366: The restricted area brings good people

"Current Location: Zero Dam (Eternal Night) - Cement Factory West Gate."

"Current Match Drop Rate: Top Secret"

"Current Game End Time: 28 minutes 27 seconds"

"Hint: Please evacuate before time runs out!"

Upon arriving at the west gate of the Cement Factory.

Xiao Yun was about to head straight for the air cargo container and large safe on the second floor, as he usually did when running solo, and deal with the Shield Soldier and sniper there to see what equipment they were wearing.

However, as soon as Xiao Yun arrived at the west gate of the Cement Factory, he remembered that he wasn't running solo this time.

"I should leave these high-value loot spots for Lu Xueqing to open."

Xiao Yun thought to himself, after all, Lu Xueqing's luck was evident to anyone who had ever teamed up with her—a talent ordinary people could only envy.

The Dam No. 0 in nightfall mode already had an extremely high drop rate, and if she were to open these high-value loot spots, it would likely be a big red every time.

Given this, Xiao Yun's objective changed.

He wanted to clear out all the Asala Forces in the entire Cement Factory in the shortest possible time, and then bring Lu Xueqing and Liu Shihhan in for a satisfying loot run.

At that point, Lu Xueqing would open the sealed containers, and Liu Shihhan would check the open-air spawn points, emphasizing clear division of labor.

Bang—! Bang—!

Just as Xiao Yun was about to act, he suddenly heard two loud explosions from the nearby Military Camp.

While others might not recognize this sound, Xiao Yun was very familiar with it; wasn't this the sound of Dragon's magnetic bomb?

Bang! Bang!

And just as the explosions at the Military Camp ceased, two more loud explosions were heard from the direction of the construction site west of the Administrative Building.

Dragon throwing bombs like crazy at the start of the match—if this were Xiao Yun's previous life's game and the map were Ordinary Dam, he might have thought these people were intentionally lowering their KD and combat loss ratio by self-destructing.

After all, according to the metaphysics of his previous life, when a player's combat loss ratio was too high, their account would have difficulty getting good drops, and they would easily encounter 'black room' matches where they couldn't find loot, couldn't win fights, and couldn't evacuate.

Therefore, some people specifically utilized the fact that Dragon's self-destruction and subsequent game exit didn't affect their reputation score, developing this method of Dragon self-destruction to lower their combat loss ratio.

Whether this method was effective or not was irrelevant, because Xiao Yun was certain that these two teams causing such a huge commotion were definitely not self-destructing.

After all, this wasn't the game world of his previous life, nor was it Ordinary Dam!

This was a brand new restricted zone discovered by GTI, nightfall mode, with an even higher drop rate than other top-secret maps.

"These two teams must have started fighting the Asala Forces, right? Let me use a Destiny Skill to check."

With that, Xiao Yun's mind stirred, and he used another Destiny Skill card, then observed the screens of the other teams.

As the screen appeared, it was indeed as he had thought: a squad in the Military Camp had already engaged in battle with an Asala team.

And their opponents were quite strong: a Shield Soldier accompanied by two Ordinary Soldiers, clearly more advanced than a typical squad.

"Machine Bro's equipment... they might actually not be able to win!"

Carefully observing the equipment on both sides, Xiao Yun was surprised to find that this professional squad with a Dragon was actually out-geared by Machine Bro!

Although they were wearing four-tier helmets and four-tier armor, with hearing-enhancing headsets and heavy armor with the highest durability, this setup was almost on par with five-tier sets in the first wave of combat. Only after a round of armor repairs would four-tier armor's durability be insufficient against five-tier bullets.

Therefore, even against other professional teams, as long as they didn't encounter Future Warriors in six-tier sets, they had a considerable win rate.

However.

What they absolutely would not have expected was that the Asala Soldiers in the Military Camp were all wearing better equipment than them!

The two Ordinary Soldiers among them also had four-tier hearing-enhancing headsets, but their body armor was directly five-tier!

Ordinary Machine Bro wearing five-tier armor—that's somewhat bizarre.

Not to mention that the Asala Shield Soldier was also using a nearly fully modified Viktor and holding a shield, which could block all attacks.

When they attacked, even though the Military Camp had plenty of lights and wasn't a pitch-black engagement, it still pushed back the GTI professional treasure-hunting team, making them retreat step by step!

"It's tragic."

Seeing this, Xiao Yun couldn't bear to watch and quickly switched to the perspective of the team on the west side of the Administrative District.

However, when the Destiny Skill panel switched perspectives, Xiao Yun unexpectedly found that the team on the construction site outside the West Building wasn't doing any better!

They must have spawned at position one in the West Building, but as soon as they reached the construction site, before they even adapted to the dark environment, they encountered an Asala Squad stationed there. They, too, were being beaten by the Machine Bros, scattering in disarray!

This was without even encountering any elite enemies.

Just three Ordinary Soldiers, using the cover of night, had already severely wounded two of them and scared off one, leaving the three currently huddled behind cover, healing and strategizing.

"I'm too kind-hearted; I can't bear to see this!"

With that, Xiao Yun casually waved his hand, making the Destiny Skill panel disappear.

And in the one or two seconds he had been observing, a fully armed Asala Squad was slowly emerging from the position closest to the cement truck near the West Gate.

"Hey, it's clearly daytime in reality, but it's night in the restricted zone. That's really unusual, huh."

"What's so strange about that? This is a restricted zone; can things inside be explained by science? I'm actually surprised that the higher-ups equipped our ordinary patrol team with four-tier armor. This Dam No. 0 restricted zone at night doesn't feel particularly special, does it? Is it even higher level than Baksh's?"

"Yeah, I feel like the Dam No. 0 at night usually isn't much different from this. Although it's not as dark as it is now, it's pretty close. You can't see anything around without a flashlight."

...

The three Asala Soldiers conversed.

Watching their leisurely stroll, Xiao Yun also found it somewhat hard to bear.

When Machine Bro's equipment improved, they walked with such confidence!

If it were the Machine Bros from the Ordinary Dam wearing one-tier or two-tier sets, they would enter a state of alert at the slightest sound around them, looking around every few steps, observing for any enemy movements.

Just now, there were several explosions from the Military Camp, but this team of Machine Bros wearing four-tier sets was completely unconcerned, as if it had nothing to do with them.

Seeing them chatting happily, Xiao Yun smiled faintly and, while invisible, silently slipped in between two of them.

Then, Xiao Yun imitated their tone and spoke.

"Oh! Brother, I suddenly noticed your SCAR is modified quite nicely!"

"Right?! Hassan, you have good taste! This is my go-to gun build; want me to share it with you later?"

Saying this, the praised soldier stopped in his tracks and proudly raised his SCAR, showing it off.

However, the soldier called Hassan now looked puzzled.

"That wasn't me who just spoke, was it?"

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(PS: Taking a day off for one update, will make it up tomorrow! Today I watched Simple's comeback match, and Laoshen played pretty well. Oh, right, the author's May Day holiday is over too, starting tomorrow, I'll resume three updates! What? It's already the 20th? Oh my goodness, my computer broke and I didn't realize it before, it still shows the 5th here! I don't know how this computer even got the time wrong, it's all the fault of this broken computer! I apologize on behalf of my broken computer, but I really will resume three updates tomorrow!)