Chapter 133 Ambush

Gu Fei's simple act of logging off threw many people in Cloud City, big and small, into a state of panic. Han Jia Gongzi furiously ridiculed the situation in the mercenary channel, but no one dared to respond, as the tragedy of Yu Tian Shen Ming was still fresh in everyone's minds. Han Jia Gongzi pointed at Jian Gui, inquiring about their mission progress. Jian Gui feigned deafness and muteness. Han Jia Gongzi then scouted the resurrection camp to the northeast, but even Gu Fei couldn't find an opportunity there. After circling around, Jian Gui naturally found no chance to strike either.

But Jian Gui was not one to sit idle. So, he switched to another camp, attempting to instigate a brawl between the players and the camp NPCs, as he had done before. However, after the joke of infighting that had caused them to lose an entire camp, the players of Cloud City were not foolish enough to fall for that trick. Jian Gui pretended to make a scene, but was quickly exposed. Jian Gui was merely trying it out of boredom, not expecting much, and had already prepared an escape route. Before the others could encircle him, he used Mist Shadow Assault to break through and leave.

Jian Gui returned to the Assassin's Alliance within the city and received another assassination mission. It turned out to be another obscure small guild leader, so small that even You Ge didn't recognize the name, causing You Ge considerable embarrassment—his information was incomplete. Jian Gui ended up consoling You Ge for a while, and immediately canceled the mission. After canceling two missions in a row, the Assassin's Alliance issued a stern warning to Jian Gui, severely criticizing his undesirable habit of picking easy targets and avoiding difficult ones. Jian Gui didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

To punish Jian Gui, the Assassin's Alliance stubbornly refused to give him any more missions. Jian Gui wandered around Cloud City, but couldn't find anything else to do. So boring, so lonely! He played with the trebuchet on the city wall for a while, mixed in the battlefield to kill some people, Jian Gui played the game alone, so many players, but not one was his partner. This continued until morning, when the players were all exhausted. The city war wasn't like the sparring matches, held at fixed times each day. This event, announced to have officially begun last night, had no stated end time.

Most of those who had stayed up all night were hardcore gamers like Jian Gui, who were used to all-nighters. Many of those who had specially prepared to stay up for the city war couldn't hold on after midnight and retreated. Compared to the bustling scene at the four gates when the city war had just begun last night, the southeast, northwest directions now looked somewhat desolate.

The players who had battled all night weren't without gains.

At least the setting of a death limit had been discovered by the players. This occurred first at the south gate, where the fighting had never stopped. Because incidents occurred repeatedly at the north gate, many guilds who didn't want to get mixed up with the big guilds avoided it and chose the south gate, which was opposite the north gate. Even the Black Hand Syndicate, which had relocated later, chose to settle down in the south gate. No one proposed cooperation here, nor did anyone act like a big shot and try to lead. Everyone was spontaneously attacking the system, grinding away, and finally, some players found that they were declared unable to die any more times and were forced to withdraw from the city war.

This phenomenon spread like an infectious disease. After the first person, there was a second, and a third. The system was fair and impartial, and wouldn't target any particular guild for relentless killing. Countless players reached this threshold one after another. Among them, some players inferred the death limit by observing the time they spent in the resurrection camp after death and finally arrived at the death limit.

Twenty-five times. After a player died twenty-five times, the system would declare you completely dead and force you to withdraw from the city war.

This news undoubtedly caused panic among the players. No matter what the number was, as long as there was such a limit, it would cause anxiety. The number of players charging fearlessly on the battlefield suddenly decreased, and many people became cautious, even hesitant. The already disadvantageous battle situation became even more unbearable after this setting was discovered. By the time most players were preparing to log off and rest in the early hours of the morning, the siege players could be said to have suffered a crushing defeat.

"Log off and rest, come back as early as possible. The city war will probably only last a few days, so everyone will have to work hard for these few days." This was basically the kind of message that was heard in each guild. After the guild leaders said a few words before disbanding, everyone returned to the resurrection camp and logged off one after another.

Of course, the city war wouldn't completely stop there. The people who had been fighting all night logged off at this time, but those who had logged off on time or couldn't hold on in the middle of the night, after getting some sleep, were mindful of the important matter of the city war and rushed to come early in the morning.

The city war continued, but it was no longer the grand occasion of last night.

At this time, the city wars throughout the Parallel World were considered to have entered a phase, and there were already many discussions on the forums. After logging off in the morning, You Ge habitually made it a point to browse the forums. The official forum had specially opened a city war section for the city war event, which was now the most popular section of all. Players from the major main cities were discussing the situation of the city war in their respective cities.

You Ge liked to summarize information, and he originally intended to sort out and post the settings discovered in the first day of the city war, but he found that the settings, which had been posted piecemeal by players, had already been compiled into a post by someone with a heart, and this post had also been set as a highlight by the moderator, which was quite eye-catching, and the content was constantly being updated.

You Ge clicked in and saw that issues like the twenty-five death limit had already been included. All of the settings that You Ge knew about had been covered in this post. You Ge had nothing to add, and it was more like he was absorbing some knowledge that he didn't know from here.

Indeed, there is strength in numbers! You Ge sighed, but after a closer look, the settings varied from city to city and couldn't be generalized. Especially for main cities like Linshui City with special terrain, the city war was completely different from that of Cloud City. Their siege players were scattered on the surrounding water islands, launching attacks by boat from the waterways. The system was also deploying boats to fight on the water, which sounded quite interesting. But the players of Linshui City didn't think so.

Apart from this setting post, most of what You Ge saw in the city war section were players' tearful accounts of the city war. The battle modes of each city were different, but the results were extremely similar. All of them were beaten by the system until they lost their armor and abandoned their weapons. No main city saw any clear hope of victory. The most promising one was Sunset City.

The players of Sunset City made use of the dry riverbed that ran through their main city in terms of terrain and tried to drill directly into the main city from there. All the players in the city gathered here, not attacking the city gates, but attacking this riverbed, forcibly cutting the system's guards on both sides, resisting the system's pincer attack and stone throwing, and vowing to crawl inside.

But when they crawled to the front, they found that the shameless system had already blocked the riverbed. However, the players of Sunset City didn't give up. They believed that this was a way to win, and they were preparing to re-excavate this riverbed with one heart. According to the poster, by the time he posted, a big pit had already been dug, and everyone believed that they could dig through it sooner or later. This spirit of persisting in labor under the system's abuse received unanimous praise from the players who replied. Many main city players claimed that they would learn from this spirit and go back to dig walls as well.

You Ge regarded the matters of other cities as a joke. He searched through the sea of posts and finally found something about Cloud City. The post with the most replies made You Ge couldn't help but praise, Qian Li, oh Qian Li, you are so distinct and outstanding no matter when.

What the players of Cloud City were hotly discussing was the appearance of the defending player in their main city.

Defending players were not necessarily unique to Cloud City. Apart from Gu Fei and Jian Gui, the known players who had joined the camp were Apple Vinegar, Broken Water Arrow, and Xiao Lei. From this, it could be seen that the camp thing already existed. In the absence of clear prompts from the system, some people had still managed to mix into the camp due to luck.

But the problem was that these people were ultimately a very, very small minority. Like Xiao Lei, what kind of waves could a defending player like him make? He just listlessly swept the streets, picked up stones, and pushed a cart to deliver goods, which didn't attract any attention at all.

Only Gu Fei, single-handedly stirred up countless bloody storms. Across the World and Singing to Wine, the two largest guilds in Cloud City, were caught right in the middle of this bloody storm. The Cloud City player who posted this post didn't know which character he was, but in the post, he was relentlessly accusing Qian Li Yi Zui from the perspective of these two major guilds. The more you read it, the more you felt that this person should be a troll for the two major guilds?

Since the system had made Qian Li Yi Zui the setting of the defending side, then it wasn't excessive for him to attack the attacking players. What was there to accuse him of? It was just that he single-handedly defeated two guilds, which was a bit too powerful. But when did being powerful become a mistake? You Ge looked closely at the replies from the players and found that the players had no animosity towards Qian Li Yi Zui's actions; nor did they sympathize with the experiences of Across the World and Singing to Wine. What everyone was paying attention to was: How could Qian Li Yi Zui be so powerful? One person fighting a thousand, does this leave any chance for other players to survive?

"Could it be that this is actually a smear campaign against Qian Li?" You Ge pondered. From the final direction of the post, the players ultimately focused on Qian Li Yi Zui's excessive power and were indignant.

"Is this attack on Qian Li, using player opinion, orchestrated by that Harmonious Ghost?" You Ge thought of Ye Xiao Wu and his gang.

At this time in the game, the hardcore players of the big guilds had stayed up all night, and most of them had already logged off to rest. However, in Singing to Wine, a team led by Ni Liu Er Shang was still online. None of these people showed any signs of fatigue, but instead, they were very energetic.

They hadn't stayed up all night. During the hours of the night, these individuals took turns logging off to rest. Some rested more, some rested less, but in any case, their energy at this moment was far greater than those players who had stayed up all night and were still stubbornly holding on.

Facing the north gate, at the abandoned No. 3 camp, Ni Liu Er Shang gathered these 212 people from the guild. These were all core members of the guild whom he deeply trusted. Ni Liu Er Shang could call all of these 212 people by their names. They could be said to be the backbone of Singing to Wine. These 212 people might not have a perfectly balanced profession setup, but they had absolute guild loyalty. Ni Liu Er Shang believed that there wouldn't be any half-hearted slackers among these 212 people.

At this time, they gathered here precisely for the major task in the guild.

This time, Ni Liu Er Shang acted with complete caution. He didn't even speak in the guild channel. The 212 people were divided into three teams. Ni Liu Er Shang, Shan Zi Ling, and a mage named Hai Feng each led a team.

Ni Liu Er Shang, Shan Zi Ling, and Hai Feng stood together. The topics they discussed were directly transferred to the guild channel. If there were any opinions, they would reply back.

"Is this the place? Are you sure?" Ni Liu Er Shang said.

"Sure! I've confirmed with many people. It's here," Hai Feng said.

The three of them formed a triangle, and in the middle of them was an open space, an open space belonging to the former No. 3 camp. This small area had its function: saving offline data. Precisely because of this function, it was fortunate enough to become the place where Qian Li Yi Zui had stepped when he logged off. Thus, it was now being targeted by Ni Liu Er Shang.

Confront Qian Li Yi Zui head-on? Not to mention the danger, the key was whether they could find Qian Li Yi Zui to confront. Thus, taking advantage of Qian Li Yi Zui logging off, Ni Liu Er Shang got this good opportunity: directly waiting for him to log on at the place where he logged off and then directly ambushing him.

This was a situation that would normally be impossible. Because normally, the offline area was a safe zone, and contact was impossible, let alone ambushing. But now, the special thing about the city war was that there was no safe zone. Ni Liu Er Shang felt that this was the opportunity for them to eliminate Qian Li Yi Zui with the least loss. They couldn't miss it.

Of course, elimination wasn't actually his main purpose. Ni Liu Er Shang was still doing it for his mission. The mission on his body that was thirty miles away.

According to everyone's analysis, the plot of this mission required killing Qian Li Yi Zui in order to obtain the next piece of information from Ji Er Ji Nuo, or to directly obtain the mission item from Qian Li Yi Zui's death drop. To ensure nothing went wrong, Ni Liu Er Shang thought of this method. Qian Li Yi Zui's logging off was very eye-catching. He was the focus at the time. Ni Liu Er Shang and the others easily found out where he logged off. For the sake of certainty, they also verified it from many sources, and thus circled an area large enough for ten Qian Li Yi Zuis to log off.

Ni Liu Er Shang believed that there wouldn't be any more errors, so he led the players to carry out a careful arrangement of this coordinate area.

"Traps, place them, place all that can be placed, fill them up, so that he steps on them as soon as he logs on," Shan Zi Ling commanded.

"If he's caught in a trap, can he still teleport?" someone asked.

"I don't know..." No one knew the teleport skill.

"The distance of teleportation is six meters," Hai Feng said. "Let's take this area as the center of the circle, and stand in a circle with a radius of six meters. Mages, practice a bit. This radius of the circle, the range of the spell should be enough to cover and kill Qian Li Yi Zui."

"Wait, the traps are placed now. What if other players log on and step on them?" someone who was placing the traps thought of something.

"This... Better to kill the wrong person than to let one go?" Shan Zi Ling asked Ni Liu Er Shang.

"I have Qian Li Yi Zui's friend, and there will be a system prompt when he logs on. However, in case I'm negligent, or the order is given a little late, or everyone reacts a little slowly..." Since it was a major matter, Ni Liu Er Shang finally decided to be a little ruthless and nodded: "Let's do it this way. Kill anyone who logs on. It's probably not that coincidental. How many people can log off in this place?"

"These unlucky guys can also let us practice." Hai Feng's thoughts were even more cruel.

"Archers and mages are the main force of attack. Other professions stand by and respond to emergencies," Ni Liu Er Shang finally gave the general order.

"I believe there won't be any emergencies. In this way, he can't run away even if he wants to," Shan Zi Ling said confidently.

What followed was waiting. Warriors, thieves, knights, priests, and other professions could relax a little, but mages and archers had to be fully focused. No one dared to believe what the consequences would be if Qian Li Yi Zui reacted to a negligence. Respond to an emergency? Can they really respond to an emergency? There were only 212 people here... Success or failure lies in this one action! Everyone knew this very well.

"What time did Qian Li Yi Zui log off last night?"

"Probably around eleven?"

"Eight hours of sleep is not enough? Why hasn't he logged on yet?"

"He still has to eat breakfast, right?"

"He should be finished eating by now!"

"Could it be that he doesn't have a computer at home and has to run to an internet cafe?"

"Could it be that something happened and he's not logging on?"

"Why isn't he here yet?"

In the blink of an eye, it was already ten o'clock. After passing through the desolate early market at seven or eight o'clock, the game gradually became lively again. People who were regular with their routines basically chose to start logging on at this time. Logically speaking, Gu Fei should also appear at this time, but he never showed up. However, no one had logged on to the center of the circle until now. Instead, white light flashed from time to time in the six-meter radius area, and people logged on. Some were from the city war, and some were not from the city war, but they were all frightened by the sight of this formation as soon as they logged on. The people of Singing to Wine didn't say much, and just let them out of the way. The players saw that these people looked murderous, and no one dared to ask more questions.

At half past ten, another half an hour passed. Just as everyone was complaining, white light suddenly flashed in the center of the formation.

"Attention!!!" Ni Liu Er Shang shouted loudly to remind everyone. Everyone had been waiting for a long time, and they immediately went full power, tracking arrows, ranged spells, all at once. The sound of traps "Pa Pa" also sounded at the right time. No one saw who the person who appeared in the white light was, because the white light had already risen again, and the person was digested before his face was revealed. Only then did Ni Liu Er Shang quickly glance at his friend list. No, Qian Li Yi Zui hadn't logged on.

"Not him..." Ni Liu Er Shang announced regretfully, but found that everyone wasn't very dejected. They had been lonely for a long time. Killing someone who just came along was also an exercise! Everyone was excited for a little while, and then they cleaned up and reorganized.

In the blink of an eye, another half an hour passed. White light rose again, and Ni Liu Er Shang also felt as if he heard the sound of the system notification at the same time. He suddenly had a very wonderful premonition, but he still reminded everyone very seriously: "Attention!!!"

Still tracking arrows and ranged spells directly covered the white light of the person who appeared. Who was it? Still couldn't see clearly. The person had already disappeared, but Ni Liu Er Shang quickly looked at the system message and excitedly announced: "It's Qian Li Yi Zui, that's right!!!"

"Damn!!!" Everyone raised their arms excitedly. They had successfully killed Qian Li Yi Zui, although they used the most shameless method.

"Damn, you're so ruthless..." Gu Fei, who was sent to the resurrection point as soon as he logged on, was very embarrassed. He was hated to this extent. He was ambushed as soon as he logged on... Who was it? Gu Fei didn't even see anyone.

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Actually, I really didn't want to let Gu Fei die, but with such an ambush, I couldn't think of any way for him to escape...