163: There's a traitor among us!

“Brothers, let’s think of a way! If we can’t recover these losses, we’re probably done for!”

Inside the Dam No. 0 vault.

At this point, less than two minutes remained until the end of this match.

Once the time was up, the entire space of Dam No. 0 would automatically reset, and a new round of matches would begin.

All people and items in the match would be cleared, so if Asala members had items left in the forbidden zone, they had to transfer them out before the space reset.

The reason so many materials were hidden in the vault was that they were not obtained through legitimate channels.

These little gold and little red items were all secretly taken out of the forbidden zone by the seven Asala night shift agents present, at the end of each game match, when there were no agents around their area, and ensuring they were alone.

And by doing so, as long as they didn't take all high-value materials, leaving 30% in the forbidden zone, the higher-ups would only think that GTI members searched thoroughly and wouldn't suspect them.

This practice was already a hidden rule within the forbidden zone.

Not only were the 7 Asala Soldiers present doing this, but many others were also making money this way.

Even Asala Forces were not the only ones; Hafk would do the same.

After all, no matter how incompatible Asala and Hafk were, for ordinary people, not gaining personal profit was nonsense.

Therefore, in maps like Longbow Creek Valley, which had two factions, many Asala members and Hafk members would also secretly collude, exchanging materials within their respective Administrative Districts, and after the match ended, they would claim they were taken by GTI agents.

This custom had been passed down for a long time; ever since the mysterious space of the forbidden zone appeared, people had been doing this.

However.

What the seven Asala members in the vault at this moment didn't expect was that this match would have variables!

They had always hidden accumulated materials inside the Zero Dam, originally planning to take them out little by little and sell them slowly.

Not raising the suspicion of the higher-ups was considered safer.

However, in this match, when the few of them arrived at the Zero Dam vault.

They were surprised to find that the vault’s large iron door had been artificially cut with a neat opening!

Their years of accumulated materials were suddenly gone!

“These things are the wealth we accumulated with such difficulty over so many years; how could they just disappear?”

An Asala Soldier frowned, saying very seriously.

“Now it’s good, all the materials are gone, I’m directly bankrupt!”

“If I had known they would be lost, I would have hidden all the little gold in a bird's nest! Anyway, the agents in this forbidden zone don't check bird nests, let alone at night.”

“Who would have thought that someone would come to the safest Zero Dam vault at night?”

“Who did this?! I’m going to kill him!”

“It must be GTI betraying the agreement with Asala! Only they could do something like this!”

“Damn it! I also heard that GTI said they could only open 8 safes at a time, but in a match today or yesterday, someone opened all the safes on the entire map! And every small cabinet was opened! I heard the higher-ups are already holding emergency meetings about this these past few days.”

“What?! Opened all the safes on the entire map? That must have been done intentionally by GTI, right? How could ordinary agents who run knives every day with a less than 1% extraction rate possibly do that?”

“No, I heard a child came to Dam No. 0; his movements were like flying in the sky.”

“I’ve also heard of that person; it seems he even defeated Seyid Prison Boss twice in a head-on confrontation, right? I don’t know how Blue Star trained him.”

“He’s probably a talent cultivated within GTI. In that case, GTI’s goal becomes even more suspicious.”

“I knew it all along! They can travel between two worlds, it’s definitely not just for making money.”

Several soldiers discussed.

However, the soldier with the tightly furrowed brows shook his head after some deep thought.

“No, the materials we hid here should not have been taken by GTI sending someone.”

“Why?”

The surrounding soldiers looked at him in confusion.

The map of Dam No. 0 was an area fully controlled by Asala; there was no Hafk presence.

If materials were lost on their own territory, and it wasn't done by those scoundrel GTI, then who could it be?

“The entrance to the Zero Dam was not damaged, yet the vault was cut open. If GTI had sent someone, their first step to entering Dam No. 0 would definitely be to blow open the Zero Dam entrance.”

At these words, the others nodded one after another.

Indeed, the Zero Dam entrance facing the Administrative District was directly blocked by concrete.

Without activating the Wall Breaker device, GTI personnel simply couldn't get in.

Only Asala members had access to the Zero Dam’s passages.

“This matter might not have been done by GTI, or rather, this matter doesn't just involve GTI; it’s highly possible that our own people are also involved.”

The Asala Soldier still frowned, analyzing the situation before him.

And as soon as he said this, the other six immediately gasped!

There was a traitor in the team!

Right!

The key to the Zero Dam vault was in their hands, and only a few of them knew about the hidden items inside.

If any of them wanted to monopolize the materials, they could indeed use this method.

Immediately, the six looked at each other, seemingly wanting to find out who the traitor was.

“Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying there’s a traitor among the seven of us.”

The Asala Soldier sighed, explaining.

“What I mean is, the traitor is someone else within Asala, not within our team. After all, the seven of us are inseparable every day; no one could transmit information to GTI without being discovered. And if it were someone among us, everyone has a spare key to the vault door, so why wouldn’t they just open the door with the key, but choose to cut it open with tools instead? And in this match, we all gathered together shortly after it started, so theoretically, no one among us had time to commit the crime.”

“Then who did it?”

“This... this is too brain-racking!”

“little red, are you a detective?”

The other Asala Soldiers were all shocked.

They never expected that their teammate, who usually joked around, possessed such strong analytical abilities.

And the Asala Soldier called little red also gave the answer at this moment.

“If other soldiers noticed our actions, deduced that we hide stolen goods in the vault every night, and then formulated a plan to steal our materials, then everything makes sense. Let’s pay attention in the next few matches! Ask around to see if any soldiers left their original posts and ran around; it’s very likely that he did it.”

Soldier little red’s brow finally relaxed as he thought of this.

“In that case, our materials might still be recoverable!”