: The Team! Battle Royale!

[Arriving Soon: Glacier Research Outpost]

[Mission: Capture the Geothermal Core Prototype (0/1)]

[Synchronization Status: Total Players 86, Online Vehicles 10/10]

[Global information synchronization channels have been temporarily closed.]

[Regional Notice:]

[1. Geothermal Core Prototype Unit, three units in total. Successfully capturing one unit means you have successfully brought it back to the assembly area.]

【2.前哨站温度为-30℃至-40℃，周期性爆发绝对零度波，温度将骤降至-80℃并持续5分钟左右】

3. Geothermal ferns grow naturally at the outpost; harvesting them can provide thermal protection.

[4. Mutant creatures exist at the outpost; please move quietly and avoid danger.]

[5. The total mission duration is limited to 12 hours from the time you enter the outpost. Exceeding this time will result in permanent detention.]

Maps to the outpost have been distributed.

Vehicles are prohibited at the outpost. Please arrive at the outpost assembly area before the countdown ends.

[Countdown: 3600…3599…3598]

The next second, everyone saw a clear map unfold before them.

Leading to the legendary "outpost assembly area".

The second station information and task appeared out of nowhere.

The hotpot that Chen Yu and the others were enjoying suddenly didn't taste so good anymore.

Zhang Wanyue's face turned ashen: "I'll go get the car. I only have an hour..."

Chen Yu nodded: "Yeah, it's not far according to the map. We can eat when we get to the assembly area."

Zhang Wanyue immediately got up and returned to the driver's seat, not daring to delay for the slightest.

Deng Yuxin asked in a low voice, "Total number of people: 86, online vehicles: 10, does that mean there are ten teams participating?"

Li Mengyao quickly calculated in her mind: "On average, each team has 8 to 9 people, but we only have 5."

Wang Mengmeng's face turned pale, and she exclaimed, "And vehicles are banned? We're supposed to walk for 12 hours in temperatures of minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius? And they're going to rob us?"

She even started pinching her philtrum.

Zhang Wanyue had already started the vehicle, staring at the road ahead, and joined the discussion: "It's not 12 hours of hiking, it's the total mission time of 12 hours."

"Including search, combat, and evacuation."

"If you can get the key items quickly enough, you can suffer less."

She paused, "But absolute zero waves... are a deadly threat. At minus 80 degrees Celsius, without a heat source for protection, one will quickly die from hypothermia."

A brief silence fell over the carriage.

"Chen Yu,"

Li Mengyao couldn't help but ask, "In the future you see, are we still alive?"

Chen Yu leaned back in his seat and said calmly, "I'm still alive."

"..."

Deng Yuxin leaned closer and hugged Chen Yu's arm: "So...did we get the prototype?"

Chen Yu's lips curled up slightly: "I see that there is a new heat source in our car."

He didn't answer directly, but his words hinted at success.

Everyone's spirits lifted.

Sometimes, spiritual nourishment is just as important.

"alright,"

Chen Yu picked up a piece of steaming hot mutton and casually put it in his bowl, but did not eat it immediately.

He raised his eyes and calmly swept his gaze over the girls.

"None of you have realized how truly terrifying this mission is."

A look of doubt flashed across Deng Yuxin's face: "What's truly terrifying?"

Chen Yu shook his head, put the piece of mutton in his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, before continuing, "Yes."

"Three prototypes, ten teams, which means... at least seven teams were wiped out."

As soon as she finished speaking, Deng Yuxin opened her mouth, and a chill ran down her spine.

Li Mengyao and Wang Mengmeng exchanged a glance, both seeing horror in each other's eyes.

They had only thought about how to complete the task, but had never tried to understand the rules from this perspective.

This is not an exploration mission at all...

It was a brutal battle royale!

Zhang Wanyue's voice was hoarse: "So, the possibility of cooperation is almost zero. In any encounter, the first thought isn't mutual assistance, but killing the other?!"

Chen Yu didn't answer, he just kept eating the mutton in the pot...

It's important to know that different vehicles participate in different missions. If you're lucky, you might encounter missions that require cooperation and mutual benefit, or collective survival.

But he really had bad luck.

The first task after leaving the abandoned community was to select three out of ten, which was quite dangerous.

The bus engine roared as it sped across the ice field.

Outside the dark window, blurry scenery rushed past, and other lights could be seen in the rearview mirror.

They are clearly on the same route.

A dozen minutes later, the outline of a cluster of buildings appeared on the horizon ahead.

That should be the outer perimeter of the outpost.

The assembly area indicated on the map is located in the open space in front of the complex of buildings.

When Chen Yu's bus rolled over the last stretch of road and came to a steady stop on the ice field, there was no other vehicle around.

That's right, they were the first of the ten teams to arrive.

Outside the car window, several gray buildings, covered by a thick layer of ice, stood silently.

Further away, the entrance to a deep rift was emitting a faint blue light.

That place is most likely the legendary outpost, the arena where the 86ers fought their way to the death.

"Alright, class monitor, you must be tired from driving."

Chen Yu, still resting with his eyes closed, said, "Eat quickly, we don't have much time left."

Zhang Wanyue got out of the driver's seat and nodded: "Okay."

But she had only picked up her chopsticks a short while ago...

The crunching sound of tires rolling over ice and snow could be heard from outside the car window.

One, two, three...

More and more car headlights pierced the wind and snow, coming from different directions.

Eventually, cars stopped one after another around Chen Yu's bus.

It was a blizzard night, pitch black, with only the vehicle's headlights illuminating the glacier crevasses ahead.

The car doors opened one after another, and figures wrapped up tightly staggered off the bus.

"Holy crap! Where did I end up? Is this still in China?!"

"This is so cold! Are we really going to have to stay here for twelve hours?"

"What the hell is this? Hey? You guys are from the directing department, right? We're from the art department!"

"After all that, it turns out they really are all classmates!"

"There are still forty minutes left on the countdown, and we have to wait until it's all over before we can go in?!"

In the wind and snow, figures moved about, their breaths forming a continuous white cloud.

Some people wanted to enter the building to take shelter from the wind, but found that the entrance was blocked by thick ice and they couldn't break through it no matter how hard they tried.

They had no choice but to retreat back to the vicinity of the convoy, huddling together in small groups.

Inside the bus, Wang Mengmeng leaned against the window, trying hard to make out who was who: "Brother Chen Yu, look at that big SUV, the people getting off are all from the second acting class!"

Li Mengyao also leaned closer, squinting as she looked: "That minibus over there, doesn't it look like it's a mixed bus for the directing and sound recording departments? But how can they be mixed like that?"

Chen Yu said calmly, "If they're a club, wouldn't that make sense?"

Li Mengyao suddenly realized, "Oh, that's true..."

More and more vehicles stopped, and Wang Mengmeng suddenly pointed to a van in the distance.

A middle-aged man wearing a bulky down jacket and glasses was directing several students to unload items from the bus, which appeared to be clothing, with a livid face.

"Director Yu? Isn't he from the administration department? How come he's on Survival Road?"

Li Mengyao's tone was complicated: "He's that genius who advocated extending military training by a month! But looking at him, I guess he's the one who calls the shots in the unit, and those students seem pretty afraid of him..."

Deng Yuxin also spotted some familiar faces and pointed to the other side: "Those girls over there, they look like they're from the dance department..."

While quickly eating, Zhang Wanyue calmly observed, "Chen Yu, if we don't get out of the car, won't it arouse suspicion?"