Chapter 42 What Do You Mean?

The situation the guild leaders didn't want to see was continuing. Although the other side was standing higher and their voices seemed farther away, these two new guys, seemingly the renowned experts Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming, clearly had a natural advantage in their vocal cords. Their yelling was much louder than the previous priest. So, distance was no longer an issue. With the players consciously keeping quiet, the voices still carried down with exceptional clarity, naming names, and still continuing.

Watching one expert after another being called out and surrounded, the guild leaders felt they really couldn't let it go on. So, disregarding any sense of propriety, they prepared to call out names as well, to find out what the attitude of the named individuals was.

But before they could act, a name floating down from the clock tower sent a shiver down the spines of all the guild leaders. This name was too sharp because it belonged to one of their own twenty-six guild leaders!

Jiu Chongtian! One of the twenty-six guild leaders, a warrior by profession, and an expert himself, was now being accurately named by the people in the clock tower. Surrounded by the other twenty-five guild leaders, Jiu Chongtian was utterly bewildered because he was sure he didn't know any of the famous experts like Feichang Ni Tian.

Jiu Chongtian spread his hands to the guild leaders, indicating his innocence, then raised his head and squinted to scan the window. Who could it be? Not to mention these experts, he didn't have any close friends in Cloud City! At this height of dozens of meters, it was hard to make out faces. Jiu Chongtian couldn't recognize anyone, only seeing that the person wasn't Zhan Wu Shang or Yu Tian Shen Ming, who had been crowding at the window, vying to shout.

Just as Jiu Chongtian was wondering, the other side shouted again: "Wondering who I am, right? Haha, Feng Piao Wan Dian! Do you know now?"

"Feng Piao Wan Dian!" Jiu Chongtian showed a look of realization. The guild leaders saw it and knew that this guy had also fallen.

Actually, it wasn't just the guild leaders who were confused, the experts upstairs were also puzzled. Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming leaned in on either side of You Ge: "What's the situation? What's the situation? What is Feng Piao Wan Dian?"

"One of my old forum aliases. I'm quite close with this Jiu Chongtian!" You Ge said.

"Damn, I can't believe it, You Ge, you were hiding a trump card! The one you named is a guild leader, right?" Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming flipped through the roster. Sure enough, Jiu Chongtian was one of the twenty-six guild leaders.

"Hehe," You Ge smiled.

"You learn all the wrong things. Why are you playing suspense? You should have said earlier you knew a guild leader." Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming said. None of these experts knew any of the guild leaders of the twenty-six guilds. Everyone was helpless. Parallel World had indeed disrupted many past orders. In the old online games, friends would agree to enter the same server together and support each other, making it easier to create glory than players starting from scratch. But in Parallel World? You were randomly assigned upon entering the game, to one of a hundred main cities! It wasn't so lucky that all your comrades would be assigned together.

So everyone started as if from scratch. In the end, many old teams failed to continue their previous connections. Jian Gui's Ni Tian Guild was just one of them. Because people became estranged from Jian Gui, because people were disappointed in Jian Gui after he lost to Gu Fei, those people were definitely not Jian Gui's closest partners. People like Lu Ke and Shui Shen went their separate ways from the beginning of Parallel World. This was the fundamental reason why the Ni Tian Guild failed to reorganize.

So Jian Gui and the other experts didn't know any of the twenty-six guild leaders. They could only say they were unlucky. But now You Ge actually knew one of them, and he only revealed it at the scene. Everyone didn't like this approach, they really didn't like it. It was too much like someone's style.

"No more examples, no more examples." You Ge quickly explained to the two. But this feeling of being inscrutable was really quite enjoyable.

"Remember now? Do you need me to say something to confirm my identity?" You Ge continued to build rapport with Jiu Chongtian.

"No need, no need, let's add each other as friends and talk." Jiu Chongtian quickly shouted. Everyone could see that there were some private words between these two that weren't suitable for public broadcast! This further proved that their relationship was not shallow.

After Jiu Chongtian finished speaking, he turned on the friend request switch, and immediately received the system notification that You Ge had added him as a friend. He was stunned for a moment before sending a message to You Ge: "So you're You Ge!"

"Haha, yes!"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"There's nothing to say. If I said I was You Ge, would you start worshipping me?"

Jiu Chongtian was silent for a long time, then spoke the truth: "Absolutely not." After all, You Ge was different from Jian Gui and Zhan Wu Shang. He was like a guy who often ran around playing minor roles in dramas, running so much that everyone was familiar with his face. He didn't have much acting skill, looks, aura, or any visible potential or talent. Naturally, few people would appreciate or worship such a character. When his name was mentioned, everyone would just say: "Oh, You Ge, I know him, the guy who's in such-and-such." Unlike Jian Gui and others, when their names were mentioned, everyone could tell a few stories and anecdotes about them.

"What exactly do you mean by all this?" Jiu Chongtian was indeed quite familiar with You Ge's alias. Upon hearing that the person was You Ge, the relationship transferred, and he didn't dwell too much on the alias. He immediately started discussing the present issue.

"How about we invite you guys up for a seat? Are you game?"

"Us? Who are you referring to?"

"Of course, the twenty-six of you guild leaders." You Ge said.

"What do you mean?" Jiu Chongtian didn't understand.

"We have something to say."

"Can't you say it now?"

"It's indeed not very convenient with so many people." You Ge said.

"What do you want to say?"

"It's better if everyone says it together." You Ge said.

"Why?"

"Same reason as above."

"Damn!" Jiu Chongtian was a bit bewildered. Suddenly, he asked You Ge, "You haven't proven your identity yet!"

"Hehe, there was this one time..." You Ge casually picked up a few things they had talked about, and Jiu Chongtian could only confirm his identity. Given his relationship with You Ge, he wouldn't suspect You Ge of trying to harm him.

"I have no problem. But you don't want me to be the one persuading the others, do you?" Jiu Chongtian said. He wasn't really familiar with the others. Just look at now, after he was named, the other twenty-five guild leaders were already looking at him differently, and there was already a trend of kicking him out of the inner circle.

"There will be many people to persuade!" You Ge said.

Jiu Chongtian suddenly understood: "Damn, you guys made such a fuss just for this."

"You'll know later that this is actually quite necessary." You Ge said.

"So what about me now?" Jiu Chongtian asked.

"The experts in your guilds are being named one by one. You guys should be getting antsy, right? The guild leaders will probably actively inquire, right?" You Ge said.

"Mm..."

"That's it!" You Ge said.

"Will my guild be named again?" Jiu Chongtian said.

"Is being named embarrassing?"

"They aren't embarrassed, but I am pretty embarrassed..." Jiu Chongtian said.

"Damn!"

"Everyone else is being named by top-tier experts, and what am I? You Ge, and a damn alias at that, damn it!" Jiu Chongtian said.

"You mB!" You Ge was depressed. Why was he being looked down upon wherever he went? This phenomenon was wrong!

After Jiu Chongtian finished his private chat with You Ge, he was met with the questioning gazes of the guild leaders. Now everyone didn't need to go find their own brothers to talk about this slightly awkward issue. There was a guy right here they could ask.

"They said they mainly want to chat with us." Jiu Chongtian explained directly without waiting for everyone to ask.

"Chat about what?"

"Don't know." Jiu Chongtian shook his head.

"Where to chat?"

Jiu Chongtian pointed at the clock tower.

"They dare let us in?"

"They're only letting the guild leaders in."

The guild leaders looked at each other, their expressions filled with suspicion. Jiu Chongtian could only smile bitterly. He estimated that everyone already suspected he had turned traitor and was preparing to send them into a trap.

Jiu Chongtian was still in the guild leaders' team, but they couldn't use team channel private chat. A group of guild leaders all huddled to one side to hold a small meeting, blatantly ostracizing Jiu Chongtian.

"What does everyone think?" One person said.

"I think if they're really using him to set some kind of trap, wouldn't doing this be superfluous?" One person said.

"I think Jiu Chongtian is no different from those brothers of ours who were named."

"So those who were named will also say the same thing to us?" The guild leaders weren't stupid after all.

So someone immediately went to ask one of the named individuals. Sure enough! The other party also intended to say this to the guild leader.

"Then why not say it directly?"

"If they said it directly, would you dare to go in?"

"Now there's someone relaying the message..." This person stopped halfway. This issue was very sensitive! This was to test whether everyone trusted the brothers who were named.

In an instant, everyone suddenly envied Jiu Chongtian. He was directly named and didn't have to endure this torment. He could directly judge whether this matter was true or false. Unlike them, they had to suspect their opponents, trust their friends, and then consider whether their friends would be deceived, whether their friends would deceive them, whether their friends would collude with the other side, tangled, conflicted, living and dying.

"If they have something to say, let them say it this way." Someone said.

"If they could say it this way, they would have shouted it out already. Why bother with so much trouble?"

"What kind of words are they afraid to say to our faces?"

"Who knows?"

"I think it's still like a trap."

"What's the use of a trap? Even if they lure us into the clock tower and wipe us all out, so what? It's just that we guild leaders will all drop one level. It's not like we'll be silenced."

The discussion was intense. Feichang Ni Tian's question was obviously very difficult.

Separated from the scene by more than twenty thousand people, the studio bosses who couldn't see what was happening weren't idle either. If they couldn't see, they could inquire. Of the twenty-six guilds and twenty-six thousand people, it was impossible for everyone to be pure. Even if they were all pure, it would be easy to buy them off on the spot and make them impure.

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Breathing can be addictive! I took a breath and overdid it. It seems I even miscounted the days, and couldn't keep up with updating every three days. Ahem... Sorry, everyone. Starting this week, I'll resume daily updates!