Chapter 24 Close Combat

The tavern had two doors, one on the left and one on the right. When Gu Fei charged out of the right door, he didn't see Yu Tian Shen Ming charge out of the left. Gu Fei quickly turned back into the tavern, but Yu Tian Shen Ming was still nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the guy?" Gu Fei was nervous. Could it be that this guy was entangled by enemies and had died heroically?

"I have a badge, I teleported~" Yu Tian Shen Ming replied.

As expected of an expert, he was conscious. Gu Fei admired him. Back when he had just gotten that badge, he often forgot to use it every now and then, foolishly continuing to run back to the mission location on foot. Look at Yu Tian Shen Ming, he had only borrowed it a few times and already had a deeply ingrained idea.

After thinking about it, he looked up and saw the Black Hat's brothers standing there in a daze, staring blankly at Gu Fei.

"Wanted mission," Gu Fei patiently explained again, "It's for that kid who ran away, I can help you contact him if you want revenge."

If this were reality, Gu Fei could take out a cell phone to increase the sense of realism, but it was boring in the game. After all, even if you were preparing to send a message, outsiders couldn't see it! So the guys on the other side didn't take Gu Fei's words seriously. They saw Gu Fei running away and then rushing back, and the first word that came to their minds was: walking right into the trap.

Several people gritted their teeth and glared at him murderously, including the little thief who had been kicked down by Gu Fei before.

Gu Fei was overjoyed, this was the effect he wanted! He loved the chain reaction after the wanted mission, otherwise where would all the fun of PK come from?

"Uh!" Gu Fei habitually gave a friendly reminder, "You want to take revenge on me? You'll lose a level if you die!"

The group took three steps forward.

"You really will lose a level!" Gu Fei reminded them as he took a few steps forward.

"You should be the one to lose a level!" one of the guys in the opposing camp roared as he waved his weapon and pounced on him.

Gu Fei was overjoyed, and he raised his sword to meet him, but he didn't expect a gust of wind to come from the side. "Cema Liuxing..." Gu Fei shouted, and then the guy's series of Fighter combos had already turned the angry first person into nothing.

That wasn't the end of it. There was also a mage next to him, with long flowing hair and a heroic appearance. He pointed his staff, which was flashing a dazzling red light, at the feet of the remaining five people and said, "Fire Tree Thousand Flames, rise!"

Gu Fei had never seen such a bold mage use area-of-effect spells in a tavern.

Fire Tree Thousand Flames rose rapidly, and the range was beyond Gu Fei's imagination. Obviously, his skill proficiency was also extremely high. For a moment, the players in the tavern screamed and dodged, while the few PK opponents that Gu Fei coveted were wiped out in the heart of the flames.

"Ah!" Gu Fei groaned in pain, his left hand, which was not holding a sword, hung in the air, as if trying to grasp what should have belonged to him.

The flames made everyone's faces in the room look red. Gu Fei, who was experienced in combat, looked at the tables and chairs that were lit up in the flames and wondered how much it would cost.

The flames gradually burned smaller and smaller, and finally returned to the ground as the spell time ran out. But in those few seconds, several tables and chairs had been ignited, and there were still flames burning. The surrounding players quickly came up to put out the fire, pouring out the wine in their cups without thinking. Fortunately, the cheapest wines that players usually drank were not flammable, so they couldn't achieve the effect of alcohol-assisted combustion, otherwise the tavern would have been even more lively.

With everyone working together, the fire was really put out. The mage who started it all went to talk to the tavern owner NPC, presumably to negotiate compensation matters.

Even though he had caused such chaos, not a single player in the tavern complained.

What a bold mage! Who would dare to complain? He wouldn't hesitate to burn five people to death, so he probably wouldn't mind igniting another "Fire Tree Thousand Flames" to burn the gossipy guys to death.

And the Fighter who had taken the lead was now looking at Gu Fei with a smile.

Smile your MB! Stealing my business... Gu Fei was in pain, but what made him even more painful was that he couldn't vent. Because these two seemed to be helping those in need. Gu Fei couldn't possibly be ungrateful and regard these two as new opponents.

"Good skills! Thanks!" Not only could he not vent, but he also had to thank them. Life, you really make me feel helpless, Gu Fei sighed in his heart.

The Fighter smiled, "You're not bad either, brother."

Gu Fei forced a smile.

"Don't mind having a drink together?" the man said.

Gu Fei was stunned. He helped him deal with his opponents, and then he wanted to invite him to drink. It seemed that this person had ulterior motives!

Seeing that Gu Fei didn't speak for a while, the man didn't urge him. He beckoned to his side, and it turned out that he had another partner. The two of them busily cleaned up the tables and chairs that had been overturned in the chaos just now.

The burning was only a matter of a few seconds, and the burned tables and chairs didn't affect their use. After the two finished cleaning up, they took their seats, leaving two empty seats, one was waiting for their mage companion, and the other was for Gu Fei.

Gu Fei saw them smiling, didn't say anything, and walked over to sit down.

"Zuo Shou Xie Ai (Left Hand Writes Love)," the Fighter introduced himself.

Gu Fei had a habit of commenting on other people's online names, and when he heard this name, he immediately laughed and said, "Then what does your right hand write?"

"Right Hand Writes Handsome," the archer next to him replied, pointing to himself.

"But we didn't know each other before," Zuo Shou Xie Ai said with a smile, "I didn't expect to have such similar names."

After saying that, the two looked at each other with a sense of mutual appreciation, and the ambiguous arc of their mouths made Gu Fei's hair stand on end. Could these two guys be the legendary cut sleeves?

Then the mage also finished his negotiations and came over to take a seat.

"He's Piaoliu (Drift)," Zuo Shou Xie Ai introduced to Gu Fei.

This name sounded familiar! Gu Fei was thinking, and then he realized that he wasn't the only one who thought it sounded familiar. As soon as this name came out, there was a burst of whispers around him.

Gu Fei vaguely heard four words: Number One Mage. He immediately reacted, Piaoliu, this was the chief of the mage experience list in Parallel World. And he was also among the best on the total list. Currently, there were only five people in Parallel World who had broken through 40 and reached level 41, and Piaoliu was one of them.

However, this famous figure hadn't been heard of as a player from Cloud City. The other two seemed to be quite familiar with him, so could they all be from out of town? Had the various main cities already started to communicate with each other? Gu Fei remembered that the officials hadn't said anything about opening the teleportation array.

"What about you, brother? What's your name?" After the three introduced themselves, they naturally began to ask Gu Fei.

Gu Fei smiled, "Qian Li Yi Zui (A Thousand Miles One Drunk)."

"You're Qian Li Yi Zui," The face of the bold Piaoliu couldn't help but change.

Gu Fei smiled helplessly, "That's me."

Gu Fei had expected Piaoliu to react this way. From the beginning of the game, Piaoliu had always firmly held the top spot on the mage list. But at some point, Qian Li Yi Zui suddenly jumped up and rode on his head.

Although Qian Li Yi Zui was surpassed by him again a few days later, it still left a thorn in Piaoliu's heart. From then on, he often paid attention to the name Qian Li Yi Zui on the mage experience list, but he saw that this guy's ranking was getting lower and lower, until he disappeared to the end of the thousand-name ranking list, where he couldn't be found without entering his ID.

Piaoliu was so curious! He even had the urge to add Qian Li Yi Zui as a friend to ask what was going on. But when he tried, he found that the other party's friend switch was set to refuse. This was also normal, Piaoliu knew very well the predicament of being a master on the ranking list.

In the game, you can add friends by searching for their name. As a result, players like them who were ranked at the top enjoyed the admiration of everyone, but on the other hand, they were harassed by countless people who wanted to add them. Some shouted "Brother, take me with you," some shouted "Brother, teach me how to play," and some said "Give me some money and I'll video chat with you"... In this case, if you didn't turn off the friend switch, you couldn't live at all.

This time, he had come to Cloud City for other matters, but he didn't expect to meet Qian Li Yi Zui, whom he had admired for so long. The level experience list didn't indicate where the players came from.

Piaoliu's eyes turned, and he suddenly blurted out, "I didn't expect that I could meet two famous figures here in Cloud City so quickly after arriving."

"Ah? What?" Gu Fei was at a loss, when did he become a figure?

Piaoliu turned his head and said to Zuo Shou Xie Ai and You Shou Xie Shuai, "We've already met Xiao Lei from Xiao Lei Tavern. As for Qian Li, you're probably the legendary other one, Close Combat Mage 27149, right?"

There was an uproar. Compared to Number One Mage, the name Close Combat Mage 27149 was obviously more famous, especially in this hot land of Cloud City.

But Gu Fei had already reflexively replied, "I'm not."

"Not?" Piaoliu was puzzled.

"If I were 27149, would I have needed you to save me just now?" Gu Fei said, fully showing his resentment about this matter.

"If we had known you were 27149, we certainly wouldn't have helped you," Piaoliu said.

"Although I'm not 27149, I actually didn't need you to save me. But..." Gu Fei paused and said, "Thanks anyway."

The three were stunned, and they said politely in unison.

"You've accumulated five PK points just like that. My friend is doing wanted missions, so be careful he picks you up," Gu Fei said.

Piaoliu was stunned, "Doesn't your friend search for wanted missions in the main city missions?"

"Oh..." Gu Fei understood when he heard that. Although Piaoliu had PK points, he wasn't a player from Cloud City, so the people doing wanted missions in Cloud City definitely wouldn't pick him up. But if the mission in his birth city picked him up, that would really be a disaster.

Piaoliu was puzzled, "What? Is doing wanted missions so popular in your Cloud City?"