Hu Die Lan
Chapter 608 Initial Contact
No one expected Charming Flowery Burial to return so quickly, and so directly, so powerfully.
He cut a path through the crowd, seized a high point, and began blasting everywhere with abandon. At this moment, there wasn't a single Hundred Blossom Valley player on the North Bridge except for him. Charming Flowery Burial had no helpers.
Even so, Jiang You and his group were so overwhelmed that they wanted to jump into the river.
Before they could even react, Charming Flowery Burial was jumping higher and higher. Several excellent vantage points that they had fought tooth and nail for were easily bypassed by this lone figure, who then seized even better vantage points that they could only watch with longing, completely out of reach for the time being.
Jiang You and the others shared the same sentiment: why did this guy charge up from their side of the bridge, instead of from the other side?
Zhang Jiale's gaze wasn't limited to their side of the bridge. After stirring them up from a high point for a while, he glanced towards the opposite side. And what he saw made him pause.
The players with the Samsara Guild tag above their heads were arranged in a very beautiful formation, judging from their positions.
Seems a bit tricky?
Zhang Jiale thought to himself, but he didn't hesitate in the slightest, charging towards the Samsara formation without looking back...
When Chen Guo's Chasing Haze arrived at the North Bridge, the chaos there was beyond description.
Compared to Charming Flowery Burial's assault on the Samsara Guild formation, the chaotic entanglement between Tyrannical Ambition and the other guilds at the west end of the bridge looked like child's play. They themselves were a little embarrassed to continue.
The level of skill on the two sides of the bridge was on completely different levels.
It was like Invincible Most Handsome's solo fight against Hundred Blossom Valley before, making it clear to everyone that this was a duel between experts.
It was just that this time, the one fighting solo had changed to Charming Flowery Burial.
As for Samsara, they were still effectively operating their formation amidst someone's loud shouting.
The guilds present all knew each other quite well. They experienced this kind of Boss-grabbing contact several times a week. The Samsara Guild had never had such a commanding voice before. It wasn't their guild leader, Three Realms Six Paths, nor was it any of the big shots in their guild.
Who exactly was it?
Due to the chaos of the scene and the special nature of the game, no one had been able to figure out who this commander was. Otherwise, the guilds on the east end of the bridge would have taken him down at any cost. The importance of this person to the Samsara Guild at this moment was obvious.
And his formation posed a serious challenge even to a master like Charming Flowery Burial.
But after all, Zhang Jiale was a god-level player.
After a few waves of tentative attacks, Zhang Jiale suddenly unleashed his Hundred Blossom style, jumping across the North Bridge and sweeping decisively towards a certain direction.
Everyone's attention was drawn to Charming Flowery Burial's actions. They immediately looked over and quickly spotted the direction Charming Flowery Burial was charging towards: a warlock was frantically scrambling up and down, trying to avoid Charming Flowery Burial's attacks.
But Charming Flowery Burial was relentless. This time, he seemed to have identified a breakthrough and was determined to sacrifice this warlock to his guns.
Was this warlock the commander?
At the very least, he must be a very important link!
The guilds, which had been quite dispirited by Samsara's stable formation, suddenly perked up.
They hadn't retreated yet, naturally meaning they hadn't completely given up. Seeing Charming Flowery Burial's powerful attack, they immediately realized that this was an excellent opportunity to turn the tide. Thus, all the players from the guilds, regardless of the cost, charged towards this warlock along with Charming Flowery Burial.
"Damn it!!!"
Everyone heard that loud voice roar.
This kind of reckless attack was indeed difficult to resist, especially with a high-end killer like Charming Flowery Burial in the mix.
Just when everyone thought that this warlock was definitely going to have a tragic end, this guy actually jumped into the water himself before any attacks could reach him.
Yes, he ran away!
To proactively jump into the water before receiving any attacks or damage was definitely an act of fleeing.
In the world of online games where lives were cheap as paper, at a heated moment of Boss-grabbing, a character who seemed to be a commander actually chose to escape by water. In that instant, the whole world lost its color. This unprincipled, shameless, and pathetic act, worse than a noob, deeply shocked everyone.
Everyone couldn't help but hear the loud voice echoing in their ears, a phrase often used in commanding: "Can't you be a little more wretched??"
You can! You really can, you're too capable!
At this moment, quite a few players had an emoji of "despise" pop up above their heads. There were players from the major guilds, and also players from Samsara. At this moment, everyone joined hands and jointly despised this excessively wretched behavior.
At times like this, you had to acknowledge the quality of professional gods.
A mere wretched act didn't disturb Zhang Jiale's focus in the slightest. Wretchedness was a tactic, and as a god, he had to be adaptable to all kinds of tactics. Seeing this warlock jump into the water, Zhang Jiale immediately directed Charming Flowery Burial to instantly change his attack direction. Almost at the same time as this warlock proactively jumped into the water, several Samsara players in good positions within Charming Flowery Burial's attack range were passively blasted into the water.
Samsara's formation was instantly disrupted. The other guild players came to their senses, perked up, and hurriedly started kicking them when they were down. Charming Flowery Burial, however, turned around and left, returning to a high point and blasting wildly again. The east end, the west end, he was trying to take care of both sides, and the players on both sides hated him so much that they wanted to catch him and chop him into pieces, but they couldn't do anything about it.
The special terrain of the North Bridge was a bit like underwater combat. Ordinary players' skills were a bit inadequate to deal with it. So even though Zhang Jiale was alone, he was still able to stir up the major guilds and throw them into chaos with ease.
When Chen Guo's Chasing Haze arrived, she didn't get to appreciate that amazing wretched water escape. She wasn't too concerned about the situation of the Boss-grabbing either. She was just looking around for the ID called "Little Cold Hands."
In such a chaotic scene, even if you knew the name, it wasn't easy to find a person. Chen Guo didn't dare to get too close. Grabbing wild Bosses was too sensitive. Bystanders and passersby who didn't keep their distance were likely to be suspected of having ulterior motives and get killed.
Chen Guo controlled Chasing Haze and circled around a lot, but couldn't find the figure of Little Cold Hands. She turned her head and saw that Ye Xiu was looking at her screen, and quickly asked him if he had seen him.
"No," Ye Xiu shook his head as well. His eyes were sharper than Chen Guo's, but he still couldn't find Little Cold Hands in the chaotic crowd.
"Could he be on the other side?" Chen Guo said, looking towards the other end of the bridge, where the Samsara guilds' positions were. Because it was too far away, she couldn't see the character names at all.
"Impossible," Ye Xiu said.
Tyrannical Ambition's position was on this side. Running over there to join in the fun, such judgment would be very disappointing.
"Could it be that he hasn't come yet?" Chen Guo controlled Chasing Haze and circled around again, observing from all angles, but still didn't find him.
"Wait, wait, turn the view to the right, turn, turn again," Ye Xiu called out.
Chen Guo turned the mouse little by little.
"Stop, there, there's someone there," Ye Xiu pointed to Chen Guo's screen, to a tree not far away.
"Really?" Chen Guo hadn't really noticed this direction. She was mainly playing the game of finding names in the crowd. She didn't even know when her view had included this tree.
"Is it him?" Chen Guo asked.
"Don't know," Ye Xiu said.
"Let me see," Chen Guo had nothing to do anyway, so she circled around to sweep behind the tree.
After the view was adjusted, she indeed saw someone behind the tree. Chen Guo immediately accelerated Chasing Haze to approach, and quickly saw the target clearly.
A female priest character, with the name above her head: Little Cold Hands.
"It's him," Chen Guo was happy, and was about to go forward, but stopped after a few steps.
This Little Cold Hands didn't know when he had arrived, but he didn't come forward. He was just hiding behind this tree, wondering what he was looking at. How was she supposed to go up and persuade him? Was she supposed to walk over and say, "Brother, the way you're peeping looks like you're one in a million, a peerless master. I'm planning to form a team, come join me and make full use of your peeping talent!"
Too unreliable!
Chen Guo was thinking this, and couldn't help but stop Chasing Haze.
Or should she just say that she saw his excellent healing on Invincible Most Handsome just now, so she was very interested in talking to him? But... just based on seeing a healing technique, and being so impressed, wouldn't that be a bit rash and sound like a swindler?
Chen Guo, unable to think of the right words, didn't let Chasing Haze go up immediately. She turned her head and glanced at Ye Xiu: "What's he doing here?"
Ye Xiu shook his head as well. He wasn't familiar enough with Little Cold Hands to be able to guess his actions.
Just then, Little Cold Hands' view turned, and he saw Chasing Haze standing there blankly.
Seeing that he had been discovered, Chen Guo thought about it and decided to let Chasing Haze walk forward. Little Cold Hands didn't avoid her either, still standing under the tree, his view facing Chen Guo's direction.
"Hello," Chen Guo greeted when the distance was about right.
"Hello," the other party replied. A delicate female priest character with a male voice was supposed to be unsettling. However, this person's voice, although obviously male, although he only replied with one word, seemed to have a gentleness to it, and didn't have the sense of disharmony that Chen Guo had imagined with this character model.
How strange... Chen Guo thought to herself.
"I saw you before," this was the line Chen Guo had thought of.
"Oh?"
"Before, on the bridge, that Holy Heal, it was wonderful," Chen Guo said.
"Hehe, it was alright!" The other party's tone was quite modest, making a good impression on Chen Guo.
"May I be so bold as to ask, that shouldn't be a coincidence, right?" Chen Guo said.
"Hehe, in the end, there still needs to be a certain element of luck in it," Little Cold Hands said.
"Then that means your skills aren't bad!" Chen Guo said.
"So-so!"
"Here's the thing, I'm planning to form a team, and I'm looking for a priest, would you be interested in giving it a try?" Chen Guo said.
"Oh? Is it Ye Qiu's team?" Little Cold Hands asked.