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Ace pushed open the door. In his current understanding, the Admin Building had been cleared, so he could search and pull the switch without worry.
"Pull the switch and then extract. Perfect." He nodded in satisfaction. "With full gear in Standard Dam, you basically won't die — though you don't earn much either..."
"Sigh. It's a pity that Classified Dam isn't played by many yet, so I can't get into a match."
Just like that, Ace thought as he stepped into the room. As he was about to go in and pull the switch — a rapid burst of gunfire came from beside him.
His health bar rapidly decreased, and in the blink of an eye, he was dead.
"..." He stared at the "Extraction Failed" message on his computer screen, deep in thought. "Why is there still someone here?!"
He tried to check the elimination replay in the bottom left corner, but only received a cold system prompt.
[Replay system has issues such as inconsistent visuals; this feature is not yet available for testing]
Ace got up and went to the restroom to wash his face, forcing himself to calm down.
Somehow, a phrase suddenly appeared in his mind:
"Full gear in Standard Dam feels good for a moment, but getting leg-shot sends you to the crematorium."
The beginner tutorial's leg shots — unaffected by armor level — were still fresh in his memory, but Ace couldn't figure out where the opponent had shot his legs from.
"Ding-dong—"
His phone vibrated in his pocket. He pulled out his phone and returned to the computer.
[YouTube Notification]
[Delta Force: Hawk Ops Official: "You can record material in advance. Videos can be published after the NDA ends."]
[TheXclusiveAce: "Received, thank you, production team, for the heads-up."]
Although he was a bit down about being ambushed, the news that he could record material in advance cheered him up a little.
Ace looked back at the computer screen and was slightly stunned:
"Eliminator: Blake?"
"Hiss... Did I just run into Blake himself?"
"As expected of a developer — he's just so familiar with the map."
"They're also players. They also play their own games and deeply experience what aspects aren't done well. That's what makes a good developer!"
"Delta's current internal testing phase doesn't even have recharge rebates like other games. It seems Delta Force doesn't even want to make money."
"'We are also players.' Delta doesn't want to make money. Horizon Interactive is truly a good company!"
The earlier frustration of being killed vanished. After all, being ambushed by a regular player was a sneak attack, but being ambushed by Blake wasn't a sneak attack — it was a flexible use of positions.
Ace took a screenshot, planning to use this elimination screenshot as an easter egg in future videos.
Meanwhile, on Blake's side.
He wasn't aware of the impact his small "takeover" had on Ace, but he knew he was definitely in for a good haul.
"Head armor, chest rig, backpack... wait, there's no flower yet."
Blake subconsciously called out the combo, but then he remembered there was no Corrosive Gold Rose skin yet, and there was no need to use an ultimate ability — after all, the "grunt" had already helped clear the building.
[Attention! Someone has activated the Dam industrial elevator. You can now extract from the elevator entrance inside the Dam]
"?" Blake subconsciously opened the map and looked at the Substation.
"I pulled it," Ivy said, seeing Blake's slightly confused expression. "I saw you had already killed him, so I pulled the switch... Is there a problem?"
"No, I just thought it was the switch pulled from the Substation side."
"Standard Dam has two switch points, allowing two pulls. Classified Dam also has two switch points, but only allows one pull."
After a brief explanation, Blake said:
"You pick up the small purple items and the head armor on the ground. I'll just take the M14."
Ace didn't have anything particularly valuable on him — not even a small gold item.
However, he did clear the map, so purple items filled most of his backpack and chest rig, with only a few blue items.
Ivy picked up the items on the ground as Blake instructed, and their total HAF reached 1,072,000 — just over a million.
Blake's haul was 1,054,000, mainly due to the fully modded M14, which accounted for more than half of his earnings.
For him, head armor could be paired 1+3, because most headshots players currently got were due to not being able to control recoil, causing bullets to float to the head. A Tier 1 baseball cap provided enough hearing bonus.
After all, for headgear, it's either a Tier 1 baseball cap or a Tier 3 or 4 hearing helmet. A Tier 2 helmet is unnecessary.
So the main focus is on body armor. Tier 3 armor provides significant defense, and Tier 4 armor in Standard Dam is overkill.
Ivy's gameplay had improved somewhat compared to the beginning, but in his previous life, she would only be at a Classified Dam K/D of 0.7 — a semi-casual player.
Giving her the Tier 3 headgear and Tier 4 armor would provide her with more protection, at least preventing situations where she couldn't be revived after being downed twice.
Although Blake's own skill level wasn't that high — with a Classified K/D of 3.2 in his previous life. Decent among ordinary people, but not up to the level of a technical streamer, or "tech-streamer" for short.
After briefly reorganizing his backpack, Blake said:
"Let's go. The elevator will close in one minute."
"Okay."
There were no incidents along the way. Most players now extracted around the 10-minute mark, unlike in his previous life where many pushed to the limit or camped extraction points.
[Extraction Successful]
Looking at the prompt, Blake rubbed his forehead.
He glanced out the window. It was no longer the slight chill from when the server first opened. The sun had now fully risen.
"Unknowingly, I've been playing for a few hours..."
Ivy was stunned. "It's true, isn't it..."
"How about we play again later?"
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have noticed, but now I feel a bit hungry."
Hearing her words, Blake suddenly felt like laughing.
What he had thought earlier was correct — Ivy was indeed a bit slow.
"Alright, I'm going to eat too."
"Mm, see you later."
With that, Blake exited the game.
He didn't go out to eat, but after ordering takeout, he began to study the System.
First, this System should have AI, but he didn't know its specific intelligence.
"Little System, can you communicate with me outside of the system store and mission mechanisms?"
[Yes]
Blake subconsciously nodded. It seemed the System's intelligence was not low.
Speaking of which, this wouldn't be some kind of possession system, would it?
Just like in those webnovels, where the system is actually a tool created by the big villain behind the scenes to deceive the protagonist.
Although Blake never understood why the protagonists in such stories could ultimately defeat the system and the villain, even though most of their power came from system rewards — they still managed to defeat the final boss.
[Host's imagination... is stronger than Mulder's]
[If I were a possession system, would I be a game design system?]
[Wouldn't it be better to just be some "Ultimate Power System" and possess someone in a fantasy world?]
"That's true," Blake acknowledged the System's statement. "But by your meaning, there really are other planes and systems?"
[Yes]
[For example, the Host's previous life: Earth]
[Various games, novels, and comics derived from Earth will have corresponding planes and universes appear — such as Delta Force, Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, Perfect World]
[Under normal circumstances, their worldlines will only have one]
[Under abnormal circumstances, strong individuals will descend into that world]
[However, such individuals will not appear on this Earth, because I am here]
Blake nodded while asking:
"Then can I go to a game world?"
"No — I should say, in the future, can I create games with full-holographic simulation?"
"For example, Full-Holographic Simulation: Delta Force. It seems like a full-holographic simulation, but in reality, players go to the real Delta Force world."
[Theoretically possible, but not currently]