Chapter 168 Lock Picking Skills

"Lock picking skills?" Gu Fei repeated Jian Gui's words.

"Yes, a common skill in online games exclusive to thief-type classes. It's specifically for opening locks without keys. The higher the skill level, the more locks you can open." Jian Gui knew that Gu Fei was somewhat of a gaming noob, so he explained in detail.

"What about in this game?" Gu Fei asked.

"It's a skill for the Thief class after they specialize into a Master Thief," Jian Gui said.

"Master Thief and lock picking, a perfect match!" Gu Fei said.

"Uh..."

"What is it?" Gu Fei could tell Jian Gui had something to say.

"Currently, skills outside the player skill tree can either come from equipment or be learned from scrolls. I once saw a lock picking skill scroll, so they do exist on the market. In that case, I think there's a high probability that Xi Yao Wu has this skill," Jian Gui said.

Gu Fei nodded repeatedly. "That makes sense..." He thought about how Xi Yao Wu was so greedy that she even wanted to learn teleportation. If she found a skill scroll for her class, there's no way she would miss it.

"I'll ask!" Gu Fei immediately sent a message to Xi Yao Wu: "Xi, do you know how to pick locks?"

"Of course." Gu Fei felt a surge of pride from those simple words. It was as if Xi Yao Wu's smug expression was right in front of him.

"Then come pick a lock," Gu Fei said without wasting words.

"Where?" Xi Yao Wu was just as straightforward.

"Xiawu City."

"What kind of place is that?"

"A main city."

"Wait a moment."

"Where am I?" Gu Fei asked.

"Nonsense, where else would you be?"

"Yun Duan City?"

"Yes!"

Gu Fei felt a bit bad. Coming from Yun Duan City would take many hours, just to open a lock... For those who couldn't understand, imagine being in Beijing, locking yourself out of your house, and then hiring a locksmith from Shanghai to come and open it.

"Okay," Xi Yao Wu suddenly sent another message before Gu Fei could finish hesitating.

"Okay with what?" Gu Fei asked, puzzled.

"Go to the mailbox to get the scroll," Xi Yao Wu said.

Gu Fei did receive a system notification that he had new mail, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Because he was a celebrity in the game, he would occasionally receive letters from strangers, mostly with boring content, so Gu Fei didn't pay much attention to them anymore.

"Scroll? A lock picking scroll??" Gu Fei knew that skill scrolls were divided into two types: learning types, which taught you the skill after use, and consumable types, which released the skill once upon use.

"What lock picking scroll? It's a teleportation scroll!" Xi Yao Wu said.

"Ah?" Gu Fei was even more confused.

"After you get it, record a coordinate there, then send it back to me, and I can use it to teleport over!" Xi Yao Wu said.

"It can be done like that!" Gu Fei exclaimed in surprise, and Jian Gui reacted similarly. This couldn't be said to be due to their shallow knowledge. It was simply that teleportation scrolls were currently too high-end. It was like commoners not having any thoughts or intentions about private jets.

"So, she'll be here soon?" Gu Fei and Jian Gui had already changed their route. They were originally going to go back to the tavern for a short rest before discussing the next step, but they didn't expect things to progress so quickly.

"Are we going back again so soon?" Jian Gui said.

"That's not good..." Gu Fei felt bad about disturbing Wu Li Kan Hua's peaceful life repeatedly.

"Let's wait for her to come over first!" Jian Gui said.

The two went to the mailbox to pick up the scroll, and on the way, they received a message from Han Jia Gong Zi: "Have the two warriors come out yet?"

"We're out," the two replied.

"What are the findings of this trip?" Han Jia Gong Zi asked.

As soon as Jian Gui said that, Han Jia Gong Zi immediately said, "Then what are you dawdling for? Hurry up! Take advantage of the excitement over there, exploit his weakness, and end his life!!!"

"What exactly did you do to them?" Gu Fei and Jian Gui felt a chill down their spines.

"They are in a guild war. Don't you want to take advantage of this opportunity?" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"Didn't you say that the guild couldn't be used this time?" Gu Fei said.

"I'm too lazy to explain such complicated things to your IQ," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"..."

"This kind of guild war won't end so quickly, but it won't last until this time tomorrow, so could you please hurry up?" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

Gu Fei and Jian Gui, who had originally been strolling leisurely, immediately ran as fast as they could, quickly arrived at the mailbox, quickly opened it, and quickly took out the teleportation scroll. Although neither of them had used it before, with a veteran online gamer like Jian Gui, it only took three seconds to figure out how to use it.

"Record it here? Or should we wait until we get into the woodshed to record it?" Jian Gui asked.

Gu Fei looked at him in surprise. "There's a mailbox in the woodshed?"

"Oh right..." Jian Gui was ashamed. Even the wisest person can make mistakes.

They quickly recorded the coordinates and sent them back.

"Come quickly!" Gu Fei sent a message to Xi Yao Wu.

"What's the rush!" Xi Yao Wu replied. But as soon as the message landed, a stream of white light suddenly flowed out from the area where Jian Gui had just recorded the coordinates, instantly forming a magic circle on the ground. The light rose majestically, illuminating all directions, and Xi Yao Wu's figure gradually became clear in the center of the light.

"Hi!" As the light of the magic circle gradually faded, Xi Yao Wu stepped out of it and greeted the two familiar guys in front of her.

"Let's go pick a lock!" Gu Fei said to her.

"So urgent." Xi Yao Wu was very calm. She first looked around and said in surprise, "What kind of place is this?"

Gu Fei knew what she was surprised about. "This place is just like this, foggy. Hurry, hurry, we're in a hurry."

"What's the rush?" Xi Yao Wu said.

"I'm about to log off," Gu Fei said.

"It won't kill you to log off a little later," Xi Yao Wu cursed, but she had already quickened her pace to follow Gu Fei and Jian Gui.

"I said, what lock are we picking? Isn't there a beginning, middle, and end to this?" Xi Yao Wu asked on the way.

So Gu Fei explained it.

"You didn't call me for such an interesting thing!" Xi Yao Wu hit Gu Fei on the head. For the game's top money warrior, equipment and skills could be easily bought with money, but the faster they were obtained, the faster the interest would fade. To maintain their interest in the game, they needed to find satisfaction in other areas, especially in things that money couldn't buy.

"Didn't I immediately ask you to come when we encountered trouble?" Gu Fei said.

"That's more like it. What do we do now?" Xi Yao Wu asked.

"We just came out of there. It's very chaotic over there now. We can sneak back in, it shouldn't be a problem," Gu Fei said.

"Is that the courtyard you were talking about?" Xi Yao Wu asked.

"Yes!"

Xi Yao Wu was one of the few who could join Gu Fei and Jian Gui's high-speed movement without holding them back. On the contrary, she made them the ones who were holding back. Along the way, Xi Yao Wu kept urging the two to hurry up, which made Gu Fei not know whether to laugh or cry. "Why are you running so far ahead? Do you know the way?"

The three quickly returned to the wall of the government compound. Jian Gui specially went to the front gate to take a look, and came back excitedly saying, "It's quite a scale, they're fighting very lively. If we rush in now, no one will pay attention to us."

"Let's go!" Gu Fei threw out his grappling hook.

"Can you do it?" Gu Fei glanced at Xi Yao Wu and saw her blank look. He knew he would have to teach another lesson.

Fortunately, Xi Yao Wu was by no means a paper tiger armed with just money. She did have some real skills. At this time, she learned very quickly, at least stronger than the members of the Nine Gentlemen that day. Finally, all three of them successfully climbed over the wall. Looking into the courtyard, they gasped.

The courtyard was a fiery battlefield. These three were all people who had seen big scenes and large-scale PK, but usually large-scale PK either took place in the wild with vast space, or in the streets and alleys. At this time, the flat and limited space in the government compound was like a large arena, with shouts, roars, the sound of weapons, and the sound of skills rising one after another. The three couldn't recognize who was who, couldn't tell who was better or worse, and could only sum it up with two words: "So miserable!"

Without paying much attention, the three went around the wall to the backyard, but they couldn't help but complain when they looked down. It turned out that the flames of war had already spread to this place, and it seemed even more intense and hot than the front yard.

Of course, Gu Fei and the others didn't know the inside story. At the beginning of the guild war, the fighting was located at the front gate. Wu Li Kan Hua took the initiative to adopt a defensive posture, but the situation was somewhat unfavorable for them. In short, the enemy was in the dark and they were in the light!

The front gate was the boundary between the inside and outside of the courtyard. The enemies outside the courtyard could retreat a few steps and disappear into the mist, while they inside the courtyard could be clearly seen by the other side. In reality, the situation was that when the first-line combatants of the other side were seriously injured, they could quickly retreat and disappear into the mist without any danger. But when the members of Wu Li Kan Hua wanted to retreat in this situation, they would be firmly held by the opponent's ranged attack professions, resulting in heavy losses.

Helplessly, Liu Feng San Tan decided to drag the battle line back, so that the other side would also lose the barrier of the mist. But this time their opponents had multiple guilds, and they were overwhelming in number. Losing the gate as a defensive point, the situation was still not optimistic for Wu Li Kan Hua.

However, there was a major drawback to conducting large-scale PK battles in the front yard, that was, the rigid system NPC guards stubbornly interspersed among them, standing guard and patrolling, and no one knew what would have to happen in this courtyard for them to take action. Under the interference of these guards, everyone's attacks were somewhat cautious. If they accidentally hit the guards, it would be a disaster.

And players with outstanding awareness consciously lured the opponent's attacks toward the guards, and the battle was complicated to the extreme for a time.

In this case, everyone subconsciously avoided the guards and transferred to spaces without guards. So, as they swayed, they didn't know when, but they actually turned the backyard, which had almost no system guards, into the main battlefield, and both sides recklessly attacked and killed each other here.