357: Level 4 restrictions

Jinghai City, Shuanglong Park.

Xiao Yun and the two women arrived here early, and the Forbidden Zone entrance was by a pavilion in the park. Various types of operatives were currently preparing to enter the Forbidden Zone.

“Damn, did you see the announcement GTI released last night? I didn't expect the Forbidden Zone to change so quickly!”

“Nonsense! If I didn't see the announcement from GTI, why would I be waiting here?”

“By the way, is it really night inside this Forbidden Zone after you enter? This is the first time I've heard of a situation where it doesn't align with real-world time!”

“Otherwise, it wouldn't be a Level 4 Restricted Forbidden Zone. Sigh, this is still the lowest level restriction of Eternal Night Dam. Go up to those Level 3 Restricted Forbidden Zones, and no one can afford to play there!”

“Everyone here is for big red. Who would genuinely go to a high-level Restricted Forbidden Zone?”

“For big red? If you dare to come to this Level 4 Forbidden Zone, I bet you won't even come out once a month.”

“If it were Aerospace, I'd directly team up with a Ural teammate and block the bridge. Forget big red, all big red would end up in my pocket!”

“Exactly, exactly, who comes to this place not to fight? If you really want to get red materials and earn points, just go to Confidential Baksh.”

...

Only then did the surrounding operatives start discussing animatedly.

And from their mouths, Xiao Yun also learned some information about the Forbidden Zone where today's assessment would take place.

However, when he learned this information, his eyelids twitched, and for a moment, he didn't know how to feel.

According to everyone's conversation, the Forbidden Zone world connected behind this small pavilion was precisely the Black Night Dam, newly opened by GTI!

Moreover, this place was set to the highest difficulty of Eternal Night Dam, which was the confidential of confidentials, known in the community as Mysterious Difficulty!

GTI's efficiency was incredibly fast; they released the announcement last night, yet today they had already set up the Forbidden Zone entrance and everything else.

Or perhaps they had already prepared it long ago, and just waited until last night to announce it?

“Xiao Yun, you're here so early. The Forbidden Zone opens in half an hour.”

Just then, George, the culprit who caused Xiao Yun's complicated feelings, slowly walked over.

“You said you'd increase the difficulty a bit, but you directly skipped two levels for me and brought me to a Level 4 Restricted Forbidden Zone, didn't you?”

Xiao Yun's eyelid twitched as he looked helplessly at the smiling George.

“Oh, this difficulty is a piece of cake for you.”

“My K...”

Xiao Yun forcibly suppressed the urge to curse.

Although he said he would increase the difficulty, couldn't he at least do it one level at a time?

This Level 4 Restricted difficulty, Eternal Night's Dam No. 0, was a map much harder than Aerospace Base!

Not to mention the insane strength of the bots once they entered the Forbidden Zone.

The operatives standing around Xiao Yun at this moment were all GTI Professionals, and it sounded like most of them were operatives who had successfully changed professions!

Combined with Eternal Night Dam's ridiculously abnormal extraction mechanism, the difficulty instantly shot up.

“Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun, what's going on?”

“Master, from their discussion, it seems this Forbidden Zone isn't Aerospace Base?”

Just then, Liu Shihhan and Lu Xueqing also heard the discussions around them.

Although Xiao Yun had planned to tell them about Black Night Dam last night at the hotel, they were both watching some South Korea dating variety show at the time and had no time to pay attention to Xiao Yun.

“This is Dam No. 0, a Forbidden Zone with higher difficulty than Aerospace.”

Xiao Yun sighed, explaining with some helplessness.

If only Liu Shihhan and Lu Xueqing had listened to his explanation last night, they wouldn't be so clueless now, even starting to fear the unknown.

“Dam No. 0? Isn't that a beginner map?”

“Yeah, Master, why would our assessment be at Dam No. 0?”

“This isn't the Dam No. 0 we used to run knives in; it's a place even more difficult than Confidential Aerospace...”

As Xiao Yun spoke, he roughly explained the basic information about Black Night Dam to the two women.

And when he mentioned GTI's new announcement, both women looked very surprised and quickly pulled out their phones to confirm.

They then found that the notification from GTI was in the first row of their notification bar, but for some reason, neither of them had seen it last night.

“Oh my goodness! I actually ignored GTI's announcement.”

“It's all South Korea's fault for producing so many high-quality variety shows; I accidentally got distracted.”

Liu Shihhan looked a bit surprised, while Lu Xueqing complained.

“High quality? In what aspect?”

Hearing Lu Xueqing's evaluation, Xiao Yun also asked curiously.

He usually didn't watch variety shows, but hearing Lu Xueqing, a top student, praise its quality, he guessed that South Korea had put a lot of effort into this area.

This might also be an economic strategy, but in Xiao Yun's view, it was completely due to the inability to develop Forbidden Zones, which led to a standstill in technological development, so they could only focus on other areas.

“Hmm... for example, the dating variety show we watched yesterday, you can learn a lot of little tips and tricks...”

“Hey! Lu Xueqing, didn't we agree not to tell him!”

Lu Xueqing was halfway through her sentence when Liu Shihhan rushed over, her face flushed, and covered her mouth.

Liu Shihhan lowered her head, somewhat afraid to look at Xiao Yun, only daring to sneak a glance, fearing that Xiao Yun would see through her intentions.

However, when she looked up, she found that Xiao Yun had already turned around and started talking with General Examiner George, which finally made her breathe a sigh of relief.

“Lu Xueqing, how could you forget?”

Liu Shihhan sighed, looking at Lu Xueqing with some reproach.

“If he noticed, wouldn't the little tricks we worked so hard to learn become useless?”

“Wuwuwu, I'm sorry, I didn't realize...”

Lu Xueqing looked very wronged, and seeing her like that, Liu Shihhan couldn't bear to blame her.

After all, her best friend was usually too honest; despite her excellent grades, she seemed a bit naive in reality.

It was a good thing she and Xiao Yun were there; otherwise, she might be tricked by a bad man someday and not even know it.

“Wait, you said, 'we'?”

Lu Xueqing seemed to realize something, but just as she had a question, Xiao Yun finished his conversation and walked over.

“Alright, Examiner He and the others have arrived. Go pick your equipment; it's free anyway.”

“Mm-hmm!”

“No use, no white use!”

With that, Liu Shihhan and Lu Xueqing planned to continue setting up a full set of equipment according to yesterday's configuration.

However.

Just as they were about to put on their helmets and bulletproof vests.

Xiao Yun suddenly remembered something and quickly ran over.

“Hey, hey, hey! Oh right, don't get a full set of equipment!”