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Chapter 376 The Story After Hibernation
At the end of the first stage of the plot, the protagonist continues to discover more traces of rampant Zerg activities during the exploration process, and follows the commander's order to continue exploring.But when investigating a suspicious location, the protagonist's team suddenly encountered a large number of Zerg, and wanted to retreat in a hurry, but the sea of ​​insects had completely surrounded them.

After the fierce battle, the protagonist's team finally made a way out and joined the team that came to meet him, but at this moment, a sandworm suddenly drilled out of the ground without warning, biting the protagonist's left hand. arm, dragging him into the ground.

The protagonist was separated from his team, and when he came back to his senses, he had come to an underground cave, which was one of the lairs of the Zerg.

From here, the game entered the second stage of the plot.

The protagonist uses the stealth ability of the protective suit to carefully look for the exit in the Zerg's lair. The gameplay of the game has also changed from FPS to stealth-based and shooting-assisted. Only in a small part of the situation can you shoot and destroy the enemy.

The protagonist has to avoid those powerful Zergs in the Zerg's lair, and at the same time constantly look for the exit. During this period, all his supplies come from human fighters who are similar to him and are dragged into the Zerg's lair.

These people are not as lucky as Luo Zhou. They basically failed to escape from the Zerg's lair. All piled up in the nest.

At regular intervals, Luo Zhou could find some Zerg garbage dumps, in which he could find some supplies that could be used from waste, so as to maintain the energy of his protective clothing and the supply of bullets.

In the second stage, the player is basically in a state of complete isolation.Communication with the outside world has been cut off, and it is impossible to determine how to leave the Zerg lair. Supplies are extremely scarce, and the number of Zerg is completely beyond imagination.

At this stage, the difficulty of the game has increased slightly, but not to a very high degree.Without the support of teammates, the protagonist has to solve all the troubles by himself, which may remind players of the kindness of teammates; even if they get resources, they cannot be exchanged for supplies, and the only way to get supplies is to go to the garbage dump, whether it is bullets Energy must be saved in particular; when you see Zerg, you can't shoot without thinking, but you have to decide whether to assassinate, shoot or avoid according to the characteristics of the enemy.

The second plot is similar to the structure of a traditional maze. Players can freely choose the route, but they will eventually go to the correct route.After successfully escaping from the Zerg lair, the protagonist successfully regained contact with the team and learned that the Zerg army is continuously launching attacks. Only by finding the location of the brain worms in the nest can the Zerg army be contained.

So the protagonist returned to the Zerg lair again, and finally killed the brain worm hiding in the ground, and escaped in a very thrilling manner.

After this incident, the protagonist and team members are commended and continue their missions.

Fast-forward to several years later, during which time humans continued to expand their actual control range, while the tasks of dismantling parts to repair spaceships and building planetary engines continued to move forward.

Walking out of the barracks again, Luo Zhou looked up and could see the planetary engine being built in the distance. It was a huge mountain of more than 1 meters, which could be seen from a long distance.This is the first batch of planetary engines built. So far, only a large frame has been built, and countless small spacecraft can be seen constantly busy around it.

Even for this level of engineering, the progress of human beings is very fast. After all, they are racing against the god of death.As the game progresses, every time the player looks at the planetary engine, they are surprised to find that it seems to be a small part of the completion.

The protagonist was appreciated by the commander for his excellent performance in destroying the Zerg lair before, and he was even able to directly face the ultimate leader of the Interstellar Spark Project—the Supreme Archon, and directly receive some extremely special tasks from there.

This time the protagonist received a mission that surprised him a bit. He had to assist with the repair of the interstellar spacecraft with other soldiers and be on guard against accidents.

The proposal to restore the starship has been on the table from the very beginning, but it's only now that work on it has begun.The so-called "repair" is nothing more than putting together the intact spaceship parts, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and making up a small number of interstellar warships that can operate normally.Because the current technology of human beings is not enough to produce the core key components of those interstellar spacecraft.

The reason why this motion has not been taken up until now is because there have always been differences and disputes at the top.Luo Zhou learned from the Supreme Consul that although it seemed that the high-level officials had reached an agreement on the Interstellar Fire Project and began to develop refusion technology and build planetary engines with all their strength, there were always voices of opposition in private.

In the process of carrying out the task, Luo Zhou roughly figured out the whole picture of the matter through eavesdropping and collecting information.

The current high-level has split into three factions: the spaceship faction, the neutral faction, and the planetary faction.

At present, the neutral faction is temporarily on the side of the planetary faction, that is, the highest consul, and the spaceship faction has the smallest number.However, there are a large number of senior officers and technical elites in the spaceship faction. Although there is no unreasonable idea for the time being, the possible destructive power cannot be underestimated.

And the reason why these people firmly choose the spaceship faction seems to be very good: "The planetary engine is a gamble that bets the fate of all mankind. If it fails, mankind will be doomed. As the elite of mankind, they should be the first to evacuate. You shouldn't be taking unnecessary risks here."

After several years of fruitless political operations, the people of the spaceship faction have plotted to snatch the spaceship and defected.

At this stage of the game, the player's main activity area is in the damaged fleet area.A large number of engineers were dismantling and repairing the spaceship, while Luo Zhou and other soldiers were in charge of patrolling and standing guard. On the surface, they were guarding against the threat of the Zerg, but in fact they were guarding against the spaceship faction.

After the first batch of spaceships were successfully repaired, traces of Zerg activities were suddenly found near the planetary engine. Soldiers were urgently called up to fight against the Zergs. Luo Zhou continued to protect the spaceships according to the commander's instructions.The spaceship faction really launched a rebellion to snatch the spaceship. The protagonist's team fought fiercely with the rebels. Finally, with joint efforts, they successfully defeated the rebels and shattered the spaceship faction's plan.

The content of this battle is a relatively long film process, all of which are carried out in the scene where the star warship is located.

Outside the interstellar battleship, large combat weapons are strictly prohibited from entering the restricted area, but there are still a large number of rebels who have mixed in through various methods.The purpose of these rebels is to capture the interstellar battleship and defect. Luo Zhou's team and other fighters fought fiercely with the rebels inside the interstellar warship, and finally wiped them all out.

However, at the end of the battle, the angry rebels made a desperate move and used special biological and chemical weapons. Although the battle finally ended, Luo Zhou and many soldiers suffered heavy losses.

The Archon decided to let these fighters go into hibernation, and repair their bodies with new technologies such as mechanical prosthetics, so that they can be revived again at a certain time in the future.

Although the conspiracy of the Spaceship faction was successfully disintegrated this time, the consul realized that this was probably just a test. The real Spaceship faction organization must be hidden very deeply, and may make a comeback in the future.Therefore, he secretly gave this group of hibernating fighters a special mission, that is, to ensure that the interstellar fire project can be carried out smoothly even after his death.

The content of the third stage ends here. This stage can be regarded as a small climax in the first half of the plot. The filming process can maximize the emotions of the players, and the creation of various big scenes makes the players' adrenaline surge.In battle, vicious rebels, injured teammates, explosions and chaotic scenes, etc., can well mobilize the player's emotions and release the suppressed emotions in the second stage.

The content of the fourth stage is the plot after Luo Zhou's hibernation ends.

Decades have passed since the protagonist hibernated, and when he woke up from hibernation, the entire human world has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Under the guidance of the service staff of the hibernation center, Luo Zhou received new protective clothing and went to the military camp to report.After leaving the hibernation center, Luo Zhou discovered that human beings have already entered the ground, and the outside world has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The original consul has died, and the current new consul is slightly inferior in terms of skill and ability. On the surface, the situation is calm, but in fact the situation at the top level is already in chaos.

Only one of Luo Zhou's original team members hibernated and woke up together with him. The other team members either died of illness, or died of old age, or died in the battle with the Zerg, and they all passed away.

However, Luo Zhou was quickly assigned a new team member. As a sergeant major who had made immortal feats, Luo Zhou received great respect in the barracks.

This aspect has a very intuitive cash withdrawal in the game: everyone in the military camp respects Luo Zhou, and shopping at the merchant can also enjoy very good discounts.

Afterwards, Luo Zhou resumed his identity as a soldier, and led his team to explore the surface again.

After returning to the surface, Luo Zhou discovered that the familiar scene had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The more than 1-meter planetary engine has already been fully completed. It was just an empty frame before, and now it has become a huge steel mountain. It is still emitting blue particle tail flames. The strong light makes the surrounding area forever daytime.

The original reddish-brown wasteland has turned into a vast white snowfield. Strictly speaking, it is not snow, but dry ice formed by the condensation of carbon dioxide under extremely cold conditions. The environment has fallen into an absolutely severe cold.

The temperature will be much higher near the planetary engine. If it is at the foot of the planetary engine, even if the protective clothing is damaged or the energy is exhausted, it will not freeze to death. At most, it will be frostbite. But if it is far away from the planetary engine, then the constant temperature of the protective clothing Losing power to the system means a dead end.

The game content of the fourth stage is somewhat similar to the first stage, and it is also a semi-open world gameplay.

Luo Zhou and his team performed missions on the vast snowfield, such as rescuing the trapped transport convoy, going to some very remote places to encircle and suppress the remaining Zerg, searching for reusable resources under the thick ice, and so on.

During the start of the planetary engine, the planet's crust still experienced some vibrations, many large mines collapsed, and some nests dug by the Zerg collapsed.There are still some resources that can be used in these places, but it is already difficult to search for them. Only a small team like Luo Zhou will search for them.

Through the comparison of the scenes in the first stage and the fourth stage, the player will have a sense of a world away.When Luo Zhou was performing the mission, he could still vaguely recognize the place where he had fought against the Zerg decades ago, and even found the remains of the mech he had driven under a certain ruin.But time has changed, and the number of Zerg that used to be disgusting is now just lingering, and the probability of encountering Zerg has dropped a lot.

But this does not mean that the Zergs are no longer threatening. On the contrary, they have learned to hide themselves, and in the decades of evolution, they have acquired some specialties specifically for human weapons, and even gave birth to many new types of weapons. Zerg.

Compared with the first stage, although the fourth stage is also a semi-open world gameplay, the difficulty has increased a lot.The Zerg is more powerful, and many new arms have appeared; the resources that players can search in the wilderness have become less; the environment is even harsher, and the temperature is always extremely low. May be life threatening.

In addition to Zerg, players may also encounter rebel attacks. These rebels want to get rid of Luo Zhou quickly, and the enemy's situation becomes more complicated.

As the quest line progresses, the player gradually understands the current background.

In order to allow the planet to gain sufficient speed, the Supreme Consul decided to use the approach of a gravitational slingshot, using NGC-X-3 for acceleration.But this is undoubtedly a big gamble. If it fails, the planet will collide with NGC-X-3, and mankind will usher in a catastrophe.

At this critical juncture, the Spaceship faction, which has been dormant for decades, is ready to move again.

The previous action of the Spaceship Faction to snatch the spaceship was obviously just a speculation. The real leader of the Spaceship Faction was hiding in the high-level waiting for an opportunity. plan to prepare.

As for the reasons of the spaceship school, they still believe that the risks brought by the gravitational slingshot are completely uncontrollable. Once they fail, human civilization will usher in a catastrophe.Therefore, these self-proclaimed elite spaceship factions are even more eager to seize the interstellar spaceship, escape from this planet immediately, and continue the fire of mankind.

But this time is the last chance for the Spaceship faction. Many core members of the Spaceship faction have completely lost their minds. This rebellion will directly determine the future of mankind.

During an investigation, Luo Zhou accidentally discovered that the spaceship faction had infiltrated the top ranks of the army. They even aimed at the planetary engine in an attempt to destroy the planetary engine and cause chaos, thereby seizing the interstellar spacecraft.

(End of this chapter)