230: Chapter 230 Poor! So poor!

In the abandoned theater plaza.

As the smoke cleared, the Logistics Team of the Red Wolf Guild immediately transformed into diligent little bees, beginning to take full control of the battlefield.

Scavenging wreckage, looting spoils, and dismantling the remaining armored vehicles in Area E.

Their movements were smooth and fluid.

However, as the scavenging progressed, the atmosphere in the plaza became somewhat strange.

All the Red Wolf Players looked at the sorted loot in their hands, their brows furrowing deeply.

The reason was simple.

Poor!

They were damn poor!

A grand alliance of the top four guilds in Area E, with over eight thousand people and heavy tanks.

Their entire net worth combined couldn't even scrape together a single glittering legendary blueprint!

Not to mention top-tier blueprints, even the backpacks of the low-level grunts were completely empty.

They lacked even the most basic living supplies.

"Oh my god..."

An auntie from the Logistics Team disgustedly used tongs to pick up half a piece of moldy black bread that was as hard as a rock, her face filled with disbelief.

"This thing even has teeth marks on it, yet they locked it in the safe in the passenger seat like it was a treasure?!"

"Exactly!"

The burly man next to her was also speechless, kicking a pile of scrap metal on the ground.

"I dismantled five of their vehicles, and the fuel I extracted isn't even enough for our tank to rev its engine once!"

Only then did the members of the Red Wolf Guild finally realize.

No wonder that "fake treasure chest fishing plan" from earlier had succeeded so absurdly.

These Polar Bear Country guys weren't brainless; they were clearly just scared of being poor!

Seeing those glowing high-level treasure chests, they probably forgot who their own fathers were, their minds filled only with the urge to rob.

"What a sin..."

Lin Zihao stroked his chin, looking at the corpses of the Polar Bear Country soldiers stripped down to their underwear, and for the first time ever, he felt a trace of sympathy.

"Are we bullying honest people a bit too much?"

"I actually feel sorry for these unlucky bastards."

At this moment, Yun Xiao walked up to Lu Yuan's tank with a tactical statistics tablet, her steps light and brisk.

"Boss, the loot count for this battlefield is complete."

Yun Xiao's face was flushed red as she flipped through the data on the tablet to report.

"We captured a total of 80,000 units of metal blocks."

"5,000 units of low-quality fuel."

"2,000 units of bread."

"1,500 units of water resources."

Hearing these pathetic numbers, the corner of Lu Yuan's eye twitched slightly.

"Then what about our guild's current total supplies?" Lu Yuan asked casually.

Yun Xiao's fingers swiped rapidly, pulling up the Red Wolf Guild's total asset panel, her tone filled with pride.

"After the previous rounds of mass looting, we are now filthy rich!"

"Current total metal block reserves: 1.5 billion units!"

"High-grade purified water: 150 million units!"

"Fresh, soft bread: 120 million units!"

"High-order refined gasoline: 50 million units!"

"Super Alloy..."

Listening to the astronomical numbers Yun Xiao reeled off, and then looking at the pitiful inheritance left by the Polar Bear Country soldiers on the ground.

This stark contrast was as absurd as the world's richest person rummaging through a beggar's bowl at the entrance of a village.

Lu Yuan nodded helplessly.

"Forget it, even a mosquito's leg is meat; put it all into the warehouse. Although Area E is a bit poor, it's better than nothing."

However, this cleanup operation was not completely without gains.

Lu Yuan looked through the special drop list handed over by Yun Xiao, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

Two items emitting unique lights lay quietly in the guild's high-level loot space.

The first was a peculiar device with a primitive design, emitting a faint blue glow.

[Special Item: World Anchor (1/3 collected)]

[Description: One of the fragments of the high-dimensional activation key to the World Center.]

This item was exactly the ultimate goal the captives had confessed about, and the key to opening the door to the new world.

The second item was a red crystal data disk.

Lu Yuan opened the attribute panel of the data disk.

[Skill Learning Device: Ura Charge!]

[Skill Type: Character Passive/Active Skill]

[Skill Effect: Actively shout "Ura!" to initiate a charge, greatly boosting morale, increasing own attack power by 20%, and ignoring all mental fear effects for the next five minutes.]

[Learning Cost: Blood Crystal x100]

Looking at this skill, Lu Yuan stroked his chin.

"It seems this Area E alliance isn't completely useless."

Although this skill looked simple and crude, and the bonuses weren't game-breakingly high.

But its core advantage was that it "could be learned repeatedly"!

In other words, as long as there were enough materials, all 300,000 brothers of the Red Wolf Army could equip this skill!

As for the "Blood Crystal" required for learning, it was not hard to obtain in the wasteland.

It had a chance to drop during regular mining.

More importantly, extracting the blood of one ordinary monster could refine 10 units of Blood Crystal.

Calculated, killing just ten monsters would allow a brother to learn this skill!

If the 300,000-strong army charged simultaneously, with 300,000 people roaring in unison...

Plus the fear-ignoring effect and the 20% attack boost for everyone.

Just thinking about that scene made one's blood boil, feeling like it would be unstoppable!

"Yun Xiao, put this skill in the guild shop. As long as the brothers gather enough Blood Crystals, they can exchange and learn it anytime!"

Lu Yuan issued the command decisively.

"Understood!" Yun Xiao replied crisply.

Meanwhile, in the corner of the plaza, several hog-tied Polar Bear Country captives were watching Xia Li casually take out a steak and feed it to the yawning Mechanical White Tiger beside her.

"Suka..."

A Polar Bear Country officer rolled his eyes, his mentality completely collapsed, and he began to wail on the spot.

"We killed each other in the fog, losing eight thousand people, just for half a piece of moldy black bread!"

"And they are actually using fresh steak... to feed a tiger?!"

The mental shock brought by the massive wealth gap was even more terrifying than physical torture.

Watching the guys from the Red Wolf Guild, all looking like nouveau riche, the captives shed tears of regret.

If we had known these people from the Dragon Country were this rich, why would we have bothered fighting over treasure chests? We should have just surrendered on the spot and begged for food on our knees!

Just as the Logistics Team finished cleaning the entire abandoned plaza, not even sparing the rusted screws on the Polar Bear Country vehicles.

The surrounding environment suddenly underwent a strange change.

The thick white fog that had shrouded the city all year round began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was as if it had been forcibly sucked away by some massive suction force.

"Boss, look at the sky!"

Lin Zihao pointed at the city center in the distance and shouted.

Everyone looked up.

They saw that in the gloomy sky where the fog had receded, streams of viscous dark red blood qi were converging toward a certain high tower in the deepest part of the city, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea.

The monstrous blood light illuminated half the city as if it were a doomsday purgatory.

The violent energy fluctuations made one's heart palpitate, even from a dozen kilometers away.

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes, looking at the massive blood-colored energy vortex in the distance, a cold, excited smirk curling at the corner of his mouth.

"With this posture..."

"They might as well have written [Final Boss Here] directly on their faces!"