Chapter 159 A Chance Encounter

“That guy…” Jian Nan You had almost forgotten Hong Chen Yi Xiao. Actually, Silvermoon’s guess back then wasn’t wrong. Jian Nan You and the others had already decided not to accept tasks related to Qian Li Zui. But they ended up running into a hero determined to destroy Qian Li Zui. Jian Nan You felt that rejecting him outright would be too discouraging and that he should be given a slim chance to show encouragement. So he casually made up a price of twenty thousand.

Twenty thousand per level! Jian Nan You himself was embarrassed by the exorbitant price. At the time, Jiao Shui had privately messaged him, asking if he was crazy.

Before Jian Nan You could reply, the other party started consulting him in a serious manner. In the end, Jian Nan You felt that he wasn’t crazy; it was the priest calling himself Hong Chen Yi Xiao who was insane.

To agree to twenty thousand per level. If the target wasn’t Qian Li Zui, Jian Nan You suspected he would laugh in his dreams. But even if it was Qian Li Zui, Jian Nan You felt the high reward was worth taking the risk. High risk corresponds to high reward; that was the truth.

However, when they were about to finalize the details and ask for a deposit, the other party said he needed to raise the money. Jian Nan You dismissed it with a smile. Twenty thousand was a huge sum, and it wasn't surprising that he couldn't come up with it all at once. But Jian Nan You was only asking for a deposit, which, according to their usual practice, would be around three to five thousand. This shouldn't be an amount that a wealthy player couldn't afford.

Jian Nan You suspected that the other party was just messing with him as retaliation for him quoting such an exorbitant price of twenty thousand. Especially since he hadn't heard from him in the past two days, Jian Nan You felt that this guess was reliable. If he really was rich, wouldn't he be able to come up with three to five thousand gold coins in two or three days?

The kid did want to deal with Qian Li Zui, but he was probably scared off by his "twenty thousand." That was the case; where would you find such a sucker who would pay twenty thousand per level? Did he have a vendetta against Qian Li Zui?

"Have you been in contact with that person recently?" Jian Nan You asked Jiao Shui. If the previous quote of twenty thousand was actually a rejection of the invitation, then, holding this grudge, Jian Nan You really wanted to find someone to cooperate with and get rid of this menace, Qian Li Zui.

"No, I only saw him once at the auction that day," Jiao Shui replied.

"The auction…" Jian Nan You muttered these words. Their recent series of tragedies had all started from that.

"After the auction that day, he also wanted to see the buyer, but he waited for a while and didn't see anyone, so he left," Jiao Shui said.

"…" Jian Nan You didn't say anything for the moment. Suddenly bringing up this person, and thinking about everything about him, Jian Nan You suddenly realized something.

Gu Fei kept asking Jian Nan You, "Dare you show yourself?" But the other party neither rejected the message nor replied to him, which made Gu Fei very bored.

Finally, the winter vacation had arrived, giving him more time to play the game. He was just preparing to show his skills and clean up this bunch of guys when they ran away faster than rabbits.

Finding people, again! Nothing was more annoying than this. Wanted missions were the main theme of Gu Fei's gaming career, and finding people was the main theme of wanted missions. From this, one could know how tired Gu Fei was of finding people. He actually envied the treatment of Mang Mang; instead of having to find people, people would take the initiative to come to him.

He roamed the streets for a long time without seeing the person he wanted to see, and no thugs came to rob him. Now that he had plenty of time, Gu Fei felt even more lonely. This wanted mission thing, playing it for two hours was okay, but Gu Fei couldn't stand staying up all night doing this. Besides, ordinary players would fall with one strike, and Gu Fei had little fun in it.

With nothing to do, Gu Fei could only choose to log off. He wasn't familiar with Bai Shi City, so he grabbed a passerby and asked for the nearest resurrection point, then walked towards it.

Afterwards, Gu Fei learned what it meant to be at the end of the road, what it meant to find something after searching high and low, and what it meant to dream of finding someone a thousand times!

The archer's target range at the resurrection point. Gu Fei had just entered the gate when he caught sight of three figures out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw Jiao Shui, Huo Ran Yi, and a priest whose name he didn't know, who was also part of Jian Nan You's seven-member group. The three of them were sitting cross-legged on the ground by the wall, playing homemade cards.

Jiao Shui and the priest had already seen Gu Fei and were staring in shock, while Huo Ran Yi, with his back to them, was still unaware. He held four cards high above his head and slammed them on the ground with a loud shout, "Four twos!! Hahahaha!"

Jiao Shui and Lin Mu Sen Sen had stiff expressions. Their attention wasn't on Huo Ran Yi's bomb at all. Seeing that this kid was still proud of the bomb, they both nudged their mouths towards his back.

Huo Ran Yi's expression tightened, he bent his body, and a murderous aura appeared on his face. He whispered to the two of them, "Is he here?"

Before the two could answer, Huo Ran Yi had already slowly turned around, and the result was even more wooden than the two of them.

"Hey! Playing, huh!" Gu Fei was very happy to see the three of them and immediately came over.

"What do you want?" Huo Ran Yi retreated four steps, scattering the cards all over the ground.

"Where's Jian Nan You?" Gu Fei liked to get straight to the point.

"Don't know." Of course, the three of them answered that way. Jiao Shui also supported Huo Ran Yi from the side, reminding him that this was a resurrection point. And a resurrection point where you could log off.

"Seeing the three of you is not bad either, are you going out?" Gu Fei asked.

The three of them shook their heads mechanically.

"I was just about to log off, but I didn't expect you three to be hiding here playing," Gu Fei said.

The three of them were full of bitterness, thinking to themselves, how could they be so unlucky! Jiao Shui hurriedly sent a message to the other four members of Jian Nan You: "We've been exposed!!"

"What?"

"Qian Li Zui!"

"How did he get there?"

"He said he was going to log off and was passing by."

"Damn, this shameless guy, didn't he say he wasn't going to sleep tonight!!!" Jian Nan You was extremely depressed. This Qian Li Zui was too shameless; he changed his words as soon as he turned around.

Jiao Shui was speechless. The person was already squatting in front of them; was it still interesting to dwell on these things?

"What are you playing?" Gu Fei flipped through the cards they had dropped on the ground. These cards were obviously homemade and were specifically for Dou Dizhu (a Chinese card game). The cards didn't have suits; they just had numbers written on them, from A to K.

"How did you make the ghosts?" Gu Fei was curious about how they drew the ghost cards, and he actually found them.

"Damn, too vivid!" Gu Fei was full of admiration. On the two ghost cards, a large "King" was written on the big ghost, and a very small "King" was written on the small ghost.

The three of them had the urge to strangle Gu Fei, but the safe zone treated everyone equally, not just protecting them.

"Alright." Gu Fei put away his smiling face, tidied up the scattered cards, handed them back to Huo Ran Yi, and said to the three of them, "What are you three guys hiding here trying to plot?"

"Playing cards!"

"Is it your business?"

"…" The priest Lin Mu Sen Sen saw that the first two hadn't even coordinated their lines, so he simply didn't speak.

"With me here, you won't be able to do anything." Gu Fei was calm and composed. It was winter vacation, and he didn't have to go to work tomorrow, so he was very confident.

"Hmph, is it your business?" Huo Ran Yi was obviously the one most afraid of Gu Fei, but he spoke more in front of Gu Fei, which showed his inner panic and uneasiness even more.

"Come on, let's continue." Huo Ran Yi pulled Jiao Shui and Lin Mu Sen Sen, calmly thinking of going to the side to continue playing cards.

The two hesitated for a moment, obviously feeling helpless about Huo Ran Yi's childish demonstration, but thinking about it, there was nothing else to do besides this. Gu Fei was squatting here, so they couldn't leave. Besides playing cards, they could only log off. Then, after taking a glance at Gu Fei, the two of them went over to play cards with Huo Ran Yi.

The three of them were absent-minded, peeking at Gu Fei's actions while drawing cards. Gu Fei just squatted beside them, smiling and watching the three of them, without saying a word.

The cards were about to run out. After Jiao Shui grabbed a card, Huo Ran Yi reached out to draw his card, but found that there were only three cards left in the deck. He was very surprised, "Did I draw the wrong card? It should be my last card!"

Of course, those who often played cards could tell at a glance that the number of cards was wrong. At this time, Huo Ran Yi should definitely have one more card.

"Is there one missing?" Huo Ran Yi looked around. The cards had fallen all over the ground just now, and maybe one had been blown away by the wind to who knows where. As a result, when he looked around, he met Gu Fei's treacherous smile, and Huo Ran Yi immediately reacted: "Did you hide one of our cards?"

"Nonsense." Gu Fei said calmly, "It's obviously hidden four cards."

"Damn! Return the cards!" Huo Ran Yi was furious.

"Didn't I say? With me here, you can't think of doing anything." As Gu Fei spoke, he shook his hand, and the four cards spread out between his fingers. Then, he loosened his fingers and twisted his wrist, chanting a phrase.

Dual Flame Flash!

A flame ignited in Gu Fei's fingers, and with the movement of his wrist, it wrapped around the four cards. Although the mage's flame needed mana support and the burning time was only an instant, it was enough for such flammable things as paper cards to be surrounded by the flame. When the fire disappeared, they had already turned into four pieces of white ash, which would turn into foam with a gust of wind.

"I won't draw them again!" Huo Ran Yi said angrily, taking out a pen and paper from his pocket to redraw the cards.

"Alright." Jiao Shui stopped Huo Ran Yi's angry actions, and after calming himself down, he looked at Gu Fei and said, "What's the point of you wasting time with us? Wasting a day or two is easy, but can you waste your whole life like this?"

Gu Fei smiled and said, "Of course, it's impossible to waste a lifetime, but it just so happens that I've encountered it now. If I pretend not to see it, I won't be able to sleep all night. You guys are really something; there are seven resurrection points, so why did you have to pick the one where I logged off?"

"Why don't you say you just had to pick this one to log off?" Huo Ran Yi shouted.

"Could it be fate?" Gu Fei asked.

Huo Ran Yi spat blood.

"What exactly do you want?" Jiao Shui said.

"Your boss also asked this question, which is really profound. I've thought about it again and again! Actually, I really can't do anything to you. But the problem is that I don't know if it's your bad luck or my bad luck, but I always run into you. If I run into you and ignore it, that's not my style. But if I do something, you seem to be in a lot of pain. Look at the trouble this has caused. What do you say we should do?" Gu Fei said.

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The second update has arrived. I've checked the votes, and now I'm going to sleep. Hooray!