City of Sin.

Flashes of lightning still illuminated the sky from time to time, and the drizzle continued to fall.

Lord Grim and Soft Mist were running in separate corners of the city, each searching for the traces of the Christmas thieves. Ye Xiu and Tang Rou were quietly operating their keyboards and mice, without uttering a word.

Sitting between the two, Chen Guo was also controlling her Chasing Haze, running, running, running wildly in the Realm of Gods...

*Plop!*

Chasing Haze fell into a pit.

"Damn it!" Chen Guo shouted, hastily manipulating Chasing Haze to jump out of the pit. Her attention was really not focused at this moment. In the previous PK, the most nervous, most excited, and most agitated was actually her, the bystander. In the end, the two participants calmly continued their tasks, but Chen Guo had no one to talk to, feeling cluttered.

There was no way she could force them to be as excited and agitated as she was.

Helpless, Chen Guo swallowed and continued to wander aimlessly. Four Christmas thieves… This was her result so far. She had killed three in the previous hour, which was considered good luck for an ordinary player. However, in this hour, she had been distracted by watching the two play, and she had been absent-minded ever since. She had only found one before this and hadn't gotten any more since.

When she occasionally found one, she was always distracted and other players would snatch it first.

Whenever someone else snatched one first, Chen Guo would silently walk away. However, her actions didn't mean everyone else would do the same. Killing people and stealing monsters happened everywhere. Chen Guo had killed four Christmas thieves without encountering any trouble, which was quite rare.

The Realm of Gods was an extremely dog-eat-dog world. There were no system penalties for PK, and the experience loss and item drop rate were higher when killed. Killing and looting constantly happened every day in the Realm of Gods.

Perhaps many players were dissatisfied with the atmosphere of the Realm of Gods, but the Realm of Gods wasn't forcing players to enter. Players had the right to choose. However, the Realm of Gods had better equipment, more materials, stronger Bosses, and harder dungeons, luring players to constantly break in.

If they could resist the temptation, they could continue to play in the first through eighth servers. The official updates always added new things to these non-Realm of Gods areas and never neglected them.

Chen Guo preferred the Realm of Gods. The constant danger made her feel more stimulated. Although she had been attacked and had her equipment dropped, making her not want to play for a week, and even wanting to return to the old server, she would quietly crawl back to the Realm of Gods before long. This land had such magic.

But at this moment, Chen Guo didn't have any good feelings about the Realm of Gods. She was rigidly pressing the forward key, turning left and right, her fingers going numb. And what about the two beside her? All she heard were the clattering sounds of keyboards and mice on the left and right. She didn't need to look to know that they were constantly busy.

There were too few players in the City of Sin in their new server. It was rare to see a situation where there was more porridge than monks. The two of them could almost always see a Christmas thief after walking for a short while and happily kill it. With such a contrast, Chen Guo couldn't like the Realm of Gods at all.

Running, running, running...

This time, she didn't get distracted and fall into a big pit, but she still couldn't grab a Christmas thief. Chen Guo occasionally glanced left and right, and gradually, she suddenly realized that Ye Xiu on the right had also quieted down.

Just like herself, he seemed to just be pressing forward, turning left, and turning right, like a fool.

Chen Guo started watching Ye Xiu's screen instead of her own again.

Lord Grim was running like her Chasing Haze, running through streets and alleys, his vision like a radar searching everywhere. Did the Christmas thieves suddenly decrease, or were there more players?

The places Lord Grim ran through often had the Christmas thieves already killed, or they had just passed by and someone else had already killed them.

Of course, Ye Xiu didn't kill people and steal monsters like Jian Qi Suo Zhi. He could only turn around and look again. As a result, he was always repeating the same experience.

In the half hour that Chen Guo had been watching him, he had only killed 2 Christmas thieves in the end.

For Ye Xiu, who had greatly profited in the City of Sin, killing 14 in an hour, killing 2 in half an hour was a bit unreasonable.

Perhaps this was not bad for ordinary players. But for a name that was rocketing up the rankings, this result was a regression. This could already be seen from the rankings. In this half hour, Lord Grim's ranking didn't advance but retreated.

"You guys are too arrogant. Did the system adjust it?" Chen Guo suddenly said.

Ye Xiu tilted his head to look at her and gently shook his head, saying, "Something's not right."

"What's wrong?" Chen Guo asked.

Ye Xiu didn't answer, but continued to patiently let Lord Grim wander around.

Of course, Chen Guo also knew that her "system adjustment" wasn't real, because Tang Rou on her left was still busy. Could it be that the adjustment was only targeting Lord Grim, adjusting wherever he went?

Chen Guo herself was stuck in a stalemate, unable to find a Christmas thief for a long time, but at this time, she was more interested in Ye Xiu's situation and paid closer attention.

After another full half hour of wandering, this time was even worse than before, only killing one.

Three Christmas thieves in an hour, this was Chen Guo's result.

Chen Guo didn't have time to gloat. She also felt that something was wrong. Tang Rou had been busy for half an hour!

"I'm surrounded." Ye Xiu said, meeting Chen Guo's puzzled gaze.

"Surrounded?"

"Yeah, there are always some people following me." Ye Xiu pointed to a character not far ahead who was killing a Christmas thief. "They've set up a net around me, following my position to move as a whole. They'll walk through the blocks around me in advance. If there are any Christmas thieves, they'll either take them away or kill them. So, I rarely get to kill any."

"Is that possible?" Chen Guo was stunned.

"There are quite a few people. I counted just now, there are 25 people," Ye Xiu said.

Only then did Chen Guo know that Ye Xiu's aimless wandering wasn't like her aimless wandering, just trying his luck. After feeling that something was wrong, his aimless wandering was actually observing. Through this half hour of observation, he had reached this conclusion.

"Kill him!" Chen Guo said.

"So fierce?" Ye Xiu smiled.

"I don't offend others unless they offend me," Chen Guo said her principle.

"Then should I go kill them and see?" Ye Xiu asked as if seeking her opinion.

"Go!" Chen Guo said as if giving an order.

So Ye Xiu commanded Lord Grim to charge up, but when he was still some distance away from that person, that guy simply stopped killing and turned around to run.

Of course, the Christmas thief was chasing him. But at this distance, he had already started running away. Even if Ye Xiu had heaven-defying methods, it would be difficult to chase him down.

Chen Guo was dumbfounded.

"Well prepared!" Ye Xiu exclaimed, opening the Christmas Hunter Leaderboard. He had only killed one in half an hour, so his ranking naturally fell back a lot again.

Ye Xiu casually flipped the leaderboard to the first page.

"Wow, Jia Dynasty is mighty!" Chen Guo blurted out. That row of fifteen Jia Dynasty players was too eye-catching.

Ye Xiu smiled and didn't say anything. He wasn't surprised that Chen Guo would praise Jia Dynasty. As a big fan of Excellent Era, she would naturally favor Jia Dynasty in the game.

But Chen Guo herself had already realized something.

Being so painstakingly unwilling to let Ye Xiu kill Christmas thieves was naturally because the two sides were in competition. However, there were few players and many thieves in the City of Sin, so it was impossible to compete. Therefore, the competition was only in other places. The competition for Christmas thieves was also on the leaderboard.

And the one who could mobilize such power was definitely the guild. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim didn't have a guild. What Chen Guo saw could only be the competition on the individual rankings. Did a guild need to suppress someone on the individual rankings? But when she saw that the top fifteen on the list were all the same, Chen Guo vaguely understood something.

But even if Ye Xiu's Lord Grim rose quickly and squeezed one of them out, they would still have at least fourteen people who wouldn't move. Did they have to be so persistent in maintaining the top fifteen as a single color?

Chen Guo couldn't understand this because she didn't know the detailed situation of the tenth server. Chen Yehui's worries weren't unfounded. If this Lord Grim really made it onto the leaderboard, it was very likely that their Jia Dynasty's uniform color would immediately become an irrelevant gray color. By then, those idiots in the world who didn't know anything would make sarcastic remarks.

Which guild wasn't afraid of Blue Brook Guild's and Tyrannical Ambition's misfortune?

Chen Yehui had mobilized a lot of people to come to the tenth server, but he didn't come to experience tragedy.

"These people are from Jia Dynasty?" Chen Guo asked doubtfully.

"Looks like it," Ye Xiu said.

"What feud do you have with them?" Chen Guo didn't understand the big picture of the tenth server, so she could only understand it as having a feud and not tolerating Ye Xiu being comfortable.

"It's a long story," Ye Xiu said.

"Then what do we do now?" Chen Guo asked.

"Um, let me think," Ye Xiu said.

"Not bad!" On the other side, Chen Yehui was always paying attention to the rankings. Lord Grim's ranking started to decline, which meant that the actions he had sent out had taken effect. After watching the effect last for an hour and Lord Grim constantly decline, Chen Yehui happily sent a commendation to Jian Qi Suo Zhi.

"Hehe, it's nothing." Jian Qi Suo Zhi was naturally being modest, but he was secretly proud of his meticulous arrangement.

"What was his reaction?" Chen Yehui asked.

"He wandered around aimlessly for an hour, and it seems like he just realized it," Jian Qi Suo Zhi said, his words already showing some contempt for Ye Qiu's intelligence.

"Then he'll probably take action. Pay more attention."

"Okay, I'll wait. One of the Glory's Four Tactical Masters, I've always wanted to have the opportunity to compete with them and see how magical their so-called tactics really are." The significant results of the past hour made Jian Qi Suo Zhi feel energetic.