Hu Die Lan
Chapter 439 Whoever Makes the First Move Loses
Chen Guo's words made the two of them want to vomit blood. Although it was a perfectly reasonable thing to say, they at least knew a little bit of the inside story. The experts at Happy Internet Cafe weren't just random customers who appeared at the cafe, were they? They were definitely stationed at the cafe, preparing to follow Ye Qiu to form a team. This boss lady was obviously trying to fool them.
The two thought so in their hearts, but didn't want to show their "we see through you" attitude on their faces. They had to put on a regretful look: "Then I don't know what time the experts usually come?"
"This ah, I haven't really paid attention to it!"
Chen Guo's appearance was definitely the pure, innocent type that fooled many people into not realizing how tough the Chen boss was on the inside. At this time, she was casually spouting nonsense with an innocent expression. The two spies, seeing this, were momentarily dazed and subconsciously felt that a girl like this wouldn't lie, and that they must have made a mistake.
Fortunately, the two of them quickly regained their composure and said calmly, "Are the machines ready?"
"Area C, numbers 14 and 15," Chen Guo pointed them in the direction.
Since the people weren't there, they would have to wait, and could also mingle with the people at Happy Internet Cafe to see if they could get any information.
More than half of the people in the internet cafe were playing Glory, and there were quite a few like-minded people. If you were willing, it was easy to make Glory friends at the internet cafe. But nowadays, computers were a must-have at home, so most of the people who came to the internet cafe were there with three or five friends to hang out. There weren't many people who had friends and still wanted to make new friends.
However, the two spy brothers came with different purposes, so it was different. After sitting down, they saw that everyone around them was playing Glory. Soon, they logged into the game and looked at the customers around them, smiling at each other, and took the opportunity to chat with them. To their disappointment, however, neither of these people were old or regular customers of Happy Internet Cafe, but just casual visitors. Obviously, they wouldn't be able to get the information they wanted from these people.
So, the two of them played the game while occasionally looking towards the entrance of Happy Internet Cafe, hoping to see the four experts appear. As a result, they sat there all day, but the people they wanted to see never showed up.
Two of the four so-called experts were internet cafe managers at Happy Internet Cafe, and their appearance was entirely up to Chen Guo. The other two were the original owners, but they had completely turned to Ye Xiu's side. As supporters, of course, they would cooperate, and they were enjoying it immensely.
So, the two poor spy brothers squatted all day and didn't see the people they wanted to see. The two couldn't just live in the internet cafe, and when it was almost time to leave, they reluctantly checked out and left.
"Do you recognize these two people?" Meanwhile, Chen Guo had secretly taken pictures of the two and showed them to Ye Xiu.
"Of course I don't recognize them! Why would they send two people I know? Wouldn't that be exposing themselves?" Ye Xiu said without even looking.
"Oh, that's true..." Chen Guo said, "Looking at the situation, these two guys will definitely be coming here often in the future."
"What's wrong with having two more regular customers?" Ye Xiu smiled.
"Sneaky and shifty-eyed, I really want to beat them up first as if they were thieves," Chen Guo said. After knowing their identities, Chen Guo didn't like them no matter how she looked at them. Any action they took seemed extremely wretched to Chen Guo.
"It doesn't matter, let them do whatever they want!" Ye Xiu didn't care at all.
"What about Zhan Lou Lan's side? Any news?" Chen Guo asked.
"Not yet," Ye Xiu said.
"It's been so long, why is it so slow!"
"Is it long? It's only been a day or two!" Ye Xiu said.
"That's not long?"
"This isn't just a game anymore, it's a business, it's a gamble, how can you not be cautious?" Ye Xiu said.
"Tch!" Chen Guo didn't think so.
The two spies who gained nothing after a day of spying had already reported the situation to Chen Yehui on QQ. Chen Yehui was also helpless. In the game, they waited another whole day, but the four expert characters still didn't show up.
How could a game expert have such frugal online time? Chen Yehui was increasingly convinced that his previous guess was true. Ye Qiu might have been guarding against their move long ago.
If that was the case, then the two of them definitely wouldn't be able to spy on anything. After thinking about it, Chen Yehui discussed it with Liu Hao again and sent more people. In addition to the two people who went there every day, they added more manpower to keep a 24-hour watch on Happy Internet Cafe. This arrangement wasn't difficult for Chen Yehui and the others. Their job was to work online in the game, and sending people to Happy Internet Cafe as spies meant they still had to go online and play games, so it basically wouldn't delay their work.
However, one day, two days, three days passed without any results.
They couldn't find the characters in the game, and they couldn't find the experts outside the game.
Chen Yehui was anxious, Liu Hao was anxious, and all the club guilds in Glory were anxious.
For the past few days, Excellent Era had been silent, and the other club guilds had also been silent. One reason was that Lord Grim's popularity was still high, and they really couldn't take such actions under public scrutiny. Furthermore, knowing that Lord Grim was Ye Qiu, all the club guilds were very wary and hoped that someone would test the waters first and die.
There was another reason, which could be exemplified by Tyrannical Ambition.
For Jiang You, the leader of Tyrannical Ambition, Ye Qiu's entry into the Heavenly Domain was the most peaceful. Their guild had only casually chatted about it for the past few days, and there were no serious countermeasures. Because Jiang You still believed in his original judgment: Ye Qiu had hidden reasons for leaving Excellent Era, so Excellent Era definitely didn't want Ye Qiu to make a comeback. Therefore, Excellent Dynasty Guild would do everything in its power to suppress Ye Qiu, so they just had to watch the show.
For Tyrannical Ambition, Ye Qiu and Excellent Dynasty fighting was like a dog-eat-dog show, and they were most happy to see both sides suffer.
What Jiang You thought wasn't that complicated, especially since he had already told many guild members about it in the tenth server. So, there were quite a few guilds that had this idea. To put it bluntly, everyone didn't like doing this. How great would it be if Ye Qiu didn't come to the game? This was everyone's common wish.
So, when there was a guild that was obviously likely to be the early bird, everyone was quite willing to wait and see.
However, Excellent Era's first move was just Liu Hao and three professional players using three wild accounts, and the scale was too small, so the other guilds didn't get any information at all. So, in their opinion, Excellent Era had also been watching, so they couldn't help but feel a little anxious. These days, the spies of the various guilds lurking in Excellent Era were the hardest working, trying to obtain information from various channels about what methods Excellent Era would take against Lord Grim.
These past few days of leveling up had been so peaceful that Chen Guo found it unbelievable. After discussing it with Ye Xiu, she completely understood after hearing Ye Xiu's analysis that Ye Xiu had already begun to lay out a plan after being attacked by three professional players when he entered the Heavenly Domain.
Because the popularity and attention brought about by the challenge mission made the major guilds afraid to take large-scale actions, everyone was watching Excellent Dynasty.
Excellent Dynasty didn't dare to make a big show either. However, its backstage support, Excellent Era, was bold and directly sent professional players. With a level suppression of 20 levels, it was difficult to deal with even one professional player, let alone three. So, Ye Xiu used a deceptive tactic, making Excellent Era completely unable to figure out how many helpers he had around him and how strong the helpers were. So, it dragged on for a few days. Meanwhile, Ye Xiu had already negotiated with Zhan Lou Lan. In a later contact, Zhan Lou Lan had promised to give a final answer today. And once Zhan Lou Lan agreed to cooperate, then Ye Xiu would truly not be fighting alone.
"How is it, fun?" Ye Xiu smiled, "Right now, the major guilds are playing a game where you'll lose if you don't act, but everyone will lose if anyone acts."
"You really are..." Chen Guo couldn't find the words to describe it. The club guild, which was so powerful among countless players, was actually being played around by Ye Xiu alone. This guy had completely found the weakness of the club guilds, putting these guilds in a difficult situation.
But then again, you had to have enough strength to do this. Without enough strength, how could you create a situation like this?
What was even more infuriating was that Ye Xiu also made Lord Grim take a day off to return to the tenth server during these days.
The Heavenly Domain and the tenth server belonged to different servers, so players couldn't just switch back and forth. The current limit was that you could only switch once a day. In other words, if you went from the Heavenly Domain to the tenth server today, you would have to wait until the next day to return.
As a result, Ye Xiu went back in the early hours of the morning, making full use of the 24 hours of the day. He brought the four members of Happy Guild who had leveled up to level 50, formed a five-man team, and cleared all the level 50 five-man dungeons.
Even though he was inexperienced with the unspecialized class, the records for the four level 50 five-man dungeons were all taken by Happy Guild.
The clubs in the tenth server thought they had said goodbye to this demon king. They also fully believed that once Lord Grim reached the Heavenly Domain, he would be chased and killed alive, and would be stuck in an endless loop of making up for the level 50 experience. Who would have thought that this guy would be so comfortable, leveling up in the Heavenly Domain, and when he was almost level 51 and about to exceed the level requirement, he would immediately return to the tenth server to break records. He was so comfortable! When he was in the tenth server, he had no experience in the dungeons at all, and he didn't have to worry about accidentally leveling up to level 51 while breaking records.
To be honest, leveling up in the normal server at level 50 was very fast. That's because there were so many dungeons starting at level 50, and you didn't even have to go to the wild to grind monsters all day. The dungeons would make you want to die. Not to mention the big dungeons, there were four five-man dungeons, and if you cleared each of them every day, how much experience would that be? Leveling from 50 to 51 was much faster than leveling from 49 to 50. It wouldn't be a problem to level up to level 51 in these few days.
The major guilds didn't reach level 51 because they deliberately stopped leveling. As long as you didn't complete the awakening mission, the 24 classes could also grind without gaining experience. As a result, they were still working so hard, but Lord Grim came back, brushed and waved his sleeves, didn't take away the clouds, but left behind four records.