“Apple Cider, during the process of killing and PK, was the first to reach the cumulative target of 300 wanted individuals, thus triggering the prompt to join the ‘Wanted Faction,’ but he apparently found this faction uninteresting, so he refused. As he continued his pursuit and killing, the accumulation of PK points finally allowed him to break through again, meeting the conditions to join the Assassin's League. This was much more to his liking, so he chose to join the Assassin's League and became the current No. 1. How about that? Is that roughly the idea?” You Ge finally sorted out the inferences about Apple Cider and carefully recorded them.

“Correct,” Han Jia Gongzi nodded.

“Wait! That’s not right,” Gu Fei suddenly shouted again.

“What is it now?” You Ge’s face paled. This perfectly logical deduction had put him in a good mood, and he really didn’t want to hear another difficult question at this moment. These things were simply torture for him, and when tortured too much, people inevitably want to escape.

“It’s like this,” Gu Fei said, “A target of 300 wanted individuals means that the task has been completed at least 300 times. So before that, he would have already received the ‘Chasing Wind Emblem’ reward, and at least a Level 2 emblem.”

“Does this conflict with our hypothesis?” You Ge asked.

“Apple Cider, I don’t think he has a Level 2 emblem,” Gu Fei said. Of course, he had a basis for saying this, because he had once used the 100% identification function of his Level 2 Chasing Wind Emblem to identify Apple Cider’s skill-breaking dagger. Apple Cider’s reaction at the time was the basis for Gu Fei’s inference. If Apple Cider had a Chasing Wind Emblem with the same function, Gu Fei believed that the guy’s first reaction would have been to infer that his opponent also had an emblem, rather than expressing disbelief immediately.

“That inference is not very sound,” Han Jia Gongzi said. “It’s just a reaction at the time, and there are too many possible explanations. He could be surprised that you also have a Level 2 Chasing Wind Emblem; the emblem’s functions have limitations, and it’s a coincidence that you just happened to get the warrant for him; or he likes to act, and isn't actually surprised, but is pretending to be… Look, there are so many explanations, how can you be sure that he was surprised because he didn't know about this function?”

Gu Fei had also thought of these various assumptions, but for some reason, he was inclined to believe that Apple Cider didn’t have an emblem. Unable to give a detailed reason for his inference, Gu Fei had to shamelessly reply, “By intuition.”

“Intuition? Is there such a thing in this world?” Han Jia Gongzi turned to ask the others.

“Ahem… how long are we going to discuss this thing?” Zhan Wu Shang stiffly changed the subject, showing that he was really getting annoyed.

Gu Fei shook his head, noncommittal, clearly still pondering the matter.

Han Jia Gongzi stopped talking and started chugging a bottle of wine.

You Ge looked depressed. “Hey, at least discuss it and come up with a result…” You Ge felt that both of them made sense. Han Jia Gongzi’s consideration of issues was as thorough and meticulous as ever, and Gu Fei was, after all, the only one who had real face-to-face communication with Apple Cider. Making some subconscious judgments based on his intuitive impression of the person wasn’t completely unfounded. So, seeing the two of them sticking to their own opinions, You Ge struggled painfully in the middle.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Jian Gui stepped forward. “Looks like there’s nothing else? So, I’m going to do the quest?” Having never experienced faction daily quests before, how could Jian Gui not be eager? Compared to You Ge, he didn’t care what the result of the discussion was, he just wanted to finish it quickly.

“Oh right, Jian Gui, you said you have a quest, what kind of daily quest is it?” Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming came over to ask.

“It’s PK,” Jian Gui said, “but it’s very similar to the content of the quest that Qian Li described.”

Gu Fei looked over, seeing Jian Gui holding a card-shaped piece of paper. The paper was quickly taken by You Ge, who held it up to his eyes and read it aloud.

Name: Duan Shui Jian;

Location: Lin Yin City;

Class: Unknown;

Level: Unknown;

Equipment: Unknown;

Experience: Unknown;

…

“Why is everything unknown, what kind of information is this?” You Ge flipped the paper over, finding nothing else.

Jian Gui helplessly spread his hands, took back the paper, and shook it at the NPC Gelu, saying, “There’s no other information?”

“Gathering intelligence requires a large number of people. Currently, the league’s manpower… alas…” Gelu sighed.

“Hahaha, of course manpower is tight, there are only two people in total,” Zhan Wu Shang laughed.

“Everyone has the right and obligation to provide intelligence to the league. If you feel that your combat skills are not sufficient to shoulder the responsibility of cleansing evil, then starting here might be a good choice.” As Gelu spoke, he handed over another piece of paper. “Yalu is responsible for collecting the intelligence you gather and will pay you.”

Jian Gui was stunned, took back the paper, and found that it had a coordinate written on it.

“What does this mean?” Jian Gui looked at his companions.

“It seems to mean that players can submit information about other players to the faction?” You Ge guessed, his face showing excitement, because this was his forte. He suddenly realized that his strengths in the game were finally being valued by the system.

“Go and check out this place!” You Ge said.

“You Ge, you can’t submit anything even if you go, right? This is a right and obligation that only faction players have,” Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

“Go and take a look, and find out about it,” You Ge just wanted to figure things out first.

So the group left Gelu’s cabin and, following the instructions of the coordinates, passed through the forest and entered Lin Yin City. Following the coordinates, they arrived in a rural-looking part of Lin Yin City, in front of one of the few magnificent buildings.

“The library?” The group exchanged glances.

The library in the game wasn’t just for show. If you suddenly wanted to understand some aspect of the game’s settings, going offline to the website was one option. Apart from that, in the libraries of each main city, you could also find the information you needed. Of course, it was all in the form of books, so there was naturally no player exchange information like on the forums.

Right now, either they were veterans who had mastered all the rules they needed to know in the early stages of the game, or they were millennium noobs like Gu Fei who paid no attention to the game’s rules at all. For them, the library was truly an unexplored territory.

“The Assassin’s League is very impressive! They don’t just hide in the forest!” Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

Jian Gui had a proud look on his face and was the first to step into the library.

“Wow, there are quite a few people here!” The group walked through the corridors of the library, finding that there were quite a few players coming here to find information.

After inquiring with an NPC, it was discovered that Yalu wasn't hiding at all, and was the librarian of the fifth reference room. When the group arrived, they saw a frail old man, trembling as he wiped the books. Hearing the players’ call, the old man turned around, his eyes turbid, but when he scanned Jian Gui…

“His eyes flashed just now, did you guys see that?” Yu Tian Shen Ming shouted.

“This is a very useful detail, it must be recorded,” You Ge took out his pen and wrote down: Lin Yin City Library, Fifth Reference Room Administrator, old man Yalu, Assassin’s League intelligence collector, eyes will flash when he sees a league companion.

Everyone stepped forward to talk to Yalu. He was only responsible for telling you where to find the required information, but when Jian Gui stepped forward steadily, everyone held their breath and stared intently.

“Come, young man, let me see what you’ve brought?” The opening line was indeed very different.

You Ge seemed to have been writing quickly on a piece of paper, and at this time, he forcefully tore it off and stuffed it into Jian Gui’s hand. Jian Gui looked down and saw that You Ge had filled out all of Jian Gui’s information in the format of the paper in Jian Gui’s hand, signaling him to hand it over to Yalu.

Jian Gui didn’t think much of it and handed it over. Yalu took it, and even took out a pair of reading glasses from his chest pocket to look at the paper.

“Hmm…” Old Yalu nodded. “Very good, keep up the good work!” After saying that, he stuffed the paper into his pocket and handed Jian Gui a small cloth bag.

“What’s the reward?” The others looked at Jian Gui with envy.

“Experience, money, faction honor,” Jian Gui opened the small cloth bag.

“Wow!!!” The crowd continued to be envious.

“Very little reward…” Jian Gui said.

The crowd was silent. Everyone knew Jian Gui’s honesty. If he said it was very little, without even saying the number, it could be seen that it was a number too small to be worth mentioning.

“Try again,” You Ge handed Jian Gui another one.

Jian Gui glanced down and saw that it was still You Ge’s own information, but some parts had been changed compared to before. He deliberately wrote the level as Level 30.

Jian Gui handed over the paper again. Yalu still took it and looked at it, sighed softly, shook his head, and returned the paper to Jian Gui. “Pay attention to the accuracy of the information.”

“So that’s how it is…” You Ge immediately wrote another copy, “Try this one again.”

Jian Gui took it and looked at it. This one was absolutely accurate. In fact, You Ge had deliberately written some errors in the first one, and this time, they had all been corrected.

“Hmm, are there any new intelligence updates?” This time, after reading it, Yalu gladly accepted the new paper and gave Jian Gui another small cloth bag.

Jian Gui looked inside. “Even less than before.”

“I see.” You Ge nodded. “It seems that the system will also specifically verify the information provided by the players. The first time can tolerate errors, but for updates on top of that, the system will decide whether to accept or reject based on the amount of correct and incorrect information. The reward rules need to be tried out more to understand.” As You Ge spoke, he tore off the fourth piece of paper. “Come, try this one.”

Jian Gui took it and looked at it. “This… is too fictitious!”

The name on the fourth piece of paper written by You Ge was “Ta Ma De” (his mother's), a name that could not possibly pass the review, obviously a person who would never exist in the game. In addition, the class was made up, the level was exaggerated, and the equipment was drawn, a piece of intelligence that couldn’t be more fake.

Jian Gui handed it over. Yalu took it and looked at it seriously as usual, his face showing anger. “What we want is intelligence, not jokes.” After saying that, he flicked it against the wind, and the old man shattered the paper into pieces with a dashing gust of wind.

Everyone was stunned by this skill. Jian Gui was in tears, and tightly grasped You Ge’s hand. “You Ge, please don’t experiment on me anymore, I’m already having my honor deducted.”

Chapter 91