Chapter 097 It’s War Right Now

Such a huge commotion naturally alarmed all the guards in the Divine Dragon Building, and the piercing alarm echoed throughout the structure, tightening everyone’s nerves to the max.

The tank was being driven by Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo. In the simplified driving mode, both the driver’s and gunner’s positions were inside the turret, and the seats were practically pressed against each other. Ling Mo, as the driver, had a simplified control method consisting of one steering wheel and two pedals—one for moving forward and one for reversing.

Xia Xinyan’s operation of the turret was even simpler—just a mouse.

Even reloading was automatic, and judging by the size of the space inside the turret, Xia Xinyan had reason to suspect that this tank was a pocket dimension for ammunition.

Anyway, she had no idea how much ammo was left.

So, she shamelessly activated the sweep mode, holding down the left mouse button, blasting everything that moved in sight—be it person or machine—into the sky.

Once they barged into the building, there was little need for frequent movement, and Ling Mo soon found himself at leisure, turning his attention to how Xia Xinyan was handling things.

Xia Xinyan was still crazily hunting, seemingly enjoying herself, while Ling Mo noticed her cat ears twitching from time to time, looking inexplicably cute.

After hesitating for a moment, he cautiously reached out his hand to gently wrap around her waist.

Xia Xinyan showed no reaction, perhaps she didn’t even notice.

Ling Mo thought for a moment and tightened his embrace slightly.

Her waist was really slim and soft; just holding her felt pleasurable on a sensory level.

Ling Mo couldn’t help but feel inexplicably happy.

Hey, this is my girlfriend!

And she will soon become my wife!

However, just as he was reveling in the moment, Xia Xinyan tilted her head to look at him and, with a teasing smile, said, “Mo Mo, we’re in the middle of a war, you know…”

Ling Mo immediately retracted his hand like a thief caught in the act.

Xia Xinyan stared at his profile for a moment, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly.

Ah… It feels like this guy has reverted to his old self again.

She guessed it; clearly, that weird phase was influenced by the dungeon, and now that the effect had worn off, he was back to being the shy, timid virgin.

Hmm… Looks like after this dungeon is over, she had to talk to him about the memory fading issue.

Her thoughts started to pick up again.

Stretching lazily, she deliberately showcased her assets next to him, satisfied to see his face turn red. Xia Xinyan smiled mischievously and decided not to tease him further: “Let’s go, there’s nothing left to destroy here.”

The first floor had already been thoroughly ravaged by her. The battle armor from the mission certainly wouldn’t be in this building, so now they had to find it themselves.

Cheng Guang and the others had gotten out of the tank ahead of them. While Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo plowed through, they had already gone to the first floor’s monitoring room to check the situation. By the time Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo exited the tank, they had a rough understanding of the layout of the Divine Dragon Building.

“The upper floors of the Divine Dragon Building are mostly office areas, but there’s a research base in the basement. The basements of the four buildings are interconnected, and that battle armor might just be down there,” Cheng Guang was the first to voice his guess.

Hearing this, Ling Mo frowned slightly: “So, the basement is much bigger than the upper floors?”

They had spent quite some time plowing through the first floor of the building, and now he was being told there was at least four times more space below?

“That’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that there’s no elevator here to take the tank down,” the fat guy said seriously. “With us making such a grand entrance, if we can’t push through with the tank, it means we might have to face the entire enemy force of the Divine Dragon Building without any armor.”

Feifei’s mood was quite peculiar: “You guys said you were going to infiltrate at the beginning…”

What kind of infiltration is this?

“Wait,” Ling Mo seemed to think of something. “Can’t we use the spatial watch to put the tank inside and take it out again?”

“No,” Xia Xinyan shook her head. “The current spatial watch can’t accommodate something this large.”

The spatial watch does not have an infinite capacity to hold all items; it comes with various restrictions. For instance, whether storing or retrieving, a certain duration is required, and the larger the item, the longer it takes. Moreover, the watch must have substantial contact with the item to store it.

While accumulated storage capacity isn’t limited, the spatial watch also has energy regulations—putting in or taking out items consumes energy, and the larger the item, the more energy is consumed. If the energy consumption for a single storage exceeds 100%, the item cannot be stored.

The energy would slowly regenerate, and as long as it’s used moderately, there’s usually no concern about exhausting it.

Of course, the spatial watch can also be upgraded using game points, such as increasing energy limits or retrieval speed, but these considerations typically arise when players have a surplus of points in the mid to late stages of the game.

As for now, this tank had clearly exceeded the spatial watch’s storage limit.

“So we’re just going to abandon such a powerful weapon?” The fat guy sounded a bit regretful. “I haven’t even had my fun with it yet…”

“You can stay here and keep playing. If we find something good, don’t blame us for not calling you,” Ling Mo shot him a sideways glance.

The fat guy shook his head immediately: “Forget it, I’m a person who can make great sacrifices. Let’s go, it’s not worth playing with this tank anyway.”

Although he felt regretful, the cooler possible items underground attracted him even more.

A research base in a research base—what could they possibly be researching in this dungeon?

Thinking about their mission objective—the battle armor—made him think of some red-gold mixed iron can.

Symbolically, that word clearly represented high technology.

And it was high technology that surpassed reality.

So if they had that level of battle armor, what other good stuff might be in this research base?

After all, their spatial watches could take items from the dungeon out—whatever they could grab would belong to them. This also served as the second major way to obtain items, weapons, and equipment aside from the mall.

So, what’s a tank compared to possible super artifacts?

The main elevator of the building led to the underground base. There were a total of fifteen floors below ground; aside from the three layers closest to the surface being warehouses, the rest belonged entirely to the research base.

Once they barged into the building, the security system automatically locked the elevator program, but for Bai Yu, this was not an issue. She easily hacked into the elevator system and took control of it to go down.

“By the way, Bai Yu’s ability is really powerful,” Ling Mo couldn’t help but praise. “Can you hack into the entire building’s security system?”

“No,” Bai Yu shook her head. “The level of the security system here is very high. My current abilities can’t hack in; I can at most infiltrate some peripheral devices…”

Xia Xinyan unusually complimented her: “That’s still impressive.”

This kind of hacker ability might not be very useful in combat, but its practicality undoubtedly ranks at the top. In late-game, players usually team up to tackle dungeons, and at that time, there’d basically be one player with utilitarian abilities in each team.

Hmm… She started to have a few ideas herself.