Midnight. Normally, Ye Xiu would have taken the shift an hour ago. But today, for the Christmas event, Ye Xiu had created such a crazy scene. Chen Guo was even more nervous about it than Ye Xiu was. She let him off with a break and randomly had someone else sub in for Ye Xiu.
Chen Guo had been controlling Soft Mist to collect the presents, when she heard several gun shots from her headphones. Lord Grim and Cleansing Mist had jumped down from the clock tower. Using their guns' recoil, they reduced a portion of the damage taken from falling too far down. If not, if they had directly dropped down from the clock tower, they'd definitely die, which would then, just be a joke.
The two characters came down one after the other and also began to pick up their presents. However, while Lord Grim was picking them up, he was also throwing away potions. They were all blue mana potions. As he was doing that, he grumbled: "See, I told you that you bought too many!"
"More is better than less." Cleansing Mist said and also threw away any excess items from her bag.
It had been about who knew how long it was since the first Christmas thief had dropped to his death. Actually, quite a few presents had already disappeared. But even so, the three still weren't able to completely pick up all of the presents that hadn't disappeared yet.
The three characters circled around and around the Christmas tree, picking up presents. All around the streets, several eyes stared at the scene.
The main force of the six guilds had withdrawn, but they had left a few players there who would report to the guild in case Lord Grim made a disastrous mistake. In the end, they watched till the very end as the corpses turned into presents, making their mouths water all over the ground.
The three quickly filled up their bags with presents. Seeing that there were still presents left, even Ye Xiu felt that it was a pity. In the end, he saw Soft Mist, who was being controlled by Chen Guo, turn around resolutely and leave without any signs of reluctance. Ye Xiu was admiring the boss' heroic determination, when he heard Chen Guo shout: "Hurry up! Hurry up and exchange them. Maybe there'll still be presents when we return."
Ye Xiu quietly wiped away some of his sweat and followed from behind. Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist also followed behind them. But right now, the three characters were all burdened with a filled bag, so using Aerial Fire wouldn't feel comfortable.
Santa could be found in every leveling area, making it convenient for players to exchange their presents. Sin City's Santa was at the entrance of the city, so there was some distance between it and the clock tower, which was in the middle of the city. With their current movement speed, Ye Xiu didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to exchange their presents and return in time before the leftover presents disappeared.
Ye Xiu calculated the number of points he had gotten in this hour, as well as his earnings from the presents.
For the top guilds, Ye Xiu had completely used up the thief resources in Sin City, so their gains weren't much better than those in crowded places like Line Canyon or Desolate Land.
As for Ye Xiu, if he had been doing the quest normally, with his efficiency, he would have had around the same number of points as he had now from the shared 341 Christmas thieves. As for the presents, his losses were much greater. Normally, he wouldn't have had to waste so many presents.
The end result however, was that the gap between Ye Xiu and the big guilds was huge, but by reducing the big guilds' gains, Ye Xiu's gains had been reduced as well. What he had accomplished was, in reality, harming others for his own personal gain.
And truthfully, this wasn't what Ye Xiu wanted. He would have preferred to quietly gather up points and rewards. As for how much the top guilds profited, Ye Xiu didn't care. Unfortunately, there just had to have been people making things difficult for him. Regarding this, Ye Xiu also felt bad. He hoped that, in the next 24 hours, everyone would eventually come to an understanding. For a rare event like Christmas, no one would gain anything from hurting each other.
