Chapter 171 Unexpected Developments

The Yingqi warehouse was packed with goods, utilizing space to the fullest extent. Xi Xiaotian and her team teleported to a spot near the entrance, where a larger area had been left open. After reviewing the scroll for a while, they saw that the space ahead was being used to its maximum capacity. Materials were stacked row upon row, leaving only a narrow, approximately one-meter-wide passage for retrieving items.

Xi Xiaotian continued walking, naturally entering the narrow passage. Gaishi Yingqi no longer suspected Xi Xiaotian, but he continued with his plans. However, it was now impossible to monitor Xi Xiaotian from multiple directions. Yongyuan gave a signal, and he and Divine Archer Yifengzheng followed behind Gaishi Yingqi. Gaishi Yingqi continued to bask in Xi Xiaotian's praise, while the two of them kept a close watch on Xi Xiaotian's hands, ensuring they didn't touch any of the materials on either side.

The end of the one-meter passage was also piled with goods, directly in front of Xi Xiaotian. If she held her hands in front of her, Yongyuan behind her wouldn't be able to see what she was doing. Yongyuan stared intently at the goods at the end, thinking, *If Xi Xiaotian wants to move something, she can't start from the top. Pulling materials from the bottom will definitely cause them to wobble, and I must immediately stop her.* But then he thought, *That way, she would already have the item in her hand, and we might not be able to get it back.* After considering it, Yongyuan decided that once they reached that spot, he would rush forward as soon as Xi Xiaotian's hands were out of sight.

However, Xi Xiaotian didn't present Yongyuan with that problem. She stopped a meter from the end, her hands hanging naturally at her sides, and turned around with a smile, saying to Gaishi Yingqi, "I roughly estimated the number of scrolls you have, and it's truly astounding."

"This is only one-twentieth of our Yingqi's total inventory," Gaishi Yingqi said.

"Do other warehouses have scrolls stacked like this too? Why not store all the scrolls in one warehouse?" Xi Xiaotian asked.

"Because we recently had personnel changes, we're reorganizing and inventorying the warehouses. We're only halfway done. Once everything is inventoried, we will divide them like that," Gaishi Yingqi explained as he turned to leave the passage. Since it was only a meter wide, they couldn't walk side by side. Gaishi Yingqi turned his back to Xi Xiaotian and stopped talking.

Yongyuan and Yifengzheng would normally have turned around, but since they had to monitor Xi Xiaotian, Yongyuan pretended to be talking to Gaishi Yingqi, walking backward while facing the inside. He had to talk to Gaishi Yingqi while keeping his eyes on Xi Xiaotian, and it was a bit awkward to be so obviously watching her. Luckily, Yifengzheng was a good friend and cooperated with Yongyuan, joining the discussion as well. Thus, the two of them took turns watching Xi Xiaotian, quickening their backward steps, wanting to get out of the passage as quickly as possible.

Just then, Yongyuan suddenly saw the scrolls on Xi Xiaotian's right side seemed to be tilting. The next second, Yongyuan confirmed it wasn't an illusion—it was real. His main focus was on monitoring Xi Xiaotian's hands, and he could confirm that Xi Xiaotian hadn't touched the scrolls.

"Careful!" Yongyuan shouted, confirming it was an accident, startling Gaishi Yingqi, who turned around and saw the scrolls beside Xi Xiaotian were about to collapse.

Xi Xiaotian heard the shout and looked up, also startled. Yongyuan had already rushed forward and pulled Xi Xiaotian away. Although he was sure Xi Xiaotian hadn't caused it, he was worried she might seize the opportunity in the chaos to grab something and stuff it into her pockets. He was even more afraid that if Xi Xiaotian tried to dodge, she might move inward, and the falling scrolls would separate them, making it impossible to stop her from doing anything.

The moment he pulled Xi Xiaotian away, the scrolls crashed down. In that instant, Yongyuan saw a scroll appear in Xi Xiaotian's hand, startling him. However, before he could react, the scroll had already flown out. Yongyuan realized it must have been knocked out of Xi Xiaotian's hand by the collapsing scrolls.

The fallen scrolls crashed into the opposite side, causing a chain reaction to the left and right. The one-meter passage was instantly blocked by a mountain of scrolls, and the four of them stared at each other in dismay.

"Miss Xi, are you alright?" Gaishi Yingqi was the first to react.

"I'm fine, thank you," Xi Xiaotian said to Yongyuan.

Yongyuan nodded and turned to his two brothers, "Clean it up, stack it securely."

The two Ying zhi Tuan players outside the passage nodded. One went to the adjacent passage, while the other waited for the four of them to exit before entering this one. Suddenly, the player who had gone ahead shouted, "Who are you?"

Then there was silence. Yongyuan quickly turned toward the passage, but the player was gone. In the mercenary channel, that player had sent a message: "Qian Li Zui!!"

"Someone got in!" Yongyuan didn't analyze what had happened but shouted the situation to Gaishi Yingqi. In a player's private residence, removing someone's permissions was the most effective solution. The warehouse's owners were all Gaishi Yingqi, and only he had that level of permission.

Gaishi Yingqi quickly accessed the system list to remove permissions and was instantly stunned. "So many? What's going on!"

"Kick them out!" Yongyuan yelled at his boss, already rushing into the passage. Before he could reach the gap, another new gap appeared in the pile of scrolls. A warrior used a charge to push out of the scroll pile, heading straight for Yongyuan.

Yongyuan was also a skilled player and dodged the attack. But then he saw a dark shadow in front of him, and a sword, wreathed in flames, was already slashing at him. Yongyuan knew it was Qian Li Zui. He had experience fighting Gu Fei, and the Intelligence Curse, which greatly limited a mage's damage, didn't have much effect on Qian Li Zui. Yongyuan could only cast an Agility Curse as usual, but he couldn't dodge this sword. However, his high-quality equipment allowed him to withstand the blow. While doing so, he glanced into the gap and almost collapsed—it was a sea of people...

"Kick out that woman!!!" Yongyuan shouted to Gaishi Yingqi, finally realizing that. Yongyuan cursed himself for being an idiot. It was impossible to enter a player's private residence without permission, and Gaishi Yingqi had recently given permission only to that reporter. So, that reporter must be the problem. She was the team leader, and the moment Gaishi Yingqi gave her permission, he gave permission to an entire team. This was a conspiracy from start to finish, an incredibly heaven-defying conspiracy. Although he had no idea how they had done it, dwelling on it was pointless. This time, the losses were sure to be heavy. Getting these guys out as quickly as possible to minimize the damage was the top priority.

But after such a blatant hint, Xi Xiaotian wouldn't stay in the team. After a slight smile, she casually grabbed a large handful of scrolls. Gaishi Yingqi frantically revoked her permissions, but the team had already disbanded, and this couldn't solve the problem. Xi Xiaotian's mission was beautifully accomplished. She had bought them a full ten seconds. The people who came in were defying all expectations. It wasn't eight people, not sixteen, not even twenty-four. A full thirty-two people had entered.

This was far beyond their own expectations. Sixteen people was their most optimistic estimate. Now it was double that!

Gaishi Yingqi removing Xi Xiaotian's permission didn't solve the problem at all. In the long list of names, Qian Li Zui's name stood out so prominently. Gaishi Yingqi didn't hesitate to act.

Gu Fei was about to deliver his second sword strike to Yongyuan when suddenly his vision went dark. When it cleared, he was on a street, with Xi Xiaotian smiling cheerfully beside him.

"I knew it!!!" Gu Fei said, frustrated. Being famous had its downsides; he was always the first to be targeted.

The next to appear was Yun Zhong Mu, also with a helpless expression. Gu Fei was famous, but Yun Zhong Mu had high enmity. He was the guy who had openly scorned Gaishi Yingqi and led a group to kill him. Gaishi Yingqi had unhesitatingly dealt with him after Qian Li Zui.

After that... after that, the pitiful Gaishi Yingqi himself was ejected. Behind the collapsed pile of scrolls were an absolutely insane thirty elites. They quickly overcame that obstacle. No matter how good Gaishi Yingqi's equipment was, he was instantly killed by this pack of wolves without needing any explanation. What made his heart bleed was that the scrolls didn't seem to be pushed aside but were being stuffed into their pockets. They used that to create an exit, how much loss was that???

Gaishi Yingqi continued to frantically kick people out at the resurrection point, his hands shaking uncontrollably. His heart was filled with extreme anger, and the veins on his ferocious face were about to burst. Then he received a system alert: "Your heart is about to..."

"Fuck!" Gaishi Yingqi cursed crudely and was forcibly disconnected by the system.

"Fuck!!" The heroes of the Ying zhi Tuan who were still struggling and resisting in the warehouse also cursed crudely, not caring about their image. There were only five of them now, and their opponents included lunatics from the Ten Guild Alliance and top-tier players like Piaoliu. They simply couldn't win. They could only try to stall for time, hoping the others wouldn't be so focused on looting and that Gaishi Yingqi could clear them out quickly. But then Gaishi Yingqi chose to log off! What was going on?

After escaping from Gu Fei's sword, Yongyuan harassed them from all directions like a guerrilla. Under his command, the other four brothers hadn't died yet. But he soon realized that they hadn't died because the opponents weren't paying much attention to them. They were all focused on robbing, not caring about their attacks, because they had a godlike priest among them.

"There's plenty of time to die, but we don't have time to play with you right now. Everyone's busy," Han Jia Gongzi said with a smile, looking down on Yongyuan.

Yongyuan was furious, wishing he could cast all his curse skills on Han Jia Gongzi. He felt so powerless. It was too late to mobilize reinforcements, they couldn't win in a fight, and harassing them didn't work. The most effective method was unavailable...

"Focus fire!" Yongyuan shouted.

"Focus fire to heal." Han Jia Gongzi wasn't flustered at all. The opponents were elites, and focus firing could indeed kill one of them in one blow. But they weren't the only priests on their side. Although there might not be enough time to heal someone before they died in a focus fire, that was for ordinary priests. Han Jia Gongzi was a master of controlling the rhythm and using time differences. No matter how well-coordinated the focus fire was, the attacks couldn't land on someone simultaneously. As long as he could seize the gaps, healing would work.

Han Jia Gongzi was the kind of person who could do that. So Yongyuan tragically discovered that their attacks hadn't even managed to kill a single thief.

Then a thief rushed out of the opponent's formation, advancing like a whirlwind, wielding dual blades. Currently, assassins didn't have dual-wielding styles; dual-weapon mastery was still exclusive to berserkers. But this dual-wielding assassin was someone Yongyuan had heard of before. It was another old friend of his: Jian Gui.

Fog Shadow Assault! The super skill that was unique to the formidable Jian Gui. Even Gu Fei's extravagance was based on over-leveled equipment; his attack skills were all common ones. Although ordinary mages wouldn't know Palm Thunder or Lightning Wall, those system event rewards weren't over-leveled skills either. The main reason why it was rare was that there were few lightning mages to begin with.

Even elite-level experts like Ying zhi Tuan were caught off guard by Fog Shadow Assault. Two of them were hit by Jian Gui but survived because of their impressive equipment, making it extremely rare for them not to be killed by this skill. Jian Gui being de-leveled by two was also a very important reason.

But with Jian Gui's consistently serious and proper attitude, even if he knew the power of Fog Shadow Assault, he wouldn't put all his hopes on that one skill. Follow-up attacks came one after another. There were no priests among the people Yongyuan had brought, and the two who had been seriously injured by Fog Shadow Assault couldn't be healed, and were instantly finished off by Jian Gui.

Yongyuan didn't have time for reminiscing and quickly sent an "Agility Curse" to Jian Gui. Jian Gui didn't dodge and continued stubbornly walking toward the remaining three.

Yongyuan paused. He used to be like a brother to Jian Gui and knew a lot about him. He looked at him and said, "As expected, you still can't accept doing that kind of thing!"

Yongyuan was referring to looting... Under Han Jia Gongzi's powerful healing, everyone was madly looting Yingqi's inventory instead of fighting. Only Jian Gui, without being provoked, actively jumped out to fight.

Jian Gui didn't answer, just earnestly maintaining the fighting stance he should have. He didn't seem to want to reminisce with Yongyuan either...

At this time, the boss Gaishi Yingqi, after taking some tranquilizers, calmly re-entered the game. But seeing the list of thirty names, his heart was still heavy. Without another word, he began the cleanup.

Han Jia Gongzi had noticed that Gaishi Yingqi's clearing had paused for a moment after he was kicked out. He didn't have Gaishi Yingqi as a friend and didn't know the guy had been forcibly disconnected, thinking he was just being an idiot. When someone was forcibly sent out, he immediately noticed and urged everyone on even more, ignoring Yongyuan and the others.

When they first came in, they were surrounded by scrolls and casually grabbed a lot to stuff into their pockets. Now they had moved on to the equipment area. They scanned the area and grabbed familiar good equipment and unfamiliar but glittering ones. Anything stacked here couldn't be a white or blue item!

Everyone was busy and happy. Jian Gui was fighting three people alone, but with the help of a priest like Han Jia Gongzi, there wasn't too much pressure. Although Jian Gui was two levels lower, his equipment was no worse, and his attack power was terrifying. Yongyuan felt their existence was meaningless. Gaishi Yingqi removing permissions was the only solution.

"Withdraw!" In this situation, Yongyuan didn't want to die in vain. He signaled to his two brothers. Meanwhile, Wu Ye, a useless noob with no combat power, was staring blankly with a pale face, with only one thought in his mind: Is Yingqi really finished?

Yongyuan didn't bother with this waste. It didn't matter if this kind of guy lost ten levels, so Yongyuan didn't care about him. He led his two brothers and charged out of the warehouse despite Jian Gui's attacks. But Jian Gui didn't give up and insisted on following them out. Han Jia Gongzi could only shake his head when he saw that. Jian Gui still couldn't bring himself to steal. He understood... What he didn't understand was why Yongyuan and the others would want to rush out of the warehouse. Wasn't that just courting death?

Yongyuan only realized that the moment he rushed out of the warehouse. In this crisis, after suffering a crushing defeat, he hadn't considered things carefully because he was extremely depressed. The moment he stepped out, he saw a joyful face vaguely hidden behind the light of fire and swords. Yongyuan fell, hearing that person exclaim in surprise, "Why did you come out?"

I fucked your mother... Yongyuan cursed in his heart, very ungentlemanly. He had forgotten that after being removed from the permissions, people were automatically sent outside the door. Of course, Qian Li Zui would be outside. Coming out of the warehouse was just moving from the seventeenth level of hell to the eighteenth.

Where could the other two brothers escape to, with Gu Fei in front and Jian Gui behind? Before they fell, they heard Yun Zhong Mu rush up and say regretfully, "Three? Why didn't you leave one for me?"

"Sorry, this one is a little difficult for me," Qian Li Zui's answer made them unable to rest in peace even in death.

People around them began to be teleported out, and Gaishi Yingqi's methods were considered fast. But the ten seconds that Xi Xiaotian had gained, Gaishi Yingqi's forced offline... There was no stopping this victorious action, and the faces of everyone who was teleported out were filled with joy.

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This long-awaited action, how could it not go smoothly and live up to the audience~ Grant me strength, I want monthly tickets~