Sorting the Spoils, [Defense-Pitfall Trap]

Three rare weapons.

Eight pieces of rare equipment.

Twenty-one excellent weapons and pieces of equipment.

Eighteen rare healing items and thirty-eight excellent healing items, including injections.

Eight spiritual organs.

Eighteen excellent materials.

Five rare materials.

Three epic materials.

One key to the twelfth-floor safe.

Epic items: Patient Zero's blood sample, a Spiritual Enhancement Potion crafting blueprint, a Defense—Pitfall Trap blueprint, a Facility Enhancement and Upgrade Scroll, and the already-used epic [Laboratory Rules and Regulations] trait.

Oddity: Pen of Long Heritage.

Finally, a notebook containing information on Elite Infected and Leader Infected.

Yu Yuan looked over the supplies he had sorted and let out a breath.

Aside from the laboratory equipment, these were all the spoils he had brought back from the Wasteland Trial.

It was quite a haul.

Only his Rabbit Ring had let him bring back so much. Any other player could have returned with, at most, the equipment they wore, three or four weapons, and a backpack.

His haul was several times larger than most.

Wasteland Battle Royale was a perfect example of getting rich overnight—or dying overnight.

Winners took all. Losers were out.

Everything came down to making it out.

With good luck, someone could hide until the fighting was over, then pick through what everyone else had left behind and still come away loaded.

With bad luck, someone could enter in a full set of rare equipment, run into a player with a bizarre title ability or an Oddity that countered them, and go down on the spot.

No wonder even the players near the top of the rankings were wary of Wasteland Battle Royale.

It tested strength and composure, and it demanded a measure of luck.

Yu Yuan, though, enjoyed it immensely. Liberty Tower in particular gave him a home-field advantage thanks to his [District