Gu Fei teleported to the top of the wall. The wall was thick and wide, and Gu Fei stood steadily on it. Looking around, the fog was thick behind him, and in front of him was a bright courtyard. Gu Fei hurriedly lowered himself. He did not want to be discovered so quickly. Then, he heard Yan Xiaozhu, who was still hanging in the air, roar, "Pull me up."
"I'm a Sorcerer! I don't have the strength. "Gu Fei sighed.
"I have the strength to pull someone up, and I'm not heavy." Yan Xiaozhu gritted her teeth. She was probably the first person to use all her stamina in the game. Currently, she was suspended in midair, unable to move up or down. She was unwilling to slide down, and listening to the carefree tone of the fellow who had used teleportation to float up, Yan Xiaozhu really wanted to pounce on him and bite him. Why bite? Did Yan Xiaozhu have any other strength besides talking?
"Let me try! Don't struggle, "Gu Fei said, his hands already gripping the rope.
Gu Fei knew what he was doing. Although he was weak as a Sorcerer, he still had the strength to pull the girl. The reason he had teleported up the last five meters was to conserve his stamina and pull the girl. Gu Fei did not have the mentality of letting someone hang in the air and watch them make a fool of themselves. Only a son of the Han Family would do such a despicable thing.
Then, he exerted strength with both hands and pulled Yan Xiaozhu up. After the girl came up, she immediately lay flat on the wall, panting heavily. It wasn't easy to feel so tired in the game.
Gu Fei was not much better off. His stamina was also in the single digits. He was not as unsightly as Yan Xiaozhu, who was sprawled on the ground. He simply sat quietly to the side, but his heavy breathing revealed that he was very tired.
Yan Xiaozhu finally recovered after panting for a while. She turned to look at Gu Fei and saw that he was carefully putting away the two sets of hooks. Yan Xiaozhu was curious about this and asked, "Where did you get this?"
"I made it myself," Gu Fei said.
"You made it yourself? How? "Yan Xiaozhu asked.
Gu Fei glanced at her and raised the hooks in front of her. "Find something like this, then find a rope this long and tie it together. In theory, the stronger the rope, the better, and the heavier the hook, the better. "
"I'll get one too when I get back," Yan Xiaozhu said.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Play." Yan Xiaozhu's answer was not very meaningful.
Gu Fei ignored her. After putting away the two sets of hooks, he took out a pen from his pocket and a notebook. He flipped it open and placed it on his lap. His left hand fumbled around in his pocket for a long time before he took out a pair of binoculars. After looking at the time, he began to observe.
"You … what are you doing?" Yan Xiaozhu could not understand Gu Fei's actions, nor could she understand why he had so many strange items.
"Let me take a look at the NPC activity patterns here," Gu Fei said.
“NPC？ Patterns of activity? "Yan Xiaozhu looked down in confusion. She could see the areas that were closer without the use of binoculars. There were only two types of NPCs in the government compound: the guards who stood still, and the guards who walked back and forth.
"You said that Giordano will come out one day to update them on the progress of the quest. Do you mean one day in real life or one day in the game?" Gu Fei asked. These were naturally two completely different concepts. One day in real life was 24 hours; in the game, if one day was counted as black and white, it would be 6 hours.
"This … I'm not too sure!" Yan Xiaozhu said.
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon enough," Gu Fei said.
"You're looking for Giordano, what quest do you have?" Yan Xiaozhu felt that something was wrong.
"Assassinate him," Gu Fei said.
Yan Xiaozhu's jaw dropped, and after a while, she asked, "Where did you receive this quest? What's the reward? "
Most normal quests in the game would tell the player what the reward was before they accepted it, so that the player could choose. For example, a Thief would obviously not accept a quest that rewarded a staff.
Gu Fei did not say anything. He took out Andrew Sue's diary and threw it to Yan Xiaozhu.
"Andrew Sue's diary," Yan Xiaozhu read out the item. "What is this? And who is Andrew Sue? "
"It's the Boss that's been on the headlines for the past two days," Gu Fei said.
"Misty Assassin!!!" Yan Xiaozhu cried out. The Misty Assassin had been on the headlines for the past two days. As players of Xia Wu City, they naturally paid more attention to it because it happened right beside them. Two of Yan Xiaozhu's friends were victims of the Misty Shadow Assassin's rampage yesterday. According to their descriptions, they didn't even see the shadow of the assassin. They only felt a gust of wind blow past them, and then they died.
This was naturally an exaggeration, but it also showed how terrifying the Misty Assassin was. So even after the game officials announced that it was a bug, there were still many people who were concerned about the Misty Assassin's fate. Unfortunately, the game officials didn't give an explanation. Everyone guessed that the system must have discovered the bug and killed the Boss.
The wind of speculation had only just begun, but Yan Xiaozhu had already seen the Boss's item, which made her feel surprised. At the same time, she couldn't help but be surprised because she had already flipped to the first page and saw the self-introduction of the Misty Assassin. This could only be the work of the system. How could a player be so bored as to write something like this to tease everyone?
"This thing, where did you get it from?" This was something that Yan Xiaozhu was definitely suspicious of.
"The Misty Assassin dropped it when it died." Gu Fei said.
"How did it die?" Yan Xiaozhu asked.
"I killed it." Gu Fei said.
"I don't believe it! The Misty Assassin's level is so high, yet you killed it? "Yan Xiaozhu continued to be suspicious.
"Of course, it wasn't just me. There was another friend who teamed up with me to finally kill it." Gu Fei said.
"Friend? Who is it? "Yan Xiaozhu thought of the two that were together with Gu Fei, the one that didn't look very serious. Although they were also famous experts, the real person was quite disappointing. This was Yan Xiaozhu's impression of Imperial God Ming and Zhan Wu Shang.
"Hundred Years of Statecraft." Gu Fei only said the name and didn't introduce it too much because there was no need. Only a newbie wouldn't know the name of Hundred Years of Statecraft, which was one of the top five.
As expected, Yan Xiaozhu knew the background of this character. Looking at Gu Fei, for some reason, a poem appeared in his mind, "There are great scholars who talk and laugh, there are no commoners." When it came to Gu Fei, it naturally meant that the characters around him were always top experts. From those two guys, to Drifting, to Hundred Years of Statecraft, and then to the character that he chased after …
Jiannan You had lost another level yesterday. No one knew which busybody had dug this up. He was no longer one of the top five, and he was far from being one of the top ten idols. Jiannan You didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he was still being followed. In any case, the news of him losing another level was spread across the entire game. After hearing the news, Strange Pupil and Yan Xiaozhu concluded that it was definitely Gu Fei's doing.
Yan Xiaozhu already knew enough about the diary's history and asked, "Then why are you showing me this?"
"Look at this." Gu Fei reached out and flipped through the diary. He flipped to the part where the Misty Assassin recalled his 187th mission, which was the part about Giordano.
"Oh!" Yan Xiaozhu suddenly understood. "You received the mission from here."
"What's the reward?" Yan Xiaozhu immediately asked. For players, the final goal of the mission was the reward. That was the motivation for them to complete the mission.
However, Gu Fei was different. He came to do this because he was interested in the mission itself.
"What? There's no reward? It's not shown in the mission list? "As expected, Yan Xiaozhu was shocked after hearing the truth." Then why are you still doing it? "
Gu Fei thought about it and answered, "To play."
Yan Xiaozhu had been defeated. What a powerless reply.
"Then now you …" Yan Xiaozhu began to understand Gu Fei's current actions. "You want to understand the actions of the NPCs below and find a chance to kill Giordano?"
"Yes!" Gu Fei nodded. "The NPCs' actions are all step-by-step. There's a pattern to it. It's very simple."
"That's true, but even if you find a way to kill him, you can't make a single mistake if you really want to do it. Even a second of error can lead to failure!" Yan Xiaozhu said.
Gu Fei was shocked when he heard this, because he had just heard similar words. It was from Andrew Sue's diary, and there was a passage that he once lamented: "A single second of misremembering can be fatal to an assassin."
This sentence was very similar to the situation he was currently in. Could it be that the diary was hiding some hints about his current mission?
"Is it really that clever …" Gu Fei muttered in his heart. He had just read the diary not long ago, and it was still fresh in his memory. Other than this sentence, Gu Fei could not think of any other hints. Could it be at the back? Gu Fei thought. There were still some contents at the back of the diary that Gu Fei had not read yet.
"I should first complete the task at hand!" Gu Fei retracted his thoughts and continued his observation. In the courtyard below the wall, he carefully memorized the position of every NPC guard. He also recorded the movement range and speed of every patrol guard in his notebook.
These were all preparatory work. Other than recording, Gu Fei could not analyze anything else. This was because he had to know when Giordano would appear, so that he could combine the situation of the guards at that time to find an opportunity to attack. Therefore, he had been paying close attention to the entrance of the city hall. Giordano was bound to appear from there. The time he appeared, the route he took, and the pattern of the positions of the other NPCs when he moved. This was the information that Gu Fei needed to truly grasp. What he had collected now was only the basics.
"Hey!" Yan Xiaozhu sensed something else. "Don't tell me we're going to have to stay here for six hours?"
"That depends. Six hours might not be enough." Speaking of this, Gu Fei was also very troubled. Today was the day off, but this mission could not be completed so quickly. Did he have that much time to play the game?
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[Butterfly Knot: The high wall under my feet, the fog behind me, the prey in front of me, the girl beside me … Gu Fei's life, has anyone thought about it?]
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