Chapter 249 The Final Decision

After the decision was made, the members of the various guilds dispersed, with the majority heading towards First Line Canyon.

Over on Ye Xiu's side, after successfully waiting for Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan, they entered the dungeon. The players from the seven major guilds were distributed across the 50 dungeon entrances, using up almost all of their manpower. During the dungeon runs, the only chance of bumping into Ye Xiu and his group was the fleeting moment when entering or exiting, which required a certain degree of luck.

And so, the two sides had a peaceful night, but their mindsets were vastly different.

The major guilds had a new plan, and the night passed easily. Everyone did what they needed to do, simply keeping an eye out for the figure of Jun Mo Xiao among the players around them, relaxed and without pressure.

As for Ye Xiu's side, they were unaware that the plans of the major guilds had changed, and they maintained their previous vigilance. After each dungeon run, they couldn't be sure if they were being watched at the entrance, forcing them to take a detour and switch to a different entrance. Backlight Bomb's judgment was undoubtedly correct. As long as they kept Ye Xiu and his group under this pressure, making them waste a little time each day on such maneuvers, the cumulative effect would greatly interfere with their leveling speed.

Tang Rou was rather hoping to encounter some troublemakers. PvP was more fun than PvE; that was her belief. But she was disappointed that night. The first dungeon run passed without incident, and they went around in a circle and entered again. The second run was the same; they circled and re-entered. After the third run, Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan logged off. Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, and Steamed Bun Invasion still made their rounds, but no one followed them, and they didn't encounter any Bosses.

Chen Guo was surprisingly energetic today. After fully appreciating the benefits of "heavy metal," she became more and more adept, winning more and more games, and was reluctant to leave. The only disappointing thing was that people occasionally mistook her for the Jun Mo Xiao character who was playing on behalf of someone else, calling her a master and asking for advice.

Ye Xiu and his group completed three dungeon runs, nearing three o'clock. Under normal circumstances, three consecutive runs would be finished within two hours, but Ye Xiu and his group wasted some time maneuvering between dungeon entrances.

Chen Guo really couldn't hold on any longer at this point. It greatly violated her usual routine. After countless yawns, she almost blindly played a PK match and was startled awake by Tang Rou's laughter. Finally, she decided to go to rest.

The new keyboard and mouse wouldn't be left on the computer for the guests to use. After being removed, they were temporarily placed at the front desk.

"I guess what you said is right, this mouse is for you to use!" After properly placing the items, Chen Guo tossed the extra "Light Breeze Seven" mouse to Ye Xiu, waved her hand casually, said good night, and returned to her room upstairs.

Ye Xiu immediately replaced the old mouse with the plug-and-play device. Holding the "Light Breeze Seven," Ye Xiu's right hand felt familiar once again.

"What are we doing now?" Tang Rou's voice sounded in the headset.

"Leveling up! Let's hurry up and level up. Actually, if we can level up properly, it's the most powerful counterattack against these guilds," Ye Xiu said. He knew that Tang Rou was looking forward to fighting them. But continuing to fight back and forth like this, even if it caused a lot of damage to these guilds, wouldn't bring any substantial benefits to Ye Xiu and his group other than pleasing their mood. On the contrary, it would sacrifice a lot of their leveling time.

This mistake was consistent with Liu Hao's mindset of competing with Ye Xiu, which caused him to lose his composure in official matches. Ye Xiu didn't want to make such a mistake. After giving the major guilds some lessons, he wouldn't relentlessly entangle with them. Ye Xiu was also a seasoned professional, with a clear mindset and wouldn't be easily disturbed.

"Then let's go to the Desolate Land dungeon?" Tang Rou asked.

From the perspective of experience efficiency, even at level 33, running the Desolate Land dungeon was more suitable than killing monsters in the leveling area.

However, Desolate Land was not like First Line Canyon, lacking a maze-like terrain, and the major guilds had many players mixed in this area, making it inconvenient to go there at this time. In the end, after the three left First Line Canyon, they ran to the Blazing Forest to level up. Ye Xiu gave Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion some limited training content, constantly helping them improve their operating skills through monster killing and leveling. The night passed.

The following two days were mostly spent in the same way. Ye Xiu gradually felt the major guilds' strategic adjustments. During these two days, the major guilds only intercepted them three times, showing that they were all impromptu and organized. Twice, they targeted Ye Xiu's Jun Mo Xiao, but he managed to escape successfully both times. Once, they targeted Steamed Bun Invasion and succeeded in sending him back to the city. Fortunately, the few had recently changed their residences to Bohr Town, and resurrected here after death. Otherwise, if they were in Empty Accumulation City, with the current strategy of the major guilds, even if they didn't blatantly block the city gates, Steamed Bun Invasion, once discovered, would still be targeted and killed again if he was too careless after leaving the city.

Hearing this situation, Ye Xiu remained calm and simply comforted Steamed Bun Invasion.

Steamed Bun Invasion said that he was a big shot who often faced great storms, and dying once or twice was just a small scene and not worth mentioning at all.

Ye Xiu reserved his opinion on this. Not worth mentioning? Then who was it that immediately sent a message reporting his death as soon as he logged on?

That's what I'm afraid of! Ye Xiu didn't say it out loud, but sighed inwardly.

The other party wasn't as persistently entangled as before, but they retained the right to entangle. Ye Xiu and his group couldn't know when the other party would suddenly appear to surround and kill them. They could only maintain this vigilance. But at this time, perhaps the other party didn't have a plan to chase and kill them at all, but was just leveling up in peace. However, how would Ye Xiu and his group know?

The major guilds retained twenty percent, or even just one percent, of their pursuit status, while Ye Xiu and his group had to cope with a hundred percent of their defenses at all times. Otherwise, they would be like Steamed Bun Invasion, losing ten percent of their experience for nothing.

"How about we hit these guys every time we see them?" Steamed Bun Invasion once suggested.

"If we get experience for killing them once, I would strongly suggest doing so," Ye Xiu replied. He came to the new server to achieve his goals and didn't want to waste too much time and energy on this kind of fighting.

"Let's fiercely break a dungeon record and make them angry to death!" Tang Rou suggested.

To this, Ye Xiu reserved his opinion again.

Recently, the dungeon runs continued, and everyone made small improvements from time to time. In this wave of record-breaking, Ye Xiu's team didn't show the usual performance of setting a despairing record with one move. Like every other guild's dungeon team, they only made subtle improvements each time they broke a record.

Although they still held the record, Tyrannical Ambition was biting very closely behind them, ready to surpass them at any time. This stalemate allowed Tyrannical Ambition, who had been ridiculed on the world channel with Blue Brook Guild some time ago, to regain some face. At least players saw that they had a chance to compete with Jun Mo Xiao.

Other guilds weren't willing to fall behind either, and were making progress in the First Line Canyon dungeon. However, after a few days, these top-tier level 33 players were about to break through the barrier and reach level 34, but there was still no final result for the First Line Canyon dungeon record. Jun Mo Xiao's team was in first place, but they only led Tyrannical Ambition by 2 seconds. Herb Garden, in third place, was only 4 seconds behind, and Blue Brook Guild after that was 5 seconds behind. In other words, the top 4 positions were within 5 seconds of each other. This could be surpassed with a bit of luck and a few more critical hits. The major guilds, who were staring at the record leaderboard, had a feeling that a storm was brewing. As the top-tier players of the major guilds were about to step into the level 34 domain, they would definitely not hold back and would break the strongest record.

But what about Jun Mo Xiao? This group of people had been entangled with the major guilds all along. What were they waiting for? Were they waiting for another guild to think they had won, and then fiercely break a record to crush them?

Which guild could it be? Tyrannical Ambition? Herb Garden? Or Blue Brook Guild, who had already been trampled on?

Those guilds who admitted that they couldn't compete with these guilds were now fans of Jun Mo Xiao. Seeing Jun Mo Xiao and others crushing the records of these major guilds, they felt elated.

On Sunday night, as usual, Ye Xiu sat at a computer in the smoking area, playing games during his time before the shift change. The players in Excellent Era Internet Cafe were in high spirits because, in last night's professional league, the home team of the Excellent Era Internet Cafe players, Excellent Era, had once again won a great victory. Sun Xiang continued his powerful control of One Autumn Leaf, and some critics claimed that this was enough to make Excellent Era fans forget about Ye Qiu's control.

Although Excellent Era's hopes of entering the top eight playoff zone this season were basically dashed, everyone had at least seen Excellent Era's strong recovery from its slump. Next season, they would definitely return to the ranks of title contenders. Fans couldn't wait to skip the remaining seasons.

Boss Chen was in an excited state after last night's game. The problem of her and Tang Rou using specialized keyboards and mice hadn't been solved yet, but when Ye Xiu woke up today, he saw that Chen Guo had directly circled three machines in the Internet cafe, claiming that they were for dedicated use. The reason was that the Internet cafe was almost never so full that it lacked three machines. When they really needed to use them, they could temporarily replace their dedicated keyboards. This situation wouldn't happen too often and wouldn't be too annoying.

"Three machines? Isn't one of them for me?" Ye Xiu asked in confusion.

"It's okay, you can just be a little touched," Chen Guo said.

"I don't need it. I have to guard the front desk when I'm on duty at night," Ye Xiu said.

"Uh..."

"I also need to smoke during the day. Can you tolerate me sitting next to you?" Ye Xiu said.

"Uh..."

"But if you put it there, it's good to have a seat when I come over to guide you at any time," Ye Xiu said.

"Why don't you just go die?" Chen Guo glared and immediately ordered someone to cancel the machine that had been circled for Ye Xiu.