164: Just this much

Xiao Yun went to the Exchange to process a batch of supplies.

Excluding the big red and some small gold, this run brought in a total of over two million, bringing his bank card balance to thirteen million.

For ordinary people, this amount of money might be enough to last a lifetime.

However, for Xiao Yun, who wanted to unlock the special secure container ability, it was still not enough.

To unlock the ability to store skill cards, he would need to purchase three SS-grade skills alone, which would cost 15 million.

Fortunately, Xiao Yun had also brought out a mandel supercomputing unit from Longbow Creek Valley, which was the most crucial item.

Otherwise, just finding a way to get a supercomputing unit would probably take several days.

"Let's go, let's do another run!"

Xiao Yun said to Lu Xueqing, preparing to continue to Dam No. 0.

"Master, have you processed all your supplies?"

At this moment, Lu Xueqing asked worriedly.

"That armored vehicle battery might not be safe in the storage locker here. Should we send it back home first?"

"Don't worry, I already had someone send it over," Xiao Yun said with a faint smile.

His big red was definitely safest inside his secure container.

However, for other ordinary operators without secure containers, rare supplies found in the restricted area were either taken directly home and hidden, or temporarily stored in smart safes similar to express lockers.

When Lu Xueqing saw Xiao Yun processing supplies and then immediately preparing to enter the restricted area again, she assumed he had put the big red into a smart safe.

While smart safes were indeed safe under normal circumstances, it was different for big red supplies.

If a bad person saw it, they might use criminal means to forcefully break open the secure container and steal the big red.

"Alright, then let's go!"

...

Xiao Yun and Lu Xueqing kept running until midnight, completing five matches in total.

All five matches at Dam No. 0 were, without exception, on normal difficulty.

Neither Xiao Yun nor Lu Xueqing had the good fortune to find red-quality supplies in the restricted area again.

Xiao Yun entered the Zero Dam vault several more times, but found that there were no supplies left inside.

There wasn't even a single ox horn in the entire vault!

Xiao Yun felt a little strange, but due to the different drop rates, his first thought was that it was a benefit prepared for clever and brave operators on confidential difficulty.

After all, the interior of the Zero Dam and the pull-gate extraction point were connected by iron gates and ventilation ducts.

Even ordinary operators without teleportation skills could enter the Zero Dam's interior by breaking open the extraction point's iron gate or by climbing into the ventilation ducts.

However, how to break open the large iron gate of the vault was a problem.

In these few matches, due to the extremely low drop rates, it was difficult to even find a small gold in the large secure containers.

Therefore, Xiao Yun also changed his tactics.

He used card passives and the Gunfire Negotiation skill to farm gold coins frantically, while the supply points were left for Lu Xueqing to search.

After several games, Xiao Yun's secure container was also stacked with rows and rows of gold coins!

Including what he had before, there were a total of 242!

According to the Exchange's price, one gold coin could sell for about 50,000.

This meant that the value of the gold coins alone in Xiao Yun's secure container was as high as over 12 million!

However, Xiao Yun did not intend to sell these gold coins directly.

After all, he had now unlocked the Lucky Box secure container!

Using gold coins to gamble for a big red in the Lucky Box was the choice to maximize profit.

"Master, it was so much fun finding things today!" Lu Xueqing said, both exhausted and excited.

"But I'm really too sleepy. I want to go back and rest first."

"Okay, I'll call a taxi to send you back." Xiao Yun glanced at the time; it was just past midnight.

Normally, Lu Xueqing would go to bed around ten, so she had indeed stayed up very late from enjoying the runs today.

And after this night of running, besides that armored vehicle battery, Lu Xueqing also made a net profit of over two million in the restricted area!

She seemed to be overly excited after these few runs, and at this moment, she was walking unsteadily from exhaustion, her eyes opening and closing, looking like she could fall asleep while walking.

Seeing this, Xiao Yun was very worried, so he decided to send her home.

"Master, I'm truly grateful to you," Lu Xueqing mumbled.

"If it weren't for you taking me on runs, I might not even have enough for college tuition. I don't know how to repay you."

"It's nothing, you're my apprentice now, so there's no need to talk about repayment," Xiao Yun said with a faint smile.

Lu Xueqing had even given him the big red she found; there was no need to talk about repayment.

Giving him the big red from the runs was the best repayment!

Listening to Xiao Yun's words, a smile also appeared on Lu Xueqing's face.

Unlike her usual energetic self, her smile at this moment was faint, making people feel calm.

Soon, Lu Xueqing's head rested on Xiao Yun's shoulder.

"She fell asleep standing up..." Xiao Yun looked helpless, continuing to wait for the ride-hailing car to arrive.

"I didn't expect you to be quite popular with women, having so many different girls around you."

However, at this moment, a light laugh suddenly came from behind Xiao Yun.

Jiang Kexin appeared in front of Xiao Yun again, seemingly out of nowhere.

She still had a lollipop in her mouth, and without thinking, he knew it was a green mint flavor.

Before Xiao Yun could speak, Jiang Kexin asked directly, "I heard you took out a lot of big reds from the restricted area, and some of them have already been leased to the Haibei City Research Institute."

"Where did you hear that?" Faced with Xiao Yun's question, Jiang Kexin just smiled mysteriously.

"Honestly, I don't understand what you're thinking. If you leased them to a tech company in Lighthouse Country, the price would be at least ten percent higher."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow.

What, only ten percent!

He Mo had made it sound so serious back at school, Xiao Yun had thought leasing big reds to foreign countries would earn him several times the money.

However, on second thought, 10% a year was indeed a very significant figure.

As the rental period lengthened, the income brought by this 10% would also increase.

For example, if blade servers were leased to a foreign country, he could earn an extra 1.5 million over ten years!

"So, about what I told you before, have you thought about it?" Jiang Kexin suddenly asked, not giving Xiao Yun time to think.

"Not yet." Xiao Yun shook his head.

Regarding going to Lighthouse Country, he actually already had an answer in his heart.

After all, during this time, he had also figured out a bunch of ways to make money in low-drop-rate matches, and after joining GTI, he estimated that if he found a few more big reds, Haibei City would soon have the Baksh and Aerospace Base maps.

Now, for him, there was no reason to go to Lighthouse Country.

However, looking at Xiao Yun's expression, Jiang Kexin seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and sighed helplessly.

"I'm telling you, is your only goal in running to make money?"