171: Chapter 171 I'm full! Ready to jump!

The 1 × 3 item began searching and rotating.

Purple item.

[Item Name]: Precious Belt

[Item Tier]: Purple

[Value]: 91,000

[Type]: Household Item

[Weight]: 0.6 kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity]: 1 × 3

[Item Description]: A belt made of precious genuine leather, offering exceptional wear resistance and toughness. Its cold, rigid color tone is favored by many men.

Nothing special.

Chu Hong's entire attention finally fell on the last item within the black frame.

That thing that took up the most slots!

For this, he even casually looted a backpack from the corpse of a Parino grunt nearby.

The search icon rotated.

"A 4 × 5 big haul, could it be some super top-tier red item?"

Chu Hong felt a mix of anticipation and anxiety. If he was careful with the loot now, he should be able to carry it out.

However.

Soon, a golden light bloomed before his eyes amidst Chu Hong's somewhat disappointed gaze.

It was not the imagined top-tier red collectible.

A pitch-black trench coat-style combat uniform appeared before Chu Hong.

[Item Name]: Parino Guard Serial Number 008 Combat Uniform

[Item Tier]: Gold

[Value]: 710,662

[Type]: Weapon and Equipment

[Weight]: 2.6 kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity]: 4 × 5

[Item Description]: Its tailoring is as elegant as a custom suit, yet the inside conceals secrets capable of rewriting the course of battle. The surface is a high-grade matte wool blend, blending low-profile into any environment; the inner layer is compounded with sixteen layers of silicon carbide and Kevlar fiber, providing ballistic protection comparable to level 4 armor while maintaining ultimate flexibility. Precise three-dimensional tailoring and hidden tactical pockets make every tactical movement crisp and clean without leaving a trace.

A gold-quality bulletproof trench coat?

Chu Hong's eyes lit up slightly. To save space, he had dumped all his gold-quality armor and even gear that would drop upon death like the [lost knights relic longsword] to his teammate Wang Suming and the others to help carry out.

Aside from the weapons that would not drop upon death, [biochemical suppression 93r] and [inheritor sv-98], his body currently carried only two sets of matching ammunition.

Even the [omega venom stimulant] was handed over to Wang Suming and the others to be taken out.

Without hesitation, he directly put on this combat uniform.

Although he lost the jet propulsion capability of the [force field mining armed armor 1.0], Chu Hong distinctly felt that his own movements had become much more agile and unrestricted.

"Roar——!"

An enraged roar abruptly echoed from the [Parino Valley Base] up on the mountain.

Chu Hong sensed it and was then surprised to find that, at some unknown time, the boss and that bitch Smith Molly had already left [Huaxi Wharf].

It looked like they went to the [Parino Valley Base] at the top of the mountain.

A grand voice echoing throughout the entire secret realm poured into Chu Hong's ears like a broadcast.

"Damn Parino! Damn fat pig!"

It was the voice of that bitch Molly.

"Death is at the door, yet you still dare to take away the [eternal essence] at a time like this! Damn capitalist! Greedy, shameless bastard!"

After this benchmark quest ended, there was actually other storyline content?

Listening to this shouting, Chu Hong simultaneously summoned [Ke Xiaoken] underwater, rushing silently towards the direction of the conventional extraction point like a fast fish propelling itself underwater.

"It looks like that bitch's target is the thing inside [Research Laboratory No. 2]. No wonder the benchmark quest didn't write that this key room was also a reward..."

Chu Hong suddenly recalled the mind-shattering images he had seen earlier on the computer in Vincent's Secret Safe House, feeling a wave of nausea and disgust.

Meanwhile, inside the main building of the [Parino Valley Base].

After excitedly finishing their search of the opened top floor, Wu Gang's squad members had just come downstairs when they saw Smith Molly standing furiously at the entrance of [Research Laboratory No. 2], leading a team composed of mutated monkeys and apes.

Wu Gang and the others were still puzzled.

Why was this different from the previous few times?

During the previous few times, this NPC would enter the laboratory, and outside, mutated monkeys would guard the door, preventing even those of them who had accepted the quest from entering.

This time... why was the door open?

Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan were still puzzled when Smith Molly, whose body and face were still stained with disgusting mucus and blood, suddenly turned her head and glared at them like a madwoman.

"Damn bastards! Did you take advantage of the chaos to open this place?!"

"Hand over the items!"

The surrounding mutated monkeys instantly pointed their pitch-black gun barrels densely at Wu Gang and the others.

The expressions of the latter few changed drastically.

"Wu, Boss Wu, what, what is the situation here?"

"F*ck! Is this woman crazy? But this is the benchmark quest we accepted!"

"What should we do? Brother Gangzi..."

Everyone immediately tightened their formation nervously, and Liu Yanyan was protected right in the center by the others at the very first moment.

Seeing this scene, the bitch Molly seemed to understand something instantly.

"The item is on this bitch! Kill them!"

The sudden change was too abrupt!

The benchmark quest NPC, who was their "lackey" and "mercenary" the second before, instantly turned completely "red-named" the next second, and intense gunfire erupted from all directions in an instant.

"Da da da!"

An energy barrier was erected by the two people at the front of the team.

"Sister-in-law, run! Take the item out, and the President will definitely reward us!"

They couldn't figure out the situation, but it was obvious that the other side wouldn't give them a chance to explain. Wu Gang's squad members all wished they could chop this bitch NPC into pieces on the spot.

But their primary task right now was to escort the top-tier red item out of the secret realm!

That's right!

This time, after heading up to the top floor, just as Wu Gang had said at the start, they ran into the newly refreshed top-tier red item!

Wu Gang let out a roar.

The moment his companion erected the defense, he unclipped the rocket launcher from his back.

With a "boom".

It instantly blew the mutated monkeys at the front entrance scattering in all directions.

"Go!"

Wu Gang provided cover while Liu Yanyan's source energy instantly erupted, charging out toward the outside of the base.

Two team members held off the hysterical NPC Molly behind them.

The remaining member, along with Wu Gang, one holding a semi-automatic sniper rifle and the other holding a machine gun, opened fire frantically.

"Da da da!"

The huge gunfire and explosions paused Chu Hong's movement just as he was about to reach the conventional extraction point.

He was lurking in the river water in front of the extraction point.

He poked his head out slightly.

When he saw several disheveled figures rush out from the direction of the base, the two rear-guards were even slapped into a pulp of meat by the giant ape boss the moment he looked over.

"F*ck, what is this situation? Why would this boss even attack the claimants of the benchmark quest?"

The same doubt had just risen in Chu Hong's heart.

His sharp vision suddenly allowed him to clearly see the two figures running at the very front.

Liu Yanyan... and Wu Gang?!

Watching the two frantically fleeing toward his direction in a disheveled state, Chu Hong couldn't help but laugh out loud.

What was this considered?

Enemies crossing paths?

Or... deep classmate affection?

"Running so fast, and even having someone voluntarily cover the rear... Yanyan, aren't you testing our classmate friendship here? How could I possibly withstand this kind of test?"

A bantering yet cold smile hung on Chu Hong's face.

However, his figure silently and quietly lurked deeper down into the river.

The source energy and physical fitness of the seventh stage of the Qiyuan Realm allowed him to hold his breath underwater for much longer than others.

Coupled with the help of [Ke Xiaoken] underwater, Chu Hong was like a reef sinking to the bottom, hiding among the dim aquatic weeds.

Two figures swimming rapidly underwater soon appeared before his eyes within his clear perception.

"Hurry! Hurry! Faster! Going ashore ahead is the extraction point!"

Liu Yanyan held her breath while gathering all her strength in her heart.

Swimming rapidly, she seemed to have already seen herself and Wu Gang being commended, rewarded, and bestowed with power by the President...

Suddenly!

Her expression changed drastically.

The President was nowhere to be seen.

From the dim aquatic weeds beneath her, a pitch-black "water ghost" suddenly surged out...

"Mmm!!!"