Chapter 1033 Hundred Ghosts

The sudden and unexpected arrival of the hundred ghosts caught countless players off guard. In this chaos, figures like Ye Xiu, calm and effortlessly slaying ghosts, seemed exceptionally tall and imposing. Soon, not only the player Ye Xiu had saved, but the entire street of players quickly noticed that someone had successfully killed a ghost.

It didn't seem like much, did it?

This scene rapidly boosted the players' confidence, and many immediately picked up their weapons and charged towards the bizarre ghosts around them.

But soon, the spirited shouts turned into desperate screams. Too many players only saw the majestic figure who had slain a ghost without realizing the ID above that character's head.

Lord Grim, Ye Xiu. This was a person standing at the pinnacle of Glory. Could ordinary players easily replicate his greatness? The strength of dungeon-level monsters was not something easily dealt with by ordinary players.

An entire street instantly turned into a slaughterhouse. The players were severely underprepared for the difficulty of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade event. The confidence built up by seeing Lord Grim successfully kill the willow tree monster instantly vanished.

Players screamed and fled, and the sole majestic figure who had successfully killed a ghost became the savior in everyone's eyes. They involuntarily gathered towards the person's location. Getting closer, they finally saw the character's name and understood the misunderstanding.

"Great God, save us!" some players shouted outright. They didn't think it was shameful to become weak in front of the Great God Ye Xiu.

"Everyone, calm down!" Ye Xiu called out, "These little devils aren't that hard to deal with. Pay attention to their weaknesses and choose the types you can counter! If you really can't handle them, cooperate with a few people."

Yes, cooperating with several people against an opponent you can't beat alone was a simple solution that online game players should be well aware of. However, during the event, players needed to weigh whether soloing or grouping up would yield greater benefits before making a decision, so no one immediately formed a team. But now that they realized the ghosts were difficult to deal with, and with Ye Xiu's reminder, players immediately began calling their friends or finding people to team up with on the spot. In an instant, Ye Xiu received countless team invitations, more than he could keep up with.

As for the little devils' weaknesses…

"What are their weaknesses, Great God?" someone asked.

"I'm still researching," Ye Xiu replied. It was his first time seeing such bizarre ghosts. "Wood is afraid of fire, and fire is afraid of water. These basic principles shouldn't be wrong."

Ye Xiu had tested this point. Just now, several low-level fire elemental spells, Flame Burst, were continuously cast on that willow tree monster, instantly burning it into a charred stick, which was much more efficient than hacking with a knife.

The players seemed to understand something, and at this moment, the various ghosts also swarmed towards them.

Find weaknesses! The players racked their brains, but the first ghosts to charge up made them cry. What was the weakness of a wooden barrel?

Burn it with fire?

Considering the material of the wooden barrels, players with fire elemental attack methods took action, but the effect didn't seem obvious.

What could it be?

The players were puzzled, and Ye Xiu was also sweating profusely on the side. The weakness thing was just his speculation. Who knew if all ghosts had weaknesses? But now that the players were desperately searching as if they had received a decree, Ye Xiu felt a lot of pressure.

In the chaos, someone suddenly shouted in surprise, "Attack the bottom! Attack the bottom of these wooden barrels! Their defense is lower towards the bottom!"

Everyone was stunned, then realized that a wooden barrel without a bottom obviously couldn't function properly, so the weakness of these wooden barrel monsters was their bottom?

It was a pretty common sense logic. But the players who figured it out were somewhat frantic.

However, after finding this point, the players discovered that the ghosts weren't too difficult to deal with. Soon, the bottoms of a pile of wooden barrels were overturned. These wooden barrel monsters instantly lost their lives and fell to the ground, rolling weakly.

"Kill!" This time, the players' morale truly soared. They had figured out the trick and became fearless again.

What about Ye Xiu?

His pursuit certainly wasn't that low. While searching for and killing monsters, he had already begun to pay attention to the leaderboard.

The leaderboard was quite eye-catching. The event had just started, but professional players had already demonstrated what real strength was. The top ten, and even the top twenty, were completely monopolized by professional players.

What Night Rain, Sound of Blue, Wang Bu Liu Xing, One Autumn Leaf, Yi Qiang Chuan Yun, Damo Guyan, Tang San Da…

Previous events also had leaderboards, but they weren't monopolized by professional characters. Because during events outside of the league season, professional players usually wouldn't control their characters themselves. Instead, the guild department would have people stand in. Their skill level was nothing more than high-end online gamers, without the overwhelming power of professional players. But now, during the summer break, the professional players were personally taking on the task, shining brightly and sweeping the leaderboard.

Ye Xiu looked at his ranking. He wasn't in the top ten, but he wasn't too far off either. He was currently ranked 16th, surrounded by professional characters. Moreover, his score was still constantly jumping. In just the few glances Ye Xiu took, he slipped from 16th to 18th, surpassed by Feidao Jian and Luo Hua Langji.

"Everyone's working hard!" Ye Xiu muttered, and he couldn't relax either. There were quite a few ghosts appearing on the street he was on, but there were also many players. Competing with others, even with superb skills, would inevitably reduce efficiency. It would be best to have a quiet place at this time. Ye Xiu regretted that he hadn't encountered a good spot as soon as he logged on. He could only blame his bad luck.

Yes, luck.

In this kind of event, technique and tactics were secondary. The most crucial thing was luck. Especially for professional players like Ye Xiu, there was no issue on the technical level. The frenzy and chaos caused by the ghosts were only for ordinary players.

However, now that ordinary players had also formed teams and supported each other, their combat power immediately became stronger, and the various ghosts on a street were quickly cleared out. Ye Xiu took the time to scan the leaderboard again and found that he had dropped to outside the 20th place.

The number of ghosts that spawned each day was fixed, and they spawned in waves. The fewer monsters there were, the more luck was needed to catch up with the advantage established in the early stages. Today was obviously not Ye Xiu's lucky day. After clearing almost the entire street, he moved to another one, killing intermittently and constantly dropping down the leaderboard, which made Ye Xiu feel helpless.

Moreover, after switching to a few streets, Ye Xiu realized that he had been followed by a bunch of tails.

Yes, not just one tail, but a bunch.

In a stone bridge in the city, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim helplessly stopped, turned his view back, and had already memorized quite a few names in that bunch of people. As a result, these guys were still pretending. Some seemed to be changing equipment, some seemed to be messaging someone, and some pretended to be passing by, about to walk straight past Lord Grim.

"Which guild are you guys from?" Ye Xiu asked.

No one paid him any attention. Everyone continued to pretend.

"Alright, stop pretending. You, you followed me from the clock tower. You, you started from the River Four District. You, you were there from the very beginning, weren't you?" Ye Xiu called out several characters one after another. This time, everyone could no longer pretend and retreated cautiously while sizing up the people around them.

"Looks like you guys aren't from the same guild?" Ye Xiu said, looking at their mutual scrutiny.

Still no one answered. But Ye Xiu didn't need their answers. These guys obviously weren't admiring him as a great god and seeking autographs. It was clear that the major guilds had discovered his whereabouts and sent people specifically to cause trouble for him. If they couldn't stop him, they would at least annoy him and slow him down.

"This isn't fair! Whose people are following me everywhere!" Unable to reason with these players who were sent to carry out their orders, Ye Xiu had no choice but to go to the pro player group and strongly condemn the actions of these guilds.

No one paid attention.

Everyone was online playing the game, but the pro player group was unexpectedly deserted. How many years had it been since the professional circle had seen such a nationwide focus on online games? Ye Xiu was somewhat dazed for a moment.

"Wu Chen, have the guild members keep an eye out to see where the characters of other team's professional players are," Ye Xiu said, sending a message to Wu Chen after returning to the game. In fact, his Lord Grim was also in the Happy Guild, and he could certainly give orders to the guild. However, Wu Chen was in charge of the guild, especially with this newly established guild. It was important for the guild leader to establish prestige. For team members to overstep their authority by virtue of their special status would actually harm the guild's management.

"Oh, okay," Wu Chen replied and immediately sent a message to the guild.

The Happy Guild was now also full, with a limit of ten thousand people. It was obvious that there were spies from other guilds among them. Less than five minutes after Wu Chen sent the message, a message jumped up in the pro player group.

"An eye for an eye," Wang Jiexi said.

"When will this end!" Huang Shaotian added. Of course, four words were too few, and Huang Shaotian also had his own high opinion, "Old Ye, why do you have to be so petty? It's so unsightly to retaliate like this!"

"That's right, that's right. It's rare to have an event. Harmony is key!" Samsara's Jiang Botao also expressed his opinion.

"Then why don't you quickly have your guilds put away your supernatural powers?" Ye Xiu said.

"Alright, alright…" Players from each guild expressed their opinions. Before long, Ye Xiu noticed that the anonymous followers behind him gradually dispersed.

"Alright, is everything okay now? Let's have harmonious competition. Old Ye, you have to work hard! I can't even see you on the leaderboard!" Huang Shaotian said. Currently, his Sound of Blue was at the top of the leaderboard, and it was rare for him to be so arrogant.

As a result, just as he was chatting on QQ, the leaderboard changed dramatically.

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!" Huang Shaotian roared in the group. Zhou Zekai's One Autumn Leaf suddenly jumped up in points, leaping from third place to first, pushing Sound of Blue to second place.