This game is too real.

Chapter 345 "Evolution" is everywhere

The sky above Qingquan City.

A "Dragonfly" transport plane is circling along the edge of the Fifth Ring Road.

Looking at the boundless yellow-green thick fog outside the cabin, the unprofessional Fanman couldn't help but smacked his tongue, surprise floating in his eyes.

The spore cloud gathered in the city center is like a waterfall rolling down from the cloud, and looks like a giant tree with lush branches from a distance.

The towering torso devours the earth, and the outstretched branches and leaves invade the sky.

Is there really a weapon that can destroy this thing in reality?

Even if it's a nuclear bomb...

A faint chill crawled along the line of sight, Brother Mantou shook his head, picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder and shouted.

"Are you ready?"

Interspersed with the current sound of fried wheat, Lao Bai's intermittent voice came from the earphones.

"Ok."

The signal has begun to fluctuate unstablely, and my intuition tells Brother Mantou that without the protection of anti-electromagnetic interference equipment, this is already the limit that the aircraft can approach.

He pulled the joystick beside him.

Accompanied by an unstable tremor, the hatch locked at the tail of the aircraft was slowly lowered, and the restless air flow was drawn into the cabin.

"The hatch opens—"

"Wish you guys good luck!"

At the same time, Lao Bai, who was standing at the cabin door, gestured to his teammates behind him, and stepped out of the cabin door first against the howling airflow.

The camera zoomed out, and only a few black spots were separated from the cabin, galloping towards the direction of Qingquan city center.Not long after, six parachutes bloomed over the Third Ring Road.

After landing, everyone quickly gathered in the direction of the airdrop, recovering the ammunition and RPG rocket launchers and other support equipment placed there.

At the same time, on the other side.

Boulder City, located on the edge of the West Third Ring Road, is located in the radar station on the giant wall. The operator on duty has already spotted the plane hovering in the sky.

"The UFO is approaching our airspace!" The operator sitting in front of the radar control terminal was the first to notice the red dot on the screen.

However, instead of being nervous, he shouted excitedly.

The radar station was instantly busy.

Most of the staff here are in the same mood as him at the moment.

It has been too long since they have seen the aircraft of other survivor forces appear within the range of the radar alert area.

"Damn it, I'm sure! It's the stuff of those scavengers in the northern suburbs!" an operator cursed excitedly.

"The other party did not respond to our communication!"

"Could it be that they simply don't have radios to pick up the signal?"

"Haha, it's possible!"

While speaking, the colleague sitting next to him was already operating the air defense system, aiming a rapid-fire cannon at the slow silver "big bird".

The computer has calculated the preview circle based on the motion parameters of the aircraft.

All he had to do was press the fire button, and the big silver bird would turn into a ball of fire.

"The opponent has entered our range!"

"Do you want to shoot it down?"

Unlike the excited operators in the radar station, the station master in charge of the radar station is obviously much more cautious.

"hold on."

The plane did not continue heading towards Boulder City, but quickly turned around and headed back towards the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

The staff who operated the weapon had a slightly disappointed expression.

He has been sitting on the bench under his ass for almost ten years, and the air defense system on the giant wall has never come in handy.

A staff member said angrily.

"This is a challenge to us!"

"It's up to the city lord to decide whether it's provocative or not," the station master of the radar station interrupted his speech, and looked at his deputy, "Report this incident immediately!"

The deputy standing aside nodded.

"Yes!"

……

South Third Ring Road, Qingquan City.

The five members of the cow and horse team who landed safely managed to meet up near the airdrop box and got the weapons inside.

However, everyone's expression is not very optimistic.

The situation here is far worse than they imagined.

we can even say……

It was completely beyond their expectations.

The dark red creep covered almost every building, every viaduct, and every corner of the street.

Grim eaters, as well as those slime mold variants that were more vicious than eaters, wandered aimlessly in the fragmented streets.

The most troublesome thing is not only these, but the intricate terrain, which doubles the risk factor here.

The high-rise buildings deep into the clouds are connected by tunnels, making this place truly a "steel forest".

When he parachuted down earlier, Ye Shi almost hung on the pedestrian bridge.

Fortunately, he was lucky, and the parachute passed through the middle of the two broken bridges, and then he landed safely and joined his teammates smoothly.

"Oh my god...it turns out that the center of Qingquan City looks like this."

On the first floor of a thousand-meter-tall building, Ye Shi, wearing a gas mask, stood beside the damaged wall, holding a telescope to look in the direction of the crash site.

The crashed W-1 mosquito glider was stuck on the outer wall of the tall building directly opposite them, and the front half of its body was inserted into the wall.

Falling Feather should be inside.

Ye Shi glanced at his feet.

Below him is the bottomless abyss, the thick spore cloud is like the water in the venom pool, the area that can be observed is very limited.

Visibility here was less than 200 meters due to a spore cloud gathering in the city centre.

In fact, however, due to the countless construction debris and reinforced concrete, the actual visibility is less than half of this figure.

This is much more exciting than the waves.

"Haven't you guys explored this place before?" Quit Smoking said nervously.

Gale shook his head.

"I haven't heard of anyone coming here."

Fang Chang also said: "There are no missions here, and there is no way to save files. Even if you come here, it's meaningless."

You can't go far without high-value equipment, but you have to consider risks if you bring high-value equipment.

This game does not limit the player's specific gameplay, but it also emphasizes that everyone is an adult and needs to be responsible for their own choices.

In fact, earlier, they tried to start from Boulder City and explore in the direction of the third ring road.

However, the fighting power of the alien species encountered along the way became stronger and stronger, and a lot of bullets were wasted but there was no benefit at all, so he finally gave up.

Carefully observing the situation on the way forward, Ye Shi's face became more and more serious, and he lowered his voice and said.

"...There are a lot of evolutions here!"

Hearing the word evolved body, everyone's expressions immediately became serious.

"Corrupted knight?" Lao Bai asked solemnly.

Ye Shi shook his head, did not speak, but pointed lightly to the outside of the tall building, which was connected to the concrete viaduct of another building.

I saw the wreckage of cargo drones lying there, roughly hundreds of them, with packages and takeaway boxes from 200 years ago falling beside them.

The dark red shell looks very rusty, but if you take a closer look with a telescope, you will find that what is attached to the surface of those drones is not rust at all.

It's a shocking creep!
"Those things... I can feel that they are alive," Ye Shi said after a pause, "and I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with!"

Kuangfeng frowned.

"Do you want to bypass them?"

"The situation down there is not much better. Have you forgotten what we saw when we came up?" Lao Bai took out the RPG rocket launcher on his back, inserted a high-explosive grenade, and shot the smoker who was carrying a heavy machine gun. With a gesture, "I can only try."

It was impossible to get around.

The difficulty of stealth in this game is not ordinary, especially those mutant slime molds, where there are spore clouds covering their heads, it seems that there are enemy antennae inserted in their heads.

Get a little closer, and rush forward.

The best way to attack is to choose a relatively safe path, lure out and clear the monsters in the area, and then move on.

Seeing that Lao Bai took out the RPG, the other team members also went to their respective battle positions tacitly, with the weapons in their hands unlocked.

"I'm ready."

"I've got Oak on my side too."

"+1"

"..."

Everyone cooperated quite tacitly. After all, it was not the first time for them to form a team, and they had already experienced countless battlefields.

Seeing his teammates getting ready one after another, Lao Bai pulled the trigger first.

Tail flame jet!

A high-explosive grenade hit the middle of the dense drone group!

As the flames and thick smoke exploded in an instant, a large number of drones were sent flying by the shock waves and fragments of the explosion, and fell towards the ground below.

Quit smoking, who set up a machine gun not far away, also pulled the trigger immediately, unleashing ferocious firepower towards the front area.

The fired 10mm bullets weaved an orange rain of fire in the air, crazily harvesting the frightened drone swarm.

"Damn it... Can this thing really fly?" Fang Chang, who opened fire with his rifle, had a hint of surprise in his eyes.

In 200 years, unless it is nuclear power, no durable chemical energy battery can last for so long!

Obviously, those mutant slime molds replaced the batteries on the drone and became a new power source, driving the propellers in a peculiar way, and even evolved part of the creep into the propeller itself.

but--

In the face of absolute firepower, these are nothing, and the drone swarms rushing out against the billowing smoke, large areas were harvested by bullets.

Everything seems to be going well.

However, at this moment, a sudden change happened!
Not all the drones that were knocked down by the high-explosive grenade fell to the ground and shattered. Some of the surviving little ones flew up again.

At the same time, more and more drones floated out from the viaduct and even the opposite building, and even began to outflank the two sides.

The cow and horse team guarding behind the bunker immediately fell into a hard fight.

"Damn it! Isn't that too much?!" After emptying the whole drum, Quit cursed and immediately replaced the magazine.

At this time, Gu Feng, who was pulling the trigger and pouring firepower, suddenly spoke.

"Is there a possibility?"

Fang Chang: "What do you want to say?"

"The mimicry ability of the mutant slime mold not only imitates individual drones, but the drone group itself..." After a pause, the wind continued, "Simply put, it is not a certain express package that attacks us, but A whole express cabinet."

Ye Shi was startled.

"Fuck! Don't be crowed!"

"It's not a crow's mouth, as long as you find the 'drone hive' that dominates these little guys, it should be able to make them lose their organization..."

Watching the quitting machine gun resume its firepower, Kuangfeng took out the drone with the IED strapped in his backpack, and prepared to control it to fly to the opposite building.

The VM is turned on.

The neural access device is worn on the head.

However, at this moment, Kuangfeng's expression froze suddenly.

Noticing the change in his expression, Ye Shi hurriedly asked.

"what's the situation?"

Feng Feng, who was holding on to the earphones, frowned, glanced at the VM screen in front of him, and said in a deep voice.

"Can't connect to..."

Heck.

Obviously there is still a little signal left!

"%￥#@!"

Ye Shi cursed and knocked off the empty clip on the rifle.

Now nobody can count on it.

If you want to survive, you can only try your best to shoot down all the drones in front of you!

However, at this moment, a drone suddenly broke through the firepower net, passed through the broken wall on the side of the building, and rushed towards Ye Shi.

The warning signs suddenly sounded in my heart!

Ye Shi reflexively let go of the magazine in his hand, and pulled out the ten-man pistol inserted in the belt.

however--

Even though he warned of the danger in advance, his hand was still a step slower after all.

The drone covered with dark red creeper bumped head-on, and the tentacles protruding from the bottom of the fuselage popped out like lightning, and slammed towards his face.

Ye Shi only had time to see the black shadow flash, and then his consciousness fell into the boundless darkness.

A light blue pop-up window appears.

【Disconnect】

At the same time, another world.

In a certain dormitory in the boys' dormitory of Jiangcheng University, an abrupt ghostly cry suddenly sounded.

"Boiled!"

Hearing the movement from the bed, all the animals sitting below were stunned on the spot, and the hands that pressed the guns stopped.

what's going on?
There was no sound in the bedroom.

Sun Gan turned his head to look at the bed behind him, and was about to ask what happened, when Brother Awei's voice drifted over from the bed.

"Sau Rui...something happened just now."

Ye Wei, who was sitting on the bed, stared at the helmet in his hand, his chest heaving slowly.

The three roommates looked at each other.

I don't know what happened, but it's fine.

"Hey... a small problem, it's okay."

"We don't care, but you pay attention to your body..."

"Indeed, playing R18 games is still shouting so loudly, it's hard for my buddies not to worry about you."

Ye Wei: "..."

MMP!

These gangsters!
Ye Wei rolled his eyes and threw the helmet beside the pillow.

Getting up and helping the ladder to get out of bed, he went to the balcony to wash his face, leaned against the guardrail, took out his mobile phone, and glanced at Xiaoqun.

"Is anyone there?" he texted.

After a while, no one came back.

Seeing this, Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that everyone is fine, only I accidentally gave it in vain.

However, when he thought that he would not be able to log in for the next three days, he felt depressed for a while.

Good guy.

The withdrawal reaction has begun!

Just when Ye Wei was about to close the Q group and go to the official website to see what new work the sand sculptures were doing, a message popped up in the group.

Ah Guang: "Yes, what happened?"

Seeing the ID of the sudden fraudulent corpse, Ye Shi was startled.

What the fuck?

Dog planning!
"Brother Guang?!"

"you are still alive??"

Suddenly realizing that there seemed to be something wrong with his way of asking, Ye Wei quickly withdrew the message, and typed at the speed of light to answer the sentence below.

"Uh, I mean you actually remembered the account password."

Ah Guang: "..."

Ye Wei looked a little embarrassed, and sent a dog head to relieve the atmosphere.

However, the broad-minded Brother Guang didn't care about such trivial matters, and quickly changed the subject on his own initiative.

Ah Guang: "How is the situation on your side? Are you in contact with the enemy?"

Isn't this a well-intentioned question?

But it was rare to have a few words with the dog planning, Ye Wei still answered truthfully.

"Well, we ran into a different species not long after we landed. The situation inside the third ring road was even worse than we expected, on the ground, in the sky, and underground... the intricate traffic is like a maze, with paper maps and compass Not really useful at all, we ended up relying on VMs and weak signals for bearings."

"Then there are alien species... here are not just eaters, crawlers and tyrants, but also a large number of ancient machines operating in this area."

Aguang: "Ancient machine?"

Ye Wei continued typing.

"It's an evolutionary body! For example, the power armor wrapped in slime mold, tanks, self-propelled robots, etc. that appeared in the wave expansion pack before... Anyway, they are all weird things."

"By the way, there are also drones! We encountered a large group on the way to the crash site, densely packed like locusts!"

Aguang: "About those evolutionary bodies, can you explain to me in detail?"

After a few seconds, he added another sentence later.

"I mainly want to understand the situation on the new map from the player's perspective."

Although he thought it was a bit strange, Ye Wei didn't think much about it. He picked the screen of his mobile phone and described his experience in the third ring road to Ah Guang in detail.

After a while, Ah Guang replied.

"Well, I probably understand."

After laying the groundwork for such a long time, Ye Wei then typed.

"Brother Guang, is the difficulty in the third ring road too high? The equipment can't keep up, and it's hard to push in with just a few light weapons."

"It is strongly recommended that the weapon store put power armor on the shelves!"

There are too many advanced monsters!

This level design is simply unreasonable!
however--

Hikari doesn't seem to intend to follow his advice.

"I can't help with the difficulty. Part of the game content is generated by the server itself, and part of it is added by the player. We are only responsible for maintaining the operation of the server and dealing with violations... Sorry."

"I have something to do here, let's go down first and talk back."

Auto-generated game content is okay.

What kind of Ubisoft behavior is this?
Looking at the two lines of messages on the screen, Ye Wei had a helpless expression on his face.

Believe it or not, Ah Guang didn't intend to continue explaining to him. After asking what he wanted to ask, he went offline mercilessly.

I was the only one left in the group.

It's pointless to keep guarding, the empty and lonely Ye Wei sighed, closed the group chat window, opened the browser and boarded the forum.

This point on the forum is very lively.

The speed at which the news in the gossip section was refreshed was dizzying. Almost every time it was refreshed, the posts on the homepage would change completely.

At this moment, Ye Wei was surprised to find that Ah Guang secretly updated an announcement while he was not paying attention?
Curiously, he went in and took a look, and he was stunned on the spot.

【Map information update: Qingquan city center】

[Map overview: The central area of ​​Qingquan has been completely sacked by the slime mold, and a large number of equipment left over from the prosperous era has been assimilated by the fruiting body of the mutant slime mold, forming an evolutionary body with a special structure...]

[Recommended exploration level: LV.25 and above]

[Map Tip 1: Recycle the remains of the evolved body and exchange them for high rewards in the scientific expedition team! 】

【…】

There is nothing wrong with recommending exploration levels and map tips.

It's just the column of "Map Overview"...

Why does he look so familiar? ?
……

Wasteland world.

Shuguang City Industrial Zone, the train platform near Bach Aluminum Factory.

The staff is busy operating the crane equipment, loading some large equipment that has been dismantled into parts onto the pallet of the freight train.

The industrial areas of the New Union are moving north.

This work will be carried out in parallel with the construction of Dawn City.

At that time, the industrial area of ​​Shuguang City will be transformed into a light industrial base focusing on the production of consumer goods.

Heavy industries, including steel, weapons, and heavy equipment production, will be transferred to Dawn City in the north.

After listening to Xiaoyu's introduction, Pai asked curiously.

"Why are you moving north?"

Xiaoyu said helplessly.

"Because it's so close to our neighbors."

Pai asked the bottom line.

"Do you have a bad relationship with them?"

With her index finger resting on her chin, she thought for a while and replied.

"Well... I can't say whether it's good or not. In Brother Chu's words, we are too close to them, and it is dangerous for each other."

Of course, there are also a series of factors such as being closer to the raw material production area in the north and having a larger population, but it is too troublesome to explain in detail, and Xiaoyu himself has only a half-knowledge, so he simply omitted it.

"Ok."

Accepting this argument, Pai temporarily put this trivial matter aside, and continued to search around the stockpiling area.

Looking at her movements, Xiaoyu couldn't help asking curiously.

"What are you looking for?"

"Some ingredients!"

"raw material?"

"It's nothing, you don't have to worry about it, it won't harm you anyway!"

Looking at the confident Pai, Xiaoyu tilted his head in confusion. Although he was still very curious, he didn't ask any more questions in the end.

"Okay...can I help you?"

"Really? That's great!" Pai's eyes lit up, and he excitedly gestured the size of a cup with his hands. "First, I need a bottle of crude oil. It doesn't matter the type... probably this much is enough!"

To teach that disrespectful guy a deep lesson.

This is the necessary material!
"Yuan, crude oil?" Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Is biomass crude oil okay?"

Pai rubbed his chin in thought for a moment.

"Biomass crude oil...it's a bit troublesome, but it's okay!"

"Anyway, get a bottle and have a look first!"

……

the other side.

South of Shuguang City, a nursing home in Linghu Wetland Park.

Having just learned about the situation in the city center from Ye Shi, Chu Guang is planning to continue to conceive the unfinished reform plan and the updated content of Beta0.3 version.

However, just as he was staring at the newly created folder on the screen, wondering what title would be more appropriate, an unexpected phone call suddenly hit him.

Seeing that the communication request came from the "New Alliance Office in Boulder City", Chu Guang temporarily stopped his work and pressed the connect button.

Soon, Shuyu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"5 minutes ago, people from the City Hall of Jushi City came to my place."

People from City Hall?
A hint of surprise appeared in Chu Guang's eyes.

"What did they say?"

Shuyu continued.

"On trade and security issues..."

"The Minister of City Hall would like to speak with you on the phone."

(End of this chapter)