Chapter 0

Midnight. Normally, Ye Xiu would have gone to relieve the front desk an hour ago. But today, with the Christmas event and the commotion Ye Xiu had created, Chen Guo was even more invested than Ye Xiu himself. She directly approved a leave and randomly sent someone to cover Ye Xiu's night shift.

Chen Guo was currently controlling Hanyan Rou to frantically collect gifts. Next to her, a gunshot and a cannon blast rang out as Lord Grim and Su Mucheng's characters Wind Following the Forest had already jumped from the top of the tower. Using the recoil of gunshots can offset some of the impact when a character falls, reducing damage. As for how much attack power is needed from a gun for different heights, and how many shots need to be fired, professionals like Ye Xiu naturally know the answer. Otherwise, it would be a joke to fall to one's death from the clock tower.

The two characters came down one after the other and immediately began picking up gifts. But Lord Grim was picking up and constantly throwing out potions, all blue mana potions, while complaining, "See? I told you we got too many!"

"More is always better than nothing," Wind Following the Forest said, burying herself in picking up gifts and throwing away anything extra.

It had been a long time since the first Christmas thief had fallen to its death, and many of the gifts had already been refreshed by the system. But since even the three of them couldn't pick up everything, those gifts would be meaningless unless they could never be refreshed.

The three characters circled around the Christmas thief's corpse, picking up gifts. In the surrounding streets, several pairs of eyes were quietly watching this scene.

The main force of the six guilds had retreated, but they had all agreed to leave someone behind. In case Lord Grim made a seemingly impossible mistake and fell, everyone could receive the news and rush over immediately. But they watched until the end, and Lord Grim didn't leave them anything. The gifts piled on the corpse made their mouths water. Those announcements on TV, how did they come about? They were obtained by exchanging these gifts with Santa Claus!

Picking up things didn't require any sophisticated operation, and the three were extremely fast. Soon, they had filled their bags. Looking at what was still left on the ground, even Ye Xiu felt a pity. But then he saw Chen Guo's Hanyan Rou resolutely turn around and leave without any hesitation. Ye Xiu was admiring the boss's decisive action when he heard Chen Guo anxiously shout, "Hurry up! Go turn them in quickly, maybe there will be some that haven't been swept clean when you get back."

Ye Xiu, who was next to Chen Guo, quietly wiped away some sweat and followed. Su Mucheng's Wind Following the Forest also followed behind them. But now all three characters were fully loaded, and their movements were clumsy. Even Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng's use of Flying Gun didn't have a trace of elegance.

Santa Claus was located in every leveling zone to facilitate players' return of quests. In the City of Sin, Santa Claus was at the entrance gate of the town, quite a distance from the center of the map at the clock tower. With the three's current speed, Ye Xiu wasn't optimistic about making it back after turning in the gifts.

After calculating the points for the 10 hours and the possible rewards from the gift packs, Ye Xiu secretly sighed. His actions had ultimately caused more harm than good.

For the major guilds, Ye Xiu's actions had completely compressed the original rich resource of thieves in the City of Sin. Their harvest was no better than those who were fighting over resources in First Line Canyon and Flowing Land. They didn't get many points, and there was no need to mention gift packs.

But for Ye Xiu, if it was just a normal quest, with his previous efficiency of 14 thieves per hour, although 10 hours wouldn't get him 341 Christmas thief points, now the 341 Christmas thief points were divided equally among the three, so the difference wasn't that great. As for the gift packs, the loss was relatively large. If it were a normal quest, the gift packs wouldn't have been wasted like this. At this time, the three of them only had dozens of gift packs each. If it were a normal quest, Ye Xiu could have easily gotten over a hundred in ten hours.

The end result was that the difference in收益between Ye Xiu and the major guilds was huge, but this was achieved by compressing the收益of the major guilds. For Ye Xiu himself, his收益was also compressed to some extent.

And this was not what Ye Xiu wanted to see. He would rather quietly complete the quest and earn more points and more rewards. As for how much the major guilds could get, Ye Xiu didn't care at all. It was a pity that some people had to make things difficult for him. Ye Xiu deeply regretted this and hoped that everyone could face this problem rationally in the next 24 hours. It was rare to have a holiday system event, and it was not good for both sides to suffer.

Thinking all the way, the three finally arrived at Santa Claus. The stolen gifts that had been snatched back were sent to Santa Claus one after another. Chen Guo was anxious, clicking the mouse so fast that it seemed to be peeling off, and instantly exchanged them all for gift packs. Then, she turned around and ran, sprinting towards the clock tower while opening the gift packs.

As a result, she had quite good luck, appearing on TV three times after opening all the gift packs. Twice, she received a piece of purple equipment, which, although not for her class, could at least be exchanged for some money. And the other time, she actually got a skill book that added 20 skill points. Chen Guo cheered before suddenly realizing that the account wasn't hers, but she was still very proud of her luck.

Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng weren't as lucky as Chen Guo, but fortunately they had a large number of gift packs, so they each appeared on TV once. They both got a piece of ordinary purple equipment. Neither of them cared much.

However, the levels of the three had all broken through level 31 and reached level 32 during the process of opening the gift packs. Taking down Christmas thieves already yielded generous experience, and opening gift packs rewarded even more. System events have always been great opportunities to earn money and experience. The stingy game system rarely gives out benefits, so why wouldn't players flock to them?

Looking at the three characters leveling up, Ye Xiu remembered his teammates who were usually with him. He opened his friends list and saw that Steamed Bun Invasion was still offline, and Qiao Yifan hadn't shown up either tonight. Ye Xiu wasn't sure about Steamed Bun Invasion, but as for Qiao Yifan, he was a member of a professional team, so on holidays like this, it was likely that they would have some kind of team activity to connect with the team members. For example, Excellent Era had always had this custom. Thinking of this, he immediately sent a message to Su Mucheng, "It's Christmas Eve, doesn't the team have any activities?"

"Yes!" Su Mucheng replied.

"Why didn't you go?"

"I'm sick!" Su Mucheng said.

"..."

The three quickly returned to the bottom of the clock tower again. It wasn't a wasted trip, as there were still a few unrefreshed gifts at the bottom of the tower, about a dozen packs. This time, Chen Guo wasn't so reckless, and she calmly divided the remaining bit with Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng.

The stolen gifts were gone, and the corpses had been refreshed. The clock tower seemed to be returning to peace soon, but Chen Guo was still not satisfied. She got up and returned Hanyan Rou to Tang Rou, and pushed Ye Xiu, "Quick, gather them again."

Ye Xiu smiled wryly, "Boss, think about it carefully, what's the difference between gathering them like this and killing them myself?"

Chen Guo paused, thought about Ye Xiu's record of killing 14 Christmas thieves in an hour, and realized that gathering them like this didn't seem to have gained anything. Perhaps, she had exchanged fewer gift packs?

However, the three characters were far ahead of everyone else on the Christmas Hunter rankings! Thinking of this, Chen Guo felt refreshed. Such a result was already extremely rare for an ordinary player like her, but for Ye Xiu, he hoped that the substantial points could be more. Was he even concerned about this ranking with ordinary players?

Ye Xiu declined Chen Guo's eager request to gather the monsters again and excused himself to go to the restroom. He had been sitting in this position for more than 12 hours without moving. Ye Xiu also needed to take care of his metabolism.

He went to the bathroom, ate something, drank some water, and considering that too many people harbored ill intentions towards him, Ye Xiu cautiously chose to log out of the game instead of going AFK.

Lord Grim logged off!

The guilds that suddenly noticed this were first stunned, and then ecstatic. As the Christmas thieves at the clock tower were killed off, the Christmas thief resources in the City of Sin returned to their previous prosperity. The guilds were actively plundering, and now that they discovered that Lord Grim had logged off, it was simply the best possible news. Especially for Chen Yehui, it felt like the thorn in his heart had been pulled out. He immediately checked the rankings. Because the points were divided equally among the three, although they were ahead of his fifteen good men, the gap wasn't big enough to be hopeless.

Ye Qiu was offline, but they weren't! There was still plenty of time to catch up.

Chen Yehui issued instructions with high spirits, formulating a hunting plan based on their normal efficiency: surpass and crush Lord Grim in four hours, and reclaim the top fifteen spots on the榜单in five hours.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. After busying themselves for half an hour, at exactly one o'clock in the morning, a system notification resounded in the hearts of many bosses.

System notification: Friend Lord Grim is online.

Friend Lord Grim!

Everyone wanted to dig these five words out of the screen and eat them. This wasn't a friend! Absolutely not!

Several bosses vented their anger by customizing their name cards, defining Lord Grim as a賤人, a禽兽, a土匪, and a强盗, otherwise this thought wouldn't be acceptable.

But these messy things couldn't cause any impact on Ye Xiu. After entering the game and sitting in a comfortable position, Ye Xiu looked strangely at Chen Guo, who was next to him, "Boss, aren't you resting yet?"

"Activity!" Chen Guo said, as Chasing Haze frantically ran in the Realm of Gods.

"Tsk, tsk!" Ye Xiu sighed and looked back at his side, but there were messages.

He moved the mouse over and saw that there was more than one message. He clicked it open and saw that it was Blue River: "大神啊, are you still planning to play like that?"

After Blue River knew Ye Xiu's identity, his address changed, and he was no longer embarrassed to call him brothers as before.