Chapter Thirteen: The Owner's Return

  "Ah! You're here!" The girl showed a smiling face, that called out intimately, as if welcoming her husband back home from work.

  Gu Fei remained unmoved, smiled and said: "You can still run pretty fast!" As he spoke, he glanced down at the girl's injured leg and quickly kicked it with his foot. "Is your leg okay?"

  The girl was in so much pain that her heart was tied up, but her face remained expressionless. Before she could even respond, she heard Gu Fei muttering to himself: "This is no longer the same as when I bandaged it before!"

  "You're quite sharp!" The girl was somewhat surprised.

  "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have kept up with you back then, and I wouldn't be finding you again now." Gu Fei smiled.

  The girl looked at Gu Fei, didn't say a word, and had no expression. No one knew what she was thinking about at that moment.

  "Actually, you should have guessed that I would know you were coming here to make a deal. It's just that you didn't think I'd arrive so quickly, did you?"

  "What about them?" the girl asked, referring of course to the five people in the Healing Plaza.

  "Let's go!" Gu Fei said.

  "How could they let you go?" The girl finally couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

  "It's simple, return the dagger to them," Gu Fei said.

  "Give them back their daggers and they'll believe you?" The girl thought this unlikely.

  "Of course it's not that easy to believe. But the dagger has already been returned to them, and as for fighting, they're no match for me. What else can they possibly ask for?" Gu Fei retorted.

  "They can't beat you?" The girl's face was full of surprise. She was also a connoisseur, and she could see that Gu Fei was only a 16th-level mage, which was higher than the average person's level at present. But the fact that he could defeat Angry Howl, a dagger-wielding opponent, meant that his level couldn't be below 16. Moreover, there wasn't just one of them, but five.

  Gu Fei didn't care and just smiled.

  "So you're saying that in a situation where they couldn't do anything to you, you returned the dagger to them?" If her previous expression was one of surprise, now the girl's face was written with genuine incredulity. Although the dagger wasn't as valuable as Frost's Memories, it could still be easily sold for around 30,000. She hadn't expected Gu Fei to let go so easily - did he really not care about the money?

  "What exactly do you want?" the girl couldn't help but ask.

  "I've told you how many times, return my dagger." Gu Fei said.

  The girl's eyes continued to be incredulous.

  "I knew you wouldn't believe me. So... look..." Gu Fei stretched out his hand to the side and beckoned, a figure emerged from behind him. The person looked quite disreputable, but their eyes were very spirited, staring fixedly at the young lady. Jian Gui.

  "Now you can believe it?" Gu Fei smiled, "No need to give me the dagger, just return it to him directly. Who is he? No need for me to introduce him, right?"

  The girl stared at Sword Demon for a moment before nodding: "Alright."

  Back to the exhibition hall, the consignment transaction was cancelled. The girl handed over Frost's Memory after getting it, and didn't even stay in her hand for a second. But the target she handed it to was Gu Fei, not Jian Gui.

  Gu Fei casually took it and handed it to Jian Gui beside him. Jian Gui, however, did not show any tension or unease when Gu Fei reached out to take Frost's Memory. From start to finish, he just stared at the girl intently.

  The girl could imagine the anger in his heart. However, this is a trading house. If you compare it to the safe zone in the game, the trading house is absolutely the safest place.

  In the Academy of Mages, it was possible for a thousand people to shout "Fireball" and ignite fireballs. But here, after Gu Fei called out "Fireball", he heard someone respond from another corner of the exhibition hall. The Fireball who had been admiring the mage equipment hurried over quickly.

  "Is there something you want to say to this lady?" Gu Fei asked Huo Qiu.

  The fireball nodded and looked at the girl: "Miss, what's your name?"

  "Xiao Tian is here." The girl's face showed no emotion, "And you?" she asked back.

  "My name is Fireball." said Fireball happily.

  Xiao Tian didn't react much, but his gaze continued to stare at Gu Fei.

  Gu Fei knew that her sentence "how about you" was actually directed at him.

  "A thousand miles drunk." Gu Fei's words had a sighing component. He didn't like the name, but now he could only bear it.

  "True name!" said Xi Xiao Tian.

  "Gu Fei."

  Xiao Tian nodded and took a few steps back, leaning against the wall and sitting down on the ground. He held his injured leg with one hand and looked at Gu Fei, saying: "Violent Flying!"

  Gu Fei was taken aback for a moment, but quickly retorted: "Heavens! What a scam!"

  The atmosphere was very strange, and Jian Gui couldn't help but cough lightly.

  "Uh, a little girl, don't bother with him, okay?" Gu Fei said to Jian Gui.

  "Good!" Jian Gui replied with a single word without hesitation.

  Gu Fei smiled: "Now that you have a dagger, are you going to rush off to level up again?"

  Jian Gui walked into the exchange, rarely showing a smile on his face, although it looked quite ugly: "I'm leaving, talk to you later!" After that, he didn't look at the three of them again and turned around to leave.

  "Wow, cool! I really can't tell, he's just like the legendary figure in the game." Huo Qiu said, and then added another sentence: "Except for his appearance."

  Gu Fei sighed: "On this issue, I really have no strength to refute you."

  "What about us?" Huo Qiu looked at Gu Fei and then at Xi Xiao Tian, asking.

  "I'm going to level up too." Gu Fei replied, "What about you?"

  Huǒ qiú méi zhī shēng, yǎn zhū dī liū liū cháo xí xiǎo tiān shēn shàng zhuǎn, jié guǒ rén jiā shì zhèng yǎn dōu bù lǐ tā yī xià, tǎo le lǎo dà yī gè méi qù, zhǐ hǎo yě shuō: "wǒ yě qù liàn jí."

  "Let's go then!" Gu Fei turned around.

  "Hey!" Xixiaotian suddenly shouted.

  The speed at which the fireball turned back was as if he was the one who had mastered the Full Moon technique.

  Xiao Tian still didn't look at him, but stared at Gu Fei: "My leg!" She pointed to her calf.

  Gu Fei saw that there was more blood seeping from the bandage, took two steps closer and sighed, saying: "You're really heavy, I can't carry you!" As he spoke, he rubbed his right shoulder - where he had carried Xi Xiao Tian earlier.

  Xiao Tian glared at him angrily.

  Gu Fei sighed and stretched out his hand: "Bandage."

  Xiao Tian took out a bandage from his pocket and handed it over. Gu Fei bent down, tore off the bandage, and re-bandaged her wound. "I told you! My hemostatic bandage technique can't be useless! Look, you didn't even do it right yourself."

  "Alright, I've bandaged you up. You won't bleed again unless you mess with it yourself, in which case I'm not responsible."

  "Let's go!" Chao Xi Xiao Tian waved his hand, and Gu Fei and Huo Qiu walked out. The moment they stepped out of the exchange, Gu Fei received a system message: Xi Xiao Tian has added you as a friend.

  This girl... signed up as Xi Xiao Tian, and then asked me my real name. This should be her real name too? In the game, everyone uses fake names, but this scammer actually used a real name. Does this world still have any logic left? Gu Fei muttered to himself in his heart.

  Out of the trading hall, Gu Fei's friend list information window was still open.

  "Thank you. If it wasn't for you mentioning it, I really wouldn't have known that the game actually has a trading floor." Gu Fei sent a message, target: Hong Chen Yi Xiao.

  "Hehe! Found it in the exchange?" Hongchen smiled back.

  "It's okay now," said Gu Fei.

  "Want me to tell you about the swindler's information?" Hong Chen asked with a smile.

  "Never mind..." Gu Fei said.

  "Maintaining a scammer? Rarely seen, is it a beauty?" Hongchen smiled and replied.

  "It doesn't look bad." Gu Fei was quite honest.

  Hongchen smiled and replied, "Let me remind you! From my years of experience in this industry, the tricks female players use to cheat are not only terrifying, but their revenge can also be quite frightening, so be careful!"

  "The game is so big, it's hard to meet again in the future," said Gu Fei.

  "Really?"

  "Hmm... maybe!" Gu Fei was still honest. After all, the person had taken the initiative to add him as a friend, and whether they would take the initiative to find him again in the future, well, that was indeed maybe!

  "I won't talk to you anymore, I'll continue leveling up."

  "Hey, reveal some BOSS-level hidden tasks and top-notch equipment info!" Gu Fei said.

  "Don't tease me, I'm a self-disciplined gamer." Hongchen said with a smile.

  Gu Fei was just joking, of course it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. He immediately sent back a smiling face emoticon and closed the messaging window.

  "Fireball! Ah choo!" Gu Fei had just shouted, and immediately realized that this name couldn't be called out randomly.

  Although so, the fireball in front of him had already risen, and also provoked the fireball beside him to be unhappy: "Who are you scolding!"

  "Slip of the tongue!" Gu Fei said, "But this name is also too inconvenient, we need to think of a code name!"

  Huǒ Qiú cursed the guy who started this name one hundred and eighty times, then responded to Gu Fēi's call: "Just call me Little Fire."

  "Small fire... well, let's just make do with this for now!" Gu Fei said.

  Two men walked towards the outskirts of the city, when Huo Qiu suddenly remembered something: "Zui Ge..."

  "Huh?"

  "Just now at the wine shop, you said you'd treat me but then you suddenly ran off and I ended up paying!!" Huo Qiu said.

  "Really? Then I'll treat you next time." Gu Fei said nonchalantly.

  "How come I feel like you're going to welch on the deal?" The fireball's sense of crisis was quite strong.

  "How could I! Am I that kind of shameless person?" Gu Fei said.

  "It didn't used to be like this, but now, the more I look at it, the more alike we are." Huo Qiu's heart was filled with worry.

  "To be honest, I don't like bullying the weak." Gu Fei smiled, "But I love killing the strong!"

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  Yesterday, um, I think I added another chapter because I wasn't at home last night, so I'm making up for it today.