Delta: Mandel Bricks drop right at the start!

The note was slipped under the door, and in less than three seconds, the noise from the other side stopped.

Lin Rui returned to his desk and sat down, bringing up the detailed explanation of the term "plunder" in the system panel. He read each rule word by word twice.

The looting event can only be triggered by killing players ranked in the top 100, boss-level AI opponents, or professional players.

The ranking pool for Dam Zero is too shallow, but that doesn't mean there are no goals at all.

He opened the real-time leaderboard for Dam Zero. Seventeen of the top one hundred were active online, three of whom were in the current server's matchmaking queue.

He temporarily suppressed the use of the Steel Armor Mastery's Tracing and Plunder abilities, keeping them for later use until a better entry appeared.

At 10:00 a.m. the next day, Awei's profile picture lit up on time.

"Rui-ge! I bought a whole bag of snacks! Six bottles of mineral water! Enough to keep us playing until dark!"

"Come in," Lin Rui said, inviting others to join his team.

The two landed at Dam Zero again, this time at an abandoned power plant in the North District.

Wearing the level 4 armor Lin Rui gave him yesterday, Awei held his MP5 steadily, and his tactical movements at the start of the game were even more agile than yesterday.

"There's a red hidden box 200 meters to the north, follow us."

"receive."

Lin Rui led Awei through the turbine room of the power plant, and the X-ray scan marked three supply points and the positions of two groups of players within an 80-meter range.

The red hidden box was concealed in the maintenance tunnel at the bottom of the computer room, covered by a layer of iron cover and half a meter of gravel.

He squatted down and cleared away the rubble. Awei watched from the side, wanting to say something but not saying it.

"You want to ask me again how I know?"

"No, no, no, I was just amazed... your intuition for finding boxes is just too incredible."

"I've been running around too much." Lin Rui used the same excuse to evade the questions, then lifted the iron cover, revealing a red electronic lock on the bottom of the maintenance tunnel.

After inserting the Class B decoder, the progress bar completes, and the case lid pops open.

Red light burst forth from the tunnel, illuminating Awei's face in a bright red glow.

Inside is a red-quality SVD sniper rifle with a unique digital camouflage pattern, a rare tactical scope, and a suppressor. Its estimated value is over 1.8 million HAF coins.

"Red...it's red light again..." Ah Wei's voice was a little dry.

Lin Rui put the SVD into his backpack and closed the lid. "Let's go, next one."

Over the next forty minutes, the two advanced eastward along the pipeline network surrounding the power plant, eliminating two groups of scattered individuals and opening three hidden compartments.

Ah Wei's reporting skills became increasingly proficient. He would use concise vocabulary in the voice chat to describe the enemy's movement direction and equipment level, without any unnecessary words or rambling.

With his experience bar steadily increasing, Lin Rui's level had reached 23% of level 15.

The X-ray scan marked a golden dot in front.

The guaranteed price is for Daikin, located on the third basement level of the East District Wastewater Treatment Plant.

"Come down with me, this one's big."

The two men descended from the ventilation shaft of the sewage treatment plant to the first basement level and proceeded deeper along the pipe corridor.

The three underground levels form a complex structure, with crisscrossing pipes and valves creating a natural labyrinth.

Awei scouted ahead, the muzzle of his MP5 turning as the corridor corners appeared.

"Stop." Lin Rui lowered his voice.

Through the X-ray vision, a full squad of four men, all wearing level five or higher armor and fully equipped with weapons, crouched outside the central control room on the third basement level. They were also searching for the safe.

"There are four people in front of us, fully equipped with level 5 armor, blocking the entrance to the control room."

Ah Wei's breathing became erratic. "Four? The two of us against four level 5 armored opponents?"

"You wait here, I'll go around."

"Rui, are you alone?"

Lin Rui didn't answer; he had already climbed over the side ventilation duct.

The ventilation duct was just wide enough for one person to crawl through. He used his knees and elbows to push forward, and the positions of the four red outlines were clearly visible in his field of vision.

Two people blocked the door; one guarded the left side of the corridor, and the other opened the safe in the control room.

The one that's opening the safe has reached 60% decoding progress.

Lin Rui quickened his crawling pace. There was an air vent directly above the control room in the ventilation duct; the screws on the iron grille were already rusted.

He gently nudged it twice with the butt of his rifle, and the grille moved.

Decoding progress is 85%.

He lifted the grille to one side, sticking half his body out from the air vent, the muzzle of the SCAR-H pointing vertically downwards.

The player in the control room who was opening the crate had his head just three meters below him, completely unobstructed.

Ninety-five percent.

Lin Rui pulled the trigger. Two bullets entered his head from directly above. The top plate of the Level 5 helmet provided significantly less protection at the vertical angle of fire, and the two 7.62mm bullets penetrated the helmet.

kill.

The decoding progress bar for the safe suddenly stopped at 98%, and then reset to zero due to the operator's death.

The three men outside rushed in after hearing the gunshot.

Lin Rui retreated from the air vent into the ventilation duct. The bullet struck the outer wall of the duct, and the ear-piercing metallic clang echoed inside.

"Wei, at the control room door, now."

"receive!"

The sound of MP5 gunfire rang out from the other end of the corridor, and Avika unleashed a burst of bullets from around the corner.

Twenty bullets still didn't have a high hit rate, but it was enough to attract the attention of the two people at the door.

Lin Rui climbed out from another exit of the ventilation duct and landed in the equipment room behind the control room.

In the perspective of the camera, the positions and orientations of the three people were clearly marked: two were facing the corridor towards Awei's firepower, and the third had turned around to search for the location where he had fallen.

He peered out from behind the door of the equipment room and shot the third person in the back.

This time, he deliberately aimed the first two bullets at the thick area on the front of the armor, and the third bullet hit the gap on his side.

The other person collapsed before they could even turn around.

The remaining two men turned and opened fire on him.

Lin Rui retreated into the equipment room and retaliated from a different angle through the gaps between the shelves.

The 7.62mm warhead of the SCAR-H emitted a sharp echo in the confined space. The two opponents could not find enough cover in the control room and were suppressed by his and Awei's crossfire from the corridor, making it difficult for them to advance or retreat.

Fifteen seconds later, the entire four-man squad was wiped out.

Lin Rui walked out of the equipment room with 43% of the durability of his level 6 armor gone and his health reduced to a precarious red line, less than 8% of full health.

"Rui, are you alright?" Awei ran over, and when he saw the color of Rui's health bar, he froze. "You only have this much health left??"

"That's enough." Lin Rui squatted down in front of the safe and reinserted the decoder.

As the progress bar moved, he used a first aid kit to restore his health to 35%.

There was only one first-aid kit left, and all the medicine had been used up in the firefight.

Decoding complete.

The moment the lid popped open, golden light poured out of the safe, bathing the entire control room in a warm yellow hue.

[Guaranteed Big Gold Item Mechanism Triggered. Guaranteed Item This Time: Mandel Gold Brick x1, Estimated Value 5,000,000 Haf Coins.]

Ah Wei's character took a step back and bumped into the control panel.

The sound of a chair falling over could be heard in his voice.

"Five...five million Haff coins? In one box?"

Lin Rui put the Mandel gold brick into his special items inventory and stood up.

The level 6 armor was riddled with bullet holes, but the health bar was still just a thin red line.

"Which direction is the evacuation point in?"

Ah Wei was stunned for three seconds before he came to his senses. "East...east dock, four hundred meters away."

"Go ahead. You scout ahead; I have too little health to tank the frontal assault."

"In front of me?" Ah Wei's voice rose. "Me, in level four armor and with an MP5 in front?"

"Didn't you say you could do everything in the support role?"

Ah Wei swallowed hard. "Yes, I will."

He walked ahead, carrying an MP5, and scouted the way with the muzzle of the gun before each corner, keeping his stride very tight.

Lin Rui followed behind, his SCAR-H pressed against his shoulder, its X-ray function scanning everything in front of him.

Two hundred meters away, a lone player was looting, but Awei avoided him.

Two gunshots rang out from 300 meters away, slightly south, which did not conflict with their route.

The last 100 meters is a wide, open concrete dock with no shelter.

Ah Wei stopped behind the cover at the dock entrance and gestured to Lin Rui: "It's an open area, should we wait a bit?"

The holographic scan shows that there is no one within the dock area.

"Skip it."

The two rushed across the dock, the helicopter's rotors already spinning.

Ah Wei jumped onto the plane first and then reached out to pull Lin Rui up with him.

The hatch closed.

"Escape successful. Total loot value for this round: 6,800,000 HAF Coins. Kills: 7."

Ah Wei's character slumped on the cabin floor, his voice conveying the same heavy breathing he was experiencing in real life, as he leaned back in his seat.

"Brother Rui."

"Um."

"You only had 8% health left, and you had 5 million gold bricks in your backpack. You crawled through the guns of four level 5 armored soldiers."

"Um."

"Is your heart rate over 100?"

Lin Rui's gaze fell on the line of golden numbers on the settlement interface, and he casually put the Mandel Gold Brick on the exchange channel.

"I haven't counted."