152: Lucky Box

"What are you talking about! That's where I first met you in the restricted area."

Lu Xueqing explained.

"I was about to evacuate when I saw you respawn on the nearby road. I was so worried when I saw you rush into the Cement Factory without any gear! But I never expected you to be so talented, becoming so strong after only a few days of knife-running!"

"So that's how it was."

Xiao Yun immediately recalled his first knife-run after arriving in this world.

He remembered searching for a long time, only to find white and green-tier supplies.

He was happy to even find a gold coin in that large safe.

And in just a few short days.

He had already unlocked a bunch of skills, becoming an almost invincible presence in the restricted area.

His initial safe, which was 100 slots (10x10), had now expanded to 4900 slots (70x70).

However.

This time, he was using a gold-tier safe experience card.

Whether he would have such luck next time was not guaranteed.

But at this moment, for him, as long as the safe had over a thousand slots, the actual usage experience wouldn't differ much, unless he was storing things like planes and cannons.

After all, even if he put all the supplies from the entire map into his safe, it would be impossible to store thousands of slots worth of items!

Therefore, for Xiao Yun now, what was more important was the special safe obtained from completing achievement quests.

After all, the functions of the special safe were simply too powerful!

"Right, speaking of special safes..."

Xiao Yun opened his system backpack and found that the skill-storing safe he had unlocked earlier had indeed expired.

However, he was surprised to find that this rare safe, after expiring, did not disappear from the system backpack like ordinary safes.

"Item: Skill Storage Safe (Expired)"

"Skill Storage Safe (Expired): Can be permanently unlocked by spending materials. After unlocking, all your safes will have the 'Skill Storage' function."

"Required Materials: mandel supercomputing unit x1, Data: Design Blueprint x3, A Pack of Cement x10, SS-tier Skill x3, Safe Experience Card x1"

"Hint: Unlocking the rare safe function will consume all materials, including skills."

"Holy moly! This special skill can actually be permanently unlocked!"

Seeing the system prompt panel, Xiao Yun's heart was instantly stirred by a stormy wave.

He never expected that the rare safe's ability could be permanently unlocked!

Why didn't the system remind him about this earlier?

Xiao Yun had confirmed that the design blueprints he had obtained before were all worthless data, having already been brought out, with no premium space, so he had sold them all at the trading post.

Now look at this!

To permanently unlock the special function of this safe, he would have to go find design blueprints again.

But thankfully.

Xiao Yun had also found the most important material, the mandel supercomputing unit, from Longbow Creek Valley before.

As for cement and SS-tier skills, they could be purchased directly.

Cement was fine, but those SS-tier skills were expensive.

And it actually required three SS-tier skills!

One of these things cost 5 million, so three would be 15 million.

The money Xiao Yun had earned from running knives for so long was only 20 million; using these three SS skills would directly drain his wallet!

"Oh, right!"

Xiao Yun suddenly remembered something.

He hadn't collected the upgrade materials that Wang Qiang and the others had helped him buy!

No, he had to ask them for it after this knife-run.

"The rare safe has just expired anyway, so why not open a new one and see?"

Xiao Yun thought to himself, and with a thought, he directly activated a rare safe experience card.

Anyway, this thing wouldn't disappear when it expired, and he could slowly collect the materials to permanently unlock its function later.

"Ding! Random Rare Safe Experience Card used successfully!"

"Obtained Item: Lucky Box Safe (1-day experience card)!"

"Lucky Box: Gold-tier supplies stored in this safe will automatically convert into Lucky Boxes. Each Lucky Box occupies 1 slot. Opening it will randomly grant a purple-tier or higher quality item."

"This ability... is completely for gamblers!"

Looking at the newly unlocked experience card, Xiao Yun's eyebrows immediately raised.

Lucky Box, huh?

To put it bluntly, this thing was like a lottery, except each draw cost a small gold item.

And for the items drawn, if it was purple, he lost money; if it was gold, he broke even; if it was red, he profited.

However, according to the system, the probability of making money should be slightly higher than losing money, but he just didn't know by how much.

Originally, Xiao Yun had wanted to check the materials required to unlock this rare ability, but now it seemed unnecessary.

After all, once unlocked, even gold-tier items in a normal safe would automatically convert into Lucky Boxes!

What if the items he needed were put in and directly converted?

"But the gold coins obtained from killing Machine Bro, selling them would mean losing money on transaction fees, so I'll just use them to try out this Lucky Box then."

Xiao Yun thought silently to himself, temporarily ignoring this special ability.

"Master, where should we search this time?"

Just then, Lu Xueqing also asked eagerly, itching for action.

She hadn't run knives in a long time, and entering the familiar Dam No. 0 immediately filled her with an indescribable excitement.

However, at this moment, as darkness had fallen.

Dam No. 0 was completely dark everywhere.

Seeing this, Xiao Yun directly abandoned the idea of scavenging outside.

After all, high-resource areas like the Cement Factory at least had some light, while the wilderness was pitch black.

"Let's go, we'll search the Cement Factory."

Saying that, Xiao Yun led Lu Xueqing towards the Cement Factory.

......

"Current Location: Dam No. 0 - Substation Southeast Entrance."

"Current Drop Rate: Classified"

"Current Game End Time: 25 minutes 48 seconds"

"Hint: Please complete evacuation before time runs out!"

At the same time, inside the Substation.

Zhang Yu and Long Xiaopang rushed all the way here, encountering a few Asala Soldiers along the way, but Zhang Yu easily took them down with the high-flash of his modified gun light.

"Yu ge, I can't believe this thing actually works!"

Long Xiaopang, who was beside him, was also very excited to see this!

Before, when they were running knives, they would be instantly defeated upon encountering Asala Soldiers.

But now!

"It's not time to celebrate yet. We've gone all out this time, so we need to find supplies and evacuate safely!"

Zhang Yu frowned slightly and reminded him.

"In this Substation, there are not only regular soldiers but also Shield Soldiers and Rocket Soldiers! Those are the difficult ones."

"Don't worry, Yu ge, if they dare to come, I'll shoot them dead with my flashlight!"

Long Xiaopang said confidently, and the two then tiptoed into the Substation.

"Who's there! You've got some nerve!"