Million Evacuations

After looting the card room clean, Zhang Yang opened his map.

It was getting late; it was time to extract.

Clearing out an entire Administration Building and a cafeteria by himself had consumed a significant amount of Zhang Yang's time.

After all, Zhang Yang was unfamiliar with both the architectural layout and the distribution of containers, essentially scavenging in the dark.

This experience couldn't help but remind Zhang Yang of when he first started playing Delta Force, back when he and his buddies were exploring the Dam and Bakshi.

Back then, none of them knew the maps, and playing was just as much of a stumbling, fumbling process.

It was quite nostalgic.

The map showed that the closest standard extraction point was located in the bottom-left corner, at the very end of the West City Commercial Street.

Beyond that, there was a Lever Extraction Point inside the Soul Master Academy and a Weight-Limited Extraction Point outside the wall in the northwest corner.

For his first extraction, Zhang Yang decided to choose the standard route.

After all, the loot rate for this raid was incredibly high; by choosing the standard extraction, Zhang Yang could hit one more large safe while passing through the commercial street.

Yes, the only two open-air large safes in this raid—one had spawned in the Dean's office, and the other in the West City Commercial Street.

With such a high loot rate this round, it would be inexcusable not to stop and grab a bite on the way.

"Extract."

Closing the map, Zhang Yang didn't linger in the card room. He turned, exited the cafeteria, and headed straight for the extraction point.

Heding City had two famous high-end commercial streets: the City Center Commercial Street and the West City Commercial Street.

These two streets were famous precisely because they were located near the two largest Soul Master groups in Heding City—Martial Soul Hall and the Soul Master Academy.

In the world of Douluo Continent, Soul Masters were the wealthiest demographic and the most willing to spend money, so merchants were always eager to do business with them.

Thus, through years of development, the City Center Commercial Street and the West City Commercial Street had evolved into the most prominent high-end business districts in Heding City.

Zhang Yang was no stranger to the West City Commercial Street; his mother and her close friends would always bring him along when they went shopping.

Those familiar aunts always loved dragging Zhang Yang into children's clothing stores and buying him countless pretty little dresses.

Thinking of his dark history of "entertaining others with his looks," Zhang Yang couldn't help but shiver as he stepped into the West City Commercial Street.

After dealing with the stray mobs on the road, Zhang Yang dashed into the largest women's clothing store on the West City Commercial Street.

In the VIP room of this clothing store sat the second of the only two free large safes on the entire map.

The large safe was tucked into the corner of the VIP room. After entering, Zhang Yang instinctively ducked into the gap between the safe and the wall, crouching down to begin unlocking it.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

After five checkmarks, the large safe clicked open, and the search interface popped up.

"!"

Zhang Yang excitedly closed the search interface.

"Six slots! It's six slots!"

The image of the six-slot inventory inside the large safe flashed through Zhang Yang's mind instantly.

Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Gramophone, Bust.

These red-tier collectibles flickered through his brain one after another.

Even though he hadn't played in many years, this simple container loot format had long been burned into Zhang Yang's subconscious.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yang reopened the search interface.

The six slots began to search—one circle, two circles, three...

Before even three circles were complete, a golden light flashed, and a massive piece of jewelry popped out.

"Gold, Local Specialty Jewelry, value 418,841."

Seeing that the six-slot container had yielded a large piece of jewelry, Zhang Yang stood there stunned, taking several seconds to collect his thoughts.

"...Tsk."

While it wasn't a million-credit red item, a six-slot gold item was still decent—certainly better than pulling a "mosaic candlestick" or "trash."

With that, Zhang Yang happily tucked the Local Specialty Jewelry and the Golden Branch Laurel sitting next to it into his backpack.

Yes, right next to the six-slot container was a 1x2 space containing a vertical Golden Branch Laurel.

"Gold, Golden Branch Laurel, value 85,856."

A haul of over 500k from one large safe was a fairly fruitful harvest.

"Extract."

Zhang Yang stowed his items into his backpack and immediately chose to extract.

The extraction point for West City Commercial Street was located at the stables.

Between two rows of hundred-meter-long stables, two green signal flares billowed with thick green smoke, providing a deep sense of security to the operators arriving there.

Ten seconds later, the extraction animation popped up, and Zhang Yang boarded the helicopter, successfully extracting.

"Extraction successful."

"Extraction point: Heding City Academy - Normal"

"Duration: 00:26:35"

"Match earnings: 2,089,698"

"Total eliminations: 11"

With a 2 million haul, Zhang Yang cheered happily, "Nice! Time to eat!"

Following that, the stash interface popped up, displaying the specific gains from Zhang Yang's operation.

First was the bulk of the value: a room card with a residual value of 500k after one use, 340k in champagne, 130k in peace fruit, and 220k in a pocket watch.

These were all high-value collectibles worth over 100k per slot.

In addition, there were gold-tier collectibles worth over 40k per slot, including Local Specialty Jewelry, Golden Branch Laurel, medals, canned nutritional porridge, solid fuel, and more.

Coupled with the 100k ceremonial scepter and various miscellaneous purple and high-value blue collectibles, Zhang Yang managed to extract 2 million in value using only 40 slots of space.

Regarding this, Zhang Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "High-yield matches are truly satisfying."

After transferring all the supplies scavenged in the match into his stash, Zhang Yang's consciousness returned to the real world the next moment.

Back in the real world, a pale blue light screen popped up in front of Zhang Yang:

1>>>2

130EXP↑

130/10000

Seeing a question mark behind the experience points, Zhang Yang clicked on it immediately.

"Combat: 31"

"Scavenging: 104"

"Action: 0"

"Decrypting Mandel Brick: 0"

"Successful extraction: 10"

Seeing the detailed breakdown of his 145 experience points, Zhang Yang understood.

Two experience points per bot, five per enemy Soul Master, one point for every 20k in match earnings, and ten points for extraction—isn't this just the system encouraging him to scavenge, fight, and extract more?

It truly is a system for a scavenge-fight-extract game.

As for "Action," that referred to in-match missions.

Just now in the match, Zhang Yang had indeed seen blue in-match mission markers on the map.

In fact, when he came out of the Administration Building, Zhang Yang had even brushed past a "Destroy Iron Gate" mission.

But Zhang Yang had no intention of taking that mission.

After all, this was his first game; he had to successfully extract at least once to get a good start.

"Next round, I'll do missions in the next round."

As for these experience points and character levels, Zhang Yang dared to bet that they were inextricably linked to his own Martial Soul level.

After all, that's how it's set up in all the novels.

System level increases, Martial Soul level increases—this is the protagonist's golden finger, allowing Zhang Yang to skyrocket in level and become a genius who shakes the continent.

Zhang Yang indicated that he understood it all.

Closing the settlement interface, a new notification box popped up.

"Congratulations, you successfully extracted the room card [Academy Restaurant Storage Room] from the match. You have unlocked the purchase authorization for this room card."

"You can purchase it via the Shop - Room Card path."

Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment upon seeing this prompt: "I have to find it and extract it from a match first to unlock the purchase authorization? This setting..."

"Actually seems quite reasonable."