Chapter 58 The Black Finals

The slow-paced cat-and-mouse game between the Young Masters Elite Group and the Splash Mercenary Group ended, and the other match in the competition was long over. The Black Hand Mercenary Group, recognized as the number one mercenary group in Cloud City by the Mercenary Guild system, had indeed made it to the finals.

Now, with one side named Black Hand and the other recognized as a dark horse, the finals were shrouded in a "black" atmosphere. Although the Black Hand Mercenary Group was the top mercenary group in Cloud City, they usually focused on diligently grinding tasks. Unlike the Four Seas Mercenary Group, whose members were elites from major guilds and had considerable reputations, Yu-ge found that he had pitifully little information about this opponent. He hurriedly sought out friends and scoured forums for information.

Gathering intelligence was when Yu-ge felt most useful in the Young Masters Elite Group.

The guild competition later received little attention. The main reason was the large difference in the number of members between each guild level. There were only two level-five guilds in Cloud City: Across the Four Seas and Drinking to Songs. Now that Drinking to Songs had been blacklisted by Rebirth Purple Crystal, Across the Four Seas, with its total of 750 members, could easily crush the remaining level-four guilds with their maximum of 500 members. A difference of 250 was easily surmountable.

At this moment, the system released the latest news: the two guilds and mercenary groups eliminated in the semi-finals would also compete on the final day to determine third place. The guilds and mercenary groups that won first, second, and third place would definitely receive equipment or item rewards that were previously only available randomly in the competition. As for the specifics... they were still random.

The competition date was also moved to three days later: this Saturday. This was a rare instance of the system showing some humanity. After all, it was a competition to distribute rewards, and no one wanted to miss it. Holding it on a weekday would deliberately inconvenience those who had work in the evenings and couldn't participate.

The guilds and mercenary groups were all engaged in tense preparations, as the random rewards were absolutely not to be missed. In contrast, the Young Masters Elite Group remained the same as always. It wasn't that they were aloof or didn't care, but rather that they were a small group of six, with extreme mobility. Getting the six of them together to discuss something was as easy as eating and drinking. For a guild like Across the Four Seas, gathering 750 people for a meeting was not so easy.

It was Thursday, and Gu Fei logged in with a sense of depression to the north gate of Cloud City.

Why was he depressed? During his physical education class that afternoon, Gu Fei felt that the atmosphere was off the moment he stood in front of the students' ranks. The aura they exuded towards him was completely different from usual. In short, there was a strong sense of bloodlust.

After teaching a class in this strange atmosphere, Gu Fei was surrounded by more than 20 students, both male and female, talking all at once.

"Teacher, join our guild!"

"Teacher, take us leveling!"

"Teacher, take us on quests!"

"Teacher, I'm so poor, give me some money!"

"Teacher, do you have any unwanted equipment?"

Gu Fei's head was spinning from all the shouting. Other students were surprised to see their Gu Fei teacher receiving such enthusiastic treatment. After asking around, they learned the reason and muttered, "Even the teacher plays? Then I should try it too!"

Gu Fei noticed that many of them were the kind of students who treated the teacher's words as gospel and followed everything the teacher said. In the traditional sense, these were absolutely good students! If they all followed him and ran off to play online games, and their parents asked, they'd nonchalantly say, "I learned it from Teacher Gu." Would he be in for a good time?

Gu Fei wasn't afraid of fighting, but these troublesome matters couldn't be solved by fighting. The chaotic situation made Gu Fei miss the "Fire Tree Thousandfold Flames" in the game for the first time.

"Stop shouting!" Gu Fei finally didn't lose himself in the surrounding voices of "game" and remembered his identity. He remembered that this was reality, not a parallel world, and instantly put on the air of a teacher.

Students never dared to make a sound when the teacher was angry, at least not in the group Gu Fei was facing.

"Don't you have homework to do at night? Playing games!" Gu Fei reprimanded with the full authority of a teacher. However, these words didn't quite sound right coming from a physical education teacher, but the students still subconsciously lowered their heads in repentance.

"All of you, run ten laps around the track!" These words were more appropriate coming from a physical education teacher, and half of the students immediately felt weak in the legs. The school's standard track was 400 meters per lap, so 10 laps was 4000 meters, four times the distance of the middle school sports achievement long-distance running event. The long-distance running event at a typical school sports meet was 3000 meters, and only students with great confidence and perseverance would participate. At 4000 meters, some girls were already tearful.

"Teacher, you're not joking, are you?" Someone asked timidly.

Gu Fei was, of course, joking. The students had classes later, and 4000 meters would take too much time. He immediately waved his hand and said, "Run two laps first, then hurry to class."

The students went off with tears in their eyes. Gu Fei stood by the track, watching them with dignity, not urging them to speed up. The entire Final Three Class of the Cloud City Guild in the parallel world was now working hard together on the track. The unity of this guild was so strong that it didn't need to be reiterated.

This wasn't an exam, so there was no need to run too fast, but under the teacher's gaze, they didn't dare to walk or stop. After eight hundred meters non-stop, they were exhausted. Especially for the girls, who cried and demanded that the boys run another lap.

By this time, the onlookers had dispersed, and Gu Fei was left with only the students of Final Three Class. Seeing their expressions of wanting to die but not quite, Gu Fei felt a surge of compassion and waved his hand, "Wait for me at the city gate tonight!"

This unexpected turn of events surprised the students, followed by cheers. How many guild leaders had searched for Gu Fei's in-game name a thousand times in their dreams? But it was too easy for his students to find out. The account name was given by A Fa. After the students asked, they checked the mage level rankings. Level 40! It was simply too high for these students. Whether from an entertainment or a practical perspective, it was a good choice to win over the teacher, which was why the students were so determined.

Now that their goal was achieved, everyone was naturally overjoyed.

Seeing that Gu Fei was about to leave, A Fa, who had been playing games for a long time and had more experience, caught up with Gu Fei and asked very vigilantly, "Teacher, which gate?"

"You talk too much, go run another lap!" Gu Fei said.

"Ahhh!" A Fa was a weak student who was the opposite of a good student. He was already half-dead after running two laps. Another lap would really kill him.

Fortunately, his question had reminded the other students, who quickly surrounded him to ask for the specific location. Helpless, Gu Fei agreed to meet at the north gate.

Having made a promise to the students, there was no way to escape it. At most, they wouldn't see each other in the game but would see each other in real life. This was called being unable to escape even if you were a monk. Helpless, Gu Fei arrived at the north gate at the agreed time, but not a single student showed up.

Gu Fei was furious.

The teacher didn't ditch you, but you ditched the teacher.

According to the usual train of thought, he should definitely call himself "Laozi" here, but since he was facing students, he should change it to be more like a teacher! Anyway, it was just a difference of one character. Gu Fei was constantly reminding himself that if he really called himself "Laozi" in front of the students, it wouldn't have any deterrent effect. Instead, the students would probably think he was more approachable. This was really a problem.

Playing online games with students? "囧" was the only word for it. Gu Fei cursed the author a thousand times in his heart, "Can't you stop writing nonsense?" (Author: I'll let you know who's more NB ~; Gu Fei: I'm defeated...)

Ahem, back to the story. It was already past the agreed time, and the students still hadn't shown up. Gu Fei waited patiently for a while, and finally saw the students running over from various offline areas one by one.

The explanations were varied.

"My mom told me to wash the dishes!"

"My dad was playing Dou Dizhu and made me wait a little longer!"

Gu Fei was speechless. How close to life and easy to understand! When he told Jian Gui and the others that he had to log off because he had to go to class, their expressions were so strange!

The students added Gu Fei as a friend one by one. For the leaders of Cloud City, an excellent opportunity was missed. From 7:00 PM to 7:17 PM that night, Gu Fei's friend request switch was never turned off.

"Ahem, stand in formation!" Gu Fei said in a deep voice after the students were all present. Unfortunately, there were no whistles in the game. Using his fingers to snap? Too gangster-like. Be a teacher, be a teacher!

"Wow, teacher, no way, that's too embarrassing!" The students protested.

Was there anything more embarrassing than calling someone "teacher" in the game? Gu Fei continued to tear up, but he had no other measures. Calling the students by their first names, even if it was just their IDs, was too disrespectful; calling them "Drunk Bro" like Fireball and the others... was even more embarrassing than calling them "teacher." Gu Fei had the idea of embarrassing everyone together, and insisted that the students stand in formation.

The students hesitated. Gu Fei's face darkened, "If you don't stand in formation, you'll run eight laps next class."

The students quickly stood in formation. Gu Fei counted the number of people, exactly 24, four rows of six columns.

"Didn't my physical education representative come?" Gu Fei scanned the crowd, not paying attention to anyone in the afternoon.

"No, teacher. This number is just right. There were only 21 people to begin with. Three more came after class this afternoon. Look, those are the three. That makes exactly 24! If there's one more..."

"If there's one more, we'll stand in five rows. If there are 21 people, we'll stand in three rows. What do you mean 24 is just right, A Fa, you idiot!" A student retorted.

A Fa felt wronged! How would he know that a group of people had to stand in formation in a game? He didn't count the number of people with that in mind.

Gu Fei was troubled to hear that three new classmates had indeed been attracted in the afternoon. What should he do now?

＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝

The update is here. Everyone has been waiting for a long time, sorry! Actually, Hu Die has also been waiting for a long time... Finally, I can ask for votes: Please vote for monthly tickets!!