Inside a private room of an internet café.
Three young people sat in front of their computers, the screens displaying the blood-red words "Evacuation Failed."
Outside in the main hall, the noise was deafening, with excited and urgent shouts ringing out intermittently.
But inside this room, a heavy atmosphere loomed.
As a regular team playing Classified Aerospace, they had been wiped out at choke points before, but never so effortlessly.
Sometimes, with pre-set positions and item suppression, even a Level-6 Escort Squad couldn't break through their defense.
Getting wiped was one thing, but the fact that the opponent was alone, and took less than ten seconds, firing only two shots to wipe them out, was unacceptable!
"No way!"
After a while, the Luna player asked incredulously:
"How could you let someone stick C4 on your head?"
"Exactly, couldn't you have thrown a Molotov to force his position?"
The Bitra player chimed in, complaining:
"He was alone, and only had a lousy AK. If you had thrown a Molotov to block the path and revived us, we could have easily taken him down."
"Damn, so it's all my fault, huh?"
The Uluru player was visibly frustrated:
"Fing hell, if it weren't for you guys yelling that there's only one person and one shot kills, would I have eaten that C4?"
"And talking about reviving you for an easy fight, you two didn't even get a shot off before getting instantly killed. At least I managed to fire two shots before going down!"
Bitra retorted stubbornly, "Wasn't it because your support was too slow? We were both down before you even got there."
"Why don't you mention that I was positioned the farthest? Why don't you mention that you two didn't even last five seconds? Why don't you mention that you got caught because you took a Tiger Crouch?"
The more Uluru thought about it, the angrier he got. He stood up and slammed the door on his way out:
"Fuck it, I'm done playing. You two play by yourselves!"
......
On the other side.
After finishing his voice taunt, Bai Ye stood still for two seconds, waiting for Bitra's little spider to self-destruct before entering the Centrifuge to loot.
He first opened Bitra's bag, finding a hip-fire ASh-12, predictably loaded with Level 4 double-head rounds.
"Not even bothering to load a 30-round magazine, and not a single spare round in the pocket, you're way too stingy..."
Bai Ye muttered as he looted, and was pleasantly surprised when a 2x2 item appeared in the backpack:
"A Satellite Dish in the bag, nice!"
Luna's bag also held surprises. Besides a fully modified M700 with three red rounds left and a foot-shooting G18, there was a 3x4 item in the 15-slot small backpack.
"A barrel of Rocket Fuel, treasure!~"
Uluru didn't even bring a bag, just an SR-25 worth over 800,000, but his pockets held dozens of 7.62x51 Gold Ammo rounds.
After looting these three bags, Bai Ye's haul for this round had reached 18.5 million!
Considering some item premiums, he was only two to three million short of completing the order.
The Core Area had been cleared, so to reach 20 million, he needed to hunt more players.
"The Black Market team is already at the President's Office, and there's no info on the other team yet. Better pull the lever first..."
After pulling the Centrifuge lever, Bai Ye exited through the first-floor main door and headed straight for the Black Market.
Just as he reached the Black Market's rolling door, intense gunfire erupted from the direction of the Buoyancy Chamber.
"The last two teams are fighting, time to clear the map!"
Bai Ye immediately changed his target, heading from the Black Market up to the President's Office to mediate.
In Delta Force, no matter which map you're playing, mediating is always more advantageous than actively seeking a fight.
Especially now, with only two teams left, if the timing is right, you might only need to kill one or two players to feast on six bags from two teams!
The gunfire from the Buoyancy Chamber was intense but short-lived.
Bai Ye had just reached the Black Market Corridor when the gunfire ceased completely.
"Finished so quickly? This team has some skill..."
With only one team left, Bai Ye didn't want to waste time. He injected a Stim Shot and charged forward with big strides.
Meanwhile, on the Buoyancy Chamber stairs.
YJJ had recently switched to streaming on TikTok, and today XDD brought his wife Pipi to join him in a trio, aiming for some entertaining content.
YJJ usually enjoyed playing against the odds, and today he was leading the two in a foot-shooting strategy.
Not only did each of them bring a large-drum Vector into the game, but they also chose operators with a Bee Medic + Gu + Bitra setup, featuring three smoke positions, double medical, and double control.
They spawned in Cell Block 2 and followed a team to the Black Market, wiping them out and evolving the entire team into Level-6 Sets.
However, XDD had rushed too quickly in the last encounter and was instantly killed by two enemy gun lines. Fortunately, Pipi stepped up, using the large-drum Vector to shoot through the smoke and take down two opponents, completing the team wipe.
"Team wiped!"
Pipi excitedly asked XDD:
"Am I awesome? Am I awesome?!"
"Awesome, awesome!"
XDD praised:
"Pipi, hurry and revive me. Paoshen, you handle the status..."
YJJ chimed in:
"Pipi has really improved, she's got more kills than both of us this round."
Their live stream chat was flooded with comments:
[Pipi's got a Demon King Escort, I'm not joking!]
[What's XDD doing, got knocked down without a kill, can't compare to Pipi's one-shot.]
[Seriously, do you guys think Pipi's bad? She's been playing high-pressure games with XDD, most people from other streams wouldn't match up to Pipi...]
[This team seems to be all Liu Tao, this round's a feast!]
After Pipi revived him, XDD quickly injected himself twice, saying:
"Quick, loot up. This team was all Level-6 A-Da, and there was gunfire from the Centrifuge earlier."
"The Centrifuge's been quiet for a while, you two loot first, I'll cover you."
YJJ moved to the Buoyancy Glass Corridor, intending to place a smoke alarm near the President's position, but after taking a few steps, he heard heavy footsteps approaching.
"Someone's coming from the Black Market, get ready!"
"OK, the team we just wiped was dual-wielding, probably came from the Dormitory. If we take out the Black Market team, the map's clear."
YJJ quickly placed a smoke trap on the main path of the glass corridor, then returned to the corridor entrance, sidestepping to aim with A-Da.
Within seconds, YJJ saw a small part of a head peek out from the corridor's end, retreating behind cover before he could identify the operator.
"Quick peek..."
YJJ started to comment, but the opponent peeked again the next second.
Bang!
A crisp gunshot rang out, and YJJ's screen darkened instantly.
"Damn, such a fast snipe!"
"That intense? You handle your status, I'll cover." XDD moved to take over the gun position.
"Be careful, it's an Immortal M700!"
"No worries... Damn!!!"
XDD peeked from the corridor entrance to gather intel, only for an M61 round to precisely hit his helmet.
[Zhouyou Shijie Feng Daidai knocked down Zuoshen Pie Nanren.]
Even with a Level-6 Trickster Hearing Helmet, XDD was instantly downed due to its imperfect durability.
"The opponent's pushing, Pipi, is your ultimate ready? If it is, use it to revive!"
"Ready!"
Pipi maneuvered the Gu to the corridor entrance, launching a Glimmer and following it with a Blinding Smoke.
The corridors on both sides of the President's Office are straight designs, and Gu's ultimate can fill the corridor, forcing the opponent to retreat or suffer its effects.
During these few seconds, YJJ quickly healed to full health, ignoring his head injury to place a spider trap.
"Doctor, Bitra, Gu... what kind of superhero combo is this?"
Bai Ye retreated a few steps, jumping onto the greenery at the President's entrance to avoid Gu's ultimate, then immediately dropped the M700 to pick up the SR-25 on the ground.
The opponents were all Liu Tao, and with the Bee Medic already down, they couldn't be allowed to revive.
Otherwise, if they revived and got their status back, facing three Level-6 Sets charging together would be impossible to handle.