Chapter 277 Bait

Everyone was stunned, including the eighty priests and the five-man damage dealing squad. Only then did they realize that everything had been a ruse. The plan of "priests building a Great Wall, killing guards inside" was just a facade. Qian Li Zui's real purpose was to lure the enemy into this one strike. That was why he had asked the damage dealers to distribute their attacks evenly among the four guards.

"So that's how it is. This guy isn't just about brute force!" Ling Gu Feng exclaimed from the sidelines. He was one who loved to watch the fun and didn't mind making things worse. He had originally thought that Qian Li Zui's plan had failed, but at this moment, the situation had taken a turn for the better, making him a little excited.

"Shameless!"

"Despicable!"

"Disgusting!!!"

The siege players erupted in curses, but no matter what, they couldn't stop the attacks they had already unleashed. The four guards were immediately engulfed in flames and pierced by arrows, dying a thorough death. At the same time, the system message that sounded like a death knell rang out again: Camp Four has been captured. Eliminate the intruders within five minutes, and the camp will be successfully defended.

The siege players then realized that things weren't over yet. They still had at least five minutes to salvage the situation. But... where was the target? The eighty priests had now all removed their masks, and no one could identify the target. Countless players began to curse, bitterly denouncing the fact that they had to rely on faces and badges to distinguish friend from foe in this adversarial situation.

All the priests frantically shook their badges in front of them, signaling to the other players that they were on the same side and shouldn't be accidentally attacked. This included the eighty priests hired by Gu Fei. But in this critical moment, the siege players wouldn't be too careless. They all used Appraisal on the priests, and the true or false badges were immediately exposed. Some people clamored to chop them down, but after chopping down a priest, they would revive in another location. Since they hadn't remembered the face, they had to appraise them again.

Gu Fei had already changed his equipment. He had specially equipped a thief's cloak. At this moment, he masked his face, wielded a dagger, and nimbly darted around the field, resembling a hunter searching for prey. He had lured the four guards into the attack range and sacrificed them heroically. He himself had used Instant Shift to escape. Now, he just wanted to get through these five minutes.

The priests who had been identified were being killed miserably. Ling Gu Feng sent a message to Gu Fei: "The real time these priests need to delay is these five minutes, right?"

"No," Gu Fei said.

"But now the siege players' firepower is all concentrated on them," Ling Gu Feng said.

"That's because they're being stupid. They're all reviving in the same spot, clearly indicating that they're either neutral or siege players. The defending players wouldn't revive in the same spot here," Gu Fei said.

Ling Gu Feng was stunned and said, "Then where do they revive?"

"At the city's revival point," Gu Fei said.

Ling Gu Feng smiled wryly, "This setting, only someone like you who has walked and died inside and outside the city would know. Players who only mess around outside the city probably don't know."

"There should be some people who know," Gu Fei said.

Gu Fei was right. There were indeed some people who knew this situation, and they finally reacted: "Stop killing randomly! Those who revive in the same spot can't be the intruders!!!"

In a chaotic guild organization, news always had to be passed from person to person, and who knows how long it would take for everyone to know. At this time, the person speaking didn't bother to explain and immediately came up with an idea: "All the people from the guild, withdraw from the camp!!! Quickly!!"

This idea was recognized by everyone after it was spread, and all the players nimbly withdrew from the camp. The eighty priests and the five-man damage dealing squad also took this opportunity to run away. At this time, no one paid attention to them anymore. All the players who had withdrawn from the camp stared intently at the field. The system alert had not been lifted, which meant that this person was still in the camp. Now that everyone had withdrawn, where could he hide?

The camp instantly became much emptier. Occasionally, white light flashed, indicating players who had died on the front lines and were reviving. Naturally, they couldn't possibly be the intruders. The players outside the camp looked into the camp and saw that the dozen or so tents inside were particularly eye-catching. There was no doubt that the intruders were hiding in them.

"There's no time, everyone hurry!" Someone shouted, and the players encircling the camp swarmed into the camp like a tide, each heading for the nearest tent.

"Not here!"

"Not here!"

"Not here!"

As one report after another came in, the system's countdown had already begun, and the siege players were sweating profusely.

"Not here!"

"Not here either!"

"We don't have it here either!"

"Damn it, how is that possible? Nowhere?"

All the players were dumbfounded. All the dozen or so tents were empty, but the system alert had not been lifted at all. While everyone was dumbfounded, the countdown gracefully entered the last ten seconds: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one…

The ruthless, unrighteous, and unreasonable system announced: The Siege Army's Camp Four has fallen. The camp is abandoned. This area will retain the offline archiving function, but it will no longer serve as a death respawn area.

"Damn!!!" A neat roar suddenly erupted from the wilderness outside Cloudrise City. All the siege players had received this system message. They really couldn't understand it. The siege guild had over eight hundred members. Even if they encountered city-defending players who were unlike those in other main cities, they shouldn't have been reduced to such a state. After the news of the siege camp being abandoned spread last time, Cloudrise City's players had already been ridiculed by players from other cities. This was a record. No main city in the entire parallel world had ever had the attacking side create such a mess. As a result, they broke their own record. Day after day, another revival camp in Cloudrise City fell.

"What are you all doing?"

"Worthless!!!"

"Trash!!!"

Each guild's channel was filled with inconsiderate scolding messages. After the system prompted that Camp Four had been attacked, almost all the guild leaders had sent reinforcements, thinking that this camp was ultimately different from the previous Camp Three, and there were four NPC guards who could help the players identify the target, so everyone didn't expect it to end like this. Now it was too late to say anything.

Ling Gu Feng was also very puzzled at this time. The revival camp was surrounded three hundred and sixty degrees. The only blind spots were those dozen or so tents. And when the siege army fully rushed in to search the tents, they found nothing. Where exactly did Qian Li Zui hide?

Ling Gu Feng couldn't resist the curiosity in his heart and directly sent a message to Gu Fei for guidance.

"It's very simple. At the beginning, I used a teleport scroll to create a coordinate in the camp. Later, when everyone withdrew, I did enter the tent, but I actually came out very quickly. It's just that I didn't walk out, but teleported out with a teleport scroll. Understand?" Gu Fei replied.

"So that's how it is!" Ling Gu Feng suddenly understood. It turned out that when everyone was searching the revival camp with wide eyes, Gu Fei blatantly teleported right in front of them. It's just that everyone regarded this sudden appearance as a brother who had died on the front lines. Gu Fei's cunning exceeded their imagination.

"I don't think anyone died 25 times, right?" Gu Fei asked Ling Gu Feng.

"No," Ling Gu Feng answered honestly. This battle actually happened very quickly. It wasn't so easy to die 25 times.

"Then, see you later!" Ling Gu Feng received Gu Fei's final reply. He craned his neck and tried to find this guy's figure in the crowd, but where could he find him? All around him were frantic and irritable siege players who wanted to kick anyone they saw. Ling Gu Feng, based on the principle of safety first, hurriedly left this place.

Gu Fei was actually quite busy at this time. He didn't just have to run away. The abandonment of Camp Four was announced to the entire city. However, for the defending side, it was a different story. Their version was: The brave city-defending guild Rebirth Purple Crystal captured the enemy's Camp Four. This area will retain the offline archiving function, but it will no longer serve as a death respawn area.

Everyone was stunned. The priests were sent back to the city, but Gu Fei didn't return. Many people sent messages asking him what he was doing. Gu Fei just replied with "wandering around." Who knew that this wandering around would turn out to be such a big deal. At this time, everyone who received the system's final prompt knew and sent congratulatory messages asking for details, making Gu Fei unable to find peace along the way.

"It's nothing. I just happened to hire a few more people and took down that camp," Gu Fei briefly described his actions, naturally triggering another round of praise.

"What's the situation in the city now?" Gu Fei finished asking.

"Hehe, the priests have all arrived. Will victory be far away?"

The arrival of the forty priests was very timely. At that time, the team of Colored Clouds led by Han Jia Gong Zi had discovered some members of Rebirth Purple Crystal and Excessively Awesome, and chased and followed them all the way. At the mailbox at the city gate, the two armies faced each other, and then forty priests descended from the sky. Excessively Awesome and Rebirth Purple Crystal steadily held the upper hand in numbers. Although the members' levels were uneven, the strength of top-tier elites such as Piaoliu, Xi Yao Wu, Gui Tong, and Jian Nan You was something that Colored Clouds did not have.

No matter how ingenious Han Jia Gong Zi's command was, he could not limit everyone's simultaneous eruption. What's more, Jian Gui, Jian Nan You, and even Yun Xiang were all good at commanding teams. Han Jia Gong Zi's advantage was not as great as when he faced ordinary teams. If it weren't for the fact that the members of Excessively Awesome and Rebirth Purple Crystal were really a bit miscellaneous and unskilled, they would have been completely suppressed long ago.

"I'm coming back immediately!" Gu Fei was still dressed as a thief at this time, running wildly in the battlefield. Behind him, in the already abandoned Camp Four, there was still a pile of people going crazy, wanting to drag out that intruder and devour him alive.

Han Jia Gong Zi knew that he had reached the end of his rope. From the moment the battle began, when forty priests suddenly joined the opposing team, Han Jia Gong Zi knew that his side had no chance of winning. It seemed that they could still hold on, but this was thanks to the opposing team's unfamiliarity. Besides, Qian Li Zui, this strongest combat force, had not yet appeared…

Han Jia Gong Zi patiently commanded and wore them down. Excessively Awesome and Rebirth Purple Crystal, after making slight contact with the other side, immediately implemented the strategy that Piaoliu had envisioned before: Warriors provide cover, mages advance with map attacks.

This was equivalent to an enlarged version of the cooperation between Jian Nan You and Huo Ran Yi. Jian Nan You led some heavily armored warriors and stood at the forefront of the team. They didn't need to do any attacking. All they had to do was provide cover, and their lives would be entirely managed by forty priests. But behind them were not only priests, but also a mage team that included elite mages such as Piaoliu and Gui Tong.

Colored Clouds had no mages left, so they couldn't do this kind of map bombardment. Han Jia Gong Zi could only command the archers to volley fire, while the captain retreated to buy time.

If it was purely archers, then of course they could easily create distance. But in Colored Clouds' team, there were also warriors, priests…

Kiting was impossible, and turning around to focus on running away was even more impossible. Because the opposing team didn't lack agile professions such as thieves and archers. Running away would only become points in the mouths of these professions.

Although victory was hopeless, it wasn't so easy to retreat safely.

Han Jia Gong Zi frequently commanded the battle in the channel, almost not letting go of a single detail. The channel was full of the instructions he issued.

Similarly, in Excessively Awesome's channel, it was also full of Jian Gui's instructions. He didn't let go of his own details, and he wouldn't let go of the other side's movements. These two old friends who knew each other extremely well could only rely on frequently changing instructions on the battlefield to prevent the other side from figuring out their intentions.

Both teams were going crazy, both were irritable.

The instructions were issued so quickly that they were dazzling. Everyone wanted to say: We are not robots. We won't immediately go down when you press down, and we won't immediately go up when you press up. If you quickly go up and down, a special move will come out…

In comparison, Jian Gui still lost by half a point, but this wasn't his fault either. It was just that his subordinates were not a skilled team.

Even so, Jian Gui's command still greatly restricted Han Jia Gong Zi's intentions. The deployment he wanted to make was more difficult than any of his usual commands. Jian Gui caused his deployment to be delayed, and no one would make up for his delay. And on Jian Gui's side, Jian Nan You seized the opportunity that Jian Gui had gained and led the warrior and mage cooperation team to fully spread out the formation.

The mages' flames spewed out frantically, and the entire street seemed to be burning.

Colored Clouds was ultimately unable to resist any longer. They constantly flashed white light, and people were constantly being killed and driven back.

Han Jia Gong Zi had already issued a new instruction in the channel: Retreat.

Only retreat.

Reviving from various revival points became a means of decentralization. After the players of Colored Clouds were reborn at the revival points, they no longer returned to join the battle and rushed towards the city gates closer to them.

There were no ambushes at the revival points. Han Jia Gong Zi was certain that the other side's numbers were not enough to set up ambushes at the revival points. The numbers on both sides were already similar, and that kind of tactic could only be used when the numbers were on top.

"Perhaps we'll meet again," Han Jia Gong Zi said to Jian Gui when he was killed.

Jian Gui smiled, "Soon."

He revived at the Priest Academy, and there were some of his companions around him. Han Jia Gong Zi and the others quickly rushed towards the nearest East City Gate.

"There are people at the East City Gate!!!" Who knew that after walking for a while, Han Jia Gong Zi received a report from a player who had arrived at the East City Gate first.

"What?" Han Jia Gong Zi was stunned.

"Although there aren't many people, but…"

Han Jia Gong Zi knew what he meant by "but". But they were all priests, and they had no combat ability. The other side's personnel might not be many, but stopping priests was enough.

"What about the West City Gate? How are you guys doing?" Han Jia Gong Zi found that decentralizing the retreat didn't seem so wonderful.

"We're running… but, people are already chasing us from behind…" The players in the West City Gate seemed like they wanted to cry. Thieves and archers, all the agile professions, were rushing towards their direction. Jian Gui and Xi Yao Wu, the two most terrifying thieves in the parallel world, one black and one red, were at the very front. Everyone could see them clearly.

The South City Gate couldn't be used. Han Jia Gong Zi had warned them early on, because the place where they started fighting was the South City Gate mailbox. Heading towards this gate was courting death.

What about the North Gate?

"We're about to get out!" The North Gate players were excited.

"Damn it!!" Obviously, something quickly happened that prevented them from getting excited.

"Qian Li Zui, it's Qian Li Zui! He's guarding the North Gate," someone shouted.

"He's not guarding the North Gate. It's just that he happened to come back from outside the city…" Han Jia Gong Zi said helplessly. The other side didn't guard the revival points. They chose to guard the city gates, using the characteristics and locations of the profession points reviving in the main city to make a very good deployment.

If it were him, this was probably all he could do, right? Han Jia Gong Zi thought.

"What do we do?" The channel was in chaos.

"Go to the city walls," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"Jump out?" Everyone was shocked.

"That's right."

"We'll fall to our deaths."

"We'll revive after we die," Han Jia Gong Zi told him.

"Wouldn't we be back then?"

"Leave the guild, jump out of the city, and we won't revive in the city," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

This was the only way, but it required giving up their status as defenders, which was not what they wanted. Keeping this status, they could still do many things. It was just a pity that the fact was, keeping this status, they would not be able to leave the city and would be repeatedly killed by Excessively Awesome and Rebirth Purple Crystal until they flew to the fifteenth district.

They had no other choice. The players of Colored Clouds changed their routes and climbed the city walls of Cloudrise City. Those who had not joined Xiao Lei's Tavern jumped off the city walls without hesitation. And those who had joined still had a last trace of hesitation: "What about Xiao Lei's Tavern?"

"Arrangements have already been made. Jump off your wall!" Han Jia Gong Zi said.

Leave the guild, jump off the wall.

Someone started it, and the others no longer hesitated and began to implement it.

"You don't have any problems, right?" Han Jia Gong Zi messaged Xiao Lei.

"No problem. But I still need to trouble you with one thing. Please say hello to Jian Gui and tell him that Xiao Lei's Tavern is no longer the one from Colored Clouds and has now officially resumed its status as a merchant guild," Xiao Lei said.

"Okay, but I can't guarantee how they'll see it," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"It's okay, Qian Li and Jian Gui are both reasonable people," Xiao Lei said happily.

So Jian Gui received a message from Han Jia Gong Zi: "We're withdrawing. The remaining people are the real people from Xiao Lei's Tavern."

"What do you mean?" Jian Gui replied in confusion, but the message was intercepted by the system. Jian Gui looked out and seemed to see figures on the city walls, constantly jumping off the city walls.

"It's over…" Jian Gui said in the channel.

"What's the situation?" Countless voices asked.

"They've withdrawn," Jian Gui said.

"How is that possible? We've sealed off all four city gates."

"They jumped off the city walls," Jian Gui said.

"Won't they revive back then?"

"They won't if they leave the guild," Jian Gui said.

"Xiao Lei's Tavern disbanded?"

"It doesn't seem to have yet…" Jian Gui thought of what Han Jia Gong Zi had said at the end.

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Another month has ended, and July is about to arrive, and a new half-year has begun… The monthly vote battle next month will obviously be extremely tragic. I hope everyone will support it more… cough, there are still more than ten minutes before the end of this month, so I specially posted it early to ask: Is the guaranteed monthly vote for next month ready?