Chapter 334 The Bell Tower

The tip of the clock tower was so high and distant that, standing in the street below, one could only vaguely make out a dark silhouette, unable to see it clearly. The players strained their eyes until they were almost watering, never having hated the environment and weather of the City of Sin so much. The startling flashes of lightning that were usually so frightening were now something everyone longed for, as they could help them see more clearly and save their eyesight.

"Someone's gone up!!" a player suddenly shouted from a street. He had vaguely seen a blurry figure that seemed to have climbed onto the tip of the clock tower.

"Charge!" Chen Yehui immediately yelled from the street.

This guy's scheming was second to none, and he had also noticed the constant progress of the Christmas thieves. With plenty of manpower at his disposal, he immediately split his forces into two groups: some scattered to find newly spawned Christmas thieves, while the other half stayed behind to prepare to madly snatch the pile of Christmas thieves.

Hearing their guild leader's command, the Jia Dynasty players immediately charged out of the street with their weapons in hand, ready to unleash their skills.

This group of figures surged out, allowing a group of people on the opposite street to see them clearly.

After all, everyone was surrounding the tower, and the angle was different when looking up. While the Jia Dynasty side saw that a Christmas thief had gone up, the Blue Brook Guild people on the opposite side had no idea. However, upon seeing someone rushing out from the opposite side, they immediately understood the key to the situation, even though they didn't know which guild it was.

"Go!" Lan He also gave an order, and the Blue Brook Guild members also charged out with their weapons in hand.

Inspired by each other's actions, before long, six teams of people rushed out from six surrounding streets, forming a circle at the bottom of the tower once again.

"Cough..." someone coughed softly. The scene was a little awkward!

However, most people simply ignored these things, only raising their heads to observe the movements of the Christmas thieves. The Christmas thieves were still climbing, which meant that Lord Grim was still alive and well at the top of the tower.

"Damn it!" a curse came from the Jia Dynasty guild side. They watched as the dark figure that had climbed to the top of the tower suddenly flew out again, its miserable scream growing louder as it fell heavily back to the ground, shattering the hearts of the Jia Dynasty members.

"Are we being a little impulsive?" someone whispered.

"Cough..." The others obviously reserved their opinions. Rushing out after only seeing a dark figure climb to the top of the tower was indeed a bit impulsive. Those who had already positioned their fingers, ready to release their skills at any moment, now relievedly relaxed their fingers.

Everyone waited for a while, but they didn't see any more Christmas thieves rushing up.

"Should we retreat?" Whispers of this nature were heard within the various guild teams.

"Retreat my ass..." someone said while looking around, as everyone had already been exposed. Anyway, those who remained were all tacitly aware, and there was no point in trying to hide from each other anymore.

So everyone just remained silent, continuing to mechanically crane their necks.

"Area A!"

"Area C!"

"Area D!"

Su Mucheng's calls from the top of the tower never stopped.

"I say, is your skill cooldown really that long?" Ye Xiu noticed a problem. Su Mucheng's Launcher had fewer skills than his Unspecialized at this time, so she couldn't continuously knock down the Christmas thieves with skills like Lord Grim. Therefore, she was mostly acting as a scout. However, he gradually felt that this girl was attacking less and less. It seemed that waiting for the skill cooldown wouldn't take that long at all.

"Hahaha, no! I just think it's fun this way," Su Mucheng said with a smile.

"You're just messing with me!"

"Have you had dinner yet?" Su Mucheng asked.

"No."

"Is that so, how pitiful. Then I'll lend a hand!" Su Mucheng said, and this time, standing in Area C, she didn't call Ye Xiu. She fired an Anti-Tank Missile at a Christmas thief climbing up. The blast of the explosion sent two Christmas thieves flying at once. This area-of-effect skill was quite useful at this time.

"Have you eaten?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I have!" Su Mucheng wasn't like Ye Xiu, constantly attracting and gathering monsters, not able to rest for even a moment. She had started by helping Ye Xiu find Christmas thieves, then returned to the main city to buy some supplies, and then jumped to the top of the clock tower to wait, so she was able to squeeze out some time to eat something.

Su Mucheng didn't slack off. The two of them weaved and circled around the top of the clock tower. After a while, the Christmas thieves who seemed ready to rush up at any moment were suppressed again.

This scene was not what the remaining six major guild players wanted to see. But everyone with their heads raised clearly saw this fact.

"Maybe it's just temporary?" Everyone thought silently.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed, and this temporary period was obviously too long. Chen Yehui, who was very concerned about the Christmas Hunter leaderboard, found that Lord Grim's ranking had begun to skyrocket.

Although the Christmas thieves who fell from the top of the tower didn't die immediately, they looked half-dead. Climbing up again and falling again, after falling two or three times, they would eventually die.

It seemed that it was time to reap the fruits of this falling death. In the previous few hours, Lord Grim had disappeared from the Christmas Hunter leaderboard, but at this moment, starting from 989th place, he was constantly advancing forward. Every time Chen Yehui opened the leaderboard and refreshed it, he could see Lord Grim jumping ahead, accompanied by the continuous screams of Christmas thieves falling to their deaths.

Chen Yehui was very unwilling and continued to look up, hoping that the Christmas thieves would be more valiant. The people from the other guilds didn't quit either. Everyone still had hope, hoping that Lord Grim wouldn't be able to hold on forever.

Several times!

They all saw Christmas thieves go up, and they were all ready to attack, but in less than a second, the Christmas thief who had just gone up would definitely fly out again, sometimes even taking a few brothers climbing on the wall with them.

Another half an hour passed.

As more and more Christmas thieves fell, Lord Grim's ranking on the leaderboard also rose faster and faster.

512th place, this was Lord Grim's current ranking. Chen Yehui watched him rush up, but he was completely unable to stop him.

The Christmas thieves under the clock tower had visibly decreased. Two of the six guilds surrounding the area had silently retreated.

They saw no signs that Lord Grim was unable to hold on, so they didn't want to wait any longer.

Each time a Christmas thief died, a new one would quickly spawn in this City of Sin. And what about them? They had been wasting time here with their heads raised.

After two guilds, came the third and fourth... Finally, only the Jia Dynasty guild remained.

Chen Yehui wasn't blind to the situation, but he was unwilling in his heart! From the current situation, there was no technical difficulty in defending the top of the tower, but what if there were some accidents?

Chen Yehui's mentality was now a bit like gambling on luck. He hoped for some accidents, some mistakes, but what he saw was Lord Grim continuing to rise on the leaderboard.

400, 300, 200...

Along with Lord Grim's rise, Chen Yehui finally saw another name.

Wind Following the Flowing Flame. (Feng Shu Yān Mù)

Chen Yehui began to ignore this name because this name's ranking was even higher than Lord Grim's.

When Lord Grim rushed into the top 200, Wind Following the Flowing Flame was already hanging high within the top 100.

After Chen Yehui reacted a little, he looked through the leaderboard in detail again, and then found the name Soft Mist (Han Yān R柔), which was also ranked higher than Lord Grim.

Obviously, these three people were teaming up to grind these Christmas thieves, so their rankings were rising like rockets together. Chen Yehui only paid attention to Lord Grim, but Lord Grim lost his ranking because he didn't get any loot during the monster gathering process. On the other hand, those two had been staying on the leaderboard.

In a team, the points for killing a Christmas thief are divided equally among everyone. So for these three people, the gap between them didn't change, but they advanced greatly on the leaderboard together.

A very important reason was that the players who started out in the City of Sin and ranked at the top of the leaderboard had a significant decrease in their gains during this time period.

And at this time, after suffering for several hours, Ye Xiu finally reached the season of great harvest, while they still had to slowly recover from their misery while Ye Xiu cleared out the Christmas thieves.

The gains and losses balanced each other out. Although the points were divided equally among the three, it was enough to easily surpass these players who had completely lost their resource advantage in the City of Sin in terms of points acquisition.

Midnight.

Christmas Eve passed, and Christmas officially arrived. The Christmas event in the game didn't change. At the clock tower in the City of Sin in the tenth server, the tower top defense event, which lasted for more than two hours, finally ended.

Wind Following the Flowing Flame, Soft Mist, and Lord Grim were ranked one, two, and three on the Christmas Hunter leaderboard. The fifteen good men of the Jia Dynasty were not stepped on once in the end, but three times in a row. Chen Yehui's face was so ugly that it looked like he was about to die at any moment.

The corpses of 341 Christmas thieves were piled up under the clock tower at this time. A significant portion had been refreshed, but what remained still piled up in a full circle at the bottom of the tower, looking like a Christmas tree at first glance, but it was a bit bloody and cruel.

But this bloody Christmas tree was full of festive atmosphere. Because this tree was covered with gifts, all of which were the stolen gift packages dropped by the dead Christmas thieves.

Soft Mist was climbing on the side of the tree at this time, diligently picking up these Christmas gifts.

However, the controller of this Soft Mist was not Tang Rou, but Chen Guo. This Soft Mist couldn't climb to the top of the tower, so she hadn't contributed anything at all. Chen Guo originally just wanted to watch the fun and didn't accept Ye Xiu's invitation to team up and get these cheap benefits for nothing. But in the end, Chen Guo couldn't stand it anymore, and the reason was precisely because of these gifts.

341 Christmas thieves meant that 341 gifts would drop. Not to mention two people, even three people couldn't pick them all up. With system protection, people who weren't on the same team couldn't pick them up either. Leaving them here would only waste them after the system refreshed them.

Tang Rou didn't care about this either, and as a result, she was seriously criticized by Chen Guo. Then Chen Guo simply pushed Tang Rou aside and personally teamed up. At this time, she was diligently collecting the gift packages. Tang Rou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she had to let Chen Guo do as she pleased.