254: Career rollover

"Material: claudius bust

Quality: Red

Price: 1,326,548

Appraisal: Golden Head! Where are you? You're not in the large safe at all!"

Xiao Yun picked up the Golden Head and, with a thought, quickly put it into his secure box.

In this world where everyone was running knives, it was his first time seeing such a thing.

He had opened large safes many times while running knives in this world, but he had never seen this Golden Head.

He never expected that Du Le and Jian Fei, these two professional players, would dig it out of a bird's nest.

In the game of his previous life, during Season 1, Xiao Yun often found big red and big gold items in the large safes, and even the only claudius bust he ever got was from a large safe in a regular Dam No. 0 Military Camp back then; Xiao Yun still remembers it clearly.

However, after Season 2, the drop rate from large safes became quite comical; even the Aerospace large safes on classified difficulty stopped dropping gold, and they just stuffed purple Horned Daggers inside.

The developers claimed they hadn't changed the drop rate, to which Xiao Yun could only say, are they trying to fool players like children?

"These two professional players probably didn't expect to get wiped out in this peaceful match. They should blame themselves for dropping a big red!"

Looking at where the two had died, the bodies of the two professional players had already disappeared, leaving only a pile of not-so-valuable equipment.

As GTI Professionals, these two were also very picky about searching for supplies.

Opening their backpacks, he saw only a few small purple items, likely because they thought they could fill their backpacks this round and didn't bother to put blue materials in.

Xiao Yun's actions in this situation still carried some risk.

Based on the conversation between the two earlier, they already knew Xiao Yun's name.

However, they speculated that Xiao Yun might be an operative from the Dragon Kingdom's official team, so they didn't seem to actively search for information about Xiao Yun.

And Xiao Yun had just killed them. Although he remained invisible throughout and didn't show himself, they would likely still suspect Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun wasn't too worried about this.

After all, after tomorrow, the day after would be the GTI Professional assessment.

Once he successfully became a GTI Professional, Xiao Yun would be able to set his information to hidden. At that time, even if they were also GTI Professionals, they would have to apply to the higher-ups and get his approval to know his information.

"However, have the Asala Soldiers changed their strategy again this round, putting valuable materials in the bird's nests?"

Xiao Yun didn't worry too much but instead thought about the current match.

Earlier, Xiao Yun came out of Babel Tower to clear out all the manholes on the map, to see if the Asala Soldiers had hidden any big red items or similar.

Unexpectedly, by a stroke of luck, he saw Jian Fei pulling a claudius bust out of a bird's nest.

Thus, Xiao Yun couldn't help but suspect that the location where they hid materials had changed again.

"Never mind, I'll check everything."

Xiao Yun thought to himself, and in his mind, he reconstructed Baksh's material point map.

Then, he combined the routes for the bird's nests and manholes in his brain, coming up with an optimal route that saved time and effort.

The next second, with the bonus of multiple movement speeds, Xiao Yun, in his invisible state, quickly headed to the first target point, ready to check the hidden material situation of this match.

......

"Evacuation Failed!"

"Duration: 00:07:10"

"This round's gain: 0!"

Restricted Area Entrance.

Du Le and Jian Fei returned here simultaneously, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"What... what's going on?"

Jian Fei was still clutching his neck with one hand; the encounter in the restricted area earlier still made his neck feel cold.

"You felt it too, right? Just now, a sharp object quickly sliced across our necks. We didn't even have time to react before we instantly died in the restricted area."

Du Le pulled down his mask, his eyes also filled with terror.

They had clearly been attacked by other operatives just now, but let alone fighting back, they didn't even see the enemy!

This terrifying encounter also made Du Le recall what Captain Qiao Liangbian had described at the time.

Just as he described the official professional team, their encounter just now was truly like being slaughtered like pigs!

Unable to even detect the enemy, they were completely powerless to resist.

"This is insane!"

Jian Fei immediately complained.

When Du Le said he heard movement, he should have been more careful.

Now, not only did they get wiped out in a classified match, but the big red material, the claudius bust, was also dropped inside!

"Du Le, how did the enemy kill us? Did you see clearly?"

"No, but before I died, I specifically observed the surroundings. It seemed like there was movement behind us as well."

Du Le frowned, analyzing seriously.

No one was seen, no gunshots were heard, and then a fatal wound suddenly appeared on their necks. If it were anyone else, they would probably think this restricted area was haunted!

However, as a GTI Professional, Du Le also knew that there were no supernatural phenomena like ghosts in the restricted area.

What they had just encountered was very likely a team much stronger than them.

And Du Le had a guess in his mind about who could silently instantly kill two people.

"That Xiao Yun's team, there's a Deep Blue, right?"

"That's right, that big black shield, no mistaking it."

Jian Fei nodded silently.

"Then the identity of the other member of their team can also be confirmed: a Hacker Claw, and a master at hiding information."

"Why do you say that?"

"The fatal wounds we suffered just now obviously couldn't have been caused by firearms. The sensation was sharp and cold, so it could only be a Hacker Claw's throwing knives."

Du Le touched his neck, recalling the sensation at the time, his heart filled with extreme shock.

"You're saying that there's a Hacker Claw in their team who approached us completely unprepared and directly hit our vital points with two throwing knives?"

Jian Fei raised an eyebrow slightly, his tone full of shock.

"How is that possible!"

"I guess what Captain Qiao said before really wasn't just to scare us."

"Could it be Xiao Yun's team that did it? But we have no grudges, so why would they specifically come to kill us? And isn't this a peaceful match?"

"I'm not sure. Were they perhaps after the big red materials?"

Du Le and Jian Fei analyzed silently, but couldn't come up with a clear explanation.

However, just as Xiao Yun thought, the two of them now unanimously believed that it was definitely Xiao Yun's team that killed them.

"So... are we still running knives later?"

"Of course! Otherwise, how many months would we have to wait for Captain Qiao to run knives enough for two full sets of equipment?"

Facing Jian Fei's question, Du Le said angrily.

"Every bit we earn helps. If we can earn 26 points, then the captain won't have to work so hard, right?"

"Oh, right! So that's what you were thinking!"