273: Conservation of matter

“You guys evacuated, huh? How was the yield from that match?”

Black Bro walked slowly to the three of them, a smile on his face, and sat down.

Zhang Yu and Lu Xueqing immediately fell silent, their eyes involuntarily flicking towards Xiao Yun, waiting for his answer.

“Not bad,” Xiao Yun said calmly.

“What’s wrong? Are you here to persuade us to join the main force?”

“Why would you think that?” Black Bro asked with interest.

“Otherwise, why are you looking for us?” Xiao Yun asked back, a bit speechless.

“Haha, don’t worry, I don’t have the ability to command you. Your strength was already proven in the last match.”

As Black Bro spoke, he suddenly sighed.

In the last match, neither the main force he led nor the two GTI Professional Team members managed to successfully evacuate from the restricted zone. Only Xiao Yun’s team completed the evacuation.

This had already proven that Xiao Yun’s strength was definitely superior to theirs.

And besides that,

Black Bro had also learned some things about Xiao Yun’s team during his conversation with Jian Fei.

Therefore, he understood the gap between them.

Given their talent, they could still run knives in the same restricted zone for now, but it wouldn’t be long before they became people from two different worlds.

“Let me introduce myself. I am one of the project leaders for the Peaceful Restricted Zone project. My name isn’t important; you can just call me Black Bro. Of course, if you don’t want to call me that, you can call me Little Black, like those GTI Official leaders.”

Black Bro smiled faintly, then directly pulled out a special GTI Official ID from his pocket.

This ID was different from a regular GTI Professional Agent’s.

The cover was black with green lettering, very much in the GTI Official style, and it prominently displayed “Peaceful Restricted Zone,” as he had mentioned.

“Peaceful Restricted Zone?” Hearing these four words, Xiao Yun was also somewhat puzzled.

“So, your current actions are organized by GTI Official?”

“To be honest, that is indeed the case.” Black Bro put away his ID, then began a series of explanations.

“The so-called Peaceful Restricted Zone project was created to reduce meaningless competition among agents within the restricted zones, thereby allowing agents to bring out more high-value materials. However, the project is currently in a pilot phase, and the current Longjiang Impression City is one of the pilot locations.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yun nodded silently.

In fact, when he first learned about the restricted zones, Xiao Yun had speculated that something similar might exist.

After all, the entrance to the same restricted zone corresponded to the same restricted zone. This meant that if the agents in a certain restricted zone were all acquaintances, a peaceful outcome was very likely.

Or, like wealthy individuals such as Li Wenzhe, they could directly lease a restricted zone and set their own rules, which would also prevent agents from fighting each other.

And Xiao Yun had previously wondered why no one had thought of methods that even he could come up with.

Now he realized that it wasn’t that no one had done it; he just hadn’t encountered it yet.

“I understand, but why are you telling us this?” Xiao Yun asked, puzzled.

Logically, there was no need to inform him of such matters.

After all, judging from the last match, Black Bro’s Peaceful Restricted Zone was quite well-managed.

He himself possessed a certain leadership ability, and even in desperate situations, he led his team members to make correct decisions, both preserving materials and retaining a glimmer of hope for a comeback.

At the time, in his Destiny Skill’s vision, Xiao Yun saw that after the Hafuk Soldiers entered the Babel Tower, Black Bro immediately ordered everyone to find cover and hide.

It must be said, this command was extremely brilliant.

With their equipment, trying to go head-to-head with those hundred Hafuk Soldiers would certainly be a dead end.

But if they each hid like mice, there was hope that more of them would escape, and even hope of winning the battle.

And the result was that, although none of their twenty people managed to escape, they did eliminate nearly half of the Hafuk Soldiers.

Twenty people for fifty people—if this were on the Great Battlefield, it would be a complete victory!

What Xiao Yun didn’t know at this moment was that this kind-faced Black Bro in front of him was once a commander on the Great Battlefield.

It was for this reason that he possessed such rich command experience.

“I need your help.” Black Bro said directly, without beating around the bush.

“You already know about the Peaceful Restricted Zone plan, but as our experiments continue, we’ve discovered a serious problem: the restricted zones are no longer yielding goods.”

“No longer yielding goods? Is that so?” Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow, his expression a little strange.

He and they had clearly entered the same restricted zone in the last round, yet Black Bro spoke as if they were two different restricted zones.

His side was constantly yielding goods, so why would Black Bro say the restricted zones weren’t yielding goods anymore?

“That’s a long story, but according to the experimental data, since the Peaceful Restricted Zone project was established, the drop rate in the restricted zones was normal at first. However, as peaceful matches increased, the drop rate in the pilot restricted zones gradually declined. And someone discovered that this seems to be related to the total value of combat readiness carried by agents who die within the restricted zone.”

Black Bro said with a serious expression.

“The value of materials appearing in the restricted zones seems to be directly proportional to the value of equipment carried by agents who die in the restricted zones. And this drop rate refresh point seems to be delimited by two time points: 9 PM and 9 AM. This is also why we have regular matches in the morning and VIP matches in the evening.”

“So, the total materials dropped by agents in regular matches during the day will become the total value refreshed in VIP matches at night? And the drop rate of regular matches is the opposite?”

“Exactly.” Black Bro nodded silently, surprised that Xiao Yun understood so quickly.

“Wait, wait, wait, Master, what are you talking about? I feel like I don’t understand anything!”

Lu Xueqing rubbed her head, seemingly feeling that the information was too much and a bit overwhelming.

However, Zhang Yu, beside her, was frowning tightly, also deep in thought.

“So, the restricted zones don’t actually create value, do they? The high-value materials we find are actually just an exchange of materials brought in, right? Isn’t that… the law of conservation of energy?”

“Precisely. So, what I need your help with is to run knives more often in our restricted zones and help us improve the experimental data. While energy is conserved, there will also be losses. However, with your abilities, if you can bring out all the materials from the restricted zones in the evening VIP matches, you will be able to complete the experimental data.”

“Well, you don’t need to tell us, we’ll go anyway.” Xiao Yun smiled helplessly.

After all that talk, it just meant running more knives here!

Did he even need to say that?

Since materials were conserved within the restricted zones, Xiao Yun also knew why the drop rate was so high in the first match that evening.

After all, there had been no shortage of deaths in Baksh this morning!

“Hmm, that’s all I have to say… Wait, did you bring big red packets into the last match?”

Seeing the backpack on Xiao Yun’s back, Black Bro suddenly raised an eyebrow.

“How do I remember that in your last match, all three of you entered the map unarmed?”

“You remember correctly. We found this big red packet in the restricted zone.”