“How many pairs of socks did you guys just snatch?” Ye Xiu asked Wei Chen with a cigarette in his mouth, turning his head with a friendly greeting.

Wei Chen's expression was quite ferocious. Eighteen pairs—that was their score. He had been repeating it to Ye Xiu over and over when he saw their plight. This score was already amazing enough. The leading score on the team leaderboard was only thirty-one pairs, and that was after three rounds of activity.

But now, Ye Xiu and his team had stuffed all twenty pairs into their backpacks. Listening to this guy's greeting, Wei Chen believed that if he were in that picture, he would immediately sell out Lord Grim's location.

“Don't get cocky; it's not over yet,” Wei Chen said.

“You don't think I can last even these 120 seconds?” Ye Xiu smiled.

Wei Chen was speechless.

With Ye Xiu's level, lasting two minutes was not difficult at all. Although the other players were frantically searching the map for Lord Grim and Steamed Bun Invasion, they were still a scattered bunch. It wasn't like forty-odd people had joined together to fight these two. In this situation, what could they do if they encountered Lord Grim or Steamed Bun Invasion?

“Steamed Bun, location!” Ye Xiu was more concerned about Steamed Bun's situation. Steamed Bun had completed the previous task beautifully, but now there were still 120 seconds left; Steamed Bun couldn't afford to encounter any problems.

After finding out Steamed Bun's current location, Ye Xiu looked at the distance between them. It would take some time for him to get close, so Lord Grim decisively unfurled the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella and used the skill Gatling Gun, frantically sweeping.

There were no players within Lord Grim's field of vision, but the roar of this machine gun fire could not be concealed even by the heavy wind and snow. At this time, where else would a battle occur other than where Lord Grim or Steamed Bun Invasion was discovered?

Thus, this sound quickly attracted the attention of the players. Ye Xiu, fearing that ordinary players wouldn't be skilled enough to determine the direction of the sound, followed up the Gatling Gun by selecting various skills with loud sound effects from the skill list to create noise. Finally, in a certain direction within his field of vision, a player's figure appeared, so Lord Grim even more proactively went to meet him.

“He's here!” The moment that player discovered Lord Grim's figure, he was extremely excited and quickly sent a message to his brothers in the team.

However, he soon realized, was Lord Grim an opponent that their team of five could kill?

Five against one, normally an absolutely advantageous situation, but Lord Grim was definitely not a normal opponent.

The five-man team discussed briefly and finally didn't let the desire for solo glory cloud their minds. They decisively sent a message in the map channel, announcing Lord Grim's location.

The 120-second countdown had already been ticking down on the system announcement, and the players of each team who still couldn't find their target had already entered a state of madness. At this moment, seeing someone suddenly say Lord Grim's location in the map channel, they didn't bother thinking too much and rushed in that direction as quickly as possible.

“Steamed Bun, be careful to hide!” Ye Xiu shouted. Although he had attracted everyone's attention, he couldn't guarantee that someone wouldn't encounter Steamed Bun Invasion on their way to him.

At this time, Steamed Bun's perspective was no longer focused on just one direction. He rotated 360 degrees nimbly, constantly paying attention to the surrounding movements. Steamed Bun, who had been tailing people all along, was now quite adapted to the weather of this map and was also very good at using it. He had already mastered what distance was needed to see a character's figure and what distance was needed to clearly see a character's name.

In this situation, with everyone single-mindedly rushing towards Lord Grim's location, it was still easy to hide. Everyone was seizing the time, and when they saw a character like Steamed Bun Invasion in the distance, they might not be in the mood to come over and see who it was.

Steamed Bun thus safely passed through the difficult situation. What about Ye Xiu's side? The players arrived from all directions, but without any coordination with each other, it couldn't be a sophisticated encirclement. He easily found openings and continued to lead everyone away from Steamed Bun Invasion.

The number of figures behind Lord Grim was increasing, but the countdown time was decreasing. Simply chasing wasn't going to solve the problem. There had to be interception and restrictions.

The players predicted Lord Grim's movements and began to cut in diagonally, trying to get ahead.

However, how effective could an interception of only three or five people be against Ye Xiu? He basically rushed past them while fighting and running.

0!

As the countdown jumped to this number, all the characters stopped accepting player commands and stood still. The system quickly announced the final results, and at the same time, the system issued an announcement in the world channel of the Gods Domain: Congratulations to Lord Grim and Steamed Bun Invasion's team for achieving a Grand Slam in the Christmas Total Mobilization event.

“On TV!” Steamed Bun exclaimed excitedly.

Ye Xiu hadn't expected that there would be such a setting hidden here. After all, from the start of the event at 0:00 AM until now, no team or individual had completed the achievement of snatching all 20 pairs of socks.

This Grand Slam was not easy to obtain. Seeing the system making such a big announcement, it probably meant that there was a corresponding reward. Ye Xiu conveniently clicked on the Christmas event ambassador who was next to him when he teleported out of the map, and sure enough, the Grand Slam had a special reward, and unlike the socks, which could only be redeemed for gifts at the end, it could be claimed now.

Ye Xiu casually selected Confirm to claim it, and then saw another system announcement: Player Lord Grim has obtained a Grand Slam in the Christmas Total Mobilization event and has received the reward: Doomsday Star.

Everyone was eagerly clicking on this reward to see what it was. What caught their eyes was an orange-colored necklace. Apart from the basic spell defense, this necklace didn't increase any of the four basic stats, but it had two attributes that made people's blood boil: Physical Attack +10% and Spell Attack +10%.

As a game that emphasized combat, players always placed the highest importance on the attack aspect. They naturally loved this kind of attribute that strengthened attack power. A 10% increase in physical and spell attack was a very large increase, so this necklace had no other attributes, as if it already knew that these two attributes alone were powerful enough.

Countless people all over the world were drooling. Even Ye Xiu himself nodded and said, “Not bad, this is pretty good.” He immediately equipped it, and the improvement was clear from the attribute panel.

Steamed Bun received his reward right after Ye Xiu. Lord Grim had just been on TV, and Steamed Bun Invasion's name was also刷[shuā] (to brush; here means to appear on the screen) right after. And his reward, whether by coincidence or not, seemed to be targeted at Lord Grim.

The reward that Lord Grim received was Doomsday Star, while the reward that Steamed Bun Invasion received was called "Tearing Doomsday."

The players naturally clicked to view it impatiently, immediately causing a frenzy of envy among some players. Tearing Doomsday was a weapon, the weapon most often chosen by the Striker class, a gauntlet-type weapon equipped on the wrist.

Tearing Doomsday.

Level 75 Claw;

Weight 2.2 kg, Durability 22, Attack Speed 5;

Physical Attack 771, Spell Attack 767;

Strength +40, Intelligence +31;

Attack Enhancement 10%;

Attack Effect +5%;

Attack Speed +3;

Street Storm Skill Level +2;

5% chance to cause target to Bleed for 10 seconds upon attack hit.

The attributes of this weapon were also exceptionally strong. Attack Enhancement, without specifying whether it was physical or spell, meant that it was a two-way enhancement. However, the description of "Attack Enhancement" was different from the "Physical Attack +10%" on the Doomsday Star.

The description of Attack Enhancement meant that this enhancement only targeted this equipment. In other words, it increased both the 771 physical attack and the 767 spell attack of Tearing Doomsday by 10%.

The "Physical Attack +10%" on the Doomsday Star, however, increased it on the character's panel data. The panel data was derived from the character's base attributes and all the attributes increased by the equipment. Therefore, in terms of the amount of increase, the "Physical, Spell Attack +10%" of the Doomsday Star was much stronger than the "Attack Enhancement 10%" description.

However, Tearing Doomsday wasn't just this one attribute.

The Attack Effect +5% listed below this attribute was a particularly powerful attribute. This description didn't specify what attack effect it was, so it naturally referred to all effects. The Striker class had many effects that they could inflict, such as stun, bleed, poison, and so on. This Attack Effect +5% brought about an all-around improvement that went without saying.

Below that, Attack Speed +3 was a particularly welcome and extremely good attribute for all classes except for spell-casting classes.

Street Storm was a Striker's level 75 ultimate skill. Although current reviews said that the design of this ultimate skill was lazy, because it was just an improved version of some of the Striker's mid- and low-level combat skills, combined and used as one skill. But in actual combat, its power was still worthy of being called a level 75 ultimate skill.

Finally, the 10-second bleed effect, its power wasn't too great, but it couldn't be ignored either. Overall, it was a very troublesome effect that greatly supplemented attack output.

With the appearance of these two major pieces of equipment, countless players were envious. Some even directly asked in the world channel if anyone was willing to sell them. There were many players who didn't lack money.

Ye Xiu and Steamed Bun naturally ignored these inquiries. After Ye Xiu equipped Lord Grim with the Doomsday Star, he stood up and, like Wei Chen who had finished a round of activities earlier, strolled around.

Tang Rou, Wu Chen, and Mo Fan had also finished their first round of activities at this time.

Among the three, Mo Fan had the best score, obtaining 11 pairs of socks by himself. Next was Wu Chen, who got 9 pairs. However, because Wu Chen only changed to a reactive strategy midway, he started a bit late. If he had clearly understood this idea from the beginning, his score might have been better. As for Tang Rou, because she had a big explosion once in the middle and had to start over completely, she finally grabbed 6 more pairs of socks before their map ended.

In the first wave of activities that Excellent Era completed, Ye Xiu and Steamed Bun had the biggest gains. Wei Chen's team was also close to getting this Grand Slam. As for the other three, compared to solo activities, Mo Fan and Wu Chen's scores were quite good.

However, after this wave of activities, at least one key point had been understood by everyone: it wasn't good to be the first bird to stick its head out.