"323....." Chen Guo watched as Ye Xiu pulled another Christmas thief. The 323rd quickly joined the flood of Christmas thieves behind Lord Grim and was instantly submerged.
Ye Xiu controlled Lord Grim and, under his plan, the actual number of Christmas thieves he was facing wasn't as crazy as others had imagined it would be. If Chen Guo hadn't been counting the entire time, then if she looked at Ye Xiu's screen, she wouldn't have even thought that he was facing a terrifying 323 Christmas thieves.
As he pulled 323 Christmas thieves, the number of remaining Christmas thieves decreased, which made it ever more difficult for Ye Xiu to find new ones. But he wasn't done yet and Lord Grim continued to rush about. The game's settings had changed to a windowed screen. Alongside the windowed screen was a map of Sin City, similar to what Wind Following Sword had done.
If he was just running around randomly with the Christmas thieves, it wouldn't anything difficult for Ye Xiu. But as the guilds began to react, Ye Xiu had to implement more variables into his plan. Chen Guo saw his look of concentration, so she didn't bother him and only watched quietly as he played.
The map was filled with Christmas thieves running around. These Christmas thieves could obviously be attacked, too. However, those players wouldn't gain any points from killing these Christmas thieves, so doing so was equivalent to doing free labor for Ye Xiu.
Players could only watch as the grandiose flood of Christmas thieves swept past them, since killing them wouldn't benefit them. It made the players truly feel gloomy. They continued to search for Lord Grim's whereabouts and also looked for any Christmas thieves that had escaped from the net.
The progress with the Christmas thieves hunting for the guilds grew more and more disheartening, but there was nothing they could do. They had already been working hard at it for several hours, but Lord Grim was still as alive as ever. Quite a few had seen him, but not a single one was able to follow and block him.
"But if we kill them, then at the very least, there'll be new Christmas thieves that'll respawn. We shouldn't be just standing around without any monsters to kill!" On Blue Brook Guild's side, Blue River and his friends were discussing amongst each other. They hadn't made any progress in the past hour. What was happening in Sin City was completely unimaginable.
"But so what if we kill them? When new ones respawn, won't Lord Grim just gather them again? If he can do it once, then he can do it twice......" Blue Brook Guild's Bound Boat said.
"Kill Lord Grim!" Flower Lantern was more impulsive.
"Do you think that no one else has thought of that yet? And what are their results?" Bound Boat said. Blue River also let out a long sigh.
"Then what do we do? Are we just going to watch?" Flower Lantern said.
"I'm thinking....... that he's doing this to create a situation where there's nowhere for us to go, so we'll have no other choice but to kill the Christmas thieves. But if we can restrain ourselves, he'll also be in a situation where it'll be too late to stop. With so many Christmas thieves, how was he going to kill them?" Bound Boat said. He also knew Lord Grim's true identity, so he didn't doubt Lord Grim's skill. However, Lord Grim killing the mob by himself was still impossible.
"Oh......" Everyone felt that Bound Boat's analysis made sense.
Blue Brook Guild wasn't the only guild bound in a knot. Herb Garden, Tyrannical Ambition, Samsara, Misty Castle... Which guild wasn't scratching at the wall helplessly? In the end, every guild came to the same conclusion as Bound Boat's analysis.
No guild wanted to help Lord Grim by working for free, especially Excellent Dynasty. They didn't know how many Christmas thieves Lord Grim had accumulated exactly, but if they helped him kill all of them, then Chen Yehui didn't doubt that Lord Grim would immediately jump onto the top of the leaderboards, stepping on their Excellent Dynasty's first fifteen places.
