Chapter 473 Beat to Death

Dealing with ordinary players, Baozi's combat strength was already more than enough. By the time Ye Xiu's Lord Grim arrived, the player named Wooden Box was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the guy?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I beat him to death!" Baozi made his Steamed Bun Invasion wave his fist.

"Socks..." Ye Xiu was about to ask when he realized that they definitely weren't there; otherwise, a system announcement would have appeared when Baozi picked them up.

"Looks like the socks are on the other three," Ye Xiu said, while opening the current statistics to take a look. Only one pair of socks had been picked up, belonging to the Wooden Box team.

"When you encountered them earlier, what kind of ambush did they set up?" Only now did Ye Xiu have a chance to ask this question. But after listening to Baozi's description, he immediately realized that the "ambush" was just Baozi's interpretation.

"This way." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim then identified a direction and started paving the way.

"Continue to split up?" Baozi's Steamed Bun Invasion was itching to try going in the opposite direction.

"Let's stick together for now," Ye Xiu called him back.

"Judging from their style, this team is relatively cautious and pays close attention to cooperation. Although they were scattered before, they weren't far apart, so if something happened to one, the other four could quickly provide support. Now that two of them have been killed by us, they'll respawn at the revival point, and the other three should also go to that direction to meet them and continue to maintain mutual support among their members."

Ye Xiu wasn't sure if Baozi understood, but he still explained the reason for doing so in detail. He still hoped that Baozi could think a bit more normally and logically.

"Insightful! As expected of the boss, let's go quickly." Baozi expressed his admiration to Ye Xiu and immediately had Steamed Bun Invasion chase after Lord Grim.

There was only one revival point on each map. Ye Xiu and Baozi had skills and better equipment than ordinary players, so they were much faster on the road. After heading in this direction for a while, they saw three figures heading towards the revival point in the wind and snow.

"Looks like it, quick!" The distance was a bit far, and Ye Xiu couldn't see the names clearly for a moment. After calling out to Baozi, he accelerated his stamina consumption, and the distance closed rapidly. Ye Xiu finally confirmed the names of the three.

"Keep a low profile!" Ye Xiu was afraid that Baozi would "greet" them again, so he quickly greeted him first.

"Oh?"

"We can't let them scatter again," Ye Xiu said.

"Yes!"

So the two quickly and quietly approached the three. The whistling wind and snow muffled the sound of their footsteps very well, and the three were completely unaware, focused only on moving forward.

"You take the one on the right, I'll take the other two!"

Seeing that the distance was close enough, Ye Xiu suddenly spoke. It wasn't just Baozi who heard him; the three in front were startled, and when they turned around, Lord Grim and Steamed Bun Invasion were already attacking.

The three obviously didn't want to fight and wanted to repeat their old trick of fleeing in different directions, but this time Ye Xiu was on guard. With such a close-range surprise attack, how could he give them such a chance?

Unable to escape, they had no choice but to turn around and fight.

Death had no penalty, which relieved players of many worries. But this psychological change alone couldn't turn ordinary players into pro-level players overnight. The three were planning to go all out, but by the time they made this decision, all three of their characters were already on the ground. From then on, they never straightened their backs until they completely fell.

In the end, Ye Xiu didn't even notice which character the socks dropped from.

"Alright!"

The socks were obtained, and a system announcement was made. Then, Ye Xiu and Baozi lost their target again. Their progress on this map was really slow, probably because the bad weather made it difficult for everyone to search. The other members of Team Happy, who started around the same time as Ye Xiu and Baozi, were now working hard. On their maps, at least five pairs of socks had been picked up, unlike Ye Xiu's side.

Just as he was complaining about this, a system announcement suddenly appeared in the map channel: Player Thousand Miles Fragrance has picked up a pair of Christmas socks.

Thousand Miles Fragrance. This name sounded like it came from Herb Garden. But in fact, not all Herb Garden players had herb names, and players with herb names weren't necessarily fans of Tiny Herb. This Thousand Miles Fragrance wasn't a member of Herb Garden. Like the Wooden Box team, they were a group of friends. As a result, picking up the socks made them panic a little, because after the system announcement, many players on the map knew that Lord Grim was with them and had already snatched socks once.

"Okay, Thousand Miles Fragrance, let's go find them..." So Ye Xiu and Baozi had something to do again. The two split up and roamed the map. This time, Ye Xiu was the first to encounter Thousand Miles Fragrance. This team of five was all together, and Ye Xiu didn't know if the socks had been transferred, so he didn't act rashly. He quietly ambushed nearby and called Baozi over.

In this short time, the third and fourth pairs of socks were picked up one after another. Ye Xiu could only write down the names of the people who picked them up first.

Baozi arrived fairly quickly, but this time the opponent was five people, so controlling them wasn't easy. Ye Xiu assigned two targets to Baozi and took three himself. Then, he found the right opportunity and suddenly surged forward.

The five opponents reacted quickly and immediately began to fight back, but as soon as Ye Xiu saw the formation they took, he immediately recognized that there was a target that they were trying to protect.

Thousand Miles Fragrance!

The one they were protecting was the person who picked up the socks, so Ye Xiu's Lord Grim decisively charged towards Thousand Miles Fragrance.

Thousand Miles Fragrance, a Sharpshooter, immediately flew back while shooting with his Revolver, while the three combat classes among the other four members of the team rushed over to try to stop Lord Grim. But with their skills, how could they intercept Ye Xiu? Moreover, there was Baozi assisting.

Seeing that the situation was completely wrong, Thousand Miles Fragrance directly used Revolver Flying to run away. But Ye Xiu's Lord Grim didn't chase him at this time. With an Shadow Clone Technique, his real body suddenly swayed to the front of the Guardian Angel in the team.

The Guardian Angel was completely unprepared and was knocked down by Lord Grim. The other three characters rushed over frantically at this time, much more actively than they had been protecting Thousand Miles Fragrance before. As for Thousand Miles Fragrance, he suddenly stopped and ran back when he saw that the situation had changed.

Clearly, the socks were no longer on Thousand Miles Fragrance, but had been transferred to the backpack of their team's Guardian Angel.

Who was Ye Xiu? He was a Glory God with top-notch awareness, tactics, and experience. With a single advance and retreat, he could see through their tactics from their actions. Thousand Miles Fragrance was bait. The real target they were protecting was their Guardian Angel.

Facts proved Ye Xiu's judgment. After telling Baozi to ignore the other four and wildly attack the Guardian Angel, the healer was quickly defeated in anxiety. The socks dropped as Ye Xiu expected, and he quickly picked them up. Lord Grim was on the system announcement again.

Lord Grim's strength was terrifying, but in this map, there were no losses upon death. The remaining four didn't have any socks and didn't need to protect anything. They were like barefoot people who weren't afraid of those wearing shoes, so they immediately surrounded Ye Xiu and tried to fight him to the death.

"Next!" As a result, Ye Xiu didn't plan to get entangled with them when he picked up the socks. He picked them up and ran. Lord Grim used the Flying Gun skill to fly backward, and Steamed Bun Invasion followed beside him. The two characters quickly disappeared into the blizzard, infuriating the four members of the team, who had no way to use their strength.

The third pair, the fourth pair, the fifth pair...

Lord Grim kept appearing on TV, but each time he appeared, the number of socks picked up didn't change, while the number of socks owned by the team kept changing.

Ye Xiu and Baozi didn't know what kind of luck they had. There were still five pairs of socks on the map, but they hadn't seen a single pair. Instead, they had encountered all five players who had picked up socks, and now they had caught them all in one fell swoop.

Without a doubt, the two had now offended five teams. Normally, Lord Grim was famous, and ordinary players wouldn't dare to challenge him. But like the four members of Thousand Miles Fragrance's team before, they didn't have any socks anyway and wouldn't suffer any losses, so they weren't afraid of Lord Grim. Regardless of whether they lived or died, they could always try. If they succeeded, they would get five pairs of socks!

So in the eyes of these fearless players, Lord Grim was no longer the suspected Ye Qiu God, but a mobile sock gift package that everyone wanted to try to claim.

Of course, Ye Xiu wasn't afraid of these ordinary players, but there was no need to confront them head-on, so he mainly focused on avoiding them. In the process, more socks were refreshed, and more socks were picked up. The players who picked up socks were now cautious and didn't dare to provoke a master like Lord Grim.

But if he didn't provoke Lord Grim, Ye Xiu would still provoke him.

When the total number of socks refreshed on the map reached 15 pairs, a total of 12 pairs of socks had been picked up. Ye Xiu and Baozi's team owned 9 pairs, and none of them had been picked up. They had all been snatched.

At this moment, they stopped another team, a team from Tyrannical Ambition, a team that would detour when they saw Lord Grim, but they were still caught.

"Sigh, I think... finding someone or a team is really easier than finding a pair of socks," Ye Xiu said, and then began to act.

The members of the famous guilds, who were already considered experts in the eyes of the players, were just as vulnerable as ordinary friend teams in front of Ye Xiu and Baozi. In the end, three of the five died and two escaped. The socks happened to be on the three who died. The Lord Grim and Steamed Bun Invasion duo obtained ten pairs of socks, half of all the socks.

Such a remarkable achievement was ridiculed in the environment of Team Happy.

"Aiyo, you two aren't done yet!"

Wei Chen's team was the first to finish a round of activity. In the end, the team pocketed 18 pairs of socks, infuriating the entire audience. Then, he came over to provoke Ye Xiu triumphantly.