503: Helicopter evacuation point is now open!

"Current Location: Aerospace Base - Sandy Area East of the Central Control Building."

"Loot Rate for This Match: Confidential"

"Time Remaining in Match: 18 minutes 22 seconds"

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

Inside the Forbidden Zone.

The team that spawned at Yuan Tong was starting to feel drowsy while guarding the area next to the Sandy Area.

More than ten minutes had passed since the match started. For a 30-minute Confidential Aerospace match, this was nearly half the time.

However, the team that spawned at Yuan Tong and the team that spawned at Prison Boss, totaling six people, had not made a sound since their initial skirmish at the start.

The Yuan Tong team had originally hoped that someone from the Prison Area would come to break the stalemate, but to their surprise, there was no movement from the Prison Area either.

"I kind of regret not swiping the card at the start and coming to hunt the Prison Boss team instead..."

Suddenly, one of the members of the Yuan Tong team said in a complaining tone.

"If we had just swiped the card at Yuan Tong at the start, would things be different now? Maybe the ones enjoying the loot in the Core Area wouldn't be that Bee Doctor team at the Central Control Building, but us!"

"Sigh, nobody knew things would turn out like this! Besides, we've been guarding here for over ten minutes. If we give up now, wouldn't we look like complete idiots?"

"Let's keep waiting! I don't believe these two teams can hold out until the match ends without moving at all."

The three of them fell silent again, silently waiting for the right moment to strike.

Although their behavior might seem foolish to an observer, as continuing to camp here wouldn't necessarily yield much profit.

Even if they were lucky enough to wipe out the team that spawned at Prison Boss and then take out the other team in the Prison Area, at most, each person would only get about a million in gear.

At this point, more than ten minutes into the match, the team with Bee Doctor that spawned at the Central Control Building had entered the Core Area right at the start. They had probably already looted the Core Area dry by now!

In other words, by the time they started fighting Prison Boss, they would still face the risk of being third-partied by the other team in the Prison Area. Even if they won against both teams, after risking their lives, each person would only get about a million, maybe a million two hundred thousand at most.

After all, their gear wasn't great either—just level 4 armor and ammo. The only fights they could win were against opponents with similar or worse gear.

And fighting these two waves of enemies really wasn't as cost-effective as going to the Core Area at the start to loot and then quickly pulling the lever to extract.

Although the loot rate in the Forbidden Zone of this world was low, for Confidential Aerospace, there were still quite a few gold and purple tier items.

If the Yuan Tong team had used their card to enter the Core Area at the start and just casually searched the Blue Room and Black Room, each of them could probably have extracted with seven or eight hundred thousand. It would have been safe and efficient.

However.

Even if they wanted to regret it now, the situation didn't allow for it.

The three of them had been holding angles in the Sandy Area for nearly half the match; they had already invested a huge amount of sunk cost over these ten-plus minutes.

In this situation, the two teams near the Sandy Area had to fight to the death.

"By the way, isn't this match too quiet? No fighting in the Core Area?"

"Don't know. Maybe no one spawned in the Launch Area, and the Prison Area is full."

"That's not right either. This match, I haven't heard the East District Suspension Bridge being lowered, nor have I heard any movement from the West District Gate opening. Logically, with my level 4 headset, if there was any activity, I should have heard at least something, right?"

"Could it be that two teams spawned in the Dormitory Area, and three teams spawned in the Prison Area including us? Then that team at the Central Control Building is having a field day!"

At this moment, the Yuan Tong team finally realized the severity of the situation.

Originally, they thought that after the Central Control Building team went in, they would at least be able to enjoy looting the Black Room and Blue Room, the two Core Areas.

But looking at the current situation, it seemed that only their team had entered the entire Core Area!

After all, there hadn't been a single gunshot in the Core Area from start to finish!

Since that team from the Central Control Building went in, not even the gunfire of the Hafk snipers had been heard in the Core Area.

In other words, all the resources in the Core Area were now being enjoyed by that team from the Central Control Building!

And if they got good loot, they could just go and take the package extraction; no one would be able to stop them.

"Damn! If only we had swiped the card to enter the Blue Room!"

"The Helicopter Extraction Point Has Been Activated!"

Just as the Yuan Tong team was filled with regret, a mechanical notification sound rang out in their headsets.

Hearing this familiar announcement, the three of them widened their eyes in shock!

"Damn! They're already extracting?"

"What's the point of playing! The Core Area has already been cleaned out by that team at the Central Control Building!"

"They're just blatantly pulling the lever to extract after looting everything? Bee Doctor, you guy...!"

The three of them were bleeding inside.

They had been honestly holding their angles here, only to end up blocking the threat from the Prison Area for someone else!

Meanwhile.

It wasn't just their team; other teams on the field also heard the notification coming through their headsets.

...

"Current Location: Aerospace Base - Dormitory Area."

"Loot Rate for This Match: Confidential"

"Time Remaining in Match: 18 minutes 11 seconds"

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

Meanwhile, on the other side.

In the Dormitory Area of the Aerospace Base.

A team was inside Dormitory Building No. 1, looking through the glass at the situation at Building No. 3 not far away.

Over at Dormitory Building No. 3, three people from West University were also standing by the window, constantly observing the situation on this side.

From the third minute of the match until now, the two teams had occupied Dormitory Buildings No. 1 and No. 3 respectively, staring at each other from their respective positions.

Just like the situation in the Sandy Area, to prevent people from other spawn points from coming to third-party, these two teams in the Dormitory Area didn't dare to move a muscle.

Moreover, although these two teams were GTI Professional Agents, none of the six people had completed their professional tasks, so they hadn't mastered the Operators' skills yet.

So the two teams just kept staring at each other, observing until now without daring to act rashly.

And just at this moment...

"The Helicopter Extraction Point Has Been Activated!"

A crisp notification sound rang out simultaneously in the headsets of both teams.

This was the extraction signal issued by GTI. Once this message was heard, it meant that someone on the field had already pulled two extraction levers to call for a helicopter rescue.

And generally, in situations where two levers could be pulled, it usually meant a team had cleared the map before pulling the two levers.

Thus, when the two teams in the Dormitory Area heard the notification sound in their headsets, they both looked through the glass and saw the shock on the faces of the people in the opposite building.

"Damn! What's going on!"

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(PS: The new season isn't fun, so I'm back to update.)