511: This is a dinner party.

"Damn it! Are you guys insane?! Why didn't you just spawn at West University and go eat? Why did you have to come and hunt us down in the Dormitory Area? You made me waste an entire round here with you before I even finished looting my aviation box!"

"You have the nerve to complain? If you hadn't stayed holed up in Dormitory Building Three, we would have wiped your squad and gone to wait for Ascension Extraction long ago! It's all your fault for camping there, dragging your feet and refusing to fight, which caused everyone to become lost!"

"Stop arguing over there! I want to know what's up with this Sandy Area? Where did your team come from? Did you skip spawning at Yuan Tong just to rush the Sandy Area?"

"Hmph, if our guns weren't so terrible, we would have wiped you all out already!"

"Exactly! If I hadn't modified a gun I wasn't familiar with this round, forget you guys, I would have taken on and finished off the team at the Central Control Bridge too!"

"Alright, alright, stop bragging! If you're poor, you're poor. If you had money, wouldn't you have brought good guns? If you've got the guts, bring fully modified M14s and M7s every round and fight!"

...While Xiao Yun and the others were waiting at the Restricted Zone entrance, a large group of people suddenly appeared.

Seeing them arguing and blaming each other, the Restricted Zone Security Guards nearby quickly stepped forward to pull them apart, but they couldn't stop the teams from continuously insulting each other verbally.

The time was exactly ten o'clock; the previous Restricted Zone match had just ended, and the next one was about to begin.

Luo Xiu of the Tianshen Team was just about to tell Xiao Yun he was entering the Restricted Zone when he saw the teams suddenly appear at the entrance, immediately causing him confusion.

"Huh? Why are there so many people all of a sudden? Xiao Yun, weren't you in that match too? What's going on?"

"It's probably because the time ran out, and they all got lost in the Restricted Zone, leading to failed extraction."

Xiao Yun gave a helpless smile and said calmly.

At this moment, Luo Xiu remembered that Xiao Yun had extracted early, and he instantly understood.

"Pfft—! I get it now."

After Luo Xiu realized what had happened, he nearly burst out laughing.

Just then, one of the teams that had been lost in the Dormitory Area in the last round walked past, and Luo Xiu had to forcefully hold back his laughter until they left.

"Let's go, forget about them... Wait, did you bring the hearing headsets?"

Just as he was about to enter the Restricted Zone, Xiao Yun remembered he needed to communicate with the Tianshen Team.

Without the hearing headset, they wouldn't be able to transmit information to each other during the match.

"We brought them, we brought them. But... are you still going in directly, one big red item each? Aren't you going to bring some Wild Bull MP5s or something to fight the bots?"

"No need, this is fine."

Taking two Level 4 hearing headsets from Luo Xiu, Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan put one on each.

According to their previous agreement, they decided that after entering the Restricted Zone this round, they would ignore everything else and just start looting, taking as much as they could.

To prevent their two teams from being discovered by others, Xiao Yun and Luo Xiu decided to enter the Restricted Zone separately.

Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan would enter first, and after two or three other teams followed them in, Luo Xiu and his team would enter.

As a Level 4 Restricted Zone, the people who came were basically professional GTI Operators, and ones with high rankings at that.

Therefore, there weren't too many teams at the Restricted Zone entrance, only about a dozen; most were still preparing their loadouts, so there was no need to worry about their spot being taken.

"Let's go. Our burden is huge this time. I wonder if we can handle it!"

Xiao Yun sighed, then picked up his phone and checked the list of big red items sent by the Haibei City Research Institute again.

"Required Supplies: blade server/array server x15 (1 already obtained), carbon fiber board x20 (1 already obtained), cloud storage array x15, mandel supercomputing unit x10, rocket fuel x3."

Clearly, the red supplies required by the Haibei Research Institute were not small items.

Even the smallest cloud storage array, when placed in a secure box, had a specification of 2x3, and all of these items were worth millions upon extraction.

Based on market value, these red supplies were worth at least ten million, and rocket fuel was priceless.

Although Xiao Yun knew that scientific research was expensive, he didn't expect it to be this expensive!

Just this huge pile of big red items would require an investment of at least several hundred million, and according to the Old Professor, these big red supplies would only satisfy the needs of the initial research phase.

Additional investment would be required during the middle and late stages of the research, and the necessary supplies would be even greater than now!

Now Xiao Yun finally understood why the big red items in this world were so valuable.

Launching a single rocket project required so many big red items, and most of them were consumable; once used, they couldn't be used for other research projects.

Fortunately, the Haibei Research Institute was also purchasing these supplies from GTI, so Xiao Yun didn't need to loot all of them himself; providing even a portion was a huge help.

Otherwise, even with Xiao Yun's strength coupled with Lu Xueqing's luck, it would take half a year to a year of looting in the Restricted Zone to find so many big red supplies.

After all, while having Lu Xueqing increased the drop rate of red items, trying to target a specific big red item was not guaranteed.

"Oh right, remember to remind me after we get out to ask He Yan about Lu Xueqing's situation."

Xiao Yun remembered that he had planned to find a way to bring Lu Xueqing over to continue teaming up.

After all, the change in the drop rate was far too obvious whether she was present or not!

"It's fine. I'll just send a text message to He Yan while we're looting."

"Huh? Your phone works inside the Restricted Zone?"

Hearing Liu Shihhan's words, Xiao Yun was surprised.

Logically, phones shouldn't have signal inside the Restricted Zone, let alone be able to send messages to people in the real world.

However, Liu Shihhan pulled out a phone with a blue screen; it looked different from the one she used before.

Before Xiao Yun could recognize it, a system panel quickly popped up.

[Item: Modified Phone

Quality: Gold

Price: 618,090

Description: An electronic item, a common portable communication tool, possessing powerful computing and communication functions. It has been specially modified for use within the Restricted Zone.]

"This is a special phone available for purchase inside GTI. It can be used in the Restricted Zone, but because it's easily dropped once brought in, Operators usually only buy it when they have special missions."

Liu Shihhan explained, but Xiao Yun was startled by its price.

A phone costing over 600,000—that's enough to buy an apartment in Haibei City!

But for GTI Operators like them, property was no longer the anchor of value; a 600,000+ phone was, at most, the price of one fully modified gun in the Restricted Zone.

Therefore, after learning its function, Xiao Yun even felt it was quite a bargain.

"Something so useful, I should get one next time too."

Xiao Yun thought internally, but then he saw Liu Shihhan pull another one directly from her bag.

"Here."

"Are you Doraemon or something?"

... "You have entered: Aerospace Base!"

"Current Location: Aerospace Base - Launch Area."

"This Round's Drop Rate: Top Secret"

"End Time for This Match: 29 minutes and 59 seconds"

"Warning: Please complete extraction before the time ends!"

Entering the Aerospace Base again, as soon as Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan landed, they felt a refreshing sea breeze blowing in their faces.

Xiao Yun knew his spawn location for this match without even looking at the match information.

The only spawn point where you could feel the sea breeze was the Launch Area.

"We have good luck this round! If we spawn in the Launch Area, and no one swipes a card, the Core Area is ours to feast on again!"

As soon as Liu Shihhan entered the Restricted Zone, she immediately realized the special nature of this match.

The Launch Area location was arguably the most unique spot on the Aerospace Base map.

Unlike other spawn points where two spawns were close together, potentially leading to immediate skirmishes, this was different.

The only danger at the Launch Area was the Hafk Soldiers they might encounter on the way to the Core Area; if a Broken Bridge Incident occurred, the Machine Gunners and Shield Soldiers on the road would be quite dangerous.

Xiao Yun remembered that when he played the game doing Guns in his previous life, he often spawned at the Launch Area when he brought minimal gear (not even bullets), and he almost always encountered the Broken Bridge Incident.

The so-called Broken Bridge Incident was when the Launch Area was bombed at the start, and parts of the bridge surface were destroyed.

When the Broken Bridge Incident occurred, besides Elite Grade Hafuk Soldiers spawning on the road leading from the Launch Area to the Core Area, a high-value supply point, the Rocket Silo, would also appear in the destroyed, sunken road section.

This was possibly the highest drop rate supply point in the entire Aerospace Base, with a very high chance of big red items, even higher than that of the large safe.

Many of the red supplies Xiao Yun looted in his previous life, such as radiators, drones, and armored vehicle batteries, were found there.

Therefore, even the dangerous Broken Bridge Incident was offset by the existence of the Rocket Silo.

Other than that, the only danger teams spawning in the Launch Area needed to watch out for was Jail Three spawning at the East District Suspension Bridge, potentially leading to an encounter on the road.

Overall, the Launch Area spawn point could be considered the best spawn point in the entire Aerospace Base.

Whether rushing or doing a Gun, this spawn point was both offensive and defensive, allowing for flexible adaptation based on the situation.

"Xiao Yun, we have good luck this round! We spawned at the Central Control Bridge. How are things on your end?"

Less than three seconds after the match started, Luo Xiu's team also entered the game.

Luo Xiu's voice came through the headset channel, and a hint of joy could be heard in his tone.

One must know that besides fully modified assault rifles, every person on Luo Xiu's team was carrying a fully modified LMG worth seven or eight hundred thousand!

With this kind of gear spawning at the Central Control Bridge, there was no need to say who the Warden of this match would be.

The Central Control Bridge would definitely become a bloodbath. Especially since the Tianshen Team consisted of three top-ranking GTI peak players, it was estimated that if the Dormitory Area and Prison Area teams didn't swipe cards, not a single squad would be able to enter the Core Area.

"That's great, great. Our position is good too; we spawned at the Launch Area. So, should we just go straight in and loot?"

"...OK, wait a moment. The Yuan Tong team seems to want to use the zipline below. We'll go take them out first."

Bang bang bang bang bang—!

Luo Xiu's words were cut off halfway, and the sound of intense gunfire erupted in the headset.

Central Control Bridge teams immediately hunting Yuan Tong teams was a basic tactic for aggressive players. Moreover, a professional team like the Tianshen Team understood the importance of creating an advantage early on, making the rest of the match easier to handle.

While they were engaging in combat, Xiao Yun's side was not idle.

Xiao Yun took a look; there was no Broken Bridge Incident this round, nor were Hafk Soldiers spawning. It seemed Lao Tai would be spawning in the Launch Area this time.

He immediately led Liu Shihhan across the bridge and ran toward the Core Area.

At the same time, Xiao Yun activated his Destiny Skill to check the movements of all the teams in the field.

[Destiny Skill activated! Detecting available targets for you...]

[Detected a total of 14 people in this battle: 2 friendly targets, 12 hostile targets.]

[The minimap radar is now displayed for you. Locking onto an Operator's avatar will enable their first-person view.]

With the Destiny Skill activated, the familiar minimap reappeared before Xiao Yun.

At this moment, Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan had just descended the rope bridge and were preparing to enter the Black Room.

The teams displayed on the minimap had already decreased by one whole squad.

He checked and found that the Yuan Tong team had chosen not to swipe a card at the start and tried to cross using the rope below the bridge. They hadn't expected Luo Xiu's team to immediately go out and hunt them, resulting in all three of them being killed beneath the Central Control Bridge.

Now there was Xiao Yun and Liu Shihhan's team, Luo Xiu's Tianshen Team, and they had just killed one team.

Strictly speaking, there were only three hostile teams left in the entire Aerospace Base.

Xiao Yun scanned the map. Besides the team that always spawns in the Dormitory Area, a team had spawned at Prison Boss, but they seemed to be deterred by the intense fighting at the Central Control Bridge—the sound of the fully modified M7s seemed to have frightened them—so the three of them were lying motionless in the Sandy Area.

No one had spawned at West University, and the Dormitory Area team was just looting in place, showing no intention of swiping the West University card.

The last remaining team spawned at Jail Two and was currently feasting in the Prison Area.

"Good heavens, everyone came in to eat this round!"

Seeing the movements of the other teams, Xiao Yun smiled helplessly.

This match was different from the last one. Although most teams used minimal loadouts to enter, the teams in the previous round at least brought Level 4 armor and semi-modified guns, retaining some fighting capability, clearly coming in to fight.

The teams in this match, however, looked rather strange. Most of them prioritized a large ammo rig, then cobbled together their weapons and equipment. Everyone's gear looked bizarre, clearly put together just to meet the loadout requirements.

Even the QBZ95-1, a gun rarely seen in a hundred years, appeared twice in this match.

"In a normal match, we might not actually be able to out-loot these guys..."

Thinking about how the Yuan Tong team had recklessly rushed toward the Central Control Bridge, Xiao Yun sighed internally.

However, he wasn't fighting alone this round.

He and Liu Shihhan had bodyguards while they were looting!

The Tianshen Team was already set up on the Central Control Bridge, collecting surrounding information, and they hadn't forgotten to check on Xiao Yun's situation.

"How is it? Have you started looting? We don't know if the West University or East Suspension Bridge cards will be swiped, so be careful!"