At the mouth of the south side of Lost Valley, a truck sped past.
Glancing at the mountain peaks outside the car window, Sisi, who was leaning on the driver's seat, finally breathed a sigh of relief and focused his attention on the front.
At this point, the power of the nuclear bomb has been reduced by at least half.
"There's still one last step left."
After muttering silently in her mind, she stepped on the switch hard, knocking away a few nibblers that wandered to the roadside, and continued to drive forward along the path dug by the army, heading straight to the center of the Lost Valley.
She and Rourou loaded the nuclear bomb into the truck, and then drove to Lost Valley alone.
The group of people had already confirmed when they entered the valley before that there was a huge pit hundreds of meters wide and bottomless in the center of the Lost Valley.
Just like the holes left in the quarry.
Some kind of terrifying weapon directly collapsed the geological structure of this area, causing the rock veins several kilometers away to rise and upturn. The battlefield of the last era should be under that tunnel...
In order to explore the inside of the tunnel and transport the excavated earth at the same time, the Corps dug a circular dirt road along the funnel-shaped slope, just enough to accommodate two vehicles passing in parallel.
Following this dirt road all the way down, and as we were approaching the center of the tunnel, Sisi suddenly saw a jeep that broke down on the side of the road.
Before she could wonder why there was a car here, two heads popped up from behind the jeep, and then a pistol and a submachine gun were pointed at her.
"Don't move!"
"Stop the car! Put your head in your hands!"
Their faces were full of nervousness and apprehension. Their clothes were obviously officers of the legion, and they must have a high status.
Sisi stepped on the brakes and stopped, but did not obey the two people's request. He didn't even get out of the car. He just smiled lightly, put his arm on the window and joked.
"What do you think I have in my car?"
It was almost enough to get it to this position, there was no need to throw it to the center, so she didn't panic at all and looked at the two people in front of her with interest.
Seeing that this man didn't pay attention to his gun at all, and still had a calm expression on his face, McClun couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and asked subconsciously.
".·····What are you pretending to be?"
Sisi didn't waste any time, opened the door and got out of the car.
Ignoring the two guns, he walked straight to the back of the truck and pulled the nuclear bomb out of the truck with a whoosh.
The gray-black nuclear warhead is also surrounded by an aluminum alloy bracket, and the fracture seems to have been pulled directly from the aircraft.
The moment they saw the nuclear bomb, the faces of General McClung and the officer next to him turned pale.
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Sisi breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, the more you worry about something, the more likely it is to happen. This thing really has a self-destruct mechanism to prevent it from being captured by the enemy.
Otherwise, there is no need for them to run into this dead end, and there is no need for them to be so frightened after seeing this thing.
McClun's lips trembled as he looked at her and said, "Are you... crazy?"
"Crazy? How could it be? I just saved at least tens of thousands of people, okay?" Sisi rolled his eyes, looked at the high-status officer in front of him and continued, "By the way, I found a numeric keypad on the nuclear bomb. , it should be used to enter the password, do you know the password?"
McClun said in a difficult voice, "...Only the pilot knows."
"That's a pity, he's already dead." Sis shrugged and continued, "By the way, the battle outside is over. Do you want to surrender?"
McClung glanced at the nuclear warhead on the ground and said with a wry smile.
"Does it still make sense?"
"I don't know, let's give it a try," Sis shrugged, "but if you continue to delay, you will definitely have no chance of surviving."
Looking at the indifferent expression on that face, McClun gritted his teeth, but in the end he still could not muster the courage to face death.
He didn't know why the guy in front of him wasn't afraid of death. But if he could continue to live, he didn't want to die.
Lowering the gun in his hand, McClun whispered.
"Please take me out of here..."
Although the word surrender was not uttered in the end, the slumped expression clearly gave up resistance.
With the corners of his mouth slightly raised, Sis returned to the driver's seat and started the truck skillfully.
"boarding."
On the other side, somewhere in the valley.
Seeing the tentacles getting closer and closer, Luo Yu became extremely nervous.
Standing not far behind him, Bai Ge smiled softly and said pleasantly.
"Don't be afraid, it won't eat you. It's just that it hasn't seen a living person in so many years, so it's a little curious."
What are you curious about? Taste or texture?
After hearing this explanation, Luo Yu became even more nervous and couldn't help but take a step back to avoid the tentacle that quietly reached towards his forehead.
"What is it...? Is it also symbiotic?"
"That's not true, it's the mother body. The mother body?!"
Looking at Luo Yu who was dumbfounded, the man with a head like a piece of rotten wood continued in a gentle tone.
"Yes, but you don't have to be so afraid. Even humans can be divided into good guys and bad guys. As a "social animal" that has evolved social division of labor, mutant slime mold can of course also have two concepts of good and bad."
"Of course, this is just for your convenience. A more rigorous statement is that the dry environment in the desert makes life very difficult for the slime molds here. They do not have enough nutrients to breed huge mother nests and cultivate powerful evolutions to help the population. They hunt, and there are no organisms around for them to hunt. Therefore, some mutant slime molds have evolved special abilities over the years."
Luo Yu swallowed. "... Symbiosis?" Bai Ge nodded happily. "Yes." Luo Yu thought of Bach.
The man wrapped in an iron can like a medieval knight.
He was lucky enough to see the guy take off his armor. Almost his whole body was occupied by those slime molds, leaving him with only a brain that was not working well at all times.
According to Heya, if it is not suppressed by special drugs, that guy may become a slime mold puppet at any time.
Should that be considered parasitism? Luo Yu asked nervously.
"I don't understand what the difference is between symbiosis and parasitism?"
The white dove answered in a cheerful voice.
"Of course there is a difference. One is non-aggressive, and the other is aggressive. One thrives with the host, and the other drains the last bit of nutrients from the host and then switches to another host to continue squeezing."
"The slime mold evolved from the No. 7 Oasis Ruins belongs to the former. It can make you immune to all diseases, immortal, and gain powerful physique and abilities without having to abandon your own genes. This is much safer than awakening."
"As a symbiont, it will not sacrifice the health of the host, but absorb trace elements, organic matter and water from the host's metabolites. You can understand it as a special... vaccine! As long as you are vaccinated
With it, you can get a stronger body!"
"How about it? Young man, do you want to try it?"
The voice of persuasion sounds like the whisper of the devil, and once you agree, you will sign a contract with some kind of "evil power".
Luo Yu admitted.
If you can turn into a tentacle monster, it does sound very attractive.
If you can operate an airplane with two hands, how can you be so good at micro-control with ten hands?!
But if it's combined with a tentacle monster, that's a different matter.
Moreover, this guy himself has become such a ghost, and Luo Yu always feels that what he says is not convincing at all. If the price of becoming stronger is to become ugly, then he would rather keep leveling up.
However, out of curiosity, he still asked, "What's the price?"
Bai Ge continued with a smile. "The price is -" before he finished speaking.
Xiaohong suddenly looked around uneasily, but before it could make any reaction, the tremors of the earth and the mountains were heard from under the feet of all the "people".
Bai Ge's face changed wildly.
However, before he could utter a single syllable, Xiong
The gushing sand, dust and gravel instantly swallowed up everyone in the ruins.
At the same time, another world.
Luo Yu, who was lying flat on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
In front of me is a pop-up window showing disconnection.
The countdown for the resurrection CD has started, and the game character is obviously very cold.
He took off the helmet that covered his head, sat on the bed and stayed for a while, then uttered a curse word as if he had come to his senses.
"I'll blanch it!"
What is the price?!
The nuclear bomb finally exploded.
And not long after it was removed from the truck and pushed down the steep slope.
A beam of light lit up the silent valley.
The scorching fireball was like the morning sun rising from the horizon twelve hours in advance, instantly lighting up the night sky covering the valley.
The violent air currents and shock waves were like turbulent ocean waves, hitting the mountains that buried the river embankment, and even the earth was shaking in the terrifying energy.
In the military camp outside the valley.
The soldiers and officers of the legion had given up resistance and raised their hands above their heads in surrender. When they saw the blooming light, despair was printed on almost everyone's face.
The war horses galloping in the military camp were pacing uneasily, and the cavalry on the horses held the reins, trying to stabilize the horses' emotions.
Thain's personal guard captain looked at the Lost Valley in surprise.
The light was on, and his eyes were filled with confusion and fear, and he was mumbling constantly to himself.
".·.···prophecy!"
That man was indeed the messenger of the gods! The prophecy of doomsday finally came true!
But what is comforting is that the light that burns everything does not shine on the soil of civilization, but in the lost ruins.
At the same time, the western front of the battlefield.
As the dazzling white light lit up, the gunshots that echoed through the wilderness also stopped abruptly.
Looking at the sky lit up by the nuclear explosion and the dust that almost reached the sky, people forgot about the battle for a moment, and expressions of shock and surprise were printed on their faces.
The world seems to have pressed the pause button.
All that was left was the trembling of the earth and the rolling reverberations of the explosion.
It's like the roar of the gods.
"...The spirit of the sand sea is above."
A soldier from the Falcon Kingdom had white lips, his shoulders were shaking, and the gun in his hand fell to the sand along with his knees.
His situation is not unique.
Including the captain and other junior officers, many people lost the courage to continue fighting when they saw the light of nuclear explosions blooming in the rear positions.
Hundreds of meters away. Below the reverse slope of the dune.
Sean, who was bandaging a gunshot wound, also saw the shining light.
Several Guards soldiers immediately stood in front of him, but they were dismissed by him with a wave of his hand.
"Priest Prester said that people who wither under the curse cannot see the curse." Thain smiled heartily.
continued,
"The fact that we can see that light means that we cannot die."
"That's a curse on the guilty, and the gods are on our side!"
He raised his arms and shouted, encouraging the soldiers fighting side by side.
"Long live the Hump Kingdom!"
The sudden nuclear explosion brought a momentary pause to the battlefield.
Facing the direction of the nuclear explosion, the devout believers knelt on the ground to pray, while the remaining people lay prone or squatting at a loss, undecided whether to continue the fight.
The shock wave of the explosion seemed to sweep far away, but luckily it did not reach them.
The favor of "gods" seems to have protected them again...
the other side.
The tank troops of the Skeleton Corps did not stop after reaching the airport on the north side of Lost Valley, and continued to advance westward to reinforce the friendly forces of Petra Fortress that were heading out of the city to fight.
There is no suspense about the outcome of the entire battle, and it can even be announced that the battlefield has begun to be cleaned.
The military camp on the north side of the Lost Valley has been captured by Petra's cavalry, and the legion has lost almost all of its armored strength in this area.
The remaining infantry on the west side has no more reinforcements.
It only takes a few rounds of righteous 155 to make them raise their hands and surrender.
And just when the light of the nuclear explosion bloomed, a
A Conqueror 5 tank carrying the Union flag was driving staggeringly to the east of the airport.
The hatch cover opens upward.
The mole, with his head bandaged, stuck out his head, looked in the direction of Lost Valley, and opened his mouth in surprise.
".·····Fuck."
Hearing the fuss, the driver shouted.
"What's going on outside? I can't see it from here!
"Nuclear bomb..." Mole swallowed and added, "Oh my god, that nuclear bomb seems to have exploded!"
Excluding the small one in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City, this was his first time to experience a nuclear explosion at close range.
The overwhelming pressure was indeed extraordinary, but the power of the explosion seemed to be smaller than he imagined.
Is this thing really a million tons?
Or because it exploded in the valley, the power is not weakened...
"What the hell?!"
Hearing that a nuclear bomb had exploded ahead, the moving tanks stopped for an instant.
There was a clanking sound, and the driver hurriedly opened the hatch cover. He didn't mind watching the excitement and stepped out, looking forward excitedly.
"let me see!"
At the same time, at the edge of the nuclear explosion area, there were heart-wrenching shouts.
"Quickly-!"
"Faster!!"
"Ahhh! I'm catching up!"
McClun, who was lying in the back compartment, screamed without any image, and squeezed desperately toward the front of the car, trying to get further away from the center of the explosion.
His adjutant was lying on the other side of the carriage, holding his head in his hands, closing his eyes tightly, and was praying to someone.
Both of them have changed into radiation protection suits.
Not only did he wear a protective mask on his head, but he also took two radioactive pills, but he still couldn't withstand the threat of death so close at hand and the fear that penetrated his bones.
Sisi, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was relatively calm, but looking at the white light printed in the rearview mirror, a drop of cold sweat could not help but break down on his forehead.
The truck she was driving almost rushed out of the pass on the north side of the valley, and the dazzling white light and the sound of explosions caught up with it.
I didn't dare to look at what was happening behind me.
She clenched her teeth tightly, her soles were almost welded to the switch, and she climbed over sixty yards on the bumpy and rugged dirt road!
The hot shock wave carried the turbulent dust and almost blew it into the car.
The open mountain col on the south side seemed to have become a vent for the shock wave, and dust and gravel surged forward from behind her.
Fortunately, the center of the explosion is beneath the surface.
If it exploded on flat ground, I'm afraid you wouldn't even feel the pain, and everyone would have been turned into molten metal and waste along with the truck underneath them...
North side of the airport.
Tai Wei stood on the dune, holding a telescope in his hand, looking at the valley to the south that was surrounded by night.
When she saw the white light lighting up, she couldn't help but exclaimed.
"I'm Giao! The nuclear bomb really exploded!"
"Fortunately, I caught up." Sesame Paste breathed a sigh of relief, and finally loosened his tight right fist.
Taitail suddenly looked at her in confusion and asked, "But why is there no mushroom cloud?"
"Only in the case of an air explosion will there be a mushroom cloud..."
...Probably?" Sesame Paste replied in an uncertain tone.
Rourou, who was standing aside, was still sighing, with a depressed look, obviously feeling sorry for the ruins in the valley.
Sesame Paste was planning to comfort her.
At this time, a truck broke out of the billowing dust and drove towards the airport from the north side of Lost Valley.
The truck stopped.
As soon as everyone gathered around, two people rolled out of the back car.
I saw the two people pulling off their protective masks, and before they even got up from the ground, they put their hands on the ground and vomited.
Seeing the two people vomiting, Sesame Guo, who walked up to greet his teammates, stopped unconsciously, looked over there in confusion and asked.
"Who are these two?"
"McCron, and his adjutant..." Sisi jumped out of the driver's seat and glanced at the two people on the ground, "I just found out."
Taiwei's eyes lit up and he looked excitedly at the middle-aged man who was slowly getting up from the ground.
"Oh! Are you General McClung?"
Rourou clenched the bear's claws and shouted excitedly, "Awei! We caught a big fish!"
"oh!!"
McClun, who looked pale, was stunned for a moment. He didn't recognize the person or the bear in front of him, and he didn't understand why the bear could talk.
However, he still had the consciousness of being a prisoner after all, and knew that being more honest would save him from suffering, so he spoke cautiously.
"I'm McClun... who are you?" Tails: "Tail!" McClun: "...?"
Looking at that blank face, Si Si's lips suddenly turned up with a dark smile, and he said thoughtfully.
"Speaking of which, when we were in Zuigu City, Ao was the one who released the balloon."
Tails nodded excitedly: "Yeah! That's right! It took a lot of effort from Sesame and I to put the balloon higher!"
Sesame paste smiled sheepishly. However, McClun didn't even look at her.
The moment he heard the word balloon, his eyeballs bulged as if they were inflated.
Staring at the proud guy with murderous eyes, he stretched out his index finger tremblingly, his face turning blue and white.
"That balloon...did you do it?!"
Not caring at all about the gaze that wanted to strangle him, Tai Tai nodded his head proudly.
"Yeah, that's right! You're welcome!"
McClun almost spat out a mouthful of blood and wanted to rush up and strangle her to death.
"do not move."
Admiring the collapsed expression, Sis shook the pistol he had just seized in his hand and reminded him politely.
"Don't forget that you are a prisoner now. If you don't want to die, be honest."
I was chased so embarrassingly in Ruigu City. Now I have my revenge. The western part of Oasis No. 9 is the headquarters of the legion.
A Saber fighter jet landed on the airport runway.
Looking at the pilot who jumped out of the cabin, an officer followed in the footsteps of the ground crew and walked forward and asked anxiously.
"Where is the H-55 you are escorting?" the pilot replied simply.
"We encountered an enemy air attack! One engine of the H-55 was damaged during takeoff."
The officer's expression changed drastically and he asked quickly, "What about the nuclear bomb?"
The pilot bravely answered truthfully. "On the plane..."
While the pilots were reporting the situation, the officers at the frontline command post had already learned about the situation on the frontline from other channels.
In the command account.
Griffin stood in front of the radio station and was silent for a long time without saying a word.
After about ten minutes, he turned back to the command table, stared at the strategic map, and gave an order in a deep voice.
"Inform the Falcon Kingdom's 30,000-strong team... to hold the line until additional troops arrive!"
"The 20,000th team finished their rest and moved to the north side of the 30,000th team to set up defenses."
Reinforcements from enterprises and alliances are gradually arriving in Luoxia Province.
With the support of the Heart of Steel, Oasis No. 9 must be unable to defend itself. The best option is to retreat to Oasis No. 3 to organize defense and lengthen the opponent's supply line.
He will request more reinforcements from the Legion Commander.
After hearing General Griffin's order, the officers standing in front of the command table looked at each other.
An officer couldn't help but remind him.
"The 20,000-man team just participated in the attack on the Capital of Plenty a few days ago. They suffered heavy losses in personnel and equipment, and their combat effectiveness may be less than 30%. I'm worried."
Griffin glanced at him.
The cold eyes made the officer shut his mouth immediately, not daring to say another word.
Looking at the map again, Griffin continued speaking concisely.
"The rest of the troops will be transferred to Oasis No. 3. All equipment and supplies that can be taken away will be taken away, and those that cannot be taken away will be burned on the spot."
The adjutant standing aside asked, "Where's McClun?"
Griffin fell into silence, a hint of complexity flashing in his cold eyes.
He had been fighting with that arrogant guy for half his life.
Although I wish that guy would get out immediately, but with this
The way he left the stage still made him feel sad.
He swore that he would take revenge!
Throwing his hat on the map in command, he turned and left the camp.
"Flow him the flag at half-mast."
Behind him, there was silence in the command tent.
After a long silence, all the officers took off their hats and dropped them on their palms. I don't know who took the lead.
A pair of pupils are burning with fire. That is the fire of hatred...
at the same time.
Chu Guang, who was taking command on the front line, also learned about the battle situation near the No. 7 Oasis ruins through the Xiaoqihe official website forum.
When Chu Guang heard that the Falcon Kingdom's 110,000th team stationed at the airport was actually commanded by McClun, he was stunned for two seconds.
This is really... what a coincidence. "Where are the people?"
Xiaoqi: "It has been controlled by your players.
Chu Guang nodded. It's good that he's not dead.
These can be used as bargaining chips on the negotiation table before it evolves into a full-scale war.
Neither the alliance nor the enterprise can reach the west coast, which is 10,000 kilometers away. This is neither in the interests of the alliance nor the enterprise, nor is it the war goal of both parties.
For the Alliance, the most optimistic scenario is to extract a war indemnity from the legion or its vassals, and then recruit a few underlings in Luoxia Province.
Maybe the company would be willing to share the secrets of Vault 0 with him, but he wouldn't be too disappointed if not.
After all, he never pinned his hopes on that legend.
"Where's the nuclear bomb?" Chu Guang then asked the question he was most concerned about.
Xiaoqi said softly.
"It was detonated by the Legion... However, your players sent the nuclear bomb into the underground tunnel of Lost Valley, and it seems that no one was hurt."
Chu Guang's expression was slightly stunned. Did he explode?
"What's wrong?"
Noticing the change in expression on Chu Guang's face, Vanus cast a questioning look at him.
Finold, who was standing not far away, also looked here nervously, trying to figure out what stage the war was at.
No matter which side wins.
As long as the ceasefire negotiations are entered into, he has hope of returning home.
Chu Guang said nothing, and turned his gaze to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the bridge, looking at the sun that was getting farther and farther away at the end of the horizon.
It would be great if we could get that nuclear bomb.
Even if you hold it in your hand and don't use it, it can still be used as a weapon to prevent the legion from letting go of their hands and feet on the battlefield.
but now······
The situation is a bit complicated. Great Rift Valley, City of Origin.
In the spacious conference hall, there is a long conference table carved from obsidian, with two people sitting in front of the long table.
The man sitting at the head of the conference table was about sixty years old. His temples were covered with white frost, and his face was full of vicissitudes of life. The crisscrossing ravines looked like the cracks of a canyon.
Those slightly closed eyes seemed to be thinking about something.
As if he was worried that he had fallen asleep, the tall man sitting at the other end of the long conference table reminded him expressionlessly.
"Even nuclear bombs were used."
He was wearing a silver-gray uniform. The stiff fabric had no wrinkles and was as smooth as a mirror.
When he heard the word nuclear bomb, the old man's eyebrows moved slightly, but he still didn't have much reaction.
"Um.
"It's getting more and more excessive. Hmm."
"Do you only know this sentence?" The tall man's voice had a hint of unpleasantness.
The old man sighed softly.
"I need time to think."
"Thinking? Does the contract written in black and white no longer count?"
The tall man chuckled, with a hint of ridicule in his voice.
"If you continue to think about it, we may have to fight another world war in the garbage dump."
The old man sitting in the chair sighed and finally opened his drooped eyelids.
Looking at the tall man sitting across from him with cloudy pupils, he said in a calm and gentle tone.
"This is where the complexity of the problem lies. Our civilization is on the verge of collapse. Any small mistake may ruin the last hope. Moreover, don't always use that tone of voice that has nothing to do with you. It will
Doesn’t your college have any responsibility for what it is like now?”
"Of course, we made a serious mistake and chose to believe a group of idiots who think with their fists. What's even more stupid is that I just wasted another 5 precious minutes of my life trying to convince a slow-thinking old man." The tall man
He sarcastically lowered his arms across his chest.
The figure gradually faded, and finally turned into a shadow, dissipating in a patch of light particles.
That's a holographic image.
Facing the empty conference table, the old man fell into a long silence.
At this time, the electronic sound of AI floated in his ears.
"...Messengers from the south are asking for an audience. They call themselves the Alliance and want to negotiate with us about the Bugra Free State's secret support for the Legion."
alliance······
I seem to have heard of this name. When did it come about?
He stretched out his index finger and pinched the center of his eyebrows. The old man couldn't remember clearly.
Since the end of the Prosperity Era, too many strange things have happened in this land.
From the king of the kingdom to the chief of the tribe, as well as all kinds of weird organizations and ideas... They are like bright matches in the dark. They come and go quickly. Their only use is to burn your fingers.
It turned dark, and then I realized it hurt.
But in the end the old man decided to meet the young juniors.
"Invite them to the lounge, I'll be there in a minute.
The AI assistant replied in a gentle electronic voice.
"Okay, sir.
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This chapter has been completed!