Chapter 168 Lost

Gu Fei and Jian Gui's disappearance, along with the message "Enemies are prohibited from communicating with each other," had spread throughout their circle of friends. Shui Shen had privately messaged each member of Young Master's Elite, and the girls from Rebirth Purple Crystal had also come to inquire about what had happened. But how would the members of Young Master's Elite know? They had only learned about the situation when the guilds these two had allegedly joined came to ask, and when they tried messaging, it was indeed the case.

Being online but unable to contact them, the two of them shared the same situation of disappearance, so naturally, there must be a common cause. Others might not be able to analyze anything, but after some discussion, the members of Young Master's Elite reacted even faster than Gu Fei and Jian Gui: the biggest common denominator between these two was that they both had an affiliation!

But even with an affiliation, where had these people gone? No one could say, and the only option was to continue with their own tasks and wait for the city war to end to find out. As a result, Young Master Han, while observing the enemy situation through his telescope, ended up spotting the two of them in his lens.

Young Master Han habitually turned his head, wanting to tell someone about it. But he realized that this was a guild-wide activity, and those guys he usually looked down upon were not around. Helpless, Young Master Han could only speak in the channel.

"Are they on the city wall? How did these two run up there?" The channel immediately exploded.

"If they're in the city, then they're enemies! Does that mean players with affiliations are considered system forces?" You Ge immediately speculated.

"The system didn't make any such announcement!"

"Announcement my ass, the system mentioned affiliations, how many people even know what that is? Is there a need for an announcement?"

While the guys were discussing, they were still unable to contact Gu Fei and Jian Gui. As they talked, they started discussing the state of their guilds.

"Wu Shang, what are you guys doing over there?" Yu Tian Shen Ming inquired.

"What else can we do but charge like mad!" Zhan Wu Shang said.

"Crude, a bunch of roughnecks can't come up with any technical skills." Yu Tian Shen Ming looked down on them. Zhan Wu Shang's guild was called Warrior's Home, and it was full of warriors. Such a guild would naturally not become anything big, and its nature was similar to small guilds like Rebirth Purple Crystal and Flowers Among Eternity – just a group of players with compatible personalities gathered together. But there were still quite a few experts in this guild.

Naturally, such guilds had a different mentality when it came to city wars. Zhan Wu Shang immediately sneered at Yu Tian Shen Ming, "You guys are so promising, hiding a bunch of people preparing to shoot cold arrows, right?"

The arrow formation of Across the World was already famous in Cloudgazer City.

"Tch, I have nothing in common with you." Yu Tian Shen Ming expressed his disdain for talking to people from mixed guilds and turned to ask, "Young Master, what about you guys?"

"I don't talk to people with low IQs." Young Master Han stated.

"Hahahaha, right, me too!" Zhan Wu Shang laughed, leaving Yu Tian Shen Ming extremely frustrated.

By this time, the small and medium-sized guilds had all gathered, and the large guilds like Across the World and Drinking to Songs were also almost ready. Ever since discovering those two on the city wall, Young Master Han had been holding his telescope, watching to see what these two could do in the city.

After discovering the black and white flags on the city wall, Gu Fei and Jian Gui focused all their attention on them. Black and White Alliance was a rising star in Cloudgazer City and was now level five. Although it couldn't compare to the old guilds like Across the World and Drinking to Songs, whose members were all experts, it still had a decent number of talented individuals. These medium-sized guilds were the most excited about this city war, given the rules.

Small guilds lacked manpower, and these rules made it impossible to compete with the large guilds. But for medium-sized guilds, with careful planning and a bit of luck, they might be able to compete with the large guilds and secure a good ranking, which would greatly benefit their future operations. The player population in Parallel World was large, and there was no shortage of people if one really wanted to develop a guild; what they lacked was talent. People like the Top Five and Top Ten were golden signs for any guild. But as the level gap narrowed, simply having the Top Five or Top Ten was no longer as appealing. So what if you're one of the Top Five or Top Ten? We're all the same level now, so you're not necessarily that much stronger. Nowadays, the talent that everyone looked for was someone famous in the game, someone who had made a name for themselves.

For example, Drunken Dream! This person wasn't one of the Top Five or Top Ten, but who could be more impressive than him? And then there was Slim Waist Dance, even though she wasn't one of the Top Five anymore, so what? She was the number one RMB (real money) player. She could PK you to death with money, so who would dare not recognize her as an expert? It's just that such experts were hard to come by. So now, many guild leaders were pioneering new ideas. Since they couldn't find legendary figures to join their guilds, they would turn their own guilds into legends!

Various methods were derived from this idea. People were putting their minds and efforts into every aspect of life, from clothing to food to shelter. For example, everyone wearing a scarlet cloak when going out was a way to show the group's personality. But after all, such expressions were only a symbol and didn't reflect the guild's inner qualities.

So, after the announcement of this city war, many guilds issued instructions, urging everyone to show off their style and skill in this city war. They wanted to become the most eye-catching sight among the many guilds in the city war, to leave a lasting impression.

The guiding spirit was always very empty. The words made sense, but how to do it was never mentioned. With the city war imminent, many guilds silently chanted "style" and "skill" in their hearts, but they had no idea what style and skill actually looked like.

Black and White Alliance was one such guild. However, their guiding policy was slightly more specific. Guild Leader Bai Jia Hei proposed: In this city war, we must be like a sharp knife, stabbing wherever we point, and always tearing a gap in the enemy's line because of us.

The guild members carefully studied this policy, and a warrior who had defected from Warrior's Home was depressed to find that this was very similar to the policy of his old guild during team battles, but they had only three words: Charge directly.

At this moment, the sun was shining brightly, and under the black and white flags, Guild Leader Bai Jia Hei was full of ambition. Bai Jia Hei was a warrior, and his equipment was made according to his name. He had planned this when he chose his name. Originally, he had a set of silver-white armor and a black cloak, but a few days ago, he had received a pair of boots and a belt with excellent attributes, but unfortunately, they were black. When he put them on, they were very eye-catching. Bai Jia Hei was depressed and wanted to find someone to make these two pieces of equipment white, but experts pointed out that it was easy to turn white to black, but turning black to white was not yet possible in the game.

Bai Jia Hei was anxious and worried. He wanted to be a pure Bai Jia Hei! How could he have two black pieces of equipment on him? Later, he had a flash of inspiration. These two pieces of equipment were top-quality, and he couldn't bear to not use them, so he replaced all the other parts of his body that could be replaced. To this end, Bai Jia Hei spared no expense, either buying or trading, and forcibly replaced all the other equipment with black, and then wore a white cloak. Bai Jia Hei became a pure Bai Jia Hei again.

As a result, he wasn't happy for even two days before the system update came out, with a major currency update, and Bai Jia Hei was no longer pure. He wore black equipment all day long, his face pale, and he wanted to kick everyone he saw. Now that the city war had begun, Bai Jia Hei was still unhappy because of his personal economic losses. After putting forward a guiding ideology, he stood under the flag with a gloomy face, waiting for the others to gather.

At this time, the guild had almost finished gathering, and the Vice Guild Leader approached Bai Jia Hei. This guy was Bai Jia Hei's close friend and knew that the Guild Leader had been in a bad mood recently, so he didn't say much and directly asked for instructions, "Everyone's here, where do we stab?"

Bai Jia Hei looked into the distance. Apart from the city, there wasn't a single ghost within a thousand meters. No enemies had appeared yet, and stabbing the wall wouldn't work. So, he shook his head and said, "Don't worry, let's take a look first. How are Across the World doing?"

The Vice Guild Leader was happy. "Those big guilds are all messed up by this refresh. They haven't gathered their people yet!"

"Hmph, don't they know how to make a flag?" Bai Jia Hei said.

"They did, but none of them are as bright, clear, contrasting, and visually impactful as our black and white flag!" The Vice Guild Leader had considerable eloquence.

"Guild Leader, there's a situation!" Just as the two were boasting, a sharpshooter member ran over and pointed to the gate in the direction of Cloudgazer City.

Players had never known that the city gate of the main city actually had a door. They had always thought it was just a hole, but because of the city war, it now had a door. At this time, the sound of the mechanism rolling from the city gate was so loud that the players' eardrums hurt even from a thousand meters away. The four city gates in the four directions of Cloudgazer City opened at the same time.

The brightly dressed system guards strode out of the city gate and lined up in formation outside the city. The noisy group of players gradually fell silent as they watched. This scene was something they had never seen since entering the game. Even when leveling up in the leveling area, the monsters were scattered and only formed groups of three or five. When had they ever seen such a formation of thousands of troops, and lined up so neatly? In contrast, the players looked at themselves, with their messy teams and varied equipment. Compared with the unified dress and orderly formation of the system guards, they looked like refugees fleeing from a famine.

Just as the system's momentum was suppressing them, someone, it was not known which guild leader, returned to reality first and shouted a bit of military strategy, "Attack while they're halfway across! Brothers, charge!!!"

That guild leader was also a warrior, holding a long-handled spear, which ordinary warriors didn't really like to use. This weapon would be even more majestic if used while riding a horse, but at this time, it was stuck on the ground, half as tall as that guy. Holding it horizontally or vertically didn't work. In addition, among these otaku and otaku girls who had finally become addicted to online games, how many had figures that could be shown off? They simply weren't worthy of using such weapons used by ultimate generals. So, few people in the game could wield long-handled weapons stylishly. This warrior guild leader was no exception. He was short and fat. It would have been fine if he had honestly taken a sword, but with this large spear, in contrast, it made people feel that there must be a hidden race in this game, or how could a dwarf have popped out?

This dwarf general spouted a bit of military strategy, waved his spear, and was the first to charge out. In the midst of thousands of troops, his appearance was extremely eye-catching. Behind him followed a small soldier, holding up a large flag. Everyone looked up and saw a gun and a flower on the flag. An insider had already revealed that this was the "Long Spear and Rose" guild. The players were silent. Everyone had seen the long spear, but wasn't this bastard implying that he was the rose?

As a result, another insider revealed that the name of the guild leader of the Long Spear and Rose guild was Black Rose.

Damn, so shameless, the players were all furious. Such a character was actually the first to come out of the formation among the heroes of Cloudgazer City, and the entire city's face had been disgraced. Everyone's morale rose at once, and the guild leaders all pulled out their weapons, preparing to shout for their guilds to go to war, when suddenly a muffled sound came from afar, followed by something flying up from the city wall, from far to near, getting closer and closer. Everyone was fascinated as they watched the object draw a perfect arc and land gracefully, stirring up dust that rose several stories high. Black Rose and his flag disappeared together. When the dust cleared, the flag-bearer was pounding his chest next to the boulder, stomping his feet and wailing, "Guild Leader, why did you disappear like this!!!!!!"

The players gasped. They had never imagined that the system would have such heavy weapons. With this stone, there was no need to discuss attack or defense. If they still couldn't smash them to death like this, the players would feel bad.

The morale was smashed down again by this stone. Everyone stopped mentioning "charge" and quietly stared at the Cloudgazer City wall. But the catapult was installed far back, clearly to prevent it from being directly destroyed by people under the city, so they couldn't see the whole picture even if they looked at it. They could only guess based on their imagination.

Among them, only Young Master Han could see clearly. Not only could he recognize the catapult, but he also saw that it was Gu Fei and Jian Gui who had fiddled with something on it, and then the catapult had suddenly fired this shot.

On the city wall, Gu Fei and Jian Gui were also dumbfounded! The two of them saw that the NPCs on the city didn't pay attention to them. The catapults were all loaded with stones, as if testing whether they could operate them. As a result, they fumbled with the machine, and the NPCs still ignored them, completely treating them as their own. Jian Gui immediately pulled down the catapult's firing mechanism, and that shot flew out just like that.

"Amazing, it's really accurate, you're pretty good!" Gu Fei exclaimed.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Jian Gui quickly ran over. He had just run to the back to fire the cannon, and didn't have time to see what the shot was like.

"Just as someone was charging out, you wiped him out with one stone. What, you didn't mean to?" Gu Fei asked.

"You can't see under the city from that position!" Jian Gui said.

"Really? Then he's too unlucky! Who is it? He was wiped out so casually. Could it be Wu Shang?" Gu Fei said.

Despite usually being alone and acting like a lonely swordsman, Jian Gui was actually familiar with the guilds in Cloudgazer City. He looked at the flag lying next to the boulder and said, "No, this is the Long Spear and Rose guild. Wu Shang isn't in this guild." The flags of the guilds were made very large, so you couldn't recognize people from such a distance, but recognizing the flag was no problem.

"How do you know all the guilds?" Gu Fei asked curiously.

Jian Gui smiled, "They all came looking for me."

Gu Fei suddenly understood. Jian Gui was a top expert and didn't have a guild, so wouldn't all these guilds want to recruit him? It seemed they had dealt with each other before. With Jian Gui's integrity, he wouldn't forget someone he had dealt with.

"With your shot, no one dares to move." Gu Fei said. He had just seen the players were itching to charge, but Jian Gui's shot stunned them all. In the middle of the two armies facing off against each other, no one stepped forward. All they could see was a boulder, a fallen flag, and a small player who was completely lost.

"What should we do? How do we get out of the city?" Gu Fei and Jian Gui had just discussed that they would wait for the system and players to start a big melee, and then they would blend into the battlefield, thinking of completing Jian Gui's task. Their plan was: The system side regarded them as their own, so they definitely wouldn't attack. The players didn't know that there were two traitors among them, so they wouldn't treat them as enemies when they saw them. In that case, as long as they recognized where Bai Jia Hei was, approaching him wouldn't be easy? Even if they weren't in the same guild, it was a big melee now, so it would be completely normal for other players to approach them.

As a result, they impulsively played with the catapult and killed a player with one shot, scaring the others into not daring to move. Indeed, that boulder was too shocking. If that shot had been thrown into the crowd, it would have killed at least five or six people.

Now the players didn't dare to go, but the system guards were defending the city and didn't seem to be planning to take the initiative to attack. They came out of the gate and lined up, just waiting for the players to come up and grab points. Otherwise, if they all turtled in the city and defended, the players wouldn't have any tools, so how could they attack the city?

"Sigh, it's a waste of time!" Jian Gui said with regret. He was still thinking of quickly killing Bai Jia Hei and doing a few more tasks. Although the two of them didn't understand what it meant to mix in with this side, they estimated that as long as they did something, there should still be a reward. So Jian Gui was quite proactive in being an enemy to the players. Anyway, there was no penalty for dying, so what was there to be afraid of!

Just as the two of them were feeling depressed, they suddenly heard a burst of earth-shattering shouts from a certain direction. Gu Fei listened carefully and suddenly exclaimed, "Hey! The west gate has already started charging!!!"

The city had four directions, and the boulder had stunned one side, so at least half of the players had no idea what was going on. If they didn't know, they wouldn't be scared. And the system guards came out of the four gates in the same number. This side was intimidated, but the other side couldn't help but take action.

With that side charging, the players on this side also became anxious. So what if there was a boulder? If they didn't go, the west gate would steal all the points. At the thought of this, the surging chicken blood of the guild leaders rose again, and they waved their claws and shouted, "Kill, kill quickly, charge up!!!"

"Kill!!!" Everyone burst out with such shouts. No one complained about the noise anymore. Everyone listened to the shouts of their own side and felt as confident as if they had suddenly leveled up ten times. They rushed up one after another.

Gu Fei and Jian Gui were staring at the black and white flags! Bai Jia Hei also wanted to make the guild's name more famous through the city war, and coupled with being tricked by the currency update, he hated the system extremely. As soon as he started charging, he immediately gave an order, and the entire guild moved.

After looking at it a few times, Gu Fei said, "The black and white flag is moving slowly."

Jian Gui smiled, "Hey, Bai Jia Hei is a warrior. The black and white flag is moving slowly, which means that the flag is following him."

"Okay, then let's follow the flag, let's go!" After Gu Fei finished speaking, he jumped off the city wall.

"Damn, I can't do that..." Jian Gui was extremely depressed and could only climb the stairs. The city walls of the main city were not ordinary high, and Gu Fei's flying hook was not enough at all.