Gu Fei and Sword Ghost met up at the city gate, but the three soldiers were nowhere to be seen. Gu Fei looked around but still couldn't find them.
"Where are the soldiers?" Gu Fei asked curiously.
"Did you say the wrong city gate?"
"How could that be, I'm not Immortal Emperor."
The Sword Ghost accompanied Gu Fei to walk around again, but there was no trace of him. He recalled, "I didn't see the three of them on the way back!"
"Where did they go?" Gu Fei scratched his head and opened the quest panel to see if there was any hint. He was stunned, "Ah, my quest failed."
"Failed?" Sword Ghost suddenly realized, "No wonder the soldiers are gone." Quest failure was also a form of quest ending. Of course, the soldiers couldn't always follow Gu Fei.
"How did it fail? Can't they die? "Gu Fei said.
"Maybe, look at the quest description." Sword Ghost said that under normal circumstances, a quest wouldn't fail because of a player's death. If it did, it would be stated in the quest description.
"It didn't!" Gu Fei looked at the description in the quest panel.
"Is it a special setting for the city war?" Sword Ghost said.
"That's possible …" Gu Fei could only agree with this guess. In the battle just now, other than death, Gu Fei couldn't find any reason to fail the quest.
"Go back to the place where you received the quest and see if you can still receive it." Sword Ghost said.
"Okay, I'll go take a look." Gu Fei responded and went to the Cloud Cloud City's council hall. The council hall was still the same. This time, Gu Fei entered the Guard with familiarity. At a glance, he saw the three soldiers who had fought side by side with him. At this time, they returned to their original position without a trace. Gu Fei called out to them, but the three didn't respond. It seemed that after the quest ended, the three soldiers returned to a state where they had nothing to do with Gu Fei. Gu Fei carefully searched the soldiers, but he didn't find the soldier who was sacrificed. Perhaps the system had replaced him with a soldier with the same appearance. In the end, these soldiers were just a bunch of data.
The captain of the Cloud Cloud City Guard saw Gu Fei this time, he didn't have the enthusiasm from before, and his face was very serious. Gu Fei went up to talk to the NPC, only to be scolded harshly by the NPC. Gu Fei hadn't expected this intelligent NPC to use Gu Fei's failure as an excuse.
Gu Fei could only patiently wait for the NPC to finish lecturing him. The NPC did not mind Gu Fei's attitude at all. After completing the "reprimand" procedure, he continued. He gave Gu Fei a choice: Do this mission again, or accept a new one.
Without hesitation, Gu Fei chose to try again. In the end, the system announced that it would not be easy to do it again. This time, the difficulty would increase.
Gu Fei was puzzled. This quest was a battle between players. The system had no say in the difficulty! The system couldn't care less. Should Singing and Wine send an expert or a noob to defend? As soon as the Guard Captain gave the order, Gu Fei understood that they had been waiting for him! In the previous mission, he had given Gu Fei four minions as helpers, but this time, he had given him three. With one less helper, his strength was naturally weaker, and the difficulty had increased from a subjective point of view.
But Gu Fei didn't care about this increase in difficulty. At first, he didn't think that he would fail the mission if he died. He had originally planned to bring the three minions back. Now that he had failed the mission, he had to come back to reclaim it. To Gu Fei, giving three minions was equivalent to running errands and wasting time. In his heart, he had long since thought that he had one less soldier.
And the soldiers sent each time were obviously random. Apart from their faces, the rest of the soldiers were dressed the same. Their skills and strength were definitely about the same. Gu Fei wanted to bring the three that he was already familiar with. He asked the Captain, but the Captain ignored him. It seemed that there was no such setting. Gu Fei could only lead the three new comrades out.
"I received another mission, but this time I only gave three minions. Look at his design. If I fail again, I might give two next time … "Gu Fei explained the situation to Sword Specter.
Sword Specter listened and said, "Since you can take another mission, why don't you change to another one? This mission … our strength is a bit weak. It's not easy to complete. "
Gu Fei felt that Sword Specter was speaking the truth. Although they had just killed thirty people from Dancing for Wine, they couldn't ignore the defenses there. When Gu Fei went back, the others would definitely gather again. If it was only for the mission, it would be better to change to another one. Maybe he could get an easier one. Moreover, when Gu Fei scanned the mission description again, he discovered that the increased difficulty wasn't just one less soldier. This mission was originally timed. Now that he was reclaiming it, the timer didn't start again. Instead, it extended the time that had passed. Gu Fei looked at his watch. Even the blank time after he failed the mission was calculated. He had already used up an hour. Now he only had one hour. If he failed again, even if he was given a third chance, it would be impossible to complete the mission.
"But I have an idea." Sword Specter said.
"What is it?" Gu Fei hurriedly asked.
"If the player dies, the mission will be declared a failure. If we use this setting, as long as we kill the player who received this mission, we can ruin their mission. That way, your mission will be considered a success." Sword Specter said.
"That makes sense." Gu Fei nodded. "But where can I find out?" Let alone the fact that he couldn't get in touch with the players over there, even if he could, Singing To Wine would have already spread the news.
Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter were enemies. They led NPCs to fight against the players.
This news had already been spread to every guild that Dancing for Wine worked with. Although everyone wanted to know more, Dancing for Wine's guild leader only knew that they were attacked by Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter. They knew that these two weren't part of the players attacking the city. Apart from that, they didn't know anything else.
This mission was unintentionally received by a normal member of Dancing for Wine. They accidentally found an NPC called Gilkino. It was said that he was a famous civil engineer. He was one of the designers and builders of Cloud Cloud City. By digging up information from him, they would be able to find a way to break through the siege of Cloud Cloud City.
Going Against the Current realized that this mission would greatly affect the outcome of the final city war. There would definitely be a lot of points, so he proceeded with caution. This was because he knew very well that due to the setting of the parallel world, there were a lot of things that happened in this game where players played dirty tricks or secretly sabotaged each other.
No damage immunity! It was precisely because of this setting that Countercurrent did not dare to leak this information. Otherwise, those competitors who were competing for points would definitely think of this. If they couldn't snatch the mission and get a share of the benefits, they would think of ways to ruin it.
After killing Gu Fei and Sword Specter, Going Against the Current handed over the command of this side to Mr. Han. Mr. Han was indeed a friend of those two, but he didn't go easy on them during the battle. Even though he had sacrificed a lot for Dancing for Wine, he still didn't fail the mission. Mr. Han's commanding ability was outstanding, and he knew those two very well. Going Against the Current felt that he was the most suitable candidate. Even if those two didn't come and they encountered harassment from other guilds, Going Against the Current felt that he was the most suitable candidate.
Going Against the Current didn't say much about his fight with Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter. He was afraid that the other guilds would notice that they were secretly doing this mission. However, even if he could hide it from others, he couldn't hide it from Unsworn Sword, who had long suspected that he was up to something. Since Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter were enemies, why did they have to go against Dancing for Wine? Was this really a coincidence?
Unsworn Sword's guess was quite astute. He quickly told his guess to Reflecting Time, who was paying close attention to Dancing for Wine.
Reflecting Time and his men had been searching around the west gate for a long time like a blind cat looking for a dead mouse. Under his intentional search, he actually found the depression that Dancing for Wine and his men were guarding. There were over a hundred players gathered here, and Unhindered and Singing To Wine were old friends. Reflection of Time could tell that there were quite a number of experts in the enemy's ranks, especially when he saw Young Master Han sitting at the edge of the crater, drinking wine. He panicked for a moment.
"Unsworn, I found it!!" Reflecting Time wasn't in a hurry to go over. At this time, he led a few people to a small forest nearby and looked around furtively.
"Oh? What's the situation? "Unsworn Sword hurriedly asked.
"I don't know the specifics, but Dancing for Wine has a lot of experts here. Moreover, I can see traces of a battle. It's very likely where Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter came from. Right, Mr. Han is here too. "Reflecting Time said.
"Mr. Han is here too?" Unsworn Sword was shocked when he heard this. "Thousand Miles Drunk, Sword Specter … Are they trying to trick us?"
Reflecting Time was also shocked when he heard this. The news that Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter were enemies was released by Counter Current, but they didn't provide any evidence. Every guild had asked Dancing for information. After all, every player had their own circle of friends, and they might know a few friends from other guilds. However, after asking, no one got any information … No, it should be said that only Reigning Four Seas didn't get any information. Even if the other guilds did get any information, they wouldn't share it with others, so everyone said that they didn't know. Reflecting Time pondered.
"Why don't you keep an eye on them? If Thousand Miles Drunk and Sword Specter come again, then it looks like it's true. We can think about it again. " Although Unsworn Sword had completed the guild chain quest, he had been taken advantage of from the start. Thinking about it, he had suffered quite a bit. In the end, it was thanks to the help of Young Master's Elite Group that he had completed the quest, but at the same time, he had seen their methods. Unsworn Sword had thought that Reflecting Time was quite resourceful, but now he understood what it meant by there was always a higher mountain! He was afraid. As soon as he had anything to do with Young Master's Elite Group, he wanted to be on guard.
"Unsworn … It's fine for us to wait, but think about it, Dancing for Wine is a quest. If we wait, once they complete the quest … From the looks of it, the importance of this quest won't be low. We won't be able to find a quest that's on par with them, so we'll fall behind. After that, we'll compete in killing enemies to earn points? Although our guild is strong, don't forget that Dancing for Wine's Mages are the strongest. If we're purely farming monsters, we might not be able to beat them. "Reflecting Time said.
"This … Then what do you think we should do?" Unsworn Sword said.
"Let's get someone else to do our dirty work! I'll keep an eye on them and not move. You spread the news to the other guilds. "Time Reflected said.
"Good idea!" Unsworn Sword's spirit was lifted. "Who should we tell? Cloud Central Mudi? That guy has been suspicious of Against the Current for a long time. He even told me about it before! "
"Then we can't look for him." Reflecting Time hurriedly said. "Since he's already realized it, he's pretty smart. Who knows what he's doing behind the scenes. We might not be able to hide it from him. Even if he's willing to help, he'll definitely drag us down with him. We can't look for him."
"Then who else can we look for? Black Index Finger? I suspect that guy is colluding with Against the Current. We can't rely on him! Xiao Shang? Who else can we look for? "Speaking of Gu Xiao Shang, Unsworn Sword didn't even give a reason. Did he even need a reason? Unsworn Sword didn't want Gu Xiao Shang to be the spear, and he was even more afraid of offending her.
Reflecting Time sighed. In his heart, Gu Xiao Shang was a pretty good candidate. But why did she have to be a girl? And why did Unsworn Sword have to take a liking to her?
Since the big guilds couldn't do anything, he could only look to the other guilds. Reflecting Time had already thought of a candidate. He then sent a message to Unsworn Sword. "Black Rose, what do you think of that guy?"
"Oh, he's …" Unsworn Sword knew a few normal players, but they did know quite a few guild leaders. Although Black Rose had been reduced to a meat pie and a laughing stock today, his guild, Spear and Rose, was still a Rank 4 guild. With Unsworn Sword's understanding of this person, as well as his enthusiasm for snatching points today, he was a good candidate.
"Oh, he, he's not bad." Unsworn Sword thought for a moment before replying.
"There's also White and Black. I think they're not bad either." Reflecting Time said.
"Him? His guild is pretty good! "Unsworn Sword said.
"That's right. And this guy just spent a lot of money to change his equipment before the currency update. He just wanted to change his color. But when the currency update came out, he was dumbfounded. Now he has nowhere to vent his anger!"
Unsworn Sword understood the meaning of Reflected Years. He meant that White and Black were currently in a stage where they had psychological problems and were more susceptible to provocation. If these two guilds worked together, they might not be able to contend against Singing To Wine, but it wouldn't be difficult to destroy Singing To Wine, which was just one of their missions. Even if there was a trap, the Four Seas Invincible Alliance could just watch quietly and reap the benefits.
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