Chapter 124 An Empty Fortress

Standing in the pit and staring at the sky, Shuxia Wangtian was extremely distraught. He had thought the trap was foolproof, and even Gu Fei had been lured in, but who knew he would escape again like this? This man's strength was truly beyond common sense; how could anyone run through a encirclement by stepping on people's heads like that? It was completely unreasonable.

Now, Gu Fei had entered and exited their ranks twice, each time using only a few spells, but he had managed to take a large number of lives with him. Shuxia Wangtian's guild, Shuxia Youhun, didn't have many members to begin with, and they couldn't withstand Gu Fei's torment. It looked like after two more rounds, they would be almost completely annihilated.

However, Shuxia Wangtian wasn't afraid of death. What he was actually worried about now was that he hadn't managed to kill Gu Fei. He felt that Gu Fei was so persistent mainly because his task was located in this area, which was why he had the patience to deal with them here. If they killed him, his task would fail. Even if he came back to retaliate a few times, that would be just to vent his anger. Would he still be in the mood to continue endlessly? To put it bluntly, it was a two-way task arranged by the system. Everyone should understand each other while scheming and tricking each other! Insisting on a lose-lose situation was not the mark of a mature player, and an expert player shouldn't act like that even more.

That was how Shuxia Wangtian understood it, so he was quite helpless at the moment. He couldn't set up any traps of martial force suppression to deal with Qianli Yizui. It wasn't easy to use emotional tactics to lure someone into a trap the first time. Shuxia Wangtian had acted like a grandson to the point where he was about to throw up, but in the end, he had acted like a grandson for nothing, and now he was about to be beaten into one. Shuxia Wangtian felt truly wronged.

"Guild leader, he's coming again!" a subordinate ran over to report with a mournful face.

It was the third time; Gu Fei had charged up again. Shuxia Youhun no longer had any assassins lurking outside, and Shuxia Wangtian couldn't arrange any tactics to fight Gu Fei. He gritted his teeth and said, "Stall for another round! Don't all rush at him."

Everyone obeyed, and as they watched Gu Fei reach the edge of the pit, they scattered. They didn't look like they were going to fight at all; they were just standing apart waiting for Gu Fei to kill them. Gu Fei naturally used Twin Incineration, killing one with each strike, but now that they were standing apart, he could only kill one at a time at most. However, if he didn't use magic attacks, the priests would immediately heal them, and he would be stuck in a stalemate with them.

"Shameless!!" Gu Fei said indignantly.

"I'll help you." This time, Liu Yue stood up bravely. He also had a lot of combat experience. Seeing that Gu Fei's targets were constantly being healed by priests, he immediately spotted where the healing priests were and rushed up to attack them, interrupting their healing. The people of Shuxia Youhun were furious; what was this little assassin? Did he think he was Changshan Zhao Zilong? A few couldn't hold back and came over with their weapons, wanting to dismember Liu Yue, but Gu Fei instantly teleported, used Twin Incineration, and wiped them out.

"Don't move!" Shuxia Wangtian calmly commanded, "You, heal him." Shuxia Wangtian pointed to another priest, wanting to create a chain of healing. With the support of a healing priest, it was basically impossible to kill the target unless the difference in strength was too great.

Shuxia Wangtian was clearly going to be shameless about it. At the same time, he was quite annoyed, wondering why he hadn't done this in the previous two rounds. Gu Fei had come and gone too quickly, and his thinking couldn't keep up! Besides, he had underestimated this person's destructive power!

Shuxia Wangtian's strategic intention was very obvious. Anyway, they were just standing there, waiting to be killed. You couldn't kill anyone without using magic, and if you used magic, you could only kill four at most. Seeing Gu Fei's helpless expression, Shuxia Wangtian suddenly felt a bit like a victor. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Brother Qianli, don't mind! There's nothing we can do; we're forced into this by the two-way task. We're all being forced."

"Forced by your mom!" Liu Yue shouted. He was also very unhappy. Following Gu Fei into the pit, no one paid any attention to him. Everyone was nervously staring at Gu Fei, watching his every move. Although some had been irritable and wanted to attack him earlier, that only showed his low status. When Gu Fei stood there, people didn't even dare to approach! Now that the guild leader had given a strict order not to move, Liu Yue had really become a nobody. When he went up to stab a priest, the priest glanced at him contemptuously out of the corner of his eye. Insult! It was simply an insult.

Gu Fei saw that he couldn't get any results by hacking and slashing, so he stopped helplessly. He heard Shuxia Wangtian's words and thought that there was some truth to them. People were also trying to complete the task, which was why they had schemed against him. The system's two-way task was the main culprit. Everyone was trying to complete the task. Gu Fei was using force, and they knew that force was no match for him, so they had to use strategy. Although it was disgusting, the starting point was still the same.

Gu Fei nodded towards Shuxia Wangtian, thinking, "Then don't blame me either."

Shuxia Wangtian smiled, putting on a very understanding expression.

There were several simple tents in the pit. Gu Fei walked through the crowd as if no one else was there, going from tent to tent. What surprised him was that Shuxia Wangtian and his subordinates didn't move at all. They were all smiling at him.

Gu Fei walked through several tents in confusion, and then he understood: Jierjinuo was no longer here.

The tent that Gu Fei had teleported into earlier was the one that Jierjinuo had been in before. But when he went in, there was no one there. Gu Fei thought that Jierjinuo was also moving around randomly, doing things in other tents. Now it seemed that Jierjinuo had never changed tents, and Shuxia Wangtian knew very well that everyone knew which tent Jierjinuo was in, which was why there was such a trap. All the arrangements in this pit were just a facade. They were performing an empty fortress stratagem. The real Jierjinuo had already gone elsewhere with the development of the task. This task was definitely Shuxia Wangtian's content, but Shuxia Wangtian deliberately set up a defense line here to focus everyone's attention here. In fact, their task was not being carried out here...

"Well done, you played that beautifully!" Gu Fei said to Shuxia Wangtian.

Shuxia Wangtian smiled, "There's nothing we can do; we're forced into this. We're a small guild; if we want to complete a task in this situation, we can't do it without using some tricks."

As soon as he said that, more and more voices rang out outside the pit. Liu Yue's spirits lifted, and he said to Gu Fei, "Our people are here."

After saying that, Liu Yue suddenly became depressed again. Why? Why would he be excited when the guild's people came? Was he expecting the guild's strength to support him? Wasn't his ambition to be an assassin who roamed the world alone?

Liu Yue was conflicted. He realized that his ambition seemed to have wavered a bit. He looked for the reason, and then he found it... It was because he had found someone to compare himself to, and the problem was that he couldn't compare at all, not now, and not in the future.

Liu Yue stared blankly at Gu Fei, with envy and jealousy in his eyes. More and more people were appearing outside the pit, and it wasn't long before it was full. Gu Fei looked up and quickly spotted Niluo Ershang.

"Where's Yin Feng?" Niluo Ershang had a lot of presence. He spoke directly, without using his own eyes to find people in the crowd below.

Shuxia Wangtian smiled again, "So it's Guild Leader Niluo's arrival."

"Who are you?" Niluo Ershang asked.

"I'm Shuxia Wangtian," Shuxia Wangtian said.

"Oh, you're Shuxia Wangtian." Niluo Ershang had also heard this name. What he knew about Shuxia Wangtian was the version passed down by You Ge: a small guild leader with a lot of energy, suspected of being a pay-to-win player.

"I am." Shuxia Wangtian smiled, "I don't know why Guild Leader Niluo has brought so many people here. What's the matter?"

"Where's Yin Feng? Tell him to come out and talk to me," Niluo Ershang said.

"Yin Feng? I don't know, who's that?" Shuxia Wangtian asked.

"Playing dumb?" Niluo Ershang sneered, "Let's not beat around the bush. I'm just asking you, did Yin Feng join your guild with a task?"

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Let's not talk about this Yin Feng first, Guild Leader Niluo, you don't seem to have studied the game rules very well! Can a player bring out the guild's task after leaving the guild?" Shuxia Wangtian said.

"You don't have to take advantage of the loopholes in my words," Niluo Ershang said, "Yin Feng discovered the task, didn't accept it first, then left the guild, joined you, and then accepted the task. I'm not wrong in saying that, am I?"

"Well, that sounds a little more reasonable," Shuxia Wangtian nodded.

"So where's Yin Feng?" Niluo Ershang said.

"I said I don't know. Guild Leader Niluo, there are so many guilds in Yunduan City. Why did you come to me specifically after a member left your guild? Don't you think large guilds like Zongheng Sihai are more suspicious?" Shuxia Wangtian said.

"It seems you're going to be stubborn to the end," Niluo Ershang coldly raised his staff. Outside the pit, countless staffs were raised above people's heads.

"Wait!" someone in the pit suddenly raised their hand to speak.

Niluo Ershang looked over and was surprised, "Brother Qianli?"

Gu Fei was a typical example in interpersonal relationships: as long as you have enough strength, everyone will warmly call you brother.

"It's me," Gu Fei said.

Then Liu Yue saw a message from Niluo Ershang in the guild channel: "Liu Yue, why didn't you say that Qianli Yizui is here?"

"Ah..." Liu Yue was stunned. Indeed, he seemed to have forgotten to mention this to the guild. It was as if after Qianli Yizui appeared, he was so flustered that he didn't know what to do, and even forgot his original mission here.

"You guys go ahead, I'll leave first." Just when Niluo Ershang thought it was going to be a bit tricky, he didn't expect Gu Fei to say such a thing.

Niluo Ershang was of course overjoyed. They had a thousand people, so they wouldn't be afraid of Gu Fei alone if they really fought. But the problem was that Gu Fei's terribleness was precisely that he was alone, and his strength was tyrannical. If they really offended him, he could come and harass them whenever he felt like it, which was really hard to defend against. Plus, with Zongheng Sihai as a warning, Niluo Ershang really didn't want to have any conflicts with Gu Fei. So he was frowning at first, but when he heard Gu Fei's words, he was really happy and quickly told the guild members to make way.

Gu Fei walked calmly through the crowd, but seeing so many people only hoping that he would leave early, and looking at the people of Shuxia Wangtian in the pit with hateful eyes, Gu Fei felt really sad.

What was this? According to the rules set by the system, they should have been allies, and he was their complete enemy, right? But what about now? Because there was no direct conflict of interest with him, Niluo Ershang let him leave without even thinking, and tore their faces to bite each other for the sake of competing with other guilds for city war points...

Was the system's setting really the culprit? Gu Fei didn't think so. Just like his view on cheats, it wasn't the cheat that was wrong, it was the people who used the cheat. Even the people who made the cheat weren't the root cause. It was these people who used the cheat that gave the cheat the soil to survive.

The more Gu Fei thought about it, the more suffocated he felt. He suddenly drew his sword, chanted Twin Incineration, and swung it in a circle. The thousand people of Dui Jiu Dang Ge had made way for Gu Fei, and they made way to wherever Gu Fei went. The surrounding area was still quite crowded. With this sword strike, at least ten people died. Everyone was shocked. Niluo Ershang received the news immediately. A crack quickly opened in the crowd, and Niluo Ershang stood face to face with Gu Fei in the middle.

Gu Fei looked at Niluo Ershang, "Guild Leader Niluo, are you mistaken? Actually, I'm your opponent."

"Brother Qianli, what do you mean by that?"

"Nothing much, it's the system setting, have you forgotten?" Gu Fei said.

"But, the system setting is dead, and we people are alive. We Dui Jiu Dang Ge don't want to treat Brother Qianli as an opponent," Niluo Ershang said.

"Hehe, that's not right, is it? Before, in this area, I also fought with your guild. Jierjinuo, wasn't that also your relevant task?" Gu Fei said.

Niluo Ershang's mind suddenly moved, "Our task failed, did you do it?"

"Oh? Failed?" Gu Fei didn't know until now!

"The task person was killed instantly by someone hidden in the tent. Was that person you?" Niluo Ershang said.

"Hmm? I don't know about the task person, but I did kill someone instantly in the tent. I thought it was self-defense!" Gu Fei said.

Niluo Ershang hated Gu Fei to death in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face at all. He even squeezed out a smile, "It seems it really was because of Brother Qianli. Alas, but it's okay, the task has failed anyway, so there's no point in pursuing it."

"Don't be like that, I welcome you to pursue it," Gu Fei said.

"You..." Niluo Ershang was really helpless now. This person was really annoying. He didn't take the stairs when they were offered, and insisted on stepping on their noses. And even if he stepped on their noses, he wouldn't get angry, he would just step on their noses and wait for them to turn hostile.

Endure it? Not endure it? Niluo Ershang gnashed his teeth.

Shuxia Wangtian in the pit didn't know what was happening. He had been waiting for Dui Jiu Dang Ge to blast them into a pile of ashes, but he saw that all of them were standing there as if they were frozen, and they were all turning their heads.

"What's going on?" Liu Yue, the only Dui Jiu Dang Ge member in the pit, asked in the guild channel.

But no one had the time to pay attention to him. Those who could use their eyes were all looking at Niluo Ershang, waiting for his instructions. Those who couldn't use their eyes were like Liu Yue, who didn't know what was happening.

The atmosphere was completely frozen. But Gu Fei looked indifferent, while Niluo Ershang was entangled again and again. Finally, someone in the guild couldn't help but ask, "Guild leader, should we kill him or not?"

"Guild leader, let's kill him! What's so scary about one person?"

"What do you know? It's not that we're afraid, it's just that this person's ability to stir things up is too strong, and he's alone. City wars don't cause you to drop levels. If he gets entangled with us, it'll be a pain in the ass."

"There should be a limit to tolerance!"

"That's right, if we give him any more face, he'll really think we're afraid of him."

"Let him stir things up if he wants. He won't lose levels if he dies, and neither will we, right? How many can he kill at once? Can he run away after killing us?"

"That's right, let's kill him!"

"Guild leader, let's kill him!!!"

Niluo Ershang saw that the public opinion to kill Gu Fei had gained the upper hand. He didn't want to make the decision anyway, so he decided to let the minority submit to the majority democratically. He immediately gave an order in the guild channel, "Kill!"

Compared to Gu Fei, this order was given quietly, but with Gu Fei's observation skills, it was impossible to escape his eyes when these people were about to move. Suddenly discovering that countless people around him were acting strangely, knowing that what he had been waiting for had finally arrived, Gu Fei raised his hand, "Instant Teleportation."

Gu Fei disappeared from the ground, and Gu Fei appeared on top of people's heads. Gu Fei used the same method that he had just used on Shuxia Youhun again.

"Don't blame me, who told you to stand so close?" Gu Fei thought, running.

Niluo Ershang was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. Gu Fei's intention was clearly to provoke them to kill him, but when the fight started, he turned around and ran away. What did this mean? How exactly did this master want them to serve him?

"Chase, send out fifty thieves and fifty archers. Shanzi, you lead." Niluo Ershang ordered, this time he was determined to fight Gu Fei to the end.

"Yes." The player assigned by Niluo Ershang took the order. Shanzi Ling, Dui Jiu Dang Ge's number one assassin, one of the top ten thieves, had always been decisive. The number of people Niluo Ershang arranged was said to be two groups of fifty people, but he didn't bother to argue about it. He sent a message in the guild, "Join me, let's go."

Many people voluntarily applied to join Shanzi's team. Shanzi Ling accepted them while chasing out, inviting thieves and archers into the team as he saw them. Before long, he had gathered almost a hundred people. Gu Fei had also broken through the encirclement by stepping on heads. Looking back, he saw the opponent's crowd tearing apart, and a professional speed team of thieves and archers chasing after him like wolves and tigers.

"That's more like it." Gu Fei really couldn't stand these guilds only knowing how to fight among themselves. It was really too ugly.

"Guild leader, what about this side?" Someone asked Niluo Ershang how to deal with Shuxia Youhun's side.

Niluo Ershang was in a very bad mood now. Shuxia Wangtian was stubbornly refusing to admit it, and they couldn't possibly get the task back. If they couldn't do it, then they wouldn't let others do it either! Niluo Ershang thought hatefully in his heart, and waved his hand, "Annihilate them."

The mages chanted, and countless fire wheels and fire trees were thrown into the pit, instantly rising into a sea of fire. Even Liu Yue didn't have time to escape.

"Damn it!" Liu Yue, who was reborn in the camp with Shuxia Wangtian and his group, was very indignant. He didn't believe that none of those people saw him. He could sacrifice himself, but someone should have said something! Liu Yue was really disappointed in the guild, so he decided not to tell the guild that important piece of information. He had also seen it: all the arrangements in the pit were just a facade. This task was already progressing to the next step.