Chapter 55 Cloud Herdsman and His Enemies

Cloud Herdsman and his guild were disgruntled at being squeezed out by the three major guilds. But he didn't dare argue at this point. He was a man with only one life left. If those three were ruthless enough to pretend to slip and kill him, it would be eight hundred years before he could clear things up.

However, thanks to his informants within the three major guilds, Cloud Herdsman was well aware of their subsequent actions. Their suspicions about Ye Xiaowu had been cleared. Unable to work with the three guilds, Cloud Herdsman suddenly recalled Ye Xiaowu's previous incorrect guidance.

Since this person could still be trusted, then the wrong guidance was simply a judgment made due to being misled by Qianli Yizui and others. The mistake was only in the judgment; there must still be some important quest clues in the Cloudtop Mine, without a doubt. So Cloud Herdsman immediately led his guild's confidants to search the area thoroughly, showing a determination to dig three feet into the ground. But they dug and dug, and even after Duan Shui Jian and Daoying Nianhua arrived, they still hadn't found any clues.

"Damn it!!" As soon as Daoying Nianhua set foot in the Cloudtop Mine, he immediately recognized the players from the Muyun Guild. Being a clever person, he immediately realized what Cloud Herdsman was trying to do.

But seeing these guys still busily digging, Daoying Nianhua laughed; this obviously meant they hadn't found anything.

Duan Shui Jian's expression was much more serious. He looked in a certain direction and then called to Daoying Nianhua, "This way."

The two of them also disguised themselves as ordinary quest players and mixed into the crowd. However, this clue was Cloud Herdsman's last hope. He had already reminded everyone to pay attention to all unknown people. Daoying Nianhua and Duan Shui Jian were new arrivals, without badges and with their faces covered. Nothing could be more suspicious, and they were already being closely watched by Muyun's people.

"Don't startle them," Cloud Herdsman instructed. "Pretend not to notice them, let them do their thing, and then take them out after we figure out what they're up to!"

"Understood!"

Duan Shui Jian and Daoying Nianhua walked around in the crowd. Duan Shui Jian obviously knew from Ye Xiaowu where to go, and he went straight to the point without taking any detours. But when the target area was right in front of them, Duan Shui Jian suddenly stopped and stared at the front in surprise.

"What is it?" Daoying Nianhua asked, leaning in.

Duan Shui Jian didn't answer but pointed to the front. Ahead was one of the mine's tunnels, but the entrance had been dug into a large pit by Muyun's people.

"Can't get through?" Daoying Nianhua asked, puzzled.

"No... the thing should be in that pit..." Duan Shui Jian said, pointing to the pit.

"This..." Daoying Nianhua was stunned. The place where the thing was hidden had been dug up like this, which meant that the thing should have been picked up already. But if that were the case, why were the people from the Muyun Guild still digging here?

"Is there anything else?" Daoying Nianhua asked Duan Shui Jian.

"No," Duan Shui Jian replied.

"Then they..." Daoying Nianhua was puzzled.

Duan Shui Jian shook his head. "It shouldn't be that they were careless and didn't notice it. This probably means that someone took the thing from here before them."

"Damn! Who could it be?"

"I don't know. Maybe it was just a quest player from some other guild," Duan Shui Jian said.

"Damn it, what do we do now?"

"There's no way... at least it's someone from a guild. Maybe we can contact the various guilds and find them," Duan Shui Jian said.

Seeing that such an important quest was so inexplicably about to fall into the hands of some unknown guild, Daoying Nianhua was extremely depressed. It was a pity that if this quest wasn't completed, the entire siege side would be defeated, and no one would benefit. Right now, they could only hope that this guild was so small that it couldn't be any smaller, so perhaps they could give them some more appropriate benefits in exchange for this quest.

Daoying Nianhua was thinking about contacting Wushi Zhi Jian to explain the situation here when the people from the Muyun Guild suddenly surrounded them. Cloud Herdsman had received a report that the two guys had suddenly stopped, and it seemed like they were up to something. Cloud Herdsman really didn't have the patience anymore, and he decided to reveal his hand.

Walking forward, Cloud Herdsman looked at the masked duo and asked, "Who are you?"

Seeing that things had come to this, Daoying Nianhua pulled down his mask and smiled. "It's me."

"And this one?" Cloud Herdsman looked at Duan Shui Jian, who also silently pulled down his mask.

Cloud Herdsman saw who it was and confirmed his deduction. He nodded and said, "It seems I guessed right. There's still some key quest element here, isn't there?"

"More accurately, a quest item. You haven't found it, have you?" Now was really not the time to waste time.

"Hehe, we're just waiting for your guidance," Cloud Herdsman said.

Duan Shui Jian shook his head regretfully and pointed back. "It should have been there."

"Is that so?" Cloud Herdsman looked around. "Who's responsible for that area?"

A player immediately came forward. "It's our group, but we didn't find anything!"

"You checked carefully?"

"Of course! There's absolutely no way there could have been any oversights," the player said confidently.

Cloud Herdsman also knew him. This was a reliable guy, so he also looked at Duan Shui Jian and Daoying Nianhua in confusion. "Then what's going on?"

"It's simple. Someone dug up the quest item before you. There's no time now. We have to find this person quickly. The one who could take the quest item from here should also be a quest player from some guild. Quickly mobilize all the guilds in the city and find this person!" Duan Shui Jian said. Frankly, he and Ye Xiaowu didn't care which guild completed the quest. What worried them more was that because of the information they had revealed, one guild would gain a significant advantage, which had troubled Ye Xiaowu for a long time.

However, Ye Xiaowu still felt that Qianli Yizui completing the quest, leading to the collective failure of the Cloudtop City siege players, was a more disharmonious and unbalanced outcome. Therefore, in the end, he chose to reveal the information, allowing the siege players to skip levels and complete the quest, preventing Qianli Yizui. This might also be a kind of imbalance, but Ye Xiaowu felt that he had no other choice...

"Damn it!" Cloud Herdsman didn't expect that he had been busy for nothing and that someone had already beaten him to it. But some people were still skeptical. "How could an ordinary quest player go to dig in that place? It's just a cave entrance. There's no reason to dig there."

Duan Shui Jian couldn't explain this problem either. For an ordinary player to get to the point of digging at this cave entrance was like Qianli Yizui finding the underwater cave. They needed to carry out quests and receive step-by-step hints to be able to do so. If they had really stumbled upon it by chance... that could be said to be unbelievable luck. However, even if an ordinary player stumbled upon the quest item by luck, they would not know how to use it because they had no previous quest elements and no hints. This was also the question that the three guild leaders were very confused about before: how could the quest be completed directly by skipping to the last step?

Although they could directly carry out the last step, if it weren't for a guy like Ye Xiaowu who completely knew the quest elements, without the quest hints that ordinary players had walked through step by step, without the inferences that could be derived from the plot, even if they stood at the last hurdle of the quest, how would they know how to go on?

"Now is not the time to explain these things. Let's find this person first, shall we? If we don't stop Qianli Yizui, the siege side will be defeated," Duan Shui Jian said.

"How much time do we have left?" Daoying Nianhua asked.

"Less than an hour," Duan Shui Jian said.

"Damn it, is there enough time?" Daoying Nianhua was already preparing to send a message to Wushi Zhi Jian. Cloud Herdsman was like a log at this moment. He completely didn't know what his guild should do next. He had lost all direction.

"Hello, everyone!" Just then, someone suddenly appeared on top of the mine tunnel, waving and greeting everyone.

Everyone looked up. Daoying Nianhua's face immediately turned ashen. He suddenly felt that this matter might be tragic.

Hanjia Gongzi!

Appearing on top of the mine tunnel was Hanjia Gongzi, second only to Qianli Yizui in the Gongzi Elite Group, a man who was hated. Although he seemed to have been standing on the side of the siege in this city war, this did not change the players' perception of him. This person was truly the kind of guy who was annoying. If Qianli Yizui was on the side of the siege, helping them chop people, all the guilds would definitely love him. Hanjia Gongzi would never do that. No matter how much he did, everyone's first reaction when they saw him was: Damn, it's that annoying guy again.

"Why are you here!" Daoying Nianhua shouted. He found that his tone seemed a little trembling. Places where Hanjia Gongzi appeared were usually involved in conspiracies.

"You seem to be looking for something," Hanjia Gongzi said with a kind smile. When necessary, he would also smile.

"Damn!!" Everyone said in unison. They had already realized what had happened.

"Why is this happening!" Daoying Nianhua seemed to be asking the heavens.

"Because I've been paying attention to your actions. Running around, very busy, aren't you?" Hanjia Gongzi said.

At this time, Duan Shui Jian's face was also ashen. The thing had fallen into Hanjia Gongzi's hands... Were they going to be defeated by Qianli Yizui again this time?

"It's impossible for you to have found it yourself, right? By yourself?" Cloud Herdsman's head was still clear at this time. The Cloudtop Mine was not that small. Even if Hanjia Gongzi had noticed their actions of running around, it was impossible for him to know the exact location of this quest item. He simply didn't have enough time to find the thing by himself.

"Of course not just me." Hanjia Gongzi smiled. Gu Xiaoshang, as well as the players from Caiyun Jian, finally appeared around them one after another.

"I seem to have heard that there's no time left? Then shouldn't we hurry?" Hanjia Gongzi asked.

Duan Shui Jian was helpless, very helpless... With the help of Caiyun Jian, although it was still preventing Qianli Yizui, why did it feel like they were being used? Hanjia Gongzi was standing above, clearly watching him. That expression was completely mocking.

But just mocking with an expression was not Hanjia Gongzi's style. He had to say a few words: "How is it, Old Duan Comrade? Hurry up and take us there! Aren't you very eager to harmonize someone?"

Duan Shui Jian gritted his teeth. This was not being used, this was not being used... He said this to himself, but the information that Hanjia Gongzi was feeding back to him was telling him: You are eager to harmonize Qianli Yizui, but the result is that you are being played by other players.

"It's not advisable to delay, let's go quickly!" Daoying Nianhua was now putting the overall situation first. Although he hated Hanjia Gongzi, he was relieved that the final quest still fell into the hands of Caiyun Jian. He was worried that Hanjia Gongzi was already in league with Qianli Yizui and the others guarding the city, so he wouldn't hand over the quest to them no matter what.

Duan Shui Jian was hesitating, struggling. Although he knew that a guild would benefit after this information was revealed, at this time, he was forced by Hanjia Gongzi in this way to reveal the information to Caiyun Jian. After such a reversal of priorities, the initiative was no longer in his hands. The information from him and Ye Xiaowu was nothing more than a chess piece for the other party to seek guild benefits. This feeling was extremely unpleasant.

"There's no way... In order to allow more players to get fairness, Qianli Yizui is always the big head that needs to be resisted. Therefore, it can't be helped that we are being used. Don't worry about it so much anymore..." Ye Xiaowu said.

Duan Shui Jian gritted his teeth and finally nodded. "Let's go! We have teleport scrolls here that are closer to the target. The person who receives the quest can come with us! There are enough people over there."

Seeing that all the situations were as Hanjia Gongzi had predicted, Gu Xiaoshang couldn't help but say, "You're really too sinister."

"Is this sinister? From the moment I saw that Hongchen Yixiao appear, I knew he was going to play tricks again. Besides using his familiar game settings to make a fuss, what other skills does he have? Every step leaves a trace. This is most suitable for him. The place where he leads the team will always be the key to some quest. Seeing that he's so eager to mess with Qianli Yizui, the impact of this quest must be very big. A two-way quest naturally means that both sides have a chance to gain. We should grab it if we can. Although we don't know how to do it, there will naturally be a God to guide us, amen..."

While Hanjia Gongzi was talking, he and Gu Xiaoshang went to meet up with Duan Shui Jian. They brought a few more people. As for who had the quest item, no one said, and Duan Shui Jian and Daoying Nianhua didn't ask. Even if the quest item could be dropped by killing someone, there was no way to openly grab it. If you rob me and I rob you, where would there be that much time now?

After a few people stood together, Cloud Herdsman stood very lonely with his companions elsewhere. His heart was filled with mixed feelings as he watched these guys about to do the quest, and he was very depressed. He thought about ordering them to kill them all and destroy the quest so that no one could complete it, but when he saw Caiyun Jian's lineup, he knew that the other party was prepared. Even if they started a war, they wouldn't be able to kill the key figures for a while, and they would teleport away immediately. What was the point of his fussing about?

"Guild Leader Muyun, you... do you want to go together too?" Daoying Nianhua had three scrolls, so he could still make room. Seeing Cloud Herdsman standing on the side in confusion, he was originally supposed to gloat, but he suddenly felt sympathy. Everyone was busy for nothing and got nothing, and the goal was just to prevent Qianli Yizui from directly harming the entire siege side. At the beginning, they might have thought that doing so would benefit them, but now that it was close to the end, except for Caiyun Jian, all the other guilds had done it for nothing. Cloud Herdsman suffered particularly heavy losses. With only one life left, he didn't dare to see anyone without being protected by dozens of people...

"No need, you guys go!" Cloud Herdsman had had enough of being cannon fodder. He didn't want to get involved anymore. Let it be, let it be what it will be, he thought.

The teleportation array flashed, and three scrolls sent twelve people away. Wushi Zhi Jian and others were already waiting at the landing point. They had already received news from Daoying Nianhua. Nilu Ershang and Heise Shizhi didn't have any benefits in the first place, so they switched to another guild, and they didn't feel anything. Instead, they were a little happy for Wushi Zhi Jian.

Wushi Zhi Jian's mood was naturally depressed. Although the one who benefited was his beloved Gu Xiaoshang, this quest was too big, and Wushi Zhi Jian was a little reluctant. But in any case, the quest was not shifted by his will, so he was spared the pain of entanglement. At this time, he pretended to be indifferent and went over to get close to Gu Xiaoshang with a generous expression.

The atmosphere could be said to be relatively harmonious. At this point, all the guild leaders had let go. There was no benefit to competing anymore. Let's kill Qianli Yizui quickly! Otherwise, not only would they have no benefits at all, but the defending side would have too many benefits. There were only a few of them in total, sharing the benefits of victory... Moreover, the guilds were led by experts like Qianli Yizui and Jian Gui. If they rose up, it would be even more difficult to deal with them. The minds of the guild leaders were actually quite far-reaching, not just considering the gains and losses of the current city war. The benefits of the city war were not for the sake of the future competition in the development of the guilds? The emerging guild forces of Qianli Yizui and the others must be suppressed. The major guilds had already reached a consensus on this point without saying it.

At this time, the only one who was extremely depressed was Duan Shui Jian, especially with Hanjia Gongzi turning around from time to time to look at him and sneer. Duan Shui Jian was trying very hard to restrain himself from not going up and killing this guy.

"Who has the thing? If possible, I hope you can give it to someone fast. We'll go ahead and open the passage, and the others will catch up later," Duan Shui Jian said with a blank face.

Gu Xiaoshang nodded, and an archer next to him came out. This archer was called Yuyi. He wasn't a particularly eye-catching character in Caiyun Jian, but when they were searching the Cloudtop Mine, he happened to dig up the thing, so he was put in charge of keeping it.

"What exactly is the thing?" Wushi Zhi Jian and the others still didn't know and couldn't help but ask.

As a result, even Gu Xiaoshang and Yuyi were shaking their heads. They still didn't know what the thing they got was.

"It's a part of an explosive device. There's an abandoned waterway here that's only separated from the outside by a wall. We can blow it up, and we can get inside," Duan Shui Jian said.

"Is that the place where Qianli Yizui entered from the bottom of the water?" Wushi Zhi Jian and the others asked.

Duan Shui Jian nodded.

"Where is that?"

"The water system hub of Cloudtop City," Duan Shui Jian said.

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The weather has been hot and cold these days. I hope the monthly tickets don't learn this spirit and maintain stability. Students with tickets can generously vote and let it maintain a sustained high temperature～