Chapter 1 The Beginning

"Mm." Ye Xiu responded casually, not having the energy to pay attention to Wei Chen right now. Even if he was facing ordinary players, these ordinary players were fearless, exceptionally brave in the face of the sock gift packs, and Ye Xiu had to deal with them carefully. He had considered transferring the socks, but after looking at his current partner, Baozi, Ye Xiu immediately deleted the idea. It was best to carry the socks himself.

Even Ye Xiu seemed a bit strained in this situation, so it wasn't surprising that the scores on the individual leaderboards were low. There were only 20 pairs of socks in total, and even if they were evenly distributed, one pair per person, there would still be thirty people who were fearless bare-sockers.

In a team, the score was calculated as the overall score, and there was a lot of room for coordination and maneuvering between the five players. But in the solo competition, those with a pile of socks in their backpacks could only rely on themselves. If they were surrounded and killed, all previous efforts would be immediately in vain.

Hence, it was evident that Tang Rou, Wu Chen, and Mo Fan, fighting in the solo maps, were not having an easy time either. Their strength was indeed far above ordinary players, and after an initial accumulation, they had all become sock gift packs, like Ye Xiu, and were being hunted down by players wherever they went.

Wei Chen surveyed the scene, finding that all of them were generally in a sorry state, completely ignoring the objective environment of individual combat, and burst into laughter.

"You have to protect them well, or if someone blows you up at the last moment, it'll be a complete reversal!" Wei Chen said. This was his judgment based on experience and intuition, and it immediately grasped the key point of the event. With the system instantly refreshing the sock owners, and definitely more than half of the people having no socks, it was not wise to go all out from the beginning to grab socks. It was too difficult for the early bird to fly against the wind, and to soar into the sky.

As soon as Wei Chen finished speaking, Tang Rou cried out, "Ah yo!"

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Wei Chen rushed over to watch, and after seeing it, expressed deep sympathy and regret: "Look, you were accidentally blown up! You have to be low-key!"

Han Yanrou, who had 6 pairs of socks, was killed. This had something to do with Tang Rou's personality. She didn't like to hide, so most of the time when someone found her, she fought!

After a series of bloody battles, Tang Rou couldn't guarantee that her character was unscathed. After killing several more people, she was ambushed while recovering. In the chaos, Tang Rou made a mistake in her response, and was subsequently killed by several people who arrived in succession. Then, Tang Rou watched through her soul perspective as the group of people snatched the socks that dropped when she fell, and helplessly chose to revive.

"What a pity..." Wei Chen shook his head and sighed repeatedly, then turned to Mo Fan and scanned him a few times. He never liked this cold guy, so he hadn't looked at him much before. After scanning him a few times, he found that this kid was quite calm, with 7 pairs of socks in his backpack, still searching the map for new targets. He could quickly get rid of any opponents he encountered.

"A craftsman..." After watching for a while, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh. As expected of someone who came from scavenging, he was too professional at this task, it was simply tailor-made, like a fish in water.

After watching Mo Fan's, Wei Chen looked at Wu Chen's side again. After only a few glances, he was stunned, and then gave Wu Chen a thumbs up, sincerely exclaiming, "Brother, you're decisive enough."

In Wu Chen's map, all 20 pairs of socks had been refreshed. When Wei Chen looked earlier, players had picked up 15 pairs, among which Wu Chen's Xiaoqiang had 6 pairs alone, becoming the target of those sockless parties' frantic pursuit. But after Wei Chen turned around and looked again, the activity guidance panel above the screen, in the instant statistics of the socks, the number of socks picked up by players had actually decreased instead of increasing, becoming 11 pairs. Looking at Wu Chen's Xiaoqiang again, he only had 2 pairs of socks.

Wei Chen was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that his words might have given this guy inspiration, so he took the initiative to throw away 4 pairs of socks, and suddenly became inconspicuous among a bunch of sock owners. With his powerful strength, who would be unwise enough to specifically choose him to rob?

"Using retreat as an advance, you really have some skill." Wei Chen praised. Wu Chen was certainly not satisfied with owning 2 pairs of socks, he was temporarily extricating himself from the awkward position of being a big gift pack, and launching a counterattack. It took some courage to give up the socks that he had already obtained.

"Look at him, and learn from him!" Wei Chen admired Wu Chen's approach, and turned to criticize Ye Xiu. But when he turned back to look at Ye Xiu, he was also surprised: "Hey, your reaction is pretty quick too, you actually threw them away first, you're teachable!"

Ye Xiu, on the other hand, did it more thoroughly, throwing away all ten pairs of socks he had obtained. Now the team didn't have a single pair, and there were only two pairs of socks picked up on the entire map. The slow progress made Wei Chen almost cry.

This guy didn't rush to continue their activity, continuing to wander around. After glancing at Baozi's side, he exclaimed, "Damn, you're so despicable!"

Baozi Invasion was lurking in the snowdrift, his vision locked on one spot. There was no one there, only a pile of socks, ten pairs of socks.

Ye Xiu also abandoned ten pairs of socks, but sent Baozi to watch over them. Wei Chen's despicable remark was not directed at Baozi, but at Ye Xiu. He guessed that Ye Xiu must have arranged it this way.

"Baozi, you can't just stare at the socks, pay attention to the movements around you." Wei Chen reminded Baozi.

"The boss told me to just stare at them." Baozi didn't move.

Ye Xiu also spoke up to affirm: "Good job, Baozi."

"Of course." Baozi was proud.

Just then, Baozi's vision saw several figures approaching from the wind and snow, getting closer and closer, clearer and clearer.

"Someone's coming, move quickly." Wei Chen quickly reminded Baozi, this guy must have fallen asleep sitting down, still keeping his vision still.

But Baozi really didn't move.

"Hey!" Wei Chen pushed Baozi.

"Don't make trouble!" Baozi turned his head and seriously criticized Wei Chen.

"People are almost here, what are you spacing out for!" Wei Chen shouted.

"You're so nosy! Go lead your team!" Ye Xiu said.

In a few words, that team had walked nearby, suddenly discovering this pile of socks in front of them, obviously overjoyed, and rushing over like they were flying.

Baozi continued to not move, watching as the group of people swept up all 10 pairs of socks, while discussing: "What's going on?"

"They perished together?"

"Obviously!"

"Haha, we got a bargain."

"So good!"

One after another, they picked up the socks, and system announcements kept popping up. After picking up the socks, the team immediately prepared to leave. Baozi finally moved at this time, keeping a considerable distance, and slowly followed.

Wei Chen was stunned for a moment before he fully understood Ye Xiu's intention. Wu Chen was only giving up the socks he had already obtained; but Ye Xiu, at first Wei Chen thought he was throwing the socks out first, and then guarding them on the side, but now he knew that he was not just guarding them, but also intentionally letting others take the fall, and then sending Baozi to keep an eye on them from behind. When necessary, a mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, and all the socks could be taken back all at once, right? Compared to Wu Chen, Ye Xiu's approach was more proactive.

"Shameless, despicable, no bottom line!" Wei Chen rushed over to scold Ye Xiu.

"Shut up!" Ye Xiu ignored him.

Subsequently, the development of the situation was as Ye Xiu expected. The team that picked up ten pairs of socks immediately became the target of public criticism, and were chased and beaten everywhere. The ownership of the socks changed hands several times, and no matter which team they fell into, Baozi Invasion always followed them like a ghost.

And Ye Xiu? He attacked everywhere, collecting socks one pair at a time, and then, these socks would always magically appear near a certain team, so they had more and more socks. All 20 pairs of socks on the map had been refreshed, 19 pairs had been picked up, of which the team had 16 pairs, causing other teams to howl and frantically search for the location of this team of players.

This team of players was also scared! They actually grabbed 16 pairs of socks, they had to admire themselves. Seeing that one more pair was picked up and the countdown could be prepared to end, the darkness before dawn was always particularly difficult.

Having finally persevered until now, they absolutely could not be blown out at the last moment. They had to bet, bet on this one time.

The small team of five, gathered together, solemnly discussed, and after 16 pairs of socks, uniformly handed them over to one of them, and then dispersed and left.

When a trade is executed, the character will have an action, this is what Ye Xiu asked Baozi to see clearly. Baozi did not disappoint Ye Xiu's expectations, hiding nearby, he saw this clearly. Which one to follow after the five people dispersed, this really didn't need any instructions. Baozi kept an eye on the one with 16 pairs of socks in his backpack, and reported the situation to Ye Xiu.

"Ah, they did it like this! That saves trouble, you do it!" Ye Xiu said.

Baozi, who had been dormant for a long time, finally broke out, rushing out of the snow in a sudden, rushing towards the sock gift pack in the flying snowflakes, resolute and decisive. The player was probably completely unexpected that they, who had been lucky all along, would suddenly be unlucky at the last moment. They had just dispersed for a while, and he had already been encountered.

Whether he sent out a call for help, Baozi didn't know. Baozi only knew that this opponent was really easy to deal with, and he easily killed him.

A tidal wave of system announcements poured out, Baozi Invasion's name madly scrolling upwards row by row. The original target of public criticism was gone, replaced by a small team that had picked up 19 pairs of socks. The Jun Mo Xiao team, which had been far ahead from the beginning, then "missed", and then had been particularly "unlucky" and had not encountered a big gift pack, resulting in only having 3 pairs of socks, actually had good luck at the last moment, and grabbed the big gift pack all at once.

"Don't pick up the last pair of socks yet!" Someone shouted in the public channel of the map.

The first to respond to him was a message from Jun Mo Xiao: "Hehe."

Then, Ye Xiu lit a cigarette, and moved the mouse a little, picking up the pair of socks on the ground next to Jun Mo Xiao.

System Announcement: Player Jun Mo Xiao, picked up the 20th pair of socks. No changes within 120 seconds, this event is over.