Chapter 121 The Most Effective Method

Gu Fei's own method was, in fact, still about finding people. Finding a person, and through them finding another – this was the most simple and effective way to find someone.

Of course, the person Gu Fei wanted to find wasn't Can Mengsi. Given his current relationship with Can Mengsi, he was sure that if he wanted to go east, Can Mengsi would point him west. If he said he wanted to find so-and-so, Can Mengsi would tell him that so-and-so's entire family had perished in the Ice Age.

The person Gu Fei wanted to find was Xi Xiaotian.

Xi Xiaotian had once said that she was involved in some black-eat-black deals within this group, and Gu Fei had never used her as a human resource. Thinking back, he realized that he actually knew quite a few people in the game, from all walks of life. Recalling the complex expression on Jian Gui's face when he met the wretched guys from Flowers In Full Bloom, Gu Fei fell silent again for a long time.

He hadn't been one to have many friends growing up. His main energy had been focused on martial arts, and he'd never attended a regular school. This kind of life offered almost no opportunities to meet outsiders. When he got older and began to come into contact with people in martial arts circles, kung fu was already in decline. Even a martial arts family like the Gus barely had anyone practicing it, let alone others. The circle was incredibly small. Meeting someone was difficult, meeting someone of the same age was even harder, and meeting someone of the same age who he got along with was harder still. Even if he did meet someone, they were usually far apart, and they'd spar briefly before parting ways.

It could be said that Gu Fei had spent his twenty-five years accompanied by kung fu, walking a solitary path. Even now, teaching at the school, he only had ordinary colleague relationships with the other teachers. For Gu Fei, no one truly shared a common language with him.

Now, in the game, everyone shared a unified common topic: the game.

Besides that, it was clear that the leaders of the various guilds regarded conquering the world as a common language with Gu Fei, and they were all pulling strings to get him to join their ranks.

Then there were those who saw women as a common language, regarding Gu Fei as an idol and hoping to learn from him – the members of Flowers In Full Bloom.

There were also the experts of the Young Masters Elite Squad, each a leader in this world, pulling him along to scorn the masses with an arrogant attitude.

And then there were the women of Rebirth Amethyst, who enjoyed chatting about gossip. Gu Fei had once been the core subject of their gossip.

All these were mixed together haphazardly. Besides these, there was Coward Savior, who could talk about kung fu with Gu Fei, although his level was too low, and Gu Fei could only talk while he listened. The two of them were like teacher and student, and there was no discussion-like exchange. And then there was Xi Xiaotian, this girl who, like himself, suffered from the inability to fully express her talents in reality.

Although hers was deception, and his was kung fu…

But why did those two words rhyme? Gu Fei spaced out.

While arranging to meet Xi Xiaotian, Gu Fei casually glanced at his friends list. His students were starting to come online one after another. When the last name lit up, Ah Fa, the student representative, immediately began to summon Gu Fei. Other scattered voices also chimed in.

Take on quests, power-level, anything that could be taken.

Give money, give equipment, give scrolls, give anything that could be given.

Gu Fei could tell that these students were usually squeezed hard by their teachers, and they were seizing this opportunity to ruthlessly exploit him. Yesterday, gathering them together, having them line up, shout slogans, and do goose steps – such embarrassing things hadn't deterred them…

"Have you all finished your homework?" Gu Fei asked casually.

"Teacher, it's the weekend!" the students cried out, waving their arms and legs. He wondered if they had some private plan to extort Gu Fei severely over the weekend.

Gu Fei was calm. He didn't take these things in the game too seriously. They were his students, after all. There was nothing wrong with letting them take advantage of him a little. But now, he'd already given them all the equipment yesterday, and he didn't have any money. Power-leveling? There were over twenty of them; there wasn't any place where over twenty people could level up together. As for quests… there was never a concept of "taking" a quest. It was mainly running errands. If they encountered a battle they couldn't win, they could call for help. What help was there to offer with errands? Hmm, someone like Yu Tian Shen Ming, a super-clumsy person when it came to directions, would need to be guided. As for the others who talked about taking quests, they were definitely the Flowers In Full Bloom guys, using it as an excuse to pick up girls, taking them around the world.

But the students were very clever. It was indeed unrealistic for over twenty people to level up together, so they divided themselves into two teams, allowing Gu Fei to switch between them. They didn't care how much experience Gu Fei's presence would steal from them. They were openly and brazenly extorting their teacher. What kind of extortion was it if they didn't get something out of it? They doubted that their teacher would punish them by making them run laps around the playground for something like this!

Gu Fei really didn't care either. But he had something to do at the moment. He told the students that he would be there later and went off to take care of his business first.

Next to the fountain in the center of Yun Duan City, Gu Fei saw Xi Xiaotian.

This girl always dressed in a strange and outlandish manner. Gu Fei knew she was an archer, but now she was wearing a mage robe that dragged on the ground. It seemed that she was wearing a thief's cloak underneath, otherwise there was no reason to explain how she was wearing that hat. Only thief's cloaks were of that hooded sweatshirt style.

Gu Fei waved to her as he approached.

"Rare to see you taking the initiative to find me. What's up?" Xi Xiaotian asked directly.

"How did things go last time?" It had only been a few days since Xi Xiaotian had been killed, but Gu Fei hadn't checked in on her. That time was a misunderstanding, and Gu Fei hadn't helped her intentionally. Thinking about it afterward, he felt a little apologetic.

"It's nothing! These things happen all the time! I just got stabbed a moment ago!" Xi Xiaotian said, pulling a piece of bread out of her pocket and slowly gnawing on it, probably to replenish the life she had lost after that stab.

Gu Fei had no intention of getting involved in Xi Xiaotian's business disputes, so he directly skipped to the topic: "Are you still hanging around that place? You know, the one where they loot equipment from people."

"Oh, them! Their business hasn't been doing so well lately, so I've had less contact with them. But we still have some dealings. I heard you messed up Xiao Can pretty badly yesterday!" Xi Xiaotian said.

"He brought it on himself," Gu Fei said calmly.

"What do you want from me now? Do you want to find out information and continue the pursuit?" Xi Xiaotian said coldly, "I won't say anything. I'm just trying to make a living. Why push things to the extreme?"

"Make a living?" Gu Fei didn't understand.

"That's their job. They're from a studio. They loot equipment from people, and the boss pays them. It's that simple," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Oh, it's not easy to make a living doing that," Gu Fei said.

"Especially when they run into you," Xi Xiaotian said.

"They're unlucky enough, so they should find another way to make a living!" Gu Fei said indifferently.

"It seems like you have other things to ask me!" Xi Xiaotian was also a clever person. From his words, she realized that Gu Fei had no intention of pursuing these people to uphold justice.

"It's like this. When Can Mengsi died yesterday, he dropped this piece of equipment. It's very high-quality. I don't know where he got it from," Gu Fei said.

"Oh, you want to find out who the original owner is and return it?"

Gu Fei nodded.

"You're so noble. Standing next to you, I feel like a microorganism," Xi Xiaotian said sarcastically, but her face was expressionless, making Gu Fei unsure of what she was thinking.

"What is the item?" Xi Xiaotian asked.

Chang Zhu and Duan Tan were two daggers. Gu Fei casually pulled out one and handed it over.

Xi Xiaotian took it and looked at it. "Now the dagger is in my hand. Aren't you afraid I'll run away?"

"I'm not afraid…" Gu Fei rested his other hand on his sword.

"Killing me won't do any good. The item will still be on me," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Then run!" Gu Fei said.

Xi Xiaotian didn't move. She handed the dagger back. "I've never seen this equipment before."

"Oh?" Gu Fei asked in confusion. But he knew that Xi Xiaotian had no need to hide anything in this matter.

"If I'm not mistaken, only Xiao Can knows where this equipment came from," Xi Xiaotian said.

"What do you mean?" Gu Fei asked.

"I'm confident that I'm pretty clear about the equipment they get, but I've never seen this green-lettered set. Someone must have deliberately hidden it privately. Since you said it dropped from Can Mengsi, then of course he hid it privately," Xi Xiaotian said.

"So you're saying that only he knows who dropped it?"

"Yes. Also, it's very likely that this item wasn't dropped by anyone. They're a professional looting group. They definitely targeted someone with high-quality, valuable goods and deliberately went to loot them. In this situation, how could there be such unknown equipment being hidden privately?" Xi Xiaotian said.

"Maybe they didn't know at first, but it accidentally dropped when the person died?" Gu Fei said.

"If it was such high-quality equipment, why wouldn't they use it if they could? If they couldn't use it, they'd either auction it off or safely store it in the warehouse. Why put it in their pocket?" Xi Xiaotian said.

"That seems to make sense. So what do you mean?"

"It's possible that they were fighting a Boss or doing some quest when it accidentally dropped, and Xiao Can became greedy and secretly hid it. I don't need to explain what his purpose was, right!"

"I understand," Gu Fei nodded.

"So, if you want to talk about the owner of this item, it can only be Xiao Can. It's up to you what you want to do!" Xi Xiaotian said.

"So now the owner is me, huh?" Gu Fei looked at the dagger in his hand.

"You got lucky… Well, I'm leaving now. See you tomorrow," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Tomorrow?" Gu Fei asked in confusion.

"Isn't it the mercenary group finals tomorrow?"

"Oh? You're in the Black Hand Mercenary Group?" Gu Fei asked in surprise.

"Hmph, you better be careful. I'm very despicable," Xi Xiaotian raised her hand, made a shooting gesture at Gu Fei, and turned to leave.

"Despicable, huh…" Gu Fei murmured.

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The whole world is talking about the explosion, I am surrounded by the explosion of remarks, where will the butterfly go? Is this a suspense?