A seasoned veteran, Bao Du Fengshuang quickly recognized that these leveling players were taking down monsters at an unusual pace. Although not significantly faster than himself, Bao Du Fengshuang understood that his speed came from his extravagant equipment, while theirs was purely due to honed skills.
This efficient leveling method completely negated the advantages high-end equipment gave to expert players, leaving Bao Du Fengshuang with a sour taste. He also realized that these techniques weren't very useful for him; with his damage already far exceeding ordinary players due to his equipment, the techniques wouldn't provide much substantial improvement.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xiaowu noticed Bao Du Fengshuang's interest in the efficient leveling method and asked.
"Without this leveling method, many people here wouldn't be strong enough to fight these monsters," Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"That's right..." Ye Xiaowu said, frustrated. "That's why Qian Li Yizui is always causing trouble for the game."
"In that case, what's the point of high-level equipment?" Bao Du Fengshuang said, merely expressing a feeling. But as soon as the words left his mouth, he realized: high-level equipment wasn't pointless. Efficient leveling combined with high-level equipment would allow players to challenge higher-level leveling zones. The value of high-level equipment could never be erased.
Efficient leveling was something worth paying attention to. Although Bao Du Fengshuang understood that they and Feichang Nitian were already on bad terms and wouldn't normally be able to obtain such a leveling method, there were still many ways to acquire it. Like now, after watching for a while, he had already figured out some of the basics.
Bao Du Fengshuang had figured out some of the basics, but the players who were leveling were not happy. These two had said they were just passing by, but they had been standing there for a long time. A player who seemed to be a leader walked over with an unhappy expression: "Gentlemen, if you're just passing by, please leave quickly."
Bao Du Fengshuang was stunned for a moment but quickly understood their thoughts. These people wanted to keep the efficient leveling method as their own secret, so they didn't want others to learn it by watching. If he lingered any longer, they might resort to violence.
Bao Du Fengshuang was also sensible. He quickly said goodbye to Ye Xiaowu and continued forward. Within the crowd of leveling players, many exchanged glances, and soon someone secretly followed.
As the area changed, the number of players gradually decreased. Before, there were still level 44 and 45 monsters mixed in, but now they were all question marks, and the types of monsters were completely different, clearly indicating a new leveling zone. And here, the number of leveling players had decreased significantly. Bao Du Fengshuang carefully observed that those who could level here were all teams of players, and they were no longer using the efficient leveling method. They were relying on the team's focus fire to fight more enemies with fewer players.
With fewer players, there were naturally more monsters in the leveling zone, which greatly increased the difficulty of avoiding them. But Bao Du Fengshuang followed behind Ye Xiaowu, and as he followed his winding path, he didn't trigger a single monster. Bao Du Fengshuang quickly realized that this trashy priest seemed to know a great deal about the activity range and aggro distance of the monsters in this high-level zone. That was how he was able to lead Bao Du Fengshuang all the way without incident. This made Bao Du Fengshuang somewhat incredulous. How could such a low-level priest be so familiar with this high-level zone? Bao Du Fengshuang was also an expert at fighting monsters above his level, but he wouldn't be so confident in avoiding all the monsters in this high-level zone like this guy.
They continued to walk like this until the priest finally stopped, looked ahead, and turned to Bao Du Fengshuang: "We can only go this far. If we continue to avoid monsters like this, I'm not confident that something won't go wrong."
"What level are the monsters here?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked.
"Around level 52," Ye Xiaowu replied.
Bao Du Fengshuang estimated that they were now in a zone above level 50, because the types of monsters were clearly changing again.
"After coming this far, I think you can see that we're constantly moving towards higher-level zones, right? From here on, we'll probably have to fight our way through," Ye Xiaowu said.
"Passing through the level 60 zone will get us to Cloudrise City?" Bao Du Fengshuang suddenly became wary again. What if everyone fought their way through the level 60 zone, and then it was followed by a level 70 zone? Fighting monsters thirty levels higher was probably futile even with a large number of people. Maybe they weren't planning an ambush, but just wanted to lead them into a pile of level 70 monsters, which would result in total annihilation without even gaining any PK value.
"After that is the Cloudrise City area," Ye Xiaowu nodded. The two of them had been walking for over an hour.
"Then where is the level 70 leveling zone?" Bao Du Fengshuang didn't hide his suspicion and asked directly, hoping the other would give him an explanation.
"Level 70? That's over there..." Ye Xiaowu was about to point but suddenly realized that Bao Du Fengshuang wasn't really asking for that answer. He smiled and said, "Are you afraid that there will be a level 70 zone after this? It's okay, we can try walking from Cloudrise City again. Remember the coordinates of this location. I think that from the distance between the two coordinates, you should be able to determine whether there is a level 70 leveling zone in between, right?"
This method wasn't bad, but Bao Du Fengshuang still worried that the other was putting on a calm facade to bluff him. He immediately nodded: "Okay, let's go to Cloudrise City."
Ye Xiaowu sighed and pulled out another scroll from his bag. Bao Du Fengshuang saw that this trashy little priest was actually rich, using scrolls without a care, and he marveled.
The two disappeared in a flash, completely unaware that several players from Moonlit Night City had been following them. These Moonlit Night City players were originally from the Ten Guild Alliance. At that time, Yun Zhongmu had obtained a set of efficient leveling methods through his relationship with Jianguiren Gu Fei and others and popularized it. Now, times had changed, Yun Zhongmu was gone, and the Ten Guild Alliance had disbanded, but the efficient leveling method had been fully promoted. The various guilds that had split off from the Ten Guild Alliance were now training here. Everyone tacitly agreed to jointly protect this hard-earned efficient leveling method.
Seeing these two walking all the way to the high-level zone, the guilds all assumed that they had an even better efficient leveling method. They each sent thieves to follow and spy.
It was difficult for the thieves to keep up while sneaking, but Bao Du Fengshuang and his partner were avoiding monsters, stopping and going, so their speed wasn't fast. The thieves were able to follow them. But when they arrived at this place, the two didn't demonstrate any efficient leveling methods. After chatting for a few words, they teleported away.
"Damn, these two are crazy!!" The sneaking thief spoke into the air and immediately received a chorus of agreement from the others.
"Damn it, walking so far, what the hell!" The thief brothers had worked hard to follow for more than an hour, but in the end, they saw people taking a plane, leaving them stranded. They felt unbalanced.
"Let's go back." Someone canceled his stealth state, preparing to return to leveling as quickly as possible. The tragedy happened just like that. In stealth, thieves could greatly reduce the chance of being discovered by monsters, or at least, the aggro distance of the monsters would definitely be reduced. So, although they hadn't perfectly replicated Ye Xiaowu's route, stealth allowed them to get closer to the monsters. But now, as soon as he revealed himself and took a few steps back, the level 50 monster immediately showed its ferocious face and pounced on him, calling for its friends. Some of the more careful ones realized that this was a high-level zone and didn't even have time to remind those who were still trying to sneak back. Once the monster got close, stealth was useless, and they were still several levels lower! The poor stalking team was wiped out, and they had no one to complain to.
Bao Du Fengshuang followed Ye Xiaowu to Cloudrise City, immediately changed into his luxurious equipment, dressed plainly, and went to the streets. They repeated the previous two hours of walking and sightseeing in the leveling zone. The place where they stopped was roughly the same level, and Bao Du Fengshuang no longer doubted it. The span between the two coordinate zones definitely couldn't fit another large leveling zone. Even if there was a level 70 zone, it would definitely be small and not worth worrying about.
"Now you can finally completely believe me, right?" Ye Xiaowu sighed, just for this one thing, they had wasted many hours going back and forth.
"Thank you, but I still want to know why you're helping us," Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"Qian Li Yizui, as long as it's a plan to defeat him, I'm always happy for someone to contact me," Ye Xiaowu said.
"Oh..." Bao Du Fengshuang, like many others, immediately assumed that Ye Xiaowu was such a trashy, down-on-his-luck priest because he had been killed by Qian Li Yizui.
With the problem of the second route solved, Bao Du Fengshuang felt completely relieved. And during the several hours of travel, he hadn't been idle. While calling his friends to give them advance notice that they might have to help him with an expedition, he also learned about the progress of the other big shots.
The assassination squad had already been assembled yesterday and had already infiltrated Cloudrise City. All the scrolls were purchased from Yingqi Studio, and this time there were no mistakes. All the assassins who arrived in Cloudrise City were very safe, really safe. They had been in Cloudrise City for more than three hours and hadn't had a single battle. The two spotters contacted by Yinshazhi followed them around, working hard.
Tavern, trading area, auction house, leveling zone, guild hall, vocational college, warehouse.
They had visited all the places where people gathered, but they didn't see a single member of Feichang Nitian. The two spotters each had some Feichang Nitian members on their friend list, and according to them, none of them were online.
The assassins didn't believe this nonsense. Was it possible that not a single member of Feichang Nitian was online right now?
In fact, not a single member of Feichang Nitian was online. They had allowed Feichang Nitian free time when they logged off to sleep yesterday. Now that they were awake and online, all the members of Feichang Nitian were resting in bed!
The assassination squad ran around searching for a bunch of offline people, using up all their high morale. One by one, they slumped in the tavern, unwilling to go out and wander anymore. Each pushed the other, and their mantra was: You go find them, I'll do the killing.
"What about gathering more helpers? How's that going?" Yideng Diwen asked.
"Everyone is contacting their own people. I've also made my calls, but I can't count the exact number yet. But there's no rush, right? We still need to observe the effectiveness of the assassination first. How's your search for the second route going?" Yideng Diwen asked.
"No problem." Bao Du Fengshuang was refreshed by solving this problem.
"Oh?"
"It's just a little troublesome. We have to pass through a high-level leveling zone," Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"What level is it?"
"Level 60!"
"Oh, with so many of us, we can handle it," Yideng Diwen said.
"Hehe, to be honest, I don't even want to do that assassination thing. Let's gather people, get ten thousand of them, and launch a surprise attack on Cloudrise City. Cool!" Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"The assassination isn't going very well right now. It seems like the people from Feichang Nitian aren't around. Everyone has been busy for three hours and is getting impatient."
"Running around all day looking for people to kill, and searching for a few hundred people in a city with hundreds of thousands of residents. It's really difficult."
"Yinshazhi's idea is to divide the personnel into shifts, with everyone taking turns to wait for opportunities," Yideng Diwen said.
"Oh? Where will we be waiting?" Bao Du Fengshuang asked.
"The city gates. There are only four city gates. If most people are going out of the city to level up, then there's only one gate they'll use, a necessary route," Yideng Diwen said.
"I'm afraid they've already thought of this too," Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"That's right, I've always felt that our actions have been completely anticipated by them from the very beginning. They're always one step ahead of us, setting traps every time," Yideng Diwen said.
"There's an expert!" Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"Who could it be?" Yideng Diwen asked.
"Who it is doesn't matter at all. What does it matter if this kind of person is level zero? Unless you can go pull out their internet cable," Bao Du Fengshuang said.
"According to you, this trick of guarding the city gate probably won't be effective," Yideng Diwen said.
"Let's see. If the one who shows up is Qian Li Yizui, then need we say more?" Bao Du Fengshuang said.
This time, Bao Du Fengshuang finally guessed the enemy's plan correctly. Yinshazhi divided the assassins into shifts, leaving a small number of people lurking at the city gates, while the others could do whatever they wanted. They were all outsiders, and it was unlikely that the members of Feichang Nitian would recognize them even face to face.
They waited and waited, and countless shifts of people had changed at the gate. The only ones who couldn't be replaced were the two spotters. The two brothers had really received a lot of benefits for this, making everyone jealous.
Yinshazhi was also a guy who stood there from beginning to end. He hoped that he could fire the first shot in the assassination of Feichang Nitian.
They waited and waited until it was almost dark, and their stomachs were growling. The two spotters were about to close their eyes when finally, a member of Feichang Nitian appeared!
"Qian Li Yizui!" The two spotters sent the message at the same time.
Yinshazhi was extremely depressed. He had finally waited for someone, but it was this untouchable plague god. Yinshazhi didn't dare to challenge this demon king and could only listlessly give instructions in the channel: "Act like you didn't see him."
"Avoid Qian Li Yizui" was the first item in the assassination squad's code of conduct.
They didn't want to see Qian Li Yizui, but Qian Li Yizui insisted on showing himself to them. He walked to the city gate, supported himself on the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, and stood there like a door god.
Who in Cloudrise City didn't recognize Qian Li Yizui? When Qian Li Yizui appeared, half the people on the street scattered. Now that he was standing at the city gate, it wasn't just Yinshazhi's assassination squad that wanted to avoid him.
The players watched from afar, wondering what the plague god was up to this time. Someone mustered the courage to go forward: "Boss Qian Li, what's up?"
"Waiting for someone," Gu Fei replied with a smile.
"Then can we... still go through this gate?" Gu Fei was standing right in the middle of the gate, and the players who wanted to enter or exit didn't dare to move for a moment.
"Go, why can't you go?" Gu Fei said, puzzled.
"Oh, oh, thank you," the man said.
"What are you thanking me for?" Gu Fei continued to be puzzled.
The players carefully entered and exited, strictly following traffic rules, keeping to the right and lining up against the wall, extremely orderly. Gu Fei stood in the middle, his eyes shining as he surveyed the left and right.
"This bastard... he might have seen through our intentions," Yinshazhi quickly realized this.
"Then should we retreat?" someone suggested.
"Wait a little longer, maybe he's really waiting for someone?" Yinshazhi said.
So the assassination squad continued to wait patiently. Finally, someone else came out, waving and shouting at Gu Fei from afar. Yinshazhi and the others breathed a sigh of relief: "Damn, he really is waiting for someone. Damn, he's fucking hitting on a girl!"
The person who came was Xiyaowu. She had been shouting from two hundred meters away. When she reached Gu Fei's side, everyone expected the two to leave, but Xiyaowu also imitated Gu Fei's stance, standing in the middle of the road with her hands on her hips.
"What are you doing here?" Gu Fei asked.
Xiyaowu scanned the surroundings with shining eyes: "Waiting for someone."
Gu Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He sent a message in the channel: "Who told her to come too?"
"No one told her to come. She just asked where you were," Jianguiren said.
"Sister Xi's intuition is very sharp. She's already realized that where you are, something is about to happen," Yutian Shenming said.
"So she went straight there after asking where you were," Zhan Wushang said.
"Who told her I was here?" Gu Fei asked.
"Who's the one who loves to sell information the most? Can you guess who it is?" Yutian Shenming asked.
"Oh, it seems like I made a few mistakes in a post on the forum. I'll go down and fix it first," You Ge flashed.
"Is there a problem with her coming?" Jianguiren asked.
"She's too cruel!" Gu Fei said.
"Did you hear that? He's saying someone else is cruel, how shameless!" Han Jia Gongzi seemed to be talking to himself.
"Hahaha, that's the same as you saying he's shameless," Yutian Shenming once again spoke out of turn. The channel was very quiet, extremely quiet.
"Attention, there are suspicious people." A sudden situation saved Yutian Shenming's life.
"I see them." Gu Fei seemed to be just standing there casually, but from the moment he stood there, he had completely seen the distribution of players in the area. The newcomers and the old ones couldn't escape his eyes. At this moment, several people suddenly stood up to leave. Han Jia Gongzi, watching from afar, and Gu Fei, watching up close, both immediately noticed it.
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