【Extraction Successful!】

【Value of supplies carried: 318,832】

"Hehe, I swiped two more Golds!"

Mu Yawen returned to the Special Service Department from Dam Zero with a grin, happily moving the Golds and Purples from her backpack into the warehouse.

She wasn't very good at the gun-fighting gameplay promoted by operation xianyuan zhou.

Fortunately, there was a Body Cultivator character inside that suited her taste perfectly: Deep Blue.

This character, who charged around with a shield, made Mu Yawen very happy; she spent every day immersed in scavenging in Dam Zero, living quite a leisurely life.

At this point, her accumulated warehouse value had reached thirty-seven million.

For someone who had only been in contact with the Illusion Realm for half a month, it was considered a decent fortune.

Mu Yawen had a small goal in the Illusion Realm: to earn a hundred million first!

"One, two, three..."

Mu Yawen counted on her fingers, mentally calculating how much longer it would take to earn that many Spirit Stones, when she suddenly saw a team invitation.

Without much thought, Mu Yawen chose to accept, and Zhou Yue's figure appeared in her team.

"Junior Brother Mu, where's Old Zhong? I haven't seen him for two days."

"Senior Brother Zhong was called by the Grand Elder yesterday to perform an emergency mission in a Secret Realm; perhaps he can't enter the Illusion Realm from there?"

"I see..."

Zhou Yue nodded.

He was broke.

Strictly speaking, he was broke yet again.

operation xianyuan zhou would penalize every player equally, even an expert like Zhou Yue.

In his past life, when Lu Ze played delta force, he, like all netizens, complained wildly about a game where the better your skills, the worse the experience;

But when it was his turn to be the designer,

Hey, it's actually pretty great.

He couldn't help it; he had to earn Demonic Path Points.

The income from emotional value wasn't any worse than from kills; naturally, he couldn't make things too easy for the players.

Especially for high-level players like Zhou Yue.

Generally, they were die-hard fans of the Illusion Realm who wouldn't quit easily, so they could be tormented to death.

On the contrary, he couldn't be too harsh on those casual "rat" players.

Those players were the quickest to quit.

"Senior Brother Zhou, do you want to go to the Dam with me? I often hear Senior Brother Zhong say you can't beat Sayid; I'll protect you!"

Mu Yawen patted her chest and said confidently.

"Don't listen to Old Zhong's nonsense..."

Zhou Yue's face darkened.

He had stopped liking the Dam long ago.

Being poor was one thing, but mainly it was because he had been solo-killed by Sayid too many times.

It was strange; Sayid seemed dim-witted when he met Zhong Yi, but when he met Zhou Yue, he was like an immortal on earth, and he even carried a familiar aura.

But now, it seemed he had no choice but to go to the Dam.

Because he couldn't even afford top-secret gear; he had become a truly bankrupt soldier.

"Junior Brother Mu, do you usually run the Ordinary Dam?"

Zhou Yue glanced at the map; the difficulty was actually 【Ordinary】, which he couldn't help but be curious about.

"Yeah, the people you meet in Ordinary Dam are more interesting."

Mu Yawen chuckled and put on a standard issue set.

"Fair enough."

Zhou Yue nodded and followed suit, putting on a 【Utility Disciple Standard Issue Set】.

He hadn't used this thing in nearly a month.

...

Five minutes later.

Looking at the Vyron passing by and listening to the explosions rising one after another from all directions, Zhou Yue could no longer hold back.

"Junior Brother Mu... are the matches you usually play like this too?"

Zhou Yue was completely bewildered.

If Mu Yawen hadn't stopped him, he would have almost shot the Vyron that passed by.

Zhou Yue suppressed the urge to kill his opponent, watched the Vyron leave, and then started rummaging through the Small Spiritual Qi Station for any containers to loot.

"Loot? The Ascension Crate hasn't been touched? Let me have a taste!"

Zhou Yue's eyes lit up as he stepped forward.

"Two slots? What could it be? Maybe materials for Spirit Bullets... Holy crap?! Junior Brother Mu, did you swipe my stuff?!"

"No..."

Before Zhou Yue could see what the two-slot item was, it had already vanished; he withdrew from his Divine Sense search in a daze.

Then he saw a dim-witted Bee Doctor standing in front of the Ascension Crate.

The next moment, the Bee Doctor tossed a 【Dancing Songstress】 onto the ground and pointed.

That expression of disdain seemed to blame Zhou Yue's unlucky hand for pulling out a Blue item.

"You little...!!!"

Zhou Yue flared up and instantly drew his gun.

Unexpectedly, the other party didn't run, but instead tilted their head left and right, exchanging "secret signals" with Mu Yawen.

The two of them each dropped a Purple item and went their separate ways, leaving Zhou Yue dumbfounded.

"Junior Brother Mu, is it always like this in Ordinary Dam?"

"Yeah."

"You just shake your heads when you meet, and everything's fine? You can even search for things together?"

"Of course."

"You guys don't have any other thoughts?"

"How is that possible?"

Mu Yawen looked at Zhou Yue strangely.

"In Ordinary Dam, everyone has their own business to attend to."

"..."

...

Fifteen minutes later.

At the extraction point behind the Wanderer's Hall.

"Senior Brother Zhou, how much did you get?"

"Two hundred and thirty thousand."

"So little? Here, take these."

Mu Yawen was not stingy at all, throwing out the Golds and Purples from her bag all at once, even including a red 【Rolex Gold Bracelet】.

The Purples that Zhou Yue used to look down on in Confidential matches had even become rare supplies.

"Junior Brother Mu, you..."

Looking at the 【Dancing Songstress】 and 【Concubine's Earrings】 in his backpack, Zhou Yue felt a surge of emotion.

When he played with Zhou Qiaoling before, when had he ever received such treatment?

"It's okay, Senior Brother Zhou. I'll just save up slowly later!"

Mu Yawen gave a simple, honest smile.

Back at the Special Service Department, Zhou Yue processed the supplies, gaining a full seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

This was enough to meet the threshold for Confidential matches.

His gaze grew fervent as he looked at Mu Yawen as if possessed.

"Junior Brother Mu, I heard you want to save up a hundred million Spirit Stones?"

"Yeah."

"This Ordinary Dam is so poor; when ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) will you ever save enough?"

"It doesn't matter... I can bring out three to five hundred thousand in one run. As long as I run another two or three hundred rounds, I'll..."

Before Mu Yawen could finish, Zhou Yue interrupted her.

"I know a place that's dripping with wealth! Reds are everywhere, Golds aren't even worthy of your backpack, and you can easily extract with millions!"

Mu Yawen's eyes immediately widened: "There's a place like that?!"

"Of course!"

Zhou Yue enticed her.

"Gear me up, and I'll take you to see it... I guarantee you'll soar!! A hundred million Spirit Stones is just a matter of three days!"

Seeing Zhou Yue's burning gaze, Mu Yawen nodded quickly.

She rummaged through her warehouse for a long time and pulled out that never-before-used Level 6 heavy armor, the 【Blazing War God Armor】, and put it on.

"Senior Brother Zhou, I've got my gear ready. What's that place called?"

"Confidential Ascension Base!"

...

...

Three days later.

Zhong Yi, who had just finished a mission in a Secret Realm, did the first thing after coming out: he took out his illusion tower and impatiently entered operation xianyuan zhou.

"I haven't crafted Spirit Bullets at the Special Service Department for five days; I'm losing so much..."

"Oh no! I didn't claim the check-in rewards either... Damn it! When will the Secret Realm get internet?"

"Eh? Junior Brother Mu is inviting me?"

Seeing Mu Yawen's invitation, Zhong Yi accepted without hesitation.

As soon as he joined the team, he saw Mu Yawen, who had no gear at all and exuded an air of poverty, looking at Zhong Yi with bloodshot eyes like a gambler.

"Senior Brother Zhong, I know a place that's very rich. You can extract with millions every time. You..."

Zhong Yi was stunned for a moment.

"You bastard Old Zhou, give me back my innocent Junior Brother Mu!!!"