Chapter 166 The Daily Bounty

Having taken the information, Gu Fei was no more than a meter away from Giordano. Drawing his sword, striking – he was completely within Gu Fei’s attack range. If he could confirm a one-hit kill, Gu Fei would definitely make his move.

But that was clearly impossible. As the head honcho surrounded by guards, Gu Fei believed he possessed extraordinary strength. Even if the guards were merely competent, Gu Fei couldn't guarantee victory in a one-on-one fight. A one-hit kill? That was an unrealistic fantasy.

So, Gu Fei ultimately didn't act rashly. He took the information back and watched Giordano go back to chatting and laughing with his entourage of guards.

Gu Fei glanced at the information in his hand.

"Damn! No way!" Gu Fei exclaimed. The information pointed him toward a target that Quietus and the others had mentioned before: Apple Cider, the PK-crazed thief in Misty Haze City.

Gu Fei flipped through the 17 pages, which recorded Apple Cider's level, class, and past misdeeds, including his PK record. It seemed that the daily bounty mission was calculated based on a player's accumulated PK value. It was only natural that Apple Cider, the top PK fanatic in Misty Haze City, would be selected for this daily mission.

"I wonder if jail time is calculated cumulatively, too? Isn't this kid going to be imprisoned for life?" Gu Fei sighed. A person whose PK record filled 17 pages must have stained his hands with the bloody levels of countless players. It wouldn't be excessive to sentence such a guy to life imprisonment. Gu Fei also wondered if he would become a target for the daily bounty as well.

But upon seeing Apple Cider's total record, Gu Fei realized he was insignificant. He had only explosively become the PK value champion a few times, but his accumulated total couldn't even hold a candle to Apple Cider.

1642 accumulated PK points – that was Apple Cider's data. It meant he had stripped 1642 players of their levels. Counting from the start of the open beta to now, this guy had killed an average of more than 10 people every day… Gu Fei was ashamed. That's what a true PK fanatic was like. The Elite Squad guys actually thought he was one too? They were just country bumpkins.

While sighing, Gu Fei was also quite eager to meet this guy. He checked the mission interface and saw the words "Misty Haze City Daily Bounty Mission." But that was just a title, as the content was all in Gu Fei's hands.

This stunned Gu Fei. Ordinary bounty missions displayed the bounty target's ID and coordinates in the mission list, but this daily mission showed nothing. How was he supposed to find this person?

Finding someone, always finding someone… He had just played this kind of game with Jian Nan You. Why was he always troubled by this? Just then, a message arrived from the wall-climbing trio, asking about his situation.

"Didn't kill the guy, but he gave me a mission," Gu Fei replied with a wry smile.

"What mission?"

"A daily bounty mission. I'm coming out; I'll explain when we meet," Gu Fei replied. Then, he glanced reluctantly at Giordano, thinking that he could enter and leave this place freely anyway. He could always come back later if he had the chance.

With that thought, Gu Fei left the guard room, exited through the back door, and climbed back to the wall using the rope Yan Xiaozhu had set up.

"Look!" Gu Fei showed the information to the three of them.

"Apple Cider…" Quietus murmured.

"1642!!!!" Jian Gui exclaimed in shock. It wasn't difficult to do something occasionally, but it was hard to persist in doing it day after day. 1642 PKs – this person was truly a PK maniac.

"What do you know about this guy?" Gu Fei asked Quietus.

"I fought him once when I was level 30," Quietus said.

"The result?" Gu Fei asked.

"I died." Quietus was regretful but also candid. "He's too skilled. I'm no match for him. Even if we fought again now, it would be the same."

"He hasn't looked for you since?" Jian Gui asked. He thought that a PK fanatic like this would be eager to find high-level players like Quietus.

"I don't know. I haven't encountered him again," Quietus said. In such a vast environment, accidental encounters weren't easy. Otherwise, finding people wouldn't be so difficult.

"People are still attacked by him every day… Of course, he doesn't always succeed. Otherwise, his PK record would be more than this," Quietus said.

"But at least he's never been killed, right?" Jian Gui said.

"Yeah, he can always escape successfully when things look bad," Quietus said.

"Interesting!" Gu Fei clenched his fist.

"So, are you going to look for Apple Cider now, or continue your assassination mission?" Jian Gui asked.

"I'll do both! Since this guy has a bounty license like me, he probably knows about this daily bounty mission and is likely doing it every day. So, I'll stay by Giordano's side, observing his situation while waiting for this guy to come and collect the mission, completing my own mission at the same time. Two birds with one stone!" Gu Fei had already thought it through. He had specifically come out to inform the three of them and advise them to leave first, as they couldn't seem to do anything to help with what was about to happen.

As expected, the three of them realized they couldn't enter the building, so they naturally couldn't do anything to help Gu Fei. They could only take their leave with regret.

"Do you want me to leave the rope here for you?" Yan Xiaozhu asked.

"No need. I have plenty," Gu Fei smiled.

"Sigh…" Jian Gui sighed. He originally thought he had found something interesting to do, but after climbing the wall, he had nothing to do again.

Gu Fei understood his sigh and tried to divert his attention. "Bai Shi Jing Lun should be online soon. I'll let him know, and then you can arrange a trade."

"Okay!" This was still good news for Jian Gui, but then he thought about the debt he was in because of it, and he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. Misfortune and fortune always exist together…

Gu Fei returned to the ground and re-entered the City Hall building. This time, he went to the guard room with ease. The scene inside was the same as when he left.

"Giordano!" Gu Fei shouted, seeing if he could lure him over.

Giordano raised his eyelids. "Did you complete the mission?"

"No," Gu Fei replied.

Giordano immediately turned his head and ignored him. Gu Fei helplessly sat back on the sofa, waiting, waiting tediously.

Watching the sky outside the window grow darker and darker, as the game was about to officially enter its night, Gu Fei was pondering what these NPCs did at night when the NPCs suddenly gave him the answer.

Several guards quickly came to Gu Fei and motioned for him to leave.

Having always treated NPCs as air, Gu Fei wasn't used to being asked to leave by an NPC.

"Can't I stay?" Gu Fei noticed that these guards and Giordano seemed to be disbanding. This was an opportunity! Perhaps he would have a chance to be alone with Giordano.

"No!" The guard coldly rejected Gu Fei's request.

"What does it take to be able to?" Of course, it was impossible to reason with an NPC emotionally. Gu Fei just wanted to understand their rules.

"Your permissions are insufficient," the guard replied.

"What permissions do I need?" Gu Fei asked.

The guard didn't answer, and the system channel issued a message: "Night is falling. Players are requested to leave City Hall; otherwise, they will be treated as intruders."

The guards were all glaring at Gu Fei intently. Gu Fei didn't dare to delay any longer. He hurriedly went downstairs, intending to leave the way he came, but found that the back door was locked. He shook it twice but couldn't open it. The system prompt was issued again, and all the guards in the corridor began to grip their sword hilts and glare at Gu Fei. Gu Fei didn't care about anything else and ran toward the main entrance as fast as he could.

"Bang!!" The heavy sound of the door closing echoed behind Gu Fei. In the next second after he rushed out of the main entrance, the door to City Hall was locked. Gu Fei felt like he was escaping a disaster.

Now in the courtyard, Gu Fei looked up and saw that the arrangement of guards in the City Hall courtyard at night was completely different from during the day. Those guards who stood with extreme poise, who were more like honor guards than actual guards, had all been withdrawn and disappeared. However, the guards responsible for patrolling and guarding had increased in number.

"Is there still a chance to get in?" Gu Fei took a few steps back and looked up at the City Hall building, wondering if there were any other possible entrances. But then he heard messy footsteps behind him. He turned his head and saw players rushing toward him from all directions, with a thief clearly approaching him stealthily.

These were all players from the Watching the Flowers in the Mist guild. They were assigned by the guild to patrol and guard the courtyard every day. They would rush to help the NPCs resolve any issues to improve their completion rate. But what they feared even more was players who deliberately came to cause trouble and disrupt their completion rate.

There were quite a few of these people, mostly from other Misty Haze City guilds who didn't want to sit idly by and watch Watching the Flowers in the Mist grow stronger and stronger.

Because there were already several guilds that had completed this Resistance Reward Mission, and everyone had heard that the completion reward was an instant guild level increase. So, guilds like Watching the Flowers in the Mist, which had yet to complete it, had seized the opportunity. They had accomplished what Wuqi had once fantasized about: upgrading a level five guild that had already undergone some construction to level six, and then completing the mission to receive a reward that would instantly upgrade it to level seven! Watching the Flowers in the Mist was already level six. In fact, after learning about the reward, they had mobilized all their members and concentrated all their efforts to reach level six. That way, completing the mission would instantly upgrade them to level seven. The other large guilds in the city were only level five at most, and they couldn't compete at all. This made them feel uneasy.

If this place wasn't filled with guards throughout the courtyard, these guilds would have loved to gather their forces and storm in, turning everything upside down and causing Watching the Flowers in the Mist's completion rate to drop to negative numbers. But the hateful guards prevented them from being so blatant, so they only engaged in small-scale harassment. They also arranged people to be responsible for different time slots every day, with endless tricks. The members of Watching the Flowers in the Mist were driven crazy, but what could they do besides be careful and defend themselves?

As everyone became more skilled at the security work, Watching the Flowers in the Mist, which had the home advantage in the courtyard, hadn't been successfully attacked in a long time. But just now, after night had fallen, someone suddenly noticed a person standing in front of the City Hall building. No one knew how this person had gotten in; the defense at the main entrance was the strictest. Alarmed, Watching the Flowers in the Mist had mobilized their entire force and surrounded Gu Fei.

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Unknowingly, it's over 460 chapters. It seems longer than Solo and Starlight!