Game: Civilization Paradise

A player from the Star God Guild quickly rushed out from the distance.

Long Ming’s eyes sharpened. He took a deep breath, drew his tri-edged military spike, and listened for the footsteps.

The next second, just as the Star God Guild player was about to pass the intersection, Long Ming suddenly appeared before him. He clamped one hand over the man’s mouth and plunged the tri-edged military spike into his throat with the other.

"GURGLE~"

The Star God Guild player collapsed before he could even react.

Long Ming quickly dragged the corpse inside and turned to shout at Johnny.

"Loot him!"

"Right!"

Johnny immediately rushed over and quickly stripped the player’s gear and emptied his backpack.

"Keep an eye out here. Yell if anything happens."

After giving Johnny his instructions, Long Ming ran back to check on Tang Yue’s lockpicking.

At this moment, Tang Yue was still filing the key, and the sound of gunfire from all around was growing more intense.

Xiaoqi and the others were on pins and needles, but there was nothing they could do to help.

Just then, Tang Yue finished filing the key and inserted it again. She took a deep breath, her gaze resolute as she turned it!

CLICK!

With a crisp sound, the mechanical lock gave way.

The ground next to them cracked open, slowly revealing a downward staircase.

"It’s open!"

Xiaoqi and the others exclaimed, overjoyed.

Johnny was also delighted and quickly ran over.

"Close the control panel. Let’s go down!"

Long Ming said to Tang Yue and the others.

"Okay!"

Tang Yue quickly closed the control panel.

Long Ming led Tang Yue and the others down. Soon, the passage entrance slowly closed, and the corridor returned to normal.

「...」

「Inside the base.」

Qian Wei was personally guarding an important passageway, continuously shooting at the attacking Star God Guild players.

Just then, Gao Feng rushed to Qian Wei’s side to report.

"Lord Qian Wei, the situation is critical! The passageways guarded by Xiao Qiu and the others have been breached. The men below can’t hold on much longer."

"Damn it! Order everyone to retreat into the main hall. We’ll fight them in there."

Qian Wei checked the time on his bracelet and gave the order.

’It’s daylight now. If we can just hold the main hall, we might still have a chance to complete the mission.’

After hearing Qian Wei’s order, Gao Feng picked up his wireless communicator and shouted to everyone.

"Lord Qian Wei has given the order! All personnel, fall back to the main hall!"

"I repeat, all personnel, fall back to the main hall!"

「...」

「Underground, First Basement Level.」

Long Ming, gripping his Black Shadow Rifle, led Tang Yue and the others down the stairs into a long, dim corridor.

Only a few emergency lights were on here.

"Long Ming, where are we?"

Xiaoqi asked nervously.

"I don’t know either. We’ll take it one step at a time."

Long Ming led them deeper inside.

Before long, they reached the end. As they stepped out of the corridor, their view suddenly opened up.

A room the size of a central control room came into view.

The entire room was filled with shelves, and on the shelves were all sorts of file folders and boxes.

A cylindrical mechanical pillar stood in the central area.

"Is this an archive room?"

Johnny scratched his head and asked, a little confused.

"Looks like it. Wait, this is..."

Xiaoqi pulled a file folder from a nearby shelf, opened it, and spoke with shock as they looked at the contents.

"What is it?"

Long Ming and the others turned to look at Xiaoqi.

"A red! I got a red!"

Xiaoqi shouted with glee.

"What’s the big deal about a red? Wait... you just picked that at random, didn’t you?"

A puzzled expression crossed Long Ming’s face. Reds were valuable, sure, but not enough to warrant such a strong reaction. But then, halfway through his sentence, it dawned on him.

"Yeah."

Xiaoqi nodded quickly.

"Quick, open the other file folders and see! If it says ’unopened’, just store it directly."

Long Ming said to Tang Yue and the others.

Tang Yue and the others immediately went forward to open other file folders, followed by a series of excited shouts.

"I got a red over here!"

"Me too!"

"Oh my god, they’re all reds!"

.....

Hearing this, Long Ming immediately stepped forward, pulled out a file, opened it, and took a look.

BZZT~

His bracelet immediately displayed a notification.

Asteroid Observation File No. XXK-07

Quality: Red

Long Ming took a deep breath, calming his racing heart, and turned to Xiaoqi and the others.

"Search. Find everything of value."

"Right!"

The four of them immediately scattered.

Long Ming stood his ground, quickly scanning every shelf in the room.

He ignored all the file folders on the shelves, leaving those for Xiaoqi and the others to sort and collect.

Then, his gaze landed on the largest metal shelf inside, upon which sat three special metal boxes.

Long Ming immediately walked to the metal shelf, picked up an exquisite rectangular box, and opened it.

Inside the box was a black, miniature optical telescope.

This miniature optical telescope looked very high-end, with beautiful striations covering its surface.

Long Ming reached out and picked it up. His bracelet immediately displayed a notification.

JX-01 Model Miniature Optical Telescope.

Durability: 100/100

Effects: Long-range observation, night vision.

"Good stuff!"

After reading the information, Long Ming stuffed it into his backpack.

Then he looked at another exquisite box, picked it up, and opened it.

Inside the box was a large group photo.

Observatory staff in various uniforms were gathered together, showing brilliant smiles for the camera.

BZZT~

His bracelet displayed a notification.

Memento of the Observatory

Quality: Orange

Long Ming’s heart skipped a beat. ’I can’t believe I actually got an Orange!’

Just then, Xiaoqi shouted excitedly.

"Long Ming, I got an Orange!"

"You got an Orange?"

Johnny and the others were dumbfounded.

Although players had shown off Orange items on the forums, no one in their entire Star Wish Guild had ever found an Orange-quality item before.

An Orange-quality item like this started at ten million Yiwei Coins.

If the quality was good, it was normal for the buyback price to reach fifty or sixty million.

"Look!"

Xiaoqi, incredibly excited, ran over with a hard drive and handed it to Long Ming.

Long Ming glanced at it and said to Xiaoqi.

"Put it in your safe."

"Huh? You’re not going to hold onto it?"

Xiaoqi looked at Long Ming, completely taken aback.

"I got an Orange too."

Long Ming held up the photo and waved it, smiling at Xiaoqi.

"Is the drop rate this high?"

Xiaoqi was dumbfounded.

"Yep. Hurry up and keep searching!"

Long Ming, in an excellent mood, urged Xiaoqi on.

"Okay!"

Xiaoqi immediately resumed searching.

At that moment, Long Ming’s gaze fell on the last box on the top of the shelf before him.

He rubbed his hands together, took down the box, drew a deep breath, and carefully opened it.

A fist-sized meteorite, pitch-black all over with small black crystal clusters growing on its surface, was revealed.

Long Ming was quite surprised to see this meteorite.

BZZT!

His bracelet vibrated again, displaying a notification.

Meteorite No. X-01.

Quality: Gold

Material: Unknown

Note: This is a meteorite containing a special substance.