This game is too real.

Chapter 505 Survivors of the Pioneer

The glaring white light pierced through the slits of the eyes, and Yi Hai, who was lying flat on the hospital bed, frowned.

As consciousness gradually recovered, burning pain suddenly rushed to his throat, and he retched sideways reflexively.

"Ugh! Keke—"

After throwing up sour water, he was quickly pushed back by two men in white coats.

Thinking that he was caught by the Willant people, he instinctively wanted to struggle, but after hearing the conversation next to him, the struggling movement stopped.

"Doctor! How's his condition?!"

"Sequelae of freezing... Long-acting dormancy injections are required for cryopreservation for more than half a year, and this will happen when short-term dormancy injections are used. Fortunately, you found him in time. In two months, he may really die." Turned into ice."

"elder brother."

Hearing the familiar voice, his consciousness finally returned to his body. Yi Hai moved his stiff neck and looked at the young man standing beside him.

"...Yi Chuan?"

"It's me!" Looking at the dying man on the hospital bed, Yi Chuan's calm face finally couldn't contain his sobs.

Sniffing hard, he tried his best to squeeze out a worry-free smile.

"We're here to take you home!"

Yi Hai's Adam's apple twitched, and a sense of relief finally stretched out on his haggard face.

"You are here..."

"We won't give up on every homeless resident, we will bring them back no matter the cost."

The solemn voice came together with the heels of the footsteps.

Walking to the side of the hospital bed, Wu Changnian patted Yi Chuan on the shoulder, and continued in a gentle tone.

"Your relatives are out of danger. For those who have not been rescued, I have something to talk to him about."

Yi Chuan nodded vigorously, gave his elder brother who was lying on the hospital bed a relieved look, took a step back, turned around and walked out of the tent.

Watching his younger brother's back disappear at the door, Yi Hai glanced at Wu Changnian who was standing by the bed, and then at Chu Guang, a hint of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

"Are you...the manager?"

"Yes." Chu Guang smiled and nodded, looking at the surprised face.

He knew very well that Captain Lu Yang's adjutant must be full of questions now.Even the expression on that face, it seems to ask "how are you here".

It's normal to have questions like this.

After all, Yi Hai's memory of Qingquan City was still a year ago, and the concept of alliance did not even exist at that time.

In the eyes of the crew of the Pioneer, they just passed by an inconspicuous small village, and both sides did each other a small favor within their capabilities.

Looking at those confused eyes, Chu Guang continued in a relaxed tone.

"I can't finish talking about us for three days and three nights. I bet our story is no less exciting than your journey along the way... But before talking about us, I hope you can tell me, Where are the rest of the crew?"

Wu Changnian also stared at him and said.

"Where are the others on the Pathfinder?"

With the back of his head resting on the pillow, Yi Hai closed his eyes and sorted out the chaotic memories for a moment, putting them together like a puzzle.

"They...should have gone in."

"Go in? Where?" Wu Changnian hurriedly asked.

"refuge……"

"Is it Vault 0?"

"I don't know," Yi Hai's pupils were filled with uncertainty, and he continued in a hesitant voice, "It should be there...we found its entrance, Lu Yang said, and he planned to take Lead the rest of the people to the shelter to avoid the pursuit of the Willantes and mutants."

There was a sudden pain between his brows, and he raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead.

"...It shouldn't be just the Willantes and mutants who attacked us. The equipment they use is more elite than the Legion's equipment, and it's closer to pre-war."

Elite equipment?

Wu Changnian frowned.

"Could it be a college?"

"Not like..."

Yi Hai shook his head, coughed and continued.

"We haven't seen people from the academy... Those people seem to have lived in the desert for a long time, and they are very familiar with this place. At first we thought they came to Vault 0 like us, and Captain Luyan proposed to talk to them Cooperation, if Vault 0 really has the ability to end the wasteland, it wouldn't be a bad thing for one more person to open it, until later, we found out..."

Seeing that he stopped talking, Chu Guang who was listening engrossedly asked immediately.

"What did you find?"

Yi Hai was silent for a long time.

"...the information those people have is beyond our imagination, they seem to know the location of No. it."

Chu Guang frowned.

"Who are those people? Did they say who they are?"

"They seem to be..." Yi Hai thought for a long time, and finally remembered something vaguely, "It seems to be called enlightenment."

……

In the follow-up statement, Yi Hai briefly explained the whole story, including how they discovered the location of No. 0 shelter, including how they had conflicts with the Weilantes, including how they fell into danger, etc. ...

Captain's Office.

Chu Guang, who returned to the airship, stared at the notebook in his hand and fell into deep thought.

On a blank page were scrawled symbols in pencil—two triangles joined upside down to form a torch.

Yi Hai claimed that they had seen this symbol on those people, but he was at a loss for the "Torch Church" he mentioned.

Those people claimed to be an organization called the Enlightenment Society, and most of the members were made up of the blue coats—that is, the residents of the shelter.

After all, the four major industrial areas and the space elevator in the center were once the industrial and economic center of gravity in the Renlian era. Naturally, the number of refuges distributed in these areas is far from the comparison between Luoxia Province and River Valley Province.

Since the end of the nuclear winter, a group of people wake up in an unknown corner almost every year... This enlightenment meeting is composed of some of the shelter residents.

The idea of ​​this organization is just like their name, aiming to restart the declining civilization and save the world that has sunk for 200 years.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Yang chose to cooperate with them to find the No. 0 shelter together.

It's not easy to meet like-minded people in the wasteland.

However, no one expected that those like-minded people would choose to betray at the last moment...

But there is still a doubt.

If it is true as Yi Hai said, the organization that claims to be the "Enlightenment Society" knows the location of No. 0 shelter, and its purpose is to prevent them from finding the shelter, so why do they pretend to cooperate with Lu Yang and others?

Even if you need to rely on a sneak attack to win because you can't win, there is no need to do it after the Pioneer finds the entrance to Vault 0, right?
"...the Enlightenment wants the Enterprise to find it, but is divided on what to do with Vault Zero."

Chu Guang closed his eyes and thought for a while, and finally shook his head.

There is too little information.

There are two possibilities for his guess, but no matter which one it is, there is no reliable evidence to prove it. Maybe the answer is hidden in No. 0 Vault.

In any case, they already got the exact coordinates of the entrance to Vault 0 from Yi Hai.

It was an industrial building covering an area of ​​over a thousand acres, or to put it more vividly, it was a "vertical assembly factory".

The two major achievements of the Prosperous Era, one is to pack farmland into a thousand-meter-high building, and the other is to pack an assembly line into it.

And it was stuffed in on a large scale.

According to the information provided by Yi Hai, that building was the entrance to Shelter 0, and a wreckage of the space elevator happened to land in that area.

Due to the existence of radiation, many extremely dangerous alien species are active in the local area.

At present, the 26th commando of the company has sent some people to control the entrance of the building. Tomorrow, representatives from all parties will officially enter the ruins and unveil the mystery of Vault 0.

Chu Guang released the communication relay drone carried on the airship, and taking advantage of the opportunity to regularly return the archived data, sorted out and updated the previously collected information to the official website.

At this moment, the forum is still immersed in the joy of victory in the Luoxia Provincial War.

Since there are only a small number of players who follow the airship, most of the players who participated in the expedition returned by land with the large force of NPCs, or wandered back slowly in groups of three or four.

Most players share what they saw on the way back on the forum, including what they found in the Honey Badger Kingdom and the Lion Kingdom, or new ways to play that they accidentally unlocked during the journey, etc.

For example, you can buy a piece of land in an oasis and become a farmer with the rewards from the settlement of the expansion pack.Another example is staying in the local area and helping the Alliance garrison to fight against looters and run errands.

"Wasteland OL" does not stipulate how players must play certain games, but only stipulates some things that cannot be done through the player manual, and the consequences of violating the rules.

Except for a few major nodes related to the direction of the world line, most of the time players can find the fun of this open world game by themselves.

Whether it's using the knowledge that can be found outside the game to help wastelanders improve productivity, or just talking about a boring partner or something.

Even for the vast majority of players, if you leave aside the huge rewards brought by the main quest, the side quests accidentally triggered in the game or the strange ways to unlock them are more fun than those "artificially designed routes".

But even so, when Chu Guang used Ah Guang's vest to update the latest clues of the main plot on the forum, it still attracted the attention of countless players.

The post was published in less than 1 minute.

The number of replies quickly broke through thousands.

Quitting Smoking: "Initiation??? What's That Thing?"

Tail: "Oh! I smell a conspiracy. (っω)っ"

Sisi: "Oh! The new expansion pack... Wait, the new expansion pack will continue to go west, right? I've bet on the south in advance. Σ(дlll)"

Tail:"··?"

Picking up trash at level 99: "Hiss... isn't this the symbol of the Torch Church from before? That's what was painted on the alien-controlling collar that was put on the NPC store in the early days, right?"

Big Eyes in Debt: "One thing to say, this logo is really ugly, could it be that Ah Guang drew it with a pencil? (Funny)"

Construction site boy and Brick: "@谷阳迷起Mole, please comment."

The mole on the run in the canyon: "There is a sense of unruly in the scribbles, rough without losing the details, you can see the artistic skills in the rough and fine in every stroke, and it is a good job!"

Big eyes in debt: "???"

Quit smoking: "Hahahaha! So licking!"

Irene: "No wonder you lost your job. (funny)"

Ye Shi: "Brother Guang! Some people say you are thin!"

Mole on the run in the canyon: "%￥#@!"

Sis: "By the way, the founder of the Church of the Torch... the guy who claims to be the Son of God is also a refugee resident, right?"

Fujito: "Hmm... the official website's setting seems to say that they are wastelanders adopted by the shelter? But they grew up in the shelter."

Yaya: "Ah!!! Could it be that guy is also a member of the Enlightenment Society?"

The mole on the run in the canyon: "It doesn't really matter whether he is a member of the Enlightenment Society. The updated Enlightenment Society this time gives me the feeling that it is just a regional force. The Church of the Torch at least participated in the Legion's Great Crusade and the subsequent bone chewing." Chaos, and they... seem to have shut down the Pioneer, the sense of existence is too low."

Ye Shi: "Didn't everyone say that the really awesome bosses are hiding behind the scenes? (Funny)"

Kuangfeng: "That's a misunderstanding... you need a conspiracy if you are not strong enough. If you are really awesome, you will directly show your cards. (Squint eyes)"

Fang Chang: "After reading it, I have found two doubts. First, why does the Enlightenment Society, which aims to restart civilization, prevent companies from approaching Vault 0? Second, what is the relationship between the Torch Church in the far south and the Enlightenment Society in the middle of the mainland?" What's the connection."

Ye Shi: "I suspect Brother Guang didn't even think about how to make it up. (Funny)"

Fang Chang: "Then you underestimated him. I feel like there is a big game behind this... Speaking of which, what is Vault 0?"

Fujito: "Hmm... a big, big shelter?"

Fang Chang: "How big is it? In other words, how many black boxes and power armors must be installed in it to restore the world to its original appearance?"

Kuangfeng: "Well... You are right when you say that. I always feel that the three major forces of the academy, the company, and the legion may have information that we don't know. Even our allies and companies have not fully shared with us what they know. .”

Fang Chang: "This is inevitable. My intuition tells me that maybe our thinking was wrong from the beginning."

Ye Shi: "What do you mean? (Stunned)"

Fang Chang: "When the computer freezes, there are three commonly used solutions, one is to wait for the program to respond, the other is to end the current process, or restart the computer directly."

"The underlying logic of most refuges in the establishment should be regarded as the first type. Most of the elements that constitute civilization, such as personnel, resources, energy, knowledge, tools, etc., are preserved and unsealed when it is suitable for rebuilding civilization... This is a kind of It is a relatively mild solution, but when it comes to different shelters, the way of implementation will be different."

"However, Vault 0 is a 'legendary' existence after all. Neither the enterprise, the academy nor the legion has any relevant data about it, and it is not even sure whether it has been built..."

"An irresponsible guess, perhaps in the underlying logic of this shelter, it is fundamentally different from other shelters."

Yaya: "Ah, you mean... that might not be a shelter at all?"

Fang Chang: "Don't worry, I'm just making a conspiracy theory based on the relevant settings of the Enlightenment Society. It may not be as beautiful as the rumors. (Squint eyes)"

It can only be said that he is the man who knows Ah Guang best on the forum, and Fang Chang's guess quickly sparked new discussions.

Some players tend to think that this is a new job for the dog planner, while other players think that things are not that complicated.

As for the cloud players, they don't care about this, they only care about when they can increase the production of helmets again.

They have missed a magnificent expedition.

Looking at the cakes drawn by the dog planning, many reserved players who have not yet entered the game feel very cold in their hearts.

There are some players who hope that the production team will update slower in the EA stage, which is considered unique in the history of the game...

Lao Bai: "By the way, let's stop talking about what's there and what's not. When are you coming back? You have a new job. (Show your teeth)"

Fang Chang: "Cough, soon, it's just a few days... Don't worry, I will definitely come back before you."

Battlefield atmosphere group: "Hey! Are you planning to PY with the dog again?"

Lao Bai: "It doesn't exist, so you should come back as soon as possible. (Show your teeth)"

Battlefield atmosphere group: "What does it have to do with me?"

Lao Bai: "It's nothing, I'm just urging people, whether it's related or not, I'll find out when you come back."

Battlefield atmosphere group: "...?"

……

The next day.

The bottom of an abandoned industrial building.

Several big dogs with grayish-yellow skin, long arms and long fangs were wandering on the gravel-strewn steps, looking for prey with their sensitive noses, unaware that danger had quietly approached their throats.

A strange species suddenly raised its head vigilantly and looked around.

However, before it could growl, a few short "chirp" gunshots pierced through the heads of those alien species.

There was a sound in the seabuckthorn grass, and the small animals were frightened by the sound and quickly fled, and several exoskeletons appeared in the shadow not far away.

Pointing his index finger on the helmet, Su Ming glanced at the drone hovering in the sky, then looked around, and said in a clear voice.

"Five alien species were killed, and the image data has been recovered... The entrance to the building has been controlled, and it is confirmed that there are no other threats... Damn, don't ask me to name it again."

According to the information from Yi Hai, it seems that an unknown third party is targeting Vault 0... But Su Ming thinks that this might just be a trick of the Willant people.

It's not that those guys don't have high-tech equipment, it's just that the number is relatively small.

Otherwise, how to explain how the Pioneer was targeted by the Weilantes and surrounded by a large number of clone troopers?
As for the enlightenment meeting.

Maybe it was the rhetoric made up by the Willant people in order to get close to the Pioneer. The outrageous thing is that Captain Lujan believed it.

If it was him, he wouldn't trust the strangers he met in the wasteland.

"It's better to upload it to the endpoint cloud and let netizens vote to decide."

"Good idea, when is the next time we release migratory birds back?"

"Looks like tomorrow."

"Gan..."

Su Ming cursed in a low voice, turned on the vertical stabilization system of the battle video, and prepared to record some interesting material and update it on social accounts.

At the same time, ten armed trucks drove out of the camp, leading a group of soldiers and representatives who were about to explore the ruins, and rushed towards the downstairs of the emptied industrial building.

The wreckage of the space elevator is not far from here, a towering curved metal shell embedded in the ground like the roof of a hangar.

I heard that this magnificent component is just a "tile", a brick, on that space elevator.

Just looking at the broken bricks and tiles, it is really hard to imagine how majestic the Tongtian Tower leading to space was before it collapsed.

The four forces gathered downstairs in the building.

The tall Willante, clad in heavy flak armor, was led by an officer with a protruding nose and deep eye sockets.Standing next to him was a subordinate who looked handsome in different styles. It was the pangolin who had killed countless enemies on the battlefield.

Wall-E glanced triumphantly at the Union soldiers who were said to have made their fellow men suffer on the battlefield.

The reason why Mr. Cohen named the pangolin to be his bodyguard was probably because he wanted to show off his power in front of the alliance.

However, what made him puzzled was why those guys' reactions were so flat, and they didn't look this way at all.

Don't you know this brave general under his command?
Or because of fear, he didn't even dare to make eye contact with it.

Thinking of this, Wally's mouth could not help but curl up into a smile.

Too weak!

The Battlelander who was standing at the front of the queue with him had a distressed expression on his face, his toes clenched to the ground.

Oh shit.

This is too embarrassing!
Unlike the legion, the college was quite low-key, and only a female researcher with long black hair came.

Next to her was a four-legged robotic dog that was half the height of a person, with a bulging backpack hanging from its broad back.

Since getting out of the car, she hasn't communicated with anyone, standing in a place she feels safe with a look of no strangers.

This is mostly the case when the academy's fellows are outside.

There are many reasons left over from history and the high cost of equipment, so that almost every student in the academy suffers from persecution paranoia.

In fact, this can't be considered a delusion. After all, the prospectors of the academy are full of treasures, which is almost common sense in the wasteland.

After leaving the academy, most prospectors choose to hide their past identities... This is exactly the opposite of corporate employees who are keen on bragging.

Most of the survivor forces have to weigh the risk of being blacklisted when they want to attack the employees of the company.

Especially in the province between the clouds, things are done too ostentatiously, which arouses the anger of all people and gods on the endpoint cloud, and may attract the pursuit of corporate allies or direct commandos.

He was confirming the task assigned to him by the mentor through the holographic window, at this moment, Jiang Xuezhou frowned suddenly.

She always felt that two eyes were staring at her...

In fact, her senses were spot on.

But it wasn't a human being staring at her, but a bionic person from the company.

Staring straight at the little girl from the academy, Hanshuang said with an indignant face.

"The solar eclipse...why don't you let us go? Strictly speaking, bionics shouldn't be considered human, right? Wouldn't it be better to bring more people down?"

The pupils of the eclipse flickered slightly.

"It is said that this is the academy's proposal."

Frost looked at it dissatisfied.

"But didn't they also bring a mechanical dog with an AI core installed? What's the difference?"

Eclipse was silent for a while.

"That... shouldn't be considered human."

Frost's face was full of humiliation and unwillingness, and she clenched her fists.

"Damn... Isn't it just lying on the stomach? It's not like I can't."

Eclipse: "...?"

While everyone was waiting, the passage from the main entrance of the building to the entrance of Shelter 0 was completely opened.

Leading his subordinates out of the hall on the first floor, Yun Song, the captain of the 26th commando, happened to bump into Yun You who had just got off the car.

This time, the company arranged to enter Vault 0 with two representatives, one was Yunyou, and the other was his best scout, Su Ming.

Seeing Yun You walking towards him, Yun Song asked with a rare hesitation and restraint on his face.

"Are you... all right?"

Yunyou simply nodded.

"No problem, we have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Legion, and there are only two of them."

"I always felt the threat wasn't just from the Willanters..."

Looking back at the abandoned building, Yun Song looked at Yun You again, seeing that her expression did not loosen at all, finally gave up and sighed.

"Be careful for a while."

Yun You nodded and said concisely.

"Ah."

not far away.

Seeing Yunyou and Yunsong standing together, Ye Shi moved closer to the NPC teammate who was about to download the book together for a while, and asked curiously.

"Hey, brother, what is the relationship between your captain and the representative from the Endpoint Group...?"

He was curious before.

Both of them have the surname Yun, but they are completely different in character and temperament, and they don't even look like people of the same age at all.

Su Ming said with a mysterious face.

"you guess?"

Ye Shi squinted at him.

"You are so mysterious... I guess it must not be siblings."

"Smart," Su Ming gave a thumbs up, approving, "Keep guessing."

"...mother and son?"

Su Ming shook his head like a rattle.

"No, this generation is far behind."

"It's okay if the seniority is far away... Aunt and nephew? Grandpa and grandson? Damn, what is it?" Ye Shi couldn't help but swear when he saw that guy kept showing off.

Su Ming chuckled.

"I told you that you would never guess."

Seeing that his teammates were about to be driven crazy, he no longer kept his secrets, and leaned closer to Ye Shi's ear and whispered.

"Actually... In terms of seniority, she should be considered the grandma of our captain's ancestors..."

Ye Shi was stunned, and his worldview was immediately severely damaged.

"Fuck?!"

Su Ming shrugged.

"This kind of situation is actually not uncommon in Ideal City. One day you are at work, and you suddenly learn that a direct blood relative in your ancestors has a sister or brother or brother who has been frozen in sleep since 100 years ago. Now that guy is sitting in the hospital Flipping through the non-existent camera, thinking that I have become the target of a prank show, and everyone around me is conspiring to deceive me... Can you understand this feeling?"

"Wake up, your incurable disease is cured, but the world you know is finished along with your pension."

He paused for a moment, then continued.

"It's another matter for someone who suddenly picks up an ancestor. Now you have to worry about how to let him or her accept the reality and explain...what's your situation."

Ye Shi was stunned for a moment.

"...Ah this."

He hadn't thought about this problem before, he just thought it would be cool to go to the future in frozen hibernation.

The bionic maid in the game may be able to complete the set in reality, and the deposit in the bank card seems to be doubled.

But when you think about it, this assumption seems to be the default "tomorrow will be better".

What if the future gets worse?
It's kind of creepy to think about it that way.

"Of course... I'm just making an analogy. Our captain and Ms. Yunyou are in a different situation... In short, she comes from the era of prosperity, and her knowledge is of great use to us. We will protect her in a while .”

Seeing the team leader's gesture of assembly, Su Ming patted Ye Shi on the shoulder and said with a grin.

"Let's go brother, ready to work."
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(A bit late today, sorry!)

(End of this chapter)