Chapter 20 Secret Passage

Everyone stared at each other, wide-eyed. They had fought their way through, not paying attention to the guy behind them who was just moving his feet forward. As long as they followed the route arranged by the Han family's young master, even if he was a fragile mage, he wouldn't need protection, right?

"Where is he?" The Han family's young master glared at the buyer who had been chatting and laughing with Gu Fei all the way.

"We accidentally attracted a monster on the road, and he blocked it to let me go first," the buyer said.

That was normal enough, but it was unusual that he hadn't arrived after so long. They had been clearing monsters all the way, so no matter what, Gu Fei shouldn't be slower than them, right?

"Could it be that after he finished fighting the monster, the small monsters on the road had respawned?" You Ge said.

The route that required five top experts to coordinate to advance was indeed not something a mage could break through on his own.

"Let me ask him!" Seeing the beautiful face of the Han family's young master turn ashen, Jian Gui quickly opened a message to contact Gu Fei. If what You Ge said was true, they would have to go back and pick him up again. After this journey of cooperation, everyone was already a little tired, and this time they would definitely be holding feelings of annoyance and complaint, so it would be difficult to say whether they could cooperate smoothly at that time.

Everyone stared at Jian Gui with an expression that said they wanted to vomit blood. Who knew that after Jian Gui sent a few messages, his eyes widened more and more, and finally he walked to the mechanism and opened the stone door.

With a creaking sound, the stone door slowly lifted upward.

And Gu Fei, just like that, slowly appeared in front of everyone's eyes from the bottom up.

His left hand was holding the long knife that a mage shouldn't be carrying, and his right hand was carrying a package. He had a calm smile on his face, and looking at them, he said cheerfully, "Why are you guys so late!"

The group stared at him blankly, forgetting to speak. Gu Fei stepped out of the door, and with a flick of his hand, he threw the package in his right hand into the buyer's arms, saying, "What you wanted."

The buyer took it and looked at it, his surprise increasing a bit.

The Han family's young master and the others were even more dumbfounded until Jian Gui asked, "What exactly happened?"

"I found a secret passage over there. I called you guys, but you didn't have messages turned on. I took the secret passage, and it led directly inside. And then, I killed Suo Tu and brought back his head!" Gu Fei said.

"How did you kill him?" The Han family's young master looked incredulous.

Gu Fei waved the knife in his hand towards the Han family's young master.

"How is that possible!" The Han family's young master waved his hand and knocked the knife aside. As he spoke, he walked inside, and the others followed closely behind.

On the square, Suo Tu's headless body was still lying there tragically. The Han family's young master, who had seen Suo Tu once, said the first thing after coming up, "Why isn't Suo Tu wearing clothes?"

Everyone looked at him with strange eyes. Frankly speaking, people who saw the appearance of the Han family's young master would subconsciously have some doubts about his sexual orientation.

The Han family's young master ignored everyone and muttered to himself, "He wasn't like this last time!"

Gu Fei spread his hands, indicating his ignorance, and just said, "Anyway, his upper body had no defense at all!"

"Oh… I see!" Everyone was somewhat enlightened.

In their understanding, if it was a unit without any defense, then the mage's damage would be quite amazing. The mage was a ranged damage dealer, and Suo Tu, apart from that big move, only had close-range attacks. This Gu Fei must have used some unknown method to bug the monster or other means to grind Suo Tu to death.

However, Suo Tu's body did have knife wounds all over it. But maybe he had scratched them on after Suo Tu died. It seemed he didn't want people to know his special mage gameplay, and holding a knife in his hand was also just a pose.

That's what they all thought. Only Jian Gui looked at Suo Tu's body somewhat absentmindedly.

"Where is the secret passage you mentioned?" the Han family's young master asked. Since they felt that Gu Fei was hiding his gameplay, the experts were too polite to ask about the process.

"This way!" Gu Fei led them forward.

With the combined strength of the group, the stone was pushed open, and Gu Fei happily said, "Then we can go out from here, and we don't have to kill monsters along the way."

The experts were now a little dispirited and silently followed Gu Fei into the secret passage.

Arriving at the exit, they pushed open the iron plate on top, and the little blue monster who had previously held the key did not reappear. This place was not far from the cave entrance, and it didn't take long for them to return outside the cave.

"Mission accomplished!" the Han family's young master announced.

The buyer nodded, and without saying a word, took out a money bag from his pocket and handed it over.

The Han family's young master took it, opened it, took a look, and nodded, saying, "The money is correct. As for the other things promised, I hope you also abide by the agreement."

The buyer nodded, his face carrying an excited expression, "I will definitely do so. Your mercenary group's strength is really unquestionable. I didn't understand what was going on until now."

"What did you say?" the Han family's young master asked.

The buyer smiled, "Don't hide it from me. You guys were feinting to the east and attacking in the west, right? You guys held back the small thieves outside the cave, while Brother Qian Li went into the secret passage alone to solo the Boss. You seemed to say that Suo Tu would summon his minions, but at that time, you guys were blocking the gate, so the small thieves couldn't get in at all, giving Brother Qian Li the environment to solo the Boss. You guys even pretended not to know about the secret passage. Hehe, actually, you don't have to do that. I won't tell anyone your gameplay. Even if I did, how many people are like Brother Qian Li who can solo the Boss?" The buyer said, looking at Gu Fei with an admiring face.

"What are you talking about?" Gu Fei was confused.

"Hey! It's nothing, nothing. I'll definitely look for you guys again if I need anything in the future. I'm leaving first!" The buyer gave Gu Fei a thumbs up and turned to go down the mountain.

"What was he saying?" Gu Fei asked the experts.

The experts all felt quite awkward. The Han family's young master coughed twice, "Ahem, did anything good drop from killing Suo Tu?"

"Nothing!" Gu Fei said, "I only found two money bags in his room." As he spoke, Gu Fei took them out and handed them to the Han family's young master.

The Han family's young master was stunned, but in the end, he took them and waved to the others, "Let's go back and split the money."

The others responded with "Oh, oh," but anyone could hear how listless the "Oh" sound was, not at all like they were going to split the money.

Little Lei Bar had become the group's base. Returning to Cloud Piercer City, everyone was silent and unwilling to speak, tacitly heading straight there.

Little Lei seemed to be quite familiar with them and waved to point out an empty private room.

The group went in and sat down. The Han family's young master stretched out his hand, and the gold coins from the three money bags were poured onto the table with a "哗啦啦" sound. Compared to the many players who were still working hard for dozens of silver coins, this pile of gold coins could be said to be a huge fortune.

"How should we split it? Everyone, give your opinions," the Han family's young master said.

No one spoke. As far as Gu Fei was concerned, of course, it would be divided equally, but he didn't know if there were any unwritten rules among these online game experts, so he didn't speak. As for the other five, it was all because of Gu Fei's actions this time. Sneaking in through the secret passage and soloing Suo Tu, it seemed like what they had done was dispensable. They hesitated whether to take the money or not.

"Speak up! Why isn't anyone talking!" The Han family's young master himself had no idea, so he just pushed the problem to others.

"Let's split it equally!" You Ge said. The Han family's young master was a little surprised. Although what they did seemed useless, they had wasted a lot of time and effort. No one was willing to give all the money to Gu Fei without taking any, but to really say they should split it equally, they needed to have some nerve. And the one who proposed this plan needed even more nerve. After all, they were famous experts in the online game world! Their skills were important, but convincing people with virtue was also necessary.

As soon as You Ge said this, Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. So it was just splitting it equally, nothing fancy! He immediately echoed, "Split it equally! Split it equally!"

When the others saw Gu Fei's words and expression, they felt that he didn't seem to be mocking them, and they began to waver. After all, this was a rare fortune these days.

In the end, the Han family's young master stepped in and divided the money equally into six portions. Then, he grabbed a few coins from each portion and threw them into one pile. After that, he pushed the pile in front of Gu Fei, "You contributed the most this time by soloing, so take more."

"Really? Then I'll take it!" Gu Fei didn't stand on ceremony and immediately reached out and stuffed the pile into his Doraemon pocket. After finishing, he patted his clothes and stood up, saying, "Alright, I'm leaving!"

"Leaving? Where to?" The others were stunned.

"Logging off! I have to go to work tomorrow!" Gu Fei said.

"Oh! Go, go!" The others were a little speechless.

"See you later!" Gu Fei waved to the others and turned to leave. It was true that he was going to log off, but not for work tomorrow. Gu Fei would never be like an ordinary player who spent all his time in the game. He had never missed his three boxing sessions every day, morning, noon, and night. It was time to go boxing and exercise his body.

Gu Fei left, and the five experts were still staring at each other, no one making a move to take the money on the table.

In the end, the Han family's young master was the first to move, picking up a gold coin and playing with it while smiling at You Ge, "You Ge, not simple!"

"How so?"

"I was really embarrassed to say the words 'split it equally,' but you're amazing!" There was still some sarcasm in the Han family's young master's words.

You Ge smiled, "Are you mocking me? Actually, I really think splitting it equally isn't too much."

"Oh?"

"What that guy said before was actually reasonable. I think it was indeed because we were clearing monsters in front of the door that Suo Tu summoned his minions, but no one went to his side, creating the environment for Qian Li to solo."

The Han family's young master thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right, that battle was a bit of a mess. I thought the system had adjusted to spawn more monsters. Now it seems that it was actually Suo Tu inside who issued the summons, and the small thieves swarmed towards us, but we happened to block them. Fortunately! Fortunately, I had several flawless healings, otherwise, we might have been wiped out! Hahaha…"

The others had strange expressions. But most of them showed admiration for Jian Gui. It was hard for him to form a golden partnership with this kind of person.

"So, splitting it equally isn't too much. Even if there's a little bit… didn't you give him more just now?" You Ge said at this time.

"Reasonable, reasonable! Come, everyone, take the money!" The Han family's young master called out, and everyone took their share and put it in their pockets, but the atmosphere still didn't change much.

The entanglement over money was a small matter for these experts. What really bothered them was that a player had done something they couldn't do.

Soloing the Boss? The others were secretly thinking about this question, and what followed was only a wry smile: Don't mention being shirtless with no defense, even if I took off my pants and had no defense at all, I still couldn't beat him!