Chapter 1 The Silent Parties

The presidents of the major guilds were subtly sounding each other out about their intentions. It was Jia Dynasty, the side that should have been Xingxin's most direct opponent, that seemed particularly silent and calm at this time. Apart from exchanging a few pleasantries with some people at the beginning, Chen Yehui had been coldly observing.

Chen Yehui was much more confident than them. Because Jia Dynasty didn't have much pressure dealing with the Challenger League, the club was encouraging its players to participate in this event, which would surely have generous rewards. Chen Yehui chuckled to himself when he saw these guilds trying to make things difficult for Ye Qiu and his team again. Let them compete with Ye Qiu, while his own guild could calmly brush tasks on the side, wouldn't their results be better?

Unfortunately, Chen Yehui underestimated the intelligence of the other presidents. He thought of this, and so did everyone else. So, at this time, everyone was speaking cautiously. They were just casually mentioning the idea of joining forces. Obviously, everyone wanted to entice others to cooperate, and then sit back and reap the benefits.

All the presidents were thinking the same thing, so this matter couldn't be done. They were all cunningly maneuvering around each other, and after a long time, they hadn't come up with anything. They finally realized that what they were doing was what everyone else was doing, so how could there be any result?

So, more and more people chose to remain silent, and in the end, it just fizzled out, which disappointed Chen Yehui, who had been observing coldly from the beginning.

But he had pieces in hand, so he wasn't flustered. He basically handed over the organization of the guild to his subordinates, while he busied himself equipping the characters for the team's players. It would be too indiscreet to use professional characters in this interactive event. It was hard to say what would happen in the 50-player map. It would be good if they were all fans; maybe they would just hand over their socks without a fight, but what if they were all fans of their rivals?

Chen Yehui carefully prepared the accounts and introduced the team to some of the information about the event that he had researched that night.

What about Xingxin? After everyone got up early in the morning, they also began to understand the situation of the event. Those who were ambitious wouldn't waste the total of only nine quest opportunities to do experiments, but of course, would first learn from the players who had already done the quests.

After understanding the situation, the Xingxin people went online one after another. The high-level members of the major guilds were passing on the news with "the wolf is coming" level of panic, and some people even subconsciously went to check the rankings, as if the rankings would be swept away as soon as the Xingxin people showed up.

Currently, the guild rankings were led by Team Samsara. The individual and team rankings were not very clear. Because each person and team had three chances, and taking all the socks would only get 60 pairs, the space for creating a gap was relatively small, resulting in a particularly large number of people and teams with identical results on the current rankings.

On the individual side, the person with the most socks had only 16 pairs, and a large group of people had this result.

The teams were a bit stronger, and the teams from the club guilds mostly had outstanding results. Currently, the highest was 31 pairs.

The above are all level 75 rankings, which the major guilds focused on more. Because from a common sense point of view, the rewards and levels must correspond, so of course, equipment or materials of level 75 were most popular.

The Xingxin people are online, will there be heaven-defying results soon?

At this time, they were also caught in a dilemma: should they invest manpower to participate in the event now and clash with the Xingxin people, or should they temporarily avoid them, let the Xingxin people play freely, and we'll try another time?

Because there was no union or alliance formed, the guilds had a serious lack of confidence when colliding with Xingxin. After hesitating for a long time, they finally gritted their teeth and sent some manpower! At least don't let Xingxin have it too easy!

On the Xingxin side, after two days of discussion, a plan was finally made.

Ten people, first Wei Chen led Qiao Yifan, Chen Guo, Luo Ji, and An Wenyi to form a group of five. Chen Guo and the others didn't have professional skills. If they fought alone, they wouldn't be much different from ordinary players, and An Wenyi's Little Cold Hands was a healing class, so he was definitely going to find a team. Therefore, the three of them simply got together, Wei Chen led the team, supplemented by the cautious Qiao Yifan, and the team was still quite competitive.

Outside of the five, Tang Rou and Wu Chen were arranged to do their own activities. As for Mo Fan, no one arranged him at all, and he took the initiative to do it himself. He didn't consider himself a member of the team and had to obey Ye Xiu's dispatch.

After that, it was Ye Xiu and Baozi, who formed a team.

Participating in a team doesn't require five people; two, three, or four people are fine. However, the system doesn't give any discounts for having fewer people, so it's obviously a disadvantage to participate this way. But thinking about how strange and confused Baozi was, who knew if he would make any contribution if he was allowed to move freely, so Ye Xiu simply brought him along.

The teams formed teams, the singles went solo, and after they were ready, they received their quests and were teleported into the event map.

Christmas is always inextricably linked with snow, so this time the Christmas event map was all snow maps. As soon as the teleportation was completed, everyone's screens were covered with white snow. However, some were after the snow, the sun was shining, reflecting on the snow and was particularly dazzling; others were snowing, and there was a mix of large and small flakes. Ye Xiu and Baozi caught up with a blizzard, and the snow flew all over the sky. For a time, it was a little difficult to identify the other person's direction, even the characters next to them.

"Oh, the wind is so strong that even the movement speed is affected." Ye Xiu took a few steps with Lord Grim and immediately noticed. This was another complicated part of Glory battle maps. What affects the battle is not only the terrain, but sometimes also the weather on the map.

"What are you saying?" At this time, Ye Xiu heard Baozi shout in a loud voice. He wasn't surprised to hear it in the game, but everyone in the room heard Baozi's extremely penetrating voice outside the game through their own game scene sounds.

"Why are you so loud?" Ye Xiu asked.

"The wind is strong, I can't hear clearly," Baozi said.

"Too immersed in the role..." Ye Xiu was speechless. This blizzard map had constant howling wind sound effects, and as a result, Baozi was shouting as if he was speaking in the wind.

"Let's start looking for socks!" Ye Xiu said.

"Which way to go?" Baozi asked.

"Whatever."

The socks are randomly refreshed, and no location is given, so at first, you can only walk around randomly. Moreover, the refresh doesn't throw out all 20 pairs of socks as soon as you start. At the beginning, only half are refreshed, 10 pairs of socks. The next 10 pairs will be refreshed in a two-way random manner within half an hour in terms of time and location.

However, at least the system will give a reminder of the refresh, so that players won't be too confused.

Now, the map also shows the 10 pairs of socks, and the number is also updated as a pair is picked up, so that players can keep up with the sock dynamics in real time. When all 20 pairs of socks are picked up, the system will start a 120-second countdown. If there are no changes within 120 seconds, the event round ends.

Dying in battle in the event map doesn't drop experience or equipment, but the socks are 100% guaranteed to drop. The character themselves will be resurrected at the resurrection point in full condition 20 seconds after death. However, as the number of deaths increases, the time required for resurrection will also increase, in increments of 20 seconds each time.

In order to enrich the fun of the event, in addition to socks, some props will also be randomly refreshed on the map to help players. Currently known are potions without cooldown, cloaks of invisibility, sleds that can move faster, and boxes for storing socks, etc. There will be no system prompts for the refresh of these things.

The map isn't too big, otherwise it would be too hard to find things on the map. Ye Xiu and Baozi are on this map, and all 10 pairs of socks that have been refreshed are still there and haven't been picked up. The two soon encountered several players in a row, but the socks hadn't been picked up yet, so there was no fight. After the socks are picked up, who picked them up will also be announced, and there will be a clear list that is updated in real time showing how many pairs of socks each person has.

When Ye Xiu and Baozi had gained nothing, the first system announcement since the beginning of the game finally appeared: Player Muhe (wooden box), first to strike, first to get a pair of Christmas socks.

"Muhe! Let's go find him!" Baozi said loudly. In his opinion, finding a person is much easier than finding a pair of socks. Especially on their map, the wind and snow are so heavy that you almost have to crouch down to see the ground clearly. Who knows how the socks are placed? If they are buried in the snow with only a tip showing, then walking like this is very likely to be ignored.

"Let's split up." Ye Xiu finally made this decision.

"Greet the target first when you find them, don't act rashly," Ye Xiu said.

"Understood," Baozi replied.

So, the two went their separate ways. Before long, Ye Xiu heard Baozi's voice not from the game, but from outside the game: "Is the person in front of me Muhe? Is it Muhe? Yes, I'm looking for you, hand over the socks you picked up just now."

"Location!" Ye Xiu sent a message to Baozi in tears. This guy actually went to greet Muhe. He told him to greet him after finding the target! Only Baozi could understand such ambiguity.

Baozi quickly replied with the coordinates, and Ye Xiu saw that it wasn't far away, so he quickly turned around and rushed over there.

"Ah yo, it's not just one person?" At this time, Ye Xiu heard Baozi's voice again.

Of course, it wasn't just one person! The two of them entered a team event, and most players entered in teams of five. If there were any stragglers, they were just acting separately, not really alone.

"Be careful," Ye Xiu reminded.

In fact, with Baozi's current strength, he should be able to handle 5 ordinary players. But Baozi can't be judged by common sense. He may come up with operations that even professional players can't understand, and of course, he may inexplicably lose battles that he shouldn't lose.

"Huh?" At this time, Ye Xiu heard Baozi exclaim in doubt again.