After looting the key room clean, Zhang Yang opened the map.
It was getting late. Time to extract.
Eating his way through an entire Administration Building and a cafeteria by himself had taken Zhang Yang a lot of time.
After all, he wasn't familiar with the building's layout or where the containers were, so he'd been feeling around in the dark as he ate.
The experience couldn't help but remind Zhang Yang of when he'd first started playing Delta Force, exploring the Dam and Bakshi with his buddies.
Back then, none of them knew the maps, so they'd stumbled around just like this.
It brought back memories.
According to the map, the nearest regular extraction point was in the bottom-left corner, at the far end of West City Commercial Street.
Besides that, there was a Lever Extraction Point inside the academy and a Weight-Limited Extraction Point outside the wall in the northwest corner.
For his first extraction, Zhang Yang decided to go with the regular extraction point.
After all, the loot rate this run was absurdly high. If he chose the regular extraction point, he could grab another big safe while passing through the Commercial Street.
That's right. The only two outdoor big safes in this run had spawned in the Dean's Office and on West City Commercial Street.
With a loot rate this high, it would be criminal not to grab one while he was passing by.
"Extract."
The map closed. Zhang Yang didn't linger in the key room, either. He turned and left the cafeteria, heading straight for the extraction point.
Heding City had two well-known upscale commercial streets: City Center Commercial Street inside the city and West City Commercial Street.
The two streets were famous entirely because they were close to Heding City's two largest Soul Master groups—the Spirit Hall and the Soul Master Academy.
In the world of Douluo Continent, Soul Masters were the wealthiest people around, and the ones most willing to spend money. Naturally, merchants were happy to do business with them.
So, over the years, City Center Commercial Street and West City Commercial Street had grown into two of Heding City's most prestigious shopping districts.
Zhang Yang knew West City Commercial Street well. His mother always took him along when she went shopping with her close friends.
Those aunties he knew by face always liked to take Zhang Yang into children's clothing stores, then buy him lots and lots of pretty little dresses.
Thinking of his dark past of "charming people with his looks," Zhang Yang shivered as soon as he entered West City Commercial Street.
After dealing with the riffraff along the way, Zhang Yang rushed into the biggest women's clothing store on West City Commercial Street.
In the VIP room of this store was one of the only two free big safes on the entire map.
The big safe was tucked in a corner of the VIP room. Once inside, Zhang Yang instinctively slipped into the gap between the safe and the wall, crouched down, and began unlocking it.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
After five check marks, the big safe opened, and the search screen popped up.
"!"
Zhang Yang excitedly closed the search window.
"Six slots! It's six slots!"
In an instant, his mind filled with images of the six-slot loot in the big safe.
Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Gramophone, Bust.
The red collectibles flashed through Zhang Yang's mind one after another.
Although he hadn't played in years, the simple pattern of what spawned in containers had long since been engraved in his subconscious.
After taking a deep breath, Zhang Yang reopened the search window.
The six slots began searching again. One round, two rounds, three...
Before the third round was even over, a golden light flashed, and a massive piece of jewelry appeared.
"Gold. Local Specialty Jewelry. Value: 418,841."
Seeing that the six-slot safe had produced a huge piece of jewelry, Zhang Yang froze. It took him several seconds to come back to his senses.
"...Tsk."
It wasn't a million-value red, but at least it was a six-slot gold item. That was still much better than getting a "Mosaic Lampstand" or a "Big Sand Dagger."
Then Zhang Yang happily put the Local Specialty Jewelry and the Golden Branch Laurel beside it into his backpack.
That's right. There had also been a 1-by-2 slot beside the six-slot one, and it had produced a vertical Golden Branch Laurel.
"Gold. Golden Branch Laurel. Value: 85,856."
Getting more than 500,000 from one big safe was quite a haul.
"Extract."
Zhang Yang put the items in his backpack and immediately chose to extract.
The extraction point on West City Commercial Street was by the horse stables.
Between two rows of stables a hundred meters long, two green signal flares spewed thick green smoke, giving the operators who arrived a powerful sense of security.
Ten seconds later, the extraction animation appeared. Zhang Yang boarded the helicopter and extracted successfully.
"Extraction successful."
"Extraction Point: Heding City Academy—Regular"
"Duration: 00:26:35"
"Loot this run: 2,089,698"
"Total kills: 11"
A two-million extraction! Zhang Yang grinned and shouted, "Well, eat up!"
Then the stash screen popped up, displaying the haul from this run in detail.
First came the big-ticket items: a keycard worth only 500,000 after one use, 340,000 worth of champagne, a Peace Fruit worth 130,000, and a pocket watch worth 220,000.
These were all high-value collectibles worth over 100,000 per slot.
Then there were the gold collectibles worth over 40,000 per slot, including Local Specialty Jewelry, the Golden Branch Laurel, a medal, a Nutritious Porridge Can, solid fuel, and so on.
Add the 100,000-value Ceremonial Scepter, along with assorted purple and high-value blue collectibles, and Zhang Yang had managed to bring out 2,000,000 worth of loot using just 40 slots.
Zhang Yang couldn't help but marvel, "High-loot runs are so satisfying."
After transferring all the loot he'd scavenged during the run into his stash, Zhang Yang's consciousness returned to the real world.
Back in the real world, a translucent blue screen appeared before him:
1>>>2 130EXP↑ 130/10000
Zhang Yang noticed a question mark after the experience value and immediately tapped it.
"Combat: 31" "Search: 104" "Operations: 0" "Decrypt Mandel Brick: 0" "Successful Extractions: 10"
Seeing the breakdown of his 145 experience points, Zhang Yang understood.
Two experience points for each bot, five for each enemy Soul Master, one experience point for every 20,000 worth of loot, and another ten for extracting. Wasn't the system encouraging him to search more, fight more, and extract more?
As expected of a looter-shooter extraction game system.
As for "Operations," those were the in-game missions.
He'd indeed seen blue markers for in-game missions on the map.
In fact, when he'd left the Administration Building, he'd even passed right by a "Destroy the Iron Gate" mission.
But Zhang Yang hadn't planned to take it on.
This was his first game, after all. He had to extract once first and get off to a winning start.
"Next run. I'll do the mission next run."
As for this experience and character level, Zhang Yang dared to bet they were definitely linked to his Martial Soul level.
After all, that was how it worked in all the novels.
When the system level went up, the Martial Soul level went up too. That was the protagonist's cheat, letting Zhang Yang rocket through the levels and become a genius renowned across the continent.
Zhang Yang figured he understood it all.
He closed the results screen, and a new prompt appeared.
"Congratulations. You successfully brought the keycard [Academy Restaurant Storage Room] out of the raid and unlocked permission to purchase it."
"You can purchase it through Store—Keycards."
Zhang Yang paused at the notification. "You have to find it and extract with it before you unlock the purchase permission? This setup..."
"Actually, that makes a lot of sense."
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