Chapter 35 The Sound of Shouting

The guild leaders were wondering how to bring up the subject when the priest who had been yelling from the window retreated. The twenty-six people were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but then they saw the priest go down, and a warrior stepped up, holding the same paper megaphone that the priest had used. He tested it by saying "hello, hello, hello" into it a few times, and then asked, "Can you hear me clearly?"

"They're actually doing a relay race..." The guild leaders were in tears. Did they even need to ask what this person's intention was? Sure enough, after testing the sound, this person started roaring with his thick voice, "Da Mai Huang! Get out here, I saw you."

The crowd was quiet. After Han Jia Gongzi had called out six names in a row, everyone had involuntarily fallen into a rhythm, inexplicably feeling curious and anticipating who would be called next. Now that they heard a name they didn't recognize, everyone craned their necks and looked around, watching for any commotion to see who had been called out.

The twenty-six guild leaders were the same. They only knew the members of their own guilds. Every time a name was called out, they would look to see which guild leader had a strange expression. That was basically the one. But this time, after the name was called out, the twenty-six guild leaders looked at each other, all wearing questioning expressions. None of them could see anyone with an odd look. So someone asked in the team channel, "Whose guild is that?"

No one answered. It wasn't that a guild leader wasn't being honest, but that the twenty-six guild leaders really didn't know anyone by that name.

Zhan Wushang saw this and realized that the effect of his calling out names was far inferior to that of Han Jia Gongzi. The guy who was called out didn't react at all, and there was no effect of being surrounded and watched. This made Zhan Wushang feel very embarrassed and worried that he might have seen wrong. He quickly picked up his binoculars again to confirm. He was right! Zhan Wushang completely recognized the other person's face. It was Da Mai Huang!

"Damn, you ungrateful bastard!" Zhan Wushang said anxiously. "Who taught you how to play a warrior step by step back then? Now that you've grown up, you dare to pretend you don't recognize me?"

This scolding revealed some of the details of their past interactions. The guy who was being stared at by Zhan Wushang finally reacted and jumped out angrily, shouting, "Damn, I changed my ID, how would I know that the Da Mai Huang you're calling out is me!"

"What the hell, who else would Da Mai Huang be if not you?"

"Damn, if Da Mai Huang could still be me, why would I change my ID?"

Everyone understood when they heard this. This guy probably didn't manage to get his old ID when he registered for Parallel World, and someone else had taken it. This phenomenon was very common in Parallel World, the unified global online game.

"Why didn't you tell me you changed your ID?"

"Didn't I tell you?"

"When did you tell me?"

"Damn, how would I remember?"

"So you still didn't tell me?"

More than 20,000 people were weeping silently. They had come full of murderous intent, but if they kept dragging on like this, their murderous intent would turn negative. The elite team in the tower also despised Zhan Wushang. Yu Tian Shenming went up and tried to pull him down, saying, "Damn it, stop showing off your IQ here, you're embarrassing yourself to death. Let me do it."

"What's the rush? I see a few more here!"

"I see several already!" Yu Tian Shenming shouted.

"Then go shout at the window over there yourself."

"It'll be chaotic if too many people shout," Yu Tian Shenming said.

"Then wait a while." Zhan Wushang refused to give way. He had only shouted out one name, and he hadn't had enough fun yet!

The twenty-six guild leaders below really couldn't wait for people to be named one by one like this any longer. After a brief discussion in the channel, they gave the order to attack. The players had been enjoying the name-calling entertainment, and suddenly receiving the guild leader's order to do something murderous, they were momentarily dazed and a little slow. However, the attack was still launched. Zhan Wushang and Yu Tian Shenming were still arguing at the window when suddenly a gust of wind rushed up from below. Yu Tian Shenming, who played an archer, immediately recognized what it was and shouted "Not good!" before dodging. Zhan Wushang's reaction was also quick, and he quickly ducked. They only heard a series of loud bangs at the window as arrows flew in and bounced off the walls inside the building.

"Damn, why did you start attacking without warning!" Zhan Wushang said, squatting under the window.

"You're just too good at attracting aggro, aren't you?" Yu Tian Shenming said.

"Damn! What do we do now?" Zhan Wushang looked at Han Jia Gongzi.

"Go upstairs!" Han Jia Gongzi pointed upwards. Everyone understood what he meant. If they went higher, they would be out of the archers' range, and the archers would only be able to stare blankly. However, if they went too high, they were afraid that the shouters wouldn't be heard. They would have to strain their voices. Han Jia Gongzi seemed to have shouted enough himself, so he didn't care if others got tired when they were shouting.

"Actually, he's just too good at attracting aggro, but the attack was a beat too slow, so it piled up on us," Zhan Wushang whispered to Yu Tian Shenming.

"That's right, that's how it is." Yu Tian Shenming nodded. The two old buddies, one big and one small, started climbing higher.

You Ge was actually quite eager to try as well, but he wasn't assertive enough, and he didn't fight over things like Zhan Wushang and Yu Tian Shenming. So he obviously could only be at the back of the line. At this moment, he also wanted to go upstairs with Zhan Wushang and Yu Tian Shenming, but then he saw that Han Jia Gongzi and the others hadn't moved, so he stopped and looked at the notebook in his hand, saying, "There are still so many more!"

What You Ge had written in his notebook was a list of old friends and experts from these twenty-six guilds. They were all people that he and his colleagues had interacted with in the past. Some had deep relationships, and some had shallow ones. Some had added each other as friends in the game, and some hadn't. Most of them hadn't changed their IDs, but some had. You Ge had investigated some of these changed IDs on the forums, and some he had discovered on the spot. For example, the Da Mai Huang that Zhan Wushang had called out just now had changed his ID. Zhan Wushang had accidentally discovered him while observing the scene with his binoculars. As for Han Jia Gongzi's name-calling, five out of the six were just bluffs. He just shouted out random IDs, and then he confirmed the target by seeing who was being surrounded below. After all, there were more than 20,000 people. It was quite a coincidence to actually find someone you knew among them like Zhan Wushang did with his binoculars.

At this time, You Ge's saying "there are still so many more" meant that Han Jia Gongzi had only called out six, which was far from enough. On this list of acquaintances, Han Jia Gongzi had a lot of names, because Han Jia Gongzi's circle of friends overlapped with Jian Gui's to some extent. You Ge didn't even know how long these two had been gaming partners, because from the time You Ge entered the online gaming circle, this duo was already well-known. In terms of seniority, these two were even more senior than You Ge. You Ge and Zhan Wushang were about the same generation, and Yu Tian Shenming was actually considered a junior.

Most of their friends overlapped, and You Ge estimated that it was mainly due to Jian Gui's network. However, You Ge couldn't imagine Jian Gui standing at the window with his hands on his hips, being arrogant and cursing. It wasn't that Jian Gui was never arrogant, but he would never be arrogant in such a place and in such a way. Jian Gui had already stated that he would handle this in a different way. At that time, You Ge suddenly remembered that Jian Gui had asked for the personnel information of these guilds the first time these people came to cause trouble. Obviously, Jian Gui had long thought about solving this matter in a peaceful way, because the studio's troublemaking caused everyone to fight and kill each other, and the ultimate loss was for the players. Perhaps Jian Gui had already visited these twenty-six main city guilds in private? You Ge thought to himself, but didn't ask.

"I know, you guys shout first." Han Jia Gongzi waved his hand after listening to You Ge's reminder, and then took out a bottle of wine from his pocket and started drinking.

Yun Zhong Mu, Jian Nan You... these people were all there too. They were also experts, but at this time they had deeply realized the difference in weight class compared to experts like Jian Gui and the others.

Ten Guild Alliance? Yun Zhong Mu shook his head with a wry smile. He realized that this group of experts just didn't want to get involved. If they wanted to, their energy could completely build a team the size of a Ten Guild Alliance. After all, the game had reached this stage, and the isolation between main cities was no longer a problem, especially for the rich who could afford teleportation scrolls.

Seeing that neither Jian Gui nor Han Jia Gongzi had any intention of moving, You Ge didn't ask any more questions and ran upstairs after Zhan Wushang and Yu Tian Shenming. Yu Tian Shenming was now an archery expert, so he naturally accurately judged how many floors up would be completely out of the archers' range. After reaching that floor, Zhan Wushang stuck his head out and felt a little dizzy: "Damn, can they even hear me from here? I think the wind is too strong."

"Try it!" Yu Tian Shenming pushed Zhan Wushang towards the outside.

"Damn, what are you pushing me for? Are you trying to murder me!" Zhan Wushang was almost pushed out of the building by Yu Tian Shenming, and he broke out in a cold sweat. It was at least ten or twenty stories high from here. He would definitely be instantly killed if he fell.

"Hurry up!" Yu Tian Shenming urged.

More than 20,000 players were looking up at this time. The people at the window who had been attacked in the previous round immediately disappeared again, but the guild leaders already knew that they had failed again. However, the world was finally quiet. The guild leaders had already ordered that anyone who stuck their head out would be shot, and no more waiting for orders. Then, the guild leaders prepared to have a good discussion about how to deal with the name-calling.

Before the opening remarks of this discussion could even be made, there was a sudden uproar in the crowd. The guild leaders heard the noise and looked up, and they saw that Zhan Wushang had actually reappeared on an even higher floor, testing the sound of the paper megaphone by saying "hello, hello, hello." This was much higher, and the archers could no longer shoot...

The guild leaders were nervous! It wasn't that they hadn't thought that the other side would make this move, they were just hoping that if they went any higher, the sound might not carry and they wouldn't be able to hear. For example, this time, the guild leaders hadn't ordered anyone to keep quiet or anything.

But... they didn't expect the guild members to be so conscientious. As soon as they saw someone was about to speak, they naturally quieted down. Couldn't you guys be less curious? The guild leaders were in tears.