coincidentally, the several players beside him unexpectedly all went to the right as well.
In the front, many players were heading towards Congee City from Line Canyon. During this time, these players, who were heading in opposite directions, bumped into each other.
A total of eight players, four on the left, four on the right, formed a “V” formation.
The players behind him, those who were going along the same route, had unknowingly gathered close to Lord Grim.
Ye Xiu suddenly realized that something wasn’t right and forced Lord Grim to halt.
The several characters next to him instantly halted as well as if they had received orders.
As I thought! Ye Xiu didn’t think too much and took the initiative to strike first. His left hand gently moved across the keyboard and executed the first move.
These surrounding players didn’t react slowly either. As soon as everyone halted all at once, they knew that they had been exposed.
The mid-ranged characters immediately began their offensive. Bullets and magic bombarded Lord Grim from several directions. Lord Grim was instantly vaporized. Not even a corpse remained.
Shadow Clone Technique!
Lord Grim’s real body had flashed in front of someone towards his right, just before they were able to begin their offensive.
Without any warning, he lifted his lance and attacked.
Right when the Shadow Clone was extinguished, the players blocking the road were blasted away by Lord Grim with a Falling Flower Palm.
Since he was in a melee form, the players had thought that he was planning to take them all at the same time; but their characters suddenly launched into the sky.
Even after being blown away by the Falling Flower Palm, they still hadn’t figured out what had happened.
These flying bodies opened up the way for Ye Xiu.
He had realized that something was wrong earlier than expected, the players wouldn’t have completed their formation. The instantaneous movement from his Shadow Clone Technique was directed towards the weakest part of the not-yet completed encirclement.
The character that had been blown away smashed into one of their allies. Another character, a Sharpshooter, tried to dodge the human meat bullets, as he fired towards Lord Grim in an attempt to stall him.
Ye Xiu saw what he was doing clearly. Lord Grim, who had been rushing forward in a straight line, suddenly moved horizontally, avoiding the string of bullets. He then leapt forward and spun around 180 degrees. His Myriad Manifestation Umbrella transformed into its Gun Form and let out a storm of bullets, flying away with an Aerial Fire.
With this sudden increase in speed, the bullets and magic missiles that were flying towards Lord Grim missed. After using Aerial Fire, Lord Grim landed right next to the Sharpshooter. The Sharpshooter didn’t react slowly. He lifted his leg and sent a Knee Strike towards him, but midway, he was stomped onto the ground by Lord Grim. However, Ye Xiu had used Punisher one step faster.
“Bang bang” Lord Grim shot twice and then continued to rush forward. Two players, one to his left and one to his right, had caught up and sandwiched him.
On the left was a Berserker. He raised his hands and leapt up high using Collapsing Mountain. Instead of hacking at Lord Grim, he attacked the empty space where Lord Grim was heading towards. Clearly, this attack wasn’t done to do damage, but rather to block Lord Grim from moving forward.
Lord Grim didn’t seem to have noticed him and continued to rush forward, as if looking for his own death. The Berserker was obviously very happy, but the instant his Collapsing Mountain was about to hit, he suddenly saw a cold light flash. Lord Grim drew his sword and accurately Guarded against the Collapsing Mountain.
The Collapsing Mountain looked mighty and powerful, while Guard looked tiny and weak, but the effect of a skill wasn’t always related to its appearance.
“Dong!” A loud sound rang out. The Berserker’s Greatsword clashed with Lord Grim’s sword. The Guard effect activated. A portion of the damage was mitigated and Lord Grim was pushed back by the attack.
This wasn’t something the player on the right had expected. He had originally anticipated for Lord Grim to be blocked by the Collapsing Mountain, but after Lord Grim unexpectedly Guarded, the knock-back effect had caused him to move to a different spot, one right next to him.
The player panicked. How could he be as quick as Ye Xiu, who already had everything planned out? As he was pushed back, his Myriad Manifestation Umbrella transformed into a Tonfa. As soon as he arrived next to the player, he immediately Flung him. On that side, that Berserker was still in the middle of the recovery animation from using Collapsing Mountain. His shouting ally flew towards him, and the two were sent rolling into a ball.
Ye Xiu didn’t chase them, but rather Lord Grim immediately turned around and ran. A mob of players were roaring at him while chasing him. A Witch was even more active. He rode his Broom and flew quickly. Lord Grim ran a few steps before suddenly turning around and firing, hitting the Witch’s head. Blood blossomed out like the autumn leaves. In this moment of confusion, the Witch crashed into a tree, causing roars of laughter from behind him.
“What are you laughing at!” The Witch, who had crashed into the tree, climbed back up. His tone wasn’t friendly.
Not many paid attention to him. The others continued to chase after Lord Grim.
“Flank! Flank!!” Someone shouted.
“What fcking flank! How are we supposed to flank with this speed?”
“Is there anyone in that direction? Find someone to block him for a bit.”
“From where? That place isn’t a leveling area.”
“This guy is doing it on purpose. He deliberately went towards a direction where there isn’t anyone positioned.”
“Just chase him. Cut the bullsht. We’ll see how far he can run.”
It seemed like a discussion, but also an argument. The mob of players noisily chased like so.
Ye Xiu turned his head to look at the distance. It wouldn’t be hard for him to get away, but looking at how orderly everyone was, he was afraid to just let the matter go.
These characters didn’t have any guild names next to them, but during the fights with a few of them, Ye Xiu had taken note of a few of their IDs. He searched them up as he ran and they were all Level 33 characters.
Currently, in the tenth server, Level 33 characters were practically all elites from big guilds. Even if they didn’t have a guild name next to them, that didn’t mean that they didn’t belong to a guild.
Ye Xiu suddenly thought of Tang Rou’s Soft Mist dying in the afternoon. Was that an unlucky tragedy or an intentional ploy?
Thinking of this, Ye Xiu immediately sent messages to the other members of the team, asking them for their situation.
“Dead…..” Tang Rou replied.
Her Soft Mist had been in a Critically Ill state the entire time. She had planned to recover as she walked over, but how could she know she was being watched?
In a Critically Ill state, all stats would be reduced by 80%. Besides looking for a NPC doctor to treat it, the state could only be removed by waiting for ten minutes.
Tang Rou had believed that the walk from Congee City to Line Canyon would be long enough for her to recover from the Critically Ill State, so she didn’t go and look for a doctor. But with an 80% reduction in stats, how could experienced players not immediately recognize such a chance.
Against such a weakened character, no matter how great of an expert they were facing, there was nothing to fear. Tang Rou was met with attacks from all sides. There wasn’t much resistance she could put up, and she was sent back to the city again. She was still trying to figure out what had happened!
“Ahh! Ahhhh! Why are there people trying to kill me! Boss!!” Steamed Bun Invasion replied in panic.
“Did you die?’ Ye Xiu hastily asked.
“Not yet. I’m running, but they’re still chasing.” Steamed Bun Invasion said. Ye Xiu had predicted that even if Steamed Bun had encountered this type of situation. He would find all sorts of wretched ways to escape.
As for Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan, he didn’t need to worry about them. The two were both pro-players. They obviously couldn’t stop this group, but running away with their lives should be something they could do. Plus, those two were together.
“Senior, there are people chasing us!” This was Qiao Yifan’s reply.
“Is it Liu Hao again?” Su Mucheng guessed.
“It’s not clear yet. Are you fine? Are you with One Inch Ash?”
“Yeah, we’ve both ran off. The other side has quite a lot of people!” Su Mucheng said.
“How many?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Dozens…..”
“So many! What level are they?”
“From the ones I’ve seen, they’re all Level 33.” Su Mucheng said.
“A single guild shouldn’t have that many Level 33 characters.” Ye Xiu had a feeling that the situation was a lot worse than he had originally guessed.

Chapter 196: Temporary Alliance

These players were all from the big guilds. This could simply be seen from their levels. However, it was impossible for a single guild to be able to produce so many high-leveled players. How many guilds had acted out? One, two, three, or more? Maybe even all of them?
No matter what the number was, Ye Xiu wouldn’t be surprised. He clearly understood the current plight the big guilds were in; the dungeons records were being held hostage by him, restricting their development in the tenth server. These big guilds weren’t able to rope him in and they definitely weren’t happy, but how could they surrender so easily?
It didn’t matter whether they were making their decisions based on emotion or reason. In such a hopeless situation, it was very common for people to choose the option of simply eradicating the direct cause.
“Don’t leave the city for now. We’re being watched by others.” Ye Xiu told Tang Rou. Only this complete noob might not have experienced this type of fighting and killing in a game.
“Where are you guys?” He then asked Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan for their whereabouts.
“We’re still in Desolate Land.” Su Mucheng said.
“The enemies might not be limited to just them. There might be backup that will come later. Some of the lower-leveled players may not directly participate in the battle, but they could be messengers. Head towards a place without any players and we’ll look for an opportunity to group.” Ye Xiu messaged.
“Okay, we’ll send you our coordinates from time to time.” Su Mucheng replied.
“Steamed Bun, where are you?” Ye Xiu decided to instruct Steamed Bun Invasion on what to do next.
“I’m at the outskirts of Congee City, near Hades Village.” Steamed Bun Invasion replied.
“Oh? Not bad! You’ve already run there.” Ye Xiu praised. Steamed Bun Invasion, this guy, even though he was a noob at Glory, it seemed like he had played quite a few games before. He had already taken the lead and found an area without many players.
Hades Village was one of the small villages on the outskirts of Congee City. Players would only come here from time to time for a few quests. Besides a few NPCs for quests, one, there weren’t any monsters, and two, there wasn’t good scenery so no one would come here, even if they were bored.
This was the best type of place to escape to. If not, then whether it was a leveling area or a safe area, there would be players from big guilds everywhere. There would be nowhere to hide.
“Yeah, it’s the closest place.” Steamed Bun Invasion’s reply made Ye Xiu realize that he had thought too highly of Steamed Bun Invasion.
“Did you throw them off yet?” Ye Xiu asked.
“I’m looking.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Be careful.” Ye Xiu said and had Lord Grim look behind him.
The crowd of Level 33 players still hadn’t given up. They were all chasing behind him. On this strip of flat land, there was nowhere to hide. Ye Xiu also needed to find a place similar to Hades Village, so there was where he was heading towards.
“What’s going on?” A voice asked, not from the game. Ye Xiu turned his head and saw Tang Rou was at the front desk looking at him.
“It’s probably players from the big guilds. We took their dungeon records, which is something they care a lot about.” Ye Xiu summarized the situation.
“Because they weren’t able to take the dungeon records, they resorted to this?” Tang Rou looked down on them.
“Who allowed us to be so amazing?” Ye Xiu laughed.
“What do we do now then?” Tang Rou asked.
“Go to the official site and look up the Heavenly Domain guild rankings. Any of the first twenty ranks could be our enemy right now. Take note of their guild names and keep a look out for those names in-game. Walk around in Congee City and try to go to places with fewer players. Also, check if there are any characters following you. Once your Critically Ill State has worn off, look for an opportunity to leave the city unnoticed and I’ll meet up with you.” Ye Xiu said.
“Okay.” Tang Rou nodded her head.”
Desolate Land Leveling Area.
After finding out where Cleansing Mist and Once Inch Ash were, quite a few players had joined in on the chase. Some were Level 33 elites, while others were normal, second-rate characters. Even though they hadn’t been required to do so, after knowing about the affair, they voluntarily joined in.
Seeing a destroyed, empty house, Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash seized the opportunity to rush into it. The number players chasing behind them hadn’t decreased though. There even appeared to be more of them.
Cleansing Mist looked out from the window on the left while One Inch Ash looked out from the window in the rear.
“There’s no one here.” Qiao Yifan called.
“Go.” Su Mucheng had her character run out. The two characters jumped and crouched in mid-air, escaping from the rear window.
There really weren’t any players behind the house, so the two of them took advantage of the fact that their chasers’ view was blocked, and sprinted away. They jumped gently over a dirt wall and when they landed on the ground, they crouched and moved along the wall.
“Over here.” Qiao Yifan carefully paid attention to the surroundings, while leading the way.
“Places with fewer monsters will naturally have fewer players.” Having little confidence in himself, he explained his reasoning towards Su Mucheng.
“Yeah, let’s hurry!” Su Mucheng said. This was her thought as well.
The dirt wall didn’t stretch too far. Even though their sneaky movements would throw off their enemies temporarily, they would definitely be exposed soon. They only hoped that this would earn them enough time to widen the distance between them.
When they reached the end of the wall, the two characters rushed out; one in the front, and one in the back. The two turned their heads to take a look. Their chasers were currently scattered around the outside of the empty house. Clearly, after finding out that they weren’t there, they were looking around for them.
As soon as they exposed themselves, the enemies immediately began chasing again. Cleansing Mist lifted her gun and sent Anti-Tank Missiles towards them. However, they were too far away and they easily dodged it. Su Mucheng obviously wouldn’t stop to fight with them. She continued to run away like crazy.
“Sis Mu, see those four houses ahead? How about we split up?” Qiao Yifan said. He already suspected that Cleansing Mist was Su Mucheng, but he was too afraid to confirm and too afraid to ask. He believed that he was relatively young in their team, so he called them brothers and sisters: Steamed Bun Bro, Sis Mu, Sis Rou, as well as the most honorable senior.
“I’ll take the one on the right.” Su Mucheng said.
“Then I’ll take that one on the left.”
The two said as they entered their respective houses.
“They hid in houses again!!” The chasers behind them angrily shouted.
The size of these empty houses in Desolate Land were all around the same. They were all damaged beyond repair. Some had windows and some had large holes in the wall. In short, there was always more than one exit. When their targets went in and jumped out through the window, they lost sight of them for a quick moment. They had been thrown off several times already by this sort of tactic and the more those two moved, the more energetic they became.
“Spread out! Surround them!” One person yelled.
Except when they heard this command, only a few of them followed it.
“Spread out!” The person roared.
A few others moved, but the majority stood still.
“We don’t all need to spread out, do we? We just need to have some go around and look.” Someone laughed.
Clearly, this crowd didn’t have a single leader.
The plan to get rid of Lord Grim through force had been prepared in advance, but they had only begun gathering after finding out that Lord Grim and his team had come online. The experts from the big guilds simply chose the targets that they happened to be closest to.
This type of temporarily put-together team didn’t have a leader. Even though they all had the same goal, there were still obstacles.
In the alliance Excellent Dynasty had set up, they weren’t asking the guilds to completely unify. They only hoped that the guilds would put out some man power. First, they went to find Tyrannical Ambition because Tyrannical Ambition was in the most desperate situation and naturally wanted a way to resolve the problem.
This was why, even though the two guilds weren’t usually cooperative, Chen Yehui was confident that the force sent by Tyrannical Ambition would be massive.
However, forming an alliance couldn’t just be said and done. It didn’t matter if it was Tyrannical Ambition’s Jiang You, or the tenth server’s Cold Night, they would be suspicious of Excellent Dynasty.
Lord Grim was a mutual enemy of their guilds —- that was a fact, but at this moment, the other guilds should first be waiting to enjoy the show before acting. And the guild that should have been the happiest was Excellent Dynasty.
However, it was Excellent Dynasty that had asked them to form an alliance with them. It was impossible for them to resolve their desperate situation and no matter how much they thought about it, there seemed to be an ulterior motive.
As a result, they probed each other out for almost three hours. During this, Chen Yehui invited several other guilds to participate. Only then did Jiang You and Chen Yehui gradually comply.
In total, there were 7 guilds that joined in. Naturally, they all had an ambition towards dungeon records. Everyone was originally opponents, but currently, they were all set on eliminating their mutual enemy, Lord Grim.
Among this, what surprised Chen Yehui was that Blue Brook Guild had actually decided to reject their temporary alliance.

Chapter 197: Opposite Direction

Blue Brook Guild was the first guild to think highly of Lord Grim and ask him to help set a record. Naturally, they were also the first guild to try and rope in Lord Grim. For such a talent to appear, as long as the guilds recognized it, none of them would be indifferent.
But now, Blue Brook Guild was the guild that had been damaged the most by Lord Grim. It didn’t matter how they had first met. From Chen Yehui’s eyes, Blue Brook Guild had to be filled with resentment. Their current situation was even worse than Tyrannical Ambition’s current situation. Who would have thought that they would immediately reject his proposal without hesitation?
Their firm attitude made Chen Yehui feel indescribably sour. He felt that Blue Brook Guild’s calm and resolute rejection wasn’t out of impulse or fear, but rather a strategic decision made after much consideration.
“Could they have realized that Lord Grim is Ye Qiu?” Chen Yehui felt uncertain.
Lord Grim was Ye Qiu. This was information that he definitely wouldn’t tell others about. Ye Qiu’s awe-inspiring skill wasn’t the reason. After all this was still just in the game. If five can’t beat you, then I’ll send ten. If ten isn’t enough, then I’ll send twenty. If twenty isn’t enough, then I’ll send a hundred! It didn’t matter how skilled you were, you would eventually be killed from being attacked from all sides.
The reason Chen Yehui was too afraid to tell others of Lord Grim’s identity was because of Ye Qiu’s fame. A God for ten years! How many Glory fans looked up to him as their idol? If this came out, Chen Yehui was afraid that a bunch of experts would run over to Ye Qiu’s side and beg him to take them in as disciples. Especially his Excellent Dynasty, he didn’t dare tell them. Ye Qiu’s fans were even more loyal here.
In the end, he decided not to probe out Blue Brook Guild to see if they knew.
Fortunately, the number of guilds he had gathered was already enough.
This time, not only did he want to exterminate Lord Grim, but he also wanted to take down Ye Qiu’s team. Taking out his anger on Ye Qiu was for his own selfish reasons. Chen Yehui was more concerned about guild matters. If he didn’t take down the team, he had no way of effectively carrying out his plans.
He had already experienced the battle strength of Ye Qiu’s team when they were together. The strength of Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion left him in fear, but this time, their forces had an even greater advantage in numbers. They had also surrounded them separately. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Chen Yehui listened to the reports from those beneath him and also led others to provide further assistance to their troops, but when he got to Desolate Land, he saw the players scattered about, running around with their target’s whereabouts unknown.
“Where are they?” Chen Yehui saw players from his guild and went over to ask them. He ignored the others. Even though he was a guild leader, the others wouldn’t follow his orders. It was even possible for die-hard Tyrannical Ambition players to secretly ambush him. Chen Yehui didn’t doubt this. This alliance was simply to gather players to deal with Lord Grim. There was no intention of becoming friends.
“They went into the houses. The left and right ones.” An Excellent Dynasty player immediately answered.
“Then what are you waiting for? Chase!” Chen Yehui said.
“We have them surrounded…….” The player said helplessly, while looking at the chaotic scene. Right, they were surrounding them…….
“Our people, come here!!” Chen Yehui didn’t attempt to command the entire scene, and only called over his brothers.
Seeing their guild leader, the Excellent Dynasty players gathered together.
“You two stay here. The others come with me.” Chen Yehui had two players stay in position. Positions that the other guilds weren’t covering.
Players had already begun storming into the houses on the left and right.
“They’re not in here!” The players yelled and leapt out of the window. Those who made a mistake wound up getting stuck in the window, causing players from other guilds to laugh at them.
The others who had spread out and surrounded the houses didn’t find any signs of Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!!” Everyone shouted and immediately rushed forward, thinking that their targets had taken the chance to widen their distance.
Under their eyes, in the empty house pressed between the house on the left and on the right, Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash were quietly crouching in a corner.
Cleansing Mist slowly moved to an opening in a wall and took a quick glance outside.
“Ha ha, we’ve fooled them. Just as expected, they got used to us running in the same direction.” Su Mucheng messaged Qiao Yifan.
“They’re not organized well, which was why I believed they would make such a mistake.” Qiao Yifan said. He had noticed their opponent’s disorderly movements and had come up with this plan after consulting with Su Mucheng.
Before, they had used blind spots to escape. Once, twice, thrice, they made an impression on their enemies. As a result, they made a sudden change in this terrain and didn’t continue running. Instead, after passing through the left and right houses, they snuck into the house in the middle.
Everyone hurried past these houses in order to see where the two had run off to.
“Let’s go.” Su Mucheng told Qiao Yifan. They obviously couldn’t stay here forever. When their enemies realized that there was no sign of them, they would definitely look around and find them. The two wanted to use this opportunity to escape in the opposite direction.
Qiao Yifan’s One Inch Ash immediately moved to entrance to the house, but just as he exposed half of his body, he immediately went back.
“There are players outside……” Qiao Yifan messaged Su Mucheng.
“What?” Su Mucheng’s Cleansing Mist also went to the entrance.
“Sorry, Sis Mu…….” Most of this escape plan had been proposed by Qiao Yifan. It was a rare moment of confidence, but in the end, he found that there were enemies left behind. Seeing that he had made a mistake, Qiao Yifan immediately felt upset and scared again.
“No problem, rush out!” Su Mucheng said as she moved out from the room. The enemies that had stayed behind were the players Chen Yehui had ordered. In reality, there wasn’t any error in Qiao Yifan’s plan. He just hadn’t thought that backup would arrive at this moment and there just happened to be a guild leader level character like Chen Yehui.
The new players were naturally unaccustomed to their previous pattern. Chen Yehui also had authority over his players. Qiao Yifan’s plan had been formulated throughout their escape, so new players hadn’t been taken into account.
As soon as the two saw Cleansing Mist rush out, they were surprised, but quickly sent messages to everyone. Cleansing Mist’s artillery shells flew over. The two immediately tried to dodge it, but Su Mucheng’s Anti-Tank Missiles were sent in three different directions, so it would have been better to stay still, but it was too late by the time they realized it.
The smoke from the artillery barrage hadn’t yet dissipated when One Inch Ash rushed in front of one of the players and used a Ghost Slash. The player hastily jumped back and dodged it, but One Inch Ash quickly matched it with a Moonlight Slash. The player wasn’t able to react in time and was launched up into the air by the Moonlight Slash. A Full Moonlight Slash followed after the Moonlight Slash, a very common Ghostblade combo. The Full Moonlight Slash caused the player to fly higher into the air. A series of gun fire followed closely after. Cleansing Mist shot up towards the sky with a Gatling Gun. The brother rolled about in the air and took a while before he fell to the ground.
The other player had wanted to help, but was easily knocked to the ground by a few normal attacks from Qiao Yifan. Qiao Yifan raised his sword and cast a Sword Boundary. Cleansing Mist entered it and fired a Laser Rifle and Cannonball. The buffed damage and explosiveness from the Sword Soul added to its might. These two unfortunate players didn’t have any chance of fighting back. If they weren’t rolling around in the sky, then they were rolling around in the dirt. After a short moment, they turned into two corpses.
Chen Yehui received the messages from the two who stayed behind and immediately led his Excellent Dynasty players to return and chase them. The other guild’s players saw this and stared blankly. Without anyone guiding them, they just did what everyone else did and followed along. In the end, when they returned to the rooms, there was no sight of them.
“Where are you?” Chen Yehui asked the two players.
“Where are they?’ The other guilds all asked Chen Yehui.
“Dead…..” Those two’s replies were quick, but Chen Yehui wasn’t able to reply to the other players.
“Everyone split up and search…..” Chen Yehui looked around and then helplessly said. There were quite a few destroyed houses, walls, and holes, and it wasn’t easy to check every one of them.
“F*ck, what are we looking for?” The other guilds’ players didn’t know what had happened and were cursing.
“Those two players hid over here and took the opportunity when we rushed out to kill our two brothers. Right now, we don’t know where they escaped to.” Chen Yehui wasn’t happy either, but had no choice but to explain it to these people.
With this, there was nothing they could complain about. Search!
Everyone split up and searched around, but they didn’t know that Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash had already returned to the destroyed house and jumped out of the window, playing another game of opposite direction.

Chapter 198: A Bro at the Bottom of a Well

Outskirts of Congee City: Hades Village. Inside a dried up well. Steamed Bun Invasion stood upright and exposed a small bit of himself in order to take a quick sweep of the surroundings.
Initially, Steamed Bun Invasion had randomly hopped down during his escape. His reason for doing so: because it was close. Unexpectedly, this seldom-visited well gave him a hiding place. Steamed Bun Invasion had bravely begun a game of hide-and-seek with his pursuers.
The originally tranquil village had become a noisy mess because of Steamed Bun Invasion’s intrusion. The NPCs were still calmly following their predetermined routes, but the rampaging footsteps of a dozen players, who were chasing Steamed Bun Invasion, resounded throughout the village. The communication between them also came into Steamed Bun Invasion’s ears from time to time.
Steamed Bun Invasion hastily ducked down and listened intently to the what his pursuers were saying.
“Where’d he go?”
“He can’t have run too far. He has to be in the village.”
“What a cunning guy to run to such a place.”
Some footsteps were far. Some were close. They were clearly looking everywhere. Steamed Bun Invasion was listening and just happened to be pondering whether he should stand up straight to take a quick glance around, when a white light suddenly flashed in front of him and a character appeared. Not waiting for Steamed Bun Invasion to open his mouth, that character cried out in fright: “Who are you?”
“Quiet!” Steamed Bun Invasion hurriedly stopped the person from saying anything more.
“What a coincidence! To think I’d bump into someone in this type of place.” This person had absolutely no idea what was going on and continued talking.
Steamed Bun Invasion heard footsteps coming closer and closer. He didn’t know whether it was because of the noise coming from here. Even though this type of hiding place was difficult to find, if he was found, then it’d be difficult to escape from. Steamed Bun Invasion understood this, so as soon as he heard footsteps coming closer, he wouldn’t take any risks and immediately jump outside to escape.
Just as he was about to jump out, he suddenly heard the guy in front of him shout out loudly: “Huh? Steamed Bun Invasion? Are you the Steamed Bun Invasion in Lord Grim’s team on the dungeon record rankings?”
“Yup, that’s me, but right now, I don’t have time to accept your interview. I’m currently hiding from an intense chase. I’m about to rush out!” Steamed Bun Invasion said with a low voice when he suddenly leapt out from the well. He looked around him and sure enough, people were heading towards the well. Seeing him come out, they immediately shouted: “He’s over here!”
Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t stop. As soon as he landed on the ground, he took off.
“Hey, wait up!” The person in the well yelled and then immediately took off too. However, he didn’t use enough strength and didn’t jump high enough. His character’s two feet hit the side of the well, and he was knocked back into it.
None of the pursuers knew who this guy was, so they also called: “There’s even one waiting to ambush us here!”
“Uh oh! It might be a trap!” Someone said. Some of the players immediately stopped, fearing that there might be hidden troops hiding in the well.
The number of players chasing Steamed Bun Invasion wasn’t as numerous as the number of players chasing Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan, though because of this, they were more unified. There were a dozens players here, from a total of two guilds and they weren’t mortal enemies like Tyrannical Ambition and Excellent Dynasty either, so there was room for discussion.
In this short moment of hesitation, that brother in the well used enough strength this time and jumped out of it. This character was wearing cloth armor and his hands clutched a magic rod, indicating that he was a Mage. After jumping out of the well, he ignored the pursuers and chased after Steamed Bun Invasion.
Seeing him run, the players realized that it didn’t seem to be an ambush. The chances of one were too small, so they immediately began chasing.
Each of the two guilds had separate leaders, so there wasn’t much confusion. The pursuers chased after him closely. Steamed Bun Invasion hastily glanced around to see if there were any places to hide, like before. Just as he was looking, he heard someone yell from behind him: “Run towards the left.”
The voice sounded a bit familiar. Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t think too much about who had said it and headed towards the left. There wasn’t anything special to the left, only an ordinary straw cottage. Steamed Bun Invasion ran behind the straw cottage and temporarily left his pursuer’s line of sight.
“Jump in from that window.” At this moment, that voice came again. Steamed Bun Invasion searched for the so-called “window” when he realized who the person giving him directions was. It was that bro he met at the bottom of the well.
“You’re a really good guy!” Steamed Bun Invasion said and saw which window the bro was referring to and jumped in. The bro from the bottom of the well quickly caught up and crouched down to jump in like Steamed Bun Invasion. The first time, he crashed into the window sill and fell down. The second time, he crashed again and fell. The third time….. Steamed Bun Invasion was at a loss: “What are you doing!”
“I’m jumping in.” The bro from the well said.
“I really can’t tell.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
The bro from the well understood that he wasn’t skilled enough. His movements weren’t precise enough. After failing three times, he gave up and continued to run left.
“Hey, where are you going?” Steamed Bun Invasion stuck his head out and asked him.
“Put your head back! Add me as a friend and then let’s talk.” The bro from the well ran as he turned his head back to say.
Steamed Bun Invasion pulled back his head and received a system prompt: Concealed Light requests to be your friend.
After accepting the invite, he received a message from Concealed Light: “After 8 seconds, come out through the door.”
Even though Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t know what was going on, he did as he was told. He counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then ran out of the straw cottage’s door, bumping into Concealed Light, who had just come in from the entrance.
“Over here!” Concealed Light led the way, while Steamed Bun Invasion followed. The two weaved around Hades Village. At first, they could still hear the footsteps and voices of the pursuers, but gradually, the sounds died down and seemed to have returned to the sounds of the NPC’s slow steps and calm village.
“Did we throw them off?” Steamed Bun Invasion glanced around.
“Quiet!” After confirming the situation, it was Concealed Light’s turn to warn Steamed Bun Invasion.
One of Steamed Bun Invasion’s strength was that he was able to listen to other’s suggestions and immediately shut his mouth. At this moment, Concealed Light’s line of sight fell to the Sandstorm Claw that Steamed Bun Invasion was holding, a Brawler weapon.
“Your weapon isn’t an Orange weapon?” Concealed Light suddenly asked.
“Yeah.”
“Why don’t you use one?”
“I don’t have one.”
“What do you mean you don’t have one?”
“It was too expensive. Senior wouldn’t buy it for me.”
The two talked like this with one asking and one replying, but they weren’t on the same page. This Concealed Light was that author of the Idiot’s Series, the Level 32 Summoner, Concealed Light, and was absolutely confident in his judgement. He was certain that Lord Grim’s team all had Orange equipment, but seeing that Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t have one, he refused to believe his judgement was wrong. His intent wasn’t being picked up by Steamed Bun Invasion, who was answering the questions honestly.
“Senior? You mean Lord Grim?” Concealed Light said.
“Yeah! You know him?’ Steamed Bun Invasion was pleasantly surprised.
“I don’t…..” Concealed Light said, but was still confused on how his judgement had been wrong: “How do you not have an Orange weapon?”
“Because we didn’t have enough money.” Steamed Bun Invasion replied as before.
“Their footsteps are coming closer.” Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly heard footsteps.
“Let’s go along this road! We’ll definitely be able to run back to the city before they catch up.” Concealed Light began running forward.
“I’m not going back to the city.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Then where are you going?”
“I’m getting ready in a bit to meet up with senior.” Steamed Bun Invasion said, “Are you going back to the city? That’s perfect! You can lead them away and I’ll be good then.”
Concealed Light coughed up blood. Shouldn’t he be the one without any problems? He still didn’t know why Steamed Bun was being chased. The only reason he was helping Steamed Bun Invasion was because he was a member of the dungeon record team, one of his researched subjects, a character whose equipment he had deduced.
A luxurious Orange equipped team. This was an unrealistic argument and Concealed Light understood this.
Compared to the other Idiot’s Guides, he spent more time for the Boneyard record. Unfortunately, that was the only conclusion he could come up with. He was absolutely confident, but he just couldn’t convince others of it. He really hoped that he could verify his judgement, but he was never able to.
Even after knowing that Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t have an Orange weapon, Concealed Light refused to give up.
Steamed Bun Invasion’s very casual suggestion to let Concealed Light lead the pursuers away did make him want to cough blood, but he wouldn’t argue over something like this. He turned his head to look at Steamed Bun Invasion and suddenly shouted: “Wow! You’re Level 31 now? You’ve probably switched equipment! You previously used a Level 28 Orange weapon right?”
“Nope. I’ve never used one before.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Impossible.” Concealed Light was concerned about this.
“Why aren’t you going back to the city! They’re coming closer.” Steamed Bun Invasion was concerned about this.
“They’re not chasing me, so why should I care?” Concealed Light said.
“What? Then why are you running?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked in curiosity.
“……..’ Concealed Light was speechless.
“If you won’t run, then I’ll be running.” Once Steamed Bun Invasion saw that he wasn’t going to lure them away and there was no way he could stay in the same place for too long, he immediately began running again.
“No! No! You can’t go that way!” Seeing where Steamed Bun Invasion was running, Concealed Light blurted out.

Chapter 199: The Escape Member: Concealed Light

Concealed Light and Steamed Bun Invasion weren’t friends. It was just that when he found that Steamed Bun Invasion had run onto a route where he would be quickly discovered, his auto-correct function activated and autonomously shouted out.
“Okay, then where should I run to?” Steamed Bun Invasion immediately returned.
“Over here.” Concealed Light continued to lead the way.
“Where are you guys meeting up at?” Concealed Light asked. He might as well just send him there.
“I dunno.” Steamed Bun Invasion said bluntly.
Concealed Light seemed to have stumbled on the flat ground. It looked as if he had accidentally pressed the crouch command. In that instant, his finger had clearly touched the wrong key.
“If you don’t know, then where are we running to?” Concealed Light said.
“How should I know? You’re the one leading.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
Concealed Light coughed up blood: “You say a place and I’ll bring you there.”
“Wait! Let me ask!” Steamed Bun Invasion sent a message to Lord Grim.
“Where are you right now?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Hades Village.”
“What? You’re still there? Have you escaped yet?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Not yet.”
“How many pursuers are there?” Ye Xiu asked.
“Uh… let me ask.” Steamed Bun Invasion replied.
Ask? Ye Xiu was confused.
‘Hey, how many players are over there?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked the lead, Concealed Light.
“How should I know? It’s not like they’re chasing me. Maybe a dozen or so!” Concealed Light said.
“A dozen.” Steamed Bun Invasion answered Ye Xiu’s question.
“How’d you find out?” Ye Xiu had a hard time understanding.
“I met a bro at the bottom of a well and he told me.” Steamed Bun Invasion replied.
A bro at the bottom of a well? Ye Xiu was getting more and more confused, but thinking of Steamed Bun Invasion’s brain, he didn’t ask to find out.
“Come to Congee Forest!” Ye Xiu replied.
Glory’s map didn’t only consist of uninterrupted leveling areas. There were also quite a few commonplace transition maps. Similar to the numerous villages scattered around the outskirts of Congee City, these places were mostly used for quests.
Congee Forest was this type of place. Outside of Congee City, it was a forest close to Line Canyon. When there weren’t players there for quests, it was even more empty than those small villages.
“We’re meeting up at Congee Forest.” Steamed Bun Invasion quickly reported to Concealed Light.
“Here!” Concealed Light immediately figured out which direction to go in. Steamed Bun Invasion didn’t say anything further and directly followed behind him.
Concealed Light felt a bit lonely as well as confused.
Isn’t this Steamed Bun Invasion too simple? It’s not like we know each other, how could he just follow along without even asking who I am?
Concealed Light was puzzled over this question, but more importantly: he wanted to obtain approval. Every one of the guides Concealed Light had published had been seen by readers as nonsense, making him feel very angry. His guides were all correct. Why did those people say his guides were unrealistic? Why weren’t they saying their skill wasn’t good enough?
At this moment, he was leading Steamed Bun Invasion away from the pursuers with ease. Yet this Steamed Bun Invasion wasn’t even asking him how he could do it. Concealed Light felt very lonesome. He finally couldn’t take it anymore: “Do you know why we have to run this way?”
“Why?” Steamed Bun Invasion blurted out.
“Because the pursuers are around five coordinates away from us. By going in this direction, the positions of those five coordinates behind us are held by four houses that are blocking their view. If we went that direction you were previously going along, they’d have been able to find you in less than 10 seconds.” Concealed Light happily explained. He was looking forward to Steamed Bun Invasion’s next question. For example: how did you know that they were five coordinates behind.
“Oh.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
Concealed Light’s fingers went astray again. This time it was his right hand. He accidentally left-clicked and he waved his magic rod.
“So you’re saying that the people behind us aren’t able to see where we’re going?” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
“Yes! Yes! The following routes I’m going to bring you along will all make the pursuers unable to figure out where we are. This is why we’re able to shrug them off so easily.” Concealed Light said.
“But it looks like there are people in front of us.” Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly said.
“In front?” Concealed Light looked forward but didn’t see anyone.
“I heard footsteps. My 1.5 hearing.” Steamed Bun Invasion said.
1.5 hearing……. Concealed Light was confused, but at this moment, just as Steamed Bun Invasion said, a player suddenly jumped out from behind a rock.
“Maybe he’s just passing by…… If he’s with those guys behind us, then our position’s been exposed. From the route those guys will choose to take, we should…….”
“Kill him!” Steamed Bun Invasion had already gone up to kill him.
Sure enough, the person behind the rock wasn’t some passerby. When he saw Steamed Bun invasion, he immediately took out his sword and rushed forward, a Blade Master.
Concealed Light had no choice but to enter the battle as well. As he moved, he began muttering: “Brawlers and Blade Masters have mid-ranged CC skills. Both sides will need some time to close in on each other. Since they will restrict each other, I should summon after going around the Blade Master, to his rear. Brawlers have Brick Buster and Sand Toss, two mid-ranged skilled. If the skills are used one after the other, then he can control the Blade Master for ten seconds. With my movement speed, I can only choose to head towards the 10 o’clock position. Even though I’ll be somewhat close to the Blade Master, there’s a stone wall over there, which can be used to block the Blade Master’s Sword Draw, so I won’t actually be in his attack range. Then, once I get behind the wall, I’ll be behind the Blade Master. First, I’ll summon Thunder Spirit, the Stun effect from the attack can be used to match with the Brawler’s……”
“Hey! What are you muttering?” Steamed Bun Invasion heard Concealed Light whispering something, but couldn’t hear clearly. While he asked, he rushed forward, sending a Brick flying forward.
“F*ck! How can you waste your Brick like that!” Concealed Light saw this scene and immediately shouted.
“So what?” Steamed Bun Invasion replied to him and used the opportunity to close in while the opponent was dodging. This Blade Master wasn’t weak. After dodging the Brick, he drew his sword: “Sword Draw”.
Steamed Bun Invasion rolled to dodge the sword light and reached in front of the Blade Master. He raised his hands and used an Uppercut.
The Blade Master moved back and dodged. He then followed up with a Lunge to counterattack. This guy had clearly spent a few skill points on this skill. This skill no longer made only two stabs, but four.
Four sword lights stabbed forth towards Steamed Bun Invasion. As each one flew forward, Steamed Bun Invasion leapt back. The sword tips flashed in front of him, but never hit. At this moment, Steamed Bun Invasion swung his hand and threw a Sand Toss at him.
Sand Toss was considered a Magic Attack, so the Blade Master’s Guard had no effect, but the low damage skill could be endured as long as he wasn’t blinded.
This Blade Master didn’t dodge this Sand Toss and instead, turned his head towards a different direction. At the same time, he followed up with an attack and a Triple Slash headed towards Steamed Bun Invasion. Just with this skill, it could be seen that this Blade Master wasn’t ordinary.
Concealed Light predicted that the two sides wouldn’t meet each other in close combat for ten seconds, but Steamed Bun Invasion used a Brick and a forward roll to directly close in on the opponent. Concealed Light was still going forward with his original plan, but while he was going around, because of Steamed Bun Invasion’s Sand Toss, the Blade Master’s head suddenly turned to his direction, catching him.
Concealed Light panicked, but saw that the Blade Master’s sword was still aimed at Steamed Bun Invasion.
Steamed Bun Invasion had used this instant to complete his movement. When the Blade Master’s Triple Slash flew past, Steamed Bun Invasion lifted his hand and clawed, clasping onto the Blade Master’s throat, pushing him into the wall.
Knee Strike, Slap, Inject Poison……
Steamed Bun Invasion ignored the Blade Master’s struggling and used the time while the opponent’s defense was reduced from the Strangle to quickly send a few attacks forward.
After the Strangle finished, Steamed Bun Invasion floated to the side of the Blade Master’s body and accurately smashed a Brick into the Blade Master’s head, inducing a Dizzy effect. Steamed Bun Invasion smoothly Applied Poison to his weapon and followed up with a Combo. The Blade Master was trapped against the wall and had no way of escaping. Any place he tried to dodge to was met by a block from Steamed Bun Invasion. The two sides traded health, but clearly, Steamed Bun Invasion had the advantage.
Not long after, Steamed Bun Invasion took down half of the Blade Master’s life and beat the Blade Master into the wall. The Blade Master’s life continued to drop until he fell. Steamed Bun Invasion looked around and saw that Concealed Light was jumping again and again behind a broken-down wall and crashing into it.
“Bro, what are you doing? Are you trying to rape that wall?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
Concealed Light was extremely gloomy. He just wanted to jump onto the wall, but the wall was a bit tall and with his jumping strength, he had to grasp the distance and timing in order to succeed. But as he was trying, unknowingly, that Blade Master had already been defeated by Steamed Bun Invasion, yet he still hadn’t jumped onto the wall.
“Hurry up and run. They’re here.” By the time they finished killing the Blade Master, the pursuers finally appeared in their view and were quickly catching up.
Concealed Light didn’t try and fight with the wall anymore and quickly went around it.
“Which way?’ Steamed Bun Invasion asked.
“Uh, over here……” After seeing where those pursuers were coming from, Concealed Light continued to lead the way. Except this time, he was no longer as proud as before.
“You have really weird tastes. What astrological sign are you?” This time, Steamed Bun Invasion took the initiative to ask.