Chapter 36 An Extraordinary Person

"Come, come, come!!!" Shui Shen enthusiastically acted as the middleman, beckoning Old Duan, and then greeting Gu Fei and Jian Gui, his diligent attitude comparable to a professional matchmaker.

"This is Old Duan, whom I've been telling you about all the way." Shui Shen first introduced Duan Shui Jian to Gu Fei and Jian Gui.

"Hello." Duan Shui Jian shook hands with Jian Gui first, then extended his hand to Gu Fei, "Hello."

"Hello..." Gu Fei reached out and shook his hand at the same time, his eyes quickly scanning the other person's hand, and when he looked up, he saw Duan Shui Jian's eyes also moving away from his hand. Gu Fei smiled slightly and let go of his hand.

"These two!!" Shui Shen's volume suddenly increased by eight degrees, startling the three people present.

"This one, Jian Gui, Old Duan, if you've had any contact with the game, you can't have not heard his name. This is everyone's recognized number one online game expert, and also my good brother for many years." Shui Shen introduced Jian Gui.

Jian Gui quickly became modest, saying things like, "No, no, that's all in the past."

"This one!! Qian Li Zui! How about it, Old Duan, do you already know who he is?" Shui Shen said.

"Oh... I know, I know, I've heard of him for a long time." Old Duan said. Obviously, in the game Parallel World, Gu Fei's reputation was much greater than Jian Gui's, and as time went by, his name became less and less of a secret.

Looking at Shui Shen's excited appearance, Gu Fei now realized that introducing Old Duan to the two of them was a child's way of showing off, and conversely, introducing the two of them to Old Duan was still a kind of showing off... This guy.

And Shui Shen, having had his fill of showing off, finally returned to a normal state of mind, looked at the two of them and said, "By the way, you came to find me specifically, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, we just passed by Lin Yin City, came to see you, and thought if you weren't busy, we could get together, but looking at you, you seem quite busy." Jian Gui said.

"That's right, now this city war is still unknown, we have to speed up our research and practice, when we become the master of this city, you come over again, let me properly fulfill the duties of a host." Shui Shen put his arm around Jian Gui's shoulder and said happily.

"Okay, okay, you're busy, you're busy, we'll leave first." Jian Gui bid farewell to Shui Shen.

"Take care, I won't see you off." Shui Shen waved goodbye to the two of them, and immediately plunged into the bushes, continuing to study jungle warfare with his soldiers.

"That Duan Shui Jian, he's not an ordinary person!" Seeing that they had gone far, Gu Fei said to Jian Gui.

"How so?"

"His body is very strong, his finger joints are thick, and his skin is rough." Gu Fei said.

"This... what does it mean?" Jian Gui said.

"He's trained, and he's trained in an unusual way." Gu Fei said.

"No, the characteristics you mentioned, I think some people engaged in heavy physical labor would also have, for example, migrant workers." Jian Gui said.

"The key is in his handshake." Gu Fei said, "The strength is just right, not too much, not too little, which shows that he has considerable skill in controlling his strength. This is definitely a quality developed through specialized training."

"Really? I didn't notice." Jian Gui looked at his right hand, which had also shaken hands with Duan Shui Jian, and he didn't feel that Duan Shui Jian's handshake was any different from ordinary people.

"Of course, this is also something that only people who have undergone specialized training can feel." Gu Fei said.

"In that case, this person must also be very powerful in PK." Jian Gui had a tragic expression on his face. He thought of Bai Shi Jing Lun, thought of Gu Xian, these trained guys are completely not in the same league as ordinary players.

"That's not necessarily the case." Gu Fei said, "I see that his waist, abdomen, thighs, and neck are all obviously thicker, which shows that this guy is strength-based. If he chose to be a warrior, he might be even more difficult to deal with, but he's an archer now, and his advantage is agility, which doesn't match his usual style!" After such a long time playing the game, Gu Fei wouldn't just blindly focus on his kung fu. Being in this environment, he also needed to master the necessary game rules. How to combine kung fu with the game's professions, attributes, and skills was the main topic Gu Fei was studying now.

"You can even use Appraisal on people!" Jian Gui was very surprised.

"No! I didn't use it." Gu Fei said.

"Then how do you know he's an archer?" Jian Gui said.

"You listen to his name, Duan Shui Jian, he's destined to be an archer..." Gu Fei said.

"There's no such thing!" Jian Gui wiped his sweat.

"But he is an archer, isn't he?" Gu Fei smiled.

"That's right, he's a marksman, but your way of judging..."

"Hehe, I'm kidding, I saw the bow on his back." Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui was speechless.

"Are you really going to give up on this task?" Gu Fei finally confirmed.

"Give up, I guess!" Jian Gui sighed, "He’s Shui Shen’s friend, and it's a personal task."

"Have you considered why the Assassin Alliance would designate him as your assassination target?" Gu Fei said.

"What do you mean?" Jian Gui asked.

"Isn't there a saying? 'People are doing it, Heaven is watching.' Of course, there's no such thing as Heaven in reality, but in the game, the system is Heaven. No matter what you do, you can hide it from anyone, but you can't hide it from the system." Gu Fei said.

"You mean... this guy is also like that Apple Vinegar, a PK maniac who kills like flies?" Jian Gui said.

"I certainly don't know the specifics, but I think that the system's tasks can't just randomly assign you to kill some John Doe. The system turns a blind eye to PK, but it shouldn't manipulate and encourage it from behind like this. Especially since this game has such heavy PK penalties." Gu Fei said.

"You're getting more and more knowledgeable about the game's settings and rules." Jian Gui was gratified. Sometimes, Gu Fei's newbie behavior really made these experts want to vomit blood.

"No, I've just seen too much of the pain players suffer after being PK'd..." Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui was silent for a long time and then said, "What you said makes sense. For example, the two-way tasks, this kind of PK confrontation created behind the scenes by the system weakens the PK penalty. From here, you should be able to see the system's attitude, and their understanding of PK is also very clear. In addition, losing a level after one death, this kind of penalty is indeed quite heavy, but there's no way around it. Parallel World is not like previous games, where new servers could be added every month or even every week, and new players could go to the new server and stand on the same starting line as other new players. In Parallel World, everyone is in the same world on one server, and new players will always be behind old players by a certain amount of time. This super-heavy death penalty, I think, is a kind of suppression of old players, so that we don't get too far away from new players. The difficult high-experience setting for leveling up should also be for this purpose. And I dare say that this game will definitely have a level cap, it can't go on endlessly."

Jian Gui was worthy of being an old-timer in online games for many years. Without talking about the game content, he was also very knowledgeable when it came to game operation methods.

"There's a level cap? Then the current level experience rankings are meaningless?" Gu Fei said.

"That?" Jian Gui laughed, "That's just for the current stage of development, to stimulate players to go online more and spend more money. When everyone reaches the level cap and it loses its meaning, there will naturally be other rankings to stimulate everyone's competition, don't worry!" Jian Gui said.

Gu Fei sighed. Looking at Jian Gui, he clearly saw through the methods of online game operation and the tricks to lure players, but he was still addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself. Was this the legendary love until you die?

"Well, the topic has gone too far, let's just say, what are you going to do about this Duan Shui Jian task?" Gu Fei said.

"Uh..." Jian Gui thought and thought, and looked at Gu Fei: "To be honest, did you discover that this is a strong person, so you want to fight him, so you're encouraging me here!"

"Nonsense! How could I be that kind of person." Gu Fei said righteously.

Jian Gui continued to look at Gu Fei, and finally spat out two words: "Hard to say..."

"What you said, of course I have to help you when you really can't handle it!" Gu Fei said.

"Let's check this guy's background first, and if there's really something wrong, then we'll take action." Jian Gui finally decided.

"Go to Brother You?" Gu Fei felt a chill. To go to Brother You for a fresh, unexperienced mission, that guy would follow and report on the whole process, right... Fighting with Brother You was no problem, but doing a task with this guy was a kind of torture, because he had too many questions, wanted to know too much, and would break a task into pieces and study it to death... In a game where leveling up through tasks wasn't slow, a person who knew the most information in the game and had a lot of online time every day, but whose level ranking was never prominent, there was a reason for this!

"Just randomly pointing out a player's name and asking Brother You to investigate, it might be too difficult." Jian Gui said.

"That's true, if it was one of the top ten, it might be simpler." Gu Fei said.

"It's a pity he's not..." Jian Gui said.

"Of course he's not..." Gu Fei also nodded.

If Duan Shui Jian was one of the top ten archers, then Yu Tian Shen Ming, as one of the top ten, couldn't possibly not know. He would definitely point it out and strongly demand that Jian Gui work hard to complete the task and kill him, weakening Yu Tian Shen Ming's competitor.

"Then where do we start investigating?" Gu Fei looked at this experienced online game veteran.

"Of course, we start by asking the people around him." Jian Gui said, "Let's go ask Ke Ke!"

"Who is that?" Gu Fei asked in confusion.

"Shui Shen's wife, have you forgotten?" Jian Gui said.

"Have I met her?" Gu Fei asked back.

Jian Gui thought about it, and he didn't remember whether he had introduced this girl to Gu Fei. (Okay, I admit, the author doesn't remember either)

"What's the difference between asking her and asking Shui Shen directly?" Gu Fei asked.

"The difference is that they are not the same person..." Jian Gui replied.

"Isn't she going to tell Shui Shen again?" Gu Fei said.

"That depends on what it is. This matter shouldn't." Jian Gui said.