360: Cold wind blows

“A bug?”

Xiao Yun was stunned for two seconds when he saw the pitch-black Destiny Skill panel.

Then, a faint sound of conversation came from the screen, and the locked team themselves were surprised, complaining that the Dam No. 0 in nightfall mode was too dark.

Hearing the movement from the screen, Xiao Yun realized that it wasn't a bug; the screen on the other side was simply pitch black.

“This isn’t good…”

Xiao Yun frowned, sighing inwardly.

In the restricted area, his most important means of collecting information was the Destiny Skill, but the Dam No. 0 in night mode was completely dark everywhere, except for a few spawn points near light sources that allowed him to clearly see the movements of other teams; most spawn points were pitch black.

And because the image transmitted through the Destiny Skill’s display panel was still a top-down view, he couldn't determine the location of other teams by the distant light around them.

In this situation, Xiao Yun could only obtain information about other teams once they entered a resource area.

However, the Dam No. 0 map was different from the Aerospace Base.

In the Aerospace Base, due to the design of the Core Area and the outer areas, the more skilled teams were more cautious at the start, no matter where they spawned, they had to be careful of being ambushed at the beginning.

The prison dorms were self-explanatory; without opening a card, if people who respawned in the Central Control Building wanted to cause trouble, a team could hold down the people in the dorms and prison area from the central bridge.

And the people in the Central Control Building also had to worry, because swiping a card through Employee Passage No. 2 was very fast, and if they missed the only opportunity to intercept immediately at the start, then they themselves might be pinned down in the outer area.

Even if they respawned in the Launch Area, they had to worry about the East District Suspension Bridge being open; if the East District Suspension Bridge opened, and the other side didn't immediately enter the Black Room from the diving area, it was very likely that the two sides would start a battle on the bridge.

Therefore, for the Aerospace Base map, the higher the quality of the match, the less likely the Core Area resources were to be searched.

After all, in this world where everyone runs with knives, under normal circumstances, the drop rate in restricted areas is inherently low, just like when Xiao Yun played games in his previous life and his account was put in a small Black Room; even going to Confidential Aerospace, every container he touched was green, occasionally blue, and purple drops were extremely difficult.

The few 'Black Room' matches in his previous game were the norm in this world's restricted areas.

Therefore, for ordinary players, searching the Aerospace Base for a long time was far less cost-effective than fighting and killing a team.

After all, teams entering the Aerospace Base would at least have Tier 4 equipment, and all their gear, weapons, and ammunition combined would be worth at least several hundred thousand.

Otherwise, if they only had Tier 2 or Tier 3 armor, they probably wouldn't even be able to enter the Core Area and would be sniped by Hafk's snipers outside, not to mention the situation where Lao Tai spawns in the garden.

Under these various conditions, the higher the quality of the matches in Confidential Aerospace, the less likely the Core Area was to be fully searched.

In fact, in top-tier matches, no one would even search the Core Area; skilled teams would first set up ambushes and kill a bunch of people at the start, and then slowly search their way towards the Core Area, looking for an opportunity to engage the last team that had been 'farmed' in the Core Area.

In contrast, the logic of the Dam No. 0 map was completely opposite.

Because the resource areas on this map are scattered throughout various parts of the map, whether it is the Administrative District, Substation, Cement Factory, Visitor Center, or even the Military Camp, each resource area has its unique high-value material points.

Besides the large safes and computers found at every supply point, the Administrative District's advantage lies in the small safe on the second floor and three Aerospace containers, and there's even a chance of breaking through walls at the start to find gold bars and room cards in the Zero Dam vault.

The Substation's advantage lies in the Substation Technical Room on the second floor of the Large Substation, where you can see from outside the glass whether a room card or a blade server has spawned; besides that, there's the Small Substation, which also has a small safe and Aerospace containers, and the Substation Dorms, a key room where room cards can be found.

Overall, if you have both the Substation Technical Room and Substation Dorms room cards, the Substation resource area is comparable to the Administrative District, unless the 'Wall Breaker' mission is added, in which case the Administrative District still has an edge.

The Cement Factory has two Aerospace containers and two weapon crates; if you're lucky, you can find two guns worth over a hundred thousand in the weapon crates, which is equivalent to getting a little red.

The Visitor Center, on the other hand, has a bunch of open-air material spawn points, and two card swipe points, and the two key rooms are also prone to spawning open-air Rolex watches and the like, which would have been a good resource area in Xiao Yun's previous life, but because room cards are worthless in this world, the Visitor Center resource area has completely lost its competitiveness.

Finally, the Military Camp has a bunch of ammunition boxes, and if you're lucky, you can easily find high-grade ammunition, even Tier 6 bullets that couldn't be traded in either his previous life or this world, but this is highly dependent on luck.

In addition, because the Dam No. 0 in Black Night Mode has added a super high-drop-rate crocodile egg, the wild egg-hunting route has also become a good option.

And no matter which resource area it is, the initial spawn point determines the first position in that match.

That is to say, under ideal circumstances, all six teams would spawn next to different resource areas, including the wild hunting routes, then within less than 3 minutes of the start, almost all resources on the entire Dam No. 0 would be searched.

However, the reality is that the first spawn points at the start might overlap.

For example, the spawn point in the northwest of the Substation is both the East Building’s first position and the Substation’s first position. At this point, it depends on the team's choice: whether to enter the Administrative District or go to the Substation to catch another team. This crucial choice can change the entire battle situation.

Therefore, determining the positions of other teams at the start was very important for Xiao Yun.

If it were a normal Dam No. 0 map, Xiao Yun would only need to activate his Destiny Skill to immediately find the positions of all other teams.

However, the Black Night Dam at this moment directly restricted his strongest information-gathering skill.

Xiao Yun could only see their actions when other teams entered a resource area.

“I need to be careful.”

Xiao Yun frowned deeply, and while he was thinking, he also ran head-on into an Asala Soldier patrolling the outskirts of the construction site.

Fortunately, Xiao Yun was in a completely invisible state at this time, so even if he almost bumped into the Asala Soldier, he still wasn't discovered by the other party.

“Why do I suddenly feel a bit cold on my back?”

“It’s normal to have a cold wind at night.”

“Hey, hey, hey, you haven’t gotten used to the night scenery yet, have you?”

He heard the Asala Soldier in front of him conversing with his other teammates nearby, and after confirming their positions, Xiao Yun prepared to act immediately.

Anyway, the light was dim in this place, so he planned to listen for sounds to pinpoint their locations and quickly deal with these three Asala Soldiers patrolling the construction site.

However.

Just as Xiao Yun raised his family heirloom military knife, preparing to strike, an intense beam of light almost blinded him, causing him to instinctively stop his movements and quickly turn his head to avoid the strong glare.

And what he said next instantly made Xiao Yun—

“Oh, oh, little devil, the match has just begun. GTI agents might appear at the southern spawn point, so you guys need to be vigilant about your surroundings.”