Chapter 44 The Saboteur

The camp outside the city was where third-party players could log on, log off, revive, and resupply during city battles. Although life and death on the battlefield were uncertain, these third-party players wouldn't receive the same treatment as Gu Fei and Jian Gui in this territory. Brother You had been quite comfortable in the camp, looking around, gathering information from players, and inquiring about the death of Wu Shi Zhi Jian.

Suddenly, Gu Fei quickly arrived. Brother You looked up, puzzled. Before he could ask anything, Gu Fei suddenly used Instant Shift and disappeared. Then, in a corner where no one was watching, a flash of fire appeared. The players in the camp suddenly jumped up as if they had been injected with chicken blood, shouting and running around. Someone timely shouted from the corner where the fire had flashed, "He's here!!"

Brother You was confused and ran towards that direction. The players around him, armed with weapons, squeezed into that secluded corner. Brother You stood on tiptoes, trying to see what was happening. It seemed like a person was fighting a guard. Then, he heard the players shout and swarm forward. Brother You continued to stand on tiptoes, watching intermittently. The figure that had been fighting the guard had disappeared at some point. At this moment, more guards and players rushed in from all directions, engaging in a chaotic battle. Brother You still didn't understand what had happened, but with his rich experience of being accidentally injured five times, he quickly chose to avoid it. He could recognize the figure, and it was definitely Gu Fei.

Gu Fei was indeed a genius, mastering everything quickly. Instant Shift, Double Flaming Flash, and a low-key exit. With this simple three-step routine, another revival point was turned into a bloody mess.

"What are you doing?" Brother You quickly sent a message to Gu Fei, asking.

"Hehe!" Gu Fei laughed and explained the situation to Brother You. Brother You was dumbfounded. The guilds of Cloud City were truly unlucky to have such unconventional players as opponents. He wondered if the guilds in other main cities had suffered the same tragedy.

The major guilds fighting fiercely under the city received reports from their members who were recovering or reviving: disguised spies had infiltrated the camp. According to research, there were quite a few of them, and they were quite strong. This wasn't just infiltration, but a surprise attack on the base camp!

"Damn, the system is so vicious! Are they trying to take over the camp? Where are we supposed to revive if we die? The South Gate?" a guild leader exclaimed.

"Can you hold on?" Most guild leaders asked this question.

"It's okay... we have reinforcements, but they have them too, and we're still in a stalemate... but our personnel are rotating quickly, so we can wear them down!" The players in the camp answered confidently. This was natural. Their battle was taking place in the revival point. This was the legendary原地复活 (yuandi fuhuo - revive in place)! Although they couldn't revive at full health, it was already amazing. Dying was like not dying at all. After a short rest, they could fight again!

The guild leaders at the front breathed a sigh of relief and comforted each other, "It's okay, it's okay, our xxx is there, and he says there's no problem!" The so-called "xxx" were naturally the core experts of the guilds that the leaders trusted. After everyone received such answers, they finally thought it was just an interlude.

However, this interlude lasted a little too long!

Because they could revive in place directly at the revival point and rejoin the battle, the five-minute or ten-minute restriction didn't limit their fighting. So everyone was full of confidence in victory, and they didn't bother to seriously estimate the losses in the battle. Anyway, they would just rejoin the fight after dying and try to grind down those NPCs as soon as possible. The newly resurrected warriors also quickly joined the army of attrition. They were having a great time in the camp, but the players fighting on the front line were finding it increasingly difficult. They suddenly realized that their numbers seemed to be decreasing. When another round of attrition ended, and the fresh troops were ready to take over, everyone stared at each other in surprise: how could there be so few people? After this group joined the battle and continued the attrition, they looked back but saw no new replacements.

"What's going on?! Where did everyone go??" the guild leaders roared. As soon as the words fell, cheers of victory came from the camp in the north. They had finally annihilated all the "spies" who had attacked the camp.

The guild leaders were dumbfounded. Only then did they realize why their front-line troops were so strained. Those guys who had died and revived were actually killing spies in the camp.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on? Call for reinforcements to the front line!!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian roared in the guild channel.

The guild leaders quickly called out in their own guilds, but none of them were very confident. Because many people knew in their hearts: when they learned that the camp was under attack, they thought it was a special event, so they told their guild members not to come to help for now and to earn more points in the camp.

If only one or two guilds had such crooked thoughts, it wouldn't have had much impact, so the guild leaders were very brave to issue this order. But now that this situation had occurred, these guys realized that there were so many "heroes" who shared their views. But they didn't dare to say anything. These guild leaders silently told their members to quickly come and join the battle, while those guild leaders who seriously implemented the rotation system cursed in the channel, but no one dared to respond.

"I can't hold on here, damn it, where are the reinforcements!!!" Yun Zhong Mu Di roared at this time. The guild alliance divided the main area under the city into three sections, each close to a revival camp, for nearby rotations. The middle and east routes were the main forces, and the west route was the cannon fodder legion. Originally, the cannon fodder legion had no commander. Wu Shi Zhi Jian and Ni Liu Er Shang each led the middle and east routes. Later, Ni Liu Er Shang was transferred to command the west route cannon fodder legion, and the east route was handed over to Yun Zhong Mu Di.

The "spy" attack affected all three battle zones, but the cannon fodder legion had a large number of people. After Ni Liu Er Shang arrived, he carefully sorted out the personnel. There were quite a few waves of rotations, and the assembly line was very long. Moreover, because the combat strength itself was weak, Ni Liu Er Shang didn't spend much effort commanding on the front line. He focused on whether the rotation could be connected smoothly. With his personal supervision, the camp was not so casual. Only the wounded who couldn't fight were battling, and most of the people who should have been there had gone to the front line.

As a result, the east route, where Yun Zhong Mu Di's strength was weaker than the middle route, collapsed because personnel couldn't be replenished. At this time, they were still playing with the "spies" in the camp. These idiots didn't realize how much impact they were having on the front line and were still shouting, "Almost there, hold on!" Yun Zhong Mu Di died and returned to the revival point, then started hacking people: "Damn you, all of you get to the front line, the wounded stay here!!!"

Yun Zhong Mu Di was really anxious and didn't care if they were from his own guild or not. He went up and roared and cursed. Many people were stunned and obediently left the camp to support the front line. Yun Zhong Mu Di also took a look at those "spies." Hey, they really looked like them, dressed exactly like the camp guards. Yun Zhong Mu Di thought about comparing them with a camp guard, but then he realized that there were none, not a single one!

Yun Zhong Mu Di was stunned and vaguely realized something. He quickly grabbed a player next to him, "Where did all the camp guards go?"

This player had just been killed in a great battle with the "spies" and revived. He was immediately grabbed by Yun Zhong Mu Di and was in a daze for a long time before saying, "Huh? Camp guards, isn't that... uh, where are the guards?"

"Damn it, you bunch of idiots! Stop, all of you stop!!!" Yun Zhong Mu Di was going crazy. He grabbed people and threw them backward. A player was knocked over by him and was very unhappy. He got up and cursed. Yun Zhong Mu Di turned around and slashed him with his sword. Everyone stared at this lunatic in horror and heard the lunatic glare at them with a livid face: "What are you doing? These are all camp guards, why are you fighting them?"

"Guards?" The players who were still fighting were in an uproar, but they didn't stop attacking. They carefully looked while hacking, "Are they guards? Are they disguised? Are they spies?"

"Spies my ass!!!" Yun Zhong Mu Di was angry, but he still remained calm in his heart. He sent a message to the players in the middle route camp to confirm, and sure enough, the middle route camp, which claimed to have won, didn't have a single NPC guard.

"Stop, all of you stop!!!" Yun Zhong Mu Di continued to roar. Some players who had begun to react finally began to help dissuade them. As system guards who were on the same side as the players, they would never actively attack the players. However, when the players attacked one of them, they would definitely counterattack together. The situation had been constantly deteriorating and spreading in this way. At this time, when the players stopped attacking, the system guards, having no target to retaliate against, sheathed their swords and returned to their positions as if nothing had happened, leaving behind a group of stunned players.

"What's going on? Who attacked the NPCs first?" Yun Zhong Mu Di saw that the situation had been stopped and calmed down. He quickly organized people to support the front line while investigating the cause of the incident.

An old-timer who had participated in this event said affirmatively, "There were spies, the system issued a notification."

"Yes, yes!" Many people echoed.

The system would certainly not lie, Yun Zhong Mu Di frowned and said, "Then what?"

"Then? Then we looked for spies everywhere. As a result, we saw a spy dressed as a guard, so we quickly went up to attack!" Someone said.

"How did you know he was a spy? System prompt?" Yun Zhong Mu Di asked.

"When I arrived, someone was already fighting, so I didn't ask too much," one person said.

"Me too."

"Me too."

"Then who was the first to discover the spy?" Yun Zhong Mu asked around, but no one answered.

This investigation was also being conducted in the middle route camp, and the result was the same. The person who first discovered the spy could not be found. However, many people insisted that they had definitely seen someone take the lead in discovering the spy and fighting.

To make matters worse, the second piece of bad news came. The east route army, due to insufficient support, was still defeated by the system despite the middle route providing appropriate assistance. The system's assassin army, which had not appeared all along, suddenly appeared on the east route battlefield, and the east route army collapsed instantly. The system troops they had been entangled with then attacked the middle route, and the middle route army naturally could not resist and actively withdrew. The existence of the west route cannon fodder legion was naturally meaningless, and they also withdrew. The second city siege war ended in failure because of this surprise attack. Even more deadly, the cause of the incident could not be found to this day.

"Who the hell was it!!!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was also furious after returning and understanding the situation. All the guild leaders were roaring, even those who had previously secretly instructed their people to earn points in the camp. It turned out that they were all busy for nothing. They had been killing their own system guards for so long. Could there be any points for that? These guild leaders seriously suspected that their points must be negative now...

The guild leaders decided to investigate this incident to the end, but after questioning a large number of participants, the conclusion was basically the same. The system issued a prompt that spies had entered the camp. The players searched and found someone fighting with the spy, so they stepped forward to help, and the battle became chaotic. However, the first person to discover the spy could not be found.

"Hehehehe..." At this time, someone could actually laugh, which was so jarring in the crowd. Several guild leaders shouted angrily, "Who is it?" They looked in the direction of the sound and saw Han Jia Gong Zi.

"Cough..." Wu Shi Zhi Jian coughed and didn't speak.

Yun Zhong Mu Di and Black Finger had a very bad impression of Han Jia Gong Zi. When they saw that it was him, their anger did not diminish, and they pointed the finger at Ni Liu Er Shang, "Guild Leader Ni Liu, manage your people!!"

Ni Liu Er Shang was naturally very embarrassed and said helplessly, "What are you laughing at?"

"What do those two guys look like?" Han Jia Gong Zi suddenly asked a participant in the incident. Before waiting for someone to answer, he immediately changed his mind, "That's right, you only participated in one place, so tell me what the one you saw looked like."

"I didn't see his face clearly... His clothes seemed to be a black mage robe..."

"Ah!!" Many people exclaimed. Black mage robes were actually very common equipment, but in Cloud City, black mage robes were a symbol. Ordinary mages didn't dare to wear them. If they wore them out casually, they might be attacked and killed without knowing why. Imitating idols was possible in other cities, but in Cloud City, your idol had too many enemies.

"Is that Qian Li Zui?" Ni Liu Er Shang frowned.

"The one I saw also seemed to be wearing a black mage robe," someone said. Because Gu Fei came and went quickly, and everyone's main focus was on the spy guards, many of those who had met him now felt that their impressions were vague.

"The one I saw... also seemed to be..." Even those who saw Jian Gui felt that he was wearing a black mage robe. In fact, it was the assassin's black cloak.

"That's impossible. The time you discovered the spy was about the same as here, so there must have been two people. Therefore, Qian Li Zui was in both this place and the middle route, and Jian Gui must have been in your place. The spies the system prompted were actually referring to those two, but everyone was preconceived and treated the players as their own people, which led to such a big mess," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"That... that seems to be the case..." Many people felt that this analysis was reasonable.

"Those two guys are too vicious!!!" Many people were indignant.

"Guild Leader Wu Shi, you should give us an explanation for this?" At this time, someone suddenly stood up and said.

Wu Shi Zhi Jian looked at this person and said angrily, "Bai Jia Hei, what the hell do you mean?"

"What do I mean? Since everyone is here, I also want to ask you what you mean! Everyone, listen up. This bastard Wu Shi Zhi Jian colluded with Qian Li Zui and Jian Gui to cause trouble for our city battle. Earlier, he even sent his lackey Daoying Nianhua to lead those two to kill me once, damn it," Bai Jia Hei said.

"Bullshit!!!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was angry and wanted to kill Bai Jia Hei. However, although his overall strength was strong, his personal strength had not yet reached Gu Fei's heaven-defying level of killing people in seconds. Bai Jia Hei was also a guild leader and not so weak. He wouldn't be killed in one move. He raised his sword and fought back without showing any weakness. The two of them fought a few rounds, and a group of guild leaders watched the show without saying a word, some of them even gloating. Daoying Nianhua was very anxious and jumped out and shouted, "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding." He tried to pull the two apart, but Bai Jia Hei also had his brothers, who jumped out and shouted, "What's wrong, do you want to help one side?"

"What are you talking about? It's a misunderstanding. Stop fighting and listen to my explanation," Daoying Nianhua said.

"Explanation? What's there to explain?" Bai Jia Hei said angrily.

"Guild Leader Bai Jia Hei, could you first tell us when you were killed?" Daoying Nianhua asked.

"I was..." Bai Jia Hei stopped after saying two words. This was not easy to say! How should he say it? Say that I was on the way to rob the Dui Jiu Dang Ge quest? Ni Liu Er Shang was watching happily from the side! Daoying Nianhua was insidious! As soon as Bai Jia Hei thought of this, he disregarded everything and started to act shamelessly, sneering, "What did I go to do? Hmph, I took Guild Leader Wu Shi's secret order to interfere with the Dui Jiu Dang Ge quest!!"

"Damn it, you scum, you're slandering me again!!" Wu Shi Zhi Jian was angry again, but he was a little guilty this time, but he had to pretend to be righteous. Competing with Dui Jiu Dang Ge was not embarrassing, but using such underhanded tricks, what would others think of him if they believed it?

"Why not? Although you didn't say it explicitly, you were whispering in my ear. Do you think I didn't understand your hints? Hmph, do you think I'm that kind of person? You wanted me to do bad things? I wouldn't. I just had to take people to help Guild Leader Ni Liu and the others. I didn't expect you bastard to be ruthless enough. When you saw that I was unwilling, you actually colluded with outsiders to assassinate me, damn it!!!" Bai Jia Hei's name was not for nothing. His ability to distort the truth was very good. There were truths and lies and a huge amount of flattery in his words, but it sounded reasonable.

People are invincible when they are shameless! Daoying Nianhua had a lot of ideas, but he really had no way to deal with this kind of unscrupulous person. This counterattack was really very dashing, beating Wu Shi Zhi Jian and Zongheng Sihai black and blue. Everyone knew that Zongheng Sihai and Dui Jiu Dang Ge definitely had competition. If they really knew that Dui Jiu Dang Ge had some point-grabbing quest, it was very likely that they would encourage people to make trouble. As for Bai Jia Hei not listening to the flattery and instead helping Dui Jiu Dang Ge, this passage was a matter of opinion. In short, the days of Wu Shi Zhi Jian and Zongheng Sihai suddenly became very difficult at this time.