This game is too real.

Chapter 509 The Eighth Person
"Roar--!"

The deafening roar echoed in the corridor, almost cracking the alloy walls and floors.

Meng Liang, who was covering his ears, had a distorted expression in pain.

He poked his head out and looked towards the corridor, and he could almost see the circles of dust raised by the huge impact.

"Fuck... this thing is a bit evil!"

Dodging the whistling fatal blow, the warfield guy glanced at the door panel embedded in the wall behind him, trembling like a tuning fork, his face turned pale.

Good guy!
What kind of war goddess Sivir is this.

If this is cut, even Brother Guang will probably be cut in half...

I thought it was a shield warrior, but I didn't expect the decayed knight to bang twice, and threw the "shield" and "sword" in his hands at him and Su Ming like javelins.

"Oh shit……"

Su Ming was hit hard by a steel bar on his chest, and Su Ming struggled to get up from the ground.

Ignoring the burning pain in his chest, he managed to concentrate in a trance, grabbed the Gauss rifle that fell on the ground, and pointed it at the monster standing at the end of the corridor.

"go to hell!!!"

The moment the index finger pulled the trigger, the arc flickered!

Countless projectiles exploded from the barrel of the gun, rushing towards the end of the corridor like a shower, and sparks jumped on the decayed knight's armor for a moment.

Unfortunately, it didn't penetrate his armor!
The decayed knight stretched out his right hand, clasped it on the door panel of one side of the room, and tore it off with a sudden force.

The faces of both of them changed, and while the Zhandi guy continued to pull the trigger to fire, he yelled at Su Ming who was beside him.

"Not enough power! Can your thing... store power?"

He remembered that Ye Shi's Gauss rifle could increase the penetration of single-shot mass bullets through charging.

A fully charged fatal blow that can pierce even the armor of a Conqueror tank!

Apparently, he also found that the evolutionary body's defense was ridiculously strong. Before the voice of Zhandi fell, Su Ming had already taken a deep breath and set up the guy in his hand.

The number of the battery capacity indicator dropped rapidly, and the front end of the capacitor emitted a light blue arc, and the penetrating muzzle was brewing terrifying energy!

"I need time!"

"How long?" Looking at the rotten knight who was fine after being hit by a shuttle, the warfield guy asked through gritted teeth while changing the magazine.

"ten--"

Before the words were finished, a strong wind howled, and the decayed knight standing at the end of the corridor suddenly exerted force on his feet, and he rushed towards him like a cannonball.

The wide-ranging attack made both of them unexpected,
A hurricane blew up from the door panel that swept over, and with just one touch, Su Minglian flew out with his gun fan, making him incapacitated, and soon he slashed at the Zhandi guy again, knocking him into the air Hit the corridor wall.

"cough--!"

The battlefield guy who accidentally bit his lip took a mouthful of bloody saliva, glanced at the broken rifle in his hand, and threw it aside.

Thanks to the fact that he subconsciously blocked it just now, otherwise that just now would have been enough to send him back to his hometown.

Thinking of this, the Zhandi guy couldn't help being afraid for a while.

Such a terrifying power——

Quantified into attributes, it might break a hundred!

The most terrible thing is that its speed and defense are not weak at all, and it has the absolute defense as hard as a turtle shell and the tenacious vitality unique to slime mold.

Even if an occasional bullet can penetrate the weak link of its defense, it is not enough to cause fatal damage to it.

This is not a contest of the same level at all!
"hateful……"

The Warlander gritted his teeth and pulled out the short sword hanging from his waist. When the decayed knight rushed towards him again, he slashed at its head.

Just listen to the muffled sound of clang!
He only felt that the dagger in his hand was chopping on a mountain, and he felt a short stabbing pain in his tiger's mouth.Before he came back to his senses, the whole person had been lifted out by the door panel against his chest.

The bulletproof armor on his chest was dented inward, and the warfield guy let out a muffled grunt before hitting his back heavily on the ground.

Not far away, on the head of the decaying knight, only a layer of dark red creep had been shaved off by the toothpick-like dagger.

His full blow did not even leave a scratch on the helmet.

But think about it...

That's power armor.

The warlord smiled wryly, thinking that if he had known that the evolved body he encountered was a decayed knight, he would never have come here.

However, there is no medicine for regret, and now he is only thankful that he seized the opportunity to save the file.

Step by step, he walked in front of him.

The decayed knight swung his right arm high, looking at the door panel held tightly in his hand, he was about to smash the warlord into a pulp.

But at this moment, the movement of its hand suddenly stopped.

The Zhandi guy opened half of his eyes and found that half of the palm-sized eyepiece was exposed where he had been slashed by his sword before.

It used to be covered with thick creep.

A disturbing scarlet light flickered behind the eyepiece, and suddenly circles of pale blue ripples swept across the mirror.

The power armor, which has been completely paralyzed and even shut down the reactor, seems to be awakened after activating a certain program.

A limited amount of electricity was pouring out from the backup power supply, and the reverse-driven mechanical structure completely stopped its movement, completely freezing the raised right arm.

Even if the flesh beneath the steel has rotted—

What remains of his will still govern the invincible armor.

Accompanied by an exhaust sound of "呲", the circular tube-shaped fusion battery pops out from the back of the armor.At the same time, a low growl mixed with electric sounds leaked from the helmet.

"kill me."

There is no time to hesitate.

After recovering his mobility, Su Ming gritted his teeth and propped up half of his body. He threw a cylindrical plasma grenade in the direction of the pangolin.

"...the silver tab is the switch! Plug this into the power armor's battery port...behind it!"

Knowing what he meant, without waiting for that sentence to finish, the warfield guy grabbed the grenade that rolled in front of him, quickly rolled to the back of the decayed knight, and pulled out the fusion battery on its back.

Then he unplugged the grenade's fuse and slammed it into the loose battery connector.

"Get out of the way!"

Without Su Ming's reminder at all, the Zhandi guy who had completed this series of actions had already rushed forward instinctively.

Almost at the same time, a dazzling white light exploded behind the corrupt knight, and the bursting electric sparks scattered and splashed along with the jumping electric arc.

The solid plasma poured into the inside of the power armor, instantly roasting the slime mold that filled the armor into coke.

"Roar--!"

The painful roar shook the entire corridor.

As if the strength of the whole body was drained by the glaring white light, the scarlet light sticking to the back of the tactical eyepiece gradually faded, and the entire armor completely lost power. The body bent forward slightly, and knelt heavily on the ground.

Seeing that the evolutionary body was finally killed, the battlefield guy lying on the ground finally breathed a sigh of relief. After panting for a long time, he gritted his teeth and dragged his body paralyzed by the electric current to stand up from the ground.

At some point, he had already walked in front of the power armor, and Su Ming, who was holding a Gauss rifle, looked at it silently and did not speak for a long time.

After removing the sunken breastplate, the warband walked to his side.

"acquaintance?"

"Ah."

Su Ming nodded silently.

The warband's Adam's apple twitched.

He had already guessed the identity of this person, but he still asked.

"he is……"

"Captain Lu."

Su Ming didn't say much, and reached into the helmet with the mask open, took out the black card attached to the inside of the helmet, kept it tightly in his hand, and finally stuffed it into the interlayer of the exoskeleton.

That's the backup of the power armor's action record.

The video inside may explain what happened here...

Hearing that there was no movement outside, Meng Liang nervously walked out from the side room.

Looking at the power armor standing there motionless, he swallowed.

"ended?"

"Ah, it's over," the Warfield guy cast his eyes on the room at the end of the corridor, and said with a complicated expression, "The manager's office is just ahead."

The three continued to move forward.

The Zhandi guy reached out and touched the movable door. He thought that there would be some mechanism blocking the front, but he didn't expect the door to open easily.

Behind the door is a modestly decorated room.

There is only a bookshelf without books on one side, a desk, a chair, and a terminal on the desk.

Meng Liang walked forward quickly, and after turning it on, he flicked his hands on the touch keyboard for a while to operate, but he couldn't enter the system after trying for a long time.

"Use this." Su Ming walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and handed over the hard drive that Yunyou gave him before.

"Thank you."

Meng Liang embarrassedly reached out to take it, and plugged it into the port on the side of the terminal.

With the introduction of the smart hacking program, after a short operation, he finally got the password of the manager's office terminal.

"The firefighting system in the power room has been activated, and the brood has been dormant... It seems that the Willant and the researcher of the academy are one step ahead of us." Meng Liang heaved a sigh of relief, and slumped on the chair with relief.

In fact, as Yunyou said, the terminal in the manager's office may not be able to bypass the core authority and shut down the reactor in the power room.

Fortunately, they made a second insurance and sent a team to go to the power room to manually activate the fire protection system, otherwise they would have to face even more troublesome troubles than the previous evolutionary body.

"Anyway, the information here is what we need." Su Ming cast an interested look at the terminal, "What's in it?"

"I'm watching, don't worry..."

Meng Liang tapped his ten fingers on the virtual keyboard, and quickly unlocked the encrypted file stored in the terminal, and retrieved the information inside.

"Torch Project..."

Looking at the document opened on the screen, the more Meng Liang looked down, the tighter his frown became.

Noticing the change in the expression on his face, the Battlefield guy asked immediately.

"What's written on it?"

Meng Liang was silent for a moment, and finally stepped aside a bit.

"See for yourself."

Looking at the text on the screen, the Zhandi guy was dumbfounded.

Although his daily communication is no longer a major problem, spoken language and written language are two different things. As far as the little words he knows, he is really no different from illiterate.

Especially for this kind of professional literature, he couldn't even understand the abstract part.

But fortunately, Su Ming who was next to him took the initiative to read it out, solving his problem of illiteracy.

"...When all the light is extinguished and the world falls into the endless night, we will hold the torch high, dispel all the darkness, and rekindle the fire of civilization."

The battlefield guy couldn't help asking.

"What do you mean?"

With his eyes fixed on the screen, Meng Liang lowered his voice and said.

"It's literally...the purpose of the whole 'Torch' project is not to solve any existing problems, but to completely restart the process that has entered an endless loop after all plans have failed."

After a pause, he continued.

"This is not a conventional asylum method, but rather a shock treatment."

The warlord looked at him blankly.

"...Is it necessary to do this?"

Perhaps because he is a player, his mentality is also that of a player, so he feels that this world is not too bad.

Although the Wasteland Era is undoubtedly like a rotten apple compared to the Prosperous Era, he doesn't think it is so rotten that it needs to be completely destroyed once.

There are still many people living in this land, in their own way, creating their own civilization on the ruins.

Meng Liang took a deep breath, stared at the screen and continued.

"I can only try to understand from their perspective... It is indeed difficult to clean up the ruins on the wasteland, predators, aliens, mutants... and these are just small problems, and there are more deadly mutants. Bacteria, even if it is a nuclear weapon, it is difficult to completely clean it up."

"According to the original plan stored in the terminal, the initiator of the Torch Project tried to customize a special system. The whole system is mainly composed of two parts, 'fire' and 'handle'."

"The goal of the former is to remove more than 99% of the organic life on the surface of the planet with low side effects, leaving only a pure and pure environment. The goal of the latter is to convert the organisms that are beneficial to the new civilization into the surviving 1%, stored in a container called a 'handle'."

"In the imagined situation, when the 'torch' is ignited, the organic life on the surface will be harmlessly eliminated, and the organisms stored in the 'handle' after screening will be released, and then the ecological environment on the surface will gradually restore to the era of prosperity—— Even before the Age of Prosperity."

Staring blankly at the text in the terminal, Su Ming's face was filled with disbelief.

He couldn't believe it.

The No. 0 Vault, which was rumored to end all suffering in the world and bring the Wasteland Era to a close, turned out to be such a terrifying thing.

"...So the premise of this plan is to kill all the people on this planet?"

"Yes," Meng Liang nodded, his expression also full of complexity, "To be precise, it kills all organic life except the 'handle'."

"In the era of the People's Federation, such a terrifying plan can even get a budget." The battlefield atmosphere team couldn't help swallowing.

Even for the game's setting, that sounds outrageous.

Meng Liang flipped through the content of the plan, and after a moment of silence, he finally defended the People's Federation.

"This evil project is not an official project funded by the People's Federation, but like many private shelters and commercial asylum projects, the main source of budget is social funds. To put it more bluntly, it is mainly sponsored by a small number of social elites. Although the scheme is regulated by SUPF authorities like other commercial shelter schemes, it is considered safe by SUPF authorities because it is the last level in the activation sequence.”

"...is this still safe?"

"It's relatively safe. After all, this device will only be activated after it is confirmed that all shelters and other asylum plans have gone bankrupt. In other words, there should not be many living people on this planet at that time, and the rest will be It's a different species or something."

After a pause, Meng Liang continued.

"This kind of project is difficult to gain public support, so the project planner concealed the entire content of the entire plan, and most of the people involved in the research only knew part of the plan. For example... If you are a researcher of the 'Fire' project team, Then you probably think that you are developing a secret weapon for the People’s Federation, and if you happen to be in the 'handle' project team, you will only know that you are participating in the development of some kind of solid refuge facility."

"However, this plan was unsuccessful in the end. One was that the time was too late, and the other was that a certain researcher discovered a conspiracy hidden by the high-level... When they realized that they were being used to create a weapon that could kill themselves At the time, almost everyone came out against the project."

"While the program's sponsors have repeatedly stated that the program will only start after all asylum programs have lapsed, people are no longer willing to believe elites who are full of lies."

"The Torch Program ended up going bankrupt with less than 20% of its budget consumed...While countless sanctuary programs went bankrupt in the last years of the Boom Era, projects that went bankrupt due to collective grassroots opposition were fairly rare."

When talking about this, Meng Liang couldn't help feeling a burst of emotion in his heart.

The whole plan seemed like a product of accident.

Its existence was an accident, and its bankruptcy was an accident as well.

As for whether the People's Federation of People's Republic of China has ever been interested in the "super weapon capable of destroying 99% of organic life on the planet's surface" mentioned in this unfinished blueprint, no one knows.

All those who participated in this plan, whether they were those who opposed it or those who supported it, have all been turned into the dust of history.

"... Where are the unfinished documents? Where are they now?"

When he said this, Su Ming glanced at the pangolin next to him indiscriminately, and unconsciously touched the gun at his waist.

Before he came down here, he didn't expect that Vault 0 was such a place.

But this is the end of the matter, the box in which the devil lives has been opened, no matter whether the torch project is completed or not, the information related to that project cannot fall into the hands of the Willant people.

Coincidentally, the person he was wary of went with him.

If it's just a few black boxes or a few power armors, let the legion share some, and the managers are not so stingy.

But the nature of this thing is completely different...

It threatens not just the Alliance, but everyone on this planet.

If it really falls into the hands of the Willant people, there is no guarantee that those big noses will not do more evil things... No one can guarantee what will happen in the end.

With his eyes fixed on the screen, Meng Liang's expression became solemn.

"The data stored in the shelter server has been deleted."

"Deleted?!" Su Ming stared at him blankly, and said with a tense expression, "Only the experimental data was deleted...the plan is still there?"

"The plan has been released to the public after the bankruptcy of the entire plan, and it is not a confidential document, and the plan is saved in the main server program in read-only mode, unless you get full administrator rights... only use this terminal The machine cannot be deleted."

When he said this, Meng Liang, who was tapping the virtual keyboard with ten fingers, stopped suddenly.

Noticing the change in his expression, Su Ming hurriedly asked.

"what happened?"

Meng Liang hesitated for a moment, but considering that he was here alone and that the company was an ally, he finally confessed.

"The method of deleting those data is not very clever. If you spend some time, it can actually be repaired... No, in fact, until two months ago, someone has been trying to restore the deleted data. The archives of X-13 area, Some terminals have records of frequent access to the database, and as of two months ago, the repair work has been completed."

"However, the restorer did not upload the repaired data to the library... probably stored in a mobile hard disk or something."

"Area X-13...the crew of the Pioneer seems to be there." The warfield guy said in a low voice, and at the same time glanced at Su Ming's right hand, and unconsciously put his hand closer to the weapon.

A strange atmosphere lingers in the room.

While Su Ming was wondering what to do, Zhandi was also wondering whether he should confess his identity as an undercover agent.

Is it really a good thing to let the company know that he is actually an undercover agent of the alliance?

Stealing the data as a legion, and asking Ye Shi to bring the data back to the alliance might not be an option...Anyway, the outside world may not know what happened here.

Compared with those ancient survivors, the Alliance is still too weak... But if they can master the weapon described in the Torch Project, the Alliance may have the capital to be on an equal footing with the fallen empires.

Of course, it is also possible to completely anger them.

The Battlefield guy was dumbfounded to find that the button that determines the direction of the world line seemed to be stuffed into his hand again.

What should I do?
Countless thoughts flashed quickly in his mind.

When Verich instigated him to assassinate Griffin, he had never been so entangled like today.

"It's really weird."

Not noticing the two people who were thinking about each other beside him, Meng Liang stared straight at the screen and muttered to himself.

"...I thought they deleted those data."

……

The shelter power room.

In the reaction room where the reactor was placed, the dark red brood was beating regularly like the heart of a human body.

The reactor in the center has been almost completely swallowed by it.

It can be clearly found that every time the mother's nest beats, the amplitude increases a little compared to the last time, and the frequency also increases.

Looking at the hatching follicles through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Wall-E, holding an assault rifle, only felt his scalp tingling for a while.

At this moment, they are only separated from the brood by a floor-to-ceiling window.

While there's no way the newly hatched fruiting bodies smashed that window into his face, it wasn't a problem stealing their back along the corridors surrounding the powerhouse.

Seeing one of the follicles burst, and an unknown life form crawled out of it, Wali couldn't help but urge.

"Hey, from the academy, how long is it?"

"almost."

"If you are my mother's subordinate——"

"To shut up."

Ignoring the rude Willant, Jiang Xuezhou stared at the console expressionlessly, and operated it with his hands.

Finally, the last firewall broke through, and a relieved expression finally appeared on her face.

"Finished?!" Wally asked immediately.

"Ah."

With both hands away from the operating interface, Jiang Xuezhou turned his gaze to the French windows beside him.

Almost at the same time, in the reaction room separated by a wall from them, the partition of the ceiling opened outwards, and the milky white mist crystals poured down like a waterfall, showering on the mother nest attached to the reactor.

The agitating brood shrank for a moment, dodging aside as if it had been electrocuted, and at the same time stretched out fleshy tentacles, trying to block the source of the coolant.

I have to say that this guy is really smart, and he has a very clear idea of ​​self-help.

However, in the face of enough coolant to cool down the reactor, this level of struggle is nothing but futile.

Including the follicles connected by the tentacles, the brood, which was alive and well a second ago, was instantly frozen into ice.

Even the water vapor in the air in the entire room was frozen into ice crystals, and a layer of hoarfrost condensed on the inside of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Seeing that the brood was frozen, Wal-E finally breathed a sigh of relief. While pressing down on the muzzle, he finally relaxed his tense nerves.

"Nice job."

Jiang Xuezhou ignored him, just staring intently at the world whose time was suspended by Frost, and was a little lost in thought for a while.

What a nice view……

While the Wandering Swamp had not been less snowy, she had seldom enjoyed it like this.

At this time, there was an untimely cough from the side.

"Hey, I know you're too lazy to talk to me, but I'll tell you, I plan to go to the manager's office to meet my servants, if you want to stay here with you, if you want to come with me, hurry up. "

"Who wants to be with you." Jiang Xuezhou rolled his eyes, but thinking that his destination was also there, he gritted his teeth.

Wall-E grinned and slung the rifle over his shoulder.

The crisis has been resolved.

The brood is the biggest threat here.

However, at this moment, a dangerous omen suddenly rushed into his mind, and he raised the muzzle of the gun almost reflexively, and opened the safety.

"Get down!"

Seeing the sudden action of this Willant, Jiang Xuezhou widened his eyes in surprise.

"What are you doing—"

Before she finished speaking, gunshots exploded in the corner of the room without warning.

"Tud-chug--!"

Almost at the same time, Wall-E quickly turned the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger, but the bullets fired seemed to hit a wall of air, only hitting a circle of distorted ripples.

He was shot three times in the chest and once in the shoulder, and Wally fell back to the ground with a muffled grunt.

And where the assault rifle in his hand was swept by, a slender figure appeared from behind the spreading ripples.

The man was wearing a light exoskeleton, and under the bullet-shattered breastplate was a blue jacket.

She held a silenced pistol in her hand, and the well-proportioned muscle lines and the scar under her neck could be seen. Her strength was obviously unusual.

At this moment, there was a hint of embarrassment written on that wheat-colored face, and it was obvious that the shuttle that Wali swept past earlier had no effect on her.

It's just that compared to Wal-E lying on the ground, her condition is still much better.

Optical camouflage? !
Jiang Xuezhou was shocked, and immediately ordered.

"Xiao Wang, kill her!"

However, as soon as her words fell, before her robot dog fully deployed the weapon system, an EMP grenade rolled to her robot dog.

At the same time, the man stepped forward and kicked the self-defense pistol in her hand, and then a strong hand firmly grabbed her neck.

"Whoa-"

It was difficult to breathe, and her face instantly turned a liver color.

She only felt that her neck was clamped by an iron clamp, no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't break it, and then her whole body was picked up by that hand.

That flowing movement was so fast that she couldn't react at all.

But it was.

She was not a front-line combatant at all, and the person in front of her was far from her level in terms of speed, strength and experience.

Looking at the little sheep in her hand, the woman let out a mocking sound.

"too weak."

Lying on the ground panting, Wali quietly held the pistol hidden in his waist to look for an opportunity, while squinting his eyes and staring at the strange face, unable to remember where he had seen her before.

The only thing he recognized was the coat that any wastelander would be familiar with.

Although not everyone who wears it is a shelter resident, it is undoubtedly the standard equipment of every shelter resident.

"who are you?"

"you guess?"

Having said that, the woman didn't give him a chance to guess at all, and she didn't intend to leave any flaws for this dishonest guy.

With a wave of her right hand holding the suppressed pistol, she aimed at his upper body and pulled the trigger until the last round in the magazine was emptied.

Half of his face was bloody from the shot, and Wal-E lay silently in a pool of blood, and the pistol held in his right hand also fell out.

Looking at the teammate who died in a blink of an eye, Jiang Xuezhou's face completely lost all color, and looked at the man who pinched her neck in horror, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.

Especially when the man looked at her again, she even felt that her heart stopped beating for a moment.

"Well, your face is quite pretty."

Looking at the frightened face, the woman rolled her eyes, and a piercing smile suddenly appeared on her wheat-colored face.

"Now it's mine."

Regardless of Jiang Xuezhou's desperate struggle, the woman took off a pair of C-shaped glasses from her waist and forced them on her face.

The green signal light flashes.

Jiang Xuezhou, who was put on the nerve connection device, trembled instantly as if he had been electrocuted, and then his tense muscles and nerves relaxed.

Confirming that the victim has entered the virtual world, the woman smiled and patted that fair face, and threw her in the corner.

"Take your time and enjoy it."

"Don't thank me, let you recall some beautiful moments at the last moment of your life."

At the same time as she dropped these words, she reloaded the suppressed pistol that had been emptied of bullets, and at the same time, her wheat-colored skin was gradually replaced by the whiteness that had not been exposed to the sun for a long time.

The transformed optical image not only changed her appearance, hair color, but even changed her dress, not even a tiny detail was spared.

However, compared to the broken optical camouflage, this holographic repair system is not easy to use.

It doesn't work if you are too far away, or too close, you can only deal with it for a short time.

If you really want to become another person completely, you still have to read the memory of the other person carefully and have plastic surgery.

When she goes back, she will consider doing so.

If the respected Lord Guixu thinks that it is necessary to use that female researcher's status as a waste...

Taking out the time bomb hanging from her waist, the woman stuck it on the French window not far away.

Taking one last look at the frozen reactor, she turned and left the power room, heading in the direction of Block X-13.

The surface operation should have come to an end.

The phaser cannon deployed nearby is enough to paralyze the two airships, and the troops led by Mr. Guixu himself will also launch an attack at the same time.

Now, it is time for her to awaken her dormant brethren and retrieve what is theirs from this ancient ruin...
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(Thanks to the leader of "Falling leaves also have a way back" for the reward!!!)
(End of this chapter)