83: Chapter 83 Sorry, Clan Chief, we're in a rush this time.

"What's going on? The energy value is climbing back up to 800 points again!"

"..."

The joy from just a moment ago, facing the reality of this instant, was like a basin of icy water poured over the freshly warmed hearts of everyone present, and it almost extinguished the spark of hope that had just ignited within them.

Chu Hong handed the backpack in his hand to Song Jiaojiao.

"Everything inside is loot, along with some collectibles I didn't have time to sort. Give me a new empty backpack, and also supply me with some smoke grenades and remote bombs."

Song Jiaojiao's pretty face turned startled.

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"You, you're going back in?!"

"Hurry!"

Chu Hong's firm and resolute gaze made Song Jiaojiao open her mouth several times, and in the end, with red eyes, she quickly rushed toward her own carriage.

Meanwhile, the person in charge of the trading post also reacted instantly.

"Mr. Chu, your primary weapon should still be firearms, right? What caliber of bullets do you need?"

Chu Hong was slightly stunned, and then immediately reported without hesitation.

"7 and...

"Good!"

When the person in charge of the trading post returned from the armored transport vehicle that had already packed up supplies and was preparing to evacuate the camp, his arms were already filled with more than a dozen boxes of ammunition.

"Mr. Chu, these are all the daily stock available at the camp's trading post, and they are all blue-quality ammunition. Feel free to use them, and I'll report the expenses to the guild later!"

Chu Hong gave the other person a deep look and nodded.

He accepted all the ammunition.

He took the backpack from the worried hands of Song Jiaojiao.

The next second, Chu Hong entered the secret realm once again.

Landing.

The rustling sound of leaves came from behind, and before his vision fully recovered, Chu Hong already instantly understood his location.

Southern cliff-top intersection!

A safe harvest spot in the eyes of ordinary Pioneers.

A C4 evacuation spot in Chu Hong's eyes.

The people from the Black Hole Council did not directly descend near him this time.

[flying bird drone] airborne!

Driven by the spray turbine behind Chu Hong, he completely ignored the Lizardman Warriors startled at the watchtower ahead.

Then he threw out a few magnetic-adsorption "red envelopes", and amidst a hurried series of beep sounds, he suddenly jetted off from the cliff top.

"Whoosh!"

The real-time footage of the flying bird drone was transmitted to his mask.

"None of the three descent points spawned anyone! We didn't run into anyone from the Black Hole Council this match!"

The metal-lustered armor, carrying a massive downward force, traced a parabolic arc.

However.

Just as he was about to smash heavily against the jagged rocks at the bottom of the cliff, Chu Hong's source energy suddenly erupted.

Water Magic: Storm Tuna!

It made Chu Hong suddenly surge forward another segment in mid-air.

"Plop!"

He landed into the river water without injury.

The armor, equipped with comprehensive underwater action capabilities, suffered no hindrance at all; instead, the moment the turbine finished recharging, it propelled forward abruptly.

It carried Chu Hong onto the shore.

Entering the core area!

"Time is tight and the task is heavy, Chieftain, I won't reminisce with you this match!"

"Flower come!"

"Da da da!"

[biochemical suppression 93r] was truly massive in power.

But similarly, shooting consumed a particularly exaggerated amount of source energy.

Three bullets fired in rapid succession consumed an amount of source energy that could rival Chu Hong activating the armor turbine thruster twice.

Lizardman Leader Molov, who was polishing a spear in the open space in front of the [Chieftains Council Hall] just a second ago, heard the sound of an explosion coming from the outpost on the opposite cliff the next second.

He raised his head.

A strange human wearing steel "full-body armor" had already jetted right in front of him, covered in splashed water droplets.

Molov: "!!!"

Three rapid-fire, immensely powerful bullets instantly shattered his head.

Lizardman Leader Molov, deceased!

On the other side.

Hearing the commotion, Lizardman Priest Casar, who rushed out of a house, saw Chu Hong and angrily raised the staff in his hand.

However.

Faster than him was the [flying bird drone], which seemed to have known he would be there all along and swooped down behind him the moment he stepped out of the door.

"Boom!"

The white-quality remote bomb wasn't very damaging.

But it was enough to buy Chu Hong the advantage of the initiative.

The muzzle of the [quenched m14 marksman rifle] burst with gunfire.

"Da da da..."

"It's dropping! It's dropping! The value is starting to drop again!"

Outside, within the secret realm camp.

When the energy monitor's reading—which had been steadily climbing back toward the danger value of 800—suddenly hit 790, it was as if it had crashed into an insurmountable wall.

It abruptly stopped in its tracks.

Then 786, 783, 780...

Everyone couldn't help but roar and cheer with excitement and ecstasy.

"Chu Hong is awesome!!! As expected of a genius who dared to apply for Longming Sacred Academy!"

"It's Chu Hong! It can only be Chu Hong! He's really relying on his own strength to resist those stinky rats of the Black Hole Council!"

"So strong, it's only been a few minutes since he went in, and he's already touched high-value resource points?"

"..."

For a moment, looking at the numbers rapidly falling on the monitor, everyone seemed to forget that this was a terrifying disaster—one terrifying enough to destroy a base city and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

In front of the secret realm entrance, everyone gathered in a circle.

Everyone held their breath, watching the monitor that beeped incessantly.

"Swish!"

Suddenly, a ripple came from the secret realm's light ring.

Chu Hong's figure appeared under circumstances no one expected.

A backpack was tossed by Chu Hong to Wang Suming standing nearby, and before the latter could react, he had already taken another pre-prepared backpack from the other's hands.

"Whoosh..."

The secret realm entrance fluctuated once again, and Chu Hong's figure disappeared.

Everyone: "..."

Wait, hold on.

Did a figure just come out, and then go right back in?

The person in charge of the secret realm camp trading post looked stunned, like he had seen a ghost, trembling as he pointed a finger at the spot where Chu Hong had just appeared and vanished.

With his mouth open, the entire person seemed as if struck mute.

He couldn't force out a single complete word.

"Holy shit! Did Chu Hong just come out and go back in? Am I seeing things?"

"You saw it too? Damn, I thought I was hallucinating!"

"This is way too fast. How many minutes has it been? Has it even been five minutes?"

At this moment, let alone these onlookers of the Pioneers, even Chu Hong's teammates Song Jiaojiao and Wang Suming widened their eyes in shock.

Especially when Wang Suming opened the backpack in his hands.

Seeing the few items inside—low in quantity but absolute treasures, clearly originating from high-value containers—collected there,

he couldn't help but draw a sharp breath.

"Damn, Brother Hong, I thought you were already fast enough originally, but I didn't expect you could get even faster?!"

Second match!

Landing at the valley entrance, core area slot 1!

Jet!

Deploy [flying bird drone]!

This had almost become Chu Hong's standardized operation.

He didn't match with anyone from the Black Hole Council again.

Not only did this not disappoint Chu Hong, but it even made him heave a slight sigh of relief.

At the very least, this also meant that the enemy's personnel weren't actually that numerous; otherwise, he definitely would have easily run into them...

Landing and heading straight for the secret passage risk-free container [kasar secret treasure].

Blasting open the secret passage entrance and jumping into it.

Kicking the treasure chest and startling [Lizardman Priest Casar].

The latter materialized out of thin air amidst thunderous light.

[biochemical suppression 93r] three gunshots rang out, and Casar fell to the ground...

[00:00:40]

Forty seconds!

"When blasting the rocks just now, I could have flown an extra flying bird drone in advance and used it to blow up the rocks directly, which would have saved another second..."

Chu Hong muttered inwardly.

Searching [kasar secret treasure]: ...

[Ding!]

A golden light lit up, and a slender bone-like strip, about the thickness of a finger, appeared in Chu Hong's hand.

[Item Name]: Lizard Priest Relic Bone

[Item Grade]: Golden

[Type]: Source Energy Substance

[Weight]: 1.5 kg

[Backpack Grid Capacity]: 1 × 3

[Item Description]: The spine of the ancient Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe's priest. Nourished by long-term immersion in magic, it is naturally endowed with the qualifications to become the shaft of a top-tier magic wand.

Chu Hong raised an eyebrow, his figure quickly turning around to start searching Casar's corpse while his heart couldn't help but harbor another doubt.

From his previous match until now, has the drop probability seemed to get higher?

In the last match, two big risk-free containers, three small risk-free containers, plus the corpses of two bosses—equivalent to seven high-value containers.

However.

Just the number of small golds looted alone reached seven or eight.

This drop rate was noticeably much higher than when he ran maps by himself previously, or when he ran maps with Song Jiaojiao and the others.

"Could it be that the level of the secret realm's energy affects the drop probability of the secret realm itself?"

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In addition, the extra chapters will reveal the new map for the "next season"!!!

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