Chapter 1 In Disguise

After determining the direction of things, the Rebirth Amethyst girls acted swiftly. How Luo Luo spread the word, no one knew, but the guild channel was abuzz. Besides Wuyue Huakai coming, they even organized a group of onlookers, each claiming to be a technical advisor. Gu Fei didn't bother with them, as his slip of the tongue, "Yue-zi girl," was being fiercely hammered by the girls. Later, Liuyue de Yu saved him, watching the girls poke fun at Gu Fei. Liuyue de Yu looked utterly bewildered and said, "What are you doing? I'm the Yue-zi girl!"

"Xiao Yu!" Luo Luo and the others didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Xiao Yu, you're a true bro!" Gu Fei escaped the encirclement.

"It's the truth!" Liuyue de Yu said.

"I'll take you on a big mission later!" Gu Fei promised.

"What big mission?" Liuyue de Yu's eyes sparkled.

"It's very complex, and you might even have to dive to the bottom of the lake. Sounds fun, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Fun!" Liuyue de Yu had never experienced such a mission and was exceptionally excited. Gui Tong couldn't bear to watch and rolled his eyes at Gu Fei, who ignored him. It was the truth, after all!

Wuyue Huakai arrived with her sightseeing and technical advisor group, and Gu Fei was immediately surrounded. Everyone began a fierce discussion about updating Gu Fei's appearance. Gu Fei was extremely embarrassed and cast pleading glances around, only to be met with a bunch of gloating eyes. Seeing Gu Fei rendered helpless was a rare treat, even for acquaintances like Yu Tian Shen Ming. The seven members of Jian Gui Nan appeared serious, but they were already frantically spreading the news in private.

"The heavens have opened their eyes!!!" The seven felt a sense of vindication. They had been directly suppressed by Gu Fei in the past, so why not enjoy his unusual situation now!

Amidst the cheerful atmosphere, the head makeup artist, Wuyue Huakai, held Gu Fei's head and examined it carefully before saying, "Actually, it doesn't need to be that complicated. I think if we just shorten the hair, trim the eyebrows, and add some eyeliner... What are your requirements for the lip shape?" Wuyue Huakai had gotten into character and was asking her client.

"I have no requirements..." Gu Fei said with a dark expression.

Wuyue Huakai actually pulled a large sheet of paper from her pocket, opened it to reveal various hand-drawn lip shapes, and spread it out in front of Gu Fei. "Take a look, mainly at the ones at the bottom. The others are too different from you. Don't even think about it."

"Whatever!" Gu Fei said weakly.

"Whatever? What if you end up not liking it?" Wuyue Huakai said.

"To be frank, I won't like it no matter what you do," Gu Fei said.

Wuyue Huakai pouted. "Did you think men don't need makeup? Actually, a little makeup can make a man look more radiant. You have a pretty good base. Have you ever done a photoshoot?"

"No!" Gu Fei said.

"Oh, so you've never worn makeup before? No wonder you're so resistant. Let me try something on you first and see how it looks," Wuyue Huakai said.

"No, let's just do it all at once. So many people are waiting for the mission!" Gu Fei said.

Gu Fei was a hundred times unwilling and a thousand times uncooperative. If he wasn't clear that he would be exposed if he didn't do this, he would have jumped up and fled long ago. Wuyue Huakai sensed Gu Fei's emotions and was quite unhappy, so she didn't say much. She took out some substitute tools that could be obtained from the game and started working on him.

Seeing Gu Fei's extreme resistance, Luo Luo finally offered some comfort. "It's okay, it's just something done in the game. You can log off and log back on to restore your original appearance."

Players in the game could create their own styles, and the system would save them after logging off. However, to restore their real appearance, there was also a real scan option when logging on. Still, many players created styles in the game, especially hairstyles. Things they were too embarrassed to try in real life, everyone was eager to experiment with in the game. The girls kept their most beautiful makeup on every day, all thanks to the system's saving function. Once the makeup was applied offline, it was automatically saved online. As long as they didn't automatically refresh it, the makeup would be recorded forever, eliminating the need to reapply it every day. How wonderful was that? Of course, some girls didn't know how to do their own makeup, which gave artisans like Wuyue Huakai room to display their skills in the game. It was just that there were no cosmetics in the game itself; they all relied on the players' originality. Fortunately, in the game, there was no need to worry about skin damage or anything like that. They dared to use anything, and they could make it look quite convincing.

The surroundings were quiet, and everyone silently watched Wuyue Huakai work on Gu Fei's face. Only Gu Fei kept his eyes closed; he couldn't bear to witness it.

Just as they were halfway through, Luo Luo suddenly spoke up. "Wait, wait. Wu Wu, did you not understand what I meant? We want you to make him unremarkable, plain, and unnoticeable. Don't try to make him handsome!"

"Ah? Is that so..." Wuyue Huakai was depressed. She had seen Gu Fei's strong resistance to makeup and wanted to change his perception, but she didn't expect the situation to be different. Now, the makeup wasn't about looking good but about being unremarkable. It was about making him plain.

"Redo it, please. Sorry for the trouble," Luo Luo said.

At this moment, Huo Qiu shamelessly squeezed over. "Wu Wu, Miss, do you think you could help me with my makeup later?"

"What kind of look do you want?" Wuyue Huakai asked without turning her head.

"As handsome as possible, so handsome that the girls go crazy," Huo Qiu said.

Wuyue Huakai turned her head to look at Huo Qiu and asked, "Are you saying you want plastic surgery?"

Huo Qiu ran away in tears.

Gu Fei endured it, not saying a word, letting them do as they pleased. Wuyue Huakai wiped off the makeup she had just applied and started again. The crowd watched from the side. Sure enough, the redo was different. Although you could still recognize Gu Fei, he no longer had the same radiance as before, and that was just half of the previous makeup.

Wuyue Huakai finished and looked from a distance, saying to Luo Luo, "Is this okay? If we change the hairstyle a bit, and if people aren't staring too intently, I don't think he'll be easily recognized."

"Yeah, go ahead!" Luo Luo said.

"I don't know how to cut hair!" Wuyue Huakai said.

"Anyway, he won't save it, and it'll be back to normal next time. Just do something quick to get by," Luo Luo said.

"This..." Wuyue Huakai was troubled and really didn't know how to start.

"If you can't do it, I'll do it!" Someone volunteered.

Gu Fei recognized the voice, opened his eyes, and was shocked. "I don't believe you can do it!"

"That's right, she can't, and I can't either, but I have the courage. I'll do it." Xiyao Wu pulled out a dagger and came over.

"What do you mean by bringing a dagger?" Gu Fei said.

"Nonsense, do you think I'd have scissors on me?" Xiyao Wu said.

"You're just playing with me..." Gu Fei wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Okay, okay, just endure the pain!" Xiyao Wu grabbed Gu Fei's hair and hacked at it like she was cutting rice stalks. Now, both men and women couldn't bear to watch. Gu Fei couldn't imagine what kind of haircut Xiyao Wu was doing. He just felt her messing with the left side, then the right side, then the front, then the back, as if she was pursuing something...

"Done!" Xiyao Wu patted Gu Fei's head. Gu Fei stood up blankly and looked around. The players on both sides were staring at him in a daze.

"For the first time, it's not bad to be able to do this, right? Besides, the tools I have aren't easy to use either!" Xiyao Wu said.

"Thanks for your hard work," Luo Luo said.

Gu Fei walked through the crowd listlessly. He saw Jian Gui, who tried to hide, but Gu Fei instantly used Flash Step to block him. This was undoubtedly the most honest person, and Gu Fei wanted to know the truth from his mouth.

"How is it?" Gu Fei asked.

"At least the goal was achieved," Jian Gui said.

"What goal?"

"To not be easily recognized." Jian Gui turned his head away.

"Does anyone have a mirror?" Gu Fei really wanted to know.

"Actually, it's nothing. Xiao Wu's haircut... is just a bit silly," Luo Luo said.

"Describe it with a word," Gu Fei said.

"Uh... teapot lid?" Luo Luo looked around.

Everyone applauded. The analogy was too apt. Xiyao Wu was very proud that the hairstyle she created actually had a real-life prototype.

"Won't being too silly attract attention?" Gu Fei said.

"I don't think so..." Luo Luo said.

"Why?"

"Can't you see I'm avoiding looking at you now? I really don't want to look at you," Luo Luo said.

Gu Fei was in tears.

"Ahem, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's discuss the real business," Jian Gui said.

All the people preparing to adopt this plan began to gather, while the Rebirth Amethyst girls who had come to watch continued to discuss Gu Fei's makeup.

"Qian Li, come over here!" Jian Gui called out to Gu Fei, who was still stunned.

"Four Grand Guild Leaders, three Warriors, and Against the Tide, according to the data, is also a highly survivable Mage. Now we'll divide up the targets. Each of the four guild leaders, who will be responsible for each?" Jian Gui began to speak. "The situations of Yun Zhong Mu Di and Black Finger might be a bit outdated. Their current real strength is questionable. Before, Qian Li said that he and I would each take one, but the problem is that he already has Against the Tide's mission, and you can't accept two assassination missions at once. So if he makes the final blow, it must be on Against the Tide. If he kills anyone else, it would be wasting the opportunity to complete the mission."

"Oh, I forgot about that..." Gu Fei, as expected of someone who practiced martial arts, quickly focused his mind. Once the matter was important, he temporarily forgot about the troubles of his teapot lid hairstyle.

"Can we cancel it and accept it again? I'll have the girls still in the city try it," Luo Luo said.

"Try it!" Jian Gui nodded.

"Against the Tide's kill, you guys said you had no problem just now?" Jian Gui asked the group with Xiyao Wu.

"No problem!" The group was confident. Responsible for killing Against the Tide were Xiyao Wu, followed by Gui Tong, Yan Xiaozhu, Lie Lie, and Yun Xiang.

"I thought of a problem," Gu Fei suddenly said.

"What?" Everyone asked.

"Actually, I'm not the only one who's easy to recognize. For example, Jian Nan You. You should know Wushi Zhi Jian, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Ah..." Jian Nan You was stunned. He had indeed dealt with Wushi Zhi Jian in Linshui City, but he wasn't sure if he had been recognized.

"And you girls, are you sure the people from these four major guilds won't recognize you?" Gu Fei said.

"This is simple. We can just put on makeup," the girls said.

Then everyone looked at Jian Nan You, who cried, "You're dragging me down with you!"

"And people like Yu Tian Shen Ming!" Gu Fei said. "Are there any of these guild leaders who don't know him?"

Yu Tian Shen Ming wanted to run, but You Ge, who saw through his intentions, quickly stopped him.

"Oh, right, and You Ge..." Gu Fei said.

"Ah?" You Ge reacted, realizing that he couldn't run either.

"Except for Thief-type classes, if other classes wear masks, it'll arouse suspicion, right?" Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui breathed a long sigh of relief, extremely grateful for choosing the Thief class.

"If any of you are recognized, it'll be very suspicious, right?" Gu Fei said.

"So, don't even think about it. Line up for makeup!" Gu Fei said. "Xiao Xi, cut their hair."

"Okay!" Xiyao Wu was happy.

Jian Gui wanted to say something. Gu Fei's analysis was very reasonable, but why did he feel like this was absurd?

"And you! Didn't you also deal with Yun Zhong Mu Di and Against the Tide?" Gu Fei said to Xi Xiaotian.

Xi Xiaotian smiled slightly. "That's right. I'm going to use that relationship to approach them. I'm afraid they won't recognize me!"

Gu Fei didn't pursue her. After all, the girls weren't afraid of makeup. Instead, Luo Luo looked worried. "I'm saying, this makeup isn't plastic surgery! Slightly changing you and hiding you in the crowd is one thing, but now everyone is not a new face. People will take one look and think everyone looks familiar. You won't be able to fool them."

The makeup artist, Wuyue Huakai, also nodded and said, "It's just makeup. You think it's plastic surgery?"

"Hehe, in that case, everyone should just cover their faces," Xi Xiaotian said.

"This... isn't covering our faces suspicious?" Luo Luo said.

"Our small guild is selling missions, selling one mission to each, but we've found four. We're destined to offend three. Not daring to show our true faces can be said to be out of fear of retaliation. Wearing a mask is still explainable. I think their greed for the mission will outweigh their caution. Especially in a situation where four are competing, the overly cautious party will be directly eliminated," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Oh... so, actually, Qian Li doesn't need to put on makeup?" Luo Luo said.

"There's no need," Xi Xiaotian said. "Just change your clothes. We're all wearing masks, and that in itself is a disguise. Among them are several Mages wearing masks. They won't immediately associate it with Qian Li Yizui."

"Damn, why didn't you say so earlier?" Gu Fei said.

"Just thought of it," Xi Xiaotian said.

Everyone cheered at the news of their salvation. Gu Fei was extremely depressed.

"Let's continue the previous discussion... How to allocate the four people," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Has the mission cancellation been tried?" Jian Gui asked Luo Luo.

"Someone's gone," Luo Luo said.

"Where should we choose the location?" Jian Gui asked.

"At least it has to be a place with an NPC. It has to look like there's a mission," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Xiao Yu, do you have any records?" Luo Luo borrowed Liuyue de Yu's mission record book. Liuyue de Yu had recorded a lot of information about the city war in detail, but most of them were simple and ordinary repetitive missions. Many players were repeatedly farming these missions, and the major guilds also knew about them, so they were clearly unsuitable. Luo Luo flipped through it and finally found an NPC with only coordinates written down, and she didn't know what kind of mission it was. So she asked Liuyue de Yu, "Didn't you receive a mission from this NPC?"

"No!" Liuyue de Yu said.

"Where is it?" Jian Gui and the others came over to look.

"The Yun Jiao Logging Camp," Luo Luo said.

"What's it like there?" Jian Gui had always been on the defending side, so he wasn't very clear about the situation on the attacking side.

"That's also within the scope of the city war. It seems that some players who farm logistics delivery and transportation missions often go there. Why don't we go take a look?" Luo Luo said.

So the group conducted a field investigation. At the Yun Jiao Logging Camp, they found a young man named Weite. He was sitting alone on a pile of wood in the logging camp, looking at the sky at a 45-degree angle. Players were still coming and going around the logging camp, but there was no one around Weite.

"There are quite a lot of people in this place. I think many people have tried to find this Weite. It might not be a secret that he doesn't have any missions," Luo Luo said.

"That's good. An NPC without a mission... Why doesn't he have a mission? Because the mission has been taken by us," Xi Xiaotian smiled.

"This place is also quite convenient for ambushes!" Jian Nan You looked at the piles of wood around them, which were excellent cover.

"How about we set it here?" Xi Xiaotian suggested.

Everyone unanimously agreed. At this time, the mission girl who was experimenting in the main city also sent a message that once the assassination mission for the guild leader was accepted, it couldn't be abandoned.

"A mission that can't be canceled... So Qian Li can only attack Against the Tide or Wushi Zhi Jian," Jian Gui was quite regretful.

"Wushi Zhi Jian then, hasn't everyone already prepared for Against the Tide?"

"Then the other two will be left to the rest of us," Jian Gui said.

"Jian Gui, choose one, and leave the rest to us." Jian Nan You was full of confidence.

"Are you sure?" Jian Gui asked Jian Nan You and the others.

"Hehe..." Jian Nan You smiled without saying a word, looking very professional.

"I can't say it's foolproof. You Ge, Yu Tian, Huo Qiu, you all help me!" Jian Gui was still relatively cautious.

"No problem!" Yu Tian Shen Ming pulled his bow.

"But it seems that the four sides must strike at the same time. Otherwise, if one side is faster, it'll be a warning to the other side," You Ge worried.

Jian Gui patted him on the shoulder and said, "You Ge, as long as we achieve a one-hit kill, warnings or anything else don't matter."

You Ge paused slightly and realized. One hit to the bottom of their health, no matter what reaction they have, it's impossible to save them.

"Then that's basically settled. Those who have been assigned, let's all accept our missions! Da Nan, we'll go accept Yun Zhong Mu Di. You guys accept Black Finger!" Jian Gui assigned.

"No problem."

"Then what about my side? I still need a few people to act with me to lure them in. These people need to temporarily leave the guild. And they need relatively unfamiliar faces and IDs. People like Luo Luo, who are well-known Rebirth Amethyst members, are definitely out," Xi Xiaotian said.

The selection of people wasn't difficult to say, but when they really started to choose, it was a bit tricky. Gu Fei and his group were definitely out of the question. Jian Nan You's seven members were also experts on the rankings back then, and their IDs were actually considered famous, so it wasn't very convenient. And apart from them, there were only Rebirth Amethyst girls...

"Can I do it? I should be okay." Liu Xia offered himself.

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This chapter is a deep teasing of the protagonist. Looking back at the previous chapters, hasn't there been such content before? I don't quite remember... If not, we must vote to celebrate; if there is, we should still vote to commemorate...