"Damn it!"
Bai Ye stared at the information appearing on the light screen, stunned for half a second before letting out a curse.
Jin Sha couldn't help but ask, "What now?"
Bai Ye shrugged, "What else can we do? There's one minute left. After entering the restricted zone, you'll have to rely on yourself."
Jin Sha's expression turned solemn. She raised her fist towards Bai Ye and said, "Good luck."
Bai Ye bumped his fist with Jin Sha's, "Same to you, may luck be with you always!"
Since they were randomly teleported to different parts of the base, the two of them would most likely not be together. They would have to figure out how to survive on their own.
Even if Bai Ye wanted to help Jin Sha, he couldn't.
One minute was very short. Soon, Bai Ye noticed Jin Sha's body becoming increasingly transparent, gradually disappearing. He then looked down at his own hands and saw that he was the same.
Bai Ye couldn't help but grin.
Before, he was the one who initiated the restricted zones, sending others in. Was it his turn to enjoy the benefits now?
As Bai Ye pondered this, everything around him darkened. When the light reappeared, Bai Ye found that the surrounding scenery had completely changed.
It was a narrow corridor, very cold. Frost was visible on the walls and floor, and apart from that, there was nothing else.
Bai Ye didn't act immediately. He took out his cigarette case, lit one, and decided to gather his thoughts.
Firstly, the research base had become a restricted zone. Bai Ye had never encountered this in his past life. The reason, as explained in the information given after triggering the restricted zone, was clear.
He knew that three Predators had completed their rite of passage by hunting Xenomorphs, but he didn't know about the subsequent events: new Predators had arrived and clashed with the Xenomorphs within the research base, leading to it becoming a restricted zone.
The situation was understandable, but Bai Ye was worried about the pyramid ruins. If Xenomorphs had already made their way from underground to the surface, didn't that mean the Predators and humans in the pyramid ruins were finished?
However, Bai Ye felt there was still hope because of the rewards for the restricted zone missions.
The three restricted zone missions were quite straightforward. Both Xenomorphs and Predators intended to kill humans on sight, so successfully leaving alive would be considered completing the mission.
The survival mission was relatively simple; everyone would benefit as long as they could escape.
Of course, the mission rewards weren't particularly impressive. None of the three standard Predator equipment, the cloaking device and plasma cannon, which were products of future technology, were listed, only a broken wrist blade. As for throwing knives and daggers, they were probably similar to wrist blades. Predators had their own preferences, and although the wrist blade was standard issue, not all Predators used it.
However, the fact that a distress signal device could be obtained after escaping the Xenomorphs was interesting, as this was an item required to join the human faction.
In Bai Ye's memory, the process should have been to find the distress signal device at the research base, receive the human distress call from the pyramid ruins, and then enter the pyramid ruins as part of the human faction to activate the restricted zone.
Now the situation at the research base had changed, but this item was still here.
Bai Ye wondered if this could be interpreted as everything inside the pyramid ruins not being over yet?
As for the third and final restricted zone mission, killing a Xenomorph Predator...
This would be difficult.
A Xenomorph Predator was a Xenomorph monster born from a Predator being infected by a Xenomorph, possessing formidable strength. The reward tier instantly increased. The plasma cannon, one of the three standard Predator equipment, appeared, along with the retractable net gun, which was also a very good weapon.
Only the number of God Stone fragments was a bit low, only two.
However, Bai Ye felt it was understandable.
Hadn't higher-grade items appeared?
Even if the plasma cannon was at the bottom of the black quality advanced items, it was still an advanced item.
"It's a shame there's no computer system or bio-mask," Bai Ye scratched his head. "But since we've all been pulled into the restricted zone, getting a plasma cannon is fine too."
As he thought, Bai Ye tossed out the gashapon machine.
How could he not try his luck with the gashapon at a time like this!
As the machine whirred, Bai Ye decided to do a double draw this time, and two gashapon balls rolled out simultaneously.
Bai Ye squatted down and picked them up. Both were blue.
"Average," Bai Ye muttered.
Bai Ye tapped the two gashapon balls together like striking eggs, and then both cracked open.
Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand (Martial Art) (Blue): One of Shaolin's many fist techniques, dealing immense damage but with slightly weaker defense. Effects: Rend (15% chance to tear apart armor below blue quality) and Inner Force Surge (when successfully grabbing a target, strength increases by 20 points).
A close-combat martial art. Bai Ye thought it was decent, still fitting the description of "average."
As for what was in the other gashapon ball...
It looked familiar!
Grenade Pack (Item) (Blue): Equipped with six Type 82-2 all-plastic, handleless grenades, six SL01A smoke grenades, and six M84 flashbang grenades.
The grenade pack was an item from a green gashapon. Bai Ye had drawn it before. Why had it suddenly become blue?
It wasn't because the quantity had increased!
The green one only had three, while the blue one had six.
The gashapon machine wasn't one to give you more for the same price.
Moreover, Bai Ye felt the grenade pack was quite useful, with very high practicality. The only drawback was that it was a consumable item.
After securing the grenade pack, Bai Ye took a deep breath, drew his Zanpakuto, and then palmed a stack of playing cards up his sleeve before starting to move.
He walked down the corridor, and when he reached a corner, Bai Ye stopped.
A strong smell of blood.
Bai Ye became more alert, then turned the corner. Bai Ye then saw many corpses.
They were not human corpses, but the corpses of beast tamers.
Bai Ye stared at the corpses, then remembered Jin Sha saying that many beast tamers had entered the research base, turning it from a supply point into a dangerous supply point.
Ultimately, it was Regieleki to blame. The appearance of the Ice God Pillar had suddenly made the beasts living in the glaciers more active.
And the existence of these beasts was something Bai Ye found most unfathomable. He wondered if their presence would cause any variables.
"As long as they don't cause trouble for me."
Thump, thump, thump...
As Bai Ye was thinking, heavy footsteps suddenly sounded ahead, and then a giant figure slowly appeared before Bai Ye.
Bai Ye sighed, "I spoke of the worst, and it came true. Can't you give me some face? Do I have to be this much of a jinx!"
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