Chapter 223 The Reason is…

The veterans reacted quickly. Seeing the strange white light rise, they didn't care who it was and immediately formed a fan-shaped encirclement again. The several people who had already exited the door were called back inside. No one knew who this white light belonged to, so of course, they couldn't deny that it wasn't Gu Fei.

"Could it be that he accidentally disconnected just now?" Ye Xiaowu muttered. The server quality of the parallel world was, of course, beyond reproach. The network conditions in this era were also excellent, but they couldn't withstand some natural disasters and man-made disasters! For example, a sudden power outage, or the internet cable being cut by some damned person. It would be strange not to disconnect in such situations.

The white light quickly dissipated, and the player inside almost made Ye Xiaowu and the others mistake him for Qian Li Zui, but seeing that his attire was completely different, they hesitated slightly and didn't open fire immediately. After taking a closer look, everyone saw that this person did look a bit like Qian Li Zui, but definitely wasn't him.

This person appeared to be pointed at by a pile of people holding bows and crossbows. After surveying the surroundings, he felt that the environment was very unfamiliar, and his face showed a look of surprise.

Ye Xiaowu and the others were in a quandary. This person was undoubtedly not Qian Li Zui, but the problem was that he really had a resemblance to Qian Li Zui. This appearance was a bit too coincidental, wasn't it?

Just as they didn't know what to do, a person squeezed out of a corner by the wall and called out to the guy who had appeared in the tavern bathed in white light, "Why did you run here?"

The person turned his head when he heard the voice. Seeing Gu Fei, he was also quite surprised, and then asked, "Where is this?"

This question confused Gu Fei as well. He looked at him and said, "Are you still dreaming?"

The person's expression was indeed very dazed, and he once again looked around blankly.

Ye Xiaowu and the others didn't have the leisure to watch Gu Fei chat with people. As soon as they saw Gu Fei appear, they ruthlessly opened fire again. Of course, Gu Fei dared to come out because he was also prepared. He leaped and flipped behind a table again. The tables had been piled together by Broken Water Arrow and the others during their search, making them even denser. Gu Fei disappeared without even knocking over the tables. The veterans cried. They remembered a saying: "You reap what you sow..."

While the veterans were preparing to attack Gu Fei, they saw that this newcomer knew Gu Fei, and they were worried that he would help him. Several people pointed their bows and crossbows at him.

The person was very unhappy and said to the people pointing at him, "What are you pointing at me for? He's over there!"

Over there, Lao Lei and Da Lei launched another wave of bombs. Gu Fei poked his head out from the firelight and cursed at the guy, "Gu Xian, you're too unkind. If you're not going to help me, don't frame me!"

Gu Xian didn't care. He calmly walked towards the wall in the midst of the veterans' hail of bullets. The veterans realized that he wasn't going to help Gu Fei, so he naturally wasn't their enemy. Seeing him rashly shuttle through the line of fire, they were worried for him. One person noticed that Gu Xian was about to step into the path of an arrow and shouted, "Be careful!" But then they saw Gu Xian casually raise his hand and deflect the arrow to the side.

Everyone looked at this suddenly appearing strange person in surprise. Gu Fei, seeing this scene from the pile of tables, was also filled with emotion. Logically speaking, Gu Xian never practiced kung fu, so he shouldn't have such a quick reaction. But there was no way around it. This guy's reactions were naturally fast. Otherwise, how could he be called a genius? But this move just now seemed to show that his reaction speed had increased. Thinking about this, Gu Fei stuck his head out again and shouted, "Your reactions are pretty fast. Did you get good at it from playing games?"

The veterans fainted. Gu Fei had indeed moved again in the pile of tables. This time, his head was poking out from a different location than before. Poor Lao Lei and Da Lei were still bombarding the previous location like fools!

Gu Xian ignored Gu Fei and walked to the wall, asking a player who was watching the show, "Where is this?"

"White Foam Tavern," the other person replied, looking at Gu Xian strangely.

"I mean, which main city?" Gu Xian said.

"White Stone City."

"Damn!" Gu Xian cursed angrily. Only then did he have the time to look back at Ye Xiaowu and his group. These guys had once again expanded their encirclement in preparation to surround Gu Fei, but this time, to prevent him from slipping into the crowd again, they had asked the players near the corners of the wall for their cooperation from the start. Gu Xian looked at them and asked the player next to him, "Who are these people?"

"I don't know!"

Gu Xian couldn't get an answer, so he simply shouted, "Gu Fei, what trouble have you caused again? Can't you be peaceful?"

Before Gu Fei could answer, Ye Xiaowu's heart skipped a beat. This guy calling Qian Li Zui wasn't using the game ID. Gu Fei… was that Qian Li Zui's real name? In that case, they knew each other in real life, so it was impossible for him not to help! Nowadays, times were changing rapidly, and the internet was becoming more and more accepted by people. And friends made online might not be any less close than those in real life. But friends in real life were, after all, people you saw frequently. For example, if this person was your colleague, even if you weren't very close, if they asked you for a favor in the game, you couldn't refuse, or it would be awkward when you met at work the next day, which would be very detrimental to unity! If this person was your boss, you would hate him, but you would still have to help.

Relationships online might be based more on pure emotion, while interpersonal relationships in real life often involved a mixture of interests, so the two couldn't be compared on the same level.

Therefore, when Ye Xiaowu realized that Gu Xian and Gu Fei knew each other in real life, he immediately became wary of him. And this person had just swatted away an arrow with one hand. Was that something an ordinary person could do? Could it be…

Ye Xiaowu looked at Gu Xian, while Gu Fei, although he couldn't be seen, his voice flew out from the pile of tables, adding commentary like a voice-over: "This person is called Hong Chen Yi Xiao (Worldly Grin), a game developer. He said I'm affecting the game balance and came to harmonize me."

"Hong Chen Yi Xiao? Which one?" Gu Fei only spoke but didn't point, so Gu Xian still didn't know which one was Hong Chen Yi Xiao. He just noticed that someone had been staring at him, so he couldn't help but look at Ye Xiaowu. "Is it you?"

Ye Xiaowu nodded.

"You're a game developer, right?" Gu Xian said as he walked over. "I have some suggestions for your game."

Ye Xiaowu had been wary and didn't intend to get close to Gu Xian. Who knew that he would say such a thing? Before he could react, Gu Xian continued, "I accept that you forcefully disconnect me, fine me, deduct levels, deduct skill proficiency, and confiscate equipment, but you can't randomly teleport me! I forcefully disconnected in Xiawu City, but now I'm online in… what city is this?" Gu Xian turned his head and asked the player from before again.

"White Stone City," that person replied blankly.

"White Stone City… Hmm, why am I in White Stone City when I come online? Does forced disconnection do this? You didn't state that! I disconnect every day, and I've never encountered this before! What's going on? How many cities away is this from Xiawu City?" The distance between cities in the game was basically the same, so players said the distance between two cities in "cities." One city meant two adjacent main cities, and two cities meant that there was one city in between.

"Three cities…" Ye Xiaowu replied.

"Three cities? Damn!!!" Gu Xian had already reached Ye Xiaowu's side by this time. Hearing this answer, he immediately went berserk and grabbed Ye Xiaowu's neck.

"You randomly teleport people three cities away? Do you have any sense of responsibility? I disconnect every day because I don't want to walk that road. Now you want me to walk three cities back to Xiawu City? Are you looking to die?" Gu Xian roared. This guy's ID, Feng Xian (Wind String), was also one of the top ten Fighters and a well-known expert in the game. Ye Xiaowu, a weak little Priest, was like a chicken in his hands. Ye Xiaowu's face turned green. When this person started giving suggestions, he was quite attentive, but he didn't expect him to be talking about this. And he changed his face so quickly. He was still so amiable at the beginning, and then suddenly…

Damn, my health is dropping… Ye Xiaowu realized that his neck was being squeezed tightly by this guy, causing a slight amount of damage. His health was slowly dropping, and what was worse was this feeling of near suffocation, which was very uncomfortable!!!

Broken Water Arrow and the others weren't far from Ye Xiaowu, but they didn't expect this guy to suddenly go berserk and capture Ye Xiaowu. These veterans' deeply ingrained thoughts came up again. No one opened fire on Gu Xian at first. Instead, they reached out and gently gestured for Gu Xian to calm down, saying, "Don't mess around!"

The formation that was originally surrounding Gu Fei quickly changed, turning to surround Gu Xian in the center of the circle. Gu Fei stood up blankly from the pile of tables, looking at the situation and saying, "Does taking hostages actually work?"

These words reminded Broken Water Arrow and the others. That's right, it's just a game. People die and are resurrected, so what's the point of taking hostages? Everyone thought about it and prepared to forcibly rescue the hostage. Gu Xian saw through these people's intentions and quickly reached out to stop them, saying, "Wait, I haven't finished talking."

Everyone stopped subconsciously. Gu Xian continued to ask Ye Xiaowu, "If I let you go, can you send me back to where I disconnected last time?"

Of course, that was impossible, especially since Ye Xiaowu had already resigned. But that forced disconnection would cause errors in the preservation of the disconnection location was something that Ye Xiaowu was also encountering for the first time. Being teleported three cities away was indeed infuriating, and Ye Xiaowu could understand that. But the problem was that, from what this guy was saying, he frequently disconnected forcefully, and his equipment, money, levels, and skills had definitely been confiscated, but he didn't care about any of that. Why was he so angry about being teleported this time? Compared to those, being teleported was nothing!

Ye Xiaowu was surprised, but he felt his throat loosen as Gu Xian slightly relaxed his grip, allowing him to speak.

Ye Xiaowu immediately shook his head. "That's impossible."

Not to mention that Ye Xiaowu had already resigned, even if he was still working, he wouldn't do that even if he had the authority. Players were responsible for any consequences caused by forced disconnection. This was something the game company had been emphasizing, and they wouldn't give anyone special treatment.

Broken Water Arrow and the others looked at Gu Xian. They had already received a negative answer, and they wanted to see what he would say. But Gu Xian didn't say anything. He grabbed Ye Xiaowu's neck again, tossed him away like trash, and he fell into the pile of tables and chairs that looked like a garbage dump. Everyone stared at him, wanting to see what kind of embarrassing scene would result. But the white light rose the instant he fell, and Ye Xiaowu was instantly killed.

Ordinary players were surprised by the damage from this body slam, not expecting this randomly appearing guy to be such a ruthless character.

This guy was indeed ruthless, but the ordinary players' thinking was wrong. His ruthlessness was in the fact that he had also added punches and kicks to Ye Xiaowu's body the moment he threw him out. Ordinary players didn't notice it, but how could experts like Gu Fei not see it?

"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" Gu Fei shook his head and flipped out from the pile of tables, looking at Gu Xian with disdain and saying, "It's not good to take your anger out on others."

Gu Xian's expression was surprisingly helpless. He sighed and said, "Three cities away… my heart is dead…"

"You're just lazy to death!" Gu Fei ignored him and instead looked at Broken Water Arrow and the others. "What's the deal? Are we going to continue?"

To be honest, Gu Fei didn't have any ill feelings towards this group of veterans. He could tell that they were all straightforward men. Hong Chen Yi Xiao was Broken Water Arrow's friend. These people would naturally go to great lengths for their friends, upholding the word "loyalty," which had been praised as a virtue since ancient times but was often mocked in today's world.

People couldn't live up to these two words, so they criticized them more, saying they were remnants of feudalism, and so on, all while standing on the high ground of right and wrong, expounding on the destructiveness of these two words.

But even laws were nothing more than human sentiment. If one only emphasized rules and regulations without any human touch, then one would not be a person, but rather a system in a parallel world…

Gu Fei looked at this group of veterans, knowing that they would never give up like this. The sacrifice of a comrade was originally the most painful thing for these people, but at this moment, in the game, the veterans felt a great sense of happiness when they thought that their sacrificed comrade could be reborn at the resurrection point. However, every time this happened, everyone would think of the comrades who had given their lives on the real and cruel battlefield, and their expressions would be a little黯然 for a moment. But soon everyone had adjusted their mindset. As soon as Gu Fei finished speaking, those who were holding bows, those who were holding crossbows, and those who were throwing bombs immediately launched an attack.

Kaishenfu (Mountain-Splitting Axe), who considered himself to be relatively skilled in close combat, saw that Gu Xian was obviously also a trained martial artist, so he gave up on long-range shooting and bravely rushed forward.

Gu Xian and Gu Fei both came from the Gu family, so their kung fu naturally came from the same source. But in the game, the two had a significant difference: Gu Xian had strength, while Gu Fei didn't.

As a result, the two had completely different fighting styles. Kaishenfu also chose the Fighter class, so he didn't have any advantage in strength over Gu Xian. The two exchanged blows, which was quite similar to the battle between Baisijinglun (Hundred Worlds Sutra) and Kaishenfu in the morning. But Gu Xian actually knew kung fu, but he didn't actually practice it. He didn't have those deeply ingrained inhibitions that Gu Fei and others had developed during their martial arts training. Just look at how he grabbed Ye Xiaowu's throat as soon as he made a move, and you could tell that this guy was very violent when he used kung fu.

Kaishenfu had an even more direct feeling about this. This martial artist was very different from Gu Fei and Baisijinglun. This guy was gouging eyes, digging hearts, and kicking crotches. He really used whatever was most vicious. If this were taken to reality, he would be trying to kill them! Although Kaishenfu had lost to Gu Fei in the morning, he had only exchanged a few blows with Gu Fei, so he didn't know much about him. On the other hand, his fierce battle with Baisijinglun had allowed him to learn something about Baisijinglun.

It was during the process of fighting with Baisijinglun that he had discovered that most martial artists' moves avoided the heavy and sought the light. They were full of skills, but their damage was low. Even after Gu Fei had refuted his ideas and defeated him, it was due to such an unserious thing as "holding grapes," and the final move Gu Fei used to kill him still relied on the sudden change in the game's skills. So he still had doubts about kung fu.

These doubts were finally dispelled in the process of fighting with Gu Xian.

Gu Xian knew all of the Gu family's moves, but he didn't practice them in his life, nor did he spar with anyone. Naturally, no one had given him any instructions, so he didn't have those thoughts that Gu Fei or Baisijinglun had. He truly used whatever move he wanted to use, without holding back or being polite, with the sole purpose of killing you.

After five rounds, the two exchanged attacks and defense; after ten rounds, Kaishenfu had already fallen into a disadvantage; after fifteen rounds, Kaishenfu felt a chill in his heart. Like Gu Fei, he often thought about "what would happen if this were real" when fighting with people. He usually just thought about this, but when he was fighting with Gu Xian, the more he thought about it, the colder he felt. After fighting this person, if he didn't die, he would definitely be skinned, boned, blinded, have his ears cut off, and have his chicken chopped off. This was even more terrifying than death!

The overwhelming momentum he had when fighting Baisijinglun had gradually disappeared at this time due to the chill in his heart. Kaishenfu had finally witnessed the terror of kung fu in actual combat. He completely believed what Gu Fei had said before: "What you have mastered is just a quick way to make money. If you really want to spend your energy on this, you don't have the time."

After twenty rounds, Kaishenfu was finally grabbed by Gu Xian and thrown out again with a body slam, but this time he wasn't killed. Instead, he was used as a hidden weapon to smash into Lao Lei and Da Lei, who were throwing bombs. Lao Lei and Da Lei stopped their spell bombardment to dodge. Gu Xian looked at the sea of fire created by the two with disdain. "You're so pathetic. Do you dare to come out and fight someone directly? You've completely disgraced the Gu family."

"Damn, so you only know how to deal with one person." Gu Fei's voice came from another place. The veterans were once again driven mad. They were already staring closely enough! How did he move again? This teleportation skill is too cheap! What kind of realistic game is this! It's not scientific at all!

The veterans could also see that Gu Xian was a ruthless character who was not inferior to Gu Fei, but after all, their primary mission was to deal with Gu Fei. They didn't want to cause any trouble with unrelated people, so the focus of their attack wasn't on Gu Xian. Kaishenfu went over to greet him proactively, and the others didn't help him anymore.

At this time, Kaishenfu had been defeated, and Gu Fei was still running around in the pile of tables. This was too difficult to deal with.

"Break them down one by one!" Sniper sent a message in the channel. Everyone nodded in agreement. They no longer insisted on fighting with Gu Fei. Everyone turned their arrows to Gu Xian, who was standing in front of them. But then they saw Gu Xian leap and dive into the pile of tables on the side with an extremely smooth motion.

"Pathetic…" Gu Fei, seeing Gu Xian do the same thing as him, was very disdainful.

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I wrote really fast today!!! It seems like it only took two hours. Am I in great shape? To celebrate this state, I call for monthly tickets!