Chapter 1 A Setback to Perfection

Just when a perfect ambush was about to come to a satisfying conclusion, Qian Li Zui suddenly overturned everything. The big shots were too frustrated to even feel angry, left only with a sense of annoyance.

Of course, Qian Li Zui appearing was fine, but his appearance and immediate takedown were just too irritating. They had barely received the news of Qian Li Zui's appearance when the guy was already dead. Did he have to strike so fast? Give people a chance to react!

Bao Du Fengshuang couldn't even send out any more messages. Shi Zi Lu, killed and returning to the city, was currently roaring at him. Of course, he wasn't blaming Bao Du Fengshuang, but was just extremely dissatisfied with Qian Li Zui's strength. How could there be such a powerful character? He just raised his hand and killed him. Even if he only had a sliver of health left at the time! But that single strike had made Shi Zi Lu see no chance of victory at all. That despair even made him feel disheartened with the game! With such powerful characters, would anyone ever have a chance to rise?

"Do we still need to send reinforcements?" Jian Ding Tianxia asked Bao Du Fengshuang with a mournful tone. If they were to send reinforcements, his team of archers would naturally be the fastest, but with Qian Li Zui's method of killing people, coupled with the fact that the other side was full of squishy thieves, it seemed like rescue would be pointless.

"Go and provide support, there should be some who can escape," Bao Du Fengshuang said.

Of course, there would be some who could escape. Gu Fei couldn't use clones. As soon as the thieves saw him appear, they scattered in all directions, each taking a different street. In the end, Gu Fei only managed to take care of the few who were surrounding Yu Tian Shenming. Those who were about to come all turned around and ran. Gu Fei was helpless.

"Half of them are dead," Yu Tian Shenming said, heartbroken. It was precisely because he didn't want any casualties that he had specially sent these speed-oriented classes to harass them, hoping that they could ensure their own safety with their speed. Who knew they would step into such a trap? Yu Tian Shenming was filled with regret. He should have been more careful and not so hasty.

"What about the other half?" Gu Fei only saw Yu Tian Shenming as an archer.

"I'll contact them. They should all have escaped..." Yu Tian Shenming wasn't very confident when he said this, but he figured that not every player chasing them would be as skilled as those who chased him. As long as they escaped the encirclement, it shouldn't be a big problem.

After contacting them, it turned out that those who had broken out of the encirclement had all survived. When Yu Tian Shenming told Jian Gui this news, Jian Gui was also pained: "We were too careless."

The guild immediately learned of this matter, and Han Jia Gongzi's comment was only two words: "Idiots!" It was unclear exactly who he was referring to.

Although Gu Fei's appearance ultimately only saved Yu Tian Shenming, ensuring the integrity of their own strength was more important than eliminating the other side's experts at this time. Han Jia Gongzi had already said the reason: they had no idea how many experts the other side could mobilize. It was a bottomless pit. As for them, each level lost meant one less point of strength. And now, the archers that Yu Tian Shenming had brought out were already considered good within the guild, but half of them had been wiped out in an instant. Yu Tian Shenming's depression was imaginable.

"Which way did they go?" Gu Fei asked Yu Tian Shenming.

"That way." When the ambush occurred, the other side's team was not far ahead of them. Although they were no longer in sight, Yu Tian Shenming had observed their movements.

"Chase!" Gu Fei strode out, and Yu Tian Shenming had no choice but to quickly follow.

There was a thief running away on the road. When he saw the two people chasing from behind, he quickly called for help from his main force.

"How many people?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked.

"Two. Qian Li Zui and the archer he saved!" The other side reported.

"Hold on!! Lead them around." After Bao Du Fengshuang said this to the person, he immediately gathered everyone: "This is an opportunity, make good use of it, ambushing Qian Li Zui once is almost the same as destroying a hundred people."

"But we're not familiar with the terrain and don't know where to set up a good ambush. Relying on the thieves' stealth is clearly not enough to ambush him," Yi Deng Diwen said.

"If we go through the places we've already been through, do you have any impression of them?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked Zai Lai Yici. He had already seen this person's characteristics. He couldn't just think of him as having a good memory. In fact, this person was good at observing and paid attention to what he saw, so he could achieve a level of almost photographic memory.

"Yes! Not far from where we passed before, there's a narrow hutong (alley), and the houses on both sides aren't very high. Maybe we can lie in ambush on the roofs in advance. When Qian Li Zui is led into the hutong, we can jump down from both sides and trap him in the middle. Then, no matter how skilled he is, he won't be able to get out," Zai Lai Yici really had an idea.

"Do you know how to get there?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked.

"It's easy to bump into them if we take the same route. I'll take people around from the back. Anyway, we have to get on the roof," Zai Lai Yici said.

"Okay, Squad 5, Squad 7, Squad 8, go with him! Pay attention to his Flash skill. I estimate his movement distance should be between six and eight meters, it can't exceed eight meters, so pay close attention," Bao Du Fengshuang said. He didn't dare to be negligent towards Qian Li Zui and directly sent out half of his team.

"Okay." Zai Lai Yici nodded. The people from those three squads also gathered over. Among them, Squad 7 was originally Shi Zi Lu's team. He led the thieves to set off, but he sacrificed himself and returned to the city. At this time, his subordinates were quite confused. Now that their boss was gone, what were they doing following orders? But they had already agreed in advance that they had to listen to Bao Du Fengshuang's commands. In confusion, the players from Squad 7 sent a message to Shi Zi Lu to ask. Shi Zi Lu gritted his teeth and replied: "Kill him, if you have a chance, kill him, I'll be back soon!"

The four squads set off in a hurry. Zai Lai Yici looked at the direction and led the people into a small alley by the road. The thief who was running away was bitterly complaining: "Boss, where am I leading them? They're chasing so closely, and that archer keeps shooting arrows."

"We've set up an ambush, you lead them to... to..." Bao Du Fengshuang's message stopped here, because he didn't know how to describe it, he didn't know the map marker! He quickly sent it to Zai Lai Yici. Zai Lai Yici observed and memorized again. He couldn't possibly remember the coordinates of every place he passed, so he had to answer: "Wait a moment..."

"Lead them around in circles. I'll give you the coordinates in a moment," Bao Du Fengshuang had to reply to that poor thief like this.

The thief wanted to cry but had no tears. He had no choice but to do as he was told, turning whenever he saw an intersection, not daring to look back, focusing on running for his life.

As a result, as he ran, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. The archer who was chasing behind him always shot an arrow at him after running a few steps, but why was there no movement this time? Was he chasing so intently? The thief glanced back while running and was immediately stunned. Where was anyone behind him? He had already been a hundred meters deep into this street, and the distance between the other party and him was originally only about fifty meters. But now, there was no trace of them.

"Could it be that I'm too fast and shook them off?" This person casually thought about it for a moment and then rejected it. This was a game, and speed was a fixed stat. He should have an absolute understanding of how fast he was. If he could really shake off those two people, he wouldn't have run so worriedly before.

"Report, they're gone..." The thief carefully confirmed it again. There were only a few people on this street, and indeed, there was no sign of those two people, so he reported to his superior.

"What do you mean gone?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked.

"I turned into a street, and they don't seem to have chased after me."

"Didn't chase after you?" Bao Du Fengshuang looked at everyone with suspicion: "They seem to have guessed our plan."

"Damn it, they're really cunning, tell Zai Lai Yici to come back!" Jian Ding Tianxia said.

Bao Du Fengshuang was nodding when there was suddenly a commotion in the team. Someone shouted: "Qian Li Zui, Qian Li Zui is here!!!"

Bao Du Fengshuang was shocked and looked back with the other big shots. Sure enough, Qian Li Zui and an archer were chasing after them at high speed.

Bao Du Fengshuang burst into tears at that moment. He knew he had misunderstood, or rather, that thief had misunderstood. How could Qian Yi Zui be chasing him? He was just a small character and was not even in Qian Li Zui's eyes. Qian Li Zui was chasing their team, chasing their entire team of more than a hundred people!

And their team had been wiped out by Qian Li Zui by 29 people, losing more than a squad. The newly joined Squad 9 barely made up for this number, but the thieves who had just been sent out had not yet returned, and Zai Lai Yici had taken away four squads. At this time, they were weaker than when they first fought Qian Li Zui, but Qian Li Zui just happened to kill them at such a moment.

Bao Du Fengshuang couldn't blame the thief for the wrong information. Even if it was him, he would have thought the same. Their thinking couldn't temporarily traverse like Qian Li Zui. Who would chase after a team of more than a hundred people with just two people? Who would think of such a thing?

This time, Bao Du Fengshuang completely understood. He couldn't treat Qian Li Zui as a person, but as an opponent who could be on par with their strength of more than a hundred people. So they had to empathize from this angle of strength. Would a team of more than a hundred people chase after a thief running away alone? Of course not. Thinking like this, it seemed like their way of thinking was connected to Qian Li Zui's thinking.

But now, it seemed a little late to connect. Their team had warriors and priests with short legs, who couldn't match Qian Li Zui's speed at all. Fight? More than a hundred people had been bullied like that before, so what could half of them do now? But no matter what, they could only try their best. Bao Du Fengshuang quickly arranged for everyone to take their positions. But the unfamiliarity between everyone couldn't be eliminated in such a short time. It was only slightly better than the chaotic mess of the previous time.

When Bao Du Fengshuang saw that this last bit of hope didn't seem very reliable, his heart was filled with pessimism. But Qian Li Zui had already arrived at full speed. It was as if their archers' attempts to stop him weren't even aimed at Qian Li Zui, and they all missed. But a very direct comparison was presented to everyone very well.

That archer was chasing up in sync with Qian Li Zui, and his speed was not inferior to Qian Li Zui's at all. Of course, their archers wouldn't ignore him. But at this time, this archer's progress had been greatly slowed down, and he was stuck at a distance of fifty or sixty meters.

In the same situation, and with even more archers paying attention to Qian Li Zui, he was approaching so saucily at a rapid pace. The archers’ attempts to intercept him barely seemed to affect his movements at all. He swayed his body at high speed, dodging all the incoming arrows, and easily knocked away those slow-moving tracking arrows with a single sword strike.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Fei had rushed to within thirty meters, which was a mage's attack range. Gu Fei chanted, and the mages in the formation also chanted. Gu Fei used Flash, and all the spells they released missed. But they scattered to avoid the attack, but they didn't see any spells appearing where Gu Fei was pointing.

"His stats are all in Agility, his spells are slow," Bao Du Fengshuang interpreted. It would be ridiculous to think of this as Qian Li Zui bluffing.

As a result, everyone obediently scattered to avoid the attack for one second, two seconds, three seconds... Bao Du Fengshuang blushed. Even if his intelligence was reduced, his spells wouldn't be this slow. This Qian Li Zui was actually bluffing, he actually didn't release any spells at all.

Qian Li Zui had already rushed to the front of the formation. The heavy armored warriors held their shields to the front, and the Berserker warriors, knights, and priests, the classes with some life, made a flanking maneuver to the left and right, preparing to seal Qian Li Zui in the middle in a triangle formation.

As a result, they saw Qian Li Zui slap the heavy armored warrior's shield, Palm Thunder activated. No matter how stable the heavy armored warrior was, he couldn't completely ignore the knockback effect of the skill, and he immediately crashed out.

How thick could their mere dozens of people be? This fall immediately created a passage. Gu Fei stepped in, turned around, and used Dual Fire Flash. The weak mages and fragile archers hiding in the back immediately fell to the ground.

"Hi!" Gu Fei caught sight of Bao Du Fengshuang, who was directing the battle. Gu Fei had a pretty good impression of this opponent who had dueled with him before, so he rushed towards him with his sword. Having a good impression resulted in such treatment. Bao Du Fengshuang didn't know what he would think if he knew.

Of course, Bao Du Fengshuang, who could also use Flash, wouldn't be so easily caught by Gu Fei. He used Flash to mix into the meat shield of warriors. Gu Fei raised his sword and slashed two people. When he saw the priest who was blocking his way, the one who hadn't died after being hit several times before, Gu Fei didn't want to waste time on him. He stepped his leg behind him, thrust his shoulder forward, and pushed Yi Deng Diwen forward. Yi Deng Diwen staggered and immediately fell on his back.

When a warrior saw Gu Fei's technique, he immediately rushed up with confidence. He didn't believe that he would also be knocked down by a mage like this. As a result, he was greeted by Gu Fei's sword attack. If it wasn't for Yi Deng Diwen desperately healing him while lying on the ground, he might have already died.

When Gu Fei saw that this priest was not only hard to kill himself, but also had amazing recovery power, he was really a bit of a nuisance. In a surrounded situation, it was impossible for Gu Fei to have too much time to use his technique of attacking while interrupting the priest's recovery. He had no choice but to temporarily give up on this target and continue to pick on the fragile players to kill.

The fact that the thieves who went to set up an ambush failed to turn the tables was their greatest fortune. At this time, the archers and mages in the field were being killed and fleeing in all directions. The others wanted to offer help but couldn't keep up with the speed, whether it was the speed of their feet or the speed of recovery.

When Bao Du Fengshuang saw that this was basically a repetition of the last situation, he was distressed that there was nothing he could do. If things continued like this, would he just have to let Qian Li Zui kill 29 people again and then leave triumphantly?

Just as he was gritting his teeth, someone in the team suddenly shouted: "Thieves!"

It was unknown which city's term this was, and the content was too general. Half of the people in the field didn't react to what it was. It wasn't until a player was killed by three thieves who suddenly appeared that everyone realized that "thieves" meant that stealthy thieves were approaching. This person was a player who possessed anti-stealth abilities.

It was already too late to realize this. The thieves had already revealed themselves from stealth and launched their first wave of attacks. The other side's manpower allocation was extremely accurate and effective. None of the targets surrounded were not killed. The priests couldn't even react in time. Among them, there was an even more formidable one. After working with others to kill one person, he used a charge like a warrior's charge, and actually instantly killed everyone in his path. The players in this path had different classes, but they were all killed with one hit. This kind of damage was even more than Qian Li Zui's. The explosive power was completely disproportionate to his thin figure.

He couldn't even handle one Qian Li Zui, and now another tough character had suddenly appeared. Bao Du Fengshuang was about to cry. He knew that Zai Lai Yici wouldn't be able to return in time. How long had they been gone? Of course, it would take the same amount of time to return the same way. What's more, even if he came back, what could he do? Qian Li Zui was clearly an opponent that their hundred-plus people couldn't contend with head-on.

The formation, which had already been disrupted by Qian Li Zui's attacks, was even more fragmented with the injection of such a new force. Bao Du Fengshuang sighed to the sky. He had no way to do anything. This kind of direct fight based on strength would result in the weaker party losing. It was that simple. Even if there were some strange formations or wretched commands, this was a team that hadn't even had a running-in period, so it couldn't exert such team strength at all. Right now, what he should be most concerned about was probably just the question of whether he could survive.

"Use scrolls to retreat first!!!" Someone shouted, and Bao Du Fengshuang saw that it was Yi Deng Diwen. These people who came with scrolls were of course also prepared to return with scrolls. Everyone had already bought return scrolls after the last time. No matter how expensive the scrolls were, they were still not worth a level. The players who had scrolls had already taken out their scrolls and were trying to meet up with players who didn't have scrolls, so they could leave together.

The obvious intentions would naturally be met with obvious obstruction. Those who were targeted could only consider themselves unlucky. However, Gu Fei and his party were fewer in number after all, so it was impossible for them to attend to everyone. The other side finally succeeded in activating the scrolls one after another.

"Be careful, don't be teleported away together..." Jian Gui reminded them. To interrupt the teleportation, they had to get close to attack, and they had to grasp the timing well. If they were a little late, the teleportation array would activate, and if they met the quota, then it didn't matter if they were on the same team or not, they would all be teleported away together. Once they were teleported away, it might be a two-on-one or even a three-on-one situation. The other side was not weak, and they would have no mutual support at this time, so it would be a bit troublesome.

With the continuous success of the teleportation, there were fewer and fewer people in the field. When the number of people was finally close to Fei Chang Ni Tian, they were finally unable to successfully complete the teleportation again. The remaining people were eventually wiped out cleanly. And on Fei Chang Ni Tian's side, a thief was unfortunately killed. It was worth it to exchange the heroic sacrifice of one person for such a great victory. After all, it was too unrealistic to guarantee absolute zero casualties. This was a situation where they were fighting with fewer people, and even if Gu Fei could fight against a hundred people by himself, he couldn't clone himself into a hundred.

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Emergency call for monthly votes, the distance from 500 votes is still a very, very long distance, as far as the big shots who were killed back to the city have to return to Yun Duan City!