Chapter 180 Flying Gun

Wang Jiexi's Raging Flames swept out of the room, continuing to observe the surrounding terrain. He knew he must have overlooked something; the character couldn't have vanished into thin air like that. Among the low-level skills below level 20, there wasn't any stealth or disappearing skill of that sort.

The two earthen houses had already been eliminated as possible locations for Lord Grim. The third closest...

Wang Jiexi glanced at it, then shook his head.

Impossible... It wouldn't allow enough time. Moving while crouching was very slow, and even rolling wouldn't be fast enough. To hide oneself inside that room before everyone else, unless one could fly at low altitude like a Magician... but a character with unspecialized skills couldn't do that.

Low-altitude flight...

Low-altitude flight?!

Wang Jiexi suddenly came to his senses. Lord Grim couldn't fly at low altitude like a Magician, but similar flying techniques weren't exclusive to Magicians. Gunners could also fly using Gun Fly (fei qiang).

However, if Gun Fly was used at such a low altitude, the flying distance would definitely be short, but at least it guaranteed movement speed. Gun Fly was just a method of operation, and it didn't have a cooldown. Multiple uses would do the trick. As long as the connections between each use were smooth, it wouldn't be too difficult for a professional player.

"The room at 11 o'clock!" Wang Jiexi didn't have time to think too much. After making this possible judgment, trying it would reveal the truth.

"Yifan, go to the back. Everyone else, follow me."

It was the same command again. Although the other team members didn't understand, they followed the captain's instructions one by one. The tactic was copied again, the process was copied again, and at the same time... so was the result.

"Not there again!!!"

Wang Jiexi's judgment failed three times in a row. This was something the Tiny Herb members had never encountered before. At this moment, they were all shocked. Where exactly had this Lord Grim hidden himself?

Wang Jiexi's Magician had already returned to the outside of the earthen house. Looking left and right, he racked his brains but couldn't figure out where else Lord Grim could have gone...

"You, you, you... what are you doing?!"

In Happy Internet Cafe, Chen Guo, who was originally talking to Ye Xiu but had been standing behind him watching ever since Ye Xiu started playing, shouted in astonishment.

Her perspective naturally had a clear view of where Lord Grim had gone.

Just as Lord Grim jumped over the earthen wall and crouched down, Ye Xiu was performing Gun Fly, bit by bit. Each flight distance was very short, but the speed was very fast. Ye Xiu's rhythm control was excellent. As soon as he landed, the next Gun Fly operation was perfectly connected. If Chen Guo hadn't seen the muzzle flashing flames time and time again, she would hardly have been able to tell that this movement was made up of multiple Gun Fly operations linked together.

After moving like this for a few seconds, Lord Grim suddenly turned around. The scene flashed, and he had already entered a room, hiding in the corner while performing Shadow Clone Technique again. The first time was using it, the second time was dismissing it. Shadow clones weren't like bullets fired by Gunners; they could be dismissed by the caster.

Then, Ye Xiu quickly used another operation: forcibly exiting the game.

After the game screen returned to the computer desktop, Chen Guo finally shouted out that sentence in disbelief.

"What did you say?" Ye Xiu finally took off his headset.

"You... exited the game? Are you courting death?" Chen Guo pointed at the screen and said. Nowadays, with superior technology, the delay for going online and offline has been greatly reduced. However, during battle, normal exiting isn't possible. Of course, forcibly closing the game couldn't be prevented, but this would greatly extend the delay for the character remaining in place. Basically, when they went back online, nine times out of ten they would find a corpse. Otherwise, if logging off during battle could be used as casually as an instant-cast skill, then players could become immortal by mastering the art of offline escape.

"There's enough time," Ye Xiu smiled.

"How is that possible?" Chen Guo said.

"By the time they find me, I'll have completely logged out," Ye Xiu said.

"It won't take them that long to come over here, will it?" Chen Guo said.

"They can't see me entering this room," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Chen Guo was puzzled.

"Didn't you notice? My Gun Fly was all done crouching low to the ground. With that earthen wall blocking their view, they couldn't see it. I also dismissed the shadow clone before they arrived. When they come over, they won't find anything," Ye Xiu said.

"But just now, there didn't seem to be that many rooms there, right? Wouldn't they find you by just searching around?" Chen Guo said hesitantly. Frankly speaking, Lord Grim's perspective only gave a quick glance at the terrain just now. She didn't pay attention to it at all, nor did she remember it very clearly.

"There are three rooms there that allow me to sneak in. The one directly in front can be entered by simply crouching down. For the one on the right, you need to crouch down for a bit and then use Shadow Clone Technique. As for the one I entered, you saw it; I had to use Gun Fly to speed up my movement to make it in time. I think they'll make a judgment on the front room in the first instance. After wasting their efforts, they'll go to the second room... and then the third."

"Why not split up and search?" Chen Guo said.

"When there's a clear judgment, why bother splitting up to search?" Ye Xiu said as he stood up. "Continue telling me what you were going to say just now!"

"You... are you not going to bother with it anymore?" Chen Guo pointed at the computer.

"What's there to bother with after logging off?"

"You're not going back on?"

"Let's hear what you have to say first!" Ye Xiu said.

"You... didn't you say you were going to wipe them out?" Chen Guo had been behind Ye Xiu the whole time, and she had heard what Ye Xiu said over the voice chat.

"I was just saying that. How is it possible to beat nine people alone!" Ye Xiu said.

"What kind of person are you!!" Chen Guo coughed blood. "Then what were you bragging about?"

"To give them pressure," Ye Xiu said.

"And they actually believed it!" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu looked at her. "I think you believed it too, just now?"

"I..." Chen Guo was speechless. She hadn't paid much attention to this guy for the past few days and had been living peacefully, but after saying a few more words today, she was rendered speechless again.

In the game, Wang Jiexi racked his brains but still couldn't figure out where Lord Grim had gone. Unable to bear it any longer, he prepared to add Lord Grim as a friend, but after searching, the system prompted that Lord Grim was offline. Wang Jiexi was instantly stunned.

Logged off...

For professional players who were used to playing professional matches, the idea of offline escape simply didn't exist in their minds. This was a matter of thinking habits.

However, at this moment, Wang Jiexi had completely understood everything.

From the very beginning, that guy had been prepared to log off and escape. The fighting at the beginning was all about maximizing the distance between them.

The three simple earthen houses that they flipped over the wall to reach were the real key. These three houses were a trap in thinking. All of them had possibilities, but these possibilities had some differences in inference. The first room in front was something that could be thought of instantly, and the following two rooms each added a little bit of difficulty, which resulted in Wang Jiexi leading the team in a step-by-step manner, giving the other party time to log off and escape.

Seeing the dazed faces of the team members in the room, Wang Jiexi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Wiping out the whole team in a one-on-nine situation was indeed just a way to create psychological pressure!

"Captain..." Vice-captain Deng Fusheng called out softly next to Wang Jiexi's Raging Flames. The morale of the Tiny Herb team was at an all-time low. This group of people hadn't realized that Lord Grim had already logged off and escaped. They were turning around and frantically searching, but where could they find him?

Wang Jiexi stood up. The team members who saw him were stunned and quickly took off their headsets, knowing that the captain was about to speak.

"There's no need to look anymore. That guy logged off," Wang Jiexi said.

"What?" Everyone was shocked. Although they had always trusted what the captain said, some people couldn't help but search in the game. As expected, the system prompted that Lord Grim was not online.

The training room was silent for who knew how many times that day.

"Offline escape, damn..."

"Weren't you going to wipe us out? Why did you run away?" Someone sneered.

"If this were a competition, this would be equivalent to forfeiting," someone understood the matter of offline escape from their accustomed perspective.

"Let's call it a day for today! You can rest. Those who are interested can stay and wait for him to go online again," Wang Jiexi said. However, he sat back in his seat, guarding the door of that room with his Raging Flames.

The captain was waiting! Everyone could see that, of course.

So no one left. The captain had always been their role model. Although he had said that they could go to rest, who would leave before the captain did?

Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie's characters had already run back. The entire Tiny Herb team of eleven people began to stroll around this area.

"Captain, do you want to set up an ambush?" The vice-captain ran to the side of Wang Jiexi's Raging Flames and offered his suggestion.

"Is there a need? Killing him isn't our ultimate goal. Our goal is to use him to improve the team's level," Wang Jiexi said.

"Uh..."

"Li Ji, Liu Fei, you two," Wang Jiexi called out.

"Hm?" The two heard the call and quickly came over.

"The two of you are also very skilled at coordinating your dual-handed shooting, but you see, you couldn't do anything to Lord Grim today. Your routines are too conventional and easily seen through, especially by an experienced veteran like Ye Qiu. You need to have more imagination and more of your own free play!" Wang Jiexi said.

"Yes..." the two responded.

"Liang Fang, Liu Xiaobie," Wang Jiexi called out the two losers from the previous duels. The two also hurried over.

"What are your thoughts?" Wang Jiexi asked.

The two remained silent.

"The advantage of unspecialized skills at low levels is indeed present. This combination of different skills appearing on the same character is something you've never encountered before. You lack experience in dealing with it, so losing is normal. Even I wouldn't be his opponent in a one-on-one," Wang Jiexi said.

"Everyone listen up," Wang Jiexi raised his voice, and everyone paid attention.

"Everyone knows who Ye Qiu is. Even if he's retired now, his strength is still top-tier in the league. Now he's using an unspecialized character, which has skill advantages in the early stages, and everyone is unfamiliar with it, so there's no need to dwell on winning or losing. Everyone should cherish the opportunity to play against such a top-tier player, discover their own problems, and find ways to improve. That's the purpose of our visit to farm the Boss this time," Wang Jiexi said.

"Hey, hey, what Boss? Is it okay to say it like that?" Suddenly a voice interjected.

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