Chapter 148: Hunting

After the Wushuang Guild arrived, they did not immediately launch an attack on the Wind and Cloud Guild, but instead started pulling up the fallen players from the Qi Kingdom.

Although it was impossible to revive every single fallen member, at least they were making an effort to save people.

Gentleman Wushuang’s actions earned him a massive wave of flattery and praise from the Qi Kingdom players.

One Dragon of West Mountain was resurrected, and then he ran over to Gentleman Wushuang with a dejected expression, saying to him:

"Many thanks, Brother Gentleman. Otherwise, I would have dropped a level."

"Think nothing of it. We are all players of the same faction; if I can help, naturally I will."

"But there are still so many brothers lying on the ground. We don't have enough support classes. Even if we stay here and wait out the cooldowns of the resurrection skills, we won't be able to save everyone."

Once players were knocked down, they could only lie on the ground for an hour. If no support player came to resurrect them within that hour, they had no choice but to respawn in the city, which would result in losing a level of experience.

Gentleman Wushuang had not brought enough support players, so no matter how hard they tried, it was impossible to pull everyone back up.

"We can't let our brothers drop in level. These people were all called here by me. If they all drop a level, the losses will simply be too heavy."

Seeing the Qi Kingdom players lying on the ground, One Dragon of West Mountain felt deeply guilty. Not to mention the members of his own guild, many of them did not even belong to the West Mountain Guild.

If all of these people dropped a level, wouldn't they resent him to death afterward? He had to find a way to salvage the situation.

"What do you suggest we do?"

Gentleman Wushuang merely wanted to play the role of a cheap good guy. Rescuing people on the fly was fine, but he was not about to invest any further than that.

"I’ll go to the national channel and post a bounty. As long as someone resurrects a player, I’ll offer two thousand gold coins. I’m sure those support players with resurrection skills will be willing to make the trip."

"That's going to cost several million gold coins. There are quite a few people lying on the ground."

"It doesn't matter. Isn't it just six or seven million gold coins? I'll pay it."

As a veteran guild leader, One Dragon of West Mountain naturally had some capital, and several million gold coins were indeed affordable for him.

However, nobody's money fell from the sky. Spending this sum still pained him somewhat, but he had no choice.

The fallen players had to be saved; otherwise, who would ever listen to his commands in the future?

After arranging the bounty for the rescues, One Dragon of West Mountain continued to speak to Gentleman Wushuang:

"Brother Gentleman, what should we do now? The Wind and Cloud Guild has turned into a bunch of cowards hiding in their shells."

Gentleman Wushuang was also feeling a bit of a headache. Previously, he had only heard One Dragon of West Mountain talk about it and lacked a direct concept of the situation.

Now that he saw the terrain of the passageway with his own eyes, he had to admit that One Dragon of West Mountain had not lost unjustly.

How could anyone possibly charge through such a narrow passageway?

"Is there really nowhere nearby that we can use to bypass this?"

"No, I had people look for it long ago. Once you enter this passageway, it leads to a closed map blocked off by huge mountains. There is no alternative route."

"That makes things tricky. With the Wind and Cloud Guild stationing hundreds of people to defend it, there's no way we can charge through, no matter how many men we have."

"What should we do then? Are we just going to let it go like this?"

Gentleman Wushuang was left speechless. What else could they do? He certainly couldn't let the ten-plus thousand people he brought get wiped out here.

Moreover, even if they all died here, they still wouldn't be able to break through. He was completely out of ideas.

After thinking for a moment, Gentleman Wushuang said, "I'll go talk to Wind and Cloud Dominance."

Coming not far from the entrance of the passageway, Gentleman Wushuang shouted inside: "Brother Dominance, are you there? Come out and let's chat."

Wind and Cloud Dominance had not gone with the others to farm monsters; instead, he stayed right near the passageway. Defending such terrain required high-burst ranged classes, which were crucial.

As a high-output fire mage, Wind and Cloud Dominance was somewhat uneasy, so he decided to stay and guard the passageway for a while first, just to see how things played out.

Since Gentleman Wushuang wanted to chat, he certainly wouldn't mind. Anyway, he had nothing else to do while guarding here.

"I wonder what Brother Gentleman wants to talk about?"

"You see me coming with such grand fanfare, yet you leave me outside to just blow in the cold wind? How about our two guilds have a head-on fight, and I'll put up ten million gold coins as a prize?"

"Do I look like a fool to you? If you want to fight, charge in. If you don't want to fight, we'll talk another time."

Wind and Cloud Dominance said dismissively. Who was he kidding? Was ten million gold coins really that much? How could it possibly compare to the importance of everyone's levels?

He wasn't someone lacking money; the point was that they clearly held a massive advantage—why on earth would they go outside to fight the Wushuang Guild?

Not even an idiot would do that.

"Then I suppose there's no help for it. Since Brother Dominance has made up his mind to play the coward, I'll just have to keep you company. We'll just guard outside. If we can't get in, then don't even think about coming out."

Gentleman Wushuang's words sounded rather foolish. Who wanted to go out anyway? Wasn't farming monsters inside much better?

If they really wanted to leave, they could just channel a teleport back to the city. Who would bother charging out through the passageway?

"Guard all you want. It doesn't matter if my few hundred people stay here to play with you for a while."

Facing Wind and Cloud Dominance, Gentleman Wushuang was completely out of tricks.

He ran back and said to the rest of the Wushuang Guild members:

"Leave two thousand people to jam up this passageway and prevent anyone from the Wind and Cloud Guild from coming out. Everyone else, go find a place nearby to farm monsters. I refuse to believe the Wind and Cloud Guild can stay in there forever."

Blocking a passageway worked both ways. Inside, one could block outsiders from entering; likewise, people outside could naturally block the exit.

They would keep the players of the Wind and Cloud Guild trapped inside unless they channeled a teleport back to the city.

Gentleman Wushuang was merely trying to save face and refuse to back down. He couldn't just do nothing.

Realizing he could do nothing to the Wind and Cloud Guild, Gentleman Wushuang had no choice but to disperse his people, leaving two thousand men to guard the outside of the passageway.

Zhang Shan had been staying very far away and had not witnessed the scene here.

However, even though he couldn't see it, Wind and Cloud Blade would keep him updated on the situation at any time.

"Brother Six-Pipe, the Wushuang Guild has dispersed, leaving only two thousand men guarding outside the passageway. Handle it however you see fit."

"Alright, understood. I'm going to go see where they went to farm monsters and raid them."

"Ah, you get to have all the fun while I'm stuck guarding this miserable spot."

Hehe.

Riding his horse, Zhang Shan galloped swiftly across the Heavenly Gate map to hunt down the Wushuang Guild players who were farming monsters.

As for the two thousand men guarding the outside of the passageway, Zhang Shan had no immediate plans for them.

Those two thousand people were on high alert and hard to deal with. Ambushing players who were busy farming monsters was so much simpler.

He didn't need to search for long; wherever there were monsters nearby, there were bound to be Wushuang Guild players farming them.

They had only just split up and should still be farming nearby, unlikely to have run too far away.

Before long, Zhang Shan spotted a group of Qi Kingdom players—a full thousand of them—farming monsters over there.

Zhang Shan dismounted and slowly jogged closer.

A thousand people were not terrifying. When farming monsters, it was impossible for everyone to stay clustered together; they would inevitably spread out a bit.

This gave him just the opening he needed to pick them off one by one.

Like a seasoned hunter locking eyes with a herd of prey, Zhang Shan slowly closed the distance.