Chapter 130 Setting the Wrong Piece

As the saying goes, one wrong move and the whole game is lost.

Yin Sha Paper truly wanted to cry his eyes out at the archer's resurrection point in Cloud City. But with his subordinates being successively teleported over, Yin Sha Paper could only feign strength, stepping forward to pat each of them on the shoulder: "This time, it's my fault. I didn't expect Qianli Yizui to be so despicable, even changing the exam questions at the last minute."

"The one who asked the question was Xiyao Wu," someone reminded Yin Sha Paper.

"The most poisonous heart is that of a woman; I overlooked that as well," Yin Sha Paper's voice was a little hoarse.

"How are the brothers doing?" Yin Sha Paper looked at the other archers, all from his group.

"It seems like everyone who could die has died," one person replied.

Dead, and not found here, meant there was only one reason. Thieves. Not at this resurrection point, but over at the Thieves' Guild.

"Damn it!" Yin Sha Paper angrily kicked the ground, leaving a pit.

"What's the situation over there now?" Yin Sha Paper asked in the channel. Aside from the ones who had been exposed and killed, there was another group of his people lying in ambush at the city gates. Yin Sha Paper's arrangement had been quite meticulous; they weren't all piled together, but they weren't too far apart either. They could support each other if anything happened. They should have had a chance to react this time as well. For example, the two brothers who sacrificed themselves at the beginning were the warning. Everyone could have run away during that opportunity. But Yin Sha Paper was too confident, trying to outsmart the other side. Who knew that the other side was just as cunning, and played him instead.

In the end, he confidently went to answer the questions, thinking he knew the answers. But he couldn't withstand them changing the questions at the last minute. Answering incorrectly not only got him killed but also implicated a group of brothers. Yin Sha Paper was still patting people on the shoulder to cheer them up; his skin was quite thick.

He inquired about the situation over there, but there was no news for a while. After a long time, white lights flashed beside him, and the third group was sent back.

"What's going on?" Yin Sha Paper was stunned. Having witnessed their tragedy, he didn't think this group would be foolish enough to answer the questions again. Staying put at least wouldn't cost them their lives. Who knew everyone would return so quickly, one after another.

The archer who died and returned was frustrated, spitting on the ground: "That Qianli Yizui guy called out, asking the players to help supervise each other. Then he asked questions, seeing who wouldn't respond. We wanted to blend in with the crowd, but the Cloud City players were too damn disloyal, immediately selling us out. What the hell?"

"What are you saying?!" Yin Sha Paper quickly stopped the man from continuing to curse. This was Cloud City, and he was cursing the Cloud City players right here. Sure enough, several unfriendly gazes were already directed at them.

Seeing that the other side didn't react further and left, Yin Sha Paper breathed a sigh of relief, then said, "It seems like waiting for the rabbit to run into the trap won't work. We need to change our plan."

"Why don't we change our location?" someone suggested.

"It would be best if we could spread out and guard several major gathering points, but the problem is we don't have enough manpower. There are many assassins, but they only have two eyes. Sigh!" Yin Sha Paper sighed.

"But don't be discouraged, everyone; there's always a way," Yin Sha Paper said, while leaving the resurrection point with the other archers. Just as he was pondering where to go next, he suddenly felt a pain in his back.

"Damn it!!" Yin Sha Paper shouted.

There was an ambush outside the resurrection point? How could he have forgotten such an old trick?

It was too late for Yin Sha Paper to react now. A team of assassins that had emerged around them had already surrounded the group of archers. In close combat, archers had no chance of winning, not even a高手 (gāoshǒu, expert) like Yin Sha Paper.

"Which one is the leader?" Yun Zhong Mu asked imposingly from within the group of assassins.

"Me," Yin Sha Paper said, surprised, thinking that they wanted to negotiate.

"That's him. Put in some effort; he has good stuff to drop," Yun Zhong Mu pointed at Yin Sha Paper.

Yin Sha Paper almost cried. Players sometimes had strange superstitions, very unscientific superstitions. For example, some people thought killing monsters faster would increase the drop rate. Others believed that a harder final blow would increase the drop rate... These were all things that the officials had unequivocally declared were false, but the players ignored them and continued to do it with gusto.

Players also needed faith, but having faith in the game company was too embarrassing, so everyone created their own faith. That's how some people explained it.

Yun Zhong Mu and his brothers seemed to be people of faith as well. It seemed that they believed that "putting in effort" when killing in PvP would lead to better drops. Yin Sha Paper hadn't heard of this theory. He only knew that after Yun Zhong Mu said that, at least five knives stabbed him.

Yin Sha Paper had no power to resist. Having just come out of the resurrection point, he was back in it in the blink of an eye.

Yin Sha Paper was very regretful, truly regretful. If he hadn't registered in Cloud City this time, Qianli Yizui would have just sent him back to his hometown, and he could have avoided this next death. Moreover…

"Damn it!!" Yin Sha Paper blurted out. He realized that he was barefoot; his boots had dropped!

For a marksman, besides their weapon, the most important equipment was probably a good pair of boots with unlimited speed. Yin Sha Paper's boots were, of course, top-tier. But at this moment, they resolutely abandoned him. Yun Zhong Mu's "effort theory" seemed to be very effective. He had already picked up the boots that Yin Sha Paper had dropped. He looked at the stats, laughed, and took off his stinky shoes. He put on the boots and took two steps, smiling at Yin Sha Paper in the resurrection point: "Good shoes, not bad."

Yin Sha Paper was almost going crazy, and his brothers quickly returned as well. They pulled back Yin Sha Paper, who was about to rush out.

"Don't be provoked; going out is just a waste of life," everyone shouted in Yin Sha Paper's ear.

Yun Zhong Mu was extremely arrogant outside: "Coming out? If not, we're leaving." As he said this, he waved his hand, and the team swaggered away. Yun Zhong Mu suddenly reached into his pocket, took something out, and threw it in: "Wear these; the ground is cold."

Yin Sha Paper almost spat out a mouthful of blood. It was a pair of straw sandals that were beyond repair. This wasn't equipment at all. It was probably the kind of worthless trash dropped by small monsters. They could be worn, but if you wore these shoes outside, even the level ten newbies begging for money from their older brothers and sisters outside the resurrection point would look down on you.

An archer quickly went up and kicked the broken straw sandals away. Someone took out a pair of boots that at least counted as equipment from their pocket and gave them to Yin Sha Paper to make do with. Everyone comforted Yin Sha Paper with a worried expression. Although they had died, the one who had their equipment dropped was, of course, even more pitiful. Moreover, they knew how much Yin Sha Paper valued those boots.

This was the situation at the archer's training ground. The story at the Thieves' Guild was basically a repeat of this.

Except there wasn't a big shot like Yin Sha Paper there. The leader was Yun Xiang, and he had brought quite a few people, a mixed class. Dealing with thieves was obviously more troublesome than dealing with archers, whose weaknesses were more obvious.

But in the end, they took down their opponents without any casualties. The ambush was well-designed and very targeted. As soon as the thieves walked out together, they were surrounded. Yun Xiang waved his hand, and the mage team sent them back the way they came. There was no chance to escape with either Sprint or Stealth.

"Damn it, why are they all guys?!" Fireball shook his head in dissatisfaction, leaning on the door of the Thieves' Guild and shouting inside: "Hey, do you guys have any girls in your guild? Dare to send some girls over? Dare..."

Before Fireball could finish shouting, Yun Xiang covered his mouth and dragged him away, explaining to the onlookers: "Zongheng Sihai is camping people; nothing to see here."

"Tch!" A girl in the crowd saw through him with one glance: "That lecherous kid is 'Forever in the Flowers.' He's the only mage in that shameless guild; I know him."

Fireball was overjoyed, struggling to say a few words: "Haha, I'm also a celebrity! Beauty, are you free to have a late-night snack by the Cloud Suburb Lake? My cooking skill is level thirty-seven!!!"

"Drag him away, drag him away quickly!!" Yun Xiang shouted. Several strength-based players quickly came over and carried Fireball away.

"I told you not to let this guy come!" Yun Xiang wiped his sweat.

"Only Qianli can bring him," someone said.

"Yeah, only Qianli can control him!" Yun Xiang also admired him. Sure enough, only Qianli Yizui could control someone as shameless as him; he was far from capable.

"What do we do now?" someone asked.

"Yaoniming Sanqian and Mizuosi Ting, you two stay here to continue monitoring. The rest of you follow me to the back street." Yun Xiang waved his hand, preparing to wait and see if there was another opportunity. But before they could take a few steps, Yaoniming Sanqian was already calling out: "They're gone; teleported."

"All gone?" Yun Xiang looked towards the resurrection point.

"Not a single one left," Yaoniming Sanqian confirmed.

"Then let's keep things as they are!" Yun Xiang led everyone to ambush inside and outside the Thieves' Guild again.

Professions that were good at ambushing needed to have strong mobility, either thief-like or shooter-like. So Han Jia Gongzi had already made arrangements for these two resurrection points. Even though they had already been exposed, staying here was still a form of restriction. Those who died and returned had no choice but to log off or use scrolls to run away.

"Damn it!!!" Yin Sha Paper roared at the sky in the wilderness outside Cloud City. He didn't fly back to his hometown, but instead used a random teleport scroll. The chance of two random teleports leading to the same place was almost zero.

There were three archer companions beside Yin Sha Paper. He didn't know where the others had gone. Random teleport scrolls with blank coordinates; the odds of two ending up in the same place were close to zero.

The place was desolate. Yin Sha Paper and his companions were unfamiliar with the area, feeling lonely and desolate. The world was vast, but they felt like they had nowhere to belong.

"What do we do now?" someone beside him asked.

"Assassination operations are difficult to succeed..." Yin Sha Paper said painfully. The others were silent.

"How can we have a chance of winning when the other side predicts our every move?" Yin Sha Paper asked.

"Then what do we do?"

"It seems like we can only use the method suggested by Baodu Fengshuang and Yideng Diwen. Organize a large army and find the second route. As long as our strength forms sufficient suppression, it doesn't matter how fast or accurate the other side calculates," Yin Sha Paper said.

"But, I heard that last time, Cloud City gathered tens of thousands of people to eliminate Very Heaven, but they were single-handedly defeated by Qianli Yizui." During their time lurking in Cloud City, these guys had also gathered a lot of intelligence.

"I know, that was the time his PK value was extremely high!" Yin Sha Paper said.

"That's right!"

"But we're different from those tens of thousands of people. Those tens of thousands of people were led by only two level six guilds in Cloud City, a bunch of rabble. What about us? We're from thirty-one main cities, the strength of thirty-one level six guilds. Can Qianli Yizui fight against two level six guilds? Can he fight against thirty-one? Can he? Can he? Can he?" Yin Sha Paper started to roar again.

"Boss, calm down!" the others quickly advised.

"Now it's twenty-six guilds," someone reminded him.

"Can he defeat twenty-six guilds? Can he? Can he? Can he?" Yin Sha Paper continued to roar. No one dared to stop him.

After Yin Sha Paper had roared enough, he sat down on the ground and opened his friend list.

His tragedy and Baodu Fengshuang's comedy were happening almost simultaneously.

Baodu Fengshuang had just confirmed the second route with Ye Xiaowu when Gu Fei killed him until he was running around like a dog with its tail between its legs.

With the second route found, the method of suppressing with overwhelming strength could at least continue. This was the last bit of comfort Yin Sha Paper could find.

The guilds had become their last resort. As for themselves? Bah, in just two days, everyone had lost levels until they looked like neither human nor ghost. Level forty, just starting level forty. In their minds, that was very low-end, extremely low-end. In their minds, everyone from level zero to forty was a newbie. But now, many of them were tragically standing at the peak of the newbies.

"Guilds, please come quickly!" Yin Sha Paper lay in the wilderness, looking at the sky. He looked forward to the support of more partners, the support of more reliable partners.

The twenty-five big shots all received news of Yin Sha Paper's failed assassination operation. Everyone understood that it was time to make the last move.

They were actually reluctant to take this path unless absolutely necessary.

This path was about favor, a great amount of favor. There would be many friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends; in short, the favors of everyone within their network would be borrowed and used.

What for? They couldn't even give an accurate answer anymore. Was it still for Ying Qi's reward? Impossible. Was it to avenge the brothers who had sacrificed themselves before? A little bit. More of it was about anger, a desire to prove themselves. This matter had originally started because of profit, but now it had become a matter of pride. Being made to look so battered and disheveled by Very Heaven, no one could swallow this anger. Those who could tolerate it, those who didn't want to engage in a battle of pride, had already withdrawn.

"Is everyone ready?" Baodu Fengshuang sent a group message.

The response was unanimous.

"Then, let's start tonight and set off, first gathering in Yueye City to rest. Tomorrow, we'll break through the second passage and head straight for Cloud City!" Baodu Fengshuang announced.

The elites of twenty-six main cities set off, heading towards the same goal.

Although many of them were not willing, because of a favor, everyone gathered together, advancing towards the same goal.

"Defeat Very Heaven!" Everyone knew the purpose of their trip, and they had also heard the reason for the matter. Although they were confused, everyone had a reason they couldn't refuse.

Brothers! Friends! They had gathered together for these reasons.

Cloud City suddenly became very quiet at this time. After Yin Sha Paper's order, the assassination operations had all been halted. The lurking assassins and archers suddenly transformed into ordinary citizens, living in harmony with the Cloud City players. They were waiting for a bigger storm to come. They felt like they could already see dark clouds gathering in the sky above Cloud City.

The manpower gathered by the big shots was quickly tallied. Elites from twenty-six main cities, a total of 12,257 people.

"On average, everyone has mobilized almost five hundred people," Yideng Diwen said.

"The Cloud City players are really lucky!" Baodu Fengshuang sighed, "They've witnessed the most peak individual strength in this game, and now they're going to witness the most peak team strength. Even the former Ten Guild Alliance would be insignificant in front of us, right?"

"Completely in a different weight class," Yideng Diwen said, "Almost all of these ten thousand people can be said to be at the top in their respective main cities."

"Is it finally starting?" Ying Qi's boss, Gaishi Qiying, received the news soon after the teams set off from the main cities. His intelligence network was undoubtedly accurate and fast.

"How is the inventory count?" Gaishi Qiying turned to ask Wu Ye, who was beside him.

"It can all be completed today," Wu Ye said, his eyes bloodshot, obviously from staying up all night.

"Thank you for your hard work. After this is over, everyone can take a good rest," Gaishi Qiying said.

Wu Ye nodded, but his expression still carried a hint of hesitation.

"What do you want to say?" Gaishi Qiying noticed it.

"This time, we've sparked a large-scale conflict between the main cities. A large number of equipment and materials selling out is inevitable. But, it seems that we're not the only ones benefiting from this? All the studios can profit from this!" Wu Ye said.

"Hehe," Gaishi Qiying smiled, "What you're saying isn't wrong, but there are three things you need to consider."

"First, we planned this, so of course we're the most prepared. Even if other studios realize it now and start immediately, they're already far behind us. Before such a large-scale sale, a clear inventory count is necessary. Otherwise, if we find a shortage in the end, it will be difficult to verify."

"Second, we've won the trust of at least one of the sides about to clash. We'll be their first choice for consumption, while other studios now have doubts in their minds."

"Third, it's not good if we take all the benefits and others can't even get a sip of soup. We just need to take most of the benefits, and we don't need to worry too much about the rest. Our current situation isn't suitable for being envied by all our peers in the industry."

"I see," Wu Ye said, enlightened after hearing Gaishi Qiying's points.

"How is the other matter coming along?" Gaishi Qiying asked again.

Although Wu Ye was tired, his expression was relaxed: "Very smoothly, we already have some clues. Actually, if our information network hadn't encountered some trouble, we would have found it sooner."

"That's good. What about Yongyuan and them?"

"They're fine, probably leveling!" Wu Ye said.

"They don't need to get involved in the buying and selling matters. I've also been observing some people recently. When the time comes, you can lead them to be responsible! Here is the list." Gaishi Qiying handed a piece of paper to Wu Ye.

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