29 - Barricade

Chapter 29: Barricade

Even disregarding that Xiao Ran was an expert at snatching the Entry Ticket Fragments from Jun Heqiu, the existence of Yiye Feihua alongside the extra rewards from being on the first team was already enough to basically exclude other guilds from reaching victory. Thinking about how Jun Heqiu and the other guild leaders had behaved on the world channel a few days ago, it would be a huge joke if they were to ask for Ticket 1 now.

The reason why Jun Heqiu had chased after Xiao Ran to kill him was to get golden equipment; the reason he wanted to purchase Ticket 1 at such a high price was also for golden equipment. Now the holder of Ticket 1 was also the person he wanted to kill. Considering that it was very likely that the Entry Ticket Fragments that were stolen have now formed Ticket 1, the entirety of Shenyao guild fell into silence.

This face slapping is too painful!

The only thing they could pray for now was that the other guilds would leave Yiye Feihua alone and not get involved.

One second, two seconds, three seconds……

Over five minutes passed, and there was still no movement from the major guilds.

The players of Shenyao and God of the Underworld couldn’t help but feel slightly relieved.

After all, Yiye Feihua was also a Fengdu player, and thee major guilds hunted him across the heavens and earth just a few months ago, so the guildmasters shouldn’t give up their face just for golden equipment……

Yiting Kan Yue [World]: Player Xiao Ran is a good friend of our Shen Ding guild. Anyone who chases or kills him from now on will be an enemy of Shen Ding.

Lingjia Jiutian [World]: Player Xiao Ran is a good friend of our Lingfeng Pavilion guild. Anyone who chases or kills him from now on will be an enemy of Lingfeng Pavilion.

Yihai Yuntian [World]: Player Xiao Ran is a good friend of our Juyi Court guild. Anyone who chases or kills him from now on will be an enemy of Juyi Court.

They really didn’t want that, ah!

The guild members of Shenyao and God of the Underworld completely underestimated the seductiveness of golden equipment to the other guild leaders.

The chaos in the world was not over yet. The system delay caused by unplugging the cables had ended, and the three people, excluding Yiye Feihua, who had successfully completed their breakthrough missions were sent out by the system.

The players sent to the team instance were randomly selected by the system from various career centers. Yang Yang and Maomao Yin were not from the Mo City career center, so the only one who exited alongside Xiao Ran at that moment was Yiye Feihua. In the moment of teleportation, the great god initiated his camouflage skill and transformed from a 1.9 meter tall man in animal skins 1 back to the fearsome god of slaughter.

As soon as they exited, a lot of players sprung up within the career center like mushrooms after a spring shower. Many of them had temporarily rushed over after seeing the bounties issued by Shenyao and God of the Underworld. They wanted to eavesdrop on the current situation, but didn’t expect the plot to turn as quickly as a tornado. Other than Ming Konghui, who had the second ticket and stayed out of the matter, the other five super guilds were all involved in the dispute.

There were three super guilds standing on Xiao Ran’s side as it was, but that wasn’t the most important thing. The most important thing was…… that one beside him—

Yiye Feihua!

Back then, the top six guilds could do nothing even when they joined together against him. Now they only had such a small number of people; wasn’t it just courting death to rush ahead?

The few players at the frontlines looked at each other and stepped back in tacit understanding.

Casual players were terrified in that situation, but the players in Shenyao and God of the Underworld weren’t scared.

They had received the kill order from their superiors. No matter what other people were doing, they had to barricade Xiao Ran and prevent him from escaping.

So after some casual players at the front retreated, members of those two guilds stepped forward one after another, pushing them out of the battle zone, and continued to encircle Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua within.

Xiao Ran hadn’t expected to gather so many people in such a short amount of time. He couldn’t help nudging the great god’s arm with his elbow, asking: “What should we do?”

Yiye Feihua winked at him and calmly declared: “Don’t be afraid, husband will protect you.”

Xiao Ran blushed. Yiye Feihua was flirting with him in front of so many people, so he couldn’t help but glare at him with his large, beautiful eyes.

Fortunately, it was noisy around and the other players didn’t seem to hear what he said.

But Yiye Feihua not restrain himself. Instead, he was flattered by Xiao Ran’s stare, and leaned closer to grasp the young man’s white and tender hands.

Xiao Ran sharply pulled his hands back in a dodge. While the two were flirting, a small path was opening in the packed audience as Jun Heqiu and Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru slowly approached from the center of the crowd.

“We finally meet.” They glanced at the pair, indescribably complicated emotions in their eyes.

They usually ignored Yiye Feihua. If they were actually pursuing the enmity between themselves and Yiye Feihua, it would take three days and three nights to discuss.

However, it’s been so long since they had issue with Yiye Feihua, and he’s recently kept a low profile and hasn’t caused much trouble, so he was naturally less hateful than their familiar enemy, Xiao Ran.

Particularly for Jun Heqiu; Xiao Ran had stolen the fragments of the Pan Long Underground Palace Entry Ticket, then killed and looted his guild members, and now owned the Entry Ticket because he couldn’t gather it all himself. At that time, the look in his eyes as he stared at Xiao Ran was filled with ice and hatred.

Yiye Feihua sneered. “This sort of behavior upon meeting isn’t very proper, you two.”

Jun Heqiu ignored him, directly turning his gaze to Xiao Ran and speaking: “Long time no see. I came today to ask you to confirm something.”

Xiao Ran thought in his heart that it must not be that simple, but he replied: “Then ask.”

“Is the map you snatched from me that time one of the fragments of Ticket 1?” Jun Heqiu’s tone was frigid.

Xiao Ran was not shy in the face of such accusations. “Yes. It all depends on one’s ability; it’s a bit embarrassing to say whether or not I stole it.”

Jun Heqiu took a deep breath to calm himself. Each of Xiao Ran’s words had truly pierced his heart. It would be shameful to admit the Entry Ticket Fragments had been snatched away right in front of his face, or that he blew up Shenyao guild and managed to escape unscathed even though he was wanted throughout the entire server. Originally, he thought the other man was so scared that he had abandoned his account and stopped playing, so Jun Heqiu considered himself generous by writing off what happened before. He didn’t expect for him to come back online after a month and immediately make such big moves. The amount of reposts on videos of him in-game was so high, nearly half of all players had been discussing Xiao Ran and the teammates he was recruiting in the world channel for the past two days. With such an arrogant style, it seemed that they really weren’t taking Shenyao seriously.

Jun Heqiu: “Putting it that way, whether you stay here today is up to our ability. If you are unfortunate enough to be killed, it simply ‘all depends on one’s ability’, so it wouldn’t mean that we’ve bullied you, right?”

Team instance tickets were special items that couldn’t be stored in an individual’s personal storage. It could only be stored in a guild storage. To rephrase, that means Entry Ticket 1 and the Pan Long Underground Palace Stone Statue 4 were still there on Xiao Ran’s body. They were going to expose both items there today. Shenyao’s actions were slightly shameful; the moment Jun Heqiu learned of Xiao Ran’s location, he discussed countermeasures with Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru. It was precisely because he knew that unplugging themselves would cause a delay that he asked those people to do so; it was all to buy time for them to rush over.

Now it seemed that their timing was perfect.

Yiye Feihua responded: “You’re quite self aware, recognizing that you’re doing such immoral acts.”

Some casual players who hadn’t retreated from the circle and stayed to watch the fun couldn’t help but laugh.

The God of Slaughter deserved to be the God of Slaughter! No matter what, hatred was firmly attracted!

It hadn’t even been two years since the Chinese server was launched. Although Shenyao was the largest guild, it didn’t yet have a deep foundation. With good results, it was inevitable that the guild would be somewhat unrestrained and act arrogantly in public, which most players didn’t like. Although everyone respected the Sword God, at that moment, seeing the guild master of Shenyao, who was used to showing off his power, with an ugly expression, they were still entertained!

Jun Heqiu glanced around, and knew that if he took advantage of how many guild members he brought with today and killed the pair, Shenyao’s bad reputation would only get worse. For the sake of the long-term development of his guild, he could only temporarily put his ideas of killing them on the back burner. He looked straight at Xiao Ran, and said gracefully: “I’ll give you one opportunity to choose. Hand over the Entry Ticket 1 and the Pan Long Underground Palace Stone Statue 4, and I’ll let you live.”

Yiye Feihua could escape through the teleportation array, but Xiao Ran couldn’t. Jun Heqiu was taking advantage of that fact by calling so many players over.

Xiao Ran was about to say something, but Yiye Feihua grabbed his sleeve, then shook his head and whispered something in his ear. The young man’s originally furrowed brows suddenly relaxed. He stared intently at the great god, then nodded slightly and turned to Jun Heqiu: “Give me a little while to consider it.”

Jun Heqiu made a gesture of acquiescence, then stood to the side without encouraging him or saying a word.

In his eyes, Xiao Ran couldn’t play any tricks. With so many people from two of the top guilds barricading the career center, he couldn’t escape even if he had wings. He could only obediently hand over the items.

Going offline? Impossible. There was a delay time whether just logging off or unplugging. During that time, the player was offline, but the character was still present, and damage calculations were still valid.

The delay time could be short or long, depending on how many players were going offline at that same time. If it was during the peak offline time, if someone wasn’t careful and were targeted by some wicked players, they may get hit by a sneak attack. Once a player comes back online, they are returned directly to the city, so very few players choose to go offline in the wild. If they really need to, they would choose a location with few people.

Regardless of whether or not many people are logging off at this time, with such a large number of surrounding people, so long as there is a delay while going offline, it would be an instant kill!

Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru knew that, so after seeing that the Sword God was unmoved, it wasn’t easy to sway him, even though he had been waiting anxiously for the Pan Long Underground Palace Stone Statue 4!

About ten minutes later, Xiao Ran and the other seemed to still be considering…… No they looked more like they were biting their ears than considering, and it seemed like they weren’t talking about serious business!

Xiao Ran had said ‘consider’. Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru couldn’t bear it. That situation was obviously not considering, who could bear it!

He finally couldn’t bear it and stood up to question the pair: “What are you discussing?”

Yiye Feihua spoke bluntly: “Ah, almost done.”

Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru wanted to pounce but was stopped by Jun Heqiu. The Sword God, who was merciful the entire time, didn’t have much patience left, and announced: “I’ll give you three more minutes.”

At that moment, everyone standing in the Mo City career center gradually started feeling like something was wrong.

The game effects within Oracle of the Gods were very realistic. Right then, everyone was in the middle of the career center and seemed to hear that there were faint footsteps surrounding the dense forest. The sound was vey faint at first, but became gradually louder and louder, as if there were thousands of people rushing there.

At first, nobody noticed, but in the end even Jun Heqiu and Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru became aware, and asked their subordinates to check what was going on. At that point, a mildly spirited voice shouted from the crowd: “I am Yihai Yuntian, guldmaster of Juyi Court. We said in the world channel before that the player Xiao Ran is a friend of our Juyi Court. Whoever makes trouble for him will have trouble with our Juyi Court. Sword God, Diyu, it’s too unsightly to bring so many players just to barricade the two of them, isn’t it?”

Juyi Court?! When did those players arrive?!

Jun Heqiu and Wo Bu Ru Diyu Shei Ru looked at each other and saw identical surprise mirrored in their eyes.

However, that wasn’t the end, and soon two other familiar voices called out.

Lingjia Jiutian: “There are so many people here, how lively, ah!”

Yiting Kan Yue: “If you’re fighting in groups, count us in.”

Juyi Court, Lingfeng Pavilion, Shen Ding……

The onlookers reacted by gasping one after another, as if they were in a dream.

The guildmasters of the top five guilds were gathered together, as well as the top masters from Shenzhou and Fengdu!

Was it raining red today?! 2

Footnotes

Fentou Bengdi alias auspicious flood of luck, also a way to foreshadow bloodshed