Chapter 25 Christmas Eve

It was Christmas Eve.

Although Chen Guo had decorated the internet cafe with a Christmas atmosphere, it was clearly just for business. She herself obviously didn't value the holiday at all. There were no celebrations, and dinner was even simpler than usual. She ate her meal while sitting at her computer, keeping count of how many Christmas thieves were gathered around Ye Xiu!

The number kept increasing, and Chen Guo had stopped being surprised. At this point, she felt like she was watching a suspense film. How many Christmas thieves would ultimately gather? That was what she was waiting to see.

Meanwhile, the expert players from the various guilds who were also struggling in the City of Sin in the tenth server had long since become restless.

Ten, twenty, thirty. They thought they were just gathering monsters. By forty, fifty, they started to feel that something was wrong.

More and more people came to watch, because it was really easy to find. A large group of Christmas thieves walking through the streets of the City of Sin like that...even with the poor visibility in the City of Sin, they could be spotted from a distance.

The impossible was gradually becoming reality in everyone's minds.

"What are they trying to do?" The leadership of the major guilds were all discussing this.

The most sensitive among them, of course, was the Jia Dynasty guild.

They could even see the impact of Lord Grim's actions from the data: their hunting operations in the City of Sin were becoming increasingly slow.

Christmas thieves were a fixed resource, and now, a large number of them were constantly accumulating under Lord Grim's name. The number that Jia Dynasty could find was naturally decreasing.

Even more deadly was that these Christmas thieves that Lord Grim pulled away were not dying. If they didn't die, they wouldn't respawn, which meant that the number of Christmas thieves available for everyone to hunt in the City of Sin was becoming less and less.

Jia Dynasty guild's lead on the Christmas Hunter rankings needed a region like the City of Sin as a foundation, and now, their foundation was being destroyed. Without the advantage in the base number of Christmas thieves, their advantage in having many experts couldn't be brought into play.

Chen Yehui certainly didn't want to ruin his good plan. Following the team led by Jian Qi Suo Zhi that he had sent out earlier, he dispatched some more experts to deal with the situation. This time, it wasn't about limiting, but about finding Lord Grim and killing him!

After killing Lord Grim, there would be a large group of gathered Christmas thieves. Chen Yehui felt excited just thinking about it.

Chen Yehui wasn't the only guild with this idea. In the face of profit, these expert guild players were no strangers to the business of killing and looting.

Everyone knew that Lord Grim was a great expert. Chen Yehui even knew that this expert was a god-level player.

But in this situation, what could a god-level player do?

Driving a train, unable to stop even for a moment, how could he fight with players? This almost didn't require a direct confrontation. Just delaying him a bit, and the swarming Christmas thieves would be enough to crush him into powder.

The guilds had all made brilliant calculations and had sent out their own people. And they sent out a lot of people. After killing Lord Grim, they would immediately snatch the Christmas thieves. The more people, the better!

But the reality was not as beautiful as they had imagined.

Jian Qi Suo Zhi, who had been tracking Lord Grim's location, had noticed this problem long ago.

They could easily grasp the general whereabouts of Lord Grim, because driving such a flamboyant train was quite conspicuous. However, confirming the exact location of the character Lord Grim became extremely difficult.

Lord Grim was the engine, but this train was too chaotic.

Different Christmas thieves had different attributes, and the difference in movement speed created a significant gap in this single-minded pursuit. If all the Christmas thieves could synchronize, then everyone could infer Lord Grim's next location from their direction of travel. But the problem was that the Christmas thieves' movements were not synchronized at all.

Some Christmas thieves whose distance had been stretched out could no longer see Lord Grim. But with the support of the settings, they still knew Lord Grim's specific location, so they relied on their artificial intelligence to re-select the most convenient route. Their pursuit didn't necessarily follow the old path that Lord Grim had taken.

Some ran east, some ran west, and some were climbing walls...

Players often saw these Christmas thieves chasing Lord Grim, but they didn't often see where the engine was.

Seeing Christmas thieves active on East Street, players guessed that Lord Grim was on the west side.

Seeing Christmas thieves active on West Street, players guessed that Lord Grim was on the east side.

Seeing Christmas thieves climbing the walls, players thought Lord Grim was on the next street.

Jian Qi Suo Zhi, however, relied on his dispatched team members, combined with information from various sources, and used his electronic map to judge Lord Grim's location.

He confidently pointed out the direction to everyone, again and again, but everyone replied that there was nothing there.

This was the fourth time he had pointed to a "nothing there" location. Jian Qi Suo Zhi's confidence was severely hit again, and he was too embarrassed to continue sending everyone on wild goose chases.

"Ye Qiu's movement is too erratic." Jian Qi Suo Zhi reported to Chen Yehui. "He's not running aimlessly. He's leading by estimating the movement speed of the Christmas thieves. He's using the differences in movement speed to create a very deceptive situation. Although we can easily see the Christmas thieves chasing him, we can't determine the direction of his movement."

"What do you mean? You can't find him?" Chen Yehui's mood suddenly turned sour.

"I can't find him technically... I can only rely on luck." Jian Qi Suo Zhi had already lost confidence when the Pansi Spiral Formation was broken. Because he wasn't a noob. Through this competition, he had clearly felt the gap between him and his opponent. After that, although he reluctantly continued to work hard, the reality was cruel. Ye Qiu was still better. He couldn't judge Ye Qiu's running route.

Luck was something that no one could control.

Ye Xiu used calculations of movement speed and the terrain to confuse the Christmas thieves and disturb the audience. But if someone was lucky and ran into him by chance, he was powerless.

At the moment, there were a few people who turned their view when running past an intersection.

"Lord Grim!!" Everyone was pleasantly surprised to discover.

Although they hadn't seen the ID above the head of the approaching character clearly, the pattern of one person in front and several people behind could only be Lord Grim leading his train.

Then they saw Lord Grim jump and a shot rang out. He was on the roof.

Three seconds later, they saw a group of Christmas thieves climbing the wall in the street in front of them.

Several people ran to the next street.

Eh! There were also Christmas thieves climbing the wall on the next street.

Still on the roof!

Not everyone could get on the roof with a level 34 character.

So those who could get on the roof did, and those who couldn't ran on the street below. People ran on both sides of the street, and they quickly called for reinforcements.

Then they saw Lord Grim run from the roof to the street, and then jump from the street to another roof. After flipping through several streets, those players who couldn't get on the roof or climb the wall were immediately left behind.

The Gunners kept a close watch. They were all experts here, and they were very skilled at getting up and down, chasing Lord Grim's Lord Grim all the way back to the street.

Lord Grim started to fly using his gun.

The Gunner wiped away some sweat.

He couldn't use his gun to chase. Flying with a gun meant backwards flying. So Gunners generally didn't play chase games with the flying gun technique. Because the chaser would have his back facing the muzzle of the other person's gun. That way the other person could shoot him while flying with their gun. Even if he wasn't killed, it would be very difficult to catch up in such a passive situation.

Even if he didn't know that Lord Grim was Ye Qiu, everyone at least knew that Lord Grim was a great expert. This Gunner didn't dare to play such a difficult trick with a great expert.

He had to run honestly, while shooting his gun. Unfortunately, the two were far apart. Ye Xiu started to act as soon as he saw them appear at the street corner.

The Christmas thieves who were chasing him also showed up one after another. Some were flipping down from the roof on the left, some were flipping down from the roof on the right, and some were even rushing out from the street behind him.

This Gunner player personally felt what a scattered and organized train Ye Xiu was driving.

Lord Grim, who had rushed to the intersection, made a right turn and immediately disappeared from the Gunner's sight.

The Gunner player reported to the organization, but immediately turned around and used his flying gun to accelerate. But he didn't know that Lord Grim had turned the corner and peeked at him again. When he saw this guy flying with his back, he secretly sneaked into the street across the street.

Such a small trick might not completely deceive the other party.

However, the constant attention to these details was the reason why Ye Xiu could create such a strong deception.

Many guilds issued simple instructions: follow the Christmas thieves.

Because the players knew very well that the Christmas thieves, with the system settings as their background, had a God's-eye view. They didn't need to see to know where Lord Grim was. Their movement routes were always correct, always heading towards Lord Grim.

However, these Christmas thieves who couldn't see Lord Grim meant that their movement speed was not as fast as Lord Grim's. If they really kept running with them, they would probably never catch up with Lord Grim.

The players also understood this, so they were constantly screening, and those who were slow were gradually left behind, and then they looked for faster ones to chase.

And this was another great advantage that Ye Xiu relied on to persevere until now.

Movement speed.

In terms of movement speed alone, Ye Xiu was faster than almost all players.

The flying gun movement of a level 25 silver weapon rifle could only be surpassed in absolute data by players with a level 30 orange weapon hand cannon. However, there would not be many people who had orange weapons. There was no one else who had an orange weapon and the skilled and stable operating skills of Ye Xiu. As for other classes, the battle mage's generation of magic was a troublesome thing; the magic scholar wanted to fly out at the fastest speed, and also needed quick and stable operations to execute; the swordsman's Triple Slash movement had skill cooldowns...

After six hours of tenacious persistence, Ye Xiu had long passed the most difficult stage at the beginning. The more Christmas thieves behind him, the more advantageous it was for him. So many scattered running Christmas thieves made it impossible for players to capture his correct position.

Three hundred and twenty-two Christmas thieves.

The major guilds had no way of knowing this terrifying number. The clearest person was Chen Guo, who had been silently counting next to Ye Xiu.