The long night finally passed.
When the sky in the distance turned hazy and bright, and the first ray of sunshine in the morning shone on the smoke-filled street, Bit, who was sitting behind the sandbag wall, finally let go of the heavy burden in his heart and relaxed the tension that had been tightened all night.
Shoulder.
Two hours ago, there were sporadic nibblers wandering towards their position, but now the entire position was silent, and not even a gunshot was heard.
From the machine gun fire point not far away, thunderous snoring gradually began to sound, and some soldiers who couldn't bear the fatigue even fell asleep with their eyes open.
This is their first time on the battlefield.
Bit glanced at his right hand in disbelief, and then at the surrounding battlefield of a lake of flesh and blood. His heart was filled with unspeakable words.
them……
Surprisingly survived!
This is incredible.
At this time, the sound of boots squeaking on the cement floor came from behind.
Bit, who was still in a daze, was suddenly startled and suddenly woke up. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at his comrade not far away, trying to wake the guy up.
Those guys from the regular army originally disliked these criminals. If the people supervising the battle team found them asleep on the battlefield, there was no telling what would happen.
Even if they are shot dead, no one will sympathize with them.
The stone hit the sleeping brother's head impartially, but the guy was so asleep that he didn't wake up, and even snored louder.
Just when Bit was anxiously planning to do something, a hoarse voice came from behind.
"Let him get some sleep."
Looking at the combat supervisor who walked to the shooting bunker, Bit's Adam's apple moved, but he did not dare to speak and expressed his gratitude with his eyes.
The war supervisor didn't care. He took out a box of cigarettes from his coat and shook out two cigarettes. He held one in his mouth and handed the other to him.
"Do you want to smoke?"
Looking at the cigarette that was handed over, Bit was stunned for a while, but he still reached out and took it subconsciously.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
The war supervisor grinned, took out a match, lit the cigarette he was biting on, and then handed the matchbox to Bit.
Looking at the man whose fingers trembled for a while before lighting the match, he turned his attention to the mountain of corpses and sea of bones in front of the position.
Exhaling a puff of green smoke, he smoothed out the wrinkles between his eyebrows and spoke slowly.
"This year's wave is over."
"We won this war, and it was a complete victory. There will never be another one in the future...whether it's waves or other messy things."
Bloodthirsty monsters, violent mutants, cannibal predators, and gangs gathered at the foot of the giant wall to engage in illegal activities...
They have completely driven out all the evil that was born in the wasteland from Qingquan City. Today's dawn will be an unprecedented new beginning.
Bit smoked silently, looking at the dispersing smoke, his thoughts in his heart were confused.
In the past three months, he had either been working in the mines or preparing for this war, and had no free time to think about the future.
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Now that the war is over, he has to seriously consider this issue - what to do in the future.
Only then did he suddenly realize that he seemed to know nothing. He had never lived in a normal society for a day and he did not have the skills to make a living in a normal society.
and……
This year's wave has ended so quickly. Will the league really fulfill its original promise?
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel panic in his heart, and his fingers holding the cigarette butt couldn't help but tremble.
As if he had read through his thoughts, the combat supervisor grinned and started talking.
"Be happy. You didn't run away when facing the wave. You bravely fought for the compatriots behind you. You have proved your part as human beings. Compared with the predators, you are still saved and worthy of our hands.
Give you a hand."
After a pause, he continued.
"My superiors asked me to tell you two things about your future."
As soon as Bit heard this, he said quickly.
"I'll go get everyone!"
After reaching out and grabbing Bit, who turned to leave, the war supervisor continued.
"Don't bother me. I'll just leave it to you. You can discuss it with them later and make a decision after thinking it through."
"Okay... then you can tell me."
Bit nodded, swallowed nervously, and watched the war supervisor listen carefully.
The war supervisor continued.
"Your last task is to clean up the mountains of corpses on the streets and move them to our designated location before they rot. This work will probably last about a week, and then you can leave the punishment camp."
"As for where you want to go after leaving the punishment camp, my superiors have given you two options. One is to disband on the spot, return the guns to the organization, and go wherever you want to go in the future, whether it is leaving the alliance or reporting to a homeless home.
Another option is to join the newly established Southern Construction Corps, go to Jinchuan Province to open up wasteland, and build your own homeland."
The former sounds easier.
Although there is no alliance citizen status, the alliance is not as exclusive as the early Boulder City. You only need to report to a refugee home, learn a trade as a "supervisor", and then go to the industrial zone to find a stable job and
After obtaining a tax ID number, it won't take long to become a citizen of the alliance.
This is because he has no skills to make a living.
If he has the skills to make a living, he can even skip the step of going to a refugee home, as long as there is a factory willing to pay him a salary that meets the tax standard.
But if no factory is willing to hire him...
Thinking of this, Bit couldn't help but feel nervous. If that were the case, he felt that he might take risks again and embark on the same old path.
No--
That's almost certainly what will happen.
As if he had seen his future, Bit silently smoked the entire cigarette, calmed down, looked at the war supervisor and spoke.
"I choose the latter."
It seemed that he had guessed that he would choose this way.
The war supervisor smiled, finished smoking the cigarette, threw it on the ground and stamped it out, then reached out and patted the young man on the shoulder.
"No matter how you choose, cherish your hard-won freedom. You paid for it with your lives. Don't go in again."
"Next time, I won't be so lucky."
…
The price of victory is heavy.
The punishment battalion was reduced by 40%. When it went to the front line, there were more than 5,000 people. After one night, only more than 3,000 people were left alive.
Not just a penal camp.
The First Corps and the Militia also suffered a lot of casualties, but not as exaggeratedly as they were cannon fodder.
Not to mention players.
As the vanguard of the alliance, they always appear in the most dangerous places and are at the forefront at all times.
A total of nearly 20,000 players participated in the brutal battle on the battlefield, and less than half of them survived in the end.
For every survivor in Qingquan City, this is destined to be a sleepless night.
However, despite the heavy sacrifices, their victory was infinitely glorious.
After two centuries of sinking, the survivors who came together to unite finally defeated the wave that was once considered invincible!
This is a difficulty that the Post-War Reconstruction Committee and even the ancient Awami League have never truly overcome!
They achieved this impossible miracle with their hands!
After hearing the good news from the front line, everyone's faces were filled with excitement, whether they were the residents of Boulder City, the residents of Dawn City, or the Fallen Leaf City and Dawn City.
People fired guns into the sky, drank wine and talked, or embraced and celebrated, venting their joy of victory in cheers and shouts.
When dawn dispelled the gloom, almost everyone was cheering for the hard-won victory!
Not even just people!
Even the spore cloud that filled the sky over the ruins had an unprecedented lightness to it.
Less than five kilometers away from the giant wall, there is a half-collapsed hospital on the edge of the Second Ring Road. A thousand-man team from the Boulder City Militia is stationed here.
At this moment, the hospital's underground parking lot is filled with scarlet slime mold.
There are incubators for mass production of spores and fruiting bodies.
It is here that large numbers of gnawers and crawlers set out, swarming like waves towards the defense line of human civilization.
If it were normal, if we wanted to end this annual wave, we would have to completely destroy these distorted incubators.
But this year is different from previous years.
The brood nest in the city center has long been captured by Xiaoyu, and the DNA related to invasion has stopped being transcribed, and no new gnawers or crawlers will come out of the incubation room.
And this is also the best proof that the wave has ended, in addition to the decline in spore concentration.
Looking at the rolling blue ocean, the adjutant wearing a heavy-duty exoskeleton couldn't help but exclaimed.
"This thing looks really scary."
In recent decades, charging towards the incubator has been the job of mercenaries.
Although he has been a member of the militia for several years, this is the first time he has seen a living incubator outside of photos or holograms.
It's not just him.
The same goes for the officers of other militia groups. Almost everyone's face is full of uneasiness.
"Is it really okay to keep this guy?"
"What if one day it starts hatching those nibblers again?"
"I always feel like it wants to eat me!"
Everyone exchanged glances and whispered quietly.
Listening to the whispers among the officers under his command, Qiao Yin, the leader of the militia group, coughed hard and interrupted the increasingly outrageous rumors.
Looking at the quiet crowd, he paused for a moment and said.
"The manager's statement is that he plans to designate an 'ecological protection zone' near Shelter 401 and move the incubators and fruiting bodies in the city there. There are relatively few survivors in the eastern district of Qingquan City, and most of them live in
Dangerous alien species can be used as a pilot test."
He had never heard such a strange word before. The adjutant was stunned for a moment and asked.
"What is an ecological reserve...?"
This word was definitely not a rare thing two hundred years ago, but it was definitely an advanced concept in the wasteland.
"Probably...a settlement where slime molds and people live in harmony?"
Qiao Yin actually didn't know much about it, so he could only try to understand it while trying to explain it to his confused colleagues.
"For example, people live in Moguli."
Obviously, his one-sided understanding not only failed to explain everyone's doubts, but had the opposite effect.
An officer was stunned for a long time, then came back to his senses and shook his head with a wry smile.
"This is so weird."
The other officer did the same. He looked at the scarlet ocean not far away, swallowed his saliva, and nodded with deep understanding.
"...I will never stay with that thing, don't even think about it."
Qiao Yin shrugged.
"What are you talking about? The ecological reserve is currently only open to refuge residents. Even if you want to go in and take a look, you have to apply first... I think it doesn't really matter. As long as they don't plant mushrooms on the giant wall, they can control it for a year.
One wave is already pretty good, or maybe you have a better way."
The officer coughed sheepishly.
"Of course I unconditionally agree with the manager's decision..."
"me too."
Qiao Yin nodded, turned his gaze to the scarlet colony of bacteria that was fading little by little, and slowly continued.
"We have tried all possible methods, whether it is fire or chemical agents... Even if their solution seems a bit bizarre, now we can only give it a try."
His view is actually quite optimistic.
It's not because of blind trust in the manager himself, but because biotechnology is indeed the alliance's strength, and that adult will definitely consult experts in related fields when making decisions.
With the alliance's current unity, there is absolutely no reason for the alliance's experts to mess with him, and they will probably give truly appropriate suggestions based on their conscience.
Since so many people think it is not a big problem from their own professional point of view, Qiao Yin feels that this ecological reserve can still be looked forward to.
They have nothing to lose anyway.
The worst outcome is to allow the wave that has lasted for two centuries to continue.
And if they succeed, they will open up an unprecedented path, which may be an opportunity to end the entire wasteland...
At this time, a soldier came from a distance and stood in front of Qiao Yin to perform a military salute.
"Report! A group of merchants is approaching the checkpoint we have set up. Their elected representatives would like to meet with you to discuss the issue of cleaning up the corpses of slime mold fruiting bodies."
Usually when the wave lasts, traders will come to the front line to wholesale corpses. This can be regarded as an old tradition in Qingquan City.
Although the fruiting bodies of slime molds cannot be eaten directly, they still belong to the category of organisms and can more or less recover some nutrients.
Whether it is processed into fertilizer or nutritional paste, it is an excellent raw material.
If left unattended for a long time, neither allowed to be eaten by nibblers nor recovered by incubators, these corpses will soon become a breeding ground for bacteria, which may even cause a large-scale plague.
Therefore, Boulder City usually packages these corpses to merchants for disposal, and collects some chips as a benefit.
But this year is different from previous years.
Before the wave began, the Boulder City Militia received instructions from the shelter. In the future, the slime mold fruiting bodies seized by the Alliance will no longer be packaged for private processing in the form of a franchise, but will be recycled and processed uniformly by the Alliance authorities.
.
As expected, the remains of those fruiting bodies will be sent to the newly established ecological reserve for decomposition and used as materials for construction.
Looking at the soldiers delivering the order, Qiao Yin gave the order concisely and concisely.
"Tell those merchants that the remains of the fruiting bodies in this area have been taken over by the alliance authorities, and the alliance has better uses. If they are interested in taking over the transportation work, they can contact the logistics department. If they are hunting those fruiting bodies and evolved bodies
I gave up the idea as soon as possible."
The soldier gave a military salute, turned and returned to the checkpoint at the entrance of the garrison, and repeated the regimental commander's original words to the merchants surrounding the door.
After listening to what the soldier said, the faces of all the merchants were filled with astonishment. You looked at me and I looked at you, exchanging glances.
Better use?
Besides making nutrient paste and fertilizer, what else can that thing be used for?
Almost everyone can't stand it anymore.
…
A group of merchants from the wasteland scratched their heads and couldn't guess what the respected administrator was planning to do.
Just when everyone was confused, the official website of "Wasteland OL" in another world suddenly updated an announcement.
[Wasteland OL closed test server Beta0.6 version update announcement!]
【Major update:
1. The qualification for closed beta testing has been increased from 30,000 to 50,000!
2. The blockade of the Second Ring Road area in Qingquan City has been lifted, and a large number of undiscovered relics have been added that have not yet been recovered. Relevant tasks can be obtained from the scientific expedition team.
3. Added the "Nanmen II" galaxy and the world of Gaia to the game world! (Note: Although the map has been completed, the passage to the map is still under development. Players can also explore the route on their own. More content is coming.
Please look forward to!)
4. Added "Fruit Body Development" system!
5. The B7 floor of the shelter will be opened soon.
6. Fix a few BUGs.
…
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[Introduction to the "Fruit Body Cultivation" system:
The mother nest in the center of Qingquan City has been occupied by us, and currently all incubators in the city are under our control!
However, what troubles Xiaoyu is that it has never controlled so many fruiting bodies, and these fruiting bodies designed for killing will show hostility to other organisms like wild beasts if they are not careful.
In order to avoid the waste of resources, and for everyone's Xiaoyu, Shelter 404 is now recruiting a group of volunteers!
It requires an intelligence attribute of 10 or above, or a bionic chip implanted to enhance the brain's computing power!
Qualified players can apply for "control system" biological prosthetic transformation surgery through the VM terminal in the game. If the application is passed, the registration is successful! The shelter will arrange biological prosthetic implantation for the player after the player logs off.
Operation.
After the operation is successful, the player can establish a conscious connection between the "control system" biological prosthetic body and the specific fruiting entity, and command their actions just like controlling a drone through a neural connection device.
The adoption fee for regular fruiting bodies is 100~10,000 silver coins, and the types include gnawers, crawlers, butchers, tyrants, etc.
In addition to regular fruit entities, players can also apply to adopt more powerful evolved bodies including "Decay Knight" by preparing their own synthetic materials and paying more fees!
You can even DIY it according to personal preference if the gene pool allows it!
The shelter system will comprehensively calculate the cost of customization based on various factors such as the function of the evolved body, the organic matter required for production, and the incubation time.
It should be noted that the number of sub-entities that a player can operate at the same time is related to the intelligence attribute. Please refer to the recommendations of the researchers and act according to your ability.
If the fruiting body gets out of control, all losses and consequences will be borne by the adopter himself!
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Less than half a minute after the announcement was made——
The whole forum went crazy instantly!
——
(Thanks to the two leaders of "Makabakamo" for the reward!!! Happy New Year, brothers!)
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This chapter has been completed!