Chapter 25 Desperate Measures

The guild leaders were filled with grief. They had brought this trouble upon themselves, yet they lacked the courage to face it. Finally, Black Index Finger roared, "Brothers, we have no choice but to persevere. We must unite and defeat Qian Li Zui, or none of us will have a good day again!" The last sentence carried a veiled threat, implying that even if they withdrew now, they wouldn't escape responsibility.

The guild leaders had long seen Black Index Finger's shamelessness, so they weren't surprised by his words. They simply sighed, hoping for a swift end to their troubles.

"The most urgent thing is to quickly gather all available manpower and encircle and suppress Qian Li Zui! With so many PK points on him, and within our territory, this is also an opportunity for us," Yun Zhong Mu Di said, outwardly seizing the opportunity, but inwardly panicking. As expected, after the Black Alliance, his own guild had been exposed. Qian Li Zui's claws were reaching for him, which was terrifying.

According to informants in the Black Alliance, morale was wavering. With the guild leader's level dropping below 40, members were threatening to leave. Some had already begun preparations. From Da Xiang Luan Cai, Yun Zhong Mu Di had also heard Qian Li Zui's threats against their guild. Fortunately, this news hadn't spread yet and needed to be nipped in the bud. If their situation resembled the Black Alliance's, things would become difficult.

While the guild leaders were still discussing, news arrived from the wilderness leveling area that another leveling team had been attacked by Qian Li Zui. This was another team of ten, and after using the "divide and conquer" tactic, six escaped and three were killed. Two of them received the "Leave the guild and live" warning, but they tried the same trick as Da Xiang Luan Cai and were easily exposed and killed.

This time, however, the attacked players were from the Black Alliance.

The guild leaders exchanged strange glances. Qian Li Zui was only killing members of the Black Alliance and Mu Yun guild. Could it be that he was only targeting these two leading guilds to warn the others, and didn't plan to attack the second-tier players?

The players hesitated, while Black Index Finger and Yun Zhong Mu Di thought hard. They weren't slow to react, and the two attacks had revealed something strange.

Two Mu Yun members and three Black Alliance members had been killed, but why had one member from each side disappeared without a trace after being killed?

Neither guild leader knew who these missing players were. They asked the attacked teams for information, and the team members, knowing each other, contacted the missing players. They quickly discovered that they couldn't be reached – they were in prison.

"This guy, he's doing bounty missions?" Black Index Finger and Yun Zhong Mu Di spoke almost in unison.

"He's doing bounty missions while attacking our people?"

"How did he accurately find our guild players? Even you and I don't know these people, so how would he know their names? Doesn't he need to know their names?"

"A traitor!"

"Damn it!"

The two guild leaders were furious, hating the "traitor" who was leaking guild information at this crucial moment. But there was no way to investigate. After a brief discussion, they issued orders for all players in their guilds with PK points to move around quickly, instead of staying in one place to be killed by Qian Li Zui. Their destination, of course, was the location of the ambushes within the city.

Outside the city, Gu Fei had already attacked two teams. They didn't fight back, scattering as soon as they saw him. Gu Fei couldn't chase everyone at once. While prioritizing the bounty missions, he killed three more people. This meant he could clear two PK points, but had gained three, resulting in a net increase of one. Gu Fei was somewhat disappointed.

With Piaoliu's help, he had now accepted 34 missions, totaling 41 PK points. Some people had two or three.

Gu Fei scanned the coordinates of each target on the list, looking for a nearby one. The target coordinates were limited by the time each mission was accepted, refreshing every minute thanks to Gu Fei's Windchaser Crest. Since the missions were accepted at different times, the refresh wasn't synchronized. With so many coordinates piled up, constantly refreshing, he was dazzled. But he noticed that the range of movement of these coordinates was quite large.

Gu Fei was the most experienced bounty hunter in Parallel World. Having tracked countless coordinates, even without consciously paying attention, he had learned some patterns. Leveling players usually moved within a fixed range, so the coordinates wouldn't change much. Such large-scale coordinate shifts indicated that the targets weren't leveling, but moving.

If only a few coordinates were changing like this, it wouldn't be too strange. But Gu Fei noticed that most, or perhaps all, were moving in this way!

Gu Fei was busy searching for the names Piaoliu provided, and soon added two more. After focusing on these two coordinates, he discovered the exact same situation.

They had stopped leveling and were being mobilized. It was obvious. Gu Fei guessed it was because of him. After he had put bounties on their targets, they had started gathering the bounty targets for protection.

As for the direction they were gathering in, Gu Fei couldn't determine it. He quickly copied the changes in several coordinates and sent them to Han Jia Gongzi, asking for the direction of movement.

Han Jia Gongzi glanced at them and immediately replied, "Returning to the city."

Returning to the city... This was bad news for Gu Fei. Once inside the city, the guards would attack him. He had been worried about this all along and didn't want to wash away his PK points in such a situation unless absolutely necessary.

"In this situation, let's catch as many as we can!" Gu Fei sighed. From the movement of the coordinates, he could easily determine the speed of the targets. Having done bounty missions so often, this was now second nature. Gu Fei looked at his own coordinates and quickly ran towards a nearby, slow-moving target.

The players from the Black Alliance and Mu Yun guild with PK points weren't too nervous; they even felt fortunate. Becoming a bounty target meant they wouldn't die at Qian Li Zui's hands. Being attacked by him was just a trip to prison. Even a few hours in jail was much better than losing two levels from dying with PK points. When the guild leaders reminded them to quickly wash away their PK points, they all agreed, but privately, many resourceful players saw this as a protective charm, a charm against death.

Even more pathetically, it wasn't just the people with PK points who had this idea. For example, Da Xiang Luan Cai, who had been killed by Qian Li Zui not long ago, contacted the warrior on his team who had also been given PK points, and discovered that he hadn't lost a level, but had gone to prison. This outcome depressed Da Xiang Luan Cai.

No PK points, lose a level; with PK points, just go to jail...

This thought quickly formed in Da Xiang Luan Cai's mind, and he knew very well that Gu Fei needed bounty missions, 180 points! He would definitely wash them away, right? Uh, according to the latest news, the data was now 183, one of which Da Xiang Luan Cai had contributed.

"Maybe I should get some PK points too. Hopefully Qian Li Zui will take my mission, and even if he kills me again, I won't lose a level," Da Xiang Luan Cai thought, and when he found a noob player in a remote street, he couldn't resist the urge and killed him.

"I finally have one PK point." PK points should have made players feel uneasy, but at this moment, this one PK point gave Da Xiang Luan Cai a sense of security.

"This method should be promoted!" Da Xiang Luan Cai felt he had made a great discovery. He was also very loyal to his guild, so he felt this method was worth spreading, and quickly reported it to guild leader Yun Zhong Mu Di.

Yun Zhong Mu Di was stunned.

That's right! If you were wanted by Qian Li Zui, there was nothing to fear. You just had to sit in prison for a while.

Should I get some PK points too? Yun Zhong Mu Di even had this thought, and he saw Da Xiang Luan Cai already shouting "Brothers!" in the guild channel, and started promoting the method on his own initiative.

The method was immediately praised, with many players praising Da Xiang Luan Cai's clever discovery, and saying they would immediately kill someone to get some PK points.

Yun Zhong Mu Di watched in a daze, until someone suddenly shouted in the channel, "You idiots! If you have PK points, will Qian Li Zui definitely take your bounty mission? What if he doesn't take your mission and kills you anyway?"

"Ah?" The channel fell silent.

"Damn, I've already killed someone..." Cries of alarm suddenly filled the channel. In the game, getting some PK points was the easiest thing in the world; you just had to kill someone. The players who had agreed with the method had immediately started looking for targets. After they killed someone and returned to the channel... they were shocked.

"Idiots! You're all idiots!" Yun Zhong Mu Di finally reacted and angrily rebuked them.

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