137: Chapter 137 You are different from me, I have no driftwood

He can predict the locations of high-value supplies in advance!

This was a possibility Song Jiaojiao dared to think of only after pondering for a long time.

And only in this way could it be clearly explained why Chu Hong, clearly entering the secret realm for the very first time, was able to determine the target direction at the very first moment and head straight to the supply point with a clear objective.

"He doesn't say anything, but he doesn't avoid me either..."

Watching Chu Hong searching around inside the sunken ship cabin, ripples couldn't help but stir in Song Jiaojiao's heart.

The search icon stopped spinning.

A small purple item.

[Item Name]: Peacock Feather Brooch

[Item Tier]: Purple

[Value]: 32,771

[Type]: Crafted Collection

[Weight]: ＜ 0.01 kg

[Inventory Grid Capacity]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: A top-luxury brooch designed by a prestigious jeweler using peacock feathers as the design concept, deeply beloved in the fashion world.

A small golden item.

[Item Name]: Orchestra Conductor's Baton

[Item Tier]: Gold

[Value]: 98,931

[Type]: Crafted Collection

[Weight]: 0.5 kg

[Inventory Grid Capacity]: 1 × 3

[Item Description]: An exclusive conductor's baton custom-made for an orchestra conductor, featuring gold-threaded Parino markings.

Two items, over one hundred thousand source energy points.

The drop rate for this sunken ship secret treasure is quite high... Song Jiaojiao muttered inwardly.

Previously when looting high-value containers in the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe secret realm, many times even blue items were fished out from inside.

Yet she completely forgot that this was a classified-level secret realm.

Holding the two items with an excited look on her face, she prepared to go look for Chu Hong.

Lifting her head, she saw the latter excitedly swimming out from the shattered captain's cabin of the sunken ship. In his hand, there was unexpectedly a card reflecting metallic luster under the refraction of the water.

Song Jiaojiao's pupils shrank abruptly.

At this moment, Chu Hong was also too excited to speak.

Red card!

On the desk in this sunken ship's captain's cabin, it turned out to be a card spawn point as well!

Previously inside the Special Service Department, he had entered and come here at least a dozen times, but not once had he ever encountered this kind of situation.

He hadn't expected that on the very first time in a real-world secret realm, a red card would actually spawn!

[Item Name]: Parino Base Director's Reception Room Access Card

[Item Tier]: Red

[Value]: 3,750,728

[Type]: Permission Item

[Weight]: 0.01 kg

[Inventory Grid Capacity]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: Used to open the elevator and access control of the director's reception room in the main building of the Parino Valley Base.

[Durability]: 20/20

[Usage Location]: Primitive Valley No. 1 - Parino Valley Base

A super red card worth 3.7 million source energy points!

In Chu Hong's impression, only the Core Laboratory access card from the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital, valued at four million source energy points, could compare with this card.

The few of them hurriedly surfaced.

And when Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming saw the red card in Chu Hong's hand, each of them was so shocked that they lost control of their facial expressions.

"R-Red-tier quality items! My goodness! Brother Hong, you actually managed to loot a red-tier quality item again! This time we're really going to strike it rich!"

Wang Suming splashed around excitedly on the water's surface. The last time they looted a red-tier item was still that lizard priests grimoire from the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe.

Selling it to the Pioneers Guild directly netted them twenty million source energy points, which served as the initial pot of gold that allowed their team to trade up their gear.

Song Jiaojiao, however, clearly had more experience and knowledge.

She stared at the card in Chu Hong's hand with eyes full of shock and surprise.

"Chu Hong, unless it's an absolute last resort, you must never sell this card!"

Wang Suming was puzzled, but Song Jiaojiao took a deep breath and began to explain.

"A red-tier access card generally signifies the most core and essential part of the entire secret realm. Taking this card out might fetch over ten million source energy points, but trying to encounter one again would be extremely difficult."

"Because what this single card represents is infinite possibilities!"

"It might allow you to obtain several red-tier collectibles, which plays a crucial role in your subsequent strength enhancement..."

She paused and looked at Chu Hong with a serious expression: "If you need any equipment or anything else, you can tell me, but this card—truly, absolutely do not sell it, and even... don't make a sound about it after going outside."

The two gazed at each other.

Chu Hong smiled and nodded.

In fact, even if Song Jiaojiao hadn't said anything, he wouldn't have sold it. This was the key to opening the office of the boss Cliff Yang. When he was captured and taken upstairs back then, he had seen the other party use an identical card to open the elevator door.

The massive harvest made both Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming immediately think of evacuating.

"Brother Hong, shall we evacuate? Although we have three lives, if this red card drops, we'd really cry our eyes out..."

Song Jiaojiao also chimed in and nodded.

However.

Chu Hong, who had already put the red card into the source energy space at the very first moment,

had already transformed into a fearless warrior at this moment.

He wouldn't die!

His two red-tier weapons wouldn't drop either!

With a red card tucked in his crotch, you're telling me to evacuate?!

Chu Hong smiled, and in the eyes of Wang Suming and Song Jiaojiao, that smile looked somewhat twisted.

"Evacuate what evacuate? I've got my search loot, but what about you guys? Especially you, fatty, you brought in a massive 120-slot golden backpack, and you're just going to pack that much junk and evacuate?"

"Then what do you want to do?" Song Jiaojiao asked.

At this moment, gunshots from Parino armed soldiers had already come from the Old Logging Camp, Huaxi Wharf, and the Transport Line Station on the west bank.

On the contrary, the Monkey Village side on the east bank had been completely quiet without a single sound.

Chu Hong smiled slightly.

"To the tower!"

...

Swimming directly down the river, they crossed through the river channel between Huaxi Wharf and Jiangxin Islet.

At this moment, under the scan of Chu Hong's cobweb brain-computer interface,

inside Huaxi Wharf, two teams were currently engaged in a melee battle with Parino armed personnel.

One was clearly a squad that had spawned on the hillside above Huaxi Wharf, while the other was a squad that had traveled from Jiangxin Islet to Huaxi Wharf.

Chu Hong suddenly surfaced, and amidst Song Jiaojiao's surprised gaze, he raised his gun and fired a shot toward the shore before diving back down.

A bang of gunfire was not particularly abrupt amidst the already chaotic Huaxi Wharf.

And within Chu Hong's map, the benchmark quest pickup point for Wrath of Nature that was originally at Huaxi Wharf had unexpectedly vanished.

The three of them silently arrived at the east bank very quickly.

"This place is the conventional extraction point... Besides this one, the only other place we can leave from right now is the station side. This time we'll just make do with this, and next match, depending on our spawn point, if conditions permit, we'll use the station extraction point first."

For some reason, looking at Chu Hong's somewhat deranged smiling face at this moment, both Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming felt their hearts skip a beat in unison.

Wang Suming, who understood Chu Hong better than Song Jiaojiao did, looked at Chu Hong, who had rarely carried a heavy sniper rifle inside this time, and associated it with what Chu Hong said earlier about to the tower.

Lifting his head, his gaze turned toward the towering Ecological Observation Tower.

"H-Hong, Brother Hong, you can't possibly mean to..."

He could almost imagine just how deranged standing at such a high sniper spot could possibly be.

Chu Hong smiled and patted Wang Suming's shoulder.

"Rest assured, you guys don't need to participate in this matter. I'll give you a route map of the outdoor supply points on the mountain, as well as a monster distribution map. The two of you just go search them and finally rendezvous with me here."

"You guys are different from me, I don't have driftwood..."