Chapter 128 Christmas Activities

Ye Xiu had just entered the game when it hit 12 o'clock. The system announced the start of the event, and Ye Xiu didn't even bother to eat lunch before throwing himself into it.

The rules of the event had naturally been studied beforehand. Players didn't need to claim a quest; they only needed to find and kill Christmas Thieves on the map themselves.

However, it should be noted that Christmas Thieves also had levels. Players would obtain corresponding points based on their own level and the level of the Christmas Thief they killed. Clearly, the higher the level of the Christmas Thief, the more points they would receive. Of course, if the level difference was too great, players might be killed by the Christmas Thief instead. Fortunately, Christmas Thieves would never actively attack players, so they could simply avoid high-level ones.

In addition, there were also elite-level and even Boss-level Christmas Thieves. Killing them would yield more points than ordinary thieves, as well as better gift packages.

"Haha, lucky me, I've already found one!" Ye Xiu heard Chen Guo laugh beside him and turned his head to look. He saw Chen Guo's Chasing Haze fiercely firing a cannon at a Christmas Thief. The thief was hit head-on and immediately turned to pounce on Chasing Haze. At this time, other players nearby also noticed this Christmas Thief, but no matter how fierce their attacks were, the thief only stared at Chasing Haze.

This was also the special ownership setting for Christmas Thieves: first-strike ownership. Whoever launched the first attack on a Christmas Thief would own the rights to it. This was clearly to avoid excessive scrambling between players. For Christmas Thieves that already had an owner, other players' attacks would still be effective, but no matter how much damage they did, they would only be doing the work for someone else.

The players who had been attacking saw that this Christmas Thief already had an owner, so they immediately stopped and turned to find new ones. Christmas Thieves were agile, and clearly not easy to deal with in just a few hits. Despite being called thieves, the Glory profession they embodied was not necessarily a Thief from the Night family. The Christmas Thief that Chen Guo had caught swung its hand and slashed out with a knife, with a heroic momentum that was more like a Berserker from the Swordsman family.

Chen Guo's Chasing Haze was a Launcher, and had already used a Flying Cannon to jump away, while also giving the Christmas Thief another shot in mid-air.

"Not bad!" Ye Xiu praised as he watched Chen Guo's operation. Using Flying Cannon to create distance while attacking to intercept and restrict the target was a very basic awareness and operation for Launchers. It could be seen that Chen Guo was quite skilled in this area, and the awareness and operation were seamless.

Chen Guo was currently focused on killing, and didn't have time to pay attention to Ye Xiu's praise. She constantly moved and maneuvered around the Christmas Thief, and was clearly very familiar with the combat habits of Launchers.

After glancing at it idly, Ye Xiu returned to his own game. His Lord Grim had logged off in the wilderness yesterday. When he looked around, he saw players running back and forth everywhere. He could see the silhouettes of Christmas Thieves spawning in the distance, but at that distance, he wouldn't be able to catch up in time. As soon as a Christmas Thief spawned, countless attacks would be directed at it. It was so chaotic that even Ye Xiu couldn't judge the order of the attacks, and he couldn't tell who the thief belonged to until it actually attacked.

While moving Lord Grim, Ye Xiu peeked over at Tang Rou. Tang Rou was in the same situation as him. It was really difficult to find a Christmas Thief in the vast sea of people. Luck definitely played a big role in this event.

Lord Grim moved, and Ye Xiu opened the newly received message. It was Su Mucheng.

"You're right on time!" Su Mucheng's Dancing Rain said.

"Why are you here too?" Ye Xiu asked, surprised.

"An event! Of course, I have to participate," Su Mucheng said as a matter of course.

"You're free?" Ye Xiu said.

"I'm sick," Su Mucheng said.

"What's wrong?" Ye Xiu asked.

"There's an event today, so I got sick," Su Mucheng said.

"Have some professional ethics!" Ye Xiu replied.

"People get sick," Su Mucheng continued to quibble.

"Sick people can still participate in events?"

"Because it's a mental illness. Not participating in the event caused the mental illness, so I have to rely on participating in the event to cure it," Su Mucheng made it clear that she was going to act shamelessly.

"Did you catch any thieves?" Ye Xiu asked helplessly.

"Not yet. There are too many people. I'm going to take a look at the Liel焰 Forest (raging flame forest)," Su Mucheng replied.

"What a coincidence, me too," Ye Xiu replied, and then glanced at Tang Rou. The direction Soft Mist was running in was also the Liel焰 Forest.

Clearly, under these rules, there would be fewer players in higher-level maps. After all, in addition to refreshing Christmas Thieves, the monsters in the leveling areas were still there. High-level players could wander around in low-level areas, but it would always be too dangerous for low-level players to run to high-level areas.

"Actually, I think the Liel焰 Forest is probably a no-go," Su Mucheng said.

"I think so too," Ye Xiu agreed.

After all, this wasn't for leveling, so even players in their early 30s could visit the Liel焰 Forest, even without Ye Xiu and his group's superb skills. They weren't completely unable to deal with the monsters in the Liel焰 Forest, but it would be a very inefficient choice as a leveling target.

"Perhaps we can go to a higher level area? What about Zui'e Zhi Cheng (City of Sin)," Su Mucheng said.

Zui'e Zhi Cheng was higher than the Liel焰 Forest, a monster distribution area for levels 37-39.

This leveling area was an entire town, and the layout was almost no different from a main city. However, compared to a main city, it was larger and the NPCs inside were not friendly at all. The only communication they had with players was to actively attack them.

"There might not be no one there either, but there should be fewer," Ye Xiu said.

"Then let's go take a look!" Su Mucheng said.

"Okay."

Ye Xiu had his own direction and didn't forget to call out to Tang Rou. Then he looked at his friend list. Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't online. As for the others, such as Tian Qi and Moon Midsummer, they were also busy online, but it seemed too dangerous for these people to go to a place so many levels higher. So Ye Xiu didn't bother to call them.

In fact, the higher the level area, the fewer players competing. Everyone could think of this. The key was whether they had the strength to survive in the high-level area. Ye Xiu estimated that players with such confidence had already gone to places like Zui'e Zhi Cheng.

Along the way, Ye Xiu picked up two Christmas Thieves. Christmas Thieves had a certain strength, at least stronger than the monsters in the leveling area of the same level. Monsters only had ordinary attacks and no tricks. These Christmas Thieves had professions like players.

Having a profession meant having skills. Usually, monsters like that were Boss-level. In comparison, Christmas Thieves simply didn't have the abnormal attack, defense, and HP of Bosses. But having more attack methods meant more variables in combat. Christmas Thieves were still much more difficult to deal with than ordinary monsters.

Along the way, Ye Xiu had only killed two Christmas Thieves. But he had already seen five players killed by Christmas Thieves.

At this time, the top players on the Christmas Hunter leaderboard were all unknown players. Clearly, in such an event, experts had all sunk due to luck. No matter how good your skills were, it was useless if you didn't encounter a Christmas Thief.

However, there was one exception.

Qian Cheng!

This guy was actually at the top of the level 31-35 leaderboard.

As for this guy, he clearly couldn't have achieved such a result through luck. He completely relied on unlimited monster stealing.

The first-strike ownership rule for Christmas Thieves certainly avoided many monster stealing incidents, but it couldn't completely prevent it. And under this rule, the monster stealing incidents that would happen would only be worse.

There was no way to steal a monster by outputting damage. So, the only way was to kill the player who killed the monster. Then the Christmas Thief would naturally become unowned, and it would naturally be taken down.

However, doing so would inevitably turn you into a public enemy. Ye Xiu suspected that if Qian Cheng really maintained his lead on the leaderboard, then the theme of today's world channel would be a mass attack on this shameless monster stealer.

Speaking of which, this guy had already stolen several. Wasn't there any scolding in the world channel? Before looking at the leaderboard, Ye Xiu hadn't really paid attention to this. At this time, he looked at the world channel and saw that it was full of people scolding the event for being too bad and not being able to kill any Christmas Thieves.

As soon as he saw the world channel, Ye Xiu couldn't help but think of Tyrannical Ambition's misery last night. Although it didn't matter to him who got the dungeon record, Ye Xiu still opened the leaderboard to take a look.

The leaderboard hadn't changed. Tyrannical Ambition had only bought the strategy in the morning. However, Misty Rain had obtained the strategy and understood it within an hour before setting a record. Ye Xiu didn't think that Tyrannical Ambition's quality was that bad. And they were in such a situation that they should be eager to set a record. Following his strategy, even if they couldn't beat Misty Rain's record, they would still leave a mark on the leaderboard, but now it seemed that there was nothing.

Thinking about it this way, Tyrannical Ambition probably didn't have a suitable account character right now.

The characters they focused on cultivating were naturally active in leveling. At this time, they probably had no dungeon attempts left in First Line Canyon. Tyrannical Ambition probably had characters, but they would have to wait until the dungeon attempts refreshed tomorrow.

"Tsk tsk, waiting for this day, their hearts are probably bleeding," Ye Xiu said with emotion. Now he was completely in a gossip mood and didn't need to favor any guild.

And in front of him, Zui'e Zhi Cheng, the level 37-39 leveling area, finally appeared.