"The message says that it's very troublesome. Do you want to meet up?" Yan Xiaozhu asked.
Gu Fei thought that Yan Xiaozhu seemed to know more about the situation and was about to ask if she had the time to meet up and talk about it. Since she took the initiative to bring it up, he was more than happy to oblige.
The matter they were looking for was related to the government office, so the two arranged to meet outside the government office's main gate so that it would be convenient to explain on the spot.
This gate was the main gate of the government office's compound. There were two guards on both sides of the gate. The compound did not prevent players from entering and exiting as they pleased. The only place that required permission was the government office building in the compound. Gu Fei arrived at the gate first and looked around to make sure that Yan Xiaozhu was not there. He then stood in the middle of the gate and waited quietly.
Before he could see anyone, he heard someone's voice. However, the voice did not come from Yan Xiaozhu himself. Gu Fei suddenly heard a light, pitter-patter sound coming from the fog. Just as he was trying to guess what the sound was, he saw Yan Xiaozhu walking out of the fog while kicking a pebble. The sound came from the pebble rolling on the ground.
Yan Xiaozhu continued to focus on her task. She had already arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, but she still did not raise her head. She continued to 'roll' her pebble until it rolled to the feet of someone and was stepped on. Only then did Yan Xiaozhu raise her head to see Gu Fei.
"Ah, you're here first!" Yan Xiaozhu said.
Gu Fei nodded. She's a talent! He thought to himself. This was the conclusion he came to from a professional point of view. Just by watching Yan Xiaozhu "roll" the stone for thirty meters, he felt that the girl's lower body coordination was quite outstanding. She was a good seedling for martial arts. Of course, it was just a thought. Gu Fei looked at people with a professional eye. He had seen countless "good seedlings" in his life.
"Tell me what you know!" Gu Fei went straight to the point.
"Take a look." Yan Xiaozhu led Gu Fei into the compound and pointed at a group of players in the southeast corner of the compound. "Do you see those people?"
"I see them." Gu Fei nodded. They looked like a group of bored people. It was a good time in the game, but instead of leveling up, doing quests, running for money, or farming for equipment, these people squatted in the corner, bored to death. The expression on their faces told everyone: I'm bored.
"They're from Flowers in the Fog." Yan Xiaozhu said.
Gu Fei knew of this guild. Shi You had introduced it to him when he first arrived at Xia Wu City. It was the largest guild in Xia Wu City. He had forgotten the name of the guild leader, but he seemed to be a Warrior. Gu Fei thought about this information and nodded.
"What do they have to do with Giordano?" Gu Fei asked.
"It's like this," Yan Xiaozhu said, "This was originally a reward quest that the Misty Flowers guild received after they won the previous tournament. The quest asked them to look for an NPC named Giordano in the government office. Because the quest in the game could lead to a battle at any time, even though it wasn't explicitly stated in the quest prompt, they were still worried that Giordano would turn into a battle boss after a few words. That's why they gathered a lot of people from the beginning and found quite a few high-level players in the city to help. I was just one of them, "Yan Xiaozhu said.
"Oh, what happened next?"
"After that? Then we all saw Giordano and heard the task he had given to the man in the fog. He said that the government office was short on manpower and hoped that the Misty Flowers guild could help out and take on some of their work. He left after saying that, "Yan Xiaozhu said.
"What kind of quest is that?" Gu Fei asked as he wondered if this had anything to do with assassinating Giordano. Because from what happened in Moonlit Night City, the parallel world couldn't simply be described as a game. In some ways, it was also a world with progression. The incident between Gu Fei and the Werewolves in Luminous Village was a good example. Gu Fei's solo quest chain was actually related to the guild quest Reigning the Four Seas, which had nothing to do with him at all. This seemed to explain a few things.
"I'm not too sure about the specifics, because the people we invited had already left. After that, the people in the fog have been doing it themselves. I heard that the quest has some sort of progress, and every day they complete something, the progress will increase. In the beginning, even cleaning the courtyard and pulling out the weeds will increase, but after that, the number of tasks they can find will decrease. There's no point in doing something like pulling out weeds repeatedly, so they can't find anything to do. Even now, it hasn't reached 100%, and they're still wasting their time! "Yan Xiaozhu pointed at the group of people.
"There's such a thing!" Gu Fei wiped his sweat. He originally thought the Reigning the Four Seas quest was troublesome enough, but now he knew that there was something even more inhumane here. At least the Reigning the Four Seas quest had a clear goal to complete, but the Xia Fog City quest had some sort of completion rate, and there was no specific information about what to do. Seeing that the group of people were bored to death, Gu Fei said, "So they have something to do just by squatting there?"
"That's not it! I heard that their quest originally had a chance of reaching 100%, but one day, a newbie came out of nowhere and wandered around the game without knowing anything. He even wanted to barge into the government office, but he was punished by the guards on the spot. At that time, the group of players in the courtyard were watching the show, but when Giordano came out to announce the progress of the quest, he criticized them for not protecting it well enough, and the progress was deducted by 10%, which pissed them off, "Yan Xiaozhu explained.
"I see." Thinking of this, Gu Fei glanced at the group of people in the corner, and suddenly realized a huge problem. He said in surprise, "Wait, why is there no fog in this government office building??"
Gu Fei said as he looked back. Outside the government office building, there was still a thick fog, but inside the building, everything was clear, without the special style of Xia Fog City.
Yan Xiaozhu nodded. Normally, people would look down on people for taking so long to realize this problem, but Yan Xiaozhu did not. This was because she had made the same mistake the first time she came here. For a native who did not train in this city, she was very used to such a clear world, so she often took a while to realize this problem.
"There's a reason for this," Yan Xiaozhu said, "Didn't you notice that the fog in Xia Fog City is lighter than outside? It's said that this city has special fog thinning equipment, and this equipment is in this government office building, so the fog in this core area is almost completely gone. "
"What kind of equipment is it?" Gu Fei had never heard of fog dispersing equipment, so he asked purely out of curiosity.
"Who knows, maybe it's four old wizards controlling a giant energy crystal?" Yan Xiaozhu said.
Gu Fei quickly dispelled his curiosity and continued to ask the important question, "You said that Giordano would announce their quest progress to them every day, which means that he will come out of the government office every day?"
"Yes." Yan Xiaozhu nodded, "What quest do you have for him?"
Gu Fei did not say anything. He did not even know if this counted as a quest, because it was not shown in the quest list. Moreover, he was not very familiar with Yan Xiaozhu, so he did not plan to tell her.
However, Yan Xiaozhu was obviously still young and had not yet developed the ability to read people's thoughts and body language. Seeing that Gu Fei did not make a sound, she pretended that he did not hear her and asked loudly again, "What mission do you have?"
"Oh, I'm looking for him. I haven't decided what the quest is yet," Gu Fei said.
"Oh, you're looking for him to issue a quest? Then just greet the people who are looking at things through the fog and talk to them when he comes out, "Yan Xiaozhu said.
"I have to greet them?" Gu Fei was surprised. He felt that NPCs were public property.
"Isn't it because of what I said just now? After the news spread, some of the enemy guilds who were looking at things through the fog started to cause trouble. They would purposely find people to break into the government office and so on. Even if they were looking at things through the fog, they did not dare to be careless, so they kept a close eye on the players who entered this building. Didn't you notice that when we came in, those guys in the corner were still the same, but their gazes were always on us? "Yan Xiaozhu said.
"Yes, and there were Bandits hiding outside the gate, and now …" Gu Fei looked around, "It seems like there are archers aiming at us."
"This was originally the largest trading area for players in Xia Fog City, but because of this quest, there are no players here at all!" Women loved to shop, and now that Xia Fog City did not have its original shopping street, Yan Xiaozhu's tone was full of complaints.
"Yes!" Gu Fei casually replied. He did not care about these things, but he realized that if he wanted to assassinate Giordano, there were still quite a few obstacles. Not to mention the players who were looking at things through the fog, even without their existence, there were quite a few NPC guards in this building. If he wanted to kill Giordano here, he would have to use Brother Ma's dual pistols to shoot, and it was definitely not an assassination.
If it was just a player, Gu Fei would not be able to do so, but normal players might not, so how could he not understand the strength of the system guards? In front of these guys, Gu Fei had to restrain himself. This matter still had to be considered at length.
"Okay, let's go first!" Gu Fei felt that he already understood quite a bit, so this trip was worth it.
"Uh, when will Giordano come out? I can help you find out," Yan Xiaozhu said.
"Thank you!" Gu Fei said.
When the two of them turned around and prepared to leave the courtyard, they saw another group of people walk out of the fog. Yan Xiaozhu immediately pouted, "Look, that's the guild leader of Looking at things through the fog, Three Sighs of Flowing Maple. If you can directly greet him, that would be great."
"Huh!!" Just as she finished speaking, Yan Xiaozhu cried out in surprise, "Isn't that big brother Drifting?"
Gu Fei had already seen that the person walking into the courtyard with Three Sighs of Flowing Maple was the number one mage of the parallel world, Drifting. Of course, this was under the condition that Gu Fei did not think of himself as a mage.
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