Chapter 4 Only Four Points

Only four points—it passed by almost in an instant. Jian Nan You and the others didn’t know the exact time, and were still staring intently at the team. But after checking the time, Gu Fei had already confirmed that this auction transaction had completely concluded. If Jian Nan You and the others’ surveillance was correct, was it possible that someone bought this Ideal Staff but didn’t come to collect it?

Gu Fei looked at the seven people with doubt. Noticing Gu Fei’s gaze, they also began to feel surprised.

“It’s over?” Jian Nan You asked.

Gu Fei nodded.

“How could it be?” Six out of the seven people exclaimed.

Gu Fei didn’t understand either, and could only shrug his shoulders.

The seven people looked at each other blankly. During this time, they had devoted all their energy to this Ideal Staff, but such an ending was truly tragic. It was like playing mahjong all afternoon—winning naturally brought joy, while losing would cause frustration, even leading to a determination to seek revenge. But those who neither won nor lost were probably the most insignificant, the most likely to feel bored.

“Our surveillance… had a few interruptions, here and there…” Jian Nan You reflected. It was unbelievable that someone would buy the staff but not come to collect it, so Jian Nan You concluded that something must have gone wrong at some point.

“Or perhaps they had some way to take it away right under our noses?” Jiao Shui guessed.

Jian Nan You shook his head blankly, unable to make up his mind. A long period of effort that didn’t even create a ripple—such an ending could sometimes be fatal.

Although Gu Fei completely disagreed with their actions, he couldn’t help but feel sympathy for them seeing their dejected appearance. Gu Fei realized that these people were perhaps like Xi Xiao Tian—although they weren’t doing anything clean, at least their persistence and dedication were worthy of recognition.

“Let’s not dwell on this matter any longer. We’re planning to start a studio, why don’t you join us! Then you won’t have to suffer like this anymore,” Gu Fei said, extending a formal invitation this time, his tone quite sincere.

“Thank you!” Jian Nan You nodded on behalf of the seven people. “However, we still have some unfinished business.”

“You’re going to continue?” Gu Fei asked, somewhat displeased.

“We took someone’s money but didn’t get the job done, so we need to give them an explanation,” Jian Nan You said.

“The person who bought the staff is Yin Yue, right?” Gu Fei asked; they had deduced this long ago.

“Yes!” Jian Nan You didn’t hide it, now that things had come to this point.

“What are you planning to do?” Gu Fei asked.

“According to our rules, if the mission isn’t completed, we return double the deposit,” Jian Nan You sighed.

“Why bother with that ungrateful bastard? Keep the money for spending!” Gu Fei said.

Jian Nan You and the others looked at Gu Fei in surprise, thinking that this guy was actually so ungrateful. In reality, it was just that their thoughts and positions were different. Jian Nan You and the others were considering this from a business perspective; trust was a very important metric in their line of work. How could they convince people to hand over a deposit without any constraints if they weren’t trustworthy? So, although they knew that Yin Yue was scum, and although they also hated him, and even thought about ambushing him to vent their anger, if the mission wasn’t completed, they would return double the deposit. This was a deeply ingrained idea that Jian Nan You and the others had formed during their business dealings, and they wouldn’t treat it any differently just because the other party was Yin Yue. This could be considered a consideration for the bigger picture.

“Ahem… That wouldn’t be appropriate!” So, although Gu Fei had made such a suggestion, the seven people were somewhat uncomfortable.

“Didn’t you guys plan to ambush Yin Yue a few days ago? What was that about?” Gu Fei had been pondering this question, unable to understand it. Now that his relationship with Jian Nan You was growing closer, he finally had the opportunity to ask directly.

“Ahem… It was nothing,” Jian Nan You said, his face showing embarrassment. The other six people also looked a little embarrassed. Ambushing Yin Yue was an act of displaced anger because they couldn’t deal with Gu Fei; how could they have the nerve to say that?

“Did you succeed in killing him?” Gu Fei asked again.

“No, we kept watch for a day, more or less, but didn’t find that guy’s whereabouts,” Jiao Shui said.

“What a pity.” Gu Fei said regretfully, then perked up again. “But now that you have to pay money, do you need to arrange a meeting with him?”

“Uh… Generally speaking, if a mission isn’t completed, we arrange to meet the client in person to apologize and return the money,” Jian Nan You said.

“Yes, just like with Gui Tong,” Gu Fei nodded.

The seven people lowered their heads in embarrassment again, wondering if Gu Fei was deliberately bringing up these things to embarrass them. But seeing Gu Fei’s expression was normal, just like ordinary chatting, they couldn’t see any such intention, so the seven people thought that perhaps they were being paranoid. One by one, they calmed down.

“Listening to you, you’re not planning to do that with Yin Yue?” Gu Fei asked.

“That’s right! I can’t be bothered to meet that guy. I’ll just write a letter, enclose the money, and mail it to him,” Jian Nan You said.

“Why not take this opportunity to invite him to meet and take him down?” Gu Fei said.

The seven people didn’t mind this suggestion, especially Huo Ran Yi, who was eagerly urging them on. He had always been the one being cut down by Qian Li Zui, and now he wanted to experience what it felt like to cut down someone with Qian Li Zui.

“Alright, Jiao Shui, you contact Yin Yue. I deleted him before, and now if I take the initiative to contact him, that guy might become suspicious.” Jian Nan You’s considerations were still thorough. Gu Fei sighed inwardly. Jian Nan You’s game skills could be considered top-notch among ordinary game players, and he was also good at conspiracies and schemes; he really was a talented person.

“Brother, we failed the Ideal Staff mission, sorry about that. When are you free for a meeting? We’ll return double the deposit,” Jiao Shui sent such a message, just like usual.

“Is that so… Let’s skip the meeting. Just mail me the money. No need for double either, what kind of relationship do we have? If it’s inconvenient for you, you can keep the deposit for spending. Just consider it my advance payment! We’ll definitely have the opportunity to cooperate in the future! Haha,” Yin Yue said with a laugh, maintaining his usual smoothness. Although what was happening right now was the outcome he had eagerly hoped for in the beginning, in the end he still didn’t ruthlessly collect the 4000 gold coins in compensation as he had originally imagined. What he needed right now wasn’t these things.

This reply greatly surprised Jiao Shui, who quickly told Jian Nan You and the others about it.

“This guy…” Jian Nan You gasped. Yin Yue was scum, but he was scum in a rather frightening way. At least, he didn’t care about the loss of a few thousand gold coins, which meant that this guy’s vision was quite high. Right now, he wanted to do Jian Nan You and the others a favor and mend their relationship. The mention of advance payment was even more clever. To put it disgustingly, this was an attempt to create some kind of bond between them. If he had simply waived the double payment, then Jian Nan You and the others might only remember his temporary favor, but by sending out these two thousand gold coins in this way, Jian Nan You and the others would always think of his favor whenever they used it. What was even more shameless was that this guy half-jokingly said it was some kind of advance payment, so whether this money was given for free or not was still in his hands. In the end, Yin Yue didn’t waste a single penny, but made Jian Nan You and the others remember his favor to the greatest extent. He was truly the scum of all scums.

If it were ordinary times, Yin Yue’s move might have succeeded, but unfortunately, he was already known for his scummery. Moreover, Jian Nan You wasn’t so easy to deal with. At this moment, he turned to Jiao Shui with a dark face and said, “Return the money to him immediately, double the amount. I really don’t want to deal with him in real life anymore.”

At the same time, he turned to Gu Fei and said, “Yin Yue must be very wary in his current situation. I don’t think he’s likely to agree to meet.”

Gu Fei nodded. “That makes sense. Then let’s talk about it later.”

“Uh… what about now?” Jian Nan You asked.

“You don’t have anything else to do right now, do you?” Gu Fei asked.

“No, we can just pass by the mailbox sometime and casually throw the money to Yin Yue,” Jian Nan You said, using words like “pass by,” “casually,” and “throw,” his attitude towards Yin Yue already one of extreme contempt.

“Then come with me to the Wilderness Camp now. Let’s discuss things together,” Gu Fei said.

“Alright!” Jian Nan You nodded. The seven people followed Gu Fei out of the auction house and headed towards the city gates. At this moment, their trust in Gu Fei couldn’t be said to have reached 100 percent. One after another, several people privately chatted with Jian Nan You, analyzing whether Gu Fei had any ulterior motives.

But Jian Nan You was too lazy to think too much about it right now. He had been working hard for so long and really wanted to have some time to relax. He casually responded to the others, watching Gu Fei leading the way in front of them, feeling quite uneasy in his heart.

Meanwhile, Gu Fei had already informed the members of the Young Master’s elite group that he had successfully convinced Jian Nan You and the seven others to join them.

“Not bad,” Han Jia Gongzi casually commented. Yu Tian Shen Ming and Zhan Wu Shang were still a little displeased. Yu Tian Shen Ming just had the stubborn temper of a child, while Zhan Wu Shang was still feeling emotional because Jian Nan You had originally been ranked higher than him among the warriors, although he had fallen behind now. Jian Gui didn’t say anything, but You Ge was very relieved. He and Jian Nan You had originally been friends, and it had been quite awkward to have things turn out this way. Now that there was a possibility of reconciliation, You Ge was the most supportive one.

The prosperous scene at the Wilderness Camp left Jian Nan You and the seven others dumbfounded. These guys had almost become shut-ins at the auction house recently, and didn’t even know that such a big thing had happened in White Stone City.

After walking a short distance in a daze, looking at the situation around them, Jian Nan You gradually frowned. “The situation seems quite complicated, doesn’t it?”

“That’s right. Look, that 9527 Stone over there is our territory. All these others… they learned from us before, and now they’re starting to teach people how to make money like we do. And their prices are even lower than ours. When I just left, we had no business at all over there, but now it looks like things are a little better.” Gu Fei said, looking towards 9527 Stone, where some players were still gathered.

“I’m not talking about that,” Jian Nan You shook his head and said. “Look, there’s basically a population explosion at the Wilderness Camp right now. There are definitely more players than monsters. I see that many players still seem to be unfamiliar with the techniques for fighting monsters, and a considerable number of them are still learning. Several hundred people are sharing one monster, so they’re barely maintaining a balance. But as more players come to learn, and more players learn, when the efficiency of the efficient monster-killing method is truly realized, what kind of scene do you think this will be?”

“Monster-stealing?” Gu Fei said.

“That’s right, and very intense monster-stealing,” Jian Nan You said. “Let me give you an example. Right now, the Wilderness Camp is like a newly opened double-experience leveling area, so in theory, players from all over the world will come here to scramble for it.”

“It seems like it will be very troublesome,” Gu Fei murmured. If things really developed like this, the Wilderness Camp would obviously become a super PK paradise far exceeding Moon Night City.

“If we don’t want to see this happen, we must scientifically control the rate at which we develop new monsters. We can think of ourselves as constantly opening up new double- or triple-experience leveling areas. If we release them all at once, our interests won’t be guaranteed. But if we rigidly release them every three days or every few days, that wouldn’t be good either. We should pay attention to the number of people in the leveling area; that’s the important indicator.”

Hearing this, Gu Fei realized that this was extremely close to those plans that Han Jia Gongzi had initially proposed. So he casually asked, “How many people do you think would be good?”

“This… It’s hard to say right away. We’ll have to calculate it and take a look,” Jian Nan You said.

It seems there’s still a bit of a difference, Gu Fei thought. Han Jia Gongzi had directly said the number of five times saturation at the time. Although he didn’t know how he had estimated that factor of five.

While they were talking, they had already arrived at the foot of 9527 Stone. The hearts of Jian Nan You and the seven others were raised to the peak at this moment. If Gu Fei and the others had any conspiracy, they should be implementing it at this time, right?

But at this moment, the person acting as the teacher on 9527 Stone wasn’t Bai Shi Jing Lun, but You Ge. He was teaching the non-agility long-weapon fighting method. Compared to Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun, his skills were slightly more immature, but he was also very skilled. The pirated teachers were basically at this level, and some were even worse than You Ge.

Seeing Jian Nan You and the others, You Ge greeted them with a friendly smile. Han Jia Gongzi and the others didn’t pay much attention to them. This wasn’t exactly hostility; these self-proclaimed experts were always arrogant. Even Gu Fei hadn’t been taken seriously by Yu Tian Shen Ming at the beginning. The others had only regarded him as a person because of Jian Gui’s strong recommendation. Now, facing a defeated opponent like Jian Nan You, why would these guys be polite and take the initiative to greet them? None of them were kind-hearted.

However, Bai Shi Jing Lun immediately jumped down from the stone when he saw them. The hearts of Jian Nan You and the seven others skipped a beat when they saw that Bai Shi Jing Lun was also there.

Bai Shi Jing Lun took two steps forward and immediately said, “Does that deal to kill Jian Nan You still count?”

The seven people wanted to turn around and run on the spot when they heard this, but they heard Gu Fei say in an annoyed tone, “Count what, count, it doesn’t count.”

The seven people had only just turned around, not even taken a step, when they heard Gu Fei say this, and they all turned back in surprise and uncertainty. They saw Bai Shi Jing Lun say with a troubled face, “This… the client hasn’t said anything, does what you say count?”

Jian Nan You and the others asked in fear and trepidation, “Who’s the client?”

Bai Shi Jing Lun was very professional and didn’t say anything. Gu Fei wasn’t in this profession, so he had no morals and immediately sold out Xi Yao Wu: “Xi Yao Wu.”

“Oh…” Jian Nan You expressed his understanding. After all, he had stepped on her chest and killed her once before.

“Tsk, how to explain it to that girl, it’s a bit tricky,” Gu Fei scratched his head.

“I’ll apologize to her, and let her kill me once. Will that work?” Jian Nan You asked.

Gu Fei was surprised. “You’re willing to do that?”

“What’s wrong with that?” Jian Nan You didn’t take it seriously.

Also an expert, Jian Nan You and Jian Gui and the others have a very essential difference, some legendary expert's self-esteem type of playthings, in Jian Nan You's body is no. Or say not no, but Jian Nan You simply did not treat himself as any expert. What he pays attention to is not these, he just wants to find a best method to use the game to make money, robbery, this needs the grade, the equipment and the technology, therefore he became the game Five Little Strong, had the good equipment and the technology. And now the matter which he wants to engage in completely does not need these things, therefore the grade immediately was treated as the fleeting cloud by him.

"With your this attitude, perhaps she instead to you will have no interest......" Gu Fei considered the Xi Yao Wu whom he knows, if Jian Nan You this is this resistance attitude, perhaps she will think that is without interest, not to bother moves hands.

"You won't deliberately this attitude?" Gu Fei suddenly said that obviously he realized that Jian Nan You is also a very clever fellow.

"Your psychology is also not very sunny!" Jian Nan You wipes sweat.

"Has, I call her to come, you resolve by yourselves." Gu Fei said that.

"Good." Jian Nan You nods.

"Does Xi Yao Wu say to deal with us?" Other six people asked.

"Not too clear." Gu Fei said that.

"Then we also wait!" Six people stood by Jian Nan You's side, a brother's one heart appearance, Calabash brothers extremely.

"Xi ah!" Gu Fei starts to call: "Also prepares to cut Jian Nan You?"

"Nonsense!"

"That quickly passes!" Gu Fei said that, "Wilderness camp 9527 stone."

"You seized him. Is brother enough!!!" Xi Yao Wu greatly rejoices.

"Uh, is not, we prepare has some matter to cooperate with him, therefore prepared your two matters to handle first." Gu Fei is still very honest.

"I depend, you sell the personality, you decadent!!!" Xi Yao Wu shouted loudly.

"Quickly comes......" Gu Fei does not want to say many anything.

Xi Yao Wu definitely is the most quickly person who runs in the parallel world, after Gu Fei sent the news after not long, her fiery red stature already appeared in everyone's vision scope, Han Jia Gongzi holding the spyglass has looked after said: "Comes."

Jian Nan You seven people's eyes dead have fallen on the Han Jia Gongzi's hand thing on, trembles has asked a sentence: "This is any?"

Han Jia Gongzi smiles slightly: "Spyglass." After finishing said that also specially has looked after Jiao Shui: "Is farther and clearer than Hawk Eye."

Seven people one person spits a mouthful of blood, why action seems like all is being seen in the eye by the human, but does not know; Why obviously after the body nobody, but is tracked; Many coiled in the mind for a long time mystery finally announced that unexpectedly is because of a spyglass.

Seven people could not bear one person spits a mouthful of blood.

"Can the game have this kind of thing?"

"Where do you get it?"

"Borrowed."

The smile's continues smile, the blood's spits blood.

Xi Yao Wu in a twinkling already is at the front, seven people hastily collect them that pitiful appearance. They are preparing to make sacrifice bravely, this state is too unattractive.

Result Xi Yao Wu passed after did not look at them once, but is first pokes Gu Fei's nose is roaring: "Why must cooperate with them, is any collusion, is the matter which is amusing? Why doesn't inform old woman?"

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