Shui Shen, being a powerful figure who had seen the world, could discern that the white light was a teleportation. Someone less skilled would have likely screamed about death or disconnection. As for the "Chasing Wind Emblem," such a rare item was basically only known to players of Moonlit Night City, making it almost like an internal circulation product.
Fine Waist Dance had disappeared. Shui Shen hurriedly sent a message to that brother, intending to offer condolences, but received a system response of "user not in service." However, the person was clearly online. There was only one possibility: jail.
Shui Shen immediately realized that Fine Waist Dance was also on a wanted mission. Shui Shen had thought she was randomly killing their brothers in the city. Thinking about it, this made more sense. If there really was a woman slaughtering their people everywhere, the guild channel would definitely be in an uproar. But it was so quiet now, with no one reporting. Clearly, even if someone had been killed, they were in jail at the moment and couldn't send out messages.
So many people are in jail today... Shui Shen thought. Those guys who had been caught along the way by the guards chasing Gu Fei were also thrown into prison. At this moment, he wondered how many tables of mahjong these guys in the dungeon could put together. Shui Shen couldn't help but find it funny, but his expression quickly changed, and he instantly realized a problem: Those who were jailed, especially those with a PK value of 20 or more, might not be able to get out for two days, and that was if they stayed online the whole time.
But in fact, this situation was absolutely impossible. Considering the boring and tedious waste of time in jail, even if it was just 24 hours, it would take players a week to serve their sentence. Those who had to serve 48 hours...
This would normally be harmless, but right now, Shui Shen realized that it would cause their guild to steadily lose some of its combat power. In today's battle, there were plenty of people in his guild with PK values, arranged in an arithmetic progression from low to high. The lower ones could be ignored, but there were quite a few with PK values high enough to require hours in jail. Shui Shen estimated that there were at least dozens of people with a PK value of 5 or more, and these people were definitely mostly mages.
Their guild's team battle style was already quite skilled. In the forest, it was traps and restrictions, harassment with sneak attacks, and mages to finish them off. In the city, it was arrow suppression, and mages to finish them off!
No matter how you looked at it, mages were the decisive factor. As for their lurkers, they were only good at hiding in dark corners and firing cold arrows, as for the imposing arrow formations of Cloud Piercer City, which required positioning and grandeur, they simply couldn't be practiced in the forest environment of this LinYin City.
And in the street battles in the alleys, the number of people who could stand side by side was limited depending on the width of the street. In fact, only the first three or four rows could really attack. Most of the people behind were shooting arcs towards the sky. This skill was actually newly learned from the divine archers of Zong Heng Si Hai today. It could be said that they were using it in a chaotic manner. Some people almost shot down the mages on their own roofs.
According to this calculation, a team of more than 300 archers, depending on the width of the street, had a direct killing power of only 30 to 50 people. The only advantage was that they had depth. When the front row died, the back row would take over, making their continuous combat ability relatively strong, and their sniping effect more significant.
If so many mages were sent to the dungeon, it meant that if the two sides fought again within a few hours, Shui Shen's side would lose so many turrets. Without this efficient firepower output, it was hard to imagine what tricks those lurkers, whose group archery projects were a mess, could come up with.
The more Shui Shen thought about it, the more he understood.
Washing PK, at the moment, was not just to reduce the burden of the next battle. If they didn't wash it off as soon as possible, they could be sent to the dungeon by their opponents at any time. This was a very serious loss.
With this in mind, Shui Shen had already released a message in the guild, asking everyone who was still online to move and help the mages with PK values to wash away their PK as soon as possible.
"Why so urgent all of a sudden?" someone in the guild asked.
"It's very important, hurry up," Shui Shen said.
"But I'm..." There were many such voices: leveling up, running quests, taking girls to see the scenery, and even one saying they were going to Bai Shi City overnight because they ran out of whitewash.
Shui Shen was about to collapse, and just shouted desperately, "Don't you understand? Those guys from Cloud Piercer City are doing wanted missions. Now, everyone with a high PK value on the list is definitely one of us. They're going to send us all to the dungeon!!!"
The crowd immediately woke up, and in the discussion, they even brought up areas that Shui Shen hadn't considered.
"These guys, they can catch us, but we can't catch them!"
"Why?"
"Don't you know the rules of the wanted mission list? If they don't register in LinYin City, if we want to catch them, we can only go to the general wanted list. But the general list doesn't know who's who," someone said.
"Would they not register after coming here?"
This sentence echoed in Shui Shen's mind again and again. Would they not register after coming here?
Normally speaking, they definitely would, otherwise there would be a lot of inconvenience. But at this moment, such a simple question seemed particularly meaningful. If the other party was doing wanted missions but didn't register, it was likely intentional.
In other words, the phenomenon Shui Shen was worried about might not be a coincidence under historical conditions, and there might be a conspiracy behind it. Thinking like this was even more terrifying. They would lock up as many of their people in the dungeon as possible, and then take them away. How sinister and cunning!
Shui Shen actually knew something about Wu Shi Zhi Jian and his group. He knew that they had temporarily detained the mission target in the dungeon, which was the direct reason for the temporary truce between the two sides.
After all, without the target, it would be useless for Shui Shen to lead people to kill his opponents cleanly. If he really scared his opponents, they could just leave, leaving the mission target locked in the dungeon. Shui Shen and the others had no right to take the person out again. The final result would only be the failure of both sides' missions. Therefore, when the target NPC Todd was locked into the dungeon, Shui Shen immediately stopped the offensive against the Cloud Piercer players.
Now it seemed that the battle had not stopped at all. The opponent might be using the system rules to secretly make moves against them. This action put them in a very passive position. If the other party didn't register, they couldn't retaliate. Moreover, those on their side with PK happened to be mages, and mages happened to be relatively weak in solo combat.
A lot of this and that only made Shui Shen feel that it was very unfavorable for them, very unfavorable. He could only urge everyone in the channel to hurry, helping the mages wash PK was crucial, and more importantly, to escort them. Shui Shen carefully sent messages to five mages, his face ashen. Two of the five were already "out of service," one had a PK value of only 1, one had no PK value, and the other had a PK value of 7. Hearing such news in the channel at this time, he was also nervous!
"Mages with PK values of 3 or more, report your coordinates, find nearby partners, the more the better, and then come to the wanted mission office together!!" While Shui Shen was arranging this, he had already walked out of the corner and personally went to the mission wanted office. He saw Jian Gui and the other three enter the mission office, talking and laughing, saw that Fine Waist Dance left the mission office and ran away, and also saw some other faces that he had seen during the evening's confrontation. Then, he saw Piao Liu, waving at him.
Shui Shen greeted him. Piao Liu and one of his buddies had also just come out of the mission wanted office.
"Busy, Zuo Shou?" Shui Shen asked. Piao Liu's two buddies were Zuo Shou Xie Ai (Left Hand Writes Love) and You Shou Xie Shuai (Right Hand Writes Handsome). Anyone who had heard their names would basically not forget them.
"I'm Zuo Shou Xie Ai..." The fighter next to Piao Liu replied unhappily.
"Oh oh... You Shou?" Shui Shen asked again. Many people had a deep impression of these two, but few could accurately distinguish who was Zuo Shou and who was You Shou.
"You guys killed him," Piao Liu said.
"Cough... mission, mission," Shui Shen said.
"I know," Piao Liu replied with a smile, "We're also going on a mission."
"Slow down, slow down!" Shui Shen made way for him. The words in his mouth were never asked. At this time, Jian Gui and the other three also finished receiving their missions from inside, still talking and laughing, as if there was no one else around. When they saw Shui Shen outside the door, they were all stunned.
"Why are you here!" The four looked around warily.
"Uh, I have something to do, I can't accompany you anymore!" Piao Liu said.
"Oh oh, you're busy!" The other three replied like that. The other one was Yu Tian Shen Ming, looking at everyone with a sad face: "Who's taking me?"
Jian Gui kindly gave his Chasing Wind Emblem to Yu Tian Shen Ming: "It can help you reduce half the trouble."
"Thank you, thank you!" Yu Tian Shen Ming took it, and set off with a pale face.
"You do your thing." The other three said goodbye to Shui Shen and set off on their own paths.
The question Shui Shen wanted to know was really inconvenient to ask. He could only observe their words and expressions. From the behavior and expressions of these four, it really didn't seem like they were carrying out such a plan. But, if this plan was designed by someone, and the people carrying out the plan were unaware, and just did it blankly, it would be very in line with that guy's vile style.
Should I strike first...?
The four of them were definitely top experts from Cloud Piercer City. And Piao Liu, his figure could still be seen at this time. The five great experts were walking in different directions, all with their backs to him. His brothers were already rushing to the mission office. Should he take this opportunity to launch a sneak attack on them...?
Shui Shen clenched his fists tightly, and his knuckles were a little white from the force. All the brothers had already seen him and were looking at him.