Chapter 0 Midnight

At midnight, the system punctually announced the end of the Christmas event. From that second on, Christmas Thieves would no longer refresh. Already spawned Christmas Thieves wouldn't disappear, but players wouldn't receive points or stolen gifts after killing them. As for the gifts that had already been dropped, picking them up after midnight was fine and wouldn't affect reward redemption. Reward redemption would continue for another 24 hours.

guilds like Tyrannical Ambition, Blue Brook Guild, and Herb Garden, who cooperated with Ye Xiu, undoubtedly became the biggest winners of this Christmas event. A burst of cheers erupted from beneath the clock tower in Sin City, echoing into the sky. However, Lord Grim on the top of the tower remained standing there, showing no sign of moving.

The monster killing had ended several minutes ago, and Lord Grim could have come down already. Players were puzzled, wondering what this person was doing standing so high up. Tang Rou turned her head and noticed that Ye Xiu was already asleep in his seat, his head tilted.

Tang Rou and Chen Guo exchanged glances. He seemed fine just a few minutes ago! But as soon as the event ended, he fell asleep. His ability to enter a state of focus was truly too strong.

"Hey, hey, can't hold on for the last few minutes?" Chen Guo ruthlessly woke Ye Xiu up.

"Huh?" Ye Xiu was dazed for a moment. "Isn't it over?"

"You haven't picked up the gift bags yet!" Tang Rou said.

"You guys pick them up!" Ye Xiu said, actually turning over in his seat, looking like he intended to change positions and continue sleeping.

"Get up, get up, go back to your room and sleep properly," Chen Guo said loudly, pulling Ye Xiu up.

"Alright, alright, I'm going back," Ye Xiu said, supporting himself on the table to stand up. He walked like he was floating.

Chen Guo was startled. Not sleeping for 36 hours wasn't a big deal for an adult, but looking at Ye Xiu's condition, it seemed like he could collapse at any moment. Chen Guo thought about it. What Ye Xiu had done in those 36 hours was different from what everyone else had done. He had been doing something that no other player could do. Even a professional-level expert couldn't maintain such performance while being distracted. Ye Xiu had maintained a high level of concentration for 36 hours. The mental fatigue was something that players like them, who were just wandering around hoping for luck, couldn't understand.

"Hey!" Seeing Ye Xiu sway again, Chen Guo quickly jumped up and ran over to help him. But Ye Xiu steadied himself after swaying, shook his head, and said in surprise, "I can even fall asleep while walking. I really admire myself more and more..."

Chen Guo was speechless for a moment, then finally chased after him and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm going to sleep first. Help me log out of the game!" Ye Xiu waved his hand.

"I'll hand in the gifts for you! What if you sleep for 24 hours and it gets delayed?" Chen Guo liked doing this kind of thing.

"Hand them in, hand them in!" Ye Xiu smiled, then walked towards the stairs. Chen Guo was a little worried that he would roll down the stairs, but then she saw that Ye Xiu's steps had become steady. That swaying gait was probably because he wasn't fully awake. He was walking in his sleep. Seeing him return to normal, she stopped paying attention.

Back in her seat, she first went to help Ye Xiu hand in the gift bags. When she looked at Lord Grim's view in the game, she saw that he was on the top of the clock tower, overlooking the entire city. The other players looked like ants gathered at his feet, and the lightning streaking across the sky seemed to be right next to him, as if he could reach out and grab it.

Chen Guo controlled Lord Grim to turn left and right on the top of the clock tower, feeling a little reluctant to leave. She had never been to this place before!

It wasn't until Tang Rou looked at her with a questioning gaze that Chen Guo felt a little embarrassed. She cleared her throat and asked, "Are there any more gifts to pick up?"

"Yes, you help him pick them up!" Tang Rou said.

"Okay," Chen Guo nodded, opening Lord Grim's equipment to take a look. Ye Xiu had used his gun a lot to stop the Christmas Thieves from climbing up the clock tower. At this moment, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was in its gun form. Chen Guo looked at the stats and was amazed. The thought that she was using a Silver weapon made her unable to calm down again.

"I'm coming down!" Chen Guo said.

"Then come down!" Tang Rou said.

Chen Guo was, after all, a Launcher player. Although she couldn't jump up to this clock tower, jumping down wasn't a problem. Taking one last look at the feeling of overlooking the world from this high altitude, Chen Guo's Lord Grim jumped out.

The character fell rapidly in the drizzle. Chen Guo aimed her gun at the ground, mastered the rhythm, and after a series of shots, Lord Grim finally landed safely on the ground.

The players from the various guilds were still around! However, everyone's feelings towards Lord Grim were quite complex. Seeing him jump down, they didn't know how to react for a moment.

Chen Guo didn't pay attention to them and ran towards Soft Mist to pick up the gifts.

The other players had already snatched the gifts they could. This pile was left specifically for Ye Xiu and the others. The players from the various guilds were also disciplined, following the prior agreement. They snatched theirs and never touched the gifts for Ye Xiu and the others.

After picking up these ten or so stolen gifts, Chen Guo and Tang Rou naturally wouldn't have any interaction with the guild players. Lord Grim and Soft Mist were now full of gifts. The two of them ran together to find Santa Claus.

"Where's that girl?" Chen Guo noticed that the Launcher girl was gone.

"Oh, logged off," Tang Rou said.

So without further ado, the two found Santa Claus and handed in their gifts in a frenzy. Although it wasn't her own character, Chen Guo was still seriously staring at the system messages, constantly checking the rewards she received.

The chance to be on TV was definitely equal for everyone in the system. But with so many gifts that characters like Lord Grim and Soft Mist had, they would undoubtedly increase their chances of being on TV by exchanging them for so many gift bags. They had lost count of how many times each of them had been on TV throughout the entire event.

Getting on TV didn't necessarily mean getting something great.

For example, Purple equipment. This would also be announced by the system. But this low-level Purple equipment was something that you would only enjoy temporarily. It would be eliminated after leveling up a few times. The value was really limited. As for Orange equipment, there had been announcements in the world, but Ye Xiu and the others hadn't encountered any.

However, even Orange equipment couldn't compare to the value of skill books. This item couldn't be traded, so you could never get it even if you had money. After the 36-hour mission, Ye Xiu and the others opened their gift bags and each got a skill book. In total, Tang Rou had the best luck, getting a total of 55 skill points. Ye Xiu was second, getting 45 points. Su Mucheng was more miserable, only getting two small 5-point skill books, for a total of 10 points. Luck was really hard to predict. The number of gift bags opened by the three was basically the same.

In addition to these, the three of them collected a lot of rare materials. Tang Rou didn't know the value of these things at all. Everyone was busy with the mission, so they didn't have time to pay attention to them. For now, they were temporarily stored, and they would be sorted out together after it was over.

And the truly crazy harvest was the experience points.

After 24 hours, the three had already leveled up to Level 35. Among them, the last twelve hours were when they started cooperating with the guilds, and the efficiency soared at this time. And the last twelve hours were a replica of these efficient twelve hours. Now that the mission was completely over, and all the rewards were exchanged, all three characters had already leveled up to Level 37.

The other guilds' players started at a higher level. After 24 hours, they were already in the process of leveling up from Level 36 to Level 37. Compared to Ye Xiu and the others, they had a larger gap in the number of stolen gifts, and the experience rewards were significantly lower than the three. However, after these 12 hours, they had completed this level and a half and had now reached Level 38.

Among them, Chen Yehui had to be mentioned again.

He had been helpless and could only stare at the rankings. At one point, he suddenly discovered that the ranking of the fifteen heroes of their guild had soared. This surprised him and made him think that some miracle had happened. But after careful research, he was tearful.

How did their Excellent Dynasty characters ascend? Because the players from the major guilds in front of them rapidly gained experience and quickly increased to Level 36.

Once they reached Level 36, a new list of Christmas Hunters from Level 36 to Level 40 automatically appeared. These Level 36 characters automatically switched to this list. Wouldn't those Excellent Dynasty characters who were still at Level 35 soar on the list of Level 31 to Level 35?

This situation made Chen Yehui extremely depressed. This step was so far that it felt like the two sides were no longer in the same realm.

Chen Yehui estimated that at their current speed of eating scraps, they would eventually be able to enter the Level 36 to Level 40 list, but the fifteen heroes could only neatly serve as the foundation for the bottom of the list.

What made him even more depressed was that their levels were even lower than those of Lord Grim and the others in the end. Those three had come here at Level 31, three levels lower than them! In the end, the Christmas mission lasted 36 hours. The three of them leveled up six levels, the ten cooperating guilds each had eight people who leveled up 4 levels, and those who ate scraps like Excellent Dynasty only pitifully leveled up two levels.

Although they had done a great job compared to most players, the vast majority of players were never the target that Excellent Dynasty wanted to compare with. The vast majority of people they really wanted to compete with had already thrown them off by two levels.

Chen Yehui was helpless about this result. Although they were at the bottom of the list, they had at least entered the Level 36 to Level 40 list. Guild Samsara, in the end, was still relegated to the Level 31 to Level 35 list.

The higher the level of the list, the more benefits there were, naturally.

The higher the level, the higher the rewards, not only in experience and money, but also in equipment and materials. What you got would naturally correspond to the level of the list. Level 36 to Level 40 was always better than Level 31 to Level 35.

"It's all over..." Chen Yehui sighed deeply, looking at the final list that was confirmed and would not change. At this moment, he would no longer be too annoyed, because this time he had already admitted defeat.

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Well, today... is Monday, so, it's the day of the week... um...

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