500: Unmanned spaceflight

"Current location: Aerospace Base - Sandy Area east of the Central Control Building."

"Drop rate for this match: Confidential"

"Match end time: 23 minutes 42 seconds"

"Hint: Please complete the extraction before the time runs out!"

"Damn! This team is really patient! They haven't made a sound for so long!"

"Bro, my legs are a bit numb from squatting. Why don't we just fight them?"

"Legs numb?"

"Screw you! Stop playing that stupid pun!"

"Are you an idiot? We've been squatting for so long; if we fight them now, won't all our previous efforts be wasted? If your legs are tired, kneel for a while. If your knees hurt, switch legs. We have to win this!"

Inside the Aerospace Base.

On the outskirts of the Sandy Area, the team that respawned at Yuan Tong was still waiting for an opportunity.

However, six or seven minutes had already passed since the start of the match.

During this time, their team had been in a stalemate with the team that respawned at Prison Boss in the Sandy Area, and neither side had made a sound.

"Strange, did only one team spawn in the Prison Area? Why is there no movement from the other team?"

"That's impossible! Aren't two teams guaranteed to spawn in the Prison Area? Even if the Prison Two or Jail Three teams went to the East District Suspension Bridge for cards, we should have heard some movement on our side..."

"Could they be rats? Damn, I was hoping they would come over and break the stalemate, but it seems that's impossible now."

After thinking it over, the team decided to continue camping in place.

Meanwhile.

Xiao Yun, who had already reached the Core Area and cleared out the Black Room and Blue Room, was standing at the door of the Presidents Office, preparing to force the lock.

But just then, he seemed to notice the match time, so he hurriedly activated his Destiny Skill, intending to gather information on the entire map.

Using his enhanced Destiny Skill, he could effortlessly obtain information on the entire match. Information that previously required constant perspective switching could now be obtained with a single glance.

However, when the mini-map radar appeared before his eyes, Xiao Yun raised an eyebrow.

"Is the mini-map broken? ...No, it must be that these people haven't moved from the very beginning!"

Realizing this, Xiao Yun was amused by this group of people.

Looking at the situation on the mini-map.

The two teams in the dormitory building had also engaged in a brief firefight without killing anyone, and in the end, both sides were holding angles behind cover, waiting for the other to push, with neither side making the first move.

The situation in the Sandy Area was similar. Ever since the Yuan Tong team tried to sneak attack the Sandy Area at the start without killing anyone, the two teams had been deadlocked there, neither daring to act rashly.

At the same time, it was one thing for these four teams to be holding angles at each other, but the team that respawned at Jail Three was also completely motionless!

They were lying in the large truck at Jail Three, and they had even anticipated this situation before the match started, having specifically brought a deck of cards to play.

If Xiao Yun wasn't mistaken, they were playing the traditional card game, Fight the Landlord.

In this hand, someone was holding a pair of jokers, a sequence of 3-4-5-6-7-8, and several Aces and 2s; it looked like a winning hand.

It was just unclear whether he was the Landlord or a farmer. If he was the Landlord, he could probably finish in one go.

"Xiao Yun, what's the situation on the field?"

Liu Shihhan, who seemed to have become accustomed to Xiao Yun being able to know the information of the entire field, asked.

At the same time, she felt a bit strange; after all, this Confidential Aerospace match was too quiet!

The match had clearly been going on for more than six minutes, yet not a single gunshot could be heard, making it feel like a no-man's land.

Except for the occasional sound of Hafk soldier footsteps and the wind blowing outside the walls, the entire Core Area was silent.

"There's no one in the Core Area anyway. I guess the people in this match are all locked in a stalemate and no one dares to move."

Xiao Yun said, but then sighed.

"What's wrong? Why are you sighing?"

Seeing Xiao Yun looking a bit uncomfortable, Liu Shihhan was very puzzled.

"Isn't it good that no one is coming to disturb our looting? Once we finish looting the Core Area, we can just pull the switch and extract. I bet no one will even care about us!"

"Sigh, it's a good thing that no one is bothering us, but haven't you noticed that the drop rate for this match is a bit too low?"

Xiao Yun sighed again. Liu Shihhan turned her head and realized that he had already entered the Presidents Office card room.

"The drop rate for this match is indeed a bit low. We've opened so many safes, and we've only seen two gold items. Instead, we've seen a pile of bull horns... But the situation in the Presidents Office card room should be better, right? This is the place with the highest drop rate in the restricted area; it shouldn't just give us bull horns in a large safe... right?"

"You're actually right."

Xiao Yun opened the first large safe and turned around helplessly.

In his hands were nothing else but two brand-new bull horns from the large safe!

"Shihan, is the drop rate of this Confidential Aerospace... a bit off? Since we started looting, have you found any red-quality items? Even a little red like a pocket watch would do!"

"No... nothing. I don't know why, but the drop rate in this match is really off."

Liu Shihhan couldn't help but want to laugh as she looked at the two bull horns in Xiao Yun's hands.

Earlier, when she was at the Central Control Building, she had pulled a bull horn out of a safe, and Xiao Yun had almost burst out laughing. At this moment, Liu Shihhan completely understood his feelings at that time.

"Should we call Lu Xueqing back? Ever since she left, our drop rate has dropped too much!"

Liu Shihhan suggested.

She wasn't being superstitious, but it had to be said that during the time Lu Xueqing was there, their team's drop rate was indeed much higher.

If Lu Xueqing were here, under the same circumstances, after searching half of the Core Area and the Presidents Office, their squad would have at least found two or three little red items as a baseline.

A situation like this, where not a single red item drops and even gold items are hard to find, would absolutely not happen with Lu Xueqing around.

"I want to, but the problem is that she is currently preparing for the college entrance examination."

Xiao Yun sighed helplessly.

He and Liu Shihhan had obtained the school's recommendation quota, skipping the college entrance examination and being directly admitted to the best Qingbei University in the country.

But Lu Xueqing still had to study hard and prepare for the exam.

"Wait... regarding this, the situation should be different now, right?"

Liu Shihhan suddenly said.

"What we used before was just the recommendation quota from our Haibei No. 1 High School. To be honest, based on previous situations, you could get that quota by completing a 200,000 or 300,000 extraction in the restricted area, right? It's just that this year, with your appearance, the threshold has been raised so much."

"So?"

"The situation is different now! Think about it, we are all GTI Professional Agents now. Besides the three quotas from Haibei No. 1 High School every year, isn't there any other way to get recommended to Qingbei University?"

"That's a good point! It's just... I haven't looked into the relevant regulations!"

Xiao Yun was suddenly enlightened by Liu Shihhan.

That's right! The achievements they had attained were not as simple as those hundreds of thousands of extractions from back then.

Regardless, Lu Xueqing had also passed the GTI professional assessment. In Haibei City, she was definitely a rare talent.

Not to mention she was only eighteen years old now, just a few months older than Xiao Yun. Such a young GTI Professional Agent was very rare even in the whole country.

Moreover, the Qingbei University in this world was a special college that had cut off most traditional subjects, leaving only subjects related to the restricted area, in order to cultivate top talents for the restricted area.

There must be many channels that Xiao Yun didn't know about that could allow one to skip the exam and go directly into Qingbei University.

"That's simple, just ask He Yan to help."

Liu Shihhan said with a faint smile.

"As a GTI Administrator, he probably knows more about information related to the restricted area than the teachers in the admissions office."

"That makes sense. Let's ask He Yan to help when we get out later."

Xiao Yun said, intending to continue to the next area.

"Wait! Don't you still have a large safe that you haven't opened?"

As he walked towards the door of the Presidents Office, Liu Shihhan quickly pointed behind him.

"Oh, right."

Xiao Yun scratched his head. How could he have forgotten this?

It seemed that the drop rate for this match was so low that he didn't even want to loot anymore and just wanted to extract and leave.

However, reminded by Liu Shihhan, he came to the other large safe, entered the password, and opened the safe.

However...

He, who originally held no expectations, saw special items flashing with golden light inside the safe after opening it!

"Whoa! It actually dropped something!"

Xiao Yun was stunned as he looked at the human head portrait flashing with brilliant golden light in the safe.

"Could it be... Lu Xueqing's good luck is so powerful that even mentioning her name brings us good luck!?"