504: Rocket project approved

What the heck! What's going on!

Aerospace Base, Dormitory Area.

The team located in Dormitory Building No. 1, which was the team that had initially spawned in the Dormitory Area, was currently filled with shock.

"The match just started barely ten minutes ago, why is a team already preparing to evacuate? Don't tell me the fighting in the Core Area is already finished!"

"Holy moly! Are we the only two teams stuck in a stalemate here? Have the people from all the other spawn points already finished their fights and are preparing to evacuate?"

"That's impossible! I'm wearing Level 4 headphones, but I haven't heard a single gunshot in the Core Area!"

The three people in Dormitory Building No. 1 looked surprised, all finding it unbelievable.

At this moment, the match had barely reached the halfway mark.

In this situation, calling for a helicopter extraction would only be possible if most of the teams had entered the Core Area and both sides had activated the switches.

For example, if Yuan Tong swiped the card at the start and flipped the switch on the way to the Blue Room, and then West University also flipped the switch while searching the centrifuge area, only then would the alarm for the first extraction point sound so early.

However.

The current situation was that the two teams on their dormitory side hadn't moved at all since the match started.

Furthermore, there was no sound of fighting coming from the Core Area; the entire Aerospace was eerily quiet.

Under these circumstances, they could only come up with one answer that explained the current situation.

"Could it be... that this round is a free-loot game for the Launch Area?"

One person in Dormitory Building No. 1 proposed this idea, and the faces of the other two immediately registered annoyance.

That's right, there was one other possibility that could explain the current situation: the people in the Prison Area were also stuck in a stalemate!

Yuan Tong and the people from the Prison Area might be like those in the Dormitory Area: wanting to seize the initiative early on to gain an advantage, but finding the opponents prepared, leading to a stalemate.

And without swiping the card, only the team from one spawn point could remain unaffected: the team in the Launch Area!

"Damn it! The Launch Area got the free loot!"

"That team has such good luck. They managed to encounter a situation that barely happens once every hundred matches!"

"And this West University team is a bunch of idiots! Why didn't they swipe the card to enter the Core Area at the start? Why are they here blocking us?"

"These people are really capable of doing something that harms others without benefiting themselves!"

The three people in Dormitory Building No. 1 were currently filled with regret and anger over the West University team's decision.

However, at this moment, the West University team was also trapped in Dormitory Building No. 3, just like them, with the two teams staring at each other...

"Current Location: Aerospace Base - Helicopter Extraction Point."

"Current Match Drop Rate: Top Secret"

"Current Match End Time: 17 minutes 43 seconds"

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

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Compared to the anger of the two teams in the Dormitory Area, the regret of the two teams in the Sandy Area, and the helplessness of the team in Jail Three.

Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan had already arrived at the extraction point, waiting for the final four-plus minutes of the countdown to end so they could evacuate.

And they had gained quite a bit from this match.

Besides the portrait Xiao Yun found in the Presidents Office, Liu Shihhan subsequently picked up a barrel of rocket fuel in the rocket compartment on the floor leading to the pit in the Buoyancy Room.

[Material: rocket fuel

Quality: Red

Price: 1,498,562

Review: Delicious, love it! I've never had such a potent energy drink! — So said Toxx the Little Train]

At this moment, purely looking at the stats panel, Xiao Yun's earnings for this round had already reached over 4 million!

However, the true value of the two big reds was far greater than that, especially the rocket fuel; if put on the market now, it would be worth hundreds of millions.

Last time, Xiao Yun traded two barrels of this item with someone from the Morgan Family; one barrel was worth 30 million, and the currency earned was lighthouse country currency, US dollars!

It must be said that US dollars were indeed much sweeter than haifu coin.

Thinking about how in his previous life, whenever he picked up a barrel of rocket fuel in the game, he could only sell it to the system for barely over a million haifu coin—not even enough for one full assault run—Xiao Yun felt deeply helpless.

Fortunately, he had been reborn into this global world early on and no longer had to suffer the manipulation of those game planners.

However... although he escaped the grasp of the planners, even coming to this world, Xiao Yun still couldn't escape the grasp of the GTI...

Regarding the GTI organization from another dimension, Xiao Yun felt that it was mysterious, unknown, and powerful, especially the spatial technology it controlled, which was used to create restricted zones and connect two worlds like a wormhole; at the very least, Blue Star's current overall strength couldn't catch up to it within a century.

"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun, do you still remember those teachers from the research institute we contacted last time?"

Just as Xiao Yun was pondering, Liu Shihhan suddenly spoke.

"I remember, those Old Professors from the Haibei Research Institute."

Liu Shihhan was referring to the Old Professors from the Haibei Research Institute who had previously traded for big reds with Xiao Yun.

If Xiao Yun remembered correctly, the big red material they wanted to rent at the time was supposed to be a blade server, and after some trickery and persuasion by Xiao Yun, one of the Old Professors was successfully fooled into renting a carbon fiber board and a military shell.

It had only been about a month since he rented the big red to them.

In such a short time, their project probably hadn't even officially started research using the blade server yet, so they shouldn't have yielded results so quickly.

"What's wrong? Did they need something?"

"I heard... ever since you rented them a carbon fiber board, they initiated a rocket project to launch satellites. Maybe this rocket fuel could be useful to them too?"

"Wait... are you saying that the Haibei Research Institute, a scientific research institute in a fourth-tier city, initiated a rocket project?"

Hearing Liu Shihhan's words, Xiao Yun was instantly shocked beyond measure!