Su Deben's breathing was somewhat labored, as if there were a bellows hidden in his chest.
Only he knew the main purpose of this expedition: the Fuel Rods inside the research institute.
As long as they had enough energy, they could use the Underground City's shelter deployment function.
If that could be used freely on the battlefield, it would be absurdly powerful.
"Don't lie to me. How could a small shelter have over a thousand Fuel Rods?"
"Why would I lie to you?" Braun asked, somewhat puzzled.
When he'd just paid four million four hundred thousand Academic Coins, he hadn't seen the other man this agitated.
A Fuel Rod was worth only one hundred and fifty Academic Coins. Under normal circumstances, the money he'd just spent would have been enough to buy thirty thousand of them!
"If you really don't believe me, I'll take you to the Energy Room to see them now."
Faced with Braun's proposal, Su Deben only hesitated briefly before nodding.
He left a group of guards behind to register the information of the personnel who had surrendered.
Taking more than a dozen personal guards, the group soon bypassed the spiraling passage and reached the very center.
It was not as complicated as he had imagined.
The center of the Great Rift Valley research institute resembled a transparent bowl turned upside down over the ground.
Inside the bowl was an experimental space of more than ten thousand square meters.
There were buildings, activity areas, greenery, and even artificial rockeries and fountains.
By then, quite a few Earth players who had finished participating in the Ten Thousand Paths Competition had come out and were gathered inside, exchanging information.
Through the glass windows, Su Deben could clearly see them.
Many of them had faces full of resentment and fear,