Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 138 - 109 Trade_3

Chapter 138: Chapter 109 Trade_3

Stone was right; Lin Wu’s method of solving problems was simple and crude. If simple and crude methods didn’t solve the problem, Lin Wu would become the problem.

If Lin Wu didn’t bring up the treasure, he would have just left without knowing. But since Lin Wu mentioned the treasure, explaining that it was a secret location, and they were among the first batch of players to enter, wouldn’t it be unfair to themselves not to undertake a comprehensive search?

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After a thorough search lasting one and a half hours, they didn’t find any items, not even snacks like beef jerky. All they found were miscellaneous items, like staplers. The rational Maya expressed her opinion, "If there were a treasure here, there definitely would be other lootable items. We spent an hour and a half and didn’t find any items other than miscellaneous ones, which is enough to show there’s no treasure here."

"On the contrary," Lin Wu said. "Little Knife and I went on a mission to Olive Manor, which, just like this place, had no items other than miscellaneous ones. Think again about what Dawn said; it stated that we aren’t Fortress agents and could get the reward directly. So, what is the reward for Fortress agents? Is it a purple box after completing the mission?"

Maya couldn’t entirely agree with Lin Wu’s reasoning and said, "After all, this is just a game setting. We’ve searched all the rooms and laboratories, and the helicopter and restaurant, with nothing found. The only thing inside a safe was documents."

"The only one?" Lin Wu’s eyes lit up. "Let’s go take another look."

Helplessly, Maya followed Lin Wu to the chief engineer’s office. As Lin Wu searched around, she asked, "Can you at least clarify what we’re looking for?"

"We’re looking for another safe," Lin Wu replied.

Maya had no choice but to join in the search, her mind elsewhere. She walked up to the opened safe and carefully examined the nameplate on the door. Maya reached inside and pressed against the safe’s inner wall. Unexpectedly, it was not a wall, but a partition that flipped open, revealing a black rifle that Maya pulled out from inside.

Holding the gun, Maya was shocked and incredulous.

Lin Wu ran over excitedly, "See, I told you there was treasure."

"You’re so cunning!" Maya was still in disbelief. Lin Wu opened the safe and saw only a neat stack of documents. Normally, no one would press against the inner wall, but Maya had done so after noticing the interior dimensions of the safe were different from what the nameplate indicated. Who would notice such a detail? Even as a member of the Dawn Guard, Maya couldn’t help but criticize Dawn.

The M4A1 was a very common standard issue rifle back in the day, firing 5.56mm bullets, around 15% less powerful than the Raider, with a slightly shorter range. But it had very low recoil, and its noise was only a quarter of the Raider’s. With the Raider’s own four-times scope, firing might make it impossible to locate the target in the scope. Not so with the 41; from its recoil data, Maya could judge intuitively that even players without strength attributes could control the burst fire from the 41.

Maya said, "With this gun, I no longer have to worry about encountering two Frenzies when I go out." Another significant advantage of this gun was its light weight, with the 41 being one kilogram lighter than the Raider without any attachments.

Maya ejected the chamber and checked the magazine, saying, "It’s a pity that the magazine’s capacity is only 30 rounds." Unlike the Raider, which was a fully automatic rifle, the 41 could be adjusted for single shots, triple bursts, or continuous firing.

Having found a toy to her liking, Maya asked, "Shall we go?"

"Let’s go, back to test the gun."

Maya said, "We still need to go to the fire station."

"The car isn’t going to run away," Lin Wu replied.

Although what Lin Wu said was still somewhat illogical, this time Maya was fully supportive. The two left the secret laboratory and returned to the shores of North Lake, riding their motorcycles back to the supermarket base.